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THE WAYCROSS HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1893.
. Ur. Bloont keeps very busy say
ing nothing.
Unlimited ^debate may mean
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MdPmviiiTift. limited coinage".
Many of the snspended banks in
the West are resuming bnsiness.
The length of the President’s rest
would indicate that it was much need'
ed.
Speech making on the silver ques
tion closed Saturday. Business will
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January 1st.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1893.
This is the last day of the silver
debate. The Lord be praised.
The State tax for this year in
Georgia will be 4.61 mills on tbe dol
lar.
Gov. Nortnern takes direct issue
with the President on tbe silver ques
tion.
Democratic postmasters for Geor
gia will come with the millenium no
doubt.
The loss by the fire in Chicago
day before yesterday is estimated at
$600,000.
Everything seems out of joint in
these peculiar times. It is raining
in Colorado.
Tbe cotton crop is moving, but the
result is not yet appreciable to any
great extent.
Southern Congressmen are taking
the lead. We hope they will lead in
tbe right direction.
Maiden speeches are the order of
tbe day in Congress. A few of them
might be dispensed with.
It is hard to tell where many of
the present Congressman will be at,
after tbe next election.
The New York World says, the
people are crying for bread and Con
gress is giving them talk.
Tbe prospect for an increase in the
price of cotton is not favorable. The
conditions are all against it.
The Savannah Telegram has sus
pended. It was a good paper, hut
it had a heavy load to carry.
There is a hackman's war on at
Niagara. When thieves fall out
honest men get a cheap ride.
An Arab had his teeth knocked out
by a Cbicago policeman. He now
talks gum-arabic.—Chicago Herald
It is said (hat three-fourths of the
World’s fair patronage is coming
from the South.—“Twas ever thus.
Mr. Turner’s voice has been heard
pleading for an honest dollar and for
the redemption of the Democratic
pledges.
The Valdosta Times declines to
give further space for the discussion
of the Clinch county court house
question.
New York had a terrible rain and
wind storm yesterday. Over four
inches of rain fell and much damage
was done.
•‘The question which confronts
us,” howled the orator, “is how to
confront the question.”—The Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
This is a free Country, and some
people say this is tbe promised-land.
Aud those of ns who are not in the
soup, should be happy.
“There was a man crucified once
because he had entered the temple of
the living God and scourged from
the money lenders.”—Sibley, of
Pennsylvania.
Editor Sid Lewis must keep a re
frigerator, or his free silver edito
rials would be destroyed by sponta-
meour combustion.—Tifton Gazette.
About a dozen Brunswickians are
"in quarantine a few miles from Val
dosta. They will be held for sever
al days before being allowed to enter
the town.
The tariff issue will be the divid
ing line between the Democrats and
Republicans. The silver question
brings us rather too close together
for comfort.
There is a community of interests
between tbe South aud the West on
tariff and financial questions bat on
no other— Isbmaelite. These issues
however, bind the sections, together.
The Bainbridge Globe, a Third
party paper, gets off the following
The| man who can endorse Mr.
Cleveland’s massage certainly does
not believe that Christ died to save
the poor.
Cotton seems to be utterly nnabie
to move money.
Savannah’s terrible . storm is al
most as bad as Brunswick’s yellow
fever.
Next month California will cele
brate her forty-third anniversary as
a state.
The chin music in Washington has
ceased and now we hear the rattling
of the ballots.
commence to-day.
Financial starvation and business
stagnation in the midst of plenty. A
strange state of affairs truly.
It is correctly reported and gener
ally believed that the panic has struck
bottom and is now rebounding.
The caption, “Bank failed" has
been changed to “Bank resumed.”
Tbe change is for tbe better.
Tbe attempt to withdraw the
Democratic party from Mr. Cleveland
has so far proved a signal failure.
And after all, it would seem that
the surest road to prosperity is to
pall a bell line over a flop-eared
mule.
It is to be hoped that Congress
will not adjonrn until the country is
flooded with money and confidence is
folly restored.
A Chinaman recently committed
suicide because his girl cast him
adrift. Tbe Chinese are fast be
coming civilized,
When one remembers the cost of
running Congress for one day he
will no longer insist that talk is cheap.
—Augusta Chronicle.
Language has been exhausted in
describing the wonders of the great
Fair. Descriptions will cease nntil
more words can be coined.
It is now proposed to use electricity
as a preventive of yellow fever. It’s
a good idea, electrocute tbe microbes
as fast as you catch ’em.
The news that the mills are resum
ing work in different sections is the
best of all. Thousands of suffering
human beings will now be relieved.
The countrv has survived the silver
debate but is in a very debilitated
Condition this morning. But for its
remarkable vitality where would the
country be at?
We hope Congress will soon get
off of silver and hop on to the tariff,
We know all about the tariff ques
tion, but bebanged if we haven’’
given the silver riddle up.
The French are the best farmers
in tbe world. Their farms are kept
perfectly clean and they use great
dexterity in laying out crops in rota
tion and in the application of fer
tilizers.
The Johnson News says “cotton is
bringing a good price.” In Heaven’i
name what is the matter with the edi
tor of the Johnston News, and where
the deuce is Johnson at ?
When Peffer arose and began. “I
am inclined to think,” the burst of
applanse was so deafening that he
couldn’t go on for some time, and the
reports intimate that he really did
think
There is $100,000 watting to be
distributed among the suffering fam
ilies of the fiireman who were killed
nearly a month ago at the World’s
Fair fire, and Chicago is still bolding
on to it.
In his fire-minute speech on Thurs
day, Congressman Ben. Bussell liken
ed the dillydallying of Congress over
the financial question to the fiddling
of Nero while Borne burned. What
Ben. thinks he ain’t afraid to say,
and be thinks about as much as any
of ’em.
The indications are now that the
money will be withdrawn from the
old sock and the tomata can, in a few
days, and the owners of it will begin
very cautiously to pay the butcher
and baker and candlestick maker.
The leader among the New York
anarchists is a woman, a Russian
Miss Emma Goldman. She' was
formerly a disciple of Most, bnt now
she paddles her own canoe. She
says that Most was always too con
servative; which goes to indicate
what Miss Goldman’s views must be.
Tbe Georgia delegation in Congress
seem to be pretty badly split up on
tbe silver question.
Mrs. Lease is said to be a theoso-
pbist. Oh, well that accounts for
the whole business.
If the charges against Congress
man Beckenridge are sustained he
should resign without being asked.
Considering its limitations, Speak
er Crisp gave the Georgia members a
good showing on the silver question
Texas is said to be the most pros
perous State in the Union. She has
felt none of the extremes enjoyed by
other States.
It may be that there is and has
been too great a tendency on the
part of the masses to legislate
against capital.
No matter what the outcome may
be, the closing of the silver debate
removes a load from the shoulders
of the average citizen
Before another crises comes upon
the country, a law should be passed
making speechifying under such cir
cumstances a criminal offense
One thing is certain, the press of
Georgia has been whistling manfully
The great Merrimack cotton mills,
at Lowell, Mass., the Bessemer steel
works, at Pueblo, Col., and several
Pittsburg mills have resumed opera
tions this week, returning 20,000
men to work. Tbe resumption of
these works is an indication that the
end of “hard times” is not far off.
TERRIBLE STORMiN SAVANNAH.
THE CITY SWEPT BY WIND AND
WATER.
One Life Known to Be Lost.
The City of Savannah was swept last
night by one of the most terrible storms
has ever known. The storm had been
predicted for several days and started
early yesterday afternoon. The climax
was reached about 12 o’clock last night,
having blown for eignt hours. Hardly
house in the city has escaped damage.
The wharves along the river front were
inundated and Hutchinsons island was
flooded. A number of wanes floated
away. It is thought that the storm at
tained a volocity of 80 miles per hour.
Louis Gagnett, a colored barber, was
killed by coming in contact- with a fall
ing electric wire.
The rice planters will suffer more
heavily perhaps than any one else. The
crop in the vicinity of Savannah is ruin
ed. Four barks that were at quarantine
are ashore and the small craft has been
swept away and sunk or driven into the
marsh. Many of the beautiful shade
trees that were the pride of the city are
blown down. No trains came into the
city by the Central or South bound rail
roads last night, which indicates that
the storm was general. It is conceeded
that it is much thfe worst storm that Sa
vannah has ever had.
The losses cannot be calculated now,
and it is more than probable that other
lives are lost. The Savannah News
achieved the remarkable fact of publish
ing a seven column account of the storm
this morning.
Nothing is old but the mind—Emer-
to keep up the spirits of the people erson *
and that without reward, or the hope
of it.
List of B. & W. Officials.
Below we give a list of the B. & W.
railroad officials and clerks now on duty
in Waycross. Mr Verdery and. Mr.
Wiggins, cashier and store keeper, have
their office on the lower floor and the
other officials in the second story,
trance between J. V. Norton and C. C.
Grace Co’s:
superintendent’s office.
H. B. Maxey, Chief clerk, Ed. Salis
bury.
auditor’s office.
R. S. Mclver, Auditor, J. C. Shannon,
Chief clerk, C. H. Leavy, B. H. Houston,
J. J. Lucas, Jr., J. M. Wells, W. D.
McCaig.
FREIGHT AND PASSENGER DEPARTMENT.
Geo. W. Coates, Division Freight and
Passenger Agent, R. S. French, Chief
clerk, W. H. Cornwell, L. Lunceford, J.
H. Brett, S. Jenkins, Mark Verdery,
Cashier, H. L. B. Wiggins, Store keepei
TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.
C. W. Kendrick, Chief clerk, R. L.
Branham, W. D. Miller.
. dispatchers.
C. H. Lang, R. S. McCranie, J. O’Con
nor.
MACHINERY DEPARTMENT.
D. B. Overton, Master machinery, A.
L. Leybourne.
They Got Here.
While looking around for tramps and
suspects in the suburbs on Saturday last,
Marshal Cason discovered an old man,
his wife and two daughters sitting on
log near Reed’s nursery. Upon invest!
gation the Marshal discovered that the
family had come from Montgomery, Ala.,
and had walked the entire distance.
They had been on the road just one month
to the day, and the party was pretty
well fagged out. They were hunting
relatives who they said were working for
Mr. Reed. They were in destitute cir
cumstances and may need assistance.
Graves on the Race Problem.
The brilliant Georgian, John Temple
Graves, is engaged in delivering a series
of lectures, both north and south, i:
which he is advocating with all the pow
ers of his wonderful eloquence a some
what novel scheme, which he claims
will forever settle the race question.
Mr. Graves’ ideas is to form a negro
state under the American flag—disfran
chise all white men in it and all negroes
out of it, thus making an incentive for
localizing the negro there and placing
the government of the state entirely in
his hands.
He has already delivered the lecture
in several northern states, and his ideas
on . the suject seem to have everywhere
met with approval.
As' this is an entirely new idea the
country will await with interest its final
outcome.
Mr. Graves says that within a year he
expects to obtain the signatures of one
million negroes to a memorial to congress
on this subject.
Multum In Parvo.
The Fight Against Yellow Jack.—The
News Condensed.
Tbe Brunswick Times-Advcrtiser has
not reached us for two days. We hope
to hear from friend Wrench to-day.
Peter Harris died yesterday at Bruns’
wick. His case was a virulent type of
yellowjfever.
Dr. H. W. Branham has been released
and is now with his wife at Fort Val
ley.
Surgeon Mugruder thinks yellow fever
may become epidemic in Brunswick if
the people do not leave there at once.
The little C>x girl was doing well at
last accounts.
The train from Waycross runs to
Waynesvilles, The train from the camp
of detention two miles east of Waynes-
ville runs into Brunswick every day
The two trains do not connect.
The mails from Brunswick will be
fumigated soon, if necessary.
Jacksonville has sent Brunswick $1,-
000 in money and $500 in provisions.
The situation looks better to-day. No
new cases have developed and there are
no other suspects up to this writing, but
we cannot tell what the day may bring
forth.
We Welcome Him.
The Herald welcoms Judge M. S.
Meashon to Way cross, and hopes that
he may find his stay with us both profit
able and pleasant.
Two Telegrams.
Yesterday afternoon Mayor Knight
received a telegram from Columbus,
asking if there was any yellow fever in
Waycross. Mr. Knight replied, “there
is no yellow fever in Waycross and no
prospect of any, wire me the name of
the liar that said there was.”
Whoso loves law dies either mad or
poor.—Middleton.
The beautiful is seen with the eye of
the soul—Joubert.
Nothing is more terrible than ignor
ance in action—Goethe.
He who purposely cheats his friend
would cheat God—Lavater.
Man subsists upon the air more than
upon his meat and drink.
I hold that gentleman to be the best
dressed whose dress no one observes—
A. Trollope.
Talk what you will of taste, you will
find two of a lace as soon as two of
mind—Pope.
Children are excellent physiognomists
and soon discover their real friends—
Sidney Smith.
To be prepared for war is one of the
most effectual means of preserving the
peace—Washington.
To affirm that a vicious man is only
his own enemy is about as wise as to af
firm that a virtuous man is only his own
friend—Colton.
Every man has a paradise around him
until he sins, and the angel of an accus
ing confidence drives him from his
Eden.—Longfellow.
It may pass for a maxim in State that
the administration cannot be placed in
too few hands, nor the legislation in too
many—Swift.
It must be an industrious youth that
provides age; he that fools away the one
must either beg or starve for the other.—
Estrange.
Gravity must be natural and simple
there must be urbanity and tenderness
it. A man must not formalize on every
thing—Cecil.
I am apt to think that men find their
simple ideas agree, though in discourse
they confound one another with differ
ent names.—Locke.
I have often thought what a melan
choly world this would be without chil
dren, and what an inhuman world with
out the aged—Colerbidge.
Some of our weaknesses are born ifa
us, others are the result of education ; it
is a question which of the two giv<
most trouble.—Goethe.
The Storm Yesterday and Last Night
A wind and rainstomr reached Way-
cross Sunday morning and raged with
more or less fury nearly all night. The
damage done in the city is not as bad as
was at first supposed, still it is consider
able. The top of the Round House,
belonging to the S., F. & W. R. R.
blown partly off, the rear end of livery
stable recently occupied by Mr. Jones,
on Pond street was blown out and the
building otherwise injured. The head
light on No. 12’s engine was broken and
a number of glasses were broken in No.
60’s # coaches. Some shade trees were
blown down and a few fences were injured
As compared with .«ther points, Way-
cross fared well.
From Mayor Lamb.
The following telegram was received
from Mayor Lamb by Mayor Knight at
2 o’clock this p. m.: “Contributions re
ceived. Many thanks to the kind citi
zens of Waycross. Our people very
grateful. T. W. Lamb.”
TURNER’S SPEECH.
Brought forth More Applause Than Any.
So“« Extract* From It.
Washington, Aug. 23.—Judge Tur
ner held the closest attention and re
ceived more applause than any speaker
who has arisen in the house. He spoke
under the ten-minute rule, and in that
time made an easnest, eloquent plea for
party unity and expressed his honest
convictions in terms that none could
mistake. He followed Amos Cummings,
who had been pouring hot shot into the
southern Democracy, and his speech had
an excellent effect.
He said in part that “there exists
within the Democratic party great dif
ferences on the currency question.
These differences have existed for twenty
years past, yet statesmen of the Demo
cratic party have been able to mould
these elements into an invincible mid
ity. I am one of those who believe tfl
genius which has been adequate in th?
past, will do so in the future. How is
this tobe done, sir ?
“By fidelity to our pledges and keep
ing faith with the people. The platform
denounced the Sherman act in terms of
odiousness; said it was a cowardly make
shift, and who does not know that it
makes of silver a commodity. It has
disgraced its friends and fulfilled the
prophesy of its enemies. There are
other pledges, but nobody believes that
means free coinage at the present ratio.
The charter of Democratic faith, the
platform, calls for honest money. I be
lieve in sound currency. I believe sil
ver dollars should be made as good as
gold. I shall Vote for the highest of
these ratios—that of twenty to one.
They tell us it is impracticable, and may
be it is, but it is the only way out of the
difficulty. I believe that the re-coinage
of the metal could now be made under
most favorable circumstances. There is
depressson in every land that the sun
shines on.”
In closing he said: “I have uo epi
thets for those that differ from me, no
honied phrases for those that agree with
me. Democrats should get together and
settle their differences in their own
ranks.”
Solved The Question.
Free coinage or no free coinage, re
peal or no repeal of the Sherman law,
Albany has solved the problem of a
local currency for herself, and on a safe
and conservative basis, too, that makes
it as good as national bank notes.—Al
bany Herald.
The Longest Sugar Cane.
Our good friend T. M. Westberry left
at the Herald office yesterday the long
est sugar cane we have yet seen. It
grown in Waycross and was more than
six fet long with twelve well matured
joints. When it comes to raising cane
and corn Westberry gets there. *
He Did Not Express An Opinion.
Surgeon Magruder denies that he has
ever expressed an opinion to the effect
that there would be an epidemic in
Brunswick. He states that he has not
been there and is not in position to give
an opinion. Surgeon Magruder has
nothing to do with Brunswick, but is
looking after matters at the camp of de
tention.
Buried by the K. of P.
The remains of Dr. T. K. Quinn, who
died at Waltertown yesterday, were
taken to Quitman last night, and will be
buried by the Knights of Pythias to-day.
Dr. Quinn belonged to the Waycross
lodge, K. of P. Messrs. T. E. Lanier,
Fred Ficken, F. W. Bibb and A. R.
Bennett accompanied the remains
pall-bearer.-, and will return to-night.
We’re Found Him.
Our readers will remember that the
Herald advertised a few days since fo
man who knew nothing about the sit.
ver question. Yesterday we received
word from Thomasville that the man
was in that city, and who do you think
the party is ? why its no less a man
than John Triplett, of the Times, and he
sends us word to forward the reward at
once.
The B. & W. Forces Here.
Mr. Geo. W. Haines, superintendent
cf the B. & W., together with his lieuten
ants and clerks arrived from Tifton this
morning, and are moving into the new
quarters rented them by the Herald.
They will occupy the store recently fit
ted up by the Herald for a stationery
store, between J. V. Norton’s and C. C.
Grace Co., also four rooms up stairs in
cluding the present Herald sanctum.
The Herald office will, for the present,
be in the composing room at the head
of the stairs. We are determined to
make the B. & W. officials comfortable
and if possible, happy. Mr. Haines’
force consists of thirty or torty gentle
men and their coming will add three or
four hundred to the population of Way-
cross in a few days. They are welcome.
Mayor Lamb Did Right.
When it was known that Brunswick
had yellow fever, Mayor Lamb did ex
actly right to advise the people to leave
at once, and the absence of new cases in
the city to-day proves that his position
was correct. Mayor Lamb will be sus
tained by every man in the land who
has a soul, and those who are disposed
to critizise him adversely will find that
they have no backing. As mayor of the
city, Mr. Lamb is supposed to be the
guardian, not only of the rights, but of
the health and welfare of his people,
and it was his first duty to look to their
safety. What would have been the con
dition to-day if the Mayor had issued a
proclamation forbiding persons from
leaving the city until a camp could be
prepared for them, and been able to en
force it ? And how could a camp for the
accommodation of six or eight thousand
people have been prepared before the
contagion had spread ? The proposition
is heartless and preposterous. Shut up
eight thousand people in a town or a
camp to die like sheep in this Christian
land f
The thought is horrible and the per
son who would entertain it is a brute.
The right thing has been done, the peo
ple are out and scattered and the ravages
of yellow Jack are checked we think
permanently. Let the Atlanta Herald
or any other paper criticize as much as
they “please, Mayor Lamb will be sus
tained by the Christian world and receive
the gratitude of his people.
Humiliating.
It must be humiliating to every
Georgian to be brought face to face
with the fact that the Governor of
the State bas no authority to estab
lish quarantine stations in the State,
or to expend a dollar for the pro
tection of our own people from epi
demic disease, and is, therefore,
forced to call upon the Government
at Washington in the present yellow
fever emergency. This is the second
time within the last few years that
Georgia bas had to face this humilia
tion, and it is to be hoped that the
next Legislature will do something
to prevent its recurrence.—Albany
Herald.
At the Artesian Well Mr. Finn Hits
Gravel.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Finn’s drill,
at a depth of about two hundred feet,
struck a bed of sand and gravel, mixed
with minute shells, sharks teeth and oc
casionally pieces of fish bone. In five
minutes the sand and gravel had filled
the pipe for sixty feet The pumps
were put to work and another section of
pipe is being put in. The Herald pre
dicts that very soon after getting
through the gravel rock will be found.
