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Fitzgerald Leader.
FITZGERALD. GEORGIA.
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K»TA.FX> «*> BOAT.
\. Only six of the forty-five States of
,the Union indnlgo in the extravagance
iof annual sessions of the Legislature,
to wit: Georgia, Massachusetts, New
York, Rhode Island and South Caro¬
lina, -all belonging to the original
'thirtcon. _______
A number of liberal citizens of De¬
troit, Mich., are about to present to
the Salvation Army of their city a
building valued at $74,000 in appre.
ciation of tho army’s work for tho re¬
lief of the poor and distressed during
the past winter. It is said the whole
amount needed has been pledged, Mr.
Carlton A, Beardsiy starting the sub¬
scriptions with $15,000. Secretary
Alger is credited with giving $10,000.
The long-talked-of project of a rail¬
road connecting North and South
America is being revived. The nego¬
tiations between Mexico and Guate¬
mala, which were interrupted two
years ago by the strained diplomatic
relations of the two countries, have
been resumed, and Mexico has just
appointed a commission to act with a
similar commission to be appointed
by Guatemala. It will be the duty of
the joint commission to select a feasible
route for the proposed road.
An abstract of some statistics com¬
piled in France on lightning acoidents
shows that during the past sixty-seven
years for every one person killed
three or four are wounded. In the
month of March the average deaths
amount to 1 per cent. ; in April, 3; in
May, 7; in June and on September,
30, 20, 31 and 15 respectively; in
October, 12. Most of the cases occur
in fields and roads, but particularly
under trees. In a period of thirty
years 1700 persons were killed under
trees, who probably would not have
been injured if they had not taken
refuge there; and one out of every
four has been killed while sheltering
under branches. In France there
have been eight deaths per 100,000
inhabitants, and in Great Britain two.
Thirteen American cities have now
experimented with the system of va¬
cant lot farming which Mayor Pingree
of Detroit (now Governor of Michigan)
invented three years ago as a means of
helping destitute citizens to help
themselves. The cities are, beside
Detroit, New York, Buffalo, Seattle,
St. Louis, Toledo, Boston, Brooklyn,
Cincinnati, Duluth, East Orange, St.
Paul, and Minneapolis, and in every
one of them enough of benefit has
been derived from the innovation to
warrant a continuation of it. Next
summer it is believed that the pian
will be adopted in many other places.
Its chief advantages are that it gives a
ready means of distinguishing the
worthy poor who are willing to work
from those to whom 'any form of in¬
dustry is distasteful, and that it is a
form of charity which tends little or
not at all toward pauperizing those to
whom it is extended.
An effort will be made during this
Congress to have the number of Cab¬
inet officers increased to nine. The
pioposition being agitated is to create
Cabinet Department of Commerce and
Industry, says the Washington Star.
The first Cabinet, that of Washington,
consisted of five members. The Sec¬
retary of State was paid $3500 a year,
and the others $3000 each. War and
Navy formed one department, and
there was no Department of the In¬
terior or of Agriculture. The first
increase in the number of Cabinet
officers was under President Jefferson,
who had a Secretary of the Navy and
a Secretary of War, instead of the two
offices being in or.e. The number re‘
mained at six until President Taylor’s
term, when a Secretary of the Inter¬
ior was added. Just before the close
of President Cleveland’s first term the
Department of Agriculture was estab¬
lished and a Secretary of Agriculture
was created. Prior to that there had
been a Commissioner of Agriculture.
The salaries of the Cabinet officers
have been increased from time to time,
until now they are $3009 each per
year. During the first three or four
administrations of the United States
tho Cabinets were not composed ex¬
clusively of men who agreed in pol¬
itics. Washington’s administration
was kept in a state of turmoil by the
disagreements between Hamilton and
Jefferson, until finally the Cabinet
was broken up. Madison, John Adams
and Jackson had much trouble with
their Cabinets, Madison had seven-
teen men in his Cabinet during two
terms; Jackson had nineteen and
Grant had twenty-one. It has been
a rare thing for a Cabinet to remain
without change throughout on entire
administration.
BITTER AND SWEET.
The apple that grows highest is the best
upon the tree;
The rose that is most fragrant always has
the shnrpest thorn;
The pearl that is the purest lies within the
deepest sea.
And the deeds that live the longest are of
hardest efforts born!
The love that’s won too lightly is not treas¬
ured as a gem;
The words that flow too freely never have
tho greatest weight;
Man appreoiat.es his blessings if he has to
strive for them,
But he never knows their value if they’ro
passed up on a plate!
—Cleveland Leader.
DEAF SMITE, THE SCOUT.
N the .main hall of
the magnificent
capitol of Austin,
Texas, there hangs
a n imm e n s e
picture, at least
twenty-five b y
fifteen feet, en-
/ -IIX/cased gilt frame. in a massive The
l figures, of which
Jm'JW there all are of many, life
V' \ \ are
ft | a^a size. The more
prominent a r o
Mil General
a'W' v huge live-oak.
The scene represents a few hours
after the battle of San Jacinto, wuich
was fought on the bank of that river,
near the month of Buffalo Bayou, on
the 21st of April, 1836, and in whioh
struggle the famous Mexican general
was taken prisoner. General Houston
had been severely wounded in the
ankle, and the surgeon is the act of
administering to the gallant leader’s
need. Near him, seated on a log in
the attitude of listening, is his bosom
friend, the celebrated Texas spy, Deaf
Smith.
The history of Deaf Smith is one of
the most extraordinary ever known
in the West. His memory is revered
equally with the most prominent ac¬
tors in the war for independence of
the Lone Star State, one of whose
counties is named for him.
Deaf Smith made his appearance in
Texas at a very early day in the his¬
tory of its struggle with Mexico. He
had a host of friends, and was a par¬
ticular favorite of General Houston,
yet none of these was ever able to
learn the land of his nativity, or gath¬
er a single gleam of his previous bio¬
graphy. If questioned upon the sub¬
ject, as he often was in the primitive
days of his advent in the now great
State, he invariably placed his index
finger on his mouth, and if urged
further, his brow gathered in great
furrows, while his intensely dark eyes
seemed to shoot forth sparks of fire.
No one had the temerity to again re¬
fer to his formnr life after the exper¬
ience of a first attempt to learn some¬
thing of the strange man.
He could write with astonishing fa¬
cility and correctness, and this, of
course, was the only means by whioh
he could communicate with his fellow
men. Denied completely the sense of
hearing, nature had amply compen¬
sated him with a vision that was of the
keenest character, and a power of
smell that was almost incredible. He
could discover objects moving miles
away on the apparently interminable
prairie, where others could discern
nothing but the earth and the horizon.
It was such remarkable attributes
that fitted him so well in the danger¬
ous vocation of spy, in which capacity
he rendered valuable service to Gen¬
eral Houston’s army during the Texas
war of independence. He always went
where he was sent, alone, and almost
invariably succeeded in obtaining the
information desired.
Many stories of his bravery in bat¬
tle and his many desperate duels are
current among the citizens in the re¬
gion where he once lived, but 1 can
only relate one here.
About two years after the termina¬
tion of the Texas revolution a difficulty
occurred between the new government
and a number of the citizens which
threatened most serious consequences,
even bloodshed and all the horrors of
civil war. The case was this: Tho
constitution had fixed the city of Aus¬
tin as the permanent capital, where
the public archives were to be kept,
with the reservation, however, of a
power in the president to order their
temporary removal in ease of danger
from the inroads of a foreign enemy
or tho iorce of sudden insurrection.
The Comanehes, the most powerful
tribe of Indians in the Southwest, be¬
gan to commit atrocities within the
very sight of the capital itself, when
the president, General Houston, who
resided at Washington, on the Br zos,
conceiving that an exceptional emer¬
gency had been provoked by these
acts of the savages, sent an order com¬
manding those under him to send the
State records to Washington, which
he declared to be, for the time being,
the seat of government.
It would be absurd to try to describe
the stormy excitement wnich the re¬
ceipt c- the order raised in Austin.
The owners of hotels, boarding houses,
monte and faro banks, were nearly
distracted, for it meant a death-blow
to their business. Accordingly they
determined to take the necessary steps
to avert the danger, by ignoring the
mandate of the president. They called
a mass meeting of the citizens and
farmers of the adjacent country, who
were all more or less interested in the
question; and alter many
speeches against the asserted tyranny
of the administration, it was unani-
monsiy resolved to prevent the re-
' moval of the archives bv open and
armed resistance. To that end they
formed a squad of 400 men, one-half
of whom, relieving the other at regular
times of duty, should constantly guard
the state houso until tho danger had
gone by.
The commander of this forco was
one Colonel Morton, who had achieved
considerable renown in the war and
still more recently displayed desperate
bravery in two terrible duels, in both
of which he had cut his antagonist
nearly to pieces with a bowie knife.
He was so notorious for his courage
and revengeful character, his friends
thought that President Houston would
rescind his order as soon as he learned
who was at the head of the resisting
force in Austin. The colonel was as
vain as he was courageous, and be en¬
couraged tho general idea by bis boast¬
ing. He swore bv tho honor of a Texan
that if General Houston removed tl|o
records of tho state from Austin, he
would himself hunt him down like a
wolf, und shoot him down like a wolf,
and shoot him with little ceremony, or
stab him in bod, or even waylay him in
his walks of recreation. He had the
audacity to write to the hero of Sau
Jacinto to that effect. The general,
whom nothing could intimidate, an¬
swered his insulting note in the fol¬
lowing characteristic brevity:
“If the citizens of Austin do not
send the archives, I shall certainly
come and take them ; and if Colonel
Morton can kill me, ho is welcome to
my ear-cap.”
On the arrival of the president’s note
the colonel doubled the guard around
the state house; chosen sentinels were
stationed along the avenues leading to
the building, and the military marched
through the streets of the disturbed
city from morning until night. A
continual session of the committee of
safety was held in tho city hall; in
short, everything betokened the burst¬
ing of a severe political storm over the
city.
One day, while matters were in this
boiling condition, the committee in
the city hall were surprised by the
sudden appearance of a stranger,
whose mode of entrance was as extra¬
ordinary as his looks and dress. He
did not knock at the closed door; he
did not seek admission there at all,
but climbing, unseen, a small, busby-
topped live oak which grew beside the
wall of the building, he leaped with¬
out the slightest warning through a
high window, and was immediately in
the presence of the committee. He
was dressed throughout in buckskin,
the seams of his trousers and coat
heavily fringed, and the front of the
latter beaded and porcupined, after
the fashion of a costly Indian garment,
He carried a long rifle in his right
hand, wore at a button on his coat a
large bowie knife and in his belt a
brace of pistols. He was tall, straight
as an arrow, active and quick as a
panther ir. all his motions, a magnifi¬
cent specimen of the old-time fron¬
tiersman, a gsnus long since van¬
ished.
His strange advent into the secret
session caused a thrill of
fear among its members, and many
seized the handies of their knives or
pistols.
“Who aro you that dares intrude
among gentlemen without being in¬
vited ?” thundered out Colonel Morton,
at the same time trying to cow the
stranger by his eye.
Tho stranger thus insolently ad¬
dressed, returned the colonel’s stare
with compound interest, at. the same
time laying his long, bony finger on
his mouth, as a sign—but of what the
committee was at a loss to determine.
“Who are you? Speak, or I will
cut an answer out of your heart!”
yelled the colonel, almost distracted
with rage by tho calm, sneering man¬
ner of the strange, who now removed
tho finger from his month, nnd laid it
on the hilt of an immense bowie.
The fiery colonel, on this move¬
ment, drew his dagger, and was in tho
act of advancing towards the stranger,
when several of his friends interfered,
and holding him back, remonstrated:
“Let him alone, Morton. Don’t you
see the man is crazy?”
At this juncture, Judgo Webb, a
man of fine intellect, and a courteous
gentleman in all his manners, walked
toward the stranger, and addressed
him in a most respectful style:
“My good friend, I presume you
have made a mistake iu the house.
This is a private meeting, where none
but members are admitted.”
The intruder did not, of course,
understand tho words of tho judge,
but he could not fail to understand
the mild and gentle manner in which
he addressed him. Hi3 stern features
relaxed immediately, and moving
toward a table in the middle of thy
room on which were writing materials,,
he took up a pen and traced one line:
“I am deaf.” He then held it before
his audience, as a sort of excuse for
his seeming lack of politeness.
Judge Webb took the paper and
wrote a question : “Will you be so
obliging as to inform us what is your
business with the meeting?”
The stranger acquiesced at onco by
handing a letter inscribed, “To the
citizens of Austin.” The judge broke
the seal and read the content? aloud.
It was from President Houston, and
showed the brevity of his style:
“Fellow Citizens—Though in error, and
deceived by Ihe acts ot traitors,! will give
you three more days to decide whether you
will surrender the public archive At the
enu ot that time you will please let me know
your decision.
“Sam Houston.”
After the document was read, the
deaf man waited a lew seconds for an
answer, then turned and was about to
leave the hall, when Colonel Morton
interposed, and sternly beckoned him
bnok to the table where ho was still
sitting. The stranger obeyed, then
the colonel wrote:
| “You by were threatening brave enouwh to insult
me your looks ten min-
utes ago; are you brave enough now
to give me satisfaction?”
The stranger instantly wrote in an-
swer: “I am at your service.”
ColonolMorton wrote again: “Who
will be your teoond?”
The stronger answered with pen:
“I am too generous to seek an advan¬
tage, and too brave to fear any on the
part of others; therefore, I never need
the aid of a second.”
The colonel wrote: “Namo your
time.”
Again the stranger traced, without a
moment’s hesitation : “Time, sunset
this evening; place, the left bank of the
Colorado, opposite Austin ; wenpous,
rifles, and distance a hundred yards.
Do not fail to be on time.” Then tak¬
ing three steps across the floor, he
disappeared through the same window
he had entered.
After ho had gone Judge Webb ex-
claimed: “What! is it possible,
Colonel Morton, that you intend to
fight that man? He is a mute, if not
an absolute maniac. Such a meeting,
I fear, will sadly tarnish the luster of
your laurels.”
“You are mistaken,” answered the
oolonel, with a smile, “That mute is
a hero, whoso fame stands in the rec¬
ords of a dozen battles, and at least
half as many duels. Besides, he is the
favorite emissary and bosom friend of
General Houston. If I have the good
fortune to kill him, I think it will
cause the president to take back his
vow against venturing any more on
the field of honor.”
“You know the man, then? Who
is he?” inquired half a dozen voices
together. Colonel
“Deaf Smith,” answered
Morton coolly.
“Why, no; that cannot be. Deaf
Smith was killod at the battle of
San Jacinto.” remarked Judge Webb.
“There again your honor is mis¬
taken,” said the colonel. “That story
of Smith’s death was a mere fiction,
gotten up by General Houston to save
the life of his favorite from the sworn
vengeance of certain Texans, on whose
conduct he had acted as spy. 1 found
that out a year ago.”
“Well, if what you say be true, you
are a madman yourself. Colonel Mor¬
ton,” exclaimed Judge Webb. “Deaf
Smith was never known to miss his
mark.”
“Say no more,” answered the col¬
onel; “the thing is already decided;
1 have agreed to meet him. There
ciin be no disgrace in falling before
such a shot, and if I should succeed
my triumph will oonfer the greater
glory.”
Toward evening a large crowd as¬
sembled at the place designated to
witness the hostile meeting, news of
which had spread all over the city,
and so great was the general reckless¬
ness as to affairs of that sort, that
large sums of money were wagered on
the result. Duels were an every day
occurrence, for such a settlement of
real or fancied wrongs was the custom
throughout all Texas in that early
time.
At length the summer sun reached
the edge of tho horizon, covering it
with a crimson glow: Then the two
antagonists, each armed with a long,
heavy rifle, took their stations,
Fuck to back, and at a signal, the
waving of a white handkerchief,
walked slowly and steadily in opposite
directions, deliberately counting their
steps until each had measured fifty.
Both covered the given number at
about the same instant, and then
wheeled; each was to aim and fire
when he chose. As the distance was
rather great, both paused for some
seconds—long enough for the specta¬
tors to flash their eyes from one to the
other, and mark the striking contrast
between the two men. The face of
Colonel Morton was calm and smiling,
but tho smile it bore had a murderous
meaning. Deaf Smith’s countenance
was stern and passionless as ever. A
side view of his features might have
been taken for a profile done in cast
iron. The colonel was dressed in tho
richest broadcloth, Deaf Smith in
smoke-tinted buckskin.
Presently two rifles were discharged
with simultaneous voices. Colonel
Morton gave a tremendous bound in
tho air and fell to the ground dead.
Deaf Smith stood erect and immedi¬
ately began to reload his rifle; and
having finished his brief task he
turned away into the forest that bor¬
dered the stream.
Three days after General Houston,
with Deaf Smith, entered Austin, aud
without any trouble carried off the
archives.—Detroit Free Press.
For Health’s Sake.
Olives, as a food, are considered
very strengthening for those with lung
troubles.
Hot pastry and iced drinks of this
country have much to do with the
thinness of its people.
Disordered digestion in adults is
often the outcome of being compelled
or allowed to eat rich food in child¬
hood.
A stooping position maintained for
any length of time tends more to un¬
dermine the health than is generally
supposed.
Physicians aro advocating tho uso
of olive oil, whioh comes from Califor¬
nia, for weak lungs, It bids fair to
take the place of cod liver oil, and it
is thought by many pleasauter to take.
The toothache caused by a cehl in
the facial nerves may often be re¬
lieved by wringing a soft cloth out of
cold water and sprinkling it with
strong vinegar, This should be laid
on the face like a poultice, and will
often be followed by refreshing sleep.
000th Anniversary of the Fork.
Venice is about to celebrate the
900th anniversary of the first intro¬
duction of the fork for table use. The
merit of its adoption belongs to the
Doge Orsole, who, at the wedding of
his son produced a silver fork aud a
gold spoon. It wns not until 30!)
years later that the fork reached
France, while it was only in the year
1608 that it was first adopted for table
service in England. —Chicago Record.
OUR CUBAN COLONY.
KEV WEST, A CITY WtTU FEW
AMERICAN INHABITANTS.
It Is Overrun With Refugees From
tho Island, Which Is boss
Tliuu Ninety Miles
Away.
The first impression a stranger gets
of Key West at the present time is
that the city has gone on a perpetual
holiday sprue. Bunting flies from al¬
most every house top, and the colors
are about evenly divided between
“Old Glory” and tho emblem of the
Cuban Republic. People of all classes
and ages wear pins or other symbols
bearing the motto “Cuba Libre,” aud
if Uncle Sam would only nod consent
or say nothing at all about it the 15,-
000 patriotic inhabitants of this sea¬
girt isle would skip across the chan¬
nel and tack the Queen of the Antilles
to the star-spangled banner without
any more fusB. “Castillo del Morro,”
or Morro Castle, is only eighty-seven
miles from the government dock at
this point, and our swift cruisers
could cover the distance in a little
more than four hours.
The population is about evenly di¬
vided between white Cubans, colored
Cubans and white Bahamians. There
are not more than a score of real
American families resident on the
island, but, notwithstanding this fact,
the great mass of the people aro loyal
to the Union first, and to Cuba next.
It is ourious, though true, that of all
the houses, dwellings, stores, hotels
and other buildings that dot the island
from one shore to the other, not one
of them has a chimney or anything
that will answer the pnrpose ot a chim¬
ney. Handsome residences and lowly
hovels are alike in this respect, and
from an eminence, gazing out over
acres of roofs on all sides, one is at
once struck with the want of some¬
thing to complete the symmetry of tho
picture. Wood and coal or fuel of
any kind are unknown quantities, as
the tropical atmosphere furnishes at
all times of the year all the heat re¬
quired, and for cooking purposes sticks
of carbon are used, which are sold by
peddlers who hawk their wares about
the streets.
There are few stores, as we under¬
stand such things, and no markets.
Signboards in Spanish will tell you
where a barber shop is located or
where to buy coral ornaments. There
aro not more than half a dozen real
stores conducted on the American plan
on the whole island.
Instead of a market there is a daily
auction near the Government dock,
where everything in the way of pro¬
visions, furniture and fruit is knocked
down to the highest bidder. Bananas,
alligator pears and pineapples are the
commonest articles of purchase, and
here ships from Jamaica, Cuba and
Nassau in the Bahamas unload their
cargoes and dispose of them at ruin¬
ous rates rather than risk a voyage at
this time of year to more northern
ports. Quick sales and small profits
seems to be the prevailing idea with
them. As a consequence Key West is,
perhaps, the greatest banana and
pineapple market in the world. On
almost any day one can secure an
enormous bunch of bananas, ripo or
green, at from ten cents to fifteen
cents, and can cart away all the lus¬
cious pineapples he cares to purchase
at one, two or three cents each.
Directly opposite the harbor docks,
on the farther side of the island, and
facing Cuba, is a large dancing pavil¬
ion culled La Brisa, where Monday
and Friday nights and Saturday after¬
noons public dances are held. It has
large broad verandas overlooking tho
sea, which make ideal promenades,
anda commodious dancing hall within,
where those who desire can trip tho
light fantastic to their hearts’ content,
upon the payment of a small fee.
The island of Key West being
strictly of coral foundation, the streets
are naturally of the finest macadam
that can be imagined. Long snaky
street cars drawn by pairs of diminu¬
tive donkeys and officered by Cuban
drivers and conductors form the prin¬
cipal means of carriage, but should
any one desire to reach a certain point
within a reasonable time he had better
trust to his legs rather than to these
antiquated and slow moving venioles.
Duval street is the principal
thoroughfare, and a modest frame
building on this street, with a huge
sign in red and blue, bearing the
words, “Club Cubano,” indicates
where the headquarters of the patri¬
ots may be found.
There must be at least 5000 refu¬
gees in Key West, non-combatants
and exiles from their home.?, who dare
not return under the present Spanish
rule, and who must await tho solution
of tho war problem one way or the
other before they can return aud re¬
sume their peaceful occupation.
Icarly Fire Lasses.
The average yearly loss from fires
in the United States during the past
twenty years has been about $100,-
000,000. During the past year, ac¬
cording to the chronicled fire tables,
there have been 38,003 fires, destroy¬
ing 33,964 pieces of property. Tho
total loss entailed has been $142,110,-
233, with au insurance lossof$S4,-
689,030. Iu this tall column of disas¬
ters there were 22,711 dwelling-houses,
340 churches, 302 colleges and school-
houses, 502 theatres and public hallo
and 5281 manufacturing establish¬
ments.
The Wheat Line in Europe.
In Europe the growth of wheat censes
with an imaginary line connecting In¬
verness, Scotland, latitude 58 degrees,
Drontkeim, Norway, latitude 04 de¬
grees, nud St. Petersburg, Russia, lat¬
itude 60 degrees 15 minutes, Oats
reached a slightly higher latitudo latitude.
Barley and rye ascend to 70
degrees, but require a favorable aspect
and season to produce a
THROUGH GEORGIA.
For the first time in many years the*
city of Atlanta will nbt be compelled
to borrow money to pay current ex¬
penses this year. The new system of
paying taxes quarterly has proved ad¬
vantageous to the city and the treas¬
ury has been greatly benefited tliere-
i>y-
A dispatch from Columbus states
that the motion for a rehearing of the
Henry White case having been refused
by the supreme court, there seems to
be but one thing between the young
man and the gallows. This is the ex¬
ecutive clemency of Governor Atkin¬
son. It is hardly thought that the
case will be carried to tho United
States supreme court, as . first sup¬
posed.
* * *
The fruit display that is to be shown
in Georgia’s exhibit at the Tennessee
Centennial will be tho best ever sent
from Georgia. A great portion of the
material used was shown at the late
exposition in Atlanta and the exhibit
will be added to and replenished as
fast as the fruit ripens. The whole
exhibit will be ready auu in place by
the opening day of the exposition and
there will be no delay about Georgia’s
display.
* * *
The annual report of the agricultural
department has been received from the
printer and hundreds of them have
been sent out to the reading farmers
throughout the state. The report this
year is said to be the best the depart¬
ment has ever issued. It is neatly
and artistically bound in black and
contains much valuable information
for the farmer. The reports can be
had by applying to the agricultural
department.
* * *
The union brick masons of Atlanta
went out on a strike a few days ago
and notified the contractors that they
would work no more until certain
terms laid down by the Brick Layers’
Union were conceded to. The strike
was sudden and almost wholly unex¬
pected by the contractors who had no
intimation that a strike was intended
until the men quit work. The cause
of the strike is a demand for nine
hours a day. They have been working
ten hours.
The question of locating the place
of holding the next state fair is attract¬
ing the attention of of the State Agri¬
cultural Society. The matter must bo
decided very soon. There is a strong
tendency in favor of holding it in At¬
lanta. Hawkinsville has been pulling
hard for the location of the next fair
in that city, hut the preponderance of
of preference favors Atlanta, and if
the people of the latter city do their
full duty in the matter it can probably
he secured.
There are but two veins of verde
antique marble in the country. One of
them is located in North Carolina and
the other in Cherokee county, Ga.
The former is a small affair, and the
quality of the stone does not compare
with that to be found in the Cherokee
country. The supply in the new quar¬
ries that are just being opened up at
Holy Springs, in Cherokee county, is
practically inexhaustible. Such faith
have the owners in it that they have
formed a company and obtained a
charter with a capital stock of $50,000
all paid in.
The affidavit of C. E. Carpenter,
pilot on the wrecked City of Colum¬
bus, which has been filed with tho
United States inspector at Apolachi-
cola, Fla., is somewhat sensational.
He states that on the night that tho
steamer ran into the rock he twice
called Captain Mark’s attention to the
fact that it was too dark ami danger¬
ous to steer, and that in neither in¬
stance the captain gave Mm an answer.
The pilot says that on account of the
darkness and storminess of the night
and other circumstances it was a dan¬
gerous run for the steamer.
C. C. Luby, who confessed to the
murder of bis wife near Blakely, has
been convicted and sentenced to hang
on May 14tli. A special session of tho
grand jury was called by Judge Shef¬
field and a bill was secured against the
murderer Monday, four days after the
commission of the crime. The supe¬
rior court was already in session and
he was immediately placed on trial.
A verdict of guilty without recommen¬
dation was the result. This is one of
the quickest trials on record iu the
state. Luby is a fisherman on the
Chattahoochee river. The body of bis
wife was found in his boat and he was
suspected of the crime. He confessed
when arrested.
The returns are nearly all in for the
payment of special taxes due for tho
first quarter of the year 1897. There
are now forty-one counties in the state
where liquor is sold, two of them,
Clarke and Pike, being dispensary
counties and paying one liquor license
each. Of the other thirty-nine Chat¬
ham leads the list, returning, less the
tax collector’s commission, $31,303.25;,
Richmond follows with $14,4-67.63;
Fulton coming third with $11,079,
and Bibb bringing up the rear with
$9,462.50. After these four counties
comes Muscogee, which yields a
revenue to the state from the sale of
liquors of $5,061.25; Glynn, $3,891;
Dougherty, $3,161; Thomas, $1,966;
Sumter, $1,872; Wilcox, $1,852;
Floyd, $1,592.80, and Terrell, $1,154.
There are twenty-seven counties where
the yield is less than $1,500. Of the
smaller places Coweta, Dade, Han¬
cock, Mitchell and Wilkes pay each
$282, and Chattooga, Clay, Miller,
Pickens, Quitman and. Rabun pray
each $141.