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MAY 1JK TIMED.
In tho mume ot tho war between Ja
pan trad China, tho lMilhulclpbLi lice-
ord thinks that opportunities may arise
to obtain data wli'ch tho naval con-
ytructorg of tho world have long boon
waiting far, Bach sldo has n fairly
nuuii-rotis Hoot of inuttsru ships, and
there Is a moro even hahmeo between
tho naval atrcuglh of tho combatants
than lias been Wltausssil in any naval
war of recant times. Furthermore, tho
vessels In tuo two navies diverge In
their type* ulong the very lines uiiou
Which naval hicHcitin* have been til-
Tided, l'he greit quell Ion wlileh has
agitated the naval constructors of mod
ern times ooueem* tho relutlvo mine
of limtlcsliips -uul cruisers. Tho Chi
nese navy Includes it number of Igittle-
ships, while the larger vessels of Japan
are either unprotected or lightly nr
mured cruisers.
Cnpt. Miihu.n, tho Amerlenn historian
of the development of son power among
modem tuitlous, Inclines toward ves
sels eapahlu of striking henry blows,
L «., batili-shlps, ns tho mainstay of a
navy. In this ho has been sustained
by a majority of ihc otlh-urs of tho
American and Ilrlllah navies. There Is
u. very respectable mlucrily In both uu-
Vlos, however, Vfh-i coliu-ldo with the
modem French school; repiescnliug
tho ldcoM of Aitmlml Aube nnd ibilirlcl
Clmmu-s. wls) favor tho cruiser. They
lanintnlu that the battleship Is too
heavy for rapid maneuvering; that only
a narrow belt along her wntor lino is
protected, mid that she might bo disa
bled by a ruin of shot nnd oxploslvo
shells upon her upper decks. Further-
more; she might lie sunk by guns of
oven tuodentlo calibre through lilts
upon the unprotected portion of hot
side, below tho armor belt, which nay
ship might expose when rolling In a
heavy sea. I-nsU.v, tho battleship must
of ni-cexslty bo comparatively slow be
muse of her wciglit, nnd, while she
uudd nover overtnko u cruiser, tho hit
ter could hung around her and perhaps
Bend her to the bottom by fiddling
with shot her vulnerable ends.
Tho lack ot protection of a typical
battleship, forward mul Aft of Its arm
ored eltudel, has frequently been tho
subject of crltielsm. Of course, those
unprotected bows and sterns, ns well
ns the eiitirh hull, nre mtlHlIvided Into
numerous vrntar-tight compnrttnouts;
but wimt would bnppon It theeo -ends
should be, reduced Ity tho enemy's shot
to the condition of a solve? In the
ory, It Is true, tho entire unprotected
part of it bnttlcsltlp might !h> shot away
nnd Tho cltndel would still remain
nttont. Rut theories have frequently
given way before Ute Incontrovertible
logic of fort*. Hu return to port In u
sinking condition of Ihc Chltieso battle-
ship Clicn-Yuen, lifter her light with
tho Japanese cruiser Tnkaelileo teems
to have given tho partisans of tho
cruiser tho first point on tho score.
.Vn'.nnlile dam may also bo ohtnlncd
iOWVtl tUo sotlleine.lt of nnollier Im
portant question—the value ot Hie tor
pedo lo .invnl warfare. 'Die tnipposedly
dreadful destructive power of the tor
pedo mny bo altogether imaginary.
TlieBo engines of wur may prove mi-
managenble In neliml service, nnd may
lie discovered to bo moro harmful to
friends thnn to foes. The result of nn
Important naval battle I'etween tw
hostile fleets In the Orient cannot fall
to bo Instructive, and tle-re may fellow
n grout smashing of ehthomto tactical
Henries.
IBB ITtl-iSIDKNTS SiaXATDKE.
Today Is tho last day In which the
provident may sign or veto tho t.-ir.ir
bill. As has been tYispu-utly reported,
it Is probable that he will
In which event Hie bill will become a
law at If oVIock tonight
Diu-oig the last week the president
has been sultjeoted to a great pressure
from Hie leading men of tho party to
sign the bill. They say to Mm that la
the lK-udlng campaign they will ho
called upon lo defend the new law,-as
the chief outcome of Hie labors of the
Demoemtlo congress, cud Hist they will
lluil this task a difficult ono when
taunted by IhWr opponents with the
fact that the law is so bad an ono that
the Democratic president refused to
•Ciiu It.
We do r»ot see that there la inutli
force In this argument, l'he president’s
opinion of the law has been stated in
the most emphatic language, anil his
condemnation of It will remain whether
he signs It or not, to be tucil by the
campaign speakers of the opposing par
ty. His approval of tho bill now, In
tlio face of that condemnation, would
only give his nnd the parly's enemies
an opportunity to accnxa him of incon
sistency, "wont of sincerity, etc.
As wo have slid before, ws believe
there Is nothing for Democrat* to gain
hi attempting to defend the faults awl
defects of the law. Tho best thing to
bo done Is to admit those faults and de
fects, explain why tlio Democratic par
ty was unable to prevtdit thelf presence
In thebiw, and promise to correct them
at the earthen possible nrsueni There
Ig plenty of good In thu iawrto Justify
Its rauie’nient, and the party ctra take
Its stand oa this.
The president's letter Is said to ;bo a
club with wlileh lot enemies will brain
the party. We do not tttUfrt It cult lie
used for such a purpose, hut if It ran
bo tho president's signs tore *o tho hill
will not enable the party to dodge the
blow. If, the letter Is Indeed n- club,
we tlilfik It much more llkeiy to .reach
tho bonds tor which it was Intended—
thoso of the unfaithful Democrats who
thwarted tho will of tlioir party—than
that of tho party Itself.
' CAN Bf; HFAUKDr
Tho name J. Hmuplou HAge mny be
remembered ns that of tt Virginian who
was appointed by Mr. Cleveland to an
important consulate In Chinn, who, on
his way to bis post, painted u broad red
streak across tho continent, and who
was caught by a telegram before ho
could take ship at San Francisco de
priving him of ills office. Then, of
course, Col. J. Hampton Hoge was un
derstood to he a first-rate Democrat, or
lid would not havo been given Hie op-
Ijjirtunlty to go upon so extended n
spre-o at government expense, but now
Ho Se a Republican mul has Just been
nominated for oougress by a Republican
convention. Wo are really very glad
that Col. Hoge has changed bis party
idleglnnce, as his doing so Indicates
Umt even when lie was a consul nnd
painted the streak he was not nt heart
n Democrat. Tho Democratic parly Is
the snuiu ns it was then, its principles,
policy and History tho same—nothing
Is changed except that It looks coldly
on Col. Hogo as nn office seeker. The
vast majority of Democrats arc not
office seekers nnd :u tho nature of
things very few of them can obtain
office. Col. Hoge lias no right to com
plain, therefore, if ho can't get nn
office. Ho is with tho majority. That
ho Is unable to reconcile himself to this
slate of facts an<) prefers to give up bis
belief In Democratic principles In favor
of the shadowy chant), for office offered
by u Republican nomination In a Vir
ginia district shows that ho wus a
Democrat only skin deep. Tho parly
can spare him very well, mul probnbly
tho Itopubllcnus havo llttlo to loso In
taking him up.
ON Till] RIGHT LINE.
A North Ucorgta Opinion of MnJ. A. O.
Iiacon, Our Next United States Sen
ator.
The special attention of tho readers
of tho Cracker Is called to nu able edi
torial, which appeared In tho Macon
Telegraph of a recent date, and which
we print In another place. These time
ly and altogether appropriate remarks
of our contemporary does nothing more
than simple Justice to MnJ. Jtaeou, by
placing him in a proper Ilglu bcl'ore
the people of Oeontlo- Et but retter-
ntes what Is generally asserted and ad
mitted by nil those who know him best,
and.'that is bo 1s far nbovo tho clap
trap methods so commonly Indulged In
by professional pollllolniis. It shows
eouelusively to our mind Hint wo have
in MnJ. llnuon n statesman muter than
u mere polltleinn.
Ills dlgnlly ns a gonl^emau nnd bis
lofty Ideal of true statesmanship never
iillows him to condescend to question-
ublo methods in couducilug ids can
vass. tn nil bis speeches ho coniines
himself to the vlmllratkm nnd elueldn-
llou .of true Domoenulo principles, mul
io exposing the fallacies of Ihosu who
hove been unwillingly led astray by
designing men, whoso only object Is
tho gratlfiraHon of personal ambition
nnd nn Inordhmto desire for office.
Wo wish every voter, Whether Dem
ocrat, Populist or Republican, would
lead tbs able nrt’cle we allude to, for
wo confidently believiiHint it is calcu
lated to convince eve* tho most preju
diced Hint MnJ. Hacon's method of
spenMug and canvassing Is tho right
one, nml will ncc-mipllsh more hi iho
end for pure Democracy thnn all the
mud Blluglng mul vituperation that
could lie used during mi entire political
rnuipciign. Rend the article, it shows
Hut MaJ. Radon's stylo of mldremlug
the public Is tho correct one. and proves
him to bo In every way worthy of tho
high office to which ho aspires.—Ueor-
gln Cracker. •
WHAT MAKES THEM POPULISTS.
From the Atlanta Journal (Dem.)
Office seeking seems to he a mania
with some people. In a great many ln-
Mtnoes they do not appear to rare td
whak particular office they aspire, just
no it is nn office. TYiey -think they are
lvewee.nl of n vers.stbc talent, and
wden defeated tor one office aspire to
another nimby different and requiring
entirely >i different *U1 of man Uo fill
tt. .Some of this class of people take
Uie king ehnnees anil run tor two or
more offices at the sumo -time. Office to
vvfcgt they want. and they are satisfied
they ire exnelly fitted to hold anything
from u sovernenetot nfllco to a city sl-
dermuiSMp. Tliey become Wi runic of-
floe seeker* and the aver.up- voter
finds that nt every election he to beta*
aek.t to ixite tor the aame man for some
sort of office.
TUB REST PAID AUTHOR,
run the nmmintiA iiepuwi«m.
Rudyurd Kipling's seven words tor
It. slid to be tile highest priev paid
auy literary mail of our times, reads
very small In compirtson with wtut
was paid Judge Paxton for a literary
article. Until rresident McLeod took
charge, the RetttV rx>ad had used an
old sign at Its x-roertn** "Bbwnre of
the engine and canf In some suits
tor damage* tt was ckilmed that th -
x-aruburs were not cKwr. McLeoil want
to Judgei Paxton, who composed this
admirable notice: "ltallroatl crossing,
stop. Look nnd Listenr' For this little
composition he received tbe modest
nun of tt.71A or over IhX.Ge a worn."
When tt conees to emtounv-nt-s tho
poets are not tn It with the lawyers.
Or. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
Most Perfect Made.
“I sec the hay farm In front of the
Volunteers’ armory stlll_ continues to
flourish like a green bay horse,” said
a citizen yesterday as be P'-s d on the
corner nnd addressed the Stroiler.
•‘Yc*,’’ replied the .itroller, “ihe crop
premtue* to be line and I think there
will be sulfielebl to giro the boj-s nil
noft bods next year."
■'Why, what boys and what do you
mean'/" asked the citizen, evidently nt
a loss to understand.
"Why, didn’t you know the city kind
ly placed that bay held In charge of
the Volunteers nt their urgent request
and that the Volunteers have gone into
hay raMnst"
"What! Ihe Macon Volunteers. Ma
con’s crack company, gone to raising
hay? Dandy they don't want to rase
any hayseeds for the company ? '
"Not by n Jug full." said the Stroller.
The whole truth of tho business Is that
at the last encampment there was con
siderable complaint among Hie boys
about the hardness of tho cots they
were forced to sleep on, some of the
Imys even going so far a# to say Unit
the cots Were so linnt Hint they rubbed
off all thu skin on their backs and
hips. The comphiiut liecmne so gen
eral that Oapt. Carton proiniseil the
boys to have something softer for them
to sleep on next year, and with this
Idea In vlow he acted on the suggestion
of Private Hill Proctor, who always
has an eye to business, and decided
thut. Inasmuch as hay made a pretty
soft mattress, provided you bent It well
every half hour. Unit he would-farnlah
stuffed hay mattresses and raise Ihe
hay on the company's oivn farm. At
least, this Is tho story as it wna told to
mo by a man on ino Inside."
. "If Hint's tho case," remarked tho cit
izen facetiously, tho city government
must nlso lx- contemplating Bluffing
mattresses with hay, ns 1 a.* quite a
number of these little bay farms scat
tered throughout Hie city.”
'JTie Stroller had talked enough to
one man und left him.
eeee
They were standing In front of the
Telegraph office. Four or Uvo of them
were bright mulnttoes nnd a like num
ber were full-blooded, unadulterated
negroes. The theme under discussion
was Populism. After a brief lull In
tlm oanvcrsoUou one of tbe mulattocs
said to one of the full-bloods: "Looker
liyur, Jim, wlmt does dese hynr third
party fokes purposo ter do?"
“What docs dey purpose ter do?" said
the full-blood in scornful astonishment
nt tlio mulatto's Ignorance.
“Yes.”
“Why, sab, dey purposes ter do Jcs'
'znctly what our forefathers did.”
“Your forefathers?" said the mulatto
scornfully.
"Yosstr. my forefathers,” was ’the
quick reply.
“Yuse or ding dung fool, nigger, your
forefathers wore long tails. You mean
my forefathers. They* do ones dnt
made the good ole laws fur tils coun
try," triumphantly replied the mulatto.
Both colors Joined in separating them
nnd tivo razors Hint In some manner
had become visible were unco again
concealed In two bosoms.
OEM. BVAiNS' SPEECH.
HI* Patriotic Words Full ot Wisdom and
Good Counsel. ^
To ths Editor of the ToKfgrnpli: In
th# hurry of getting Oen. Eviun' opeech
at Dnrnesvlll# on Saturday ready for tho
mall, 1 overlooked some Important views
ot hi* In that w-hli-K was pjihlfthed tn«
burden of bis thought wu* tho,impropriety
of division of our people while, the Repub-
llcan party was no utrong, even no»v boaat-
Insr that they would control thb house aN
tor the next election. Qoo. 'iKvajna ex-
pro.Nwtl surprise at the hostility to Democ-
rasy which hns sprung up In some places.
He said he regarded tho w^ldire of the
Populist oa he Uld that of h|mse»f, but
that he wanted’ to put ull rppullsts cm
guard not to help the Republican party—
that the Republican party was the ene
my of tho South. "The Fopullst move
ment/’ wild Gen. Evans, "had its origin
nt a time of Democratic success. In
1830 things looked bright for Democratic
success—that consummation so long
wished for. Yet, at .this time, .sprang up
a third party In the northwestern states.
Thoso who framed it claimed that they
were weary of Republican oppression and
class legislation. But nt the same time
declared they would not go Into tho Dem
ocratic parly because Its views were too
Southern to suit Western Ideas. If they
saw evils In the Republican party, a. par
ly Ions In power, why did they not join
with too Democratic party, long out of
power, in Its attempts to correct these
evils? But they not only refused to aid
us In our efforts tp reform, but'organised
a third party here In the South, the home
of Jeffersonian Democracy. In so doing
they destroyed v ihat grand organization,
the Alliance, whose original objects
portended ho much good to the coun
try, while we were In peace and unity—
the third wirty came when victory seemed
sure for I'jeinoeracy. Yet It camo and
planted Itsotf. Had they put their forcea
with ours In 1890 nil over the United
States, wo would have had Democratic
senators enough to have renedled all
evils and redeemed all pledgee. But the
ntw party did W do this. They came as
obstructionist:*, jnot helpers. They came
to dlvUhvund weaken, not to strengthen
and solid!fy. Htuco no good can cpme to
us at tho South for a party which comes
to weaken us and not to strengthen us.
If the promotion of the Southern interests
Is In view, why not lei us pull together us
tn tho past? Are wo stronger when di
vided? Then, too, the theories of the
third party are Impracticable. They some
times call their views Jeffersonian vlowa.
But Jefferson was a ***•«* o«
their wild vagaries. Tho leaders <>*_the
third i>arty propose an entire destruction
ot our Uiwnclal system. Are we ready to
have our whole ilnanclal system In the
hands of political appointees? The third
ixxrts- X-1'IMH'S nil Btate banks end offers
as a remedy n system that will destroy
our system o{ exctoinso between Hie peo
ple. tho etote. nnd foreign reuntneh
Gen Evans then showed tbe folly
of governmental ownership nnd operation
of nllmk, Uie expense of same, etxx
It might do in a monarchy like Uu.sla.
but not America. Hills Is not » Georgia
ides st ult, and let It d!o In the Meet
where tt had Its birth.
Oetk Evans diseased the silver ques
tion nnd showed the Democratic party
wna a silver party, nnd had always t. en.
tt opposed demonetisation of silver, still
the party is not for coinage of depredated
money, tt wants the partly pregerecd.
but he believed the country could carry
more silver and stop coinage when ihe
danger line was reached. Qen. Evnue
thought experience had taught that the
ratio of 14 to 1 about as correct as •pos
sible. If It was *8 to h th. prerent dollar
would be but a half dollar and th. prac
tical effect would be to do away with the
•liver dolUr ot S to L and uie half do'iUra
in their dead.
Gim. Kvjuie closed with an appeal lo
the old reldler* and other, to .lick to
tho oi-1 potty, that we had nothing to
gain at the South by division and dt-rup-
tion, but much to loose. J. C.
girl rattlesnake hunter.
Mddletown. N. Y.. Aug. tL—Liberty,
Sullivan county, bag the champion girl
rattle: Hike hunter In Mias Mary Bur
ton Mis- Burton is tt, and resides
w ith her parents on A firm. Early last
spring .he killed tt rattler In her fath
er's yard and cut off the rallies, since
then she bas killed twenty-eight ratle-
Mtah-s. ond ha# obtained twenty per
fect sets of rat ties.
From tile Albany Herald,
jivju. j. \«. nsglt, aas a new hobby.
Ana r.'s a pracuca :>-e ii'jbDy, too,
,v.uvii promuea to pau out an r.ga'c.
U'f ecu. ia. J.ld, or lUUg eta pro' cotton,
air. wmeig nas ptajs.cd zoo acres ot
,ue non is.ana cation on borne runny
irrul two allied uouia ot tnc city, and
is now conceded to be tm* prc.tleat
..-.la oi cotton to be Ioann anymore
.u ill In vrclulty. Air. Witters la no
aoVice as d tanner, but lian been an ex-
.enntve planter all -iU me, ana ne says
nut tue tame inml 'cant lie tun
pulftec- m tnc long ntaiple this .-ear
would not have produced us muon of
Uiu short Staple cotton ua he now U
certain of getting from the Dca island
•tapie. And otners who have soon it
1.1/ tne name tamg. The rien Inland
oeemn to be entirely exempt from runi,
and H has not sUvditn irult like xhe
Short Staple ci/ctou does. It Is heavily
li-uildd, nude nougU of it Is now open
tor picking to begin.
Up to tne present time Mr. Winters'
experiment wMi tile long staple co'ttoi
lu Dougherty seems to be a granj
success, and If Ire encounters no
foreseen difficulties in gathering and
marketing the crop, he says lie will
plant 600 acres of It next year. E-.xiily,
It seems tlialt the light sandy lauds of
this region are well adapted to the
growiih of Sea Island cotton, nnd it np-
peaus from the experiment being made
by Mr. Walters mat more of this va
riety can be grown on the same lands
than the same lands will produce of the
short staple variety. And a bale of
the king Staple cotton will bring about
three kimes as much as » bale of short
staple cotton will bring In the market.
Wlmt'* tho matter, then, with plant
ing long staple cotton altogether on the
pine lands of this region?
We nee from a dinpa'tch in yester
day's Savannah News that the Drat
bade of-Sea Island cotton ha-3 been
marketed at Valdosta, or, raHher. that
It was Shipped from Valdosta to Sa
vannah by express on Tuesday. The
same dispatch also says that Valdosta-
>111 get nearly 6,000 bales of Sea Island
cotton this year, or twice as much us
nny other Georgia town.
itton
AB&OUJTEK.V PURE
For sale at wholesale by fl. It JAQUES & TINSLEY and A. B. SMALL*
•MR. F1AVER (EXPLAINS.
A Card .Abornt 'the Recent Convention
in Fayette County.
To l'he Editor of 'the Journal: My
.attention has Judt been caflled to a nb-
ftee »ln ifhe Journal of «tfhe 16th dngta-nt
wr.iich «aya: "MaJ. Bacon's friends were
conflderii lihnt Fayette county would
inistruct i'ts representatives to vote for
htm for United States Benn-tor, but the
coun'ty refused to do so. It seems there
was a greatl deal of interest taken N in
l'he irratitler, one or two speeches being
made in favor of 'the resolutions to in
struct ilor him, but the vote stood two
to one against him/'
The above notice •& not true. I wus
one of 'the forty-five delegates to this
conveniti'cm—nihere being five ftom each
district of 'the county. They assembled
ilor 'the purpose of nominating a candl-
dinto for the ieglslaltune and also can
didates tor county commissioner, under
a call frtym the Democraitlc executive
commlt'itee of the couivty. There never
was <t resolution offered indorsing MaJ.
Bacon. I did,read a resolution, as a
matter of explanation, and eso stated
■plainly to tihe convention, for the pur
pose *of making a motion, and that mo
tion was this: That 'the five delegates
•from each district, ns tfie districts were
called by the secretary, report 'the
choice of the district for United States
•senator.
The discussion was upon this motion,
and It was lost by n email majority for
iho rea'son tlhlat ¥he convention thought
ft Import He to .take action tn the fn'ter-
ort of either one of tlhe candidates os it
might be hurtful >to U'he interests of our
•candidate for the legislature. MrtJ. Ba
con wns then as he (s now, In my opin
ion, 'the choice of a targe majority of
i?he Democra'Uc voters of Fayette coun
ty for United Staites senator.
Paul Faver.
FVayeUtovlMe, August. 20.
—Atlanta Journal.
SURPRISING TOLERANCE.
From the Philadelphia. Record (Deni.)
Judo Oooiey made a home thrust
when in speaking of the march of
Coxey’s army he saW that «ie tol
erance of tho oommunfeles through
which ihe army passed woe more as
tonishing and demoralizing t'han <Jhe
vagrant demonsrdtloh WseK. As soon
as 'the authbrities vested with Whe ex
ecution of Ihe Jaws showed any dis
position to puJi them !n force Coxeylsm
went into rapid decline and public con
tempt, .
DAWN IN THE HILLS. 1111
O wan, gray spirit of a dawn
I knew In. that far faded time
That lingered like a pleasant, rhyme
Upon the hills and breezy lawn.
The happy then and eober now
Like leagues of meadows brown and
green, *
Sere falls and summer stretch between.
O wan, gray spirit, Is It thou
That bulld’st up those golden spires
In those dead mornings, when the mist
Was burned to gold and emethyst
In thy far-lifted summer Area?
Two pleasant years I watched thee fold
The peaks with light each morn, and fill
The slumbering valleys, far and still,.
And drown the stars with floods of gold.
Aye, so again thy pinions wan
Grow purple as of old they lift
And through the dusky fringes drift.
As down the river drifts the swan.
Aye, so again, like one glad cry
At battle ended, rich and warm.
Thy purple armies sway and storm
Ana shiver up the crimson Bky.
But never ehalt thou, through the haze
An»l folded mists of carded wool,
O faded dawn, grow beautiful •
Again as in those yesterdays.
For as one groping In some dim.
Quaint garret fin-ls, half red with rust.
An Instrument amid the dust 0
That wakens vanished dreams in him.
And ns his fingers on the lute
Backward and forward alowly stray
Among the strings, may not play
Because one broken cord la mute,
ScTstlH I watch thy purple glow,
Yet some famtlku* thing is gone;
Thou seem’st the ghost of that fair dawn
I tn the old time used to know.
-W. H. Field.
A GHASTLY FIND.
Bodies* of Several Confederates Found
in an Old Cave.
Parkersburg. W. Va„ Aug. 24.-Trout
fishermen, who have been camping in the
mountains of Clay county, mode a ghastly
find a few days ago.
Two of the campers were bunting about
two miles from their camp on Big Syca
more creek when they came across a b!g
landslide that occurred some time ago.
One of the men climbed down over a cliff
to a flat place below and was astonished
to find himself standing in front of a deep
hollow cave, which extended under the
cliff quite a distance. He entered ths
opening and found an oil musket. The
bayonet waa fixed on the gun. but the en
tire concern waa almost destroyed by rust.
Calling to his companion, he told .him
what he had found, and he scrambled
down to him. The men concluded to »x-
amine the cave further bock and ascer
tain, if possible, how the old gun got
there, andi in order to do so safely tne
made torches out ot the dry sticks which
lay around them plentifully.
They had not gone further than ten or
twelve feet before they found themselves
In an opening fifteen or twenty feet In
diameter and from four to twelve - feet
htffh. On tile shingle floor of thecave
they found three skeleton?, enrapped in
what must have been at one time uni
forms. but which at that time was so rot
ten that they crumbled Into pieces wnen
touched. Two more guns and several pis
tols of the old style muzzle-load ng vari
ety, were ulso found, all of which were
covered with thick coats of rust. Several
coroded brats buttons were picked up,
jome of which were marked with the
letters U. S., while the others bad C. o.
A. stamped on their lace.
It Is believed some time during the war
several Confederate soldiers with a fed
eral prtsonerhod token posses.lon of the
cave as a place of shelter and that while
o sleep, perhaps, the surface earth above
had slipped down and covered U P
mouth of the cove, completely mvering
them. This was probably the case, ns Uie
ground showed Indications of « n ^d land-
slide Nothing waa found on or about
any erf the skeletons to identify any of
the bodies, which were taken out of the
cave and burled.
for the populst nomination.
From tiie Charleston News and Courier
. Tlio Hartford Poat speaks of Don
Cameron of Pennsylvania as the can
didate of the Populists tor president in
1896. Our contemporary does not know
what he is 'talking about. Has he ever
heard of Benjamin R. Tillman of
South Caroliua? Does ft not know
that he is looking tor “a gleam of llgnt
from the west?” That Wf Pledges
havo alreeJdy ixse-n filed? That he got
the inside track <xf Cameron at the9t.
Louis convention last year? That he
has been invited to make speeches in
Ncbraeka or Nevada? Don Cameron
makes . a good enough senator for
Pennsylvania protectionists, but as a
candidate for president he is not to be
oo-mpareid in any respect withl. Ben
Tillman. South Carolina presents him.
to tho country. He can speak louder
nnd longer than Cameron, he Is a bet
ter poltlclan titan Cameron, he had a
hard and stumpy road to travel in
South Carolina before he wns elected
governor, he will have a hard nnd
stumpy road bo travel before ho get#
to the White House, but he Is going
there If Don Cameron Is the only ob
stacle in Ills way. We would like to
bet tihe Hartford palper a straw hat
that Tillman will beat Cameron out of
Ills boots.
MORE OUTRAGES DY BANDITS.
Sick (Man Taken From His Bed and
<Shdt to Pieces os Baldlwin Waa.
Paris, Tex., Aug. 26.—The situation
in : t?he Chao tow -nation is growing more
serious every hour. Every man Is
armed and great uneasiness prevails
among *them ail. Last night a large
body of Indians entered the house of
Albert Jackson, Cedar counity, and
dragged -him from «. sick bed into the
yard and shot 'him to pieces. They won't
away. This morning Whey surrounded
two other Indians, whose names have
not been learned, and deMbetutely
killed, them.
BoUh parties nre searching tor eatoh
other, and there is no quarter Shown or
naked. Albert Jackson was the man
Governor J-ones called out the militia
•to arrest last year, on :ohe ground that
he had released a prisoner whom the
LFghtihorse had In custody. Jackson
refused to surrender to the militia, and
Locke protected him. This led t.. tho
Jones-Locke war. District Attorney
Hannay hns had warrarits Issued* for
all the parties who participated in the
killing of Ell Baldwin. Bald'wln iwas a
pcKse-mon for a Deputy Sheriff, whWh
gives the federal count Jurisdiction.
A SAILOR’S FEARFUL CRIME.
Killed an American Woman, Two Fel-
Jow Seamen nnd Himself.
London, Aug. 26.—The Vienna corre
spondent of the Chronicle-Telegraph
announces a triple murder nnd suicide
which occurred on tthe Russian steamer
Sebastopol on its latft trip from Con-
eta-rwinopHe to Odessa. A caT.or on the
steamer had bedome enamored of a
young American woman named Miss
Garnett, wht> was a passenger on the
Sebautopoi, and made Ms feelings
known to her. Miss Garrett scorned ilia
addresses, and threatened to have him
punished 4f he dared annoy her Qgaln.
The saiilor*® comrades in somofituann^r
learned of his discomfiture and in their
rough way Jeered and ridiculed him un
til he was frantic. He finally turned
on his tormentors and shot two of them
dead. He then attacked Miss Garrett
and beat her on -the head until **ho was
dead, and then jumped into the sea
and perished.
TWO ROSES.
tSamuel Mintern Peck In Boston Trans
cript.)
Love, seems It not sprp&^lng meet
. That such a love as ours
Should exprcMton strangely sweet
And tell Its bites In flowers?
Rosea we’ll choose, a white, a red.
Our peerless love to plight.
Two roses by soft night-dews fed
To be the room’* delight.
A further reason I have found.
As bright and fair to see.
Why theaMwo roses dewy crowned
Should pass ’twtxt thee and me.
The roses* bloom will soon be shed;
But dies their fragrance? Nay!
* Fven so. Sweetheart; when w* *m dead
Our love will Uvo for aye.
9**.««*.*ia
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5 Heart’s Blood 5
▼ Is the most important part of ▼
tt your organism. Three-fourths of it
i the complaints to which the svs- Z.
W tem is subject are due to impurl- W
are *'<* >" *he blood. You can, there- --
HI fere, realize hotv vital it is to
J Keep It Pure ▼
▼ For vrhich purpose nothing can V
M equal RrV| It effectually re- fiti
2m raoves» «JIM a 11 impurities, J
^ cleanses the blood thoroughly W
and builds up the general health. M
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T*
lie Discusses she Probable Good Ef
fects of Tariff Legislation.
New York, Aug. 26.—The post week
h.35 afforded a fair specimen of the
eor*i of effects the end of “tariff SUs .
P$ntf4 has In store for Waft ntreet. The
feeling Is ifliaft x»f universal relief fro^
a universal obstruoMcn. The 'way has
been opened to a resumpt'ibn of grade
and enterprise in every direction, and
in all ln'tererta there is a die petition to
resume operations on sorartflilng Jp .
Preaching a normal scale. Thera are no
longer any great fears, nor any rea
sons for tfmidfty overhanging tflhe mar-
kets. In every 'branch of trade, blocks
of merchandise are hi a starved cond.-
tion, and the reasons which have for
fifteen ntontha caused buyers to pur
sue a policy of hand-to-mouth supply
are disaippearlng. As a rule, prices of
•merchandise ore unprece-dnetfedly Jjvv, *
so tliat if the punchawing ability 0 f
oonsumere -has bee a lessened t»h'a;t fiun.
cuKy Is offset by a proportionate re
duction in ithe costa of living and in
•Uh-e amount of outlays at large. Credit*
as & rule are in a sound and wholesome
condition, «o tha)t the -raerchanic who
desires to enlarge h1s- dto<ck and ex
tend hla trade can lhave HJh6 needful
time-facUltloj, and a»t exceptional./
low r-a'tes of interest.
Those, conditions oentaUn-ly lay* the
basis for a sound and healthy revival
of business. There il« tii ithe fntrinwic
8»tato of affairs -Untie to suggest mis
givings as itto 't/he future: there is. on
the contrary, much cailcuftited to es-tab-
J1»h oonfidentee da a oontinutoua, steady,
ofcalble and - con'aervait'lve course- «.f
trade. Tine country thus learned some
serious lessons and liihereilore is dis
posed to be isober, bult Ht is also very
•hungry for more trade and' better
profits, and' ts -therefore disposed ;a
turn to active account every chUnce f«»r
Improving *bbth. For the last four
years the perception of coming (Stance
fn our (tariff policy has had a more re
pressing effect upon enterprise 'than is
generally supposed, end 'the tact that
•the Change has -alt fast dome prepared
t)he way for miany tong postponed un-
dierlOikiniga. The fact of the common
oheafcmesa off materiaBs and of the quite
general reduction of wages has a very
direct tendency to invite revival io cer
tain important branches of trade, espe
cially those connected with) buiMing
machine plarit, public lmprovemen-:s
«a>nd rail road 3. How far the reduced
scale of prices -and -the exemption of
raw oifl'terMs from dirty may enable
us to increase our export trade i
mtains to “be seen; In the. meanUg
’however, it Is a hopefully slgnt'
Caict th'ait last year’s reduction in 1
Wvals oHltenkled by «an increase i-n
export's of $38,000,000, as compared;
the year 1892-3.
The recovery 'that now seems to
setting in Is something broader than
revival from the effect* of last yeai
panic. That crisis, though immediate
incident to the great silver flghit, et
braced al«ft> the effects of the deeper d-
rangements that set In with the grea
Barrings suspension, and of which -tha
failure was tout a symptom. Those
rawgeanents -were largely In the oatu
otf over production, over speculate
over trading, and were world-wide
their Influence, and their effects 6l
ctoritlnue in*the persi«tent depression
trade in every European nation. If tl
recovery from these four years of ran-
tion first makes Its appearance In tf
United States, it is nothing more tha
might toe expected from the greater re
iliency of our resources and from th
fact -that we have been less Intlm-atel
oonneated with fthte dlstourtolng cause
than have other countries. It Is reason-
otoia to hope, however, that recovery on
this side of the Atlantic will tend to
stimulate improvement on the other
side: and thus it may quite possibly
happen than the foreign- markets, both
commercial and financial, will respond
to the Improving tendency In our town.
The foregoing are the sort of condi
tions and prospects that nre looming
up to the vision of Wall Street observ
ers. ant) it cannot be questioned* that
they are pfifciucling a very decided Im
pression upSn the confidence and ex
pectation* of Investors and speculative
operators. The ’’bears” have retired
Into their lairs, and buying has extend
ed toeybnd the Industrial stocks to which
It has been so largely confined, and hno
became -ganeral on the railroad list.
From the number of new buyers that
are appearing it seems likely that tho
recovery may run into a considerable
and sustained advance 4n prices, eveq
beyond that which has been already
realized. Thera Is a large amount bf
idle funds lying around in all directions,
for which ihe owners have not yet
found permanent sources of employ
ment; and this capital Is now coming
Into the market for transient invest
ment in securities which are considered
good for a rise. This Is a solid source
of support for the new tendency, and
tt seems likely to be oontlnubd for
si)me time—tbe more so because the in
terest obtainable la other ways still
continues unsatisfactory. Under the?e
circumstances, we cannot heattnte to
commend the market to our friends as
one fiiVOrable for buying on all pro
nounced reactions. Henry Clews.
SPECIAL NOTICE 3.
E. O. GombralL Chas. R. NlsbeL
Gambrell & Nisbet,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
335 Third Street,
Maoon, Ga.
Collections a specialty.
F. R. JONES, I n
Attorney at Law, !
S18 Second Street, Macon. Ga.
Prompt personal attentoin given to
collections.
MONEY TO LOAN.
£even per cent. Loans negotiated ca
Improved city property end farms.
SOUTHERN IX)AN AND TRUST COM
PANY OF GEORGIA.
858 Second street, Macon, Gau
LOANS ON REAL ESTATE.
Loans made on choice real estate and
farming lands in Georgia. Interest *
per cent. Payable in two, three or flvs
year*. No delay. Commissions very
reasonable.
SECURITY LOAN AND ABSTRACT
COMPANY,
420 Second Street. Macon. 'Gs.
Cheap Money to Lend
On improved city aa<l '»rm properly
In Bibb ar.J Jones counties In kuna
jgegarjgaa^gaaa:
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