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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY , OCTOBER 20, 1885—TWELVE PAGES. 11 J'lIE NEWS IN GEORGIA i GATHERED BY CORRESPONDENTS AND FROM EXCHANGES. Why HU JIum! 1* In n Mllng. Sorry to learn that Mr. E. J. Atkinson is compelled to carry his right hand in a sling, iust because he was foolish enough to be lieve that he could beat a steam gin gqgring nt its own gome.—Madisonian. A Gourd Large lOnoiigli for u Cradle. Mr. Rowan Ward has the champion gourd of Stewart county. It measures four feet and six inches one way and four feet and nine inches the other. With rockers attach ed it would make a comfortable cradle. A Humored Kilting. Forsyth, October 19.—A report reached lu re to-day that yest i day, m ar Collodeu, York Murpliey was killed by Si Parker in an altercation about a woman. Si, wc un derstand, is under arrest. Will give par ticulars to morrow. A Wagon Do Gig Service Forty Year*. Mr. Olive r Wr/lls, one of Upson’s most abhtautial fim'mers, was in town this week wifaa twod/lrse wagon that lie has been usingYajJIlarly on his farm forty years next July. A good* lesson for young men just sturtiug out in life.—Thomastou Tunes. A Killed by an I'inhrelln. Mr. Jolit Donaldson recently had n very fine horse killed in this wise: lie was in and near the rear of a long line of vehicles going down a hill, when the horse in front suddenly stopped. This caused a collision between vehicles all along tin? line. The buggy just in front of Mr Donaldson's horse lmd a largo umbrella staff projecting out behind, ami when the buggy stopped, the horse was pushed on to it and it entered his breast and pierced bis heart, and he died almost instantly. — Excelsior Pioneer Eagle. Itciuarkulilu Occurrence. About a week since Mr. tins Bowie who has the management of Dr. W. C. Bowie’s farm in this county, went to the gin bouse iu the morning, and, upon opening the door found that the pile of seed cotton, in which were ten or fifteen hales, had been burned over, during the night, t<» the depth of two or three inches, aud the tire hud dis appeared. The house had been locked the evening before. How the lire originated cannot be told, and it is a miracle how the house and all escaped being consumed by the names. We look upon this ns one of the most remarkable occurrences on record. —Sylvania Telephone. An Arm Terribly .Mangled. A horrible accident occurred at the Cen tral railroad cotton compress yesterday morning. Mr. Alex Bums, an employe at the compress, was engngod in binding the bagging on a bnle of cotton, and before he got through the press was put in motion and his right arm was caught in the ma chinery and terribly mangled. It was crushed almost to n jelly nearly up to the elbow. The pain was almost unendurable, hut Mr. Burns stood it much better than could have been expected. Drs. Grimes aiul upon examination found it necessary to amputate the aim just below the elbow. Columbus Enquirer-Sun. Personal. Milleiw.evii.le, October 19.—Mr. John Hammond, the steward at the Lunatic Asy- I luin, is critically ill and his family can Lhardly hope for his recovery. His children H^cre telegraphed for aud are nt his bedside. F. C. Furman returned Saturday 3KB it from a six months' trip to Berkley, Jfgga, where she had been on a visit to h« r Her health is much improved by Georgia's Cotton Crop. Newxan, October 19.—Your correspond ent had an interview with Major W. A. Mansell, of Atlanta, who is traveling through our section of the South, and consequently is competent authority ou the general status of the cotton crop. Ho says that if the good weather continues for ten days, the yield for 1885 will be a million aud a half hales more than for tlio year 1884, or an ag gregate of seven and half ‘million bales. A Jail on Fire. Georgetown, October 19.—Last night about 8 o’clock the alarm of lire was heard iu the direction of the jail. A crowd soon collected and found that tho big heavy wooilen door that opeus into the cell was burning. It lmd not guined much headway and a few buckets of water extinguished it. dentally went to Savannah a few days ago, and of course visited the office of his house. He was shown a telegram dated Smithville, (la., signed B. W. Bellamy, asking that a New York check be forwurdc-d him at once for $2,100. Bellamy having done business with the firm for years, they at once re sponded. Col. Creech immediately scented fraud and went to work to investigate the matter. He soon learned that Major Bella my was at his home about lilteen miles be low here, and that the telegram was not genuine. Information to. this effect was wired to Messrs. Walter Tison A Co., and they in turn instructed the postmaster at Smithville to return the letter to them which was promptly done thus preventing one of the boldest frauds that lias been attempted in our section for a long time. Au attempt will be made to overtake the scoundrel and it is hoped that it will he successful, THE CONSPIRATORS. A Man who Is Made to Flee tin* Country. Newnax, October 17. - The deputy United States marshal brought over from Carroll ton yesterday Mose Proctor aud Will Brandy, charged with conspiring against and intimidating United States witnesses. They are before tho United States commis sioner, McLendon. This is a sequent to the arrests made some time ago, and re ported in the Telegraph. I>. J. Mattox, who has been and now is the complainant and informer against the conspira tors was, before he entered the revenue business, a Baptist preacher. From a phrenological standpoint ue is well adapted far his business. lie is to Carroll county liquor traffickers what Carey was to the Irish land league. After being dis missed from the Carrollton Church he was employed by the government agents ns an informer, the result of which is that ho is now on his way to Atlanta in order to escape being killed. He says that the party who mobbed he and his family some time ago have sent him word that if he does not leave the county they will kill him. He further states that there are several wildcat distilleries in that section, the owners of wliiefi have sent him word that lie must leave the country or they will cremate him. If his story can be accred ited, the affairs of Carroll are in a lamenta ble condition, and the internal revenue business is a perfect farce. It costs more to collect it then it amounts to. Bob Hines, Albert Harris, Will Bandey and Alex Reed, of Carroll county, charged with intimidating United States witnesses, were committed by Commissioner Mc Clendon, and the United States deputy marshal took them to Fulton county jail to day. Mose Broiler's case was continued. Other arrests and prosecutions will follow: THE CHAMPION SWINDLER. Tin* Scheme Sneeessfiilly Worked liy a Peil- iller In Texas. Eagle Pass, Tex., October 17.—About eight mouth* ago there drifted into F.ugle Puss a man who began peddling with a pack on his shoulders. In a few weeks he became proprietor of a small drygoods store under the name of M. 1). Spiro. Then came a report and legal documents from Germany that Spiro had fallen heir to H'*2,- 000 marks by the death of a wealthy uncle, unexpected. Immediately on the receipt of this news and Jordan were summoned, Spiro branched out iu business ou an ex tensive scale. M. S. Steiuhardt, of this place, was taken in as partner, ‘el.... They established a big Spiro’s fortune and bought perhaps $40,(HHl worth of goods of various houses in Texas and St. Louis. Among their creditors were the Oppenlieinters, of Sun Antonio, and several of the largest houses in that city. While tho collection •>( Spiro’s German leg- aey*was under way, that individual was de voting his leisure to the planning and erec tion of a gorgeous Masonic temple, lie had even let contracts for the material. All his plans were shattered yesterday by the unexpected arrival of Anton Oppenheimer, of Shu Antonio, who proceeded to levy an attachment ou the well tilled warehouses of Spiro A Co. Their business had grown so rapidly that two large store rooms ami court houses were required to hold the goods. Opium- keimer liatl become suspicions uml cabled to Germany regarding the alleged legacy, and received a cable reply telling him that the whole story vas a cunning fabrication; that Spiro lmd no wealthy relations. The wily man had been sleeping across the river in Piedras Nequas, Mexico, for several nights, ami when he learned* of Qppen- helmer’s arrival he did not come across. It is thought he lmd no less than $15,0*10 ensh with him. TRADE WITH MEXICO. A Scheme of Free Trade That Is Exciting A negro by tho name of Henry Bryant, who .. " i,le Comment, wan triad at tho last term of court, and 4on- Cit\ of Mexico, October 17. The cabi net nnd Congm>.onal discussions of tariff reform measures gives rise to many rumors. was tried at tho last term of court, and Aim fenced to the penitentiary for four years for cow stealing, acknowledged that he set the door on fire in tho hopes of burning out. He was terribly frightened and cried lustily for help. Prohibition In Lumpkin. Lumpkin, October 19.—A petition signed .• six hundred, or one-fouurth of the voters this county, asking that au »lection be *ld ou prohibition, having been filed in ,e ordinary’* office ou the 17th instant., e, the said ordinary, has ordcri 1 an elec- ion to be held on the 18th of November j ilext to decide the vital issm that is n >w j I nited States. A scheme f. disturbing a large element of our popular | between the two repuhli* ion. It is beliewd by many that the pro- States to p*— ' r - * libitionists wilt be successful. Dr. J. S. Key, the aide divine aud pre siding elder o.f the Columbus district, de livered an able sermon nt tho Methodist Church here on prohibition yesterday with telling effect. KATES’ ATTACK ON THE REV. DR. HAWTHORNE. The Character of HU Paper—The Capitol'i Ingratitude—New Lawn feigned by the Governor—The L.girda- tlre Work Itevleued. vamp any bout that n - ‘ — mtion not W light. <1 ilii.s Union, and if <>uo is to recent aristocratic notion sarcastic title of ilo-ise of I^>rds. Tin-1 oruia j is eminently weak, marked ability in it, and the only of and below u\**ni:,v ability, bat tfiey have the misfortune to l>e very ignorant. Vet, iu honor ijinorant men, let it be put down to tlndr early Then-1 dominant ability and force of character to lead tin* House. There were half a dozen of farubove the ability and with no inconsiderable leariiimt. leader even among thorn. For all, at times there were not wanting 7-vldeiu e of a eon- trolling power from without the house, whose infill- but tlier s clothed A recent editorial article in the Boston Ib-rald 1ms be* n translated nnd produced here, creating much comment. The edito rial in question hints that a loan to Mexico .uiglR he raised in the United States, the government of the latter country guaranteeing the interest thereon, in consideration of certain trade concessions. El National, commenting on the editorial, . demands of the official journal of the gov- j ,n which , eminent an explanation of current rumors *^°l°n, that it is pretty ungracious for that that Mexico is debating free trade with th. ; paper, after haring made $1,400 to $1,500 Atlanta, October 18. Mr. George W. Kates iu the last issue of hi* Spiritualistic paper published here un i entitled “Light For Thinkers," pitches into Doctor Haw thorne, pastor of the First Baptist Church. Kates is the editor of the paper and pub lishes an account of a recent meeting which the Spiritualists of Atlanta held at Good Templars hall in this city. The account goe on to suy that after Miss Znida Brown, a lady under Spiritual control,lmd entertained of the ohl southern the*crowd with an impromptu goodnight song, Mr. George W. Kates arose and stated to the brethren that he would criticise a “very crude and ill-timed remark,” of Doc tor Hawthorne in Ids Opera House lecture last Thursday night. Doctor Hawthorne had said: “There is an increase of socialism, communism, free-lovistn, Ingersollism and Spiritualiisiu- all of which are diabolism." Air. George W. Kates didn’t like that sen tence a bit, and said that while the whole family of isms referred to are associated to gether he desired to defend Spiritualism alone from the charge. He stated, however, that Ingersollism is nearer to Spiritualism than the other isms—but that free-loveisin no longer stained the escutcheon ot Spirit- lctlisin. lie went on to remark that if Spiritualism is diabolism then so is Christ ian religion, for in his view Christianity was founded upon Spiritualism occurring in the mediumHiiip of Jesus and the A|i tics. In another place George W., s: “it is a crying shame that preiiclit with pulpit power should utter coarse epi- thetb against Spiritualism. He thought it was too late to try to sweep it away with such foul attack*, etc.” Every member of this paper “Light For Thinkers” abounds in attacks upon the Christian religion aud the people up this way are getting tired of the stuff. The question naturally arises, “Who is George W. Kat *s?” He came here several years ago as a low comedian in a fourth class traveling show. Ilis comedy got extremely low that the troupe stranded the Atlanta reefs and Kates was left dead- broke upon the beach. After casting about for a job lie at length anchored as book keeper to Col. Ladd, the lime man. Hi? Spiritualistic tendency soon begun to de velop, and after awhile in connection with Col. Ladd he began to publish “The Light For Thinkers” in the hope of making a liv ing. Meantime he was separated fre wife -and according to her own statement for reasons quite damaging to himself, truth is that Kates simply runs his “Light For Thinkers" to make money ami attacks the Christian religiyn and its ministers < n earth in the hope of swelling his subscrip tion list among a certain class of people. He himself is ns guiltless of religion as a Mexican dog and attacks him simply to a Ivertise his paper and catch a little cheap notoriety, which he hopes will lead to more money getting. That is Kates little game. 1 do hope that Doctor Hawthorne will not notice him. The mercenary flings of a pigmy arc beneath tho contempt of a giant. The Death of Senator Fuller. Atlanta, October 18. His colleagues in the late Senate, many of whom were his warm personal Crieuds, will hear with sur prise aud regret the announcement of tin death of Senator Fuller, of the Fourteenth. Reference was made in the Telegraph this morning of his Serious illness nnd the ap prehension that it would terminate fatally, lie died between ff and 4 o'clock ibis after noon at Mrs. Parted's, on Forsyth street, where he boarded during the session. His wife is here aud was at his bedside at the last. The remains will be carried to his home near Ilawkitisville for burial. The present arrangement is to carry the body by the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, halv ing here at :i o’clock to-morrow morning. I saw Senator Falligant at the hotel to night aud asked him if it was probable the remains would he accompanied by a com mittee from the Legislature. He said it had been thought of, hut owing to the fact that nearly all the members have gone home, it wonlil be almost impossible t*» appoint a committee aud get them here in time. So there will be no committee, but the body will be accompanied by Representative Ca son, and probably one or two other mem bers from that section of the State who are still iu the city. _ UNGRATEFUL JOURNALISM. ••Sacking" the Legislators anil Then Abus ing Them. Atlanta, October 18.—The Evening Cap itol, which has la fore been spoken of in (lies • columns as u Joe Brown paper, fol lows the Joe Brown Constitution iu an all-around abuse of the Legislature. Its editorial yesterday was pretty severe on the Legislature. One of the members this afternoon re marked to your correspondent that inas much as the Capitol had published tho por traits and biographies of about 125 mem bers and Senators, at from $10 to $15 each, ill subject was declared a very $ AN I) E RS VI LLK‘8 EARTHQUAKE. Trembling of the Iltilldliig* anil Rattling of the Windows. Sandersville, October 19.—The earth- i quake shook was no hoax, but wan felt by the entire community, and to-day people from the country report the same sound and occurrence. Houses hero shook suffi ciently to rattle the windows, and the trem bling of some of tho houses on the east side of the square was noticeable to persons on the street. Your correspondent's head was clear aud level, and his experience and ob servation was shared by a thousand or more equally temperate citizens. We hail n I tom S e earthquake shock and don’t piopose to laughed out? of it. If there be any glory t n such occurrences we are entitled to it. Hie editor of 'the Mercury was thoughtful nougli to time the phenomenon, and re mits the duration of sound at one minute nd the vibratory motion at thirty seconds.' ’our correspondent’s report of ten seconds rna made so as to steer clear of any possi- ^ exaggeration. Hence yon sec it was no Plated citizen, but to the contrary, a wide* wnke, enterprising town, which this time even got ahead of Atlanta. A SAVANNAH DRUMMER Prevents a Fraud and Saves a Firm the ! ~ Sum of S'1,100, IT Quitman, October 17.—Our fellow towns- ■uan. Colonel J. B. Creech, deserves consid- ■ rable credit for tho shrewd part he played. ■ eeeiitly in preventing a fraud on Messrs. ■Walter Tison & Co., of Savannah, which J firm he represents. It seems that he acci- trade . United Mexico $15,ood.im> annually, is being talked of. European mercantile interests are opposed to the project, taking the ground that such a treaty with the United States woultl destroy all European importing business. Among Americans the plan is thought to bo a wise one, as it would lend to a great in crease in trade, opening up the entire Mexi can market to American manufacturers and bringing tin two countries iuto very inti mate uml friendly relations. The Mexican editors who recently traveled iu the United States believe in a closer commercial con nection with that country. Guarded at HU Own Itcqueat. Atlaxta, October 18,—'The body of Janies L. Jackson, which was buried yes terday, nnd which is being guarded* at , night by members of the Gate City Guard, is under guard nt the deceased's request. Ue died of a complication of diseases that seemed to baffle medical treatment. Mr. Jackson took a peculiar notion that phy sicians might wnut to investigate his disease after death, and so he requested his fellow- members of the Gate City Guard to keep watch over his grave for ten nights; amt this dying request is being sacredly ful filled. A Conundrum Atlanta, October 18.— Sunday is a prohi bition day iu Atlanta as regards the selling of liquor, and yet there were a umulier of drunken men on the streets to-day. Where did they get it? A man can get all tho liquor he wants in Atlanta, prohibition or not prohibition. He can always get more than he wants. out of the Legislators by puffs, pictures ami biographies,to now attack them. How ever, these be times of enterprising jour nalism. Au Awful Wreck Iu New llump<dtlrr. Cuxcoim, N. II., (Mnla-r 1S.—A terrible an-iilctit ocenrmd on the tiorthrrti division of the Bouton and Lowell railroad, midway between Hast Andover and Went Andover, at ft o'clock this morning, by which three |M*r»oti!i lost tliolr liven and five wen* injured. The Chicago express freight train left here with a double-header engine, Inuring John II. Kiuerwon and Daniel Ncannel. and when they reached Went Andover to wet off for the down |>aMM*ngcr train it was found that they had broken ajMirt. Kinerwm started in search of the missing cars, aud meanwhile the pas senger train came along. The passenger train men were informed that Emerson had gone after part of his train before they left the station. That recoil motive _ _ _ r hie trainmen were sent to the nwcue of the paasen- THE LEGISLATURE REVIEWED. It* Sins and feliurtcoiiilnifa—An I'mcni I’ower lleliind the Tlirouc—Tate's Vote. Atlanta, October 18.—Now that the Legislature bus udjoiiruivt without day it may be well to r**» lew it in a sort of a cursory way; to take a j.**n aud ink photographic \ lew of it. Au Eastern artist has been gnhuniziug the old art principle that objects should be painted as they appear, and not ns they are. By. ingenious illustration, feliciUoas language, admirable audacity, the fellow awnkened in tire artists and art-!»vers of the Hast a HtupouUouM admiration for his genius in tire " of this art principle, 1 do not wish to re* t may urte.wards kirk me. It is intention nor desire to allow up the Legisla- lw*tti*r light, but just i ke any bint from the •f the United States that it should f tin* Uuiti d Ktaies Senate Iras ars as to win for it the * of lEcpre-eutatives of 1 t majority i ry iustauce their votes were single tuan who hail nuffleient p tin .* submission to ew members, that power behind the tlie seeming dictates of n pointed almost unerringly to throne, a power that by tuosi exceueir tliscretlon only invokes its control nt intervals. Tin number so subject did not happen to lie a working majority, and it Is doubtless due to that fact, that "ring rule" may not he charged among the many sins of this Legislature. This brings me t<» a mibjt tended to refer to again—Mr. Tate's vote. No man knew tmt.er than did your correspondent that there hail been an irregular and illegal easting, and by token, recording of “ " which was not cmibodlert iu the report is that it was not th** practice for chairmen of important roniniitteea u» so record their votes, that this whs the firet instant r* of u chairman dodg ing ou a bill that had near the importaocu of the railroad hill. Mr. Tutu in his remarks when he rose to a question of personal privilege iu reference to the ThLi.ouArii s tlret notice of his vt t«* made two detkuitu points of dellfesc; tirst. that he was not in the House when liis name was called; and second, that he voted before the verification foil call. So many witnesses were produced h* prove that Mr. Tate was iu tin* House when his name was called, that he, in his testimony, receded from any positive n-nit-m brunet* on that i*oiut. The finding of tlie committee ami begged the House »bo report referring to the time of easting hi* vote, because the clerk and not be was on trial. Mr. Berner in defending the report went so far a t to de* that tlie only precedent ui»on which lnittec I allowed Ids vote to remain mi the Jour* similar case where His-nker Cla vard inn I ruled that in it had not altered the result the vote would lie allowed to remain. When a momtior of the committee, who had been absent when tlie report was read in the House, heard that Mr. Tate had openly fought the adoption of tin* report by the House, he exclaimed: "By Heaven, he ought Jo have known what some of the cotnmitte wanted to dot" WAS Til KICK A TBAIIK? Now. what is tho truth in regard to Mr. Tate's vote? for its histqrv Is important iu any considera tion of the House. Mr. Tate was here as a champion of the claims of the* North Georgia nnd Marietta nd'read against the State. Jt would not tn* ditlleiilt to establish that that was one of the objects of the mostintiucntial of bin supporters in th ; canvass for nomination or clectiou. Then* w.w nt the first evinced a decided opposition to his hill for the set tlement of that claim. As chairman of the railroad committee be, of oourse, hud a decided influence. All the way through the summer session he tllrtod, not tosa> traded, with tvery faction, to win votes for Ids bill. 1 recall that lie at one time was quite ramtiaut against the teAuology hill. When Ins >f Mr. Tate's bill was threatened to indue let ion, for the techuologv bill was. i f course, as dis- •reditable to the threatouer as it is to Mr. Tate, if li.d was the cause of Ids support of the technology Nearly Wilt TATr. DOtHlKn. very one who voted forth)* railroad bill Mr. Tate’s bill. Every witness before committee ■chilly v ii cnnfhlcii that investigating Mr. Tate’i he had watched Mr. Tate the fill was called, ttecaiisc In* lmd n which way the hoiionihh* chair man of tins railv. atl committee would vote. When Mr. OonUit. i.i a witness who had vvluwt'Trv! tGat on this call of whether or not ho bad not made that request of Mr. Tate in tho hopo and belief that if tlm railroad bill got h” votes Mr. Tate Would give it the SHtli, Mr. Gordon decllniim to answer tin question under oath to tell tin badly Agents Wanted. We want an agent for tho Weekly Tele- graph in every community in tho South. We will make mob arrangements na will enable any one to make money canvtuMing or us. Write for terms to agents. w-tF g«*rs and engineers. Both locomotives damaged and their engineers missing. After a long search they were found under the debris, dead, as was also the hrakemau of the Height train, who went baek with engineer Ktnenu express messenger imprisoned f . .^..t them Both were in tlie baggage ear. which took Ore, hut the flames Were extinguished without damage. Tlu* tender of the passenger locomotive tele*co|>cd the baggage car aud the latter telescoped the mail car. There were two men iu the latter, one «>f whom injured. Aside from a severe shaking up, uoue of the passenger* were injured. A wrecking train and medical assistance went front here ami the track was cleared before night. General Kti|M*riiitcndont Seller, who came from Uostoii by a special train, ami Division feu|s‘riutend- etit Lood directed the work. The following is a list of tlie killed: Lueius Oraves, engineer of the l»as*- cnger train, ag«*d «'s) years: John H. Emerson, engin eer of the freight train; Wm. Harvey, hrakemau ou found during their six days 1 session twenty-nine in dictments for unlawful cohabitation. Chief Justice Hayes In discharging the Jury thanked tb) very impressive manner, remarking that if the trial j arise did their duty as well the law* of the country would bo rigidly enforced. gentleman from Pickens to dodge Because I do not think tho |s*«iplc ought maiu ignorant of these facts, is tl%* reason for my setting them clown now, TUB nOVEBSOn’s RAsTK. It is generally nttd«rst«NNl that Governor McDaniel favored tin* railroad lull. Ills haste to sign Mr. Tate's Marietta ami North Georgia bill, in spite nf Judge Harrell's request that the Governor hear him on the uncoustitiitionality of tlie bill, may be *or- thy of thought by the |M.lith*al fireside philosopher. That the ]iassagn of the Marietta am! North Geor gia Mil was a test, might bo seen iu the fact that when Mr. Tate's conduct on the railroad hilllt<rame generally known to the House, a three-fourths vote was given in favor of introducing Judge Har rell's bill, rc|M*alifig the very hill which had Iwcn passed in favor of the Maricttaand North Georgia railroad. It is true that Judge Harrell's hill did not pass, hut the BUspetision of the rules by a three- tenths vote to allow tin* introduction even of the hill, coming just oil the heel of the excitement an unfortunate showing. auskktzkixm. What was the dully attendance in other sessions I do not know, hut it is not a slander to say that the average attendance of the past House since July —. disgraceful. Had then* been near so full an free railroad passes are a had public jsdicy. If the journal was conned 1 am sure the numbei Ixsly to almost dally .— is scorn r defeat of measures ns is always tlie case-, did its work better than the House; but considering the number of Senators and the restriction as to their introducing bills, the Senate has ls*tt**r reason to Is* proud of Its record. I do not hesitate to men tion Senators Uahauiss, Davidson, Colby, > for their Falligant and Mitchell a* worthy of p._. _ . regular attcmlanco and prompt discharge of buai* ness, and I might, uith as much truth, cite them as the ablest men in he Menate. Withal tho Senate was not a body that would lie calculated to make one feet proud of Mug a Georgian, while those I have named ami a very few others, an* really worthy To go more into detail would occupy too much space at once. loiter on I may give reminiscences of the Legislature*. Tlie G«>v «*r mi lent of llgypt. Constantinople, Oetolx*r 19. sir Henry Drummond Wolff, specinl British envoy, und tlie Porte have signed it protocol re specting the government of Egypt. Tin* Weekly Telegraph Free, We will send tlie Wkekly Teleobarb one year to any one who will get up it club of five new subscriber* to it ut one dollar pi each. w-tf | fv FROM A CHICAGO MAN. I tion was improved. The experiment is to A Kindly Word nnd . I be ‘ n *"> iu , ' tU, ' r Dun us to ituiiriMds. ) The question having been asked why it if A citizen of Macon forwarded to Mr. T. B. Carter. I that changes in school text hooks nre iinidt gem ral agent of the Equitable Life Insurance Com- h o often, n contemporary explains that ill no p*»y. Chicago, M copy of the Tklkuhai-h contain- |. tI|4 : | ,„ ||H .. b, ’ m . r or Ing the proceedings of the railroad meeting recently j 1 , ,l0MS 1 , 1 . 1 . , 1,1 ni belli hen*. Mr. carter writes: ' , pulous competition than in the manufacture "You arc on tin* right track in regard to the pr< •*- j aud sale of these books. Every publishing rajkwft j house has agents whoso business it is to make sales. He assails both teachers und purity of your beautiful you can get to renter there the better for you. The railroads have made Chicago. We have now about twenty-five trunk lines converging here*, aud more* trying to get iu. The immediate surroundings of Chicago are* so cut up or grid-iremed with railroad tracks that it is uliuost impossible for new roads n, or get in, unlew e tnicks «.f ! chool directors in every known way to persuade thou to chan*'**, and about once m so often he succeeds. Experience teaches that nine out of ten changes an* without adequate benefit. the ^cit^ 11 But There is a good deal of shallow, silly ie tin*’‘better HonseiiM* about tin* ambitious embryo so- lv . eiety snob of the present day, ns may bo '■! illustrated by a remark made by <>ue of rowdiiiK bard on to nVveu fmndml tlioiMnJ I »*’* ll,n « "Oil, ilenr me," ho ami this great lucres*** in largely due to our rail- said, “I never H)it*» tin* 1 hentfe, 1m- roads ami our manufacturing interests. By the ' cause th** I»**mI seats iu the house are only a census of iM'Jwc ranked about the sixth or seventh ( L,n ar i ,. a n* if 11.,, ln-rfm-iniinee in of nianufactiirli.g centre*-. In 1-0 w.* muk.-d the 'V i . , ,, 1 •*» »>limn« o is third. In IsM I think we shall rank -.end. and in j 1 "' '*■ st 1,1 town. I omldll l think of going, I'.HO the first. The city seems to Is* growing and because you see niiVI»< *1V call afford to improving more* thane v»w. So it will he with Ma- spend a (loILtr, and l' should never know Afford lncn*MHl Iqdllcmcut. furrallw.y wh„t kiu.l „f ,1 Jo KOU >v,ls ritling li. »i,lo and manufacturing enteq.risi right in hi- ♦ e which a i progressing as rapidly a- no rca-ou in tie* should not improve ml there is an apjs* ire : n qttaled l»y that o of pros]N*r .. ... thrift which is m*t surpassed even by Atlanla. Atlanta has the advantage of lieing the capital of the ami has had she advantage of large railroad facili ties longer than yon, I think; but with the right kiud of energy and push among your business men. i make Atlanta prick up its ears aud LOSING AN Ol’FK'E. rtaiuly was tin* quintesceitce in th.* of idiotic snobbery. Philadelphia Bulletin. Macon i In the last century they really turned * .ri'! criminals to Mime practical account in Eng land. In 17**7 John Beiihuui, under sen tence of_ death tor burghoy, was pardoned on condition «*f underuoinj; tin* amputation of a lilllb, “to test the efficacy of Mr. Pierce's stipti-s." The limb off, .lobu wan to be considered free. There is also u pas- ; sage in tin* in. iie.iis of one «»f the great sur- j geons «if the time to lend one to infer that ; he had been offered not only one but aev- ; eral criminals from Newgate, to lie experi mented on for breaking of the knee-cap, and that he lmd declined the offer becnntie I he might bring about a hundred fracture* | and yet not secure the precise one ho llovr a Man Feels When His Head Fulls i Wanted. Into the llu**l«-t. A member of Parliament, who for more A man who lost a government office de-! tha, ‘ .v-;ar;. ivpr.*s.*iited a large mixed scrihes his sensations thus for the benefit I » <*»}«t« t uency. holds that the only iiieuns of of the Washington Star: It feels when the I ►jnrisfitetonly checkmating Mr. in iixe tirst tails as if some one lmd hit you «>n | tnm,s wou, ‘ l hi ‘ h >' ***•*«*»»« voting i“ tin* head with a baseball but, nnd knocked j J you over into a tank of ice water. Then for j awhile you don’t know anything. Then it | if your desk was dancing ii across the room. The ceiling looks us if it were a long ways off; the windows look long nnd narrow; tlu* ice pitcher looks big, aiul everybody el-.c in the room looks pale, aud wlu*n you start to go out of the door you run into it. When von get inti* the corridor it looks as if you had never been there before. You don’t know what 1ms happened, but you feel as if there were* something swelling about you, and tin* whole world looks strange. When you get into the street there seems to be nil unus ual noise, and everybody looks frightened, as if something were about to happen, and the streets look long and wide, and tlie horses and people small. All the w hile you feel that something about you is swelling. You move mechanically toward your home. Everything looks strange. Yon feel as if you were* lifted oil the ground and the whole town were spinning around like a top under you. Meanwhile the swelling feeling gets worse. You think it's your head, but you ain’t quite certain. You think your head 1ms turned into a balloon, for which your body is too much ballast, audit is picking you up and dropping you down again, Hurt of bouncing you along. As you get near home you begin to fed afraid. You go half way around the square* and make for the buck alley gate to avoid tlu* children you think arc playing in front. Tlu* swelling goes on until you get inside of tile house. Then there is a sort of an explosion; some thing collapses in you, aud you lind it is your heart. Then you know all of a suddt n what 1ms happened. You are out of employment and have a family to sup port. First you want to do something; then you don’t know what to do. Every thing looks awfully Mack and desperate. You start out again to collect your thoughts and look about you. Unconsciously you wander down the street, looking for some thing to turn up, mid before you know it L' von are walking through tlu* corridors of 1 ^ Ivvit iW lmihliiiK v..n have ju.l l.wn ki.k.-.l ont witlTtw'ii.'i.uii'l |, of. \ .in fed as if you ought to be very j»o- lite to the colored messengers yon nu *t in the halls. As objects begiu to get familiar again, you are seized with a desire* t>* know how it happened. Then you get mod, us if yon lmd been outraged. Then you want to get back. But yon can't. Yon know that, but you try all the same. It is bard to bre ak off a habit of twenty years. I’iirli- Such a mode would lmvo o additional advantages -men whose stock in trade is mere* claptrap ami expediency, or the rMing to death of particular hobbies, would find few constituents sufficiently simple re* support them, and moderate Lib erals, who have been aptly described us peo ple who support iu public measures which they depre cate iu private, would no longer be placed ill such an equivocal position." His experience has been that the elected rather than the electors require the protec tion of the bnilnt. AMONG THE FUNSTERS. A Philadelphia man has invented a new cough enre. It is peifectl.V safe, as it has been tried on three eats mid only two of them have died.— Chronicle-Herald. A fashionable lady of New York paid $175 torn wing for her hut. Her friends are wondering why she didn't put a little more to it mul buy a dog,—Courier. A Boston man whose wife has runaway with a drummer, has sworn a solemn oath to kill the scoundrel ou sight if In* brings her back again. Fall River Advance. Ten cents may insure speedy work by postal clerks, but it will take a good deal more than that to keep a messenger boy from 11 ippiug to see a dog tight. - Boston Globe. A New York heiress quoted at $5,000,- giig has just captured a brilliant aiulsph ti- did prize in the slinpe of a distinguished German baron, eqnipp. d with a fierce moustache, a decayed ensile, a here ditary debt, mul an outlawed ancestry. Life. Postmaster So you want a place in the fust d. livery department.** Appi : * ‘ r Mv deliv not oniv fast, bu “We want an etfei When* did von get box?" “The box!" I pitched two years Plnlndelj b » Gull. Lieutenant Greely says there is a belt in I the Arctic |ironoun<*ed remarkably effective, ve *1. livery of course, nr delivery?" “In tho ith dazed air). “Yes, >r the Red Stockings." Fiirtliqiiiikc SImh U III G« o 'gin. [Special Tllkukam.] AN 1)ERHVILLE, « m loner xi.—Atl (artll- qunko shock was felt this evening at 5:20 o’clock. The duration was about ten sec onds and the movement southwest to north- east. Persons in buildings felt th • shock very perceptibly. It was accouipuuied by j < a low, rumbling sound. A BATCH OF BREVITIES. He (reqicetfull.v). Excuse me. Of course von know wliat 1- rl«ln. But 1 meant no offense, I assure you. Good-nl^ht. To think for a moment I meant what 1 said. Massachusetts is about to take a very complete census of textile manufactures. There is a tendency on the part of New England cotton manufacturers to move their mills from the interior to the coast. The Flood Rock explosion was the big gest blast ever blown. Its farthest ob served effect was forty-eight miles from the place of explosion. The King of Denmark has offered $1(1,00(0 to have a wart removed from his chin, lmt’ the surgeons are* afraid to pull it lest the operation should result fatally. Sknf.n Chinese prisoners had their cues ont off in tin* prison at Victoria, on September 21*. The cues were labelled, and will be re turned to their owners when their terms of incarceration expire. A Texas editor complains of n hook and ladder company recently organized in his neighborhood. The editor intimates tlmt the ladder is used for getting into windows after dark, after which the hooking is done. A Newport woman wa nt to a pasture and caught and harnessed a two-year-old colt that bail never seen ii harness and hitched it to a wagon and drove several miles. The colt was surprised, but there isn’t anything a Newport woman can’t do if she wants to. St. Albans (Vt.) Messenger. A LATELY deceased justice of the peace of Derby, Conn., made the town a be illest of $5,INK!, on condition that it should not touch the money until it amounted to $5,UOO,OUI). It was calculated that the bt- piest would not become operative for two •(•nturies, nnd the town bus decided to re linquish all claim to the gift. The heirs at law now get the money. The old-faidiioned spinning wheel was there are sheep •f the ox and the i Ui his next visit to that iy discover horses with the is of the ox aud the tail of n« "lus possible to find almost tire* Arctic regions save tho C.irristown Herald. (newly lnarrtaL—“How did lie We lifn! .'. . ■>«•.(!. i >—«4«»^ • in recollects lvis childhood)— "It was rather good, but not ku«*1i u pie ns my mother ;;*rd to bake, >Vby don't you “I over nil‘I K"' 1»« recipe? Did ,„n Imito it?" Mrs. .Tolies—“No." Mr. Jones “Ah! Who did tlu n?” Mrs. Jones i triumphantly) —“Your moth**r baked it and sent it over. She thought you would like it." New York phi.*. tail of tlu* countrv lu* un bend aiul lu n: the sheep. It anything in north pole. ! Mrs. Jones you like that . Mr. Jon**s f\\{ FREE LUNCH. am nun* introduced a short time ago iuto the insaue asylum of the Isle of Man, with the idea of amusing the patients. They seemed de lighted nt their new diversion nnd became absorbed in it. Ah the suin rintendent ex- ressed it, the direction of their nervous force was changed, aud thus their condi- Somerville Journal: Tin* Indian's birch was tin* original tippy cc.Uoi Lowell, Mass., Citizen: Tin* New York j Republican nominations an* all right. Tho I Carr comes behind tin* dark horse. Kew'Orleans Picayune; Candidate Wise, in Virginia, made tin* mistake of liis life in striking a linn by tlu* name of Smith. Cincinnati Mere*h.iiit Traveler: “I carry a razor," remarked a ferocious looking woman, as slu* pulled a rubber bottle oil a helpless baby in l.rr arms. Lowell. Mass., Citiz**n: Ofconrse w* do not wish to pleVellt liulie- eollitlg Upon UH, but will mere ly lin utioii tin* fact that there* are mice in our editorial rooms. Barbers’Gazette: Girl “Ginniu* quarter pound of tea, quirk." Clerk—“What kiud, green or black?" Girl “Tin* blackest you've got. It’s for a colored funeral." Omnibus; Judge to jmeket thiefess— cknowledge, then, tlmt you the porto- c of the lady out of her pocket taken have. Why did you it?" Culprit (sobbing) “I w anted only to see if unulumo enough money with herself had." Harper's Bazar; Fishing under difficul ties “Oh, Emelin*, come quick! Tho Imbv's tniuM* *1 down into the cistern; wc’m been a flshin’ tor him tor half an hour wid nn umbre lla handle an' a chunk o' spoiigo cake, an’ we can’t even get ii nibble." Harper's Bazar. A gent!.* hint: He—“Did it ever occur to you how difficult it must have been tor Solomon to propose to a thousand maidens?" She “Yen; lmt not half so difficult as one of the men of tho pre sent ilay find it to he to propose to olio maiden." Uncle Rastus—"I'm willin’ ter 'knowl edge dat 1 stole tit* ham, sail, but dor am extennnmtiu' sahcntustancen kernectcd will th* case Hah. I was 'toxicated, snh, an* didn't know nuffen wlmt I was ’bout.” Mr. “I don't believe you wen* intoxicated. Uncle Rastus.” Uncle Rastus “’Deed I was: I kin prove hit. If I hadn't been drank flat night, yo’ Honab, I a toted off mo'ii one ham.’’—Life. Our office boy is a genius. The other ty we found him practicing at a little target with n revolver. “You mustn’t do that, Billy," sui*l we; “you will be tiring through the partition nnd killing some of the men on the other side.” “No fear of that, sir. I can hit tlie target every time.' “Yes, ’but you’ll be shooting through tho target." “Oh, no, sir. I’m nil right there. It is a slab of hoarding house steak.’’—Fall River Advance.