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fTHE MACON WEEKLY TELEOEAPH: TUESDAY DECEMBER 20, 1885.-TWELVE PACES.
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Macon, Oa.
Mossy ordera. cbecka, etc., should be made paya
ble to u. C. Hasaox, Manager.
B. F. McCollum, the man who claimed
to have aimed tho cannon that killed Gen
eral Leonidaa Folk, has just been kieked to
death by a horse. Tbe gentleman who
aimed the bon e has not been beard
from.
It is understood that tbe gold men have
three propositions which they will present;
First, the repeal of tbe Bland act; second,
the suspension of silver coinage for a speci
fic period, and third, if no suspension can
he secured, to limit the coinage of the sil
ver dollar to $500,000 per month insteodjof
$2,(’0i),000, as is now required.
This from tho Coweta Advertiser would
indicate tho imminent need of that county
for a free school, at which the great jour
nalist might lie taught grammar nnd man
ners: “Of all the old sorc-headcd, chronic
kickers we ever heard tell on, is that old
‘fuss nnd feathers' who indicts the heavy
editorial matter of the Macon Teleobaph.
He has surely fell into a pickle jar and can't
get out."
JuooiClabkk presents the Atlanta drys
with a Christinas present in the shape of a
decision upholding the late, election. We
fear this will he the cause of undue hilarity.
It is more than suspected that Colonel
Avery will brew a hncket of artillery punch
down in the coal cellar of tbe Capitol, and
will invite Judge Lochrone to attend and
bring his sub-marine cable in his traveling
toilet case. Then there will be eloquence.
Brows Uxivebtitt has an nominally large
number of students who support themselves
wholly or in part, daring tho college course.
A few of tho best do private tutoring, and
one teaches shorthand. Six correspond for
news]wpen, seven sing in chnrch choirs,
three are elocutionists, one keep* a book-
store, one is a real estate broker, two hold
agencies for steam laundries, one manages
the “student*’ discount agency,” and one
distribute* letters to the student* at
trifling cost
Statesman Neece, of Blinoi*, has intro
duced the following hill: “A hill granting
land* to aid in the establishment of an en
dowment for sayings by which thrift may
bo promoted and citizen* assisted to pre
serve themselves from the economio impo
tence snd dependence involved in their
lick of tbe material factors necessary to
make available their personal productive
capabilities.” It should he passed on next
hill day nnder a suspension of the rules.
While Arthur, who was guilty of tho in
effable meanness of vetoing a bill for the
relief of Fitz-Johu Forter, has fade! from
public attention, General Porter and his
wrong* appeal more strongly to the justice
of the American people. Tbe Philadelphia
Herald truly lays: “Tbe only enemy of
any acconnt whom Fitz-John Porter has
left is Logan. His powerful jaws will, of
course, bray out against the bill for the
wronged general's restoration to his
rights.” There is no resson why at this
period any Southern Itepresenistive should
not actively engage in the effort to right a
cruelly wronged man, bnt as a matter of
prudenoe and wisdom, it might be better
that some Northern soldier should cham
pion the hill in place of General Joe
Wheeler.
“The cause of cold waves, Lientenant
Woodruff, of the Signal Service Bnreso,
says, is not yet understood. He explains
that in various investigations snd studies
it bos been shown that ‘a fait of tempera
ture succeeds or follows an area of lower
barometer and a rise precedes snch an
area,’ and asks the following question: ‘It
the cold the effect of an areaof high barom
eter, or is the area of high barometer due to
d-ierease oi temperature?' The prediction
of the approach or progress of cold waves
is as yet apt to go wrong nines times out of
ten. The most intense cold waves follow
severe storms.” It is to he regretted that
Mr. Stephens, who had exclusive charge of
weather, did not make this point clear.
The Iowa oonrts have made an important
d fusion regarding the civil righta of col
ored people. A negre who was refused ad
mission to a place of amusement because of
his color appealed to the law, when the
Circuit Court held that it did not appear
from the averments that the plaintiff had
any legal right to enter tbe place of amuse
ment. The Supreme Court affirms this rul
ing snd says: “The act complained off by
the plaintiff was the withdrawal by the de
fendants, as to him, of the offer which they
hsd made to admit him, or to contract with
him for admission. They had the right to
do this, as to him or any other member of
tbe public. This right is not based upon
the fact that be belongs to a particular mce,
hut arisen from tbe consideration that
Neither he uor any other person could de-
end as a right, under the law, that the
'■(lege of entering the place he accorded
Death In the Mine.
Those who go down to the bca in ships,
it would appear, are exposed to dangers
hardly more deadly than those who go
down into coal mines. Tbe frequency of
mining catastrophes, and the loss of life
resulting therefrom, raises the question
whether, indeed, the danger is not greater
to the miners in proportion to the
number engaged than to the sailors.
Certainly the horror of mine accidents is
more frightful to consider, and the situa
tions involve more mental suffering to
friends who survive. We are informed,
and it is the general belief, that death by
drowning is comparatively easy. Some
times, it is true, human beings are exppsed
at sea to days of suffering throngh thirst,
hunger and exposure, bnt generally, the ac
cidents there which bring destruction, are
quick in action, and the sea engulfs its vic
tims.
But the mine has horrors far more im
pressive. Cut off from the light of heaven,
far away underground, the miner meets his
death by slow degrees. He straggles with
suffocating fames, he perishes by slowly
increasing heat, by rushing flames and
deadly winds, or it may be, he is ent off by
idling debris, and starves to death in the
darkness, while loving friends, conscious oi
his condition, strive with the energy of
agony to reach him.
The recent catastrophe in the Xanti coke
mine, near* Wilkesbarre, Pa., furnishes a
terrible illustration of the uncertainties of
mining life, and of the misery a moment
may inflict upon a community. At the
point named, a few days since, s vast em
bankment of cnlmjsnd waste, after shsotb-
ing for months the surface drainage, cud
denly crashed into the mine far Mow,
cutting off twenty-four workmen.
Those who escaped si ouoe
begun a frantic fight against time and ever-
whelming difficulties for the relief of theii
imprisoned friends. Business in the neigh
borhood for miles around waa suspended,
while wi,es, mothers and sisters gathered
about the mine and for days kept unceas
ing vigil, waiting in an agony of suspense
for favorable news. The noble resellers
sought to reach their comrades by drilling
a manhole straight through the debris for
hundreds of yards. Lying upon their
faces, passing ont by the backet-
ful the loosened earth, breathing
fonl gases and constantly expoaed
to instant death themselves, they strove
like demigods. The result is told in a brief
dispatch. There occurred a second crush
in, and the rescuers were forced out of the
mine.
“The effort to save tbe.lives of the im
prisoned is abandoned, after another ex
ploration and consultation. The officials,
finding the whole of the mine where it was
hoped that the men were was packed full
of calm and sand, and that the men must
therefore be dead, decided to abandon the
work from the air-shaft. The presence of
fire-damp also rendered it impossible to
continno the work there. Operations will be
continued from the slope, bnt as 3,000 feet
of tightly packed calm has to be ent
throngh and cleared ont, it will be weeks
before the bodies are recovored.”
What a Christmas morning for the poor
women who walk over tho tombs of their
dear ones!
circumstances Alter cases.
A few dsys since tho Troy, N. Y., news
papers published tbe following advertise
ment:
Wanted—Accommodation f ir the Flak University
Jubilee Hlugeiu, thirteen Christian men anil women.
Tbe principal hotels hare refused to entertain
those people on account of their color.
The Jubilee Bingen are traveling about
the country giving cntertvnmonti to ac
cumulate fnnda for the Unironity. Their
enterprise is, therefore, purely an educa
tional scheme and ought to command the
sympathy of the negrophilists who are as
thi, k in world as leaves in Vallambrosa.
But this sympathy has not been largely
forthcoming. If we may believe a member
o( the company who recently testified as
follows;
‘AtCblUicothe, 111., we rsvs our drat paid con
cert snd the proceeds wan (Ivan to the anffenis
by the great Chicago Ore, hot wa were refused ac
commodations In two hotels, and obtained shelter
in the third only on condiUon (hat we would hide
tmiselvee from the other guests. At Springfield,
the home of Abraham Lincoln, wa wen aleo ostra
cised, but the people, resenting the outrage, gave
magnificent welcome, nnd ei-Oovernor
Palmer received nans guests Into his own hones.
At Zanesville, O, six of our girts had to sleep one
night In n single room, over n shed, with nothing
bnt water-proofs for covering, and at Fremont, the
home of ei-PresIdent Itayes, we wen subjected to
Sloes iodiguttiea."
Here's a pretty come to paa*, indeed!
Bnt recently every Republican journal in
the North howled with indignation over the
fact that the people of Qnitman, Ga., cx-
pressed themselves an glad because they
were rid of a negro college which the spite
and weitlth of s fool in Massachusetts had
located in the heart of their little city. Why
are these journals so silent now over the
outrages committed npon the intelligent
jubilee singen who are travel-
ing to get fnnd* to educate the negro
race? From the profeneiona mad* by these
journals for two decades we had been
almost persuaded to believe that the honor
of placing guest chamben at the disposal
of these wandering moke* wonld be sold to
the highest bidden in every community
they visited. It seems they ere not even
allowed in respectable hotel*. Well, well;
then are many knave* and hypocrites in
this poor old world.
shall be liable in doable tbe amount of
damage when stock is killed or injured in
cobseqnence of failure to btuld snch fences.
In a case against the Missouri Pacific the
company contended that tho statute was in
violation of the fourteenth amendment of
the federal constitution in that it deprived
corporations of their property ‘without due
process of law' and denied to them 'the
equal protection of the laws.'
“The Supreme Courtv us tains the statute
It holds that tbe legislation was a proper
exercise of the police power to protect life
and property against accident. 'In few
instances.' says Justice Field, ‘coaid the
power be more wisely or beneficently ex
ercised than in compelling railroad corpora
tions to enclose their roads with fences,
having gates at crossings and cattle gnards.'
The failure of tho roa 1 to comply with the
law may justly be deemed gross negligence,
and when injmy is done by such negli
gence the Legislature has the power
to increase the amount of recoverable
damages as a punishment of the of
fender. ‘The statutes of nearly every
State of the Union provide for the increase
of damages where the injury complained of
resnlt* from tbe neglect of duties imposed
for the better security of life and property,
and male that increase in many cases dou
ble, in some cases treble and even quadru
ple the actual damages.’
“This division is of far-reaching impor
tance. It affirms the right of every State
Legislature to require railroads to be fenced
in and to subject the companies to heavy
damages for any injury dae to failure to
comply with the law."
lalaskaUai ltevensces.
This country is not alone exercised at the
evils produced by alcoholic drinks. France
is dii voting earnest inquiries to the sub
ject, and proceeds about the work patient
ly, seeking always to develop the safest
and best ideas on the subject.
M- Lancemux has presented before the
Academic de Medicine (session of Novem
ber IT, 1385) an analysis of the “alcoholic ”
cases at present in the hospitals and shows
that they come chfefly from the dspart-
rnerUs in which wine is not produced. He
would arrange the alcoholio beverages in
the following order of increasing toxicity:
Cider, beer, wine, the liqnors derived from
grain, from potatoes and from beet root.
He proposes the national adoption of the
following measures.
1. Absolute liberty in the sale of cider,
beer and wine on condition that they are of
good quality and unadulterated.
If. Government supervision of the mann-
factnre of spirit* of all kinds and the grant
ing of prizes for methods of diminishing
their ill-effects.
3. The imposition of the highest practi
cable tax npon spirituous drinks and an in
sistence upon both good moral character
and a severe license in the cose of liqnor
dealers.
4. The punishment of those found in a
state of intoxication and the establishment
of refuges for these who cannot refrain
from the abnso of strong liqnors.
Why Not? . ‘-I
“It to painful to observe that Secretory Lamar to
growing careless and neglectful of bis opportunities.
Ha allowed Robert Toomba' death to peas unnoticed,
not even recognising It by placing a flag at half mart
over the Interior Department.”
8o says the Detroit Tribane. Well, Sec
retary Lamar might very gracefully have
placed the flag at halt mart when. General
Toombs died. The old statesman, it is
true, did not occupy a position which enti
tled him to snch public recognition, bnt
when we consider the number of lies told
about him, the unrelenting hatred express
ed, and the sneers of the Tribnne snd other
{•artisan journals, it does seem that the
country could well afford to go into monre-
Ing.
A Hint.
The comments of the Teleoiufb npon a
recent special from Washington, to the At
lanta Capitol, detailing the shtmefal facta
with reference to Mr. Blount's recent strad
dle, seem to have demoralized the Editor
of the Irwinton Southerner and Appeal.
Without calling in question a single feet
that was stated, he imitates tbe example of
his master, and attempts to break the fieri e
of truth by blackguarding tbe Tei vobaph.
In charging corruption npon the Tele-
oeafh tbe editor of the Appeal has placed
himself in position where he mast either
submit the proofs to substantiate the charge
or stand convicted as a willful and malicious
liar.
Fob a territory, in this enlightened age,
to express sympathy with the principle* ot
the Republican party and then seek admit
tance into tbe Union, ie certainly cheeky.
Let ns first get rid of the Republicans we
have, by reform or otherwise, before we fly
to tackle Republicans we know not of. Be-
sidos it is bad policy to nee up ell onr terri
tories. The country may some day need
one of theee, say Dakota for instance, for
penal colonies, and it would be nice to
have already out there a nucleus of Repub
licans to keep the convicts from feeling
homesick.
A 8t. Jobss' (Newfoundland) correspon
dent of the Montreal Gazette baa been
calling attention recently to a most dis
graceful state of things connected with the
Labrador fishery. It may be remembered
that daring the late disastrous gale on tbe
Labrador coast a singularly large number
of women and children were reported a*
lost. At th* time it waa not possible to ac-
count for this, but the correspondence re
ferred to makes the whole matter plain. It
has, for many years, been the custom to
transport, at the opening of the fishing
season, several thousand women anil chil
dren to Labrador, where they remain
months, engaged in caring the fish
caught by the men. They are car
lo the scene of their labors,
packed in the holds of small
women and children, but animals of several
kinds, dogs, sheep, goats, etc., are stowed
in the close and filthy hold, and as the
weather is generally rough, the hatches are
usually kept down all the time. The pas
sage takes from ten days to two weeks. On
reaching Labrador the passengers are ex
hausted and hall poisoned by foul air and
filth. They are, however, forced to go on
shore at once and clean ont the turf hut*
which have been filled with ico and snow
all the winter. In these wretched hovels,
which are always damp and dirty, the poor
creatures most livo throughout the sea
son. The curing of the fluh
iaa laborious and incoutant task, and at (he
end of tbe Beason, having meanwhile been
ill-fed, worse lodged, and worn out by hard
work, tbe wbito slaves aro once moro pack
ed into the noisome lipid* of the sehoouers
AS TO CIVIL RIGHTS.
An Kdltorlnl Which Places tlie Mutter In
the Bight Light.
Referring to the recent refusal of s land
lord at Troy, N. Y., to admit os guests the
Fiske Jubilee Singers, n negro company,
tho New York Times rays:
“Nobody will dony that the exclusion of
a colored concert company from a hotel in
Troy is an ontrage, and that the excluded
singers are entitled to feel tho resentment
and indignntim which they expreas. But
it is also true that the outrage is one of n
kind against which the victims seem to he
absolutely without remedy. Neither in leg
islation nor in public opinion is there any.
hope of effectual redress.
“The trouble is that the case is one
which almost everybody judges in one way
whon it is presented to liim a* an abstract
question and in n very different way when
it confronts him in the concrete. Tho
guests of the Troy hotel would havo do- son
nouncod the guesls of any other hotel who
and consigned to another hideous voyage. SSubJSrt*
As storms are frequent towurd the close of
the season, and us it is almost impossible
for the inmates of the hold to get out in tho
event of an emergency, the wrecks which
arc numerous in the fall of the year too of
ten include the drowning of whole families
like rats in a trap. This is how it came to
pass that so many women and children
were lost in the late severe gale cn the
coast of Labrador.
Shred* and Patches.
M. snd Mme. de Lessopa have once more become
tPk'o'l us.—Minneapolis Tribune.
Atlanta men do not wear e&r-mnffa. The slde-
w»lk* are too narrow.—CouriereJoumal.
Tbe rumor that Miguel Service Hszen wonld re.
tiro la Incorrect. The country should neither flatter
nor deceive ltAclf.—Philadelphia Times.
Atlanta need not despair. Leavenworth, Kan.,
la a prohibition town, and jet them are orar two
hundred ealooua there.—Courier-Journal.
In hU hut poem a Baron Tennyaon apeaka of
•■poor orphans of nothing,” who aro ‘‘born of
hralnleaa nature.* This la a very hard alap at tho
dude*.—Baltimore American.
The Preaident and lita cabinet have been photo
graphed. If John Mher-uan faila to make an laaue
out of that, the bnalneaa end of hia Cbrlatmaa ana-
pendent has given out, that's all.—Wllkeabarre
Leader.
Cotton Statement.
From the Chronicle’s cotton article of
December 24, the following facts arc gath
ered relative to the movement of the crop
for the past week:
For the week ending this evening (De
cember 24), tho total receipts havcjrenched
208,981 bales, against 238,011 balea last
week, 248,134 balea the previous week and
242,797 hales three weeks since, making the
total receipts since the first of September,
1885, 3,386,205 bales, against 3,537,441 bales
for the samo period of 1884, showing a de
crease Mince September 1, 1885, of 151,205
bales.
The receipts of all the interior towns for
this week have been 149,614 hales. Last
year the receipts of the same week were
106,360 hales. The old interior stocks have
other hotels doubtless denounced them
when the roports of tho cose were canvassed
at tho tables of the other hotels.
“It is especially unjust to blame tho
landlord of this Troy hotoi for refusing to
entertain colored guests. A man no tuuru
engages in the business of keeping a hotel
than in any other business for the purpose
of vindicating the rights of man. He en
gages in it for the purpose of mukiDg
money, and it is his right, ns it is his in
terest, to tnsko his hotel attractive by
keeping out of it persons who, for any
reason or for no reason, are offensive to the
classes npon whoso favor ho mast rely for
his living. There are very few landlords—
it msy he doubted whether there are
any in this State—who would
turn away colored gnests on account of
their personal prejudices against the Afri
can race. They dislike to rece< ;e such
gnests simply because they believe that by
entertaining them they will Iobb more than
they will gain. Even supposing the calcu
lation to be erroneous, n hotel keeper is no
more to be blamed for making it than any
merchant is to be blamed for acting npon
an opinion with regard to the markot for
his goods, which turns ont to be mistaken
and by which be loses money. And no
reasonable persons will bo apt to say that
this particular calculation is erroneous.
“There is a dispute abont the facts in this
case, as appears by our dispatches, but
there can be no dispute about the publio
feeling. A hotel or a theatre in this city to
which it was generally understood that ne
groes were admitted on the same terms with
whiles wonld be in dnnger of being aban
doned to th-v nugi .ies. This fact shows the
folly of attempting to legislate against so
impalpable and irresponsible a thing aa a
race projifdico. You may pans laws to pre
vent a hotel keeper or a theatrical manager
from discriminating against colored
persona, but yon cannot bring
the law to bear on their while
easterners. That being the case, it is on
obvious injustice to coerae tho landlord or
the manager into defying a prejudice which
ho may not himself share, bnt whicu be
assuredlv cannot overthrow. The lot of on
educated and refined colored man or woman
in thi* country is very hard. It cannot be
ameliorated by legislation, being a subject
ameliorated by legislation, being a subject j
appropriate for sermons. Appeals to hu
mane and Christian feeling aro entirely in
order. They may not be effectual, but they
increased daring the week 37,294 bales, and willila^iuite as much good a* penal laws,
are to-night 132,008 boles more than at the, TOOMBS'S LAST WILL.
The <• rancors and the Hallromla.
The Supreme Court of the United States,
ha* just delivered an opinion upon a
carried np from Missouri. Bat the law as
Isid down by the court affects the farmers
and railroads of all the States. And aaa
matter of interest to these parties, ws rs-
preduce, from the New York Herald, the tied
statement of the case and the decision:
“A statute of Missouri require* every {sals, snd the horror* of this passage,
railroad company in the State to fence its | aa described by those familiar with the
truck through cultivated fields and nnen-facta, rival those of the dreadful “middle
dosed lands, and provides that the company passage” in the old slave trade. Not only
same period lost year. The receipts at the
same towns have been 32,336 bales moro
than the sumo week last year, and since
September 1 the receipts at all the towns
are 375,176 bales more than for the some
time in 1884.
Among tho interior towns, the receipts at
Macon for tbe week have been 2,031 bales.
Last year the receipts for the week were
755 bale*. These figure* show an increase
for the week of 1,280 bales.
The total receipt* from the plantations
since September 1, 1885, aro 3,891,674
lisle*; in 1884 were 3,883,746 hales; in 1883
were 3,789,501 bales.
Although the receipts at tbe ontporti the
put week were 298,981 hales, the actual
movement from plantations was 249,061
bales, the balance going to increaso the
stocks at the interior towns. Last year the
receipts from the plantations for the same
week were 207,647 boles, and for 1883 they
were 200,419 bales.
Thu imports into continental ports this
wsek have been 79,000 bales.
The figures indicate a decrease In the
cotton in sight to-night of 191,205 bales as
ompared with tho same date of 1884, a de
crease of 159,698 balea as compared with
the corresponding date of 1883, and a de
crease of 144,859 balea as compared with
1882.
The Chronicle has the following to say cf
the market fluctuations for the week nnder
review:
The ■peculation in cotton for fatare delivery st
this market ahowtd sun strength during Setnrday
and Monday, but toward tho clooo of Tueaday.
whra an important advance In starting exchange
waa reported, and early ahipmento of gold become
probable, thara wa* a turn of prtcea douvranL which
on Wednesday became a sharp decline, a ferturo of
which wae the evident weakening of confldenco in
values for the erring month*, to which operator*
for the rise had before been directing their atten.
Uon. Yesterday there waa a further decline In
which the lowed Agorae of the eeaaon were reached
In option* under weak foreign advleee and a general
movement of the bulla to "unload.” Cotton on tbe
.pot IU quoted at 1-Ms. advance on Monday, and
1-He. decline on Wodneeday. Tho demand has
conUnuod very moderate and atocka on tbto markot
- - r. g, .Lu* some accumulation. To-day the
market wae dull and weak, but without quotable
decline, and middling upland* oloecd *t »Ve.
A Little liny Fatally llurned.
Colombo* Enquirer-Sun.
Martin Reynold*, a Utile son of Mr.
James Reynolds, who live* near tho west
end of the lower wagon bridge, was fatally
burned Ust night. He was playing around
tbe fireplace with a kerosene can. snd
wonld throw small quantities in the fire to
S*e it blaze up. Finally he threw too
mnch in and tbe flame reached the can and
homed the little fellow so badly that be
cannot possibly recover.
The nnfortnnate little boy was only
twelve years of age and was alone in the
room when the fatal accident occurred.
IBs clothing waa burned almost entirely
from him, and it is said that not a piece of
skin mnch larger thus a hand waa left on
hia body.
PERSONAL remarks. I
Cario. ame ° Gordon Be “ nett i*Ul at Mont* [
Arab furnilaro.
m°J^^ oaenumea nof "«Ml
—Mi. Henna, at 37, is the youngest 1
her of the United States 8enato. g
—Mrs. Bancroft, famous in London ..
uctress, has become a Roman Catholic*" **
—Miss Murfree, the novelist, is skidd,
ing nature in the Tennesaeo mountains.^’
General O. 0. Howard finds that i*J
taring in Western towns pays him
—Mr. Bentley, tho ex-commissioner nr
ponsions, has opened a law office in Deni
—Captain Ericsson, of monitor fame I.
cnnously described as “an educated Raj!
—Mi- Park, the sculptor, is still st T„
driek8 0l “° tW0rk0nn bMt ° £ “ r - Hem
—Clara Morris in said to have died
Ume^hUtrionicMly, thanlV^eS
—George Francis Train is almut to afflict
n weary world with a book about the Vun.
clerbilts.
Mrs. . Kate Chaso (formerly Mrs.
daugLT')' ** *° Umbe 1111 ae k°s» of her eldest
—Mmc Mario Rose magically sang a dia-
mom! loekot out of the jewel-box of tho
Queen at Balmoral, the other day.
—Alexander Harrison, of mnch note in
American art, has u bathing scene at the
British Artists' Exhibition in Loudon.
—Mrs. CuBter, whose pen is getting to
be mightier than waa her husband’s sword,
is the guest of Mrs. Lawrence Barrett in
Boston.
—HcrrZelt, tbe American comedian, who
died recently, left among his effects 5,000
love letters, 440 photographs and countless
locks of feminine hair.
—Mr. St. John, of prohibition fame,
speaking in Chicago tho other night re
ferred to the recent debate in the United
States Sonate on the sale of liquor in the
Senate restaurant, and branded that debate
as a disgrace to the nation.
—Mr. Howells writes in his “Editor’s
Stndy''intlfe January “Harper:” M\Ve
shall probably never have a great American
novel, as fancied by the fondness of critics,
and for our own port we care no moro to
have it than to have ‘a literary centre.' ”
—Sir Henry Alfred Doughty Tichborne
will come of age and enter into possession
of bis estate next May, and in spite of tlio
$600,000 spent in opposing “tho Claimant,"
he will be n rich man, his rent roll amount
ing to more than $140,000 a year.
—Oscar Wilde, nt nn artists' exhibition in
London, wore n coat daintily conspicuons
for its “wonderful plaits in the luick.”
Mrs. Oscar, unmindful of the ornithologi
cal outcry against the wearing of birds, bod
several of them nestling in the brim ot her
terra cotta lint.
Interesting Experience.
llinun Cameron. Furniture Dealer of Columl.u*.
lie tell* hi* expectance, tin*: -For three y*an
have tried evofy remedy on tha market fur Ntomarh
and Kidney Dtoordm. bat *nt no relief. urtil I
IMl Hartrir hitter*. Took nva bottles and rm
BOW cored, and think Etoettle Hitler* the Brel
Mood rurifler In the world.” Malor A. B. Brad, of
Sat Liberty. Ky.. treed Electric Bitter* for an
old .tending Kidney totoetton and
he* rear don* me to much good a* Kkrtric Bu
ev*.-—Mold at any rent* a bottle by Lamar. Rankin
a Lamar.
Synopal* of Its Various
Household (looilsnml Landed latato.
Washington, Oa., Gazette.
Tho will of the lamented General Robert
Toombs was filed in the ordinary’s office
Ust Monday.
Item 1 says: By reason of the death of hU
wife, Martha Julia Ann Toombs, to whom
he willed tho greater portion of his estate
in foe simple, snd of the other changes in
both his family and property, ho revokes
all the wilU and codicil* heretofore mode.
Item 2 will* hU brother, G. Toombs,
$1,000 in lien of tbe sections of land given
in former wills; said Und lying in Texas, as
moat of Texas lands have been sold, or con
tracted to be sold. He give* his nephow,
William II. Toombs, and his wife and chil
dren the sum of $5,000.
Item 3 wills to his neice, Eva Jones, $500.
Item 4 mentions advancements to his
grandson, It. Toomba DoBose.
Item 5 wills to his niece, Clara Julia
Anthony and her children hia Frenoh Mills
K lantation in this county. He also wills
er and her children six hundred dollars in
cash to her Individually ; also a th nwsnd
doilarbond ot the Nashville book concern.
Item C give* to his nephew Dr. Robert E.
Toomba in trust for bU daughter Julia, all
the balance of a three thousand dollar note
dne by Buchanan, of Early county.
Item 7 give* to hU two grandsons It.
Toomba anil Dudley DuBose, bis Uw snd
political library, and hU books on govern
ment and political economy.
Item 8 gives to hU grandson, Ii. Too ml*
Dubose, the portrait* of himself and wifo
painted by llealy. These portraits are in
tended a* heirlooms. And also the por
traits of hU daughters Lou and Bailie,
painted by lleaddcn.
Item 9 wilU to Dudley DuBose, Camille
Colley, Hoillie Lon DuBose and Mrs. Hat
tie Hunter other painting*, naming them.
AU other pictures to be divided among
grandchildren.
Item 10 gives the bust in marble of A. H.
Stephens, with pedestal, to Alexander
Stephens, the only son of his old friend,
L nton .Stephens.
Item 11 gives privilege of come Unds to
G. Toombs.
Item 12 sUtes that hU grandchildren,
Dudley and Bailie Lon Dnltoso, shall not
be charged with advancements as long aa
they are nnder the parental roof, except
snch aa are made to set them ont in life.
Item 13 mentions advancements to Ca
mille Colley. We qnote from will; “The
object of this will, snd it must be so con
strued, is to make all my grandchildren
equal in the final distribution of my prop
erty.”
Item 14 gives to his faithful servant, Bil
ly, the use of a room, privilege of wood,
annuity aa long as he fives. Thera is a be
quest to each one of the family servants,
and the desire is expressed that they be re
tained aa long as they wish to stay, on same
terms as heretofore.
Item 15: “AU the rest and residue of my
estate I give to my grandchildren, Robert
Toombs DuBose, Camille CoUey, Dudley
DuBose and Bailie Lou DuBose, share snd
share alike.’
The property to go to the grandchildren
and their descendant*. If they die proper
ty is to revert to brother or sister or
their lineal descendant Property is
subject to usnsgement of grsndchil
Jren.
Item 16 ststea that he wishes to be
buried at old ToomL* burying ground.
“This item subject to any change I msy
make.”
Item 17 leaves $5,000 to hia brother
Oabriel Toomba.
Item 18 appoints as executors O. Toonl*i,
W. W. Kimpson, R. Toombs DuBose and
Dudley Do Rose.
This will is in the handwriting of Mr.
Samuel Barnett, and he, George W. Terry,
and H. P. Quinn are the witnesses. It is
written on letter paper and each page is
signed with the familiar signature ot It.
I Toombs.
—John W. D.niel gets two Christmas
gifts. Virginia, as the wires have told, put
a United States senatorsbip into his stock-
;, and now his good wife adds thereto a
natty boy. Mr. Daniel has but one stock
ing, by tho way, for he lost a leg that time
great Father Abraham's boys in blue, went
down to count the rattles at the tip of
slavery's tail.
rrovUlon*— III* —The late Mrs. Fillmore * library at Buf
falo has in it n scrap-book mado by Airs. Fill
more with much painstaking. Tho covers
of green Russian leather contain all the
newspaper articles that she could find to
clip, telling of tbe last lllnes and death of
her husband, the President of the United
Almost k Compliment
Wall Street New*."'*'-
“Banner!" ho exclaimed, aa he returned
from the post-office with an open newspaper
in his hand, “What do you think?"
"Is there going to be another war, Wil
liam?"
“Wurs'n that"
' “Mercy! Bnt what can it be?"
“Jay Gould is to retire from Wall street.”
“Nor
"Ye*, he is; and dried apple* will jump
two cent* a pound in lcrs’n a week. I told
S ou we wa* fools for selling out to that pod-
ler the other day."
Henry’s Carbolic Salvo.
Tha Lest (sirs B*ad th* world for Cut*.
Drill***, Pile*. Horn Uken. Halt Uhenm. Tetter.
Chapped hand*, Chilblain*, Cone end all kinds of
•kin eruptions, freckle* and plmplee. The halve to
guaranteed to girt perfect mUrtneUon In every
cam. De sore yon get Henry'eOuhotlc ,1*1 re, ne *U
other* nn but 1* iiteilon* snd counterfeit*.
MONEY LOANED
On Improrod Turns end ;Cltj Property. For term*
■ppljto
R. F. LAWTON, Banker,
Becond BtrMt, Macon, Oft.)
>pr*&frwly
THE PAIR,
MCE NE\F
CHRISTMAS GOODS.
The largest line of Dolls in Macon, Tea
Beta for Children, New patterns Glassware,
Lamps, Tinware, Crockery, Vases, Mugs,
Chins Cups snd Bsneera, Work lloxe* and
Notions of all descriptions at bottom price*
One price.
R. F. SMITH, Proprietor.
Dorrmur—dr. a. b. Barfield.
Ho. Hulls-rry street, M*con, Ooorgto,
Offlc* honra—l». m. to « p. tn.
MUCK 1.A If NOTICE.
OBDIXARYH OFFICE, JOSES COCSTT, OA.
December 24th. port.—Notice to hereby given to *11
yenona concerned that *p.tit|.,t,*ecordlns to tow
oM been fll*d In tbto nfltoe *>ktngnn order for
£tuS?d2!55 e i. , f h , L lB Buh * n »'*t^« »‘tthOeontU
militia district ot tbto roiatjr, ssl mom le-
■» “‘Scfllco on
antnrdny. th. trill day of Juvnary next, at II o'clock
a. to... *u. b oeder will be greeted. Wltnev* tar
haodofflcbUly. ^ 111 T tiSS. 7
Or.llDiry.
PILES In *■«*!»I relief. Fliul con Id 10
* dljfl.ind Bi ttfri tnrni Viiniim*
lUjff.ftml neverr$ turn*. No j
sanJva ry. .hnOm* will tei£°5!5>
tkhllOARD f. rthree live tonne
j’.'.R** °v ledk* In each county. Adilna P. W
ZlEGLk.lt k CO., Philadelphia. wntcwrowltt*
DYKE'S Ilkilili KIJXlIi '—I——;»—»,
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