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TifF MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY MARCH 0. 188G.-TWELVE P VflES.
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Mr. Cleveland's Me««» B e. and gave the ship relief. Some of the testi-
Folitical circles iu Washington had been mo ny is quoted as follows:
prepared for the special message of the j The I’ritish steamship Notth Anglia,
President to tbe Senate, hut the country at \ from St. Jago, Cuba, to Philadelphia, on
large was taken somewhat by aurpriso. 1 January fi, encountered a terrific gale. The
A committee of Democratic Senators, ; vessel was brought head to wind, but the
competent to the undertaking, had prepared ■ high aeas broke over the rail and kept the
a reply to the indictment of Republican 1 q ec l( flooded. Capt. Mnmford stationed a
Senators. An issue had been sharply drawn j man in each closet forward to ponr sperm*
between the parties, and it should have off down Ihe pipes. This oil became thick
gratitude for manhood, principle, patriot
ism and integrity, nor tbe acknowledge
ments of a government that has lost a brave
soldier and an honored servant, lint the
South claims th6 right and the privilege to
pension the widow, and mother the grand
children of General Winfield Scott Han
cock. Pass the word!
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So great is the rage for notoriety nowa
days, we arc told, that there are people
actually dying to get their names in the
papers.
Ir Hamlet was really a sallivated prince
and weak in his understanding, Miss Saliie
Bernhardt is justified in personating upon
the stage.
Nononv cares that Mr. Cleveland considers
ofiico a public trust, but there is a general
indignation that the country should be left
to infer from his actions for the last year
that so few Democrats can be trnsted.
The Wnterbury American, knows a genu
ine Georgia article when it Bees it, as per
exhibit: “Tho Macon Tei.eokapii has
been driven by increase of business to buy
a new, improved and faster press. It is
abont as lively a newspaper as they have
down South, and deserves its prosperity.”
Tbe steamship Thomas Melville left
Baltimore in February, 1884. Banning be
fore a galo from the westward, Bhe was con
stantly boarded by heavy seas. Two can
vass bags were made, pnnctnred in many
places with a sail needle and filled with oil.
These bags were bung over the bows and
allowed to drag in the water. The seas no
longer came on board. One gallon of oil
lasted several hours.
Bon Inoebsoll’s religion is bad, very bad,
bat his bead is cool on some subjects. He
is reported as saying: "I have talked with
Presidents and Senators and Congressmen
and public men of all parties, and I have
never yet found one of them who was sin
cerely for civil scrvico reform us it is advo
cated and put into practice now.’’
Geohoe Banckoff, though in the frosty
time of life, does not let the dowers of his
fancy get nipped. Says he; "The man of
many years can look before and after, and,
seated under tho tree of life, enjoying
■sweet rest with full content,' be finds that
tbe leaves which have fallen from its
branches have but opened clearer vision of
the eternal stare.”
Thebe is one way in which the President
conld have answered tho Senate's insolenco.
He conld have removed every ltepnblicau
officeholder in the State of Vermont, and
if, for every nomination of a good man re
jected by that body be should have "cleaned
up ’ a new slate, it would not have been
long before bis own party came to bis res
cue and tbo Senate to terms.
A i-noMiNEN'T Now York Democrat, a mem
ber of tbe House, is authority for the
statement that Uoudall says the Morrison
bill, as it now stands, is beaten worse than
the horizontal bill of 1884. Mr. Randall,
furthermore, said that in his opinion not
less than forty Democrats would vote
agnlnst it This means that Randull’s en
tire strength will be thrown against tbe
measure. He still adheres to the notion
tfiat a tariff bill of some kind ought to pass
this session, but not of the Morrison kind
The Philadelphia Uecord saya: "Mr.
Blaine in the second volume of his book
has a great deal to say about the frauds
winch were perpotrated and the violence
which occurred in the South in 1808, and
saysof Governor Seymour that he remained
"the beneficiary of a vote that was tainted
with crime and the blood of innocent men.
As Govornor Seymour was defeated, it is
ditficnlt to ace how he could have benefited
either by crime or fraud. Mr. Blaine must
surely be referring to a later period in
American history.”
"At the
A W’ashiruton dispatch says:
meeting of tho Washington Monnment
Society Colonel Casey made some very in
terestiug statements, to the members in re*
gurd to his observation of tbe habits of the
■nonnment, for it appears that the great
obelisk is a moving, if not a living thing,
and that it lias a regular swaying motion
when tbe snn is shining upon it. On every
bright day the apex of the monnment
moves at least one inch westward in tbe
morning when the snn's rays lint fall upon
it, and eastwaid in the afternoon when the
ann reaches the western side. The heat of
the sun's rays have an expansive effect
upon the masonry, and the plummet that
is suspended in tho interior of the monu
ment registers this movement from day to
Accokdino to the statement of a China
man of intelligence and education, who lec-
t ired in Brooklyn the other night, Ameri
cans have a very mistaken notion concern,
ing the Chinese queue. The queue is worn
in Chirv merely because it is the fashion,
and not, as is generally supposed, because
it has any religions significance. Chinamen
got their queues in the first place from the
Mancho Tartars. A civil war was in prog-
res* in China in 1070, and the Emperor of
the Mauchus was invited to ally himself
with one of the chiefs. He did so, and
after the common enemy was overcome he
conquered his ally also, and became the
ruler of China. He then introduced the
queue by force, through an edict, by which
he sentenced to decapitation all those who
would not wear their hair in this peculiar
style. Since then the qnene has become
popular, and is now the thing to wear in
China. The primitive Chinese costume,
which was formeslj quite pretty, under
went very considerable modifications at
the hands of the Tsrtsrs.
been longbt out on tbe ground cbosen and
by the selected combatants. Mr. Cleve
land's letter, while in the main, strong
and concise in language and statement, may
be regarded as untimely. He is but a com
ponent part of the government of the United
States, and while he may indulge his Bwoet
will to a certain extent, there are other peo
ple and other opinions, prerogatives and
rights to be regarded.
In tbe issue as made, tbe Democrats ard
all honest people will stand by Mr. Cleve
land, as a matter of right. The Democratic
party will occupy this position, for it would
be an unpardonable suppression of the truth
to say that he commands either tbe sym
pathy, the confidence, or the enthusiasm of
that party.
I£ his friends and advisers have induced
him to make this move vrith a view of con
solidating the scattered hosts that placed
him in power, and to divert their attention
from his peculiar administrative methods,
it is quite safe to say Ibal it will prove a
dismal failure. If Mr. Cleveland aspires to
lead tho Democratic party, he mnst place
himself in f nil accord and sympathy with it.
There will be a tedious, ugly and wrang
ling tight, in which the advantages will
alternate, and which will close with the ex
haustion of one or the other adversary.
Tho Senate will fail to receive public sanc
tion in an attempt to force Mr. Cleveland
to divulge his reasons for the suspension of
Republican officials, and it will attract
nothing of public sympathy and admira
tion, that it rejects bis bad appointments
for this reason rather than in the interest
of honest civil service reform. This Inst,
judiciously used, will nnboree.bim, but
the Republicans will defeat themselves by
their ow n "offensive partisanship."
In tbe courso of the row Mr. Cleveland
ill bo fearfully braised and torn, op this
same "offensive partisan” dodge. He can
not defend himself, and there is no man in
position who will be foolish enough to at-
mpt a defence for him.
But to the Democratic party the closing
sentence of Mr. Cleveland's message Is the
most important, interesting, and wo may
truthfully add, disappointing. He sayB :
"Neither the discontent of party friends
nor the allurements constantly offered of
confirmations of appointees conditioned
upon the avowal that suspensions have
been made on party grounds alono, nor the
implied proposition in the resolution now
before tbe Senate that no confirmation will
be made unless the demands of that body
be complied with, are sufficient to discour
age or deter me from following in tbo way
which I am convinced leada to tbe better
government of tbo people."
Mistakes, bad .appointments, diverse
methods, tbe cooling of tbo ardor of friends,
tbo distraction of the Democratic party,
all combined can not shake the sublime
self poiso of this man. He grits bis teeth,
contracts his eyebrows, compresses bis
Ups, twiddles bis thumbs and swears that
he will run tbe Democratic party or perish
in the attempt. This may be high and in
telligent courage, or animal atnbborness.
It matters not which, tho Democratic
party is yet to be beard from.
To-dsy Mr. Cleveland completes the first
year of bis official power. It bos become
painfnlly evident, that be is too small a peg
for tbe large hole be ia attempting to fill.
He is a conspicuous example of the fact, that
the President of this country should be a
statesman, that statesmen are made, not
born, and thnt a lager beer saloon and a
shrievalty are not the training schools for
great leaders.
Tbe Democratic party will,not support a
mun wbo is blatant iu profession of civil
service reform, and makes appointments
that are a disgrace to any people, and who
seolu shelter behind petitions, tbe miser
able documents that be bad denounced os
being os cosy in manufacture as they are
worthless in illnstration of honeat popular
sentiment.
The Democratic party will rejoice if Mr.
Cleveland ahtll triumph orer a hoatile and
partisan Senate, but it can find no comfort
nr satisfaction in bis declaration that noth
ing can turn him from the devious and un
wise course tliut has marked bis career as
President.
Mr. Cleveland flatters himself, that he
will be vindicated and sustained by bis ap
peal to tbe people. No people will con
done sach appointments ns some be has
made in Georgia and other States, which
ore a mockery to the "honest civil service
reform” set forth in the platform upon
which he was elected, and his pandering
to the lowest specimens of siioilsmen, who
by tbe chance of political fortunes have
been wrapped for the time in Senatorial
togas.
The people compose the two great par-
ttea of tbe country, and both of these or
ganizations stand aghast at the spectacle of
an administration which seeks its inspira
tions from a handful of mugwumps, without
convictions on any subject, and who fight
between the lines, and draw rations from
the commissariat of that organization which
may be most complaisant and convenient.
as soon us it struck the water, and did no
good. Oukum was then dipped into paint-
oil and it was allowed to drip into the pipes.
The deck then became as dry ns in fine
weather. Tbe oil was used from 7 a. m.
until 4 p. m.
Capt. Mitchell, commanding tbe English
steamer Mentmore, states that on his voy
age from Baltimore to Liverpool during a
heavy westerly galo be used oil-bags with
remarkable effect. Ho bung one forward
and one aft. Tile ship bad been rolling
heavily and taking large quantities of water
on deck, but in a few minutes after placing
the bags over tho ship's side she rode quite
easily and shipped no more water.
Capt. W, H. Hill reports that w hile on
board the schooner Elizabeth, bound from
New York to New Berne, N. C., he got into
a heavy gate off llatteras; wind northeast,
heavy sea. Conld not clear the Diamond
and had to send through Hatteras 'Slougli.
The sea boarded the vessel and took the
bulwarks away. Fearing for tbe vessel’s
safety, oil was poured over tho stem, a tit
tle at a time from an ordinary (tone jug.
This at once smoothed the surface of the
sea, making it purtako of the nature of
ground-swell, and tbe Elizabeth went on
without shipping any more water. A brig,
seeing the smooth water astern of this ves
sel, steered for her wake and ran through
under close-reefed top sails, keeping in the
smooth water:
able to expend $182,572.57. Butler also
seized $210,090.84 of Confederate funds in
the Citizens’ Bank in Jude, 18G2, which • he
sold in August, 18G3, for $73,030.30. The
remainder of the Confederate currency
seized at New Orleans to tbe amount
stated above is now stored in the treasury.
Sir. Manning's View* on Silver Coinage
and Bl-SIetallain.
In reply to a resolution of Congress, Mr.
Manning, tbe Secretary of the Treasury
says
"It is now become plain, to all wbo
take comprehensive and practical views of
public policy that the United States can do
no better than return at the earliest possi
ble date to a bimetallic unit of value. By
this 1 mean,
“1. Tbe monetary unit embodied in coins
both of silver and of gold.
"2. Tbe monetary unit of value embod
ied in ibe silver coin to be made and kept
in that successive and simultaneous equiva
lence with tbe present nnd prior nnit of
value which baa been our honorable dis
tinction ever since tho constitution was
framed.
‘3. Open mints for tbe free coinage of
gold nnd silver at a fixed ratio to every citi
zen of tbe United States bringing either
metal and the right to have his coins re
ceived in every sale and payment as full le
gal tender dollars.
4. Nothing less than this is bimetalism.
It is not bimetalism that we are . having
now. All onr silver coinage is but an ex
cessive subsidiary coinage of tho treasury
purchases of silver, for a factitious treasury
profit. We lack an Indispensable part of
bimetalism. We lack the free coinage of
everybody's silver, to an amount unlimited
by the government into coins of full legal
tender. We only maintain a free coinago
for everybody’s gold to an amount un
limited by government into coins of fall
legal tender. Our $550,000,000 coined gold,
$220,000,000 coined silver now
Quite a valuable industry is now carried
on in France, in tbe utilization of tbe vari
ous kinds of feathers formeily treated as
worthless, especially those oblained in
plucking ducks, chickens, turkeys and
those of wild fowl and other birds killed as
The plan pursued consists in .trim-
THE RAVAGES OF A TEnitl.
RLE CURSE,
rning these, particularly the larger ones, off
the stump, which may be thrown away, the
plumes then being made use of in the
manufacture of a feather cloth or blanket,
which possescs Ihe essential quality of being
exceedingly tight nnd at the same time very
warm. Tbe plumes which are separated
from the stalk arc placed in a bag, closed
tightly, and then subjected to tabbing be
tween the bands, ns in washing clothes. In
a few minutes tbe fibres are by this means
separated from each other, and form a per
fectly homogeneous nnd very light down
applicable by simplo operation to tbe
production of quite a variety of coverings
and other household objects at a reasonable
cost.
baa 1
Capt. Mumford, of tbe British steamship
North Anglia, in October, 1884, during a
hurricane had bis main-wheel gear carried
away, and was obliged to'steer aft. A navy
clothes bog, punched irregularly with a
needle, was partly filled with five gallons of
lard oil, and the month sewed ,up. This
was slung by a span from tbo ends of the
mast so os to ride opposite to the centre of
it. The wholo apparatus was put over,
board with sixly-tivo fathoms of lino, tbo
schooner being at the time under a close-
reefed triangular mainsail. It tended
three points off tbe weather bow, keeping
tho schooner within three or four points of
the wind. Tho motion of tho waves work
ing tbe bag caused tho oil to squirt out
through tbe needle-boles, so that the heav.
list combing sens wero immediately
smoothed on coming in contact with the
oil, and reached the vessel more like ground
swells than waves due to a severe gale.
Capt. Amlot, of the British steamer Bar-
rowmore, reports that on approaching the
ship Kirkwood, on Juuuary 24, iu latitude
50:41 N., longitude 213X1W., tho sea was
very heavy, but he noticed that around the
wreck tbo sea was much smoother, und
discovered that tbe craw of the Kirkwood,
to provent the waves breaking over them,
bad broken out tbe cargo of canned salmon
and were pouring the oil from tho cons into
tbo sen.
Sometime since tho Tri.r.onArn suggested
that n line of perforated piping abont a ves
sel might accomplish tbo effect desired
most satisfactorily, the pipes to be supplied
with oil from Isnks. This plan bos tbe ad
vantage of furnishing oil to the sea on all
sides of tbe ship at once.
In connection with tho proposed tight
ships in tho Atlantic, oil bnoys might be
rigged up and so acbored as to create a
harbor in mid ocean, wherever one ot these
sbipe is anchored. And such light ships
are now in use and exposed to tbe fury of
wind and wave might be greatly protected
by the use of oil. The subject is one that
grows under the pen.
make any policy save ultimate birnct-
alism for tho United States practi
cally and politically a Utopian policy.
Stopping tbe coinage of treasury purchases
of silver is. not a policy in which we can rest
and be thankful. No mint in the world
which gives free coinage to silver, except
our own, no mint in the world which gives
free coinage to gold, now coins full legal
tender silvor. Tbe United States alone
heaps up tbe load, and the sure outcome is
silver monometalism for us. But silver
monometalism in the United States will
not restore tho old price anymore than tho
silver monometalism of India, China and
Mexico does, and in that respect is worse
than our present limited coinage.
"Bnt beyond there is one way, and one
way only, by which silver can be restored
to its old ratio and value nnd that is by an
international concert npon a common ratio
with open mints to both metals nnd that
ratio. The secretary argues that a concert
European powers without tho concur,
rence of the United States is impossible,
and that a concert of Europoan powers, to
gother with tho United States, until we
atop coining silver, is also impossible.
long as we do not stop, and
stop unconditionally, our coinage of full
legal tender ailver we cannot destroy
foreign hopes ot enlarging their stock of
gold at our oxpenso. But I am equally
well assnrred that when we do stop uncon
ditionnlly, and destroy such hopes, such
an international concert ns I have described
will then become possible. Tho situation
of bimetnlic European nations will then
tie no better than oars, and, for the first
time since the fall in value of their full
legal tendors silver will offer no other out
come than agreement, with suitable precau
tions, upon open mints at a fixed and com
mon ratio to which the assent of tbe United
States would be indispensable.
'The secretary closes his communication
with the remark that it is nseless to discuss
the methods of restoring bimetalism until
Congress shall determine to stop the coin
age and place that indispensable condition
of negotiation in the bnnds of thoao
mast execute its will.’"
Shreds and 1’atchea.
The Senate might adjourn nnd cry. Thnt
would be quite as manly as tbe course it is
now pursuing —Philadelphia Times.
Tbe editorial profession in Philadelphia
reached an unrivalled dignity and im
portance. The marriage of an editor'
coachman rises to the rank of a brilliant
social event.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Burlesque actress—“Have yon any black
silk tights?" Clerk—“No, madam, bnt wi
have other colors." Burlesque actress— *
must have black. My husband died recently
and I am wearing mourning."—ltambler.
John W. Mackey, the bonanza million
nire, declares that “money is an accident.
Perhaps it is. Still, it is an accident which
man can genorally insure himself against
entering journalism.—Philadelphia
Press.
Talk of Sir Walter Italeigh, of Chevalier
Bayard and of the soft-toned Knight of the
Field of the Cloth of Gold! There's a fellow
in Petosky, who, being npset while
sleigh-riding, lay upon the snow and said
bis sure-enough girl: “Sit on me, dear,
and draw your feet out of the snow.” Age
chivalry dead?—Detroit Tribune.
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To the Southern People
It has bean given out from time to time
that Gen. Hancock left his family without
adequate means of support. Practically bis
wife and grandchildren ore penniless. Like
tho majority of army officers Gen. Hancock
spent bis pay as it came to band, bnt in bis
case the money went for private charities
and the relief of friends.
To-day tbe country is asked by friends
wbo know the exigencies of the occasion to
come to the relief of the dead General's fam
ily, left not only without support, but also
withont natural protection, for a year since
tbe band of death also struck down the only
son. Here at lost is on opportunity pre
sented for the South to testify with
willingness and withont the sacrifice of self-
respect to the reunion of the sections.
Here is an opportunity indeed for the men
and women of the tioath to lay wreaths np
on the grave of s man who in the darkest
days of reconstruction was bold
enough and honest cnongb
to itsnd between them and
reassert ss against his own section and tbe
party in power the sacredncss of the civil
law that guaranteed life and liberty to the
whole country. And here too ia chance for
these who made him their leader, who
backed him in an almost superhuman
The Cleveland Leader says: "A young
newspaper man approached Senator Thur
man very diplomatically on the subject
tbe next Presidential campaign, and, after
much palaver, inquired: "Are yon in any
way, sir, a candidate for Presidential honors
atthebandsof the next Presidential Con
vention of your party?” "Not by a d
sight!” roared tbo sage ot Columbus,
Ixtekiob Edison felt so playful last week,
in view of bis approaching marriage, that
he thought be would perpetrate a little
joke upon bis friend Gilliland, who is going
halves with him in bis Florida schemes,
he sent him a telegram which read as fol
lows: “All oar things hare gone down.
Schooner stove np this side of Hatteras.
Captain and crew safe.” The little joke
was so successful that Gilliland reported
the disaster to the newspapers, und was
undeceived until he met Edison the next
morning. “Why, Gill," said the wizard,
"there hasn't been any wreck. You mis
understood me. I only said our things had
gone down—down Month, I meant. Cap
tain and crew are safe, of course; schooner
stove np—certainly it was; they would have
frozen to death without one up this win
ter." Then they hail oysters at GillUaud’s
expense.
That Claimants Victims by Ihout.
antis—The Horrors Unearthti
Among a Few of the Unfortu.
nates of Atlanta, the Home nftfo
Patent Medicine Man,
Atlanta Constitution.
Atlanta, although in many respects p.
gnrded as a healthy city, is not unlike *J
other inhabitable portions of the earth u
claiming her rliaro of victims of the icon,
arch of all dreaded ailments—blood poison
A Constitution man was delegated to inren.
tigate Home of tbe most notable cases in At.
lanta, and in his rounds made the following
appalling discoveries:
Miss Clutjntuui Interviewed.
“My name is Mary Chapman, and I li Te
at the corner ot V llo-.ms and Cox street*
I have been a drenatnl sufltrer from scrof.
ula and running, eating scroiulous nlcen
for six years. Have been waited upon dur.
ing tbe time by seven Atlnnta physicians
also UBed various advertised remedies, with',
out the least benefit. Tbe eating sores on
my neck were a mass of corruption almost
down to tbe bones. My throat became se
much affected that I conld scarcely swallow
my food odging in a portion of my throat
I was reduced to DO pounds weight—being
a mere skeleton. In this condttion I com-
menced the use of B. B. B., and found great
relief in tho first bottle.
"When I bad used fivo bottles my health I
bad so much improved that the ulcers had I
all healed, tbe swelling subsided, my appe-1
tite returned, my skin became active, m; I
strength returned, and I gained 44 pounds I
of flesh. I am now healthy, fat and hearty, I
and am able to do as much work as any wo-1
man, and feel as happy aa a lark.” *
Ty.
GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE.
O flakes of snow.
For which, through miked trees, tha winds
A-wournlag go?
Miss Wallace Questioned,
Or are ye angola, bearing homo
The host unseeu
OI truant spirits, to bo elsd
Agsln in green?
—John B. Xabb In New York Independent
—Mme. Nilsson is enjoying the sweets of
sojourn in tbe South of France.
—Sir John Millais admits that be has
bod "a very wobbly career” in art.
—General Hancock used to say that
Sheridan was "u whirlwind with spurs."
Frank Jones, tbe millionaire brewer and
politician, of New Hampshire, is ill in Bos
ton.
Miss Minnie Wallace resides with Mix
George Fickland, 41 McAffee street, find
from her own lips tbe reporter learned th<
following Hppalbng story;
Several months ago she became almost
totaly blind and deaf. Her bones became
the seat of intense pain, her joints wen
swollen and painful, and eventually ha
whole body and limbs became covered vitk
splotches and small sores. Her appetite
failed, and she gradually lost flesh and
strength, und hud but little use of herself
as her limbs and muscles wero paralyzed
To tbo reporter she said : "I had blood
poison and rheumatism and before one bot
tie of B. B. B. bad been taken I began to
see anil bear. When I had completed the
use of six bottles my eyesight and hearing
was fully restored, sense of taste returned
all splotches disappeared, soreness >11
healed, and my strength and flesh restored."
—John Boyle O'Reilloy is lecturing in
New England for tbo beneflt of tho Irish
land.
-Vice Chancellor Bacon is the oldest
jndge on the bench in England. He is
eighty-eight.
—Joseph Cook doesn’t read the Sunday
papers on Sunday. He reads them on Mon
day' however, anil the Sunday papers come
ont just tbe same.
-Joseph Arch, M. P., says his attention
was first strongly drawn to politics by tbo
redaction ot hut own wages from eleren to
nine shillings per week.
—Gen. Batter is a lawyer who reads the
Biblo constantly, and they now say that in
court he culls every pretty girl on the wit
ness stand “my darting.”
—Oscar Wilde’* advice is: "Neverread
books that try to prove anything.” This
must be an advertisement tor what tbe
icsthote himself baa written.
E. L. Godkin declares in tha Nine
teenth Century that the American votor
"listens with extreme impatience to any
thing which has the air ot instruction."
—Miss Alice Longfellow held a large
card reception on Saturday, the first enter
tainment that bos been given in tbe classic
old Craige boose since tbe death of tbe
poet.
—Mrs. John W. Mackay has decided to
leave Paris for good and take np her resi
dence in London. She has taken Lord
Smldey's lionso in Hyde Pack for the
season.
Send to Blood BnlmCo., Atlanta, Ga.,foi I
their Book of Wonders, free.
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T H E
BLIZZARD!
Which was predicted from tho Northwest
arrived on time. The Spring trade was at
fected to such an extent that it took a bad
seat and there it haa remained daring tit
past day or two. Bnt the March winds will
now sing a requiem and put to rest the cold
blasts of winter. Nature will commence to
put on her Spring garb, everything will It
happy, even tbe dry goods merchants, ba-
cause they know that the ladies nover alio*
themselves to bo surpassed when it cameo
to getting ready for any important occasion.
Bo now Spring is here and yon want to kaov
where you can get just such goods aa yon
need for the coming season. Well,
LYONS & CLINE
The Leaders and Controllers,
Oil on ihe Troubled Wstere.
Commander J. N. Bartlett, of the navy,
has published au interesting pamphlet upon
the nse of oil to lessen the effect of heavy
sets. He ha* compiled with care nearly a
hundred atatemente from captains who ' straggle against wrong and wbo suffered
have experimented with oil at sea and > with him defeat, to sweeten the days that
their reports seem to prove conclusively | remain unto hi', belpl*«s ones,
that good result* can be attained. In j Men of Georgia, of the Carolina*, of
nearly every instance the effect desired was | Virginia, of Maryland, of the Golf Slates
obtained. Whether need fore or aft or and of the mountain regions, we cannot
from the ship aide, or from a drag the oil ’ deny the tributes of the people elsesbere
acted immediately upon the heavy waves j whs wish to express their admiration and
It seems theUnited States Treasury holds
among other assets $706,919.81 of Confeder
ate currency seized from NewOrleans banka
under the order of Gen. Banks. A letter
from the Secretary of the Treasury to
Speaker Carlisle gives interesting details of
the moneys ceizc-d in New Orleans by Bat
ter and Banks. Butler took in all, 9272,001
from five different banks, and Banka raided
eleven iianks, taking $47,889, and $089,491.38
of Confederate funds. Tbe Confederate
money ecems to have had gome substantial
value at that time, even in the of
Federal officers, aa Col. Uolabird, quarter
master at New Orleans at that time, woo
—Mr. Broadband, the first English
workingmen to become a cabinet minister,
is described as a sturdy, thickset man, with
a determined month und a merry twinkle
in his eye.
—John Morley, of the British cabinet,
practices tbe democracy of which ho
preaches, carrying it to such an extreme
point as to refuse to put on coart toggery
on state occasions.
—Henry Bluckbnrn declares that tbe ex
hibition of English water colors in London
is doing a vast amount of good for both
English end American artiste. American
pictures have been bought to the amount of
£2,000.
— Within a year the richest American
merchant, If. ft. Chaffin; the richest Ameri
can railroad man, W. ii, Vanderbilt, snd
richest American planter, Edmond Richard
son, hare died. It is notable Unit not one
of the thtee died in his bed.
—M. Hnlcvy, a day or two before be was
received at Ibe Academy among the "fortv
Immortals," was drivingout to l’aasy,
bis coupe was smashed up by a washor-
w onion s cart, and be narrowly escaped the
same fate. When his friends inquired bow
he felt when the collision oecarred, he re
plied; "As if I were begiunitg my appren
ticeship for immortality.”
—Among reigning sovereigns who have
written books ere Queen Victoria, Dom
Pedro II. of Brazil Dom Luis of I’ortagnl,
the Shah, King Oncer 1L of Sweden, Prince
Nikita of Montenegro, King Ludwig II. of
Bavuiia end Queen Elizabeth of Ronmania;
and among princes and princesses who have
dabbled in literature are the Princess
Christian, the Crown Princess of Germany,
the Princess Theresa of Bavaria, the two
sons of the Prince Wales, of the two sons of
the King of Sweden and the Dnke of Edin
burgh. Bnt all these are mere amateurs in
comparison with the Crown Prince Rudolph
of Austria, wbo is editing '-1110 Anstro-
Hunguun Monarchy in Word and Pic-
At J»7 Cherry street,
Will, to-morrow, March 1st, 1880, dispkj
to your admiring vision Thousands til
Dollars worth of beautiful
New Spring; Goods.
Linen D'lndus at 8}, 10,12} and 15c.
Victoria Lawns 5c. per yard!
StXX) yards of Checked Nainsook at 6c.
Edgings and Insertings in endless variety
from 3c. to $1 per yard.
100 pieces of Seersuckers.
300 pieces of Spring Ginghams.
75 pieces of Ginghams at 6V, reduced Ron
12}c.
85 pieces of Table Linens.
300 dozen Linen Towels.
225 dozen Linen Napkin* snd Doylies ft«■
35c. per dozen up.
Shoos! Shoos!
Will continue to offer onr entire stock d
cost for the next ten days.
Laities' kid worked button hole $1.60, wort*
$2.00.
Ladies' kid button at $1.85, reduced fto*
$2.50.
Lsdies' groin polish 3 to 8 at ^1.00 word
*14<>. .
Oue lot of women’s heavy shoes « vx ‘
worth $1.00. „ „
One lot of Misses' grain lace 11 to 2 at $1 ®
One lot of Misses'button at $1.15, w0, “
*1.75.
CO pairs Boy's bntton shoes 1 to 5 91.**
worth 92. IX). M
00 pairs spring heel bntton 8 to 11 kt
$1.60.
Our stock of shoes amounts to
10,000 I>ollar».
We wont to reduce it down, and i{ Jjf*
prices will accomplish the job wo will «w
ceeeL So coll on
The Leaders and Controllers.
LYONS & CLINE.
ft 7 Cherry Street,