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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1886.-TWELVE PAGES.
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The State Convention.
Under this caption, anil in another place,
we reproduce a timely and well considered
editorial from the Augusts Chronicle. Not
knowing and not caring for the wishes or
opinions of either of the two gentlemen
from this city who are represented as con
testants, we endorse the spirit an 1 subject
of ths utterance of Mr. Walsh.
It is clearly within the power of the
Executive Committee to name any place for
holding the State Convention that may he
deemed proper in their judgment.
The Tei.kiirahi is already on record as
to this point. It is within the memory' of
many citizens that in the days when Geor
gians were divided into two powerful and
respectable organizations, Milledgeville,
neither in opinion or practice, was held os
the only place in which a nominating con
vention coaid be held.
Keligious bodies, medical associations,
the Agricultural Society, the Masons, Odd
Fellows and business organizations have
followed the rule of rotation with beneficial
effect to themselves and the public. A
change inaugurated now by the Executive
Committee cannot possibly injure any can
didate or any cause. No matter where the
convention may assemble, it will be com
posed of delegates chosen and selected by
the people according to well settled forms
and rales.
It is not unlikely that harmony and good
feeling will he advanced liy the change, and
the time is as propitious for a departure,
as the city suggested, is worthy of selection.
Perhaps if tho Democrats of to-day shall
go to Augusta, not only renowned for her
hospitality, culture and enterprise, bat as
the ancient capital of the State, they may
imbibe some of the noble traits which
marked the characters of the men who
laid the foundations of Georgia.
A rolltlcn! Prophet.
Mr. Bradley B. Smalley is one of the
handful of Democrats in Vermont. For
years he has been a member of the National
Democratic Executive Committee, Ho was
on original Cleveland man. and he Is now
in a fat place, the collectorship of Burling
ton. Mr. Bmalley deserves his place, A
man that can be a Democrat in Vermont is
worthy of something good, for this if for
nothing else.
Ur, Smalley says: “The Democrats will
pat Grover Cleveland up aa their candidate
in 1883. He alone can insure victory.” He
also remarks, "by 1888 every office will be
in the bands of the Democrats."
Perhaps so! If Mr. Cleveland shall have
pnt Democrats into all of the offices by
1888, be will have a very strong support for
a renomination. Having been once fully
domesticated, the Democrats, in view of
past experience, msy be indisposed to try
a new and untried man with peculiar
views about Mugwumps and other natural
enemies of the Democratic party. We shall
be pleased to have our faith in Mr. Smalley
os a political prophet strengthened. In
creased activity in the* official guillotine
would quicken it amazingly.
The recent vigorous railroad boom in the
South suggests to the New Orleans Times-
Democrat to say: “Slowly, toilfnlly, surely
the great spider of progress—the railway—
spins the web that is destined to catch the
files of a new prosperity for the South!
Kansas City and Memphis on the one hand,
Savannah and the cities of the American
Mediterranean on the other, are being con
nected by the strands of steel that form
the meshes of the web soon to cover the
entire map of the section." And yet there
are not wanting indications that a lot of
grasping politicians are endeavoring to
crash this spirit of the people Ly throwing
railroad property and interests into a hot
political campaign. The Sonth is ovei-
loaded with small and narrow statesmen,
whose only idea is personalism.
The Augusta Chronicle says: “There
have been enough of political vindications
in Georgia in the last fire years. The peo
ple do not want and will not stand any
moro of them. They want a recognition
of personal and political merits, such ns
will be illustrated and exemplified in the
nomination and election of Major Bacon to
the office of Governor. The indications
from oil sections of the State ere meat fa
vorable to his nomination."
Editor Sinoeelt of the Philadelphia
Record bemoan* the loss of his heifer:
“She was valued at $5,000 and as a member
of the Becord staff she made a record which
has never been equaled by a two-year-old.
She exuded and delivered up eighty-three
pounds of milk in one day,” AU heifers
which do this die early.
Toe general Impression is that the coming
orange crop in Florida will be short. One
hundred thousand orange trees were planted
last winter in Southern Californio. The
crop next winter is expected to aggregate
900,000 boxes of fruit.
Father Ryan nod HU Poems.
The death of Father Ityan has called forth
tender and affectionate notices of him, in
all the section where he was best known.
This was to be expected, for he was the first
to pour oonsolation into the bruised hearts
of the people of the Sonth. And for this
there are people at the North who cannot
forgive him, even in death. As an example
we give this editorial expression from the
New York Star:
Father Ryan, the poet-priest of the Sonth,
who died at Louisville. Ky., on the 22d
inst., achieved in a limited way a somewhat
peculiar reputation. He served ns a chap
lain in the Confederate army, and bis fiery
courage, so typical of his ruco, was little
less notable than his religious fervor. Pas
sionately devoted to the Confederate canse
the was Virginia born), he was a Southern
Tyrtieus, and his stirring songs were sung
in camp and bivouAc from the Potomac to
the Gulf. Since the war he has been some
what known as a writer for Irish and Cath
olic periodicals, and be issued a volume of
poems, which are but little known at the
North. He will principally live in the
memory of those who remember him as a
writer of crude but fiery war lyrics, which
aroused the echoes uround many a curnp fire.
There will be no trouble about his re
membrance. This will last os long ns th£
memories of the Confederate cause and the
great men who embalmed it with their
blood. This is not the occasion for .a de
fence of his abilities es a poet. It hardly
comes within the province of the daily
press and may be properly left to the criti
cal judgment of those who stndy poetry.
There must have been something true,
noble and grand in songs which have melted
so many hearts. To use Father Ryan's own
language, he “thought more of souls than
of songs,” and he exemplified this by min
istering to the suffering and dying along the
perilous edge of battle,” and as a priest, in
more than one hnmble diocese.
His songs were not sung around camp
fires, bat by tho ashes of rained hearth
stones. He did not inspire armed legions
to rash to combat by his lyrics, bnt minis
tered to those who were not only defeated
but persecuted.
The language of the Star excites the sus
picion that it was called forth by his faith
and section.
In pleasing contrast to it, we present a
tribute from a great journal in a border
State, the St. Louis Republican, which says:
Rom a Virgin,'tn, he had all the fire and
force of a Celtie ancestry, and in an emi
nent degree the other Celtie trait of entire
and unchanging devotion to any cause once
embraced. The noble simplicity of his
character fitted him for a writer of the
heroic lyric, which, if simplicity be absent,
degenerates at once into bombast. Many of
his unadorned and unartistic lyrics, written
when the country was full of the echoes of
battle, and his own soul full of the warrior
instincts of his race, sweep the readei for
ward with them as he is swept when Homer
marches the squadrons of Long-Haiied
Greeks to the combat. A trumpeter then,
he became priest and spiritual comforter iu
the years after the snrronder at Appomattox,
so dark and seemingly hopeless for his sec
tion. In every line of such poems os “The
Conquered Banner," wherein he grants ab
solution without acknowledging or requir
ing the acknowledgment that there has been
sin, the reader can see evidence of intense
earnestness and tear-oompelling sorrow.
While snch poems live, they will tell the
world, better than any bistory, the feelings
in the heart of a people which impelled it to
stake its life on the appeal to heaven for the
t:ial of its cause. They explain the four
years of fire and blood hotter than a hun
dred volnmes of prose history Which records
events and seeks to record cunscB without
being able to embalm feeling. To do that
is the province of the heroic ballad, and it
is as a writer of hernio ballads that history
owes a debt to Father ltyan it will repay
with immortality.
Pennsylvania has a new evangelist who
seems to be by his own account ns bad as
any of them. He oalls himself Edwin For
rest, and confesses that he has been a gam
hler, a robber and a penitentiary convict.
Ha is very much disturbed about the souls
of other people and the contents of the bat.
The State Convention.
The State Democratic Executive Com
mittee meets in Atlanta on 2<)th of May to
appoint the time and fix the place for hold-
lug the convention to nominate Governor
and State House officers. The committee
has the power to select any one of the larger
cities ot Georgia for that important party
conclave. Atlanta, Macon, Savannah,
Colamhus, Rome, Athens and Augusta,
would he proper points for each an assem
blage, preference being given to the larger
cities with ample railroad facility and plenty
of hotel accommodation.
It will he admitted that there is no
reason why the convention should be held
in one place in every campaign. There is
every reason whv different cities in different
K rts of the State should be selected,
ving regard to convenience, comfort ami
the public good. In the Northern and
Western States the conventions assemble
in different places. The New York conn
oils of both Democratic and Republican
parties choose Syracuse, Saratoga, Albany
and other cities, there being no reason why
the capitol of the State should he selected
on each occasion. The State is camping
out in Atlanta, so to speak. The present
State House is neither safe nor comfortable.
The new capitol is not near completion.
Why should not the other cities have a
chance to entertain the assembled party in
Georgia and furnish the ground for the
campaign opening.
Recognizing the claims of two or three
cities in Georgia, the committee must, how
ever, regard the fact that Augusts is neutral
ground. She has no candidate for Governor
in the field as has Macon and Atlanta. She
has four hotels for the delegates, with any
number of boarding houses. She has one
of the largest and best arranged public
balls in Georgia, and she will probably
offer more inducements for the entertain
ment and comfort of the Democratic party
of Georgia in convention assembled than
any other city just now in the limits of the
State. Let the convention be called to as
semble in Angnsta this year by all means.
The will of KateRowsand, the little dwarf
that was known all over Europe ux “Madame
la Marquise," contains a novel feature. Her
wardrobe remained after she had disposed
of all her property: “Well," she said, "my
dreoscs and hnen and everything that I wore
must be far too small for the littlest child;
bnt, in order that sonic poor little girl may
be happy, I desire that the snm of A'l'l
may he applied to the purchase of twenty
■lolls of toy size, which shsil all be dressed
from my wardrobe and given to orphans."
Samuel J. Tilden it reported to have
made $1,250,000 out of a Lake Superior iron
POLITICAL NOTES AND ACCOUNTS.
Ma. Evxstk' prize Reotance in hie late speech con
tained 179 words.
Henxtob Pays* declares tint hie health 1.x not
bed and that he hxa resigned nothing.
Oovernor Hill of yew York la aiming forjthe Pres
idency. In addition to bulng politically strong In
New Yolk, he la a bachelor.
The President told Tom Campbell, a member of
Congress, that “It would be all right after a while."
Tbla will be Mtlafaetory if it worka out all rigui.
The Oovernor of Maaeachuaetta baa appointed
Mrs. Henrietta O. Codman of Brookline to he a
member of tile State hoard of health, lnnocy end
charity, vice Albert A. Uaggett, resigned.
A Washixotox correspondent aaya: “Tho Presi
dent now thinks that Mr. Manning will be able to
•tay in the cabinet by leaving a good part of the
treasury work in the hands of the subordinates who
bare been running the department for the last few
weeks."
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
The young men who go from here to Boston on
bycycles will return by rati, standing up.—Picayune.
A man enjoys sitting under his own vine and flg
tree, even if he must buy all the flgs and grapes he
eaie.—New Orleans Picayune.
A handsome Easter bonnet can ha 'made by tak
ing a hard fried egg and tying under the chin with
two horse halra.—Philadelphia Herald.
A card In a Fourth streetcar telle a great truth.
It aaya “Advertising la a great deal like making
love to a widow—It cau’t be overdone."—Chicago
Times.
In China the fee for the medical attendance is
from five to ten cents a visit The Chinese are an
Intelligent people. They always pay exactly what a
thing ixwcilh.—Picayune.
-So yon think DoSmytb is a promising young
matt, do you?’* “Most certainly. In fact I know
"What has led yon to thiuk so?" “I make bis
clothes."—New Haven Nows.
A Boston bicyclo club was stoned in a ride to
Waltham, although the celebrated wheelman, Stev
ens, rode ail through Persia without meeting with
such rude treatment—Boston Post.
Mary, do you know what a miracle la?" said a
lady Sunday-school teacher to one of her class.
•Yea’ni. me aays if you don't marry onr new par-
ion It will be a miracle."—Evansworth Argue.
The Harvard students are out on a strike against
ompnlaory prayers. This ought to settle the con
troversy. Compulsory prayer* will never save
anybody—not even a Harvard freshman.—Exchange
“Ergo," remarked the Professor to hie class after
long preamble; “Ergo”—then be stopped to take
his breath. “Well, let ergo,” sung out one ot the
students, and the conclusion was ruined.—Wash
ington Critic.
A Harvard student has been caught stealing from
his fellow-students, and as his father is a wealthy
it is suggested that he endow a Chair ot Ap*
propriative Ethics and pnt a New York alderman
In It as professor.
A microscopical soiree wax held in Washington
the other evening, and It is said to hare been a
very novel and interesting entertainment. Wonder
If the guests auccaaded in fluding the Edmnnda
presidentla boom.—Albany Argus.
A Washington paper darkly hints that the loag
and painful silence of Belva Lockwood la no: owing
to the disgust of a proud spirit for the tinsel bau
bles of earthly fame, but that she la simply training
for a fresh grip on the Presidential ladder.
“I wish you wouldn't grin at me In that Idiotic
way, Mr. Llghtwslat; yon make me nervous."
"Can't help it—my 'Hand-Book of High-Toned
Etiquetto* says you must wear a pleasant smile dur
ing the pauses in conversation, and I’m wearing
one: that’s all.”—Puck.
riA Scotch dominie, after relating to hie scholars
the story of Ananias and Sapphire, asked them
why Ood did not strike everybody dead who told
a lie." After a long atlenco one little fellow got to
his fact and exclaimed: “Because, sir, there wadna
he onybody left.”—Exchange.
At a woman's prayer meeting In Boston tho Be
coid heard a woman pray fervently for all the so
cieties she could think of, and with a charming
certainty that aha would be understood as follows:
“0 Lord. Mesa the W. C. T. II., the W. F. M. 8., the
W. H. M. 8. and the W. E. A I. Cl"
By the carelessness of the pressman the music
on the fourteenth page was printed upalde down,
and the mistake was discovered too late to reprint
the edition. Our musical readers have the option of
standing on their beads or turning the page over
when they want to play the place.—Sen Franciscan.
The Emperor and Empress, tho Princess and the
Ministers have left on a visit to the tombs with an
escort of 10,000 men.—Pekin Dispatch in London
Times. Under onr almpler Republican forms the
same excursion la frequently made In this rlty un
der the escort of a single policeman.—New York
World.
That Hazleton baseball club called “The Mug
wumps’’needn’t expect to win sn> thing this snm*
mer. However, they can stand around and save the
umpire and Inatst that the other fellows don't know
the Aral principles pf the game—and that u the
chief end of the Mugwump in this wicked world.—
Philadelphia Press.
The new American Minister to Siam, Colonel
lake Child of Missouri, acquired what fame he has
by calling an eighty-Ava cant Jack-pot on fonr
kings. lie JnatiAed his conduct however, by ex
plaining that he waa playing with a member of the
Arkansas Legislature, and that the litter had the
deal on hint.—Philadelphia Press.
Pasting one of the larger dry goods atorea the
other day. I heard one woman aay to another, "bet
ter come in bare. Yen'll be cheated if you go to
Blank's.'* “Walt I don’t care if I am: Ml be cheat
ed politely." It was avldent to me that there waa
at least one store that might gain trade by practlc-
ing alittla courtesy.—Minneapolis Tribune.
One of the sufferer*: Tramp (at doori—“Madam,
could yon give me a little help? I'm one of the
sufferers by the 8t. Cloud cyclone." Lady—"Why,
how can that be? The cyclone occurred only yes
terday. You couldn't have got here by thla Urns."
“Oh. yea 1 could, ma'am. You sea I waa blown
about three-quarters of the way by the cyclone."—
Chicago Kewe.
“I saw Colonel Bill McBride t'day," said one Da
kota aettlet to another. "I gnees he's go'n tu be a
cau date for the Leg'slater next fall agin.” Did ha
shake hands with yon?” “Ob, ha always does that
—competition la so brisk now’aya that they her' f
know a feller the year round." “Uowd'Jn telL
than?" “Ha lemma beat 'bout ,to tradin' hoaaea.
Bill ain't a man as 'ud hurt bis reputation that way
'less he'd some object ahead.—Estelllne Ball.
A husband who had bean out shooting, bnt had
not been •uccesefal, rather than return home
empty-handed, stepped Into a shop and purchased
a h ire. “There, my dneky," he said to hie wife on
reaching boms, “you see 1 am not eo awkward with
the gun after all." “let me eat I" “Isn’t ha a Ana
fellow?" “My dear." said the srlfo, as she carried
the bird to her nostrils, and put it dowrn with a
grimaaca. "Yon were quite right in killing him to-
day;to-morrow would have been too tste/'-Tid-BIts.
John Ackerman, who lire* near Poplar
Bluff, Mo., was attacked By two large block
wolves while going home from work the
other evening. As he ran, he fell anil the
waive* were right upon him; bnt the rattle
of his dinner pail caused them to halt, and
noticing this, Ackerman jammed up, and,
furiously shaking the pail, frightened the
wolves away and went home
THE GUBERNATORIAL OUTLOOK.
A Few Words Concerning Gen. Gordon’s
Candidacy.
Onr Atlanta special of Wednesday an
nounced that General John B. Gordon had
disposed of his Florida Railroad interests
to u syndicate of capitalists, and was fairly
entered in the gubernatorial race. The At
lanta papers have not as yet corroborated
this m as, though the Capitol admits that
the sale has been made, and that General
Gordon bus become wealthy by the trans
action, and says: “The question then arises
whether General Gordon will go back into
politics. To one of bis activity of brain
and body, politics opens np the most at
tractive life and usefulness, and we should
not bo surprised to see him go into it again."
Tho friends of General Gordon would be
serving h’m in good part if they would ad
vise him not to return to politics. There was
no man in Georgia who stood higher in the
estimation of the whole people of the State
than be np to the time that he made his
reputed bargain with the powers that be,
and resigned the United States Senatorahip,
with which his State had honored him, in
order that Senator Brown might have the
chance to be brought forward through ex
ecutive appointment, and receive at the
hands of Governor Colquitt a position of
honor which, at that time, he coaid never
have secured if the matter had been left to
a popular yote. True it is that the people
have “vindicated" Colquitt since then
both by re-electing him Governor and
sending him to the Senate, and
they have also endorsed his action
in the Brown matter by re-electing Mr.
Brown to the position to which he bad been
appointed. Still there is a strong under
current of feeling against General Gordon
for having outwitted, os he did, his fellow
citizens wlm had so signally trusted him,
and if he uguiu comes before tile people,
this sentiment of antagonism will most as
suredly manifest itself. The consequence
would be another campaign of personalism,
and even if General Gordon should be nomi
nated and elected he would obtain his office
at the cost of many hitherto warm friend
ships and much heart-burnings, and never
again would lie occupy so high a position
in tile estimation of his fellow-citizens in
general as he has done in the past.
If report speaks true. General Gordon
can now afford to spend the remainder of his
lifo in ease and he can still exercise an in
fluence in Georgia politics without exciting
latent or stirring np fresh hostilities against
himself. It seems to ns that he would bo
wiser both as a man and as a Democrat to
refuse to throw himself, at least at this
time, into the political arena—as a man, for
the reasons that we have given; ns a Demo
crat, because he would be certaiD, under
existing circumstances, to divide the party.
If his wisdom and party loyalty nro greater
than his ambition, lie will promptly refuse
to allow his name to come before tho con
vention as a candidate.—Savannah Times.
A ROGUE’S CONFESSION.
A Remarkable Hand of Counterfeiters
that Flourished in New Orleans.
John IL Aufdemorte, Into redemption
clerk of the United States Sub-Treasury at
New Orleans, who has inst been convicted
of abstracting funds from tho sub-treasury,
testified in his own behalf in the trial, and
gave n short history of his life, during
which he made the following startling
statement:
'When I was 12 yonrs of age I was em
ployed in a counterfeiting establishment at
the corner of Conti and Marais streets.
This establishment was owned and opera
ted, among others, by a man who was re
cently Mnyor of Galveston, and who is at
present one of the wealthiest and most
prominent citizens of that place. Inter
ested with him in this nefarious business
were the then Mayor of Now Orleans, other
city officials, the Chief of Police, Judges
and other limbs of the law. The then
Judge of the Criminal Court for the parish
of New Orleans was a partner in the estab
lishment, as also a certain prominent law
yer, who now occupies a judgeship in Balti
more.
“These people were engaged in counter
feiting Mexican coin, United States bills
and moneys of every description. The
Mexican money was manufactured down
stain, and the United States notes, etc,,
were turned out np Htairs. My position was
that of messenger for tho establishment,
and as such I delivered the counterfeit
money to the banks of the city and high city
officials. Thousands and thousands of dol-
lan of this character of money were mann-
tactnred and circulated hero and elsewhere
throughout this country and Mexico.
“On one occasion one of these counter
feiters was picked up in a stupidly drunken
condition by the polieo offlcer.at the corner
of Chippewa and Jackson streets. On his
person was found a large lot of counterfeit
money, which fact the jailer of Itosseau
station repotted to the presiding judge
when his case came up. The counterfeiter
was fined for simply being drank, and no
reference was made to the fact that fraudu
lent money had been found on his person.
“The business flourished in these days,
and many of the people enguged In the bus
iness of counterfeiting in the times to which
I allndo left behind them sons and dough
tern who move in the highest social circles
of the Crescent City—ladies and gentlemen
of prominenco nnd the greatest respectabil
ity. For this reason I do not propose to
make known the names of the people for
whom I first worked in the counterfeiting
business. I had almost neglected to men
tion that the counterfeiters finally fell ont
among thcmselvea, began quarreling over a
division of tbe spoils, and the officials were
compelled to make some arrests. All, with
the exception of two of those arrested, fi
nally escaped from jail, and their present
whereabouts are now unknown to me."
The President's Future Ilrlde.
Buffalo, April 21.—TheNew York Times
correspondent has received information con
cerning tbe coming marriage of President
Cleveland and Miss Folsom, which may be
considered quite reliable. It was received
almost directly from Col J. B. Folsom, of
Folsoniilale, Miss Frankie's grandfather,
and is to the effect that tbe marriage will
take place in June. Miss Folsom is now
buying her trousseau in Enrope, her grand
father haring famished her with the means.
CoL Folsom mode the farther remark that
he gave his granddaughter $l,fi0ll when she
went away, and that he had just sent her
$•100 more, to be used in buying tbe trons-
scan. This information comes through bnt
two persons from Col. Folsom, nnd cannot
tberefora bo mnch, if any, distorted; and
besides, tbe family of the gentlemen from
whom it was received bus long been on in
timate terms with the Folsoms.
The Egyptian Sphinx is soon to get a
thorough overhauling. A compnny has li-en
formed in Paris to aid M. Maspcro in carry
ing on his excavations. It is thought that
the Sphinx is a tomb, and that nnder it or
inside of it some valuable and interesting
material may be discovered that will add a
few yean more to the length of history.
This work wiil be carried on with care, xo
that the great Sphinx will not be disfignretl
by the somewhat tardy antojisy.
Preparations ore being made for an ex
tensive oelebntion of the on* hundredth
and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of
Gornam, Me., which ocean on the 2Cth of
May.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
William J. Daviess, a resilient of Har-
rodsburg, Kentucky, bos begun tbe experi
ment of fasting for forty days and has al
ready eaten nothing for over two weeks.
He rises early, walks two miles and on his
return seats himself at the breakfast table,
looks at tbe dishes of which be is fondest
And leaves the table without partaking of
food. This performance is repeated at each
meal. He has lost sixteen ponnds in the
two weeks that he hns fasted, bat thinks
that bis daily loss will hereafter be smaller.
Concerning the great age of Emperor Wil
liam, the following is of interest: Only a
few favored ones are enabled to see live
generations—great grandparents, grand
parents, parents, children, grandchildren.
The Emperor bos known seven generations,
who comprise a period of 158 years from
the birth of the oldest person up to to-day.
The Emperor was 21 years of age when bis
great grandmother, Langraviss Lnise, died
March 11, 1818, at the age of 90 years.
Albert M. Mansell, an art teacher of Bos
ton, has now been for a year studying
in Paris. He recently passed a series of ex
aminations for admission to tbe Ecole des
Beaux arts, for which there were 400 com
petitors. The result was that only sixty-
four were successful, and that he, the sole
American in the lot, stood at the head.
Geoige Washington, as shown in bronze
on the Sub-Treasury steDs in Wall street,
New York, has turned black in tbe face,
whether because of tbe wickedness of tbe
mart wherein he stands or because of the
gnawiDgs of such enemies of republics as
aldermanic rats, no one knows.
Lord Randolph Churchill said recently to
a friend: “The chanc " of the land bill
passing the House are better than people
rtre willing to admit. It will be a very close
fight. If I Were betting I should say fair
odds would be five to four against."
Hugh G. Harrison of Minneapolis says
that some Westerners grew rich without
knowing it: Some years ago, nt a whim of
his wife, he paid $1,200 for a house in that
city. The other day he refused $105,000 for
the same house.
Squire White, who died nt Quinebaug,
Conn., lost week, at the age of eighty-eight,
was one of the active persons of the famous
Dorr rebellion of 1842, when Thomas W.
Dorr undertook to seize the government of
Rhode Island.
—Prince Bismarck failed to get his plover
eggs this spring. One hundred of those egg3
have been sent to him from Jever on every
birthday anniversary for many years, but
this season tbe long winter kept tbe plovers
in the south.
—Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain, who was
‘shot nil to pieces in the war," is having a
hard time of it still. Ho is at Jacksonville,
nnd hns been on tho siok list again, while
his wife is down with pneumonia in the
same hotel.
William Shakespeare—no less n person
than tbe poet —is to be honored with a me
morial window in the chnrcli of St. James.
London. The church is opposite the spot
where the Curtain Theatre used to stand.
“If you wnnt to be very nice about it,”
advises tbe Boston Transcript, “you must
say Fnrencz Liszt, Franz beiDg an incorrect
rendering of the Christian name and an
abomination in Hungarian ears."
The new Chinese minister is a short,
heavy set person, 50 years of age, and his
upper lip is ornamented with a moustache
of a reddish hue. He is a mandarin of the
red bntton.
General Spinner, the happieat old man in
America, camped ont on the Florida sea
coast for a month. He has been there seven
months nnd may stay seventeen.
Samuel Plimsol, A. M., “the Sailor’s
Friend," has been passing a week of sum
mer weather at the old town of St. Augus
tine.
The young Duke of Newcastle being
twentv-oae years old this week, there will
be a three days' jubilee at Clumber.
General C. ft Loring, of the Boston Mu
seum of fine arts, will sail this week to pass
six months in European galleries.
—Andrew Camegie llits from town to
town as a bee from bud to blossom. Jnst
now he is at Jacksonville, Fla.
Mme. Chenebard hns passed over a golden
? urac, with 3,000,000 francs in it, to the
Tench Academy of Fine Arts.
Captain Graesse, of the German army, is
taking a look at American harbor defenses
along the Atlantic coast.
John Penn, lately dead, is tohave a statue
»t Greenwich, Eng., where he spent $175,-
000 on on almshouso.
Ex-President John Phelps of the New
York Cotton Exchange died nt Now Orleans
on Thursday night.
John T. Raymond has engaged Mr.
Joseph Whiting for tho remainder of his
present season.
Senator Hawley is said by despairing
stenographers to be the most rapid speaker
in Congress.
Francis Murphy has made three thou
sand temperance converts in the town of
Tiffin, Ohio.
Mr. English, the rich Connecticut poli
tician, is to sail with his bride, on May 15,
for Europe.
The Boston fund for the widow of Gen.
Hancock has ceased to grow at the $8,8U0
mark.
Mme. Judic has sailed for France, where
she goes to greet a bridegroom.
Thomas Greenwood, the London jour,
nalist, is now at Concoid, Mass.
John Hassell Young has reached Paris
for a brief sojourn.
Ex-Minister Schenck’s Washington law
practice now yields him a large return.
Minister MeLane left Paris Saturday far
home.
Whit Can be Bone.
By trying again and keeping up connge many
tilings seemingly impossible msy be attained. Hun
dreds of hopeless cases of Ktdney and Liver Com
plaint bare been cured by Electric Bitters, after
everything else bad been tried in vain. So, don't
think there is no cure for yon, but try Electric Bit
ters, There Is no medicine so safe, so pure, and so
perfect a Blood PuriAer. Electric Bitter* will cur*
cure Dyspepsia Diabetes aud all diseases of tba
kidueya. Invaluable in affections Stomach and
Liver, aid overcome all urinary difficulties. Large
bottles only SO cts. at Lamar. Rankin A Lamar's.
All That Science anti Skill
could do to make Benson’s Cancine Platters tbe
best porous piasters, and also the beat general ex
ternal remvny in the world, baa been done. When
ever it is possible to Improve them It Is dooe. Den-
Son's plasters are not made to impose upon tbe
credulous, but to cure disease. Tbelr eminent sue-
cess baa procured for them tbs voluntary indorse
ment of 5,000 physicians, pharmacists and drug,
gists throughout tbe country, and tbe outapokcnl
preference of the intelligent public. They am
prompt powerful, cleanly and certain. They cure
where no others will even relieve. Refuse lmlta-1
tlons styled “t'apelein," 'Vapsicum," or■ x’apucln"
plasters. Reputable druggists only. The “Three
Heals" trade mark on tbe genuine and tba word
“Capctne" cut in tbe centre of tbe plaster.
I>TT TJhJ Instant relief. Final cure In
A Alziodi day s.and never returns. No purJP
no salve, no suppository. Snfferere will learn of a
simple remedy Free by addressing C. 1. MASON, 7(
Nassau atreeei N. Y. decMwly
} 9t)W AUr.hli IDU
penses Mid. Valuable outfit and par-
roe. J. F. IIILL k CO., Augusta, Mmln*.
TQ*MMEN™3tSES
maahreod, ate. ! will yoo a valoaku trcatiM upon
imabove cl ;«***«. also direction* for Mlf-cqre, free of
charge. Addnee Fief. V O. FUWULK.Mogda^Uou.
A Watch lh'e e
We will inatl a |NlckeI-8tlrer Waterw, .
tbe atyle represented In tbe ;ut below ts""**
who will send us a club of ten xzw anb!?* a,,
The Wzzxlt Txnauuxrn at ona
will enable each auhacriber to aecure ih ' *
tbe lowest club rate, and at tbe same tim
sate the club agent tor hla trouble. ’
OSLT xew ncnscuiBEBa—that la, tw
names are not now and hare not btea wie,’*
months previous to tbe receipt of tlusonw
books, WILL BE COUNTED. WC| '
These watches are not toys, bnt accwu,
serviceable time-keepers. They are n mw * 1
ble and neat. Tbe cases alwaya wear brU i J
of thouaanda of them are carried by rA, 1
classes throughout the United States. ’ * *
“The Waierbury,"
VM
FOR 8B3.50
we will rend Tux Weekly Tkleokapb om ji
and one of the abore described watches to a
drew. This propostion Is open to our aabic
as well as those who are not
.Act Promptly]
The above propositions will be kept opeifc
limited time only aud parties who wish to taksj
vantage of either should do so at once.
4QTUnless otherwise directed we will kb* I
watches by mail, packed In a stout pastebotriJ
and our responsibility for them will cod vh«t||
are deposited in the post-office. They cm t* jq
tered for ten cents and parties who wish thiilij
should inclose this amount, or we will wodth
by express, the charges to be paid when taql
delivered. Address THE TELEGRAPH,]
Macon, GeorgJ
Make money orders, checks, etc., parable to I
U. C. HANSON, Maciaj
EXCEL®
COOKSTffi
ALWAYS SAT!SFACT(ffi|
EIGHTEEN SIZES AMD Eli
ILL PURCHASERS CHH EE ®
MANUFACTURED DT
Isaac A.Sheppard & Co. .Baltimore,!!
ANU FO»» ' * ‘ .E BY
ALL FIRST-CLASS
StoretopmtajitliE
TO PARENTS.
3Iany baking powders are very
to health, and while every one 5
own, he should also have a core for toe
ones—the little children.
SEA FOABI
contains nono of the bod qualities of
powdera-aoda or saleratus. It ccctag*
hurtful ingredient—no alum or arnm^t*-
SCIENTIFIC.
AU Chemists who have analmd FJ*,
commend it. Hou*skerpef» who b®’*
will have no other. Cook*, whore
have failed with other powders, are J’^
oversea Foam. Save* time, sares
m i?U?poaitlvely unequaled. Abeohjjjj
Used by the leading hotels and
In New York city and throughout the ®
For sole by all fuwbdaoa grocers.
GANTZ, JOKES <P <*>»
170 Duane St.,
mari7*satkw3m
THE O.I.O. CO
r eh nr, Georgia.
Is tha sole proprietor ot
O. I. o.
(Old Indian Care),
The Perfect Ulmxl Pnrl«' r:
This vegetable Tonic and
fail*. Druggists sell it and indorse n
where.
Dr. Wm. F. Bynum, Sr„ “
physician and citizen of Live.
writes ns: “It give* the best satut*-
all the Blood PariAen."
Ladies in Delicate Health
Hare in it a Sovereign Carr-
zVS A TONIC ANDAPI*I" rlZL
There I* absolutely nothing c '‘
with it.