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Macon, Oa.
Next Friday la Arbor Day.
Governor Gordon first set the fourth
Wednesday of November ss Arbor Day for
1887, On the recommendation of the
president of the Ameriean Forestry Con
gress, and officials of the Southern Forestry
Congress, the day was ohanged to Friday,
the seeond oi December.
The Governor recommends that the day
be very generally observed, especially by
municipal corporations and pnblio schools,
lout year Georgia bad her first Arbor Day.
Notice was given only a short time in ad-
vanoa and the people did not have a fair
ohanca to prepare for the occasion or to
•how their appreciation of the value of tree
oulture.
This year ample time has been given.
Every city, town and village in Georgia
ahonld observe next Friday. There ongbt
to be hundreds of thousands of trees
planted in this State. It is a work in
which the schools can easily be interested
and in whioh they can give valuable assis
tance. We are pleased to see
that onr weekly Georgia ex-
obanges are bringing this subject to the
attention of their readers and are empha-
sizing its importance.
What doea Macon proposo to do. No city
in tho State has more trees or more beantt-
fnl ones. Mr. Bayaru when he apoke here
1877 aaid that the Macon park showed the
finest natural tree growth he bad evoraeen.
Nothing beautifies a city so much as fine
trees.
Considerations of health and comfort no
leas atrongly commend the valne of at both
culture. The people of Macon ought to plant
thousands of trees next Friday. Within
easy reach are a dexen variatit s, all of whioh
are good. Very litUa expense need bo in
curred; very little time and work wonld be
neoessary; much good may be done.
Total lou to the plMttera $814,511
Btildea the eotton Uft bought of the home menu*
facturer. which were, of coarse, enhanced 35 per
cent. When the Yankee fisherman needs foreign
salt for curing hie fish no tax or duty Is charged,
nuch Is and has been the law for many years. And
yet, when the Yankee fisherman sells hU dried cod
fish by tbe weight he actually does get paid for the
salt that bla fish contain, llut when t^o planter
has to give tbe cotton ties to the bnyer for nothing
* is charged by onr swindling tariff 3A peroent.
tariff.
This statement ought to be eonviucing.
The difference of $1.71 is a few cents more
than enough to pay the freight on a bale of
cotton from New York to Liverpool by
•team, but the Englishman gets tbe beg
ging and ties, which ought to pay the
cost of handling. Hs had already made
profit in selling the ties to the planter,
would be hard to point out how the
oountry as a whole or the far nor in par
ticular is benefited by this 35 per cent. tax.
Tna Chattanooga Times speaks of Carlisle
and his “bigoted backers." As, by its own
count, tho followers of Mr. Buidall number
only thirty, while 138 Democrats favor tariff
reform, it is another case of eleven obstinate
jurymen.
Atlanta having settled the liquor ques
tion, her oilizens now have an opportunity
to show that they love their town more
than they hate esoh other. It is time that
they unite.
Soma Intercatlnc Figures.
In seeking oonao alien for their recent
defeat in New York tbs Republicans have
given some smnsing explanations and made
some absurd claims. One of their crumbs
of comfort has been that this has been an
off year election and that tho party whioh
vrins in such yean is apt to loss at tho next
(Section.
The New York World baa prepared the
following lntereiting table showing the vote
of New York for the pait twenty-one years:
DEHOCBATIC TtCTOatl!.
last
l- i
use
>«70
1N7S
1874
lets
ISIS
... 67.979
... It (IS
... 20,061
... 33.0V*
... V.SVJ
-IM1T
111
im*
l»u
ISA
last
11.164
lot, 1*61
16313
1.0*7
11,131
7,791
..•boat la,too
1811
1871
1S7E
11,711
awuaucAE vicTomiia.
.. 11.vos ISIS 1J.777
... 61.161 issil 71,03:1
. 14,661 18U 11,073
It will b* seen that of these twsnty-one
elections the Democrats have carried fiitoon
and the Republicans six. It will alio be
noticed that New York la given to sucoes-
live victories rather than to alternation be
tween the two parlies. Ths Republicans
won in 1871 and 1873. Again they captured
sueeesaive elections in 1878, 1873, 1880 and
1881. Ilia Democrats won in 1867-68-09-
70, and in 1873-74-75-76 andln 1883-83-84-
85-8G-87. They have kept up a Bteady
winning lick for tbe past five years. At
the recent election they made a gain of
nearly 1,000 votes on last year’s viotory.
New York is a Democratic state and alt ths
indications are that the party is strength
ening ita hold there. We expeot to
Mr. Cleveland carry it by a rousing ma
jority next year.
Tbs Chattanooga Times thinks drenm-
stances may compel Mr. Randall to eombins
with the Republicans to defeat Mr. Carlisle,
tn order to prottet his “eoniiateney at
legislator." The Times evidently knows
his record.
Ship Bounties.
Tlu Macoa Tauwaara lakea the very itnil po
sition that them U bo need of lacrrestaf American
shipping. It la perfectly content to in tha com
mere* of Ihla country carried away by foralfn
ahlpa. Thia la tn kteplng with tta proponed policy
of ptrmltilnf foreign coontrlw to do our mans-
factoring, and of anmndarlng on homa market!
toforat*nar*—Birmingham Aga.
The Age states ths Tslbobafb’s position
falsely. We believe tbe existence of a pow-
erf til mercantile marine, bnilt to meet
natural demand for It, necessary to the
highest well being of the oountry, but oh
jset to the people being taxed to pay part
of its cost, whiln our manufacturing indu
tries are in such a position that they can
gain no standing in foreign markets. Ths
Age wants the government to lay heavy
duties to make goods high to its citizens,
and then to give bounties to make gooda
cheap to foreigners. That is, these are what
we understand to be the wishes of those
who believe In high tariffs and high boon-
ties, and the Aga belonga to that order
cranks.
THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNI^ G,f NOVEMBER 29, 1887.-TWELVE PAGFS.
WHEN THEY WERE BOYS.
The Tariff on Cotton Ties.
Four years ago, when Congress was dis
cussing the changes in import duties reo-
ommended by tbe tariff commission, dis
cussion arose as to whether the tax on cot
ton ties was paid by the farmer or the final
purchaser of his ootton. The weight of the
argument was then that the farmer paid it,
bnt we remember to have seen no state
ment of fasts which made this plainer than
does the following brief extract. It it from
an article by Mr. J. S. Moore, an authority
on economic questions, and a frequent con
tributor to the New York Times:
Tha Southern plantar doaa uat gat ana tingle
cent paid for the bs*gto« or ties, whether ha aaUa
bla cotton hero or In Llrarpoot. Tho fact la par-
footly atmpte. Cotton la sold tn tbo United States
hr groas weight. That la, If a bale of cotton wa'sha
46) pounds and tbe pries agreed le lOeontsapoond,
tha eellrr receives 145. In Liverpool, on tho other
band, 34 pounds and somatlmaa 76 pounds tare la
deducted, and a bile of cotton weighing 4S0 pounds
only net-, after deducting 31 pounds, 476 pound!,
for which the seller le paid, ‘able tare la deducted
i or tbe wrapping and tbe iron or steel ties. Now,
than, lat ne taka tha prlca nf spot cotton of, aay,
September 6, both In New Tori and Liverpool, and
we will Cnd tho problem solved. Tha price of spot
cotton on tbe 6th of September In New Tork was
10 cents par pound, and tn Liverpool It waa 6 7163
per pound.
Procee la of a bale of cotton weighing 470 pounds
i New York, groee, at 10 canta a pound to 1 45.
Proceeds of a bale of eotton weighing 450 groan,
Liverpool, deducting 71 pound- tore, or leaving
436 pounce, at 5 7-tCd,, to a (notion over £913‘.i.,
or raebanga at 484. le as n ar aa possible $16.71 for
the aalf-esma bate and weight which brings tn New
Toik $45, leaving $1.71 par bale for freight and
Thus, tf tbe plantar la not purblind, be wHIaeo
that when be ealle bla ootton groee In New Tork,
and le enppoaod to got paid for tbe wrapping and
ties at tbs prlce.of cotton, ba simply goto the Liver-
p ml price lor a bile after tha tore of 71 pounds la
uedneted from It. In other words ha no more gats
paid foi the wrapping and Uaa In either country
than ba geto paid tor tbe ginning of It It 1« entirely a
loan to hia, and has to ba borne by him. Thin
being a mathematical demonstration, the main
question Is, why should the plant rpty a tax of 35
par cent on ootton Uaa, when be baa pi loan tha
wnole coat and value of theae tlaa)
In 1681 the treasury collected no leaf than $211,-
483 duty on cotton ties, and tha acoount stands
thus:
First coat of tire Imported In 1881 $003,804
Duty paid on them at 35 per cant 311,188
tee
Mr. Randall's Chairmanship,
A few days ago it was aonouuoad that
Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Randall would en
deavor to agree upon tbo leading features
of a revenue reduction bill. Yesterday's
dispatch of our special Washington corres
pondent stated authoritatively that Mr.
Rindall would be plaoed at the
head of the appropriations commit-
of the new CoDgress. This last
very important piece of newB. It
would be a relief to tho Demooratio party
know that he goes to his old placa in pur
suance of an understanding with Mr. Car
lisle which v ill render united party aotion
possible. There has been no general de
sire in tho party to "discipline" Mr. Ran
dall Qis services have in past years been
great, and they are remembered. But
there has been a general feeling that he has
used the opportunities given him by bis
holding the chairmanship of the most im
portant oommittee of the House to thwart
tbe will of his party on the most important
question before the oountry. The difference
views between Mr. Randall and the
majority of his party has been very
wide, but if he wishes the tariff
revised and reduced, aa he is ssii to do,
and is as devoted to the interests of his
party as a good Democrat ought to be,
there is no good reason why they sbonld
not be reconciled by mutual cgneesaions.
Mr. Randall leads a very small minority,
and should expect to make the greater con
cessions.
If the appointment of Mr. Randall to the
head of tbe appropriations oommittee
means this, then the party and the country
are to be congratulated. If, however, he
ahonld enter upon his duties determined
that the tariff shall be revised only accord
ing to bis own views, there is likely to be
trouble in the Democratio camp.
Tho Orest National J—ne.
In the coming session of Congress there
will be one issue which will rise above all
others. It is tariff reform. It cannot be
obscured. It oaunot be met with equivoca
tion or postponement by the plea that this
not the proper time for its consideration.
The people aro overtaxed to the amount of
over $100,000,000 • year. They expeot re
lief and the Democratic party has promised
give it to them.
The Now York Times dearly defines the
situation in an editorial, from whioh tbe
following extnot is taken:
Bol plainly Mr. Carllala cannot concede that tho
tariff shall bo an Isolated question. ll to a party
ineoUon In tho broadest neoeo of tbe word. .1 to
ito nails
I baa an;
QUMilon In
absolutely the onto rational tuna on which the
~ tnocratlc part) baa
which tt to dearly
Tho party to oonmilttod
lb’s way, axcopt by logtaUHvo actum,
tariff reform. lu repre-enatl-eo In tha
eiaenttva branch bava declared for It, urged It on
Oongreaa, presented It to the people, and done
everything they com Id to advance 11. Tbe gaaat
body of too party reprcsenuuvoa tn the popular
branch of Congtaat aareo with tbo eaaaotlv#. Tha
only dleoontlonu are Kandall and bis little groap.
Tbe; are strong enough, aa things now aland, to
present any action boosnee, acting with tha Repub
licans, an opposition majority le secured. Bnt
thou strength lies wholly In their recognition by
the Democratic majority. Ho long aa they have
that recognition, with aU Its privileges, eo long aa
thty retain tbalr p aces on tho oimnlmees of the
Hens*. and can command the R-floenceand advan
tage rivra by Hose p acra with, nl changlog their
opposition to tho Domocre'to tariff policy, they
Dot abandon that opposition. Will Mr.
compel them to choose) Will tho party
Ilona* back him In ao compelling thorn) Thom
Ilea tha question of tha whoto eeesion.
Any reasonable concessions should be
made for tbe sake of harmony in tho party,
but j edging by their past oondnot we fear
that “tha little ltandali group” will make
demands which are ont of all reason, and
the granting cf which would awerva the
party far away from the polioy which the
administration, nearly all tbe Democratio
leaden and the great mais of Democratio
voters deiiro to seo carried ont beeauso they
believe it to bo beat for tho country and tha
p«‘y-
A Hootl Point*
The Augusta Gazette soorea a good point
against the claim that tbe result of tho re
cent Virginia election ia au endonement of
“ibo Randall idea.” No unprejudiced man
who knows tho situation in Virginia would
make any such preposterous claim.
Tho Republican convention ’mat first in
that state and passed resolutions demand
ing tho repeal of tho internal revenue.
When the Demoo ratio convention met
adopted almost tho identioal resolutions on
that question which tbe R-publican* had
proclaimed some weeks before. Ma
hons accused tbe Democrats of try
ing to steal bis thunder. In Virginia
tbe groat issue was Democracy against Ma-
honeiim.
But if tbe “Randall ldea”,*as the foremost
consideration with the Democrats, it mads
vary poor showing. Tho Democratio
majority in the Slate at ibe recant election
was only 3.61S. On the Cleveland idea in
1884, contending against the money bags
of the national Republican committee, tbs
Democrats tarried the State by 6,141.
therefore appears that tha Djmocrata lcat
3,516 votes by adopting the Randall ides
instead of tho Cleveland idea.
Dob Canos announces that he considers
himself tbe proper person to occupy the
throne of Franco as well as that of Spain
Why doea not ho claim tha whole ea-th
while ha is about it?
| on Tuesday a sharp falling off In receipts at the
!<orto gave a fresh Impulse to the speculaUon for
the rise, which with some floctusUcna was contin
ued to near the dose of Wednesday. In view of
tjie recent imiU crop eeUmttee the market Is very
sensitive, a falling off In the movement, and the
explanation that e tine from Memphis that forest
fires obstructed transportation, and from Texas
that the strike on the railroads was having tbe same
effect, was little heeded. To-day * decided Im
provement In Liverpool and reports of tho horning
of cotton glna and eotton In field by foreet fires
caused a further advance, hnt the market became
quieter In the last hour. Cotton on the spot was
dull and unchanged until Wednesday, when an
advance of l-16o. wae quoted, followed by an equal
advance to-day, middling uplands cloelog at 10Xe.
Gen. Boclanqxb has been ordered out of
Fsiis because a presidential eleotion im
pends. The “gad of the musio halls’’
might bo dangerous on such an excltlDg oc
casion, especially as the man who bestowed
that name npon him stands the best ohanoe
o£ succeeding Grevy. It looks as if cold
weather were ahead for General Bouiaugar.
San Francisco Chinamen are angry be
cause the ousiom house insisted on collect
ing a large tariff tax on a very fine god
which they imported from China. They
onght to meet with* good deal of sympathy
from a certain oiass of our people, as s-.ch
a tax affords no protection to American
industry.
They call him Buffalo Bills now. for ha has (00,-
OMone dollar ones.- Boston Post.
Paopla of cqltnr* will discard the vnlgtr termi
nation and say ebryaanthema'am. — Syracuse
Herald.
Shot a cow
"Oood sport. Tommy)" * Oh, fair,
and an old woman. Both doing well."—Morning
Journal. .
Sometimes a woman belonaa to tha upper set. and
Ihsn again tbs npparaat belongs to tna woman.—
Tessa Slftlnga.
Shermnn'a Platform.
It is not all improbable that' Mr. John
Sherman may be called npon next year to
sacrifice himself to Republican party exi
gencies. They must have a candidate, and
as he is getting old sud has for mauy yean
cherished an ambition to be president,
he may think one ohanoe in a hundred of
being elected better than none at all. Under
these circuiostanoM Ihe platform on whioh
he proposes to stand is worth examining
He oalls It short and simple. When he
eomes to stand on it ,he will find he needs
bilanoe-pole. It is indeed short—"pro
tection to Ameriean industry and protec
tion to tho negro ballot”
The diffioalty about these propo-
iitious is that they aro based on
false pretenses. The tariff does not in
crease industrial prosperity and the negro
ballot Is in no need of proteotlou. Both in
volve great wroogs to tho general pnblio,
one for the benefit of a oiass, and the other
for the benefit of is party. Mr. Sherraon
hopes to mike workingmen believe that
their prosperity depends upon a high tariff,
when in truth tho principal beneficUrioi of
our present polioy are-a fow trusts, combi
nations, lings, associations, eto., whioh ex
ist for the purpose of discharging workmen
when tho prodaota of ihtir industry sink
too low In piioe. He also hopes by head*
log a. new erasado ogainet Democratio
government in tho South to arouse so much
of tho old feeliog against this seotioa that
many voters wilt forget live issues in their
desire to suppress the influence of tho
Southern white man in tha government
The design of Senator Sherman is a
wicked one, but, like a great many wioked
things, it is .woak. Workmen in genera)
are more intelligent than he gives them
credit for being, and the prosperity and
general eentent of the negro prove that be
is not oppressed or misgoverned.
Cotton Ntntament.
From the Gbroniole's eotton artioio of
November 35, the following hots are gather
ed relative to the movement oi the erop of the
put week:
For tho week ending this evening, Novem
ber 35, tbe total recripta have reached 24Jj
388 bales, against 284,816 belts lest week,
301,600 bale* tbe previous week and 289,174
bales three weeks alnee; asking tbs total
receipts since tbe 1st of September, 1887,
2,874.549 bales against 2,437,8*4 bales for
the same period of 188Gj showing an in-
ere ne since September 1, 1887, of 436,675
bales.
Ths receipts of ill the interioi towns for
this week have been 189,373 bales. Last
year tha reoeipta of the aami week wete
176,382 bales. The old interior stocks have
increased daring the week 25,5(0 bales and
are to-night 37,354 bales more than at tbe
same period Uat yesr. Ths receipts ah the
lame towoa have been 13,068 bales more than
the same week last year, and uiuoo Septets
her 1, tbe receipt* at all the towns are 374,161
balsa more than for the same time in 1886.
Among the interior towns, ths receipts at
Macon for the week bare been 1,910 bales.
Last year the reoeipta for tbe week were
3,063 bales. This shows a decrease for tbo
week of 153 bales.
Tbe total reoeipta from the plantations
since September 1, 1887, are 3,200,147 biles
in 1886 were 3,765,892 bales; in 1885 were
3,749,837 bales.
Although tho reoeipta at tha outporta the
put week were 249,388 bales, the actual
movement from plantations was 274,022
bales, tbs balanoe bring taken from tbe
itooks at ths interior towns. Lut year the
receipts from ths plantations tor the same
week were 309,162 bales, and for 1885 they
were 291,069 bales.
The imports in continental ports this
week have been 80.0W bales.
These figures indicate an increase in the
cotton in sight to-night of 266,617 bales as
compared with tbe asms date of 1886. an in
crease of 334,186 as compared with the cor
responding data of IS®’., i ,,u incteeae of
151,063 aa compared witV 1884.
Tbe Chronicla has ths following to say of
the market fluotnations for the week under
review:
Cotton for (stare dtUvsry at this market has been
quite nnseutsd for th* week under revtvv. TL*
opening vrs* somewhat depressed, under favorable
forelsn adricta, both commerced and political; bet
■Doe* your husband swear aa much as ever)"
"Swear! Why, I can’t Ins? a parrot two weeks in
tba bouse.”—Town Topics.
Volapnk, tha new world lsnguass, baa only one
swear word. Borne lnvsn’ora don’t seem to bare
any common senses—Somerville Journal.
m tbe dude has sol lot) the latmt edition of
Webster's Dictionary." “Has bsl Wall, hurry,
than, and slam tba covers down."—Chicago News.
'My am. If estrange drg stops you In theatre*!
and Inquire* after the health of your calf, tell him
that he la suffering from pleuo-pneumoul*.—
Burlington Free Frees.
Tha agricultural fair of the present opens with a
speech by a lawyer and close* with ahorse race.
Agriculture takes absok seal.—New Orle.na Pica
jun*.
'Docs II pay to be good)" asks ao exchange. All
we know la that a minister only gala $7 tor marry
ing a couple, while a lawyer geto $390 for unmerry-
log them.—Tonkere Statesman.
A Cincinnati dsecon la under arrest for stsaUng
|3 4!from thecoatributtonbci. It to neneceaaary
to state, perhaps, that hto pecnUiloes dated evara
scries of years.- Btnghampton Republican.
A Montana paper referred the other day to
"Ktoaar W llllam, cf Oarmany." "Ktsser William"
uot a German, bntan Amsrleae, and hla other
front nama U "Teoumseh." -Losrell Courier.
Th* Canadian papers are calling Mr. Chasebsrl-tn
"Jonah.” Well. Joeiah perhaps made a nacre
tensive Investigation of the Inaid* of th* Has ques
tion then any other aaeo that over Uvsd.—Peoria
Transcript.
It la hoped that Messrs. Aagtll Pntnsm, Tapper
and Chamberlain wUbnot adjourn wltbont peeling
npon the long mooted question: "Doea tbs ood Cab
salt tbo ocean or tbe ocean salt the cod Hah.—Chi
cago Herald.
Ethel—"Mamma, I am writing tn Nellis Lra;
■hell 1 say anything fur your' Mamma—"Witting
te that contemptible person ifutat Tea, give bar
my love. How 1 detest that girl to be sura!"—
Harper's Bis tr.
Too here remarkably soft bends, Mr. Baearck;
do yon ne* glycerin*)" "No." "I wish my hands
ever* white like yours; they ere so whit* and email
ledy might envy there. What business are yen
lot" "I am orgenutng e new labor party.' 1 —Lin
coin Jndg*.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND’S EARLY
STRUGGLES WITH POVERTY.
Postmaster-General Vilas Remembers Rla
Father When a Postmaster-General
Stephenson's Childhood—Uvea
of Prominent Men.
Special Correspondence Mscon Telegraph.
Washington, D. 0-, November
Farmers study the conditions surrounding
a successful plant in its infancy, bnt tbe
boyhood of men who make theit way to
tbe front attracts comparatively little atten
tion. Yet is it not well worth study, con
sidering the conoeded fast that boys are
worth more than beans in most BDy mar
ket?
Take President Olevelsnd, for instance.
A good deal bss been written about him,
bnt concerning the details of his boyhood
not mneh is known.
HU grandfather was an Irishman born,
from Connty Glare, and bis mother, Anno
Neal, barely ctciprd it by being born in
B JUmore just after her paronta arrived on
shore.
Pby“(Von “if.- 11 '® cU **. »n om
anything about that. Then I ^ . not 1
tnerciel College and took, if** loCt i
ness and bookkeeping* and ° f b »l
Htn.bed law, was admitst
made my first Argument beforeths ’
-urt j net before I w-i-,20. Myfolk.uP .w
it n great font, bnt l know n«!5\? 0 *$|
25.— judge and the lawyers who hosrd th,t ’1
ubly didn’t, i .> ustaa^T'l
that the owe bad gono against m* ” to l
Genial'' 1111 " ™ 8 I btl
CLNVeLAND AS GB0CEB S BUT.
On the paternal aide congenital influ
ences were very strong, and tight of Presi
dent Clev land's family, grandfather and
nneles. have a plaeeof dMinotion in Ap
pleton’s “Oyoloprodia of Biography.” His
great-grandfather died while a gnestof B*n-
Wh st makes yon think onr naw boarder to a
rrtrd man)" asked a boarding Runs* mistress of
on* ot her asrvanto. "Because," replied the |lrl,
'I noticed that when ho oune home early the other
morulas ha removed his shoes before going ap
s:el».''—Indga.
Aa an Item ot Interest U might ba stated e pile of
strength thet wonld reach ha f way to tha mooa to
wasted la these parte every year by people holding
» hymn hook In church who don't know a B flat
from tt* bowl of o John .Thomas cat.—Jasper
Tea.) Hesperian.
II takes nearly to.oeueo firelgn aggs n month to
keep the EnglUh In cekse end puddings, and tha
Uartfotd Poat sejei "It's all ore elth a country
that cannot ley IU own rggs." An long a* Eoi
paraUU In having her oaks and sating ll to), aha
wilt have to submit to a foreign yolk.—Spring field
Union.
Tho Fat of the Load.
OtMDTille IndlcfkUr.
A neighbor says that Mr. Tom Wright, a
fow mile* Irom town, has aUngbtared thir
teen hog! avenging over thn a hundred
pounis, and thatte has been grinding aan-
aage meat three days. Saoh men eoald
stand an Egyptian famine.
Latest Retlaaisa.
Carte rsvtue uourant,
Tbo rioventb Congressional district bss
brand naw representative in the shape of a
bouncing baby girl that scales the beam to
11 pounds—tleoUon last Friday. To onr
clever Congressman and lady wo exttnd
hearty congratulations.
Caring fo* tha Poor,
P)»v*|y BfOftktX.
Captain W. H. Stuckey has loaned the
riter bis corn-shtller and sold him a bushel
of meal on tick, SLd we tbl ik we beard him
tell one of the boys to carry us a load cf
corn home. Captain, please have it ground
first.
Dow Urlfila U Affected.
A Griffin man was asked yesterday it At
lanta's going wet wonld interfere with tbe
whiskey trade there. Hs replied that Ur.
Thompson would return to A laLta, but
Stewart and Werner would r-main, tbo jug
trade from the dry eountiro around Orttta
beiog very extensive,
Light Florida Travel
Florida travel has been unmu lly light
this winter. A sleeping oer conductor
said list night that hs brought only three
passengers from Cincinnati.
Holiday lodluetjuna.
The stores have bpgun to displav Christ
mas goods, and already thu dice-box has
commenced to cbncklo.
SSMWsSf
Rrcat-grnnr!lather died while a gnestof lien
jsmin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1757
and tbe great philogfpher apoke of him na
“humane in hia life, e*sv and affable in his
eonvenatioD, open and sic cere in bis
friendship, and above every speoies of
meanness and dissimulation.” The Presi-
der.t'a grandfather introduced a bill intotbe
Legislature of Connection! for tha abolition
of s1av<ry.
Having been asked to wbat ha attributed
Ms eerctnl and precise business habits tbe
President replied: “To tbe fact that I was
often in need of money when I was a boy
I learned frequent from want of it the exaet
valon cf a York shilling, and I learned that
shil'i"gs conid not tra honestly earned ex
cept by xtriot economy and great attention
to ths details ot business.”
When ho was rising at 3 o’clock in tho
morning and walking seven miles and back
to earn a York shilling on the Erie Canal,or,
latrr, when he served as chore boy in a
oountfy gfaswy at 960 a jert, or, later yet,
" ii- n a in,m i tn, he tramped through
Utica and 8mouse without is dollar in hia
pcoktt, and conid not find anybody to hire
jim to do a job of work of aoy sort at any
wages, or, still later, when bo raniacked
Buffalo In vain for days for the ohanoe to
serve eomebody as office boy, ho was re
duced to just those extremit.es which make
Anarehlata of Ibe oowards an 1 cranks who
inveigh against law and destiny.
Mr. Cleveland's neat, symmetrical and
rather dainty bandwriting was acquired
while ho wae keeping books lor the Blind
Asylnm in Naw York Just as hs was sixteen.
Grc-vrr is understood to have been a little
backward in the “deestriot school” ot Fay
etteville, N. Y., always preferring fishing to
frao iona. When ho waa Governor anjold man
appeared at tba capital, and introducing
himself as tbs Governor's old schoolmaster,
raid: “I remember I give yon the blreh
three timet for going tubing in Cbenago
oreek, end I have ceiled to apologise.
“Don't ynn do it!'' said the Governor;
“Jou't yon do It! I am very much indebted
to tbs Ifotioga I have received!'
I called yesterday on Postmaster-General
Vitas and aeked him if he wonld tell me
abont hia youth and eduoation.
"Way, certainly," he said; “bnt yon oan
at it in abont fonr lines. My youth was,
•ppily, nm ventful While my father was
not ticb, be waa not very poor, and I never
bad to fight for a living, like aomo boya, I
wai a stringer silks to the Up ot luxury and
tha lap of ps-nury.**
“Yes; and he to a great extant a:. .
my reading—and other things tooth's 65 '™
uot inclined to give me pocket w
spenilur the thine* I tauta! bu?lraZ
say to me, -Not. whenever you"*^.*2
thing, come to mould tell me what it
and we will talk it ot.r, and if 1, D ‘‘
and need* d. you Bhali havo it.' Tw
commoded me In varionaway, when I
in hf T' fc “n d oae . dny 1 and
B *°° p *«—yOn the re"—
ment of boys, and marked ®Jte o=..
whero ho says that they ahonld be'-mut
with spending money, ao as to ketnT_
from dissimulation and uncandidldij 21a
lather road it over, and then turned to
and said: ‘William! A man who wre .
og bribes while he ocn
the highest j udioial position « a y.
cannot teaon mo anything about the «,
agemeut of my flnance»r I p t01 ^
withdrew the book, and father panis?
own method.” r—am
Tha Postmaster-General's mother is
in excellent health at 07, and visited
eapital last winter m his gnesL It she
now she would find him olossted at ta
bard at work on his annual;report.
lira. Vilas is, the moat oomalyand
ot tho most vlvadous and interest
women In the oebiuet circle. I UT
yesterday and noticed that aha bad
quite recovered from her tremendotu
tigus of the Presidential J»unL Fin-:
had to prepare to reo.ive the Pwidia
party a: Madison; then she enoonnit
two terrible sbooka duriDg the ioora
At Kansas Oily sho saw half a doten re
ran overby a street oar, and two din k
at Memphis, Judge Ellet fell dead ia fa
of tbe President while be was hti n
and sitting by her side. 8he is deUeato
farm and feature, but she poasesieisui
and elastic tomporment, end tr.il fcgia
Wednesday receptions and bold her pi
society when Congress meets.
I IT, )T
V1L1S TEND* POST OITICN.
‘Ynur’oa Yankee, I believe."
“Yes, by birth. My father, now some
months deni, moved from Chelsea, Vt
"ten I wea 10 and took bis family to ths
bnutitnl knoll where stands Madison, Wis.
Bnt bstore that, curiously enough, be was
postmaster in tho little town of MorrisvUlc,
and I remember how fow ths duties of the
f uic« were, uis mat salary for tbe last
*•»•» months was $1 41, a little less than 2
cents a day.”
. a—i 6 °PP°»« Jon went to
luhool. General?"
"Not at ones. Tho first thing I did was
tog.into*printing ciffloo „ MeTtl.’ My
fa hjr brliiv -d tn making boj s work, and
intha’rffljol awept ou\ washed rolltrs,
mads Ana a..d did chorea, and there I
letrnrd t - art typ*.. I remember that tho
Aral stickful I act up wai about tha wood rs
of the telegraph a« expressed by ao old l*dy
who got *n answer with fresh tak on ft
from a long disisnoo and declared that fit
dogol'kopiziu.' After mat I went to
•cbo 1 a 0 -n plo < f years and rate rod the
\y| -
A Party ot Harvard otndenU
YU I tad Capa Cod lul naoir to itnly tbe natural
bUtory of tha c. a«t Tt«*r amailurf «r«nea« $,>, . -
hav« ba#n ds»crtb*4 by cnaof lhatr i.nuter far I ^ thoj da, thijjgL,” I ftftid, And I
J*•»»"*ty Of wiec-meip when I was IS, In
the n.phomore summer I ttetme seriously
111 of f«T»r end wu taken ont far a year,
which f pr -fi'ably spent in a bank. In
that bank I learn-d i-o-inMi methods and
considerable abont becking—a goo-1 deal
that he* always beoou elul to mo. Well,
that s about ell—it U too much, auywoy,
Nob dy w O'* to r. a-1 anch trifl “
Lincoln o-as ns mao.
Tbs boyhood of General Stephens
assistant postmaster-general, ins act
lag. Hie parents bad a few years
boon cangbt in that great tid* ot tmlt
from tho Otd North 8tals ttf Kantsoky, i
there the subject of this sketch wu i
half a century ago. Ilisfstharwuapli:
ot modcrato means, and ths child sai^
to the heritage of hard work and IUU* 1
that greets a farmer'! son. Tho aaksd
Christian connty wero fair, and Flit
Ntc-phcneon had more books thantiiafi
bora, so tho yonth's ambition to "to
somi-ibing” was easily gratified. Vbn
wa> 15 these advantages were greatly n
plied by a removal ot ths family to
yonng and growing city ot Bloomiott
Ills There be 1 ‘wont to tho academy,’
there he early entered on tbe stadyef
law. Hit ambition wai stimnUudhy
fr qnent sessions of the Circnit Coart'
its toramot learning and slcqwnee. P
Daria was judge and Abrahem LltnoU
one of tbs popular attorneys.
Gao. Stephenson docs not look bis y
for though gray as to hair sod shits i
beard, bo is tho pioturs of halo health
his step is elaatto and vigorous. A f
deal of interest is felt In him jest nos.
cause tha transfer of Usn. Vilas ba'*
attractive vacancy, and Illinois bu ()
have a Governor next fall.
In this connection it may bo well to:
tion the boyhood of anotbsr mat
known to-day, the Hon. Roberta. Lire
The gst-tnl features of his life et Oh
are familiar boosnao tbs oooatryroj
with interest everything that relat* V
honored father. When Abraham 1*
waa c riled to Washington, Robert *j*
the poriori of boyhood. His early ll -*
quiet and happy enough. He |to» h
quiet end bsppy enough, us
honest, manly boy. It ia Ihs pMf*
this present brief sketch to cell *h*
only to his prineipal amu*ooank>
was angling. Tho lovsof this sf*’ 1
clang to him all his life, and b6U
honored and auooesaful mrmher «
Pel** Fishing Club, wall know* *•«
sembly nf famous men. Tbs sit» jr
deavored to show Mr. Liseei 11 *?,*,—
tarts tie at thuds. W. A. Cson^
It la Slarcbleff oa.
Early County News „ _ ...
It is announced that Mr. Osrjljj*
sooept the invitation to visit wjjjjj
make a speech on the tariff qoa*“.
Carlisle represents the troe DjmejjJ"
tlment on this question, end
gret that ha oanoot And time to
Georgia to make • »?*• j
language of tho TaLxaaara,** * r, Ct]
in the assurance that whsMtoN^
e:me* or not, th* tariff "
will keep on **nitrchiDg lb routs°
Mac in Shoppie*. Ml#sB-M-E*V» > ; 1
ABC Hi -lUUyyiasB. —y
Bqnara, Mecon. e >» riitalsf.
Tho Happy Old ooath. J
Greenville Indicator. .ho-tiSiU
Hog killing, ond oorn aba^ w
things of tho past How ba
fallen! There was a U»» , e 5i
bread, backbones, JS til
UogB sbonnded in the I!*n' J r „ ,
winter ronod. Then the b«i''fy,, j.,
at night made tbe welkia n s,
suppers and hard denn-j^ h i c rl
happier than any satij
the Sid South, howh.pprgi“ u ,
Lottery Tickets Forol.h » y.
PoaTLaan. Me. jssgffSfei
1 putlwh tusar-1 askM for more about his training.
I “I went back to tho univentiy
it. have been ei -usivslr dsh A
I*r»ou. have hat «l«d »ltt
man named Col* eedtosketreg 1 ^
lu soms*b»t?)crcIrcooi<u.n- , .»
th.lr luck, eode.ta pelt fl » f
ofewh-.le ticket at ‘., o! wt-JlsJ*
round, by readloj the scj.„ « »»* •
eksi .k..im l.a-t drmwn I- t!
ncivereuy I ih« pnaur.->’»® Bu0,