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THE WEEKLY TELEGRRPH; TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1888.—TWELVE PAGES.
THE TELEGRAPH.
Southern Made Ir
Umlor Which Flag?
Some of our protectionist exchanges ! There are evidences that Northern iron come them into the field again. Madison
ruBLtsHCD every dxy iH tue year and weekly ' have seen tit to quote Alexander Hamilton « men are liecoming seriously alarmed at J ani i the surrounding country ought to give
by the • j and Appleton’s Cyclopedia for the osfensi* the progress made by the iron industry in j tlft Madisonian strong support.
lies in the State, and w? are glad to wol- RALDHEADED SOLONS
How the Statesmen Look
fdegrsph nnd Messenger Publishing Co., ble purpose of establishing the constitu-. the South. It has been the fashion among | Mr. Brobston, the former editor of the Froill tllC GflllcricS.
97 Mulberry street, Mncon, Ca. j ttonality of prohibitive duties; but they • them, while admitting that pig iron coild j [Madisonian, has accepted a position on
city singularly failed to print the brief clause f be made cheaper in Alabama and Ten- the
r5 ®** of the constitution upon the construction nessee than in Pennsylvania, to deny that H a l
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or^^yAr? r m0ntlM, ^ f ° r " l * m ° UllW ^ of which the entire subject turns. The j the difference in cost was large enough to
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THE TELEGRAPH,
Macon. Ua.
The Blair educational bill will never
reach the President this year.
Daniel Manning left his family $300,-
000. But the test heritage he left them
was hi* good name.
Astimnv Jackson is becoming a bigger
man every year. * One reason of this is the
fact that Jackson was in favor of an lion-
ea tariff.
Berlin bankers are said to be about to
lend Mexico $52,000,000. After the next
revolution they will cuiiihieiicc* negotiations
for a compromise settlement.
John Cockerill. of the New York
World, says that Murat Halstead once pub-
liahcd a little newspaper in New York
“which was so good that it perished in its
sihildhood.”
The Philadelphia Record says: “The
Macon Telegraph starts out for the new
year busiuess in a new dress. It is a strong
and fearless journal, and is sure to make
its way in the world.”
Dr. Talmaok went to the theatre a
few nights ago to sec Booth and Barrett.
As both these gentlemen have been to hear
the doctor preach, we are gratified to note
this return of courtesy. We trust tlidt I)r.
Talmage’s evening off did him no harm.
Travelers in Africa tell us that in cer
tain tribes the children kill their parents
when they become too old to work. Some
rich and fashionable families in Cincinnati
have shown themselves to be more hu
mane—they sent the old folk} to an
asylum.
Mil Foran, of Ohio, who lias been one
of Mr. Randall's thirty, has received a set
of resolutions adopted by the Koran Club
of Cleveland, in which the President's mes
sage is indorsed. Mr. Koran may not have
a Democratic club named after hint at the
next election.
, Tin: St. I.mijs Glpbc-Dcmncm print
Senator Voorhcc*' Atlanta oration of six
years ago as an answer to his speech in the
Senate, last week. Six year* of study have
made the gentleman wiser, and lie is brave
enough to try to undo any evil lie may
havo wrought, even at the sacrifice of con-
aistenoy.
medical
The Congress shall have power to lay and
collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises,
to pay the debts and provide for the com.
mon defense and general welfare of the
United States.” That is all.
If tlie phrase, “general welfare,” simply
covers the right to tax the people to meet
the needs of the government economically
administered, then any attempt to make it
include j tower to rob one man for the bene
fit of another, to put one class or section
under tribute to another class or section, is
not ouly very tyrannical, but also very un
constitutional. We have no desire to thresh
over old straw. We simply desire to put
two questions to honest men, namely, was
this phrase inserted in the constitution for
the purpose of enabling the government to
carry itself on ? or was it inserted for the
purpose of promoting this or that branch
of industry? Every man can and should
determine for himself what the phrase
means.
Very soon after the adoption of the con
stitution Alexander Hamilton began the
advocacy of a construction of the constitu
tion that really had no limit. For if it
could be stretched so as t> cover protective
and even prohibitive duties, there was
scarcely any expenditure or legislation it
would nm uuiiiuri/.e. Ii aUtuurity OOuiu
lie found iti it to make a farmer in Geor
gia pay large and unreasonable profits to
a mill owner in Massachusetts, it was not
strange that later on it was held there was
strength enough in it to build a canal to
carry off the sewage of Chicago; strength
enough to educate one man’s children nt
another man’s expense; and to carry on a
fair for colored people. One encroachment
led to another, until, instead of a govern
ment with limited powers, we had n strong
centralized government ready to carry out
any extravagance or oppression that the
whims of the hour might demand.
Our protectionist friends also fail when
they.dabble in history tostatethat the Fed
eralists, led jby Hamilton, were promptly
crushed by tlie Democratic party under
the leadership of one Thomas Jefferson.
The good old Whig party, full of patriotic
intentions, but accepting tlie same free
and fatal construction of tlie constitution,
succeeded the Federalists. Years ago it
went to tho happy hunting ground. And
now wc havo the Republican party. These
latter day Federalists are ultra editions of
Alexander Hamilton. They hold that
everything not elsewhere authorized in the
constitution is embraced in the word “wel
fare" of tlie taxation clause, and during a
ntiirv thev have worked it ft
iron in Northern markets ufter tlie cos: of
trans(iortatlon was paid. But they are
learning that they were mistaken. The
Iron Age, one of the best trade authorities,
which has always questioned tho correct
ness of tlie low estimates of the
cost of Southern iron, now admits that. it
can be produced at from $10.50 to $11.50
per ton at a fair profit. The cost of Lehigh
Valley iron is not less than $15, and many
furnaces, it is said, cannot turn it out at
that price.
For a long" time to come Southern furn
aces must sell a large part of their product
at the North, and while this remains true
the freight charges will tend to equalize
its cost in those markets with that made at
home. These freight charges, however,
will decrease with, every new railroad
built, and the South’* advantage be
thereby increased. At the same time,
the home consumption of South
ern iron increases every year,
as the number of establishments convert
ing it from its rough form into useful
articles grows. In this home consump
tion will lie found the greatest source of
profit to iron makers.
The statement of the Iron Age that iron
can be made in Alabama at $10.50 to $11.50
is tho admission of a mail who would viil-
ingiy believe otherwise. There is reason
believe that by the most improved
methods the cost is really much less. A
practical man who lias recently put tip a
furnace in Alabama—a Northern man—
writes to the Baltimore Manufacturers’
Record in a way which shows that in his
Opinion pig iron can be produced in Ala
bama nt not much more than $8 per ton.
Whatever may lie tire exact cost, it
seems plain from all testimony that it is in
the South that iron can be made cheapest.
general recognition of this fact must
lend to a rapid development. Such dc-
clopment will lie hastened by any cause
hich lessens tlie profits of the less ad
vantageously placed furnaces of the North
and West.
quarter .
Tin: London Lancet, high
authority, is now of opinion that the
German Crown Prince is suffering only
from laryngitis, which need not
shorten his life. Even tire German physi
cians who were so anxious to ent the
Prince's throat will be thankful if this
diagnosis proves to be correct
Ten days ago the Enropcan corres|iond-
ents predicted war because there was so
much excitement Now they say tho
present dead ciflni presage* a great strug
gle. The European correspondent is an
industrious and imaginative man who
must make a living by writing fur tlie
newspapers. And lie knsws what sells
best
General Bkai'KE(iami> is said to have
written to an old soldier who sent to him
for a ticket : “My Dear Old Comrade: If
you will stick to the Louisiana lottery you
will be as poor as yon were st the close of
the cruel war, and you will not have
enough left to load a pop-gun.” The Gen
eral’s name has doubtless sold thousands of
tickets to old soldiers. He might he in a
better business. _
Tux Telegraph is delighted to see that
its sprightly contemporary, the Chattnnos
ga Times, is edging over toward the posi
tion nf the majority of its party on the
tariff question. It now announces that its
Democracy is of the same sort os Major
Bacon’s, who ha* recently repudiated any
• belief in the policy of protection. We
congratulate our Chattanooga friend on
its move in the right direction.
The American Federalist, which is a Re
publican paper, is not afraid to push tlie
doctrine* of its party to their logical con
clnsion, as the following extract from its 1
columns will show: “We do not know of
a more patriotic course that Congress
could take this session than a movement
looking towards consolidation of the coun
try under one government, strictly rcpuls-
lican in form, and the total extinction
the now useless State governments.”
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Awfully Funny.
The Atlanta Constitution says:
Tbe Macou Tammani print* bait a column
purporting to be s reply to tbe Constitution'
Siktory oi the tariff In this country. It Is a very
funny reply linked.
You ere rigbL We tried to make it
rioiu, but it is impossible not to be funny
when discussing the attitude of the Const!
tulion on the tariff. We dare say that the
liumor of their position often overcome)
quorum of tbe editors of that delightful
gazette.
■ joint purposo of establishing a prot
live tariff and a strong government, the
two naturally and almost necessarily going
together.
Tire Democratic party of Thomas Jcffcr.
son, Andrew Jackson and Grover Cleveland
utterly repudiates, aud ever lias repudiated,
the “Hamiltonian" construction of the
word “welfare.” Andrew Jackson said in
nressiigc to Congress: “There is but one
safe rule, nnd that is to confine tho general
government rigidly within the sphere of
its appropriate duties. It has no power to
raise a revenue or impose dull?*, except for
the purposes enumerated in the constitu
Uon.” Fifty years later Grover Cleveland
said in a message to Congress: “When we
consider that the theory of our institutions
guarantees to every citizen the full enjoy
nient of all the fruits of his industry and
enterprise, with only such deductions as
may be Ids share toward the careful nnd
economical maintenance of the government,
which protects him, it is plain that the
exaction of more than this is indefensible
extortion and a culpable lictrayal of Amer
ican fairness nnd justice.”
The difference is far-reaching and funda
mental. Tlie Fcderal-Kepuldican con
struction leaves the door wide open to ex
travagance, corruption and oppression; tlie
Democratic view narrows the field against
such evils wonderfully. We deeply regret
that some newspapers, with wide cireu
lation and undoubted influence, have ac
cepted the construction of Alexander
Hamilton and James G. Blaine. We say
it with genuine sorrow, and we beg our
deluded contemporaries ere it is too late to
return to tlie time-honored, strict construc
tion flag that tlie Telegraph is fighting
under, the flag that Andrew Jackson up-
held and that is now in the sturdy grasp
of (irover Cleveland.
It can safely lie asserted that of all tlie
departures that the centralists have made,
not one other equals in audacity the claim
that tlie constitution authorizes duties that
bring no money into tlie treasury—duties
that simply take money from one man'
pocket for the purpose of putting it
another man's |iockct.
Democrats nf Georgia, the issue is with
you. Do you prefer a striA or a loose
construction of the governmental powers
of taxation? Is not a revenue tariff
clearly within the constitution better than
a protective tariff, reeking with iniquities
ami inequalities, and oi more than doubt
ful constitutionality?
Mr,
sill
staff of the Brunswick Journal.
Hal Moore and Mr. Brobston
make .a strong team.
Greensboro lias a new paper, tlie Sun,
which is edited by Mr. Ed Young, one of
the most popular young journalists in
Georgia.
Since Judge Kit Warren lias taken
charge of the editorial department of the
Atlniffa Capitol tlie paper lias improved
greatly. Its editorials are timely and well
tempered.
Mr. E. T. Bvington, formerly of Mncon,
is succeeding remarkably well with the
Columbus Ledger. It has grown steadily
since its foundation, and is now one of tlie
best afternoon papers in tlie South.
In nearly every part of Georgia the
newspapers have a prosperous look. There
are more papers in the State than ever be
fore. The increase in number lias been
more than matched by tlie improvement
in quality. We do not believe that there
state in the South which can
show anything like as many good newspa
pers as Georgia. This fact is an evidence
of the intelligence of our people as well
as the enterprise of onr editors. Tlie
Telegraph greets its State contempora
ries with a Happy New Year and wishes
that every one of them may live nnd
prosper.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Sauhdmry, of Delaware, is a bald.)
bachelor, though his baldness i. - ,. ■
not gone away from the crown H - “
“ ' tall as a steenje|»i
g>gamic interrrJ
thin as a rail and a*
he ca«ts a shadow like a
Ration point.
SENATOR JOE BROWN'S BALDNESS.
Neither of the New York Senator.:
afflicted with baldness, but Isham t; 'if "I
Tlie Itnrc Polls of Coke nml lllii.lsett—
Judge Bssian’sThin Thatch and 5tr.
Hansom's Aloss-ltose-Colored
Head nnd Others’ Hair.
Frank U. Carpenter In New York World.
I'lll-ps Gallery of tiie Senate, Wash
ington, January 7.—Nearly onc-half of
tlie Senate is bald. The parchment pates
of great men shine up at tlie gallery, and
there is enough hare skin on tlie crowns of
these Senators to cover a half-dozen bass
drums. Senator Edmunds’ bald
head is so sweet and clean
ris lias one oi the funniest bald lu.Ji r 'l
the Senate. He looks like a Chinese m '"I
darin, save that there is bare skin „i 'I
there should be a queue. He lia. no
fuzz on the top of his head Ilian th^’l
on a well-picked old lien, and hi., hair l *’1
ri-tMil » bite fringe over hi. j. ..' |
scar on his crown could tell it, ,. wn , 1 le l
it might add to tlie glorv of Harris
ris has a fierce mustache of whits -if r .‘I
he waxes so stiffly *!•»♦ ■'* Sr< wl ? lc hl
out from his nose.
Ir
Several of the new Senators arebald
the head of Blodgett, of New Jersey I
top as pale as the whitest of skii-milkl
cliecfo. llie .kin is stretched u tieht. !
though lar.-d by a but ii i. I.,' . I
fully fringed at tlie neck and over the ear.' I
Davis, of Minnesota, lias a ring of baldnon
at tlie crown about two inches in dim,,,.,, I
orarl It,,!...11 TV.!.. I ' Utle L I
that I heard a bride once remark and botli Mitchell and Dolpli are'"vergin' I
to her lover, os tlie two sat together just on liaidiijss. I
jtuskin says
river-” Some 1
Tlie biggest part ot .them is their mouth.—Hotel
Gazette.
next the press gallery: “My dear, I wish
your head was like Edmunds’s.”
“Why so?” asked tlie thick-thatched
groom indignantly.
“Because, dear, it would be so nice to
kiss.”
And indeed the girl was not wrong. Ed
munds’ skin is as thin as fine tissue paper.
Senator Brown is bald from forehead to
crown, and the top of his head is as level
as that of a Flathead Indian. Draw two
lines from Brown’s temples straight back,
and bisect these by another just below the
crown, and you have bounded his hair
line. From these boundaries the long
iron-gray hair falls straight, and then
wraps itself into a roH covering his ears.
It kisses his collar and looks in shape like
that of a schoolgirl from the country,
on baldqtss.
Jones, of Nevada, lias $10,000 for ever. I
hair on the crown of his head. If c Wou jJ I
give hundreds if lie could thicken tlie f un
ut tlie top, but hair is one of thoae thins,
not bought with money, and the mil I
lionaire Jones consoles himself with a l,m I
gray heard. Senator Hoar, of Maasschu I
setts, lias very fine hair, but tlie spot at bU
crown is as hare as a billiard-ball, and it j, I
as white ns Boston beans are before hakin;
THE BLAIR BILL.
Lawyer (in court)—Little boy, do you know
tbe nature ot an oath? Little Boy—Yes, sir; It's
something my pa uses to put up stovepipes with.
—Iloston TranseripL
He—"My darling, I really believe my rheuma
tism has wholly disappeared." She—"O, I am
sorry! Now we shall never know when the
weather is going to change I"—Iloston Gazette.
will
Ir, a* is said by Mr. Sherman and the
Republican newspapers, “nine-tenths of |
| Cotton statement.
From tlie Chronicle’s cotton article of
January fi, the following facts are gath
ered relative to tlie movement of the cop
the past week.
For the week ending this evening, Jin
uary 6, tlie total receipts have reached
159,30$ bale*, against 188,824 bales last
week, 202,859 bales the previous week, md
213,902 bales three weeks since, inukuig
tlie total receipts since the 1st of Septim-
lier, 1887. 4,144,858 hales against 3.914.(42
les for tho samo period of lsso, -dialing
an increase since September I. l*A of
M),010 bales. ’
The receipts of all tlie interior towns
for this week have been 02,108 hales. Last
car tlie receipts of the same week were
0,203 bales. The old interior stocks have
decreased during the week 29,201 bales, and
are to-night 48,292 bales more than at tlie
same period last year. Tlie receipts at tbe
same towns hare been 5,070 bales more than
tlie same week last year, and since Septem
ber 1, the receipts at all tlie towns arc 193,-
465 bales more than for tlie same time in
1880.
Among the interior town* tlie receipts at
Mncon for the week have been 290 hales.
Last year the receipts for the week were
109 bales. This shows a decrease for the
week of 181 bales.
Tile total receipts from tlie plantations
since September 1,1887, arc 4,582,832 bales;
In 1880 were 4,290,034 bales; in 1885 were
4,270,355 bales.
Although the receipts at tlie outpurt* the
past week were 159,308 bales, the actual
movement from plantations was 127,229
bales, tlie balance being taken from the
stocks at the interior towns. loud year the
receipts from the plantations for the same
week were 138,931 hales, and for 1885.they
were 123,833 bales.
The imports in continental |iorts this
week have been 20,000 bales,
These figures indicate a decrease in the
cotton in sight to-night of 155,880 bales, as
compared with tlie same date of 1880, an in
crease of 33,470 as compared with the cor
responding date of 1885, anil a decrease of
44,789 os compared with 1884.
Tlie Chronicle has the following to say of
the market fluctuations for the week under
review:
The speculation in rotton for future delivery
st this market has been sluggish for the week
uniter review and price* show some decline.
The opening on Tuesday morning was com
pamtlvely steady on a strong Liverpool report
with the statistical position regarded os very
favorable to the views of the bull party; tmt the
receipts at the porta were unexpectedly tree, ex
ceeding tbe corresponding dates last year, and
caused some selling to realise on a very moder
ate demand. The depression wasquite nrasplrii
ous In the closing hours of Wednexlay'a bust-
ness and early Thursday; but yesterday there
was a smart recovery on .he indications point
ing to reduced stocks at interior towns, through
free shipments from them, and the large ex
ports to Liverpool making a marked redurtion
in stocks at the porta. To-day the market was
very unse ttled. Prices turned upon the varying
phases nf the interior movement, but In the hut
hour declined under tbe report of the targe
overland movement for December. Cotton on
•he spot has been dull and stocks Incmscd.
quotations were redured 11 is-, on Wednesday.
The market was quiet and nonilna. to day, mid-
dilng uplands closing at lo^jr.
Man should resemble .. - o—- - ® ,.
in one respect nt least.. Brown’s bald spot is angular. Its wide
expanse lias just thirteen fine iiairs
stretched across it, and these seem to bind
tlie two sides of his big head together and
hold on to tiie fringe at tlie sides. When
Brown scratches his head he uses his
nails as did Julius Cicsar, and he
tickles these thirteen hairs as though
they were thin strands of sand and
might break at the touching, die prizes
them more than tiie long brush of coarse
white which makes up his beard. He
shaves off his moustache and chin, and
this beard is fastened to his lower jaw like
that of a goat. It contains enougli hair to
stuff a big sofa pillow, and when Mr.
Brown grows excited his only sign of emo
tion appears in his grasping this beard.
Senator .Hawley lias now a bald spot as
big as the bottom of a two-qnart tin bucket,
and tills bald spot rests at his crown. His
hair over his forehead is fast growing
fuzzy, and it is as thin and fine as the up-
ier lip of a seventccn-vear-old dude. His
lead is large nmi his toreiiead is liainy,and
around the bald spot and over bis ears
tlieie shines out puffy,curly hair, which
looks like strands of oxidized silver, and
which is as tine as spun silk.
As I write, Coke, of Texas, has come to
tlie chair of the President of the Senate,
and his great bald-headed dome shines lie-
low me. I rcacli out my pen and tlie ink
quivers at its [mint, and a moment later a
drop would blot that wide sheet of white
ness. Tlie event would set tlie Senate in
'•The coming newspaper," we arc told,
not print Bny advertisements.” We were under
the impression that it Is the going newspaper
hat does not print any advertisements, and
that is tho reason why it Is going.—Boston
Transcript.
Military officer—'"Come, hoys, fall in!” Stran
ger—^"Captain, your line Isn't dressed." Officer
"In a moment it will be.” Stranger—"Excuse
me. but I have a warrant for your arrest. My
name is Anthony Comstock."—Cleveland Sun
and Voice.
A Wonder to Bobby: Old Auntie (who has
been reading to Bobby from the Good Book
Sunday alternoon)—“What yer thlnkln'
Bobby?” "Bobby—"I warn wondering if Solo
mon had seven hundred wires why he went and
slept with his lathers."
Mr. lllneblood, of Boston—And so you lire
realtygoing to Eurnpo, Miss Lakefront? Mi
Lakeiront, ot Chicago—Yes, we sail next week.
"I envy you. You will visit Rome, ot eonrsc?”
"Oh. my. yes. Buffalo Bill, you know, expect*
to show tlitre at the Coliseum."—'Texas Sittings.
Ths simple announcement that Wesley P-ay’s
wife presented him with tour children on
Christmas day ought to jm-tily a prediction that
k-ctad failor ot Benton. But when
tided that ills opponent ia a youngster of
twenty who la already tho lather of five chil
dren. the pendulum of doubt takes a long
swing lo theoppoaltedlrection.—LonisvllleCou-
tier-journal.
PERSONAL.
Henry D. Morse, oi Boston, noted as a dia
mond cutter and expert, is dead, lie cut the
drat diamond ever cut In this country, and
founded the art here.
Madame Bottler, a beautiful mulatto wniaan
tbe wife ot a French protestor, has passed her
examinations and been received sa a doctor of
the lVrla Faculty.
Eltbu Htevena, of Hintthtlcld, Me., la at the
head ot a family which Is probably the largest
In the country. In fills family there are live
generations which comprise 519 persons.
Speaker Carlisle lias two tons, William and
Logan. William lain yean of age and Is mar
ried. Logan ia younger and still a bachelor,
They are both In business at Wichita, Kan.
George W. Unsure, known as the "cow-boy
evangelist," la said by an Arkansas newspaper
to be worth thM.OUO, which yields him an in
come o( 1150 a day. His fortune was made In
cattle and by lucky Inrestlmcnta in real estate,
He Is Just 40 years old. and In hit youth was
reputed to he one ot the moat lawless of the des
peradoes of the plains.
Senator Ingalls, ot Kunsas, receives offers dal
ly from newspaper syndicate* asking lor art!
cles, and tbe prices, It Is said, often run as high
as 175 per column. Senator Sherman writes for
the North American Review, and ho gets big
money for every stroke of his pen. Congress
man Tom Rood boa just published an article on
Alaska, and Senator Edmunds writes a fair
magazine article.
Two Southern Newspapers Fire n Pesetas I
Shot nt it.
From the Atlansi Capitol.
The advocacy of the Blair bill prevents*
homely but striking simile of the old , '
tom of tolling tiie pig with corn when
wish to catch him and take off liis ear*
After tlie government grabs our school)
such a nausea of coeducation will coins I
lrom tlie debates in Congress as to sicken
tlie stomachs of tlie South and render the
appropriation an apple of discord— aheap
ol golden bracelets over a suffocated
Tarpela.
From the Greenville (S. C.) News.
Outside of tlie tariff question, the tv* !
leading measures to come before Congrew
the present session are tlie Blair eduea-
tional bill and the postal telegraph. They
arc both vastly important questions, he-
cause they involve rndical changes in the
relations of the general government to the
States and to the people.
The Blair bilt should be killed once and
forever, and as for tlie postal telegraph, we
can very well afford to postpone that
luxury for awhile. It would be oneeftect-
ive method of reducing tlie surplus, it i<
true, but it would also vastly increase the
surplus of officeholders—in itself a formi
dable objection.
uproar, and 1 draw back n)y pen to mv
paper. Coke’s head would till a half-
bushel basket. It is as white as the die
Silicon shopping.
Miss E. M. Key, 125 Academy square, Macon.
Bend lor clrcnlur.
AUGUSTA ADVICES..
Delegation nf I'lantcra—Improvement of
the Snvnnnnli- Fire.
Special Teles lam to Macon T- Ic-sTapo.
Augusta, Ua., January 10.—A delegation
from the State Orange arrived in the city to
night for the purpose of investigating the
mode employed by the Georgia Chemical
Works in manufacturing guano. They will
visit the works ami will he shown tlie large
cotton manufactories of Augusta.
Tbe people of Augusta arc highly gratified
to see that Congressman Barnes is'endeavor-
ing to get a $250,1)00 appropriation for the
Savannah river. A large delegation will lie
sent on to assist him the latter part of the
month.
A fire at 11 o’clock to-night destroyed tlie
house of Wm. Cummlng, occupied by J
Murphy, near the track. Tlie fuse Is oboui
$500, partially insured.
Time nttesta the virtues ol 1’mills’ Extract for
all kinda of pains, ulcerations and Inltumimc
thin. It it unsafe to use spurious Imitations.
Miners Attacked l*y Apaches.
Tombstone, A. T., Jrnuary 10.—Supt.
Itusscll, of tbe Nan I’ablo mines in Sonora,
arrived here too lay and says a party of pros-
of a baby and it shines like the parchment
of a boy's new drum. It is full at tire
crown and the forehead fniles into it, with
out a wisp to mark the line of ita I.eight.
Coke is tall, hut with him the saying docs
not hold good tlint “the cockloft is often
emptv wiicn tlie building is several stories
high?’ Coke’s brows are heavy and liis
face wears a perpetual frown. Tlie skin of
liis scalp is tlie thermometer of his brain,
and wiicn lie grows angry it rises to red
ness, and if ho is enraged it becomes
nlniuat imrple. Htlll Coke talks well, and
lie is a big-headed man witli lots of brains.
His colleague, Jud^e Reagan, baa brown
hair, which m fast thinning, and there is a
hahl'Mcxicnn dollar at hiscrown. Through
the centre of thia is a wisp of black thatch
aa big as a camclVbair [mint brush, nnd
from here to the forehead tlie hair is so
thin that the dark roay ficaii shim's through.
He shaves liis face daily and wears his hair
half an inch long.
Senator Matt Ransom, of Norty Carolina,
lias a head which is bald at the top. It ia
n brunette bald head, and ita color rivals
that of tlie moss rose in its beauty. A
black fringe of hair hounds tlie bare spots,
and tills is combed to the front of Ransom’s
rosy pink cars. Tlie forehead is not overly
high, hut tile humps of tbe haliliicsa arc
brainy, and Ransom trims liis black heard
sotlint it bristles with stiffness and strength.
Senator Gray, of Delaware, is another
black-haired Adonis, hut old Time lias
licked tlie crown of Ills head with Ida pois-
onous tongue. HU baldnesn U not yet as
big us tlie paint of my hand, hut tlie pois
on is spreading, and a hair “restorer” is
wanted. Just in front of Gray sits anoth
er of the handsomest heads in the Senate.
I whisper it low, hut tlie blue-blooded
Butler, of South Carolina, begins to verge
upon baldness, and much thought has
crowded his forehead up near his crown.
The crown itself has a hare spot as big as
n dollar, and there are two bald V’s just
over liis temples. His silky wldto hair is
bushy over ills ears, and there is a fine
will
rill’s bald
and hi* whitish-gray hair looks as though
it were pasted hack witli bandoline at the
roots. As I write, he U standing with ids
thumb) in his armpits, and his head is
thrown back So that a line drawn at an
angle of forty-five degrees from the tip of
his nose would just strikc > hu crown. He
isikcs Ids hair luck of his cars and his
long, tliin I ward is straggling.
The handsome Gorman lias a head witli
a dash of white at tlie crown. The bald
ness is tlierr, ami it shows to the galleries,
and his dark hair begins to look as though
it were sprinkled with powder. Stewart,
of Nevada, has hair as white as the silver
of Ids own precious mountains, and it has
dwindled to fuzx at tlie top. l’liiletus
Sawver has a bristling white licanl and Ids
big head sits close to his fat, healthy
shoulder*. His forehead and crown are
unbounded, nnd side-whiskers of silver
shine out over Ids cars. He has a wisp
also at tlie hack of Ids neck and he looks
much like n blacksmith with brains. Such
a face might have been that of an Elihu
"Tho Cotton-TIe Tariff."
From the 8t. I-mil) Republican.
Editor Republican: 1 have just been
reading your excellent “Cotton-tie Tariff"
illustration of tbe working of the protec
tion idea. It occurs to mo that, if Mr.
Sherman is so anxious that |ieople shoulil
“take a broad and rational contemplation
of tlie subject,” lie should recommend to
the people who want to “diversify the in
dustries” of tiie country that they shoulil
undertake a little of tfic self-sacrifice in
volved. If the l’ittshurg firm, for
stance, who want to “diversify” by intro
ducing tlie cotton-tic industry, would just
go ahead and do so, asking no special prot
it as their reward, they would show their
patriotism to an admiring world. It mid
certainly la' quite ns fair to expect them to
do this ns to n*k tlie cotton planters o! the
South to liear tlie exclusive burden of “di-
versifving.” Don’t vou think so?
G. M.
ThormiRlity Deluneratle.
i the Hamilton Journal.
The Macon Telegraph appeared list
Sunday in nn entirely new dress, selected
with good taste. It is now very ably edited,
being thoroughly in accord with the ad
ministration of President Cleveland, and
haying recently reduced it* subscription
price nnd dnnqcd n new dress, deserre* s
liberal support. It is n newspaper that is
every way a credit to the State.
JunUIIuIiIu Zzoral Frida*
From tbe Middle (iconrta Prof re** 1 .
The Macon Tixkou.U'U, in conyinf an
item from our column*, locate* the l*n>-
gre«$i in Savannah. We feel complimented
to be taken for a city paper, but had rather
lie permitted to remnin the leading coun
try weekly of Middle Georgia than to be
tranhplantcd to any other locality, for mid
dle Georgia, vi**, Washington county,»
the incomparafdc *cction of the South.
Henry ft. Turner, ot Cieurftn.
From the Auguata (huette.
Henry (1. Turner will tie one of the
leading Democratic spirit* on tlie commit
tee of wav* and mean*. He i* one of the
able*t ami purest member* of tbe Jlonae,
and he lack* nothing whatever of being an
out-and-out tariff reformer. He i* what
the politico-hermaphrodite call* a “free
trader.”
Some Must Weep While Some Must Smll**-
From tho (irltHn New*.
Tlie Con*titutidn mourn* and make* the
majority of it* reader* very happy be
cause, it *ay*, there i* not a Itanclall n
on the way* and mean* committee. Thw
mean* that the way* of the committee are
all toward honeat revenue reform.
Rhat with Hoad* rpitrtod..
JitRMl.vniiAM, January 10.—New* wo* re
ceived here yesterday of the shooting o*
Paymaster It’ullin, at a railway camp on tn«
Birmingham Mineral railroad, lie became
involved in a rew with a negro, and another
negro compelled him. at the mouth of a re
volver, to hold up hi* hands, while hi*as«ml*
ant shot him. Hu Hi n is still alive, but will
almost certainly die. The negro who did the
shooting escaped, but his partner* are ia jail
here.
Faith
L turns, rotie«i in its **ure air.”
Harritt, and Sawrcr** head i* brainy to
pecting miner* were attacked nine mile*, bunting.
■oath of \aaca*car, Christrua*, bv Apache*.. Senator Payne’* baldne** *how* that
MtM wumnrtTnl I SUB^ud oil i* not a restorative, ami his “There to Meat, living here, loving awl <«vW.
killed’ and Big Jak" llffor>| w« mortally . - . ... I ’ ... Aa.lqucato! truth, au.l t.-rene frten-i.hf j— .lews.
iv. ) r> hurt. The other men fought the Iiiduuu off [ l!,l r °’ n 1 a , “ l< but star not, Bojm! Earth has one ilcirofef—
l»r. J. L r ,i T],,. Indians are thourht to ouabea orar bis ears. Like Euclid avenue, Ills nain.- fs ih-nib: Flee lsai be find
Newspaper Changes.
the manufactured commoditiea used by I We notice with pleasure that i^r. j. ^ .
• / i • ... 1 „ *>. .» .. L. . ud eacaped. The Indian* are thought toi ... , , . . ; - —i
American farmer* are a* cheap in thi* C. Blackburn and hi* ion, Mr. B. M. Black-. !>e the same who eacaped from Gen. Miles at * ° ne *»dc of hi* head i* better fumi>hcd
country a* th$»y »r* in KnwUnd^ ■«*! \n ' Kwn« ( $!**«» f^rtr.cr work,' time of Gcronimo’s surrender, and have than the other, and there neem* to be liet-
MIh* Campbell Wins Her Suit.
New York, January 10.—Tlie jury in the
j»e of Mis* Campbell against the coffee
merchant Arbuckle, for breach of promise ot
** * * the nlaintii
marriage, returned a verdict for the plaiati
in the nm of $411,OOC
A Morning Thought.
What If some morning, when the *tar» were
AtnlThiTSawn whitened, ami tbe cast mtm etag.
Etrange peace anil toat felt on me from .w
prrtteuce
Of a benignant Fpirit standing neir;
And I should tell him, a* he stood beside me,
“This is our Karth—rum t friendly Earth, a**’ 1
fair, . . ,
DaUV it* sea and shore through sun and •na»*' ,w
hfullt *-
some instance* cheaper,” there i* no longer' and once more have charge of tbe Modi- [ ,ince l,een .Southern Sonora,
any need of protecting them by a high *on»an. The paptr wa* catabluhcd by
tariff. them. They made it one of the beat week-
ri&co hour*—9*. m. totp.'m.
ter hair on the left side than on the right.
Jone*, of Arkan*a*, hsu a iuzzy, iron-gray
do ..c, and I nrophcnv that erentaolfr he
will be as bald as Senator Kdraund*. * Kli
here!”
And what if then,
brightened.
And freshened in i»..*
Sboald trravely smile
lake my hand
• the gentle an«« •
Dvntb.'