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THE WEEKLY TELEGRRPH; TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1888.—TWELVE PAGES.
THE TELEGRAPH.
John Shermnn no n Candidate.
Now that Mr. Blaine has “withdrawn,
mm itckv Oil- is the yzxr xxt weeelt ! the strongest candidate for the Republican
Valuable Information
I converted by the President's message. The fiat thousands of blossoms. His stock of forgotten that the name of God :
by the
Telegraph and Messenger PutdUhing Co.,
97 Mulberry Street, Macon, tia.
nomination for President is Senator BherJ H
of Ohio. Ilis chances are good.' an ev * l Ient determination to lay the
While it is true that most of his prouii> | bottom facts before the country.
We may look for something tangible—
The Dally U delivered by carriers in the city n ence in this connection springs from the
e mailed pontage free to subscribers lor 75c. a pergistencv w j t h wllicll ] le hll9 . ius | le d him- something of real value, as the result of
Barth,* for three mouth., fit for .1* months. ^ ^ , mving none of the qu#UUet of j this inquiry.
17 * yea . . . ... I i i i »• i. i 1 Tlii« orianntin rnnl comnanv. which
carefully deposited in the grave never to be
resurrected. I am a free trader iu theory, but I
would not have free trade If I could, because it
would disturb vested interests. Let the Repub
licans read the handwriting on the wall.
Weekly is mailed to subscribers, postage attraction and leadership which have al-
tree, at $1 a year aud 50 cents for six mouths.
This gigantic coal company, which
which enjoys the benefit of a protective
most made Mr. Blaine great, he has never-
Truutc.1t advertisements u til be taken for the the , egg i mpresse a his party that he is a I tariff, laid nominally for the sake of
telly »t It per square ot 10 lines or less, for the 1 . . m _„ 0 * order While it might American labor, has for eighteen years
Irtt Insertion, aud 50 ceuts for each subsequent I statesman oi a mgu oruer. uimeitmigni > , , ‘ i
insertion, and for the Weeely at |1 for each In-1 not follow him with enthusiasm, there been importing cheaper labor to do its
lertlon would certainly be no factious opposition, work.
De»th, funeral, marriage and birth notices $1. #nd he would p r „bably poll no small pro- pauper laborers of Europe were brought i
J,J«ted communications will not be r*- | ^ o{ (he indep< . ndent vote of th J to compete with the American miners.
Correspondence containing important news I Eastern cities which decided the last elec- rom 1870 to 1880 wages were reduced 46
and discussions ot living topics is solicited, but I YVith these independents tiie marked 1 jrcr cent. The company continued to
must be brief and written upon but one side ot 8UCCegg of hu ^ministration of the treas- water its stock and to reduce the pay of its
the paper to have attention. I ,i„ r : n „ Haves’ term would have areal I employes, in order to make dividends on
Bemlttauces must be made by express, postal I urs during Mayes term would nate great | r - ~ . , , L _ t ._ u
etl'ect.
llently
Mr. Reed lias a complete system
then .Mr. Small went into the hi,t„4
! prohibition. Four thousand yea*
of trri- 1 said, a Chinese emperor, seeing the evil, of
note, money order or registered letter.
Alt communications should be addressed, and I
its bogus capital. Reading stock, which
The Tpi.tx.RAPll believes, however, that w »s worth 51 in 1870, has been pushed
i — water and all to 08j. The average wages
aUawney orders, checks, etc., be made payable to j ^ ghermlln is much overrated by his "P »»
Manager. I party and the country. He is in I °Lhe miners was in 18,0 $133. All the
large
the
statesman. I minors now ask is $344, nearly $100 less
The St Louis Globe-Democrat nomi-1 On the contrary, his record I ‘ han the price of a year’s wages eighteen
nalc* Mr. Odon Guitar, of Missouri, for shows that he has no independent thought | y*"^ a 8°- During those eighteen years
Vice-President. We would like to thump or courage, hut during his whole career
they have put millions into the pockets of
that sweet Guitar.
lias bent with hand to car to catch the coal barons and have flpjpHed hy
faintest indication of a change in the pub-1 more than twelve the value of their wa-
Brac* the winter season began, Florida ^ yo | Bnd oll lv anxious to shout with **«d stock. There is no duty on anthra-
la »id to have received $6,000,000 from the , crowd ; 1 "
Northern tourists. This is lietter than 1
cite coal, because there is scarcely any
It is not necessary to review his relations | mined outside of Peht^sylvania, bnt bitu
I with the bloodv shirt campaigns of his I minons coal pays a duty of 76 cents a ton.
party; his active part in the stealing of the 1 T1,e ""‘hraoite “trni”shovea nn its nricc
The anthracite “trust”shoves up its price
•o as to correspond with tho increased
raising cotton or even oranges,
Some of the Northern papers are begin
ning to see that the effort to outlaw cotton j v „[t> 0 j Louisiana, for which he
need oil is merely an effort to I mom the warded by a seat in the cabinet, to which I P r ' ce °* ,n el which thd 75 cents duty on
business of certain Eastern lard manu- j lc acknowledged he had no title when his I bituminous coal makes! posible.
fseturers. Tlic attempt to secure legisla- ;„fl„ en( . c permitted a Democratic Governor I‘ “ estimated that a ton of
•tion to benefit [private interests at public to ), e inaugurated in Louisiana who had *0 cents at the authracite mines while in
expense will fail. received fewer votes that the electors for England a ton of coal , costs $1.20 at the
A cable dispatch to the New York I Tilden. It is enough to say that in this I mine®, making proper allowance for the
Herald says that Bishop Beckwith, of I matter, as in all others, he has endeavored I diflferance in the purchasing power of
Georgia, met with a slight accident in | to do the thing most popular at the I wages.
A Monument to Stuart.
The following circular will, no douht,
receive many a ready response from the
veterans of the Confederate cavalry:
Richmond, Va., February 15, 18nL—To the Sur
vivors of the Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern
Virginia: A monument has been ere?te*l p«*r
this city to mark the spot where our Kailant
commander. General J. K. B. Stuart, fell, but
funds are needed to enclose the same, pay for
site and beautify the grounds, and we have been
appointed by the association a committee to col
lect the necessary amount.
We therefore ask that you contribute to that
end.
You can remit to any member of the commit
tee, or to Governor Fitz Lee, and your name will
be duly enrolled as a member of the association.
F. W. Chamiiehlayne,
F. H. Deane,
A. s. George,
Committee.
The men who followed Stuart and the
other Confederate cavalry leaders are now
scattered throughout the length and breadth
of the land. Fortune has smiled upon
some of them since thp surrender. Most of
them have had a hard struggle and are
still poor, hut there will come many a
response to this circular in the shape of
contributions of various amounts. The
monument will surely he built.
gation for his farm, garden and lawn, and intoxication, not only ordered the p! n
he has introduced many implements of the tion of the liquor traffic, hut absolutT
most approved patterns. I asked him if ‘forbade the cultivation of nl-mtJ 1 •
».. i:.i .. . #n Ail unfit a no. which wineor liquor could he made w? 01
thorn war nn iittrisinrr *1.^ .... .* . .***
The protection! which the anthra-
Paris a few days ago- As he was driving I moment with his party. Suspecting last I c i‘ c ‘ rMst enjoys is therefore $1.15 a ton
along near the Opera in a one-horse cab I year that the era of sectional hatred had! b rom 1876 to 1888 it is estimated by J
he caromed into a three-liorse omnibus. I about ended, lie made a conciliatory 1 -^" orr ‘ s > one the editors of the Philadcl-
His cab was dashed to splinters, but the I speech at Nashville, to lie followed almost I P b ' a Record, who has given this subject
bfshop emerged intact, tinfrightened and I immediately by one of an entirely differ- m08t carefnl that ‘he company re-
unhurt. _____ I ent character at Springfield, l )ec a US e |, e j eeive.1 $26,000,000 more than it paid out in
The latest explanation of Blaine’s | feared lie had made a mistake and that | wa 8” s ‘
In order to prevent comiietition
withdrawal from the Presidential race islForaker would gam the lead iu Ohio I ‘ be Reading is now P*y‘ n K a tribute of
that he is conscious that disgraceful dis-1 through the “relic! flag" incident.
600,000 tons of coal a year to the line of
closures concerning past events in his life I It is upon It s wisdom in dealing with I D enns y' van * a company which goes into
were prevented during the last race by the 1 economic questions, however, tiiat Mr.
generosity of Mr. Cleveland, which could I Sherman’s reputation ns a statesman chief-
not serve him in another campaign. There I ly rests, but even on these he lias always I
the coal region. The Reading has worked
only a small portion of its enormous coal
fields and it is endeavoring to make the
is probably more truth in the statement | sought to voice the popular sentiment. Iu I on |P u * Dom this pay interest on tho money
that his decision was made necessary by 1 1807, discussing taxation, liesnid
paid for its entire coal property. To help
he did not find it difficult to educate ne
gro labor to handle these iu an intelligent
manner.
“No," said he, “I can even teach one to
plow in a few hours, and 1 hare so far had
very little trouble in making them under
stand how to manage horse rakes, mowers,
fence machines ami other improved im
plements which 1 ho' * introduced."
He lias a fine herd of jerseys and brah
mins, tiie milk and butter product of which
goes far toward paying the current ex
penses of the farm.' They are well kept,
the cow house being as clean and sweet as
a lady’s kitchen..
Mrs. Reed is tiie presiding geni-
i of this department. as well
being an active partner
in all the operations about tiie farm. She
showed me some dried Kieffer pears, cured
hy a new process. She lias found that they
uiay be dried in the sun very nicely. I
sampled some of them and they are so
sweet that I could scarcely believe that they
were not sugared, hut was assured that it
was only tiie natural sugar in the fruit.
1 looked through the large garden where
The jury which tries Gould and Sage
for penitentiary offenses will have a chance
to do big business.
Father McGlynn declines to be a can
didate for President. He will continue to
devote most of his attention to the Pope
till people get tired of him.
there was nn uprising oi the people he in
continently drowned four thousand ot th,
insurgents In hogsheads of their favorite
liquor. \\ holesale as this punishment **
it created less outcry in China than the
forcible closing of a single brewery i n V-,
York would create to-day. [Laughter 1
AGNOSTIC PHYSICIANS. * ‘ J
Next Mr. Small paid his attention to the
doctors, many of whom, lie said, would not
begin practice until they were thorough
agnostics, assuming to know more of
titan tiie God who made him. Some of
them, too, he said ; became steerers of the
drug Btore groggertes and shared in the ii|
gotten gains. Science had proved that
there was no medical necessity for liono, j
In tiie radical view of Mr. Small li* ,'
was an evil that is living a life of squatter
sovereignty in America, and yet lias to be
tolerated. It was as logical to license a
•Up to bring slaves from Africa as t0 I
license rum sellers whose mission it was to
enthrall the people. And yet those vetr
men had no inconsiderable 'weight in the
councils of the government.
Enumerating the acts oi Congress tie.
a great many early vegetables are growing ! signed to regulate railroads, trusts and
and will soon be ready for the table; anil i other interests, the speaker drew a stsrt-
we took a look at the town, which is sown I lin^ picture of tiie mm interest again-t
in Texns blue-grass, which Mr. Reed says I which no protection had been provided
may be grown very successfully. I passed
hy a rye patch as high as my head—-and
you know how tall I am!
I peeped into the silo, filled ensilage, tiie
sour kront of the Jerseys, which Mr. Reed
has found to be a food which the Jersey
babies cry for.
A New York Anarchist lodge is about
to prosecute its president, who embezzled
its funds. It seems that after all, under
certain circumstances, Anarchists do be
lieve in law.
Nothing is wasted on this model farm,
and nothiug is allowed to remain within
the grounds that looks the least slouchy or
unthrifty. There is a grand old agricul
tural sermon for Georgia farmers
displayed right here, in tiie establishment
anu successful management of the enter-
terprise.
The average citizen was affected fifty cenn
a year by the inter-State commerce bill,
and a similar sum would cover his interest
tiie telegraph, but rum killed lUO.iJUO
men, widowed 60,01)0 women, orphanel
300,000 children, and made 600,000
persons idle loafers in Imr-roems
every year. Tiie remedy vas
tiie ballot. Congress had voted inve-ti-
rations of all sorts, bnt when it came to
looking into tiie evils of tiie runt traffic a
committee was appointed with tiie lieliler.
ate intention of pigeonholing tiie whole
question, fsiicli was tiie influence of tbe
trade that the Speaker had hard work to
find members to serve on tiie committee,
It seems that tiie conservative ministry
of M. Tirttrd is about to be overthrown,
and may be succeeded by one of “action.”
France may be preparing to take part in
the coming war.
failing health.
The luxuries are moat!,- contained la °ut this scheme of the company t.in people
The President and Mrs. Cleveland are
on Georgia soil this morning. Thousands
of Georgians will greet them at Savannah
The whole State wishes them a happy
journey aud a safe return.
All tiie country along the line of the
Savannah, Florida and Western railroad
presents an air of prosperity which is un
mistakable. Tiie fruit and melon and
vegetable business follows close on tiie
heels of the timber and turpentine business,
and theu comes straight out farming, fol
lowed hy stock raising, w hich is rapidly
coming to tiie front.
Tiie climate is so tine that there is not a
month iu the year but something may he
and finally appointed one Congressmu I
who had only been elected by a majority I
of one. That was probably because lie had |
little to lose. [Langhter.f 1
In conclusion Mr. Small said itecharged I
constructive drunkenness upon the whole I
government—the drunkenness of |>ower, c! 1
political success. Tiie government were I
drunk because they allowed themselves to |
be ridden hy tiie rum interest.
IX A SHOAL OF CUOCODILE3.
A great deal is being said by the pro.
tection papers about the poverty which
prevails in England. Would it not lie
Item* spirits, wine and tobacco. These are un
iloubtedly the first objects that should lie taxed
In 1870he declared:
of Philadelphia have been taxed ^nnualiy
$500,000 by the arbitrary prices ixed for
their coal. The Reading conijany lias
fair to take the per capita consumption of I together with the taxon fermented liquors,
ugtr as an indication of tiie ability of the I over W.WO.OOO-are paid without complaint In
I nl St... I’..I....I Qliili.s
And theso two taxes on spirit snd tobacco-1 been ^jog coa l , t p ort Richmond
cents a ton less to New iYork
The tariff hill of the ways and means
committee will be reported to the House,
is said, a week from to-morrow. It
ght to he a good one, from tiie length of
me it lias been in preparation.
| every part o( the Untied States.
Even as late as 1882 he said:
Boston than was
I coal sent to Philadelphia.
people to buy the comforts of life? This
consumption is, in England, 74.1 pounds
for each individual yearly; United States
53.3 pounds; Germany, 17; 1 ranee, 24.-’); I „tt u . r tivxt-n Internal or cxternsl, more oppres-1 committee last week. He very
charged for
Mr. WSiting,
These taxes ought to be left as a part ot onr tiie general manager of this public splr
permanent system of taxation as lung at any I ited company was before the Congreibionnl
Switzerland, 31.3. Tiie average English-1 tlvc remain on the statute books.
man seems to he able to huv all tiie sugar
he wants at any r tUn
In reference to the proiioscd tax on cot
.ton seed oil the Atlanta Constitution says:
a • I i • 11 y
explained the “allotment system’ by
wllicll tiie coal companies had continued
to prevent competition and keep up prices.
He was asked:
How about the consumer in that allot
Agaiu, in tho same year:
I do not he-ltnte to say that there Is a general
desire among alt classes ot our people, without
regard to party, that the.remnants.of the Inter
nal revenue system shall lie swept away, except
There It no doubt aliout the whulesomeness I „„ whisky, tobacco snd beer. . . . This to-1 mcnt w
ot the lard mixed with cotton seed oll H nor is | t mcco tax, of all others, ts the easiest collected, I . . . ...
there eny douht about the effect the tax would I the most certain, increasing constantly trout I 1 ver ? gentleman replied:
havo on a great and growing Industry. It Is I year to year, dependent upon an appetite that I “Gh, we didn't consider the consumer.”
simply a question of sectional legislation in the I will be Indulged no matter what may be the I Mr. Whiting must httve credit for tell-
Interest of a few moneyed speculators, and that tax: a tax that ha. been more stable than any ; the truth. In his brief answer he lias
*■ *11 there 1* of It. I other. No amount of tax likely to be put upon I . . . . , A ... .
Tim w a strong statement of the cane. It I tobacco will prevent it* being chewed and I JJ ortrt ^fr the spirit which actuates the
1 hiuoked and muffed. In all other countrio I tru»U in coni nncl other article* of nc-
wherc taxation prevails thUtaa favorite subject I cetuity. Their first and only thought is
t i,_ | °J • * ' 1 the ** on tob * c J’° I how to itifie competition and how to keep
one ox the I joes not diminish the price to the farmer, who I , * 1
•ectional legUla-1 raise* it. . . . And I say we are throwing off 1 1 *|» pneca. * hcy leave the container to
would have been more complete, however, | s?2 I
it the Constitution had said that Mr. 8am-
uel J. Randall is
backers of this piece of
tion in the interest of a few moneved spec-1 • *h ,c h' Judgment of all nations, Is
* 1 the best source ot taxation.
In the same discussion, anticipating the
I free trade cry, tiie Senator said:
take care of himself, a thing which lie
some times finds it very hard to do.
|Thc report of the Reading investigating
committee will contain a great deal of val
idators.” But the Constitution loves Mr.
Randall too well to tell on him.
The Southern Florida Leader, the most
prominent organ of the negro race in Flor
ida, has been giving some attention to the I a protective tariff Is unnecessary, because th. I
tariff and has reached a very sane eonclu- wU of man could not possibly frame a tartn ™ r ‘°, desl " ,th , in ,he Kca ' lm «
■ion which is embodied in the following I »°“kl produce ttso.ooo.ooo in gold without I ‘‘ h “ * lread { matuged 10 make 11
It Is, iberefore, simply an absurdity to talk I liable information as to the workings of
now about a free trade tariff, and to talk about | trusts. The committee has a hard custo-
editorial
"The negroes are not benefited by a high pro-
| amply protecting our domestic Industry. | confess to many situ.
On each of these occasions Mr. Hherman I
I . i . , i, i People who want the high tariff to be
teetlve tariff, snd consequently they ought to I wa» thoroughly m accord with hu party—I . ,
tavor . tow tariff, which wontd. ,f adopted, be WM spokesman. 1, was still in a great
more favorablo to their condition ss poor sgrl-1 , pokesman. It was still in a great I Democratic candidate at the next election,
cultural laborer.. We favor a low url^mre d *8™ “ I">H a r party-no ent.rely under ()ur M prolectio „.. (riend , who still claim to
oar people need cheaper necessaries of life. We control of the monopolies and special ^ DemocraU perhaps know this already
oppooe any reduction In tbe tax on whUky an*l I interest* which fatten upon the vacnficc* of I -
tobacco becau*e these are luxuries, anil very I the (>eople. Five years ago Mr. Sherman I k^Tect of the l*re»l<lent's Mernf
Utby anil destructive luxuries at that. Give the thou ht u i mp0H ihle that the wit of n.an It cannot, perhaps, oe fairly said that
BfMir iM’itlilt* fhi’iio WIHI fti hl.inkftw HI1II itinmU: I " *
i S<*en Ity n Nointpnper Mnn IVho U ltec<
renting.
Valdosta, Ga., February 20.—[Staff
Correspondence.]—In my letter from
Waycross I made a few mistakes in re
gard to Tehcauvilie. Waycross is really
nn ancient city, but not under its present
name. When the old stage line ran from
Thomosville across toward Brunswick,
there was a station here known as “Yan-
keetown.”
That was long before the woods were
burnt, and in tiie course ot time it pnssetl
away, the post-office being moved lieyouil
Stanscll'a mill, where it wns fondly luqieil
that the station would lie located. But it
was like many other brilliant imaginings
tiie railroad passed, like tiie Levite, on tlu-
other side, and no good Samaritun ever
came along to bind up its wounds.
Mnj. Pendleton, father of the shining
genius of the Valdosta Times, came to
Tehcauvilie, which was named after. Capt.
Tcbcau, of Savannah, and for a long
while Maj. Pendleton owned a large area
there including the old station.
When tiie chief engineer of tiie sur
veying party came along, laying
off the line of the Brunswick
and Albany road, lie made a proposition to
Major Pendleton in regard to coming
through Tebeauvillc,. which the latter
promptly rejected, because lie did not con
sider tiie proposition a proper one, and the
engineer went back ulmul ten miles and
brought the line just so as to miss Major
Pendleton’s property, and Waycross was
the result.
poor people cheap woolen blankets anu risk is;
cheap su jar. rice, crockery, tools, farming im-
could devise a tariff to raise $140,000,000 Mr. Blaine’s sudden withdrawal from the
ptemenis anil Iron, amt moke whisky ami tobste-1 that would not afford “ample protection.” I Presidential race was a direct result of
co high snd scarce.”
J Last year the tariff produced $217,000,000,1 Mr. Cleveland's message to Congress, but it
The eleventh Michigan district, which I hut rather than reduce it he wants the in-1 can hardly be doubted that he would have
u Republican hy nearly 8,000 majority I ternal taxes abolished—taxes which lie remained in the running if the effect of the
four years ago, has just had a Congres- l'*d declared were “paid without com-1 message on the public mind had been
aional election. Mr. Seymour, the mil-1 plaint,” and fell upon “the first objects I w I> a t he hoped it would be. His prompt
that should he taxt-i[." ! ami defiant reply from Paris and
m # __ _ If Mr. Sherman had convictions, he has I 'I 1C chorus of thanksgiving which arose
cd by suspicion of fraud that Mr. Breen, I sacrificed them to bis greed for the popn-1 If 0 " 1 Republican press ail over the
the Democratic nominee, proposes to con-1 lsrity which would carry him to the White I country indicated a belief that the Presi-
test the election. Mr. Breen made his I House. Snch sacrifice has probably cost I *I* nt ' ,a< l made a fatal mistake. But the
campaign on the reform of the tariff, tak-1 hint little. He is not the typical dema-1 mistake was not the President’s. Almost
ing President Cleveland's message as his I gogue, who to indifference to principle I ! rom ‘he day the message was read tvi-
platform. H the heavy snow had not I and belief inexpediency often adds a I dencc has accumulated that its bold, manly
prevented many of the farmers from get-1 genial manner and a warm heart, but a I "‘and for the rights of the people as against
ting to the pills, Mr. Breen would have I cold-blooded place-hunter, dependent for I ‘he monopolists has strengthened both the
had a majority on the face of tiie returns I success in gaining tiie highest office in the I President and his party. His perception
As it U, it may turn out that he was fairly I land, not upon strength of conviction and I °I *hU fact may have had something to do
force of character, but upou slavish sub-1 w *‘h determining Mr. Blaine to scratch his
serviency to the ruling clement ot his | n * m * from the list of entries for a race
elected.
This is too bad. The Chicago Inter-
Ocean has been for months patting the I I >ar, 3 r ' whether good or bad. It is not of whicl * ,,e w “ in, P a ‘'«“ «o enter three
Atlanta Constitution on the hack for iu I ,uc h material as this that great or popnDr | mo ^ bt a F>;
I men are made, and we believe that if he is
adverse criticisms on President Cleveland's
tariff policy. The Inter-Ocean had dc- "•"“''"aud hy the Republicans the Ameri-
weloped an intense admiration for the Con- “ n lore . of “">"»> ‘ Ua P k5 ’ h,, " M ‘ *>H
atitution. We have watched the growth I cau **. llU rejection hr an overwhelming
of this affectionate regard witii great in
terest, and it is with regret that we |ier-
p I majority. In times such as these, when
the character of ihe candidate enters so
eeive its sodden falling off. The Inter- * reaf, - T in *° * be 00 ‘' a >c-«rTing
Ocean of last Saturdav deals the Atlanta P° li * w »n. rrering with every breath of
• vocateof proteciio’n an unkind diff in I popular opinion, can be elected President
the folhiwiog words.
The Atlanta Constitution fires right snd 1
Into the tree trade ranks end then gets down
Its knees gad hogs ike legs of the brmix-ra
free trade party. Eldicultag leading protcctlen-
jgstedpretey teve^ov Freeldent Cleveland
of the United States.
PlliDADELmiA has always lieen known
as pre-eminently the city of houses. That
■he le preserving this characteristic is
shown
The effect of tbe message is indicated in
the following, from an interview with Mr.
Julius Dexter, president of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton railroad:
Yes. 1 do. I did not v..te tor either Blaine
Cleveland, althuuxh I was a Republican when
the election took piece. Blare then I h«
been converted by President Cleveland's
sage, end I shell vote lor him against any Be
publican that may be nominated. I am not
alone In ray a poetary. There ere many Bepnb-
ltcans In Cincinnati rbo have been thoroughly
converted and will vow for Pre. blent Cleveland.
They believe In tariff reform, and the
Is a sincere expression la favor of It. A revo
lution of sentiment has taken piece In tbe
SOUTHERN GEORGIA.
To Hon. Dan Lott aud Dr. W. B. Falks
belong the honor of booming Waycrosaiuto
prominence. They were untiring in their
efforts to build up the interests of tho
the town, and • it ir, and ever will be, z
monument to their energy and public spir
itedness. I saw the simple monument
stone that marks the last resting-place
the little cemelerv among the pmes. 1
sleeps on the borderland, between the marks
of his handiwork and the wilderness, amid
which he helped to carve out a city.
He
the morning, and the porter kindly offered
to take luv baggage to tiie hotel, but I told
lliim “no, 1 am home now, and 1 cau luaf
around and do ns I please. I have given
hotels the shake tor a few brief hours,
und am going over here to a place where I
can get corn bread mid streaked gravy.”
I swore by the beard of luy father 1 was
[oing to see the sunrise among the pine*,
tail saw it. While every cock from Mini
Swamp to the Withlncoochoe was crow in;
ns loud and shrill as was in his power, .!
observed a little pink blush stealing on the
brow of the eastern sky, and I knew that
it was the rosy tint of morn looking with
anxious expectance down tlie shining path
where tier lord was approaching. Deeper
and more ruddy grew the blush, until even
the night lamps of heaven paled in its
splendor. Broad hands of light shot
athwart tiie heavens, uud a purple corona
o( light formed around the very last bril
liant planet that burned low' down the
western skies.
A mockingbird hopped from one hough
to another of a stately wateroak mid begun
a bewilderiug prelude to the grand hurst of
melody that would soon Ire trilled forth hy
ten tliousund throats to greet the rising
day. How feeble are the proudest hursts
of marshal music that were sent forth from
drum ami trumpet, when compared to this
most sublime of all music, which is heard
at the dawn of every day among these
Smthern forests.
But while I was meditating on this, the
few fleecy clouds that fioated near the east
ern horizon caught the reflection of tiie
light on the countenance of the day god
and some smiled in golden splendor,’wliih
some shrank hack and blushed in burning]
crimson, and then there wns a Hash of
light which pierced the lonely dim line of
the forest ami the mists rose up, ami
spreading their airy wings to the breeze,
Hooted away toward the swamps, from
which steal ’forth like ghosts at even to
return at the approach of morn. 1 was so
absorbed in watching the sun as he niouted
upward, tipping the |>ine lioughs witii a
fringe of gold, that I was about to forget
sublunar things, when I felt a hand on my
shouhlcr and a deep voice exclaimed “Come
on, sir!” 1 started front mv dream, and
my first thought was of n Macou police
man, but as I turned around I saw instead
of the gleam of brass buttons a pair of
benevolent eyes. I grabbed my «ripsack
and asked eagerly: “Have you got corn
bread and streaked gravy?”
“Belcher life,” he replied, and in five
minutes I wns_enjoying a breakfast with
such an appetite as I have not enjoved ■
many a long day. M. M. F.l
The Frightful Experience of n limiter is |
Intlin—He foist.Ills Nerve,
ltan Mall.
On one occasion I wns ascending the!
Little Rangoon river with three natives I
and ihe mail-bags, when we were hailed I
from shore hy an English hunter who had I
been camping out the fierce w ild p
animals and poisonous serpents for |
ty days. He was entirely alone,
had killcd five le >pnrds, three tig
or eight large serpents ami mi:* I
game. He had several fresh mrs M
5 rove a hand to hand conflict with a won-1
erful tiger, and the bare fact of his I*-1
ing alone in that country, exjxised alnustl
to every danger one could dream of, was I
proof tfint lie was a brave man. I
He had a raft at the hank and wushontl
to cross the stream. After a visit ol >1
pinrtcr of an hour we took him in to*i
and droptied him down nliout a mile. ‘V<|
had just headed for the other hank, wlnal
I saw a large crocodile rise to the surlier I
ust behind the hunter’s raft. The rt-aal
iui| not entered the boat with us, hut «u|
sitting on his trajis on the raft. I called t»|
him to shoot the reptile, and he rose anJ|
Hindi-as pretty ii shot as one ever M»,l
striking the saurian in the eye ami1 killing!
him at once. We were applauding tj.rl
shot, when a dozen of the monsters l>rok»|
water nil about the raft. We had
nils- aliout forty feet long, and were in I
full length ahead of the raft. Noneol tml
reptiles paid the least attention to tu|
Isiat, but seemed determined to make
iosvf acquaintance with the raft.
The hunter iind a rejH-atiiig ritie, an'
he stood on his feet and hanged s»ij|
right and left as cooly as you please. 1 or
dered the men to cease rowing and g*
out my rifle, hut before I had fired nsinf ‘
shot a" monster crocodile climbed upon t
side of the light bamboo raft and upset fij
We backed water very rapidly, ond it v
not over thirty seconds liefore the h'at a
raft had bumped. At the tame instant
hunter rose lie-side the boat, and one oltaj
natives pulled him in. While he l» r >'•
the Isittmu of the Isiat we rowed a | ‘ , n'
and picked up such of his traps»» »*•]
afloat. It was very little we aaved, a* “
firearms and pelts had been swullf 1
voured by the crocodiles
When I cante to oiler the man
spirits his looks had changed so tnat_
could scarcely believe he. was the
man. No one standing on the gallsy 11 ,
could have been more broken up- * le "n
scarcely swallowed the _ whisky whf” H
began to cry, and he insisted that *e <*
him up in the Isittom of the Isiat- 11 ,
a whole fortnight before the man recot” J1
his composure, while his nerve *a‘ P’.ti
forever. He who hail stood with s«“3
SAM SMALL’S TAFFY.
Waycross is blessed with an abundance
of pure water and is very healthy. The
people are kind and hospitable in their
treatment of strangers, and ready to help
push every laudable enterprise which u
started.
I was most kindly looked after hy Mr.
J. Weiss, of the Commercial Hotel, where
I spent several days very pleasantly,
although tbe town was so full of Jssipfe.
Mr. Weiss siu an excellent table and is
always on the alert to see that his guests
lack nothing that he can furnish.
At the Grand Central Hotel I dlnnl one
day and found Mr. J. C. Austin, the whole-
souled proprietor, just as liig hearted ns
his kinsman, my reverend friend, Rev. J.
M Austin, recently of Eavt Macon. He
keeps an excellent bouse also.
iliac* the loot n-n cwaB ‘n f - I Bare amretaed With bankers ami ami Kieffer pe
But one of tbe pleasantest events of my
stay was an hour spent on the fruit and
dairy farm of Mr. J. II. Reed, roadmaster
of the F. It. and N. railroad. There I saw
about the prettiest management I have
seen in a long time. Mr. Keetl is a son of
ex-Govemor Reed, of Florida, who did so
much for his Ktate.
Although kept busy looking after the
interests of his road, he has found time to
lay out $25,000 to the very best advantage
on his sixty-acre farm, located just beyond
the northern suburbs of Waycross. A few
years ago he began here in the foresL lie
now has tbooosnds of fruit trees, compris
ing an endless vsricty. He bss LeCnnle
~ pearjrees that litres rears
bear-
He timrnrs It on l'rrttj Thick In New York,
From the New York HersM.
Chickcring Hall was tilled to its utmost
yesterday afternoon by prohibitionists.atul
less radical cold water advocates, who lm<l
gathered to hear the Rev. Sam Small, of
Georgia, “Appeal from Uncle Sum Drunk
to Uncle Sim Sober,” under the auspices
of the American Tent|ierance Union.
Mr. Small’s address was preceded hy
prayer, singing hy the Silver Stream
tfuatrette and an eloquent appeal from
the presiding officer for liberal contribu
tions ts carry on the good work. Then the
orator of the occasion—a man of medium
height, clad in ministerial black, and with
a thin, intellectual face, partially hidden
by a stumpy beard—was introduced.
THAT LINCOLN DINNER.
“Last night the representatives of eome
of the great natioual parties had a dinner
in this city commemorative of Abraham
Lincoln’s birthday,” began Mr. Small,
“which was a commendable thing to do.
Indeed, I think it would be well to insti
tute a nations! celebration of that day, for
I believe Lincoln was the greatest' man
this country ever produceiL [Applause.]
But what was tbe dinner? Why, it was
{ irostitnted into a propaganda for a polit-
cal party, and not a single word was ut
tered as to tne curse ol the rum traffic
which is bolding milliors of onr people in
a bondage more halr.ul snd tyrannous
than that from which onr martyred Presi
dent freed the blacks.
“We are told that God has nothing to do
with the government- I concede that
forever.’ He who had stood
drawn, awaiting the rush of a‘U? !r ' :
who carried marks to prove lit* '’ n ', r \
and his victory, had been totally ,,r "
np bv an exjie’rience of lc«s than t* u |
utes in the water with a dozen crof"'*
It was the feeling that he was help*** .
took his courage away. In ‘be case o
tiger he felt that lie had some little •
\l'l I... ... 11 Into filter WS
When he was flung into the water be i* |
ized that he had none.
Stub Attacks a Train,
St. Lons. February IS.—A
patch says that the mob attacked the
ton and Kansas City north-bound
train soon after It left Fbrt «
last ni|
(lows,
ously
soon after It left Fort w »"*(
tight, throwing stones ‘hrouga tsc .
i, injuring several psssengers *» a rt
r wounding D. A. Baker, of KrtU"
It is believed that the intention
duce the guard to come out of tne
then to kill him nnd rob tbn
attempt was made in vain, ns tne tr
not stop.
(Written for Ibe Tu.EuxxrH.1
Weary Hie Waiting.
There's sn end to nil tolling some d*T-„
(But It’s weary the waiting—wmrf-, u
There's a harbor somewhere. In • Pfsee
Where the sells will be farted, and u*
u III lay
At anchor—somewhere In tbe far rssf?
(tint It's weary the walttug-* rt,3 _
There's an end to the troubles/*!
i But It’s weary the waiting—weary
Sometime, In the future, when Goo
lie'll lay us tenderly down w rest. tb( k
And rotes 'll grow from tbelhotnsln
(But flu weary the waiting—***rj • s
There's end to tne wotld with Its *"®’
llgh
for o« tbe machinery ot Ihe for
i erowo-f
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