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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY 1 AUGUST 14-TWELVE PAGES.
'T'TT-r' TUT TJPD AT)U I Mr. IHalne's Arrival.
IHlv i Friday’, telegrams were expected to
ruBi-tSHan eyxby day in tkx YkAa and weekly ancounce the arrival of Mr. B|aine
Office 807 Mulberry street. I in New York. The magnificent
I vessel in which he .alia ha.
The Daily Is dellv:red by carriers In the city ., ro bably not been pushed to full
or mailed pottage free to subscribers lor‘Jfic. a , . .. ..
week; 7V. a month. I her ntwhlnerr being new and tin-
The Weekly la mailed to subscribers, postage i tried, or he would have already entered
free, at $1.25 a year. j upon his work of infusing life into the
Transient advertisements will be taken for Republican campaign. Prepare-
the Dally at« per square of 10 line, or l«a. for I , f . f Mr B , ail - e have
the first insertion, and to cents for each subse- 1 * . , 1 , „ ...
qnent Insertion, and for the Weekly at $1 for : been going on for weeks. From hundreds
each Insertion. Death, funeral and marriage 1 of miles around marching clubs will be
notices $1. drawn, many thousands of dollars have
AH communications should be addressed, and ^ uniforms, transparencies
1 money orders, checks, etc., be made payable ‘ . *,
1 and other paraphernalia, and the
demonstration may be expected
to be one of the most imposing that over
welcomed a public man. There will be
kind to inspire unbounded enthusiasm 'abuse of terms-but ft meant, at any rate, bonds bearing six per cent, interest, falling due bales; in 1885-7 were Siao»7l
and although he declared that “anything an ‘^onmci't of high protection, and January 1st 18S9 and not being In a position 1885-6 were 5 347 420 hal’J. ’ K N
J . 8 an admission that protective duties In- to pay offthe whole amount, desired toextend ,, bales.
THE TELEGRAPH,
Macon, Ga.
■Plain Jim Blaine is a bigger man than
Gen. Benjamin Harrison, candidate for
President of these United States.
nothing spontaneous about the demonstra
tion, but nevertheless it will evidence the
fact that the person whom it is intended
Chairman Quay refuses to talk “until
the day after the election.” When the ' to honor is the greatest force, representing
day comes nobody will care whether Mr. the controlling element, of the Kepubli-
Quay talks or not. i can party.
The Sultan »pend7"$Tl ,000,000 for his I Iti,not ^ long since he became so.
household expenses every year. It is a l. I When be was first s candidate for the
most unnecessary to say that the Sultan I *epublic.n nomination, he was stricken
has a great many wives. | down b - T disclosures that proved him to
' . — | be a, dishonest trafficker in the power
Candidate Harrison is doomed to play |,im by public place. When
second fiddle for the rest of the campaign. aga ; n a candidate, the best ele
that diverts the question from that single creale d the cost of production, and so a portion by a new loan at a lower rite of in
point is a weakening of the campaign,” in crippled the nation in Its competition with . terest and by authority of an act of hcrLegla
almost the next sentence he warned the
■people against the “American Congress
and American President who are governed
by that element which sought to destroy
this nation.” Later bespoke of the Senate
being controlled by “thirty-two Senators
other manufacturing countries In ibe markets
of the world. When Mr. Cleveland's manifesto
was made public the fair trade agitation in
England, lust then at a considerable height,
went out like a snuffed candle. Tbat was the
reason, and the only reason, for the delight
with which that manifesto was received In
, , .. , . „ . ■ England. If merely selfish considerations had
from tlic^solid South and six Democratic I been allowed to sway English opinion, we do
Senators.” j not doubt that the feeling amongst clear-sighted
Time and disappointed ambition have : English traders would have been rather for the
dulled Mr. Blaine’s inventive faculty and \ re l ectlon thaa the acceptance of the Mills tariff
j | bill. If English opinion is running In favor of
imbettered him. After fourteen months Mr . cleTe ia D d'i candidature, It is not because
of leisure in Europe he comes back to , any hopes are entertained of material benefit to
the party which has impatiently awaited I our trade to be derived from hla continuance In
As Harrison is a second rate man tills
is not inappropriate.
meat of his party, still powerful
enough to control it, rejected as its leader
this dishonest and disgraced man. But
he was stronger than before, and in the
Georgia has the two youngest candi
dates /or clector-at-large in the Union—
and two of the brightest. Watson and ' next four yeais his strength grew to the
Graves make a fine team. j point where in theconventionhewas able to
_ , :—, , , , I overbear the fiercest opposition. Then the
The gentlemen who have been placed , ... , , . , .
, ® ... . , ... best men of his party revolted, and the
on the Democratic electoral ticket in this , ... * ; , ,
„ ... , . . ; honest but comparatively unknown Clave*
Stale should rememoer that, tney are ex- j. , ... ,, . , .
, , . , . mud was elected over the most brilliant
pected to do active duty. They ought to I .... .. , ....
*. . , , . , man of his generation, because the latter
discuss the issues of the campaign fre- . , .. . ,, , — . ,
... , . I was tainted with dishonor. Defeat seems
qnent y >t ore t ic peop c. to ), aV e only strengthened Mr. Bla’ne with
General Chalmers and his family his party Again, this year, he could have
have long lived in Memphis, where lie had its nomination by speaking the word,
prauticss law, yet he is running for Con- j The party which more than once reject-
gress in a Mississippi district. There j ed him, though its strongest
ought to be an opening here for getting and most popular leader, as morally unfit
rid of the pestiferous little cuss in politics. I to represent it, has sunk to his level, and
Some of the fineTt iron ores in this conn- ,,ow - t0 the ne R lect of its respectable can-
try are found near Cartersville, Ga. Their didnte - choow8 10 hea P r °y al honors »I>° n
quality and quantity are sufficient to com- h,,u ' U is a Blaine I ,art - V > and tbe cam -
mend the wisdom of the Cartersville Steel ' l ,a, 8" wlI > bc fou « ht to establish Blaine’s
and Furnace Company in organizing with
a capital of $300,04)0 to work these ores.
According to Mr. Blaine, the poor,
weak South has got this giant nation by
the throat and is tossing it around like a
terrier does a rat. The truth about the
situation is, that the South is half the time
scared to death lest the nation blundering
ly step on her.
Eli Perkins now writes tariff articles
over his own name for that eminently
Christian journal, the New York Maii and
Express. Eli is the most famous of Ameri
can liars, and it is unnecessary even to in
timate by which side of the great debate
lie is attracted. "
The people of Putnam county have pre
vailed upon Judge Thomas G. Lawson to
stand for the Legislature. This is well.
The next Legislature will be one of the
most important that has assembled in
Georgia in a long timeand such men as
Judge Lawson will be needed in it.
Congressman Dingley’s paper gives
the Uepublican programme as follows; "It
is a part of the Republican writ that Mr.
Blaine shall be Harrison’s Secretary of
State; and further, that after Harrison’s
day will come Blaine’s in the Presidential
chair. The call for Blaine’s nomination
as the next Republican leader will be irre
sistible.” He is already the Republican
leader, and if by any accident the pro
gramme should be csrried out, Rlaine
would be almost as much President during
Harrisou’s term as during his own.
That eminent exponent of bloody skirt
politics, the Chicago Inter-Ocean, says of
an event which has been considerably dis
cussed ia Georgia of late:
It Is a matter ot congratulation tbat so able
an exponent of the industrial principles ol the
party as Major McKinley is to speak in the
Chautauqua nf Georg'a on the tariff. He will
give thoee people something to think about.
They will see that the politics of to day takes
hold of the every-day interests of the people,
and that the color line Is not all there Is to
divide the two parties. It Is to be hoped that
he will speak at other points alio, and tbat
other speakers from the North will go down to
the cotton Stales during the fall and make a
thorough business of enlightening the South
ern Republicans and making them realise that
they have not been deserted nor given up as
hopeless.
This occurs in the course of an edito
rial article urging a vigorous Republican
campaign in the South,and shows that how
ever much some people down this way may
bo confused in their minds, the Inter-
Ocean has a clear conception of what will
be the Major’s business.
The Republicans use Hritish expressions
of commendation of the Mills bill as their
principal argument to prove it a bad meas
ure. It is an argument which they seem
to thinkjparticuiarly efleetive witli Irish
men, as they take it for granted that the
chief object of every Irishman’s life is to
do what the English don’t want him to do.
There is an Englishman, however, whom
Irishmen delight to honor, because his life
is spent in their service, and his words
have weight with them. Here is what
Mr. Gladstone has to say about the
American policy of protection:
1 will say this, that as long America adheres
to the protective system our commercial primacy
la aecure. Nothing in the world can wreat It
from you while America continuea to fetter her
own atrong hands and arrna, and with these
fettered arms la content to compete with you,
who ere free, ia neutral marketa. And as long
as America followa the doctrinea now known aa
those of fair trade, you are perfectly aafe, and
yon abould not allow.any of yoa,even yourlight-
Mt alumbera to be dlaturbed by the fear tbat
America will take from you your commercial
primacy
influence in control of this country.
It would be interesting to investigate the
causes which have dulled the sense of
honor and the conscience of the Republi
can party until it finds itself making a
hero of the man whom it despised a lew
years ago. They are doubtless many. Per
haps the most obvious can be found in thp
change of the purposes for the accomplish
ment of which the Republican party Iwb
existed. In its earlier years it sought the
abolition of slavery and the preservation
of the Union—high and unscifishjpurposcs-
both. For some years after the war it was
engaged in an effort—perhaps honest, even
if mistaken in the methods employed—to
consolidate the results of that great strug
gle. That consolidation has come, largely
outside of and in spite of its influence.
With the settlement of these questions
the necessity came for the Republican par
ty to take position on others vital
ly important to the country,
Taxation was the first of these, and in the
attitude assumed toward it Republican
deterioration began. The party which be
gan its career with the demand for “Free
soil, free speech, free labor and free men,”
and owed its success to the generous
enthusiasm of the Northern people
for what their consciences told
them was right, had come to believe
in machine methods of politics and the
power of money. The party which
achieves power by the help of money must
take care of tha men who furnish it, and
the result is that the moderate protectionist
party of a few years ago now demands that
the whole power of taxation shall be de
voted to tile service of the moneyed inter
ests. The evolution has been rapid.
Is it not natural tbat the party should
condone Mr. Blaine’s offenses! In office,
he used his power to fill his own purse;
the party proposes, if put in office, to use
its power to fill the purses of those who
contribnted most to its success. There is
no reason why Mr. Blaine and his party
should not be in full sympathy.
Senator Blair, having exhausted
every other means of exhausting the sur
plus, now proposes that negotiations be
opened for the purchase of Canada. It
might be a practical stroke of economy to
buy it and give it to Blair, in order to get
him out of the Senate.
lllalne Open* the Campaign.
Mr. Blaine did not wait until he landed
in New York to give the watchwords of the
campaign to his anxionsly waiting party.
In the crowded cabin of the steamboat j
bringing him up New York harbor lie as
sumed his place as a leader. The nominal
leader out in Indianapolis has been talk
ing for weeks, but his party has paid little
attention to his colorless platitudes, lie
may as well retire into the wings now that
Blaine has stepped upon the stage.
And what are the words the “uncrowned
king” gives his loyal subjects 7
Whether the great masses of American citizens
who earn their bread by the sweat of tbetr brow
shall he seriously reduced in their emolument
from day today; Hut ia the whole pith and
moment of this question. Anything that diverts
the question from that single point is a weaken
ing of the campaign.
His subjects must be disappointed. The
idea which he advances as that U|>on which
the campaign must turn is not new. It
has been discussed, all the months that Mr.
Blaine was helping Mr. Carnegie to spend
his millions in Europe, and Republicans
are getting very tired of the discussion.
Even Mr. Blaine seemed to realize that
the idea tbat the American people mnat
tax themselves outrageously in order to
pay themselves high wsges was not of the
his return, expecting to receive from him
the inspiration of new ideas and the plans
for a successful campaign. But Mr.
Blaine only repeats what smaller men
have said: “The tariff is the only
possible issue upon which you can win,”
he says, in effect, “and you must get on
my side of the question, without regard to
its merits, for the Southern people,
those enemies of the na
tion, are on the other
side of it. Of the thirty, eight Senators
who may call themselves Democrats only
six will really belong to that party. The
thirty-two are representatives of the solid
South, and will try to bring about through
forms of law the national disaster they
failed to inflict by force of arms.”
This is what Mr. Blaine meant. The
Republicans must nominally fight upon
the tariff issue, but workingmen must be
frightened about their wages and sectional
distrust excited to prevent fair discussion
and a division upon its real merits. Tho
issue, therefore, according to Mr. Blaine,
is the bloody shirt, with a tariff patch on
it—with special attention directed to the
patch.
We think Democrats have every reason
to be satisfied with the programme Mr.
Blaine has drawn out. He leaves to them
alone the national role, which demands
that every citizen play the Dart of an
American in the government of his coun
try—not the part of a Southerner or a
Northern man. We do not believe that
the resentment caused by the sacrifices of
the war has outlived the passion for the
Union that made those sacrifices possible,
and the party whose life depends on hold
ing the sections apart will be crashed out
of existence in their strong embrace. No
reasonable man can believe that the South
ern people are scheming to bring about a
naAiqpal disaster in which they must fully
share) and the voters who hold the balance
of power between the parties are reason
able men. They know there is no necessi
ty to vote to save the nation from the
South, and will vote to save the people
from the trusts, monopolies, etc., that now
oppress them,
Everything seems to favor*
crats in New Jersey. Gen Fiske is taking
thousands of Republican votes over to the
Pioiiiuiiionists, and Senator Kvarts is
going through the State to make a series
of his interminable speeches against Cleve
land.
Kngllsh Opinion.
Mr. Binine, in his flamboyant speech at
Madison square the other night, said that
he found the English people dividtd on
every other question, but unanimous in
their applause of the Democratic tariff
policy. We fear that Mr. Blaine is trying
to take advantage of his recent privileges.
He was able to spend fourteen months
abroad hobnobbing with nobles and coach
ing with money kings. Like a great
many people who travel, he presumes that
lie will be taken as authority on foreign
affairs by those less fortunate individuals
who were compelled to stay at home and
work while he was [flying around nmong
the palaces and grandees of the old world.
But Mr. Blaine clearly has not told the
truth about English sentiment in refer
ence to the 1 ernocratic eflort to reform the
tariff. The Telegraph yesterday quoted
the remark of Mr. Gladstone that England
would hold undisputed sway of her foreign
trade so long as the United States fettered
her commercial enterprise by duties laid
principally for protection.
Mr. Blaine should have asked the opin
ion of the greatest man in England before
he presumed to declare that the people of
that country are solidly in favor of |the
Democratic policy because it will help
them Mr. Gladstone evidently believes
that the Mills bill would damage English
commerce by making American manufac
tures stronger competitors for foreign
trade. Before he sailed from England Mr.
Blaine should have read the following edi
torial in tiie Birmingham Daily Post of
July 28:
"English trailers will learn with a good deal
ol amusement that in the Prealdentfil election
campaign In America the great err which thn
Republican! are using against Mr. Cleveland ta
that he Is deliberately betraying the Interest! ot
American trade for the benefit of English man
ufacturers. It la scarcely necessary to say tbat
from an English point oi view the Mills tariff
bill by no means bean that aspect. On the
whole, tta operation will probably be distinctly
to ourdisadvantage. Only in a few trivial In-
•lances the bill reduce* the tariff on articles Im
ported from England. The main object of the
measure Is, by lightening and la some Inataocea
removing the duties on raw material, to lessen
the coat ol the production of American manu
factures. and, of coarse, every atep In tbat di
rection will make tho United States a more dan
gerous competitor of England in all neutral
markets. It is perfectly cigar, therefore, that If
the policy of Mr. Cleveland, at*mbodied in the
Mills tariff bill, and u set forth in the now
historic declaration |to Congress, has been re.
celved with marked aatlsfac.lon In England,
that satisfaction ha. not been In any way due to „„
a sense that the operation of the hill was likely *° WTe
office, but because he leads the party which la,
at any rate for the time, the party of purity."
Mr. Blaine should producesomeevidence
better than his hold assertion that the En
glish people are solid for the Democratic
policy for selfish reasons. The distinguish
ed tourist is Uy ing to gull the people of
the United Slates. Fortunately the peo
ple learned long ago that it was best to
demand corroboration for any political
assertion the gentleqian might make.
Robert Garrett, not yet at the merid
ian of years, the possessor of millions, is
in a pitiable plight. He has broken down
completely. His nervous system is a
wreck and his mind is seriously affected
After all, what a poor man is the young
millionaire I
An Excited Editor.
The Birmingham Age grew quite liys-
terioai on the eve of the election in that
city yesterday. Its leading editorial was
an appeal “To White Man,” from which
the following is taken
The election tor sheriff to-day will divide
.white men and solidify negroes. Tho sons of
Japheth will strive with each other; the sons of
Ham will hold together. This garden of Ala
bama, this brightest Jewel of the South, Jeffer
sonian county, will remain in the custody of the
brave, the true, the wise, or It will fall tinder
the foul breath of aliens and foes, piebald In
truders and wrcl'kers.
Let Baltimore Smith come into office by the
result of to-day’s election and Birmingham may
well tremble In the presence of her fearful
peril. In a lew short monhts a mayor and city
government are to be chosen. Remember
Nashville; remember Memphis, and flee from
their fate under the horrors ot Radical do
minion. Bankruptcy, want, murder, filth,
peatllence, gamblers, prostitutes, bribery, con
tending with each other for the mastery, erect
ed in both of these fair cities a pandemonium
of Ills which originated with the success of the
Radical ticket for the civil officers of the coun
ty. The city government In each had to be
Abolished by tho legislature before dcconcy
and order could be restored to the people.
This hears a familiar resemblance to a
great deal that was seen in Southern news
papers when the struggle to overthrow ne
gro supremacy was going on, and editors
rfero very much excited. It is out of date
now, except wjth the Age and in Birming
ham.
The Age evidently believed that its city
tv, a -j £l“'o>->iln-" -v-l vUli.ii great disaster from
■ the i/cnio- , , ,
the success of the negroes candidate for
lteriff. Though that disaster is averted, tha 1
paper may with profit to iU future go back
over its own course to see in what degree
it lias aided in the success of “aliens and
foes, piebald intruders and wreckers.” If
the examination be made with a desire to
find the truth, the Age’s editor will find
that bis paper has for months done ail pos
sible to discredit the party through which
good government in Birmingham is alone
possible and to give aid and comfort to
the enemy. It has repudiated the policy
of the party to which it nominally be
longs, abused its leaders and published^the
campaign slanders of the vilest of Repub
lican partisan journals. Had the Age
been avowedly a Republican paper, it
would have mattered little what it pub
lished, hut it profe-sed to be Democratic
and to represent the sentiments of an im
portant community. Thus it was in posi
tion to open the gates of the fortress to the
enemy.
With its record, there is something gro
tesque in the Age appealing to white men
to rescue Birmingham from the rule of
negro ignorance, vice and corruption. It
should have known that the disorganiza
tion in the Democratic party which it was
trying to bring about would be felt first
in its own community, and come to a con
clusion beforehand as to the comparative
value uf white rule and the duty on pig
iron.
Mil Bates, of Chicago, who went to
New York with $13,000 to bet on Harrison
and Morton, lost his pocketbook with the
money in it at his hotel. It was found
and returned to him. Mr. Bates should
take this as a warning not to carry out his
purpose. It would be too bad to suffer the
agony of losing the same $13,000 twice.
fature, approved Septem-ier 5th, 1817, Invited
hlds by public advertisement for $1,900,000 of
four and one half per cent, bonds, dated Janu
ary 1st, 1889, and maturing la scries ol Jiao,.00
each from January 1st, 1898 to 1920 Inclusive.
After due publication the offers were opened,
and It waa found tbat the loan had been bid for
several times over aud that the bid ot the Mu
tual Life Insurance Company of Nevyjfork, the
largest Insurance company ami one of the
strongest financial institutions In the world, for
the whole Issue of $1,900,009 of bonds at 104%.
was the highest and It was accepted.
These bonds of Georgia bear the face ol Alex
ander H. Stephens, her greatest statesman, dead, _
and the sign manual ol Gov. John B. Gordon, tile corresponding date of
foremost in the work ofsutewefare and the , L
Impersonation of re union and national restor- ’ e 01 hales as comp Jr# ]
atlon. 1005
No truatto faith was ever mdro deeply found
ed, No trust to faith will ever be more invio
late. The Mutual Life never made a better in
vestment; In all substantial respects It Is as
good as governments, which are rating 20 per
cent, higher. Georgia never negotiated her at thl* market turned almost excltuinb
credit to better advantage. She could not have August corner for the first hall ol iL
a more powerful and useful friend in all the under review. Afterwards crop repotn
world of finance, one able to stead by her while the Live pool market began to have
her pillars of State, "Wisdom, Justice and Mod- ’ flu-nee. On Saturday August adorn™,
eration” last. 1 *’ * * 1
Although the receipts at the out
past week were 0,915 bale, tk,
movement from plantations „ 0
bales, the balance being taken f
stocks^ at the interior towns uV
the receipts from the plantation, !
same week were 5,219 bales and ,
they were 5,572 bales.
The imports in continental non
week have been 15,000 bales. ***
These figures indicate a decreai*
cotton in sight to-night of 293,6671,'
compared with the same date of jg,-'
crease of 242,555 bales as coinp ar ^
'*86, aud | J
ot -io.-j jo Dates as
1885,
The Chronicle has the following J
of the market fluctuations for '
under review:
The speculation In cotton for futuredi
the next crop was depressed, the
bullc!jq w
Col. George L. Perkins, treasurer of dl,lpo ' 1,lon 10 “***•.
.1 X- • I in. .... , attack on their opponents, who were™,.
the Norwich and VVorcester railroad, ce'e- “long" of the next crop; baton Tu'S
brated his 100th birthday last week. His | Wednesday August was somewhat depL
first vote was cast lor James Madison and and the next cr °P advanced slightly.
Georgia Credit.
The recent talc of Gcoigia huuda has at
tracted attention ail over the country and
is everywhere the subject of flattering com
ment on the fitate’s credit. The Financier
of New, York in its last issue devotee
several columns to a discussion of Georgia’s
financial condition.
The Financier sayc:
The State ot Georgia owns more public prop
erty than :s sufficient to pay her public debt
The annual rental of 1300,010, derived from one
railroad which the State owns, (the Western and
Atlantic, from Atlanta to Chattanooga) would
be nearly sufficleutto pay full Intereaton her
whole debt, funded on the baits of this $1,900,
000 loan, and that road would sell for enough
almost to pay off her entire debt, It being catl-
matedat a vaioe of $8,000,000, and 138'miles In
length.
Apart from this ia the fact tbat CMl,M|,92t.<k)
of her citizens' property la chargeable with this
debt of $8,!85,M0. In short she owns forty dol
lars for every one dollar tbat ahe owes. Furth
er, she cannot Increase her bonded debt, except
the 8tale from InvaaloD, defend
to confer any material advantage on thc*Knwlteh 1 ,tlu war * n ' 1 provide for casual deficiencies
tta,la* Th.t aa “ ill ht>r Htatjv ra>l*i>fl lla>a tint n ~r ra adlna tha IlmltaA
the last for James G. Blaine. There is
room for many reflections when one con
templates a voter’s career stretching back
to the time of Madison, but what strikes
the mind most forcibly is, that a mail of
96 should vote the Republican ticket. He
should have learned better. However, lite
the old gentleman may be in his dotage.
The Cotton Ragging Trust,
The ruling price of jute bagging during
the months of March, April and May was
about 6} cents. On the 23rd of June the
commercial papers quoted it at 7} cents.
On the first of August 10} cents was the
price demanded by the manufacturers^of
this article.,
S^WIiat caused this advance of more than
60 per cent, since May and more than 40
per cent, since the latter part of June? It
cannot be accounted for on any natural
grounds. It was clearly the result of a
combination of the manufacturers of bag
ging to swindle the producers of cotton
and grain.
The New York Tribune, the organ of
most of the trusts, on the 11th of July in
formed the public what might be expected
when it said :
"The manufacturers and dealers In cotton
bagglug have formed a combination for t c pur
pose of controlling the market and putting up
the prices. Although the association Is not ex
actly in the nature ol a Trust It will In all prob
ability have much the same effect that the sugar
'combine' has among the refiners.”
Several manufacturers of bagging after
this denied that they had entered into any
‘'combine” or “trust,” and said that they
had made “a simple agreement.” Evidence
on the other hand was offered by promi
nent cotton factors to show that the price
of bagging had been forced up from 7 to
over 11 cents as the result of a well-laid
schemeaml iron-clad combine of the man
ufacturers.
The only concern which refused to go
into this conspiracy was the Ludlow Bag
ging Company of Boston. Its total output
of nearly 6,000,000 yards has already been
placed at about 7 cents, while the price
fixed by the combine for all who were not
so fortunate as to trade with the Ludlow
Company is 11} cents. The present duty
on jute bagging is 1J cents a pound, or
more than 54 per cent. The generous
manufacturers of this article are so well
protected that last year the total imports
of bagging amounted to only $26,727.
The Mills hill takes off the 20 per cent,
duty on the raw material and the duty of
about 40 per cent, on machinery used in
the manufacture of jute. The Mills hill
also reduces the duty on cotton bagging
from 1} cents to J of a cent a pound.
Ia other words, the Mills bill proposes
to “protect” the farmers of the South and
West from the rapacious greed of the pro
tected bagging manufacturers.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough
have just been married for the third time.
The lady perhaps judges from the little
rascal’s record that the binding force of the
ceremony only lasts for a short time, and
as she wants to keep him she tries him
afresh every few weeks..
trader. That would have been afaanrrf T!.,. In herUtate revenues not exceeding the limited
cause of the satisfaction was the rehnff which it , ,
administered to the fatuous cry ot protection In I This reference is mide to therecent iaue week of 10 bales.
England. The Mill, bill was not a free trade cl bonds
blll-to so describe it would be a palpab
Cotton statement.
From the Chronicle’s cotton srticle of
August 10, the following facte are gathered
relative to the movement of the crop of the
past week.
For the week ending this evening,August
10, the total receipts have reached tM>15
bales, against 6,384 bules last week,
8,033 bales the previous week, anti 1,062
hales three weeks since, making the total
receipt* since the 1st of September, 1887,
8,507,511 bales against 5,213,448 bales for
the same period of 1886, showing an
increase since September 1, 1887, of
294,063 hales.
The receipts of alt the interior towns
for this week have been 6,424 bales. Last
year the receipts of the saute week were
7,270 bales.
The old interior stocks have decreased
during'the week 3,036, and are to-night
«'£> bales more than at the same period
last year. The receipts at the same towns
have been 4,032 bales more than the same
week last year, and since September 1 the
receipts at all the towns are 112,970 bales
more than for the same time in 1886-7.
Among the interior towns the receipts at
Macon for the week hare been 10 hales.
Last year the receipts for the week were
bales. This shows »n increase for the
[ The total receipts from the plantations
The State of GeorgU, having $2,111,000 of 1 iincc September 1, 1887, are 5,504,068
wassomo liquidating for August, butoall
nesday tho decline met sustaining ordenJ
11.10. The prolonged "dry spell" In Tew J
gan to excite comment, and to give rite teas
prehensions of drought; the next crop, *
fore, made some advance, o
demand to cover contracts
considerable buying for the rise. On Thm
lucre waa a general advance on a bet er rew
from Liverpool, which brought out buyers t
cover contracts; and late in the day a fieih g
vanco took place on rumors regarding u
forthcoming Bureau report. To-day the msrh
was active and buoyant, the feature being In
buy! got September, sufposed for account ol,
Liverpool house, "short" ot that month. Ik
Bureau report was variously regarded, sc
therefore had no special Influence. Colton .
the spot advanced l-l«c. on Saturday and ;^e.a
Monday, when the usual deferred report
•ales was made. Receipts at the ports begin .
embrace some lots of new cotton. To-day the!
was a further advance of 3-16c., middling u
lands closing at 11 6-16c.
Macon Telegraph.
From the Americus Recorder.
The Macon correspondent of the Atlanta Cos
stitutlon says Col. J. H. EstlU has purchase
the Macon Telegraph, and will immediate
take possession, and remarks that there will la
no change In the policy ot the paper. This last
remark was unnecessary, as It Is well knows
that Col. Estill Is and has been an uucomptv
mtalnw advocate of tariff reform and has gl.u.
President Cleveland's administration a hearty
support.
\Ye are pleased with this change In the pro-
prlctorahip ol the Telegraph, for It will col
only give Macon, but Georgia, a daily paper ua-
equaled in the South. The geographical situs
tion of Macon la favorable for f dally paper d
extended circulation, the moat favorable
of any point In the State, and under Col. Ee
till's practicable management the Telegraph
will take a Lading position In the newspaper
world. Col. Eetlll Is a practicable newspaper
mon, familllsr with all the details of the Worb
and as a business man has few equals. Hehu
made the Savannah Morning News one of tba
leading newspapers oi the soutn, and has nans
It a paying Investment without making Its edi
torial columns a medium ol traffic, or ratering
to the worst taatca of humanity. Gnder Col
Estlll'a management the Telegraph will not
only be the best type of a newspaper, pure ia
principle, but It will be a successful burlnea
venture, and a power in polltlcs-a power that
will only be used lor the benefit of the people,
and not for the benefit of a ring.
The Macon Telegraph.
From the Charleston News and Courier.
Wc do not know really whether Mr. Eetfll or
the Macon Tei-egrai-ii is moat to be congratu
lated on the change of ownership of that paper,
which baa Just been effected Mr. Estill knows
how to make a good newspaper, In cveiy way,
oi he has proved by hla admirable and success
ful management of the Savannah Morning
News. But the TxhEoaArH Is a good newspaper
already, and la Indeed one of the brightest suJ
best uf tho dally newspapers published In
the South. It enjoya the confidence of
the Ueorgla public, and has deserved
that confidence by fighting manfully lor Ike
best Interests of the State, and educating lb®
people to know what were their true Interest*.
In the face of the strongest opposition. It !•
gratifying, at any rate, that a good paper hu
fallen Into to good hands, if a change ot owner
ship bad to be made, and wo can cordially co°'
gratulatc both Mr. Eattll and the TiLknaArs on
the transfer and wish them Increased sucres*
hereafter. The paper will be kept on the lice
of tariff reform and low taxes, on which It he*
fought so gallantly and effectively, and the in.
nouncement tbat It will remain In editorial
charge of Mr. F.U. Richardson give* assurane*
that It will not lose ground In any direction.
The Knight In Silver Mall.
8he left the needle in the rose
And put her broidery by,
And leauing from her casement tall
She hearit the owlets cry.
The purple sky was thick with stars,
And In toe moonlight pale
She saw cmne rl ling from the wood
A knlgut In silver mail.
Ills plume was like the snowy foam
I hat wreathes the roaring tide,
The g ory of hia golden locks
Ills heimet timid uut hide.
She took the Illy from her breast
(Like hers, ils beamy frail),
Ami tlropped It as he rode beneath—
The knight in silver mall.
About her gown of crlmaon silk
She drew a mantle dark.
She aaw the stalely casilu-towora
Uprising from the park,
And on the lake the mail'd itwans.
Asleep in shadow, sail,
But left It alt to follow him.
The knight iu silver matt.
"Oh, 1 would see thy face, my love.
Oh, I would see tny face!
Why dost thou keep thy vlaor downl
It la a lonely place."
His voice won like the hollow reed*
That math) In the gale;
“ ’Tin lonelier Iu my castle," said
The knight In stiver mail.
He let his steed go riderless,
He took her by the baud
And led her over brake and briar
Into a lonesome land.
“Oh, are they headstone* all a-row
That glimmering In the vat
-My castle walla are white.” replied
The knight in silver mall.
"So close unto thy castle door*
Way burlcst —cu tne dead?" . ..
“For tea tong years I've alept with them-
Ab, welcome home!” be said.
IIenlaspe.1 her dainty waist around.
And In thu moonlight pale
Upraised his vlaor, aud she saw
The knight In sliver mall.
At dawn her father's men-at-arms
Went searching everywhere. . . .
And found her with the churchyard 'lew*
A-sparkle In her hair.
And lol a sight to make the best
And bravest ol them quail:
Besldefjcr in the tangled gras*
A skeleton In mail.
—August L'entury.