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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY AUGUST 21-TWELVE PAGES.
POLITICAL.
Tom Grimes Renominated
by Acclamation.
CANDLER SERVED 'THE SAME WAY
Both Conventions Entirely Harmonious,
ami the Late Opposition Falls Into
Line Handsomely—An End
to Speculation.
.m S ». «... ----- - ing. He was minister to the United State.,
CoLUHBtn,* August 14.—[Special].—The tlT ’ ? fC ° 1 °‘? b l a “nder lla^ .nd .ince then
convention of the Fourth Congressional dis
drict was held in this city at noon to-day.
Judge B. F. McLaughlin, of Meriwether,
wis made permanent chairman withont op
position, and the newspaper reporters acted
as secretaries. Dr. F. M. Riddley, of Troup,
got the floor and pat in nom-
ination the name 'of Hon. Thomas 'W-
Grimes, the present incumbent. Dr. Reddy’s
brilliant eulogy was greeted with prolonged
applause.
Mr. W. H. Hall, of Coweta, arose, and
after eulogising Col. John H. Traylor, of
Troup county, withdrew his name and moved
that Grimes be nominated by acclamation,
which was done amid great enthusiasm.
The chairman was authorised to appoint a
new esecutive committee, after which the
convention adjourned. Nothing of an un
pleasant nature occurred and everything
was unanimous. The delegates were ban-
quitted at the Rankin House to-night.
4 The convention of the Twenty-I-ourth
Senatorial district was also held here to
day. Hon. W. C. Johnson, of Muscogee,
was nominated by acclamation.
Cun Women Think?
From the Boston Traveler, August 1.
The most striking paper in the Univer
sal Review for July is entitled “On a
Certain Deficiency in Women,” and is
written by Miss Fletcher, the author of
“Kismet." "Vestigia,” and one or two
other delighted stories, who veils her iden
tity under the nom do plume of Geojge
Fleming. The problem proposed in this
paper is “Have women a capacity for seri
ous thinking?” a question of which the
writer plainly espouses the negative side.
And the one great reason for their failure,
she alleges, is one so full of force, of un-
erring insight and of actual truth that it is
impossibe to deny it—the reason that wo
men are practically never alone. ‘Me
present writer’s eyes,” savs, “that disabili
ty consists almost entirely in the feminine
incapacity or radical disinclination (the
word matters little) for serious concen
trated and continued thought. And this
gain derives in a great measure^ from
the crowded life, the gregarious habits, the
ineep-like failing and halting of educated
women. Whether it i» imposed on them
or accepted by them, the result, so far as
art and morals are concerned, remains the
same.” There is a depth of significance
this. To a woman ill what is conxention-
ally known as good society the love^of sol
itude is as utterly unknown. She is cha
peroned and escorted and companioned
till "she has not only no clear idea
of her own identity, but no very
clear identity of which to have an idea.
To achieve this result is, under circum
stances that very frequently occur, a tax
that becomes a serious burden materially,
as ttcH ns » conwtwui ehJR- n»#nt«lly A
man ynay betake hiimelito any^place or
resort he pleases, be a spcciaiof of its life,
and..yet retain, if he likes,. the personal
solitude'qf the primeval wilderness; but
if a woman would go to the mountains, to
the sea, to the city—anywhere she will,
she must have at least a woman
compnuiun with her is t-ie 2®
of a chaperone, friend or maid.
Othexw isc she will acquire at best a repu
weeks later, satisfied of serious internal in
juries, but Dot aware of their full extent,
Dr. Mudd,in the presence of his associates,
inserted a silver tube through the boy’s
side. This furnished but temporary re
lief. The child's abdomen became dis
tended from causes that will suggest them
selves, aud he was in a high fever. But
one chance for life remained, and that a
most desperate one—the removal of the
kidney now known to be affected.
In till the history of surgery tile opera
tion has been performed but sixty-one
times, and the patient in these cases rarely
recovered. The case was this: The oper
ation might save the child’s life. Without
hours.
Dr. Mudd called to his assistance Dr.
Iiaumgarten; Professor Jenks, of the
Washington University; Dr. Willis Hall,
Dr. Harvey Mudd and Dr. Harry Hod-
gen. Chloroform was administered. Dr.
Mudd and Dr. Baumgarten had direct
charge of the operation. At the end of
one hour from the time the chloroform
was administered Dr. Baumgarten entered
the parlor on the lower floor, where the
father of the child sat in agonized sus
pense, and said:
“We have had a very successful opera
tion. You are to be congratulated.”
It is a pity that under the “code of
ethics” the gentlemen engaged in this re
markable operation nrc prevented from
giving to the unscientific world the details
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET. |
Col. Scruggs Willing to bo Ran for Gover
nor-Other Places to bo Fllletl.
Atlanta, August 14 —The sub-comuiit- .
tee from the State Republican central com- j
mittee are haying no trouble in getting the j
consent of several leading Republicans to
run on their State house ticket, this being
a Presidential year. Some three or four j
are being considered for the race for the 1
governorship, the latest being Col. W. L. |
Scruggs, of Atlanta. Col. Scruggs is a
strong Republican, but lias not partici
pated in the party matters, locally sc eak-
GEORGIA NEWS.
Proceedings of llie State Ag
ricultural Society.
, A. NISBET ELECTED SECRETARY.
utge Lumpkin DeoM»« Hie nancock Con
test In Favor or the Sale—Nomina.
Hons In Lowndes and in the
Sixth Senatorial District.
ut vuiumuia unuer xxayca, ami eiuvo w™
has resided quietly in Atlanta, devoting
most of his time to literary work. He has
has written a letter to the sub-com
mittee in which lie expresses his wil
lingness, if it is the desire of the party,
to ofler for Governor. Upon the
selection ol a candidate for Governor, the
committee, which is composed of twelve
members, is divided. Some favor Scruggs,
others Jonathan Norcross, while a few in
sist that Gen. Longstreet be again requested
to allow the use of his name.
For the Attorney Generalship the com
mittee will nttempt to pet Judge J. S-
Bigby to run, and, failing in this, ex-
Couneilman E. A. Angier will be selected.
The sub-committee will be called to
gether on or before September 1, when a
giving to tneunscenunc worm me ueiatis Jfeket u t0 be t g m / opoD . Col. A. E.
of it. The removal of a kidney is not an Buck u chairman the committee, and
every-day or every-year occurrence. It hig preference8 will bave considerable
has been done, and men are living to-day, - r - -
to all intents and purposes as sound and
»v ... un.... .w purposes
whole as ever, but the operation is one re
quiring a rare combination of skill and
knowledge. In the course of time the
notes of the ease will furnish a subject for
a college lecture; shronded in technicali
ties and perve ted Latin, it will be de-
Bcrihed in some medical magazine.
DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI.
Reminiscence, of tho Steamboating Dhjb
That Are Gone Forever.
From the New Orleans Picayune.
The destruction of the splendid river
steamer Edward J. Gay by fire Sunday
night could furnish to the historian of
steamboating on the Western waters a
mournful episode to close the annals of a
most brilliant and icmarkablc period in
weight. One reason given for the willing
ness of so many Republicans to run _ for
office this year is that in case Harrison
and Morton should be elected, they believe
they will be rewaided by “snug berths”
for their faithfulness to the g. o. p.
ON THE WARPATH.
The Hatllelds and McCoys Resume Their
Bloody Battles.
CATLETTsncno, Ky., August 14.—There
is trouble again in Pike county between the
Hatfields and McCoys. Frank Phillips,
sheriff of Pike county, who made the former
arrests and whose duriDg deeds made him
famous, seems to be the coveted prize-of
West Virginia outlaws, who seem determined
to get his scalp.
The trials of the Hatfields were set for
llpUU WIC v. ...v ........... w-—
arks, developed into the magnificent and
majestic floating palaces, of which the Gay
was one of the last representatives.
Life on board those splendid and elabo
rately-furnished steamers was, in the days
before railways gridi.oned tho continent
the realization of oriental luxury. No
body was in a hmry, and the lordly plan
ters and wealthy merchants who traveled
with their families on these great ship8
which navigated the mighty Father ol
Waters contrasted with the rude and un
couth pioneers who were building up an
empire in the wilderness upon its banks,
and with the negro slaves who also made
up a large proportion of the cargoes of
these floating palaces assisted to form a
stmiige and remarkable panorama of life
in the heart of the New World.
There were hundreds of these great ves
sels, all vieing with one another to present
the most attractive features of comfort and
luxury. On one of these boats might be
found’ assembled, but not always asso
ciated, the most distingm-hed and cele
brated’ men. the mo-t beautiful and accom
plished women, the most daring pioneers,
the most desperate adventurers, with a due
sprinkling of commonplace persons. Some
times scenes of delightful festivity, desper
ate gambling, wild orgies of debauch, and
bloodv crime might have taken place on
one of these boats. They furuuu material
for the most Btartling dramas and the most
F B EESrmK Tswsrsu. ..a
ver knows the silence of her iu | ra river steamers began to decline in favor,
ms. “There is scarcely one man Thev became fewer year by year, while the
ousandf’aays Mis* Fletcher, who, at j f developed into the most advan-
met meinLs hfe.hasnot feU and in- " VC / 0 "V 0 l rm8 of (‘eight carriers, swift and
deed the impulse to step out from the k f|i , , and (ow-lying barges. To-
infc and file of his fam.liara and h s con- P J t ‘ # ^harvea of New Orlean-, where
imporaries, and envisage his own nature f - v there migbt have been seen
■ripped of its ^rmBaudaurroundmgsj , llm ^ 0ll o{ tbc6e grcat
t a man worthy of the name, Mil nn * ] w |,ite as colossal swans on
irehed for and found himself, JgJW Jg*, riv ^ balconicd , latticed, and
s hewn out his own pinnacled like an Eastern palace, with a
wrestled, like J«cot>i througn J core o( „ av fags fluttering m the breeze
long nights of his youth, « l,htle am , taU b) Kck towers belching inky smoke
rn-hrowed angel of some revelMMO. ; n „ the blue sky with their faurky
id all tnat implies voluntary solitude, ^ ' , bere arc now 'seldom more than
implies an impassioned Intereat In the *»P or t)irn ,_ In a short time there will be
personal and a continuous habit of the t „ n lnnver seem to have a
nd. And are such things, then, finally
ind. And are such things, then, finally
■nied to the larger half of our adult pop-
lation?” As society goes they are; and
is hardly an extravagance to say that
iia denial of individual freedom u Ihe
iost inimical Influence to women’s lutel-
dual achievements. To a woman living
ithout members of her own fam-
y this unwritten »wr be-
imes a severe financial tax
a at least half the aflafrs of her ^life she
iu»t duplicate her expenses. Wheneer
10 takes her walks abroad, so. to speak,
ic must invite a lady companion, and as
er companion is her guest she must be
ntertained, both in the sordid matter ol
ills paid but in what is often more in
iving her time and energy to her guest,
'hvs she is severely handicapped lor in*
dlectual work. 6he is cabined, cribben,
oniined. She can command noconditions
)r serious thought. And u without seaious
bought behind it—a rerious habit of
bought”—as George Fleming well says,
••lent of which thw world is full lowers
> the merest money trick of the imagina-
ion:athing pliable to fashion, at once
signing over and dependent upon the
Rest whims of the day.”
A TRIUMPH Or SURGERY.
Lemoval of nn Injured Kidney from ft
Hoy’s Rody.
rom the 8L I-ouli Globe Democrat.
The physicians and. surgeons of ot*
-ouis are discussing with as much pride
a is permissible under the code of ethics a
ecent syul remarkable addition to the long
Ut of unusual yet successful surgical op-
rations that have given certain members
f the profession an international repnta-
ion. I)r. Mudd. with assistants, has buc-
essfully removed an injured kidney from
• boy five years of age. The little feiiow
s without fever, able to eat three hearty
□eals a day and beyond danger. f l he
>atient in the case is the.son of a well
mown operator on ’Change, a member of
>ne of St. Louis’s oldest and best known
amilies.
On May 15 the lad was riding on the
ront seat of the family carriage with the
oachman when he fell off between the
vheels and one of the rear wheels passed
liagonaily over his left groin.
No bones were broken, ami, although
he boy was badly- bruised, nothing aerious
*as apprehended for two week- at least,
then Itie passage of blood alarmed the
Jarent* and Dr. Mudd was sent for. Two
none, for they no longer seem to have a
mission in the commerce of West.
THE TAX LEVY.
The Total Levy for Stato Purposes or Three
00-100 of One Per Cent.
Atlanta, August 14.— 1 The following
order was issued to-day by the executive
department: Pursuant to section I of the
tax act approved December fi'2, 1880,
which requires the Governor, with the as
sistance of the comptroller-general, to
levy a percentage on tlie taxable property
of this State sutheient to meet the financial
requirements thereof not to exceed a cer
tain per cent named therein and after ap
proximating, as nearly as practicable, the
amount in value of all taxable property m
the State, as exhibited in the digests. It
is ordered that two and six-tenths be
assessed and collected upon the amount of
tho value of the taxable property returned
by or assessed against each tax payer and
upon the value of all property in the
State subject u> UxaLoa M valorem. It
is further ordered, that in addition to the
two aud six-tenths of one per cent
above ordered, an e * tra , ,P® r
cent of sixty-five one-hundredths
of one per cent, be assessed and col
lected in conformity with an act approved
December 20, 188(5, ui>on the amount of
the taxable property returned by or as
sessed against cadi tax payer and upon the
value of all other property in the State
subject to taxation ad valorem, and it is
further ordered ,
That in addition to the two and six-
tenths of one per cent, and sixty-five one-
hundredths of one per cent, as above or-
oered, an extra per cent, of tbirtv-one one-
hundredths of one per cent, be assessed
■ : B conformity with an act
approved August 26, 1887, upon the
amount of the value of the taxable prop
erty returned by or assessed against each
taxpayer and upon the value of all prop
erty In the Slate subject to taxation ad
valorem, the whole making three and
fifty-sixth one-hundredths of one per cent,
for all purposes for the fiscal year year
1888. J. B. GoKJXW, Governor.
\V. A. Wriuut, Comptroller-General.
Advice to Mothers.
M-ahMtta.
most uruiiain auu ... lne iriais oi me .........— — --
navigation. The era of steamboating on Pikeville yesterday. Last week Phillips
the Miisissippi river is embraced in three- was out through the county securing wit-
miarters of a century. In that time tho nesses, and when in the neighborhood of
slow-going, ill-constructed craft, modeled Bitter creek the scene of the former hitter
upon the plan of the ancient Uliio river encounter, he was approached by three men
upon in® I,‘ i t) who claimed to be detectives, and who de
manded bis surrender. Phillips replied by
whipping out his revolver aud opening fire
on tlie trio. He shot the belt off of one
Alexander, well known here, and secured
Iiis three revolvers. No ono was hurt in
the mclcc. The three retreated minus their
hate, weapons, etc. The next day they re
turned with recruits iu search of Phillips
and his body guard, aud the West Virginians
were again repulsed.
Sunday the Hatfield sound, to the number
of sixty, passed the mouth of Bitter creek
and Captain Hatfield told an old miner that
lie hail better leave, as there was going to be
trouble. Shortly afterward the miner heard
a skirmish between the Hatfields and Mc
Coys, the intter being forty-five strong and
lying in wait for their enemies. After the
smoke of battle had cleared away, it was
discovered that three Hatfields were kiiiea
and two wounded, while three of the Me
Coys were slightly wounded. The end L not
yet, but the Kentuckians have the best ot
them, inasmuch as they are thoroughly or
ganized and well armed.
—— mZT-
TUAT DANCING NEEDLE.
Tlie lilac It Quartette "till D!gs'"s for dooie
of Murrrll’« Gold.
A few days ago the Telegraph made a
report of an Alabama negro lieing hard at
work on the place of Mr. John Stokes, in
Twiggs county,digging for }75,00pof John
A. Murrell's gold, tho spot having been
located by means of an odd-looking instru
ment, whicli lias been termed by those who
saw it as tlie dancing needle.
Mr. Stokes lias been in tlie city, and lie
reports that the negro and his three help
ers arc yet <1 ig ging, nnd that they have nn
abiding faith in the belief that the treas
ure will be readied at a depth of thirty
feet. Mr. Stokes, although promised a very
large share of the treasure for permission to
dig on his land docs not pin his faith to
tlie enterprise. He has a sort of idea that
the dancing needle negro is hero in the
interest of the Republicans, and has
adopted this method of gathering the
negroes together. There is never less than
two hundred around. Mr. Stokes says the
digging is very opportune. lie wanted a
well in the field and knows that when the
gold diggers have reached thirty feet they
will strike water. He will thus get his
well dug without cost. It is an ill wino,
etc. *
jay iui uwiiuub
Mptood-twly
APPEARANCE OF CATERPILLARS.
Mr. LumJScott Discover, n Few of Thom in
Ills Cotton Patch.
On Monday afternoon Mr. Lum Scott
went out into his cotton field, a few miles
from Mncon on the Houston road, to show-
some of his neighbors what the plant was
doing. In turning over a few leaves he
was horrified to find caterpillars. He pro
ceeded to another portion’of tlie field and
more caterpillars were found.
Mr. Scott’a cotton is made and the worms
cannot injure him, but the cotton of his
neighbors is late nnd he fears that they
will be damaged. Mr. Jere Hollis has
some cotton near by and the Mikado iarm
is not far off, and both crupB arc con>idered
in dai ger, though it is possible that tlie
ravages may be prevented, or tlie worm
may not increase in numbers. Old farmers
say the aptwarance of a few worms do not
always inaicate that destruction will fol
low. The conditions may aat always
Buch as to propagate them.
These are supposed to be the first cater
pillars of the season.
How to Reduce Your Expenses.
You can do it easily, and you will not
have to deprive yourself of a single com
fort; on the contrary, you will enjoy life
more than ever. How can you accomplish
this result? Easily; cut down your doctor’s
bills. When you lose your appetite and
become bilious aud constipated, and there
fore low spirited, don't rush oft to the family
physician for a prescription, or, on the
other hand, wait until you are sick abed
before doing anything at all; but just go to
the druggist's and for twenty-live cent- get
a .apply of Dr. l’iercc’s Pleasant Purgative
Pellets. Take them as directed, and our
word for it, your unpleasant symptoms will
disappear as if by magic, you will hnye no
big doctor', bill to pay, aud everybody in-
Wrested (except the doctor) will feel happy-
Tftlm»ce’« Financial Hcoop.
Atlanta, August 14.—It is said that
Rer. T. DeWitt Talmage’s ▼ is it to Chau
tauqua netted him ll/JUO. He delivered
one lecture and |»reacJ»ed one sermon, for
which he got $600 each. It is also said
that President Kiser offered Mr. Talmage
to remain over and preach again next
rMiiidatf, hut that he declined the ofler, **
he hail engagements to fill in the Wet*
Dr. Talmage left yesterday for Cincinnati.
NkwxAK, August 15.—[Special.]—Tues
day, on the reassembling of tho convention,
the executive committee announced the
name of R. A. Nisbet, of Bibb, as perma
nent secretary. The first'business of the
convention was the re-election of W. J.
Northen for permanent president for the
ensuing year. He had no opposition and
was elected unanimouai/.
Several fine addresses were made by Com
missioner J. T. Henderson, Mr. DeWolf
and others.
The convention adjourned to hold its
next meeting in the city of Brunswick.
PAST notes.
Newnan is royal in her entertainment
of delegates and visitors, and everybody
praises the good people here.
Col. W. A. Turner was happy in his ad
dress ofVelcome. He is a pleasing speaker
and enthused in tendering an old fashion
Georgia welcome. He appeared to excel
lent advantage on the stage. .He is a can
didate for the judgeship of this circuit and
is a formidable opponent for any man to
meet.
Cel. Grisby Thom**, of Columbus, re
sponded in behalf of tiie convention. In
tnis eloquent effort Col. Thomas distin
guished himself. His introductory, des
criptive of the meeting last February at
Waycross, was very beautiful. He voted
there for the call, “Come to Newnan.” “In
spite of the evolutionist,” to quote Dr.
Talmage, “as to where wc came from and
the theologian as to where we are going,
nevertheless we are here,” in response to
that “come.” He went on, continuing
said: “Will you pardon me here if I
give you a bit of history of the
society and department of agriculture as
our “credentials” in response to your pres
ent “welcome,” In all ages, agriculture,
peace and plenty have gone hand in hand.
Who of us has not been tired of reading of
those cruel wars of Greece and Rome, and
turned aside with Virgil and reclined
“under the shade of the wide-spreading
beech tree,” and listened witlr delight to
his descriptions of agricultural life in the
Augustan age. The Augustan age was the
zenith of Rome’s glory, when agriculture
and not war was the chief pursuit. So it
was iu Georgia in 1840 when, at the sug
gestion of Hon. Mark A. Cooper, late of
Bartow county, forty-four Southern plan
ters issued a call for “an agricultural fair
and internal improvement jubilee” at
Stone Mountain. The meeting assembled
August 7th, 1846, Mark A. Cooper,
Ciiainnran, and David W. Lewis,
secretary.’ They formed a society
lor “developing and illustrating
the resources of the country” with tifty-
oA© members. lion. Thus. Stock, of Greene,
4** elected president, David W. Lew is, sec-
j, «**♦>; V7 M Aftgwu'ftj
treasurer. The society resolved “to hold
a fair annually, for the exhibition and sale
of all such articles of agriculture and hor
ticulture as may be contributed . by mem
bers and citizens, to include animal and
vegitable products of the plantations,
farms, orchards, gardens, dairies, agricul
tural implements and articles of domestic
manufacture. Such was ihe begiuuiug of
this society.”
The State Agricultural Society gave
birth to the agricultural department of the
State. At the urgent request of this society
Gov. Jas. M. Smith, iu his annual message
to the Legislature in January, 1884, rec
ommended the establishment of such a de
partment. The bill was drafted by
John P. Fort, of Bibb, and presented by
Hon. Edgar Butt, of Marion. On a vote
there was a tie. The speaker, Hon. A, O.
Bacon, cast the vote which made it law
and gave life and being to tho present De
partment of Agriculture Here the speaker
gave an outline of what the department
is doing, especially the great effort made
to prevent tho introduction of spurious
fertilizers.
The department brings to the State a
handsome revenue, which is placed to the
credit of the department of education.
Speaking of Macon as the most appropri
ate city for the annual State Fair, Colonel
Thomas said: “No Georgian who enters
the beautiful grounds of Central City Park
and beholds the magnificent display of the
geological, agricultural and mechanical
products of our State but feels within his
heart the conscious pride that Georgia is
the empire State of the South.”
The speaker made an eloquent appeal
to farmers to let severely alone these loan
associations, the end of which will ^give
our lands to aliens. Said he: ^ “O. Geor
gians, we, whose fathers reclaimed these
lands from Die savages—and which so
long have nurtured us—let us prize our
birthright—let us love her mountain
peaks, her fertile valleys, her red old hills,
and her broad meadows of wire-grass. Let
us borrow no more of foreign capital.”
The eloquent orator paid his respects to
the “trusts” which are formed to swindle
farmer, and when he alluded to the
great bagging trust, he was cheered to the
•;cho. Tho colonel took his seat amid great
‘there is in this city a retreat for
ielegate* who want to pl*y
between the acta. Editor Brown, Col. H.
W. Dews and H. C. Fisher have charge of
this department of hospitality* Here ele
gant cigars, made in Newnan, were handed,
an<l mementoes from the blue grass region
•ffered, and pretty pocketbooks giwu an
souvenirs, bearing this enterprising stamp:
“Use Coweta High Grade and Aurora
Ammoniated Phosphates, manufactured
bv Coweta Fertilizer Company, Newnan,
Ga.”
Col. S. P. Maddox, of Dalton. Bill Fel
ton, Col. Boh. Nisbet. Dr. Clifton and
Howell Williams, of Bibb, D. K. Butler
and T. R. Bennett, of Camilla, Prof. C. C.
of LaGrange, Col. Dave Barrow and
Prot. White of Athens, Coi. Newman, of
Canton, Tom Lvoti, of Cartersyilie, Col. T.
W. Fleming, of Baker, Col. Livingston, of
Covington, Col. Jim Barrett, of Augusta,
Judge Harrell, ot Webster, are here taking
part in the convention.
Death of Mr. II. W. Howard.
Amerivup, Auburn 15.—[Special.]—Mr.
If. W. Howaid died yesterday of hemor
rhagic fever, contracted in Calhoun
county. He was one of the Ijest builders
and repairers of gins in this section. He
was alxjut 50 yearn oiu, wa« reared in Chat
tahoochee county, and leaves a wife and
i three children.
THE HANCOCK CONTEST.
Judge Lumpkin Finds a majority of 87 fo
the Sale.
Sparta, August 15.—[Special.]—The
prohibition contest before the Superior
Court terminated this morning. After
counsel for contestants haft put in evidence
about one hundred tax fi. fas. vs. voters
and the record of conviction of a few
others, and had commenced to attack a
large number of other voters as not on the
tafx books at all, though chargeable with
taxes or poll, on propertv or both, they
offered and moved to amend their grounds
of contest by challenging a large number
of other voters, not so challenged before
the ordinary.
This motion being refused, they closed
the case, nnd Judge Lumpkin declared the
result to be 87 majority for the sale. The
ordinary had. declared the result 150 for
the sale. The evidence, of course, was
different in the two cases.
now col. imicK got rich.
He Diftoboyert Ordc
uployer
Nominations at Valdosta.
Valdosta, August 16.— [Special.]—.
Wm. Roberts, of Berrien county, was
nominated lor Senator from the Sixth
Senatorial district to-day and Levi Knight
for 1 the House from Lowndes county.
A WATCH TRANSACTION
In Wliicli n Young Man From tlie Country
Flays a l’romlnent Part.
About three weeks ago a young man
about twenty years of ajjc and giving his
name as Walter G. McMtchael stopped at
the store of Mr. Henry Berkner, a few
miles out of town on the Forsyth road, and
said he lmd been working in some of tlie
saw mills in the lower part of the State,
and wanted to clerk. Mr. Berkner lias a
warm place in his heart and he took tlie
young man in and gave him a job, also
allowing him to sleep in his house in tho
same room with hi* son.
Last Thursday tlie Berkner residence
had the appearance of having been entered
by a burglar. A coat and vest belonging
to McMichael had been stolen together
with a vest, gold watch, pistol, two knives
aud n dollar and ten cents belonging to
Mr. Berkner’s son. On Friday McMich-
ael’s coat and vest were found in a corn
field near bv.
On Tuesday McMichael turned over to
Mr. Berkner a letter proporting to have
been written in Americus saying that Mc-
Michael’s mother, in Sumter county, was
dying and requesting tho son’s presence.
There was something suspicious about this
letter Jand Mr. Berkner, while saying
nothing about it, suspected that Mc
Michael was his own correspondent.
Yesterday morning McMichael left Mr.
Berkner for tlie avowed purpose of going
to the bedside of His dying mother. He
had gone from tlie house hut a few
minutes when Mr. Berkner was informed
by his son that his new cl» rk had slipped
something in his bosom around the corner
of the house. Mr. Berkner followed the
young plan into town and be
fore he knew it ht was
in the hands ot Officer Bonner, who locked
him up until a warrant could be sworn
out before Justice Poe. In the meantime
McMichael had been charged witii the
larceny, and had weakened, saying that he
intended taking the watch and pistol
which he had concealed in shirt bosom to
the pawnbroker and had intended sending
the monev realized hack to Mr. Berkner.
The case was heard by Justice l’oc and
McUiohael was committed to jail. , , ....
SOMCbLA ■ up It* «aav-«wlgU'anjr -H.-waa careluJ ip <uiprjm thi. r,n th* ma
in about Schley and Sumter counties, hassadors mind at the last moment, when
from about Schley
lie came here a month ago hunting work,
and after a week found Mr. Berkner and
went to work for him, doing anything that
might come to hand.
After the house was robbed lie found
Alfred Berckner’s vest behind the gin
house with the wateli_ and pistol^ and
would have delivered them up bui for ihe
fact that he had heard Mr. Berckner say
he would kill tlie person found with them.
He therefore wanted to bring them in
town and pawn them and send tlie money
to Alfred. He does not know who stole
them, and says while his story may acem
singular it is nevertheless true.
'Toll me, wbero Is neuralgia bred? Or In lto
heart nr In the bead, how begot, how nour
ished?” ”Oh! I wouldn't bother about all
that. Cure It with Salvation Oil which costa
only Clients."
A QUAKE IN MAINE.
Tlie Town of Winthrop Experiences n
Half-Minute of Horror.
Winturop, Me., August 15.—One of the
most severe earthquake shocks ever felt in
this vicinity occurred at 8:40 last evening.
A report like that of a heavy cannon, con
tinuing thirty seconds, shook the earth vio
lently, swaying buildings and rattling dishes
and furniture. A second shock, felt about
midnight, was somewhat lighter but of
about the same duration.
The shock was the worst known to the
oldest inhabitants. People were aroused
from sleep and many were ao terrified at
the severity of the shock as to be nearly be
side themselves. Reports of earthquake
come, from milea around. It was diflerent
from any previous shock here in its begin
ning, breaking forth once with a very loud,
sharp report. The noise continued at its loud
est for half a minute. Houses were shaken
on their foundationi like large oaks iu a
fierce gale, anil the noise subsided into a
distant roar, which could he heard aeem-
ingly toward the northwest. No serious
damage is reported, although everything
received a general shaking up.
If some enteiprlslng fellow woulil now cor
ner the market on Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup he
could make his fortune, for there are thousands
who would rather pay double the retail price
than be without thla valuable remedy.
The Gift** Company’s Meeting.
Atla* * a, 15. The stockholders
of the Atlanta Glass Company held their
annual meeting this morning. E. A. Fin-
kle. the superintendent, was elected a di
rector in the place of H. J. Lamar, Sr.,
whose term had expired. S. M. Ininan
was re-elected a director. The report of
Mr. Finkle, the sui>erintendent, showed
that the new and improved furnaces were
ab A ut completed and fires would be built
in them to morrow. These furnaces are
double the size of the old ones and will
turn out twice as many bottles, besides
making a much finer quality of gla«.
They will consume four tons of gluas a
day. Forty-eight hands will lie employed.
The factory will open up again September
3, and Mr. Finkle says that he will make
a£v?nty-five thousand gross of bottles dur
ing the next ten months. The monthly
pay-roll of the factory now foots up $6,000.
, bnt Ills
Was Glad ut It. •
From the New York World.
“It isn’t often that a man owes his suc
cess in life to direct disobedience of ex
plicit order?,” said a gentleman to World
reporter yesterday, “but Calvin S. Biice,
chairman of the National Democratic
executive committee, is an example of
what a man can gain by doing exactly
wilul lie is lulu Lot to do, and i liking bin
whole fortune and his reputation on his
own judgment.”
Tlie story is an interesting one and in all
probability is known to very few jiereons
outside of the State of Ohio, and not to a
great many even there. Less than nino
years ago Mr. BricC had not a dollar in
tlie world. Indeed, it might be truthfully
said that he was wortli several hundred
dollars less than nothing. To-day
he is five times a millionaire, nnd he
owes his fortune, or rather the basis
of it, to acting iu opposition to a command
which lie was to have been paid tocxecute.
In l»79-80 Mr. Brice was a lawyer in
Columbus, Ohio. He had brains, ability
and an aptitude for his profession, but he
lacked one important factor, without which
the most profound jurist in the universe
cannot hope to succeed—he had no clients.
Besides this, he wns wofully perplexed
because there was a mortgage on his
mother's bouse, ami, as there had been a
default in the payment of interest, fore
closure waa imminent.. The holder of the
mortgage wns the then Governor, “Charley”
Foster, and lie did not seem disposed to
grant any further timo for (he settlement
of tlie arrearage. Mr. Brice could not
raiso enough money to meet the claim,
although the lien was for tlie comparatively
insignificant sum of $2,000, and he made a
peisonal appeal to tile Governor.
“I cannot see the roof sold over my
mother's head,” lie said to Foster, “and un
less I can get some business that will
bring me a return you will sacrifice the
property. I want you to give me some of
your legal interests to look after. Any
thing at all. I must have something.”
“I am very sorry, Brice,” replied the
Governor,” but I have nothing at all just
now that I can throw in your way."
“Then appoint me to some oflice ( ” sug
gested the young lawyer in despair. "I
ran till any position where perseverance
and industry will count. All 1 want is the
opportunity.”
“That, too, is impossible,” answered Mr.
Foster. “I am a Republican and you are
a Democrat. You can readily sec that I
couldn’t potsihly do what you ask, even if
I had a vacancy at my disposal, which I
haven’t. I’ll tell you what I'll do, though.
I want some one to go to New York for
me and attend to some matters on Wall
street. If you want to go and will do ex
actly what you are told I will give you
$600. Now, that is tho very best 1 have
to offer. Meantime the foreclosure of the
mortgage may he held in abeyance. All
I want Is that I shall be obeyed implicitly.'
Do you understand?”
Of course Lawyer Brice jumped nt the
chance, and overjoyed he was to get it.
The next day he packed his grip and waa
soon Hying eastward. At that lime there
was a deal in progress, whirh was prelimi
nary to the great Hocking Valley deal, and
in this Governor Foster was interested.
He told Mr. Brice just what he wanted
done, and warned him against being led
off by apparent inconsistency of the in
structions and acting iu opposition thereto.
A We
i Discovery.
"Another wonderful diicovery him been mode
and that toobv a iady In tain county. UiM-ve
f ante tad it* clutches upoa her snd for seven
years *he w llhlNood its severest tent*, but her
vital organs were undermined and death teemed
imminent. For three months she coughed in
< esft&nlly and i otild not sleet*. She bought of
us a bottle of I>r. Kihg’s New Discovery for
O.riMiinptlon and wiu so much relieved on
taking first dose nlie slept all night and with
one tattle ha* been miraculouly cured Her
name i- Mr-. Luther Lutz Thu* wrote W. < .
Hamrick A Co., of Shelby, N
the train won moving off.
Mr. Brice went among ihe bulis and
hears upon his arrival and began to recon
noitre. Possessing the perceptive faculty
to a marked degree and endowed with un
usually keen f resight, he saw that to
carry out the orders lie had received won Id
he determined to assume the extraordmarv
rif-k of acting counter to his instructions.
This, after careful deliberation, he did,
and telegraphed the announcement of his
disobedience to Columbus. The Governor
was not there when tiie dispatch was re
ceived, but when lie did get it his anger
was boundless. He sent a characteristic
message to Brice asking him what he
meant by such an action after lieing fo
carefully warned and instructed to do just
the other thing.
To this Mr. Brice was able to reply the
same day “Because I saw a chance to
make $4o,000 lor you, and I made it.”
Then he started for home. It may be cor
rectly surmised that 'Foster had cooled
down considerably before his venturesome
agent returned In iact, his anger had
changed to generous good nature, and
when Brice marched into his office he ex
claimed: “You have done well, my boy;
so well that I will share with you.” Hure
enough, he handed to Mr. Brice one-half
the profit of the transaction—$20,000.
Returning at once to New York,
and armed with information gained
on his first visit, the lawyer
invested the whole amount in East Ten
nessee. This netted him a handsome sum.
Making another turn, he took a flyer in
Hocking Valley and came out a million
dollars ahead. Richmond Terminal next
took his fancy, and hemadeanotherstroke
of fortune, and when he saw it was time to
quit he was a couple of million dollars
richer than when he asked the Governor
of Ohio to give him a chance to make a
few dollars.
“So you see,” said the gentleman who
told the story, “if ‘Charley’ Foster hadn’t
held that mortgage and Col. Brice had not
violated Stephen Girard’s motto, ‘obey or
ders if you break owners,’ he mightn’t be
worth the fortune be is to-day.”
The Future.
\Keau at tno xuuerai cciciuuuici vl iuv-uilw.J,
Oh. what has the future lu store for me,
The future so dark and deep?
What meanings inhabit ita mystery?
What sounds does ita silence keep?
How long shall my heart ita heart-bcate tell?
.Shall my days my dreams destroy?
Shall heasoas of peace my sorrows quell
Or shall sorrows conquer joy? %
And what of the future with this life o’er?
.-hull I lHU-,'h <>r >lmll I weep?
Is death but to open a heavenly door,
Or ts it eternal sleep?
I cacnot answer In vain I try
The things of time to foresee.
What folly then to prophesy
The events of eternity!
Iu their limitle**, endless range.
Which shall rule in the race while the true la
the true—
Is the might of human worth.
In the spirit of man 1
In his soul do the s
In the mind of man
Humanity is king.
% the spirit of good,
Hpbim *dug.
« the inasterhood—
tnd when to a sense of the infinite all
1 he spirit of man is allied
ii a noble intent, then, whatever befall,
His fate to the highest is tied.
I —Courtland Falser.