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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 25-TWELVE PAGES.
an injunction
piled by the Widow of tlie
Late Col. Frobel
AGA1N3I THE COVINGTON AND MACON
i Col* E. G. Machen, Restraining Them
A °Vrom Iaaulng or Disposing of the
liontls or Capital Stock of the
Company—Text of Dill.
In the clerk's office of Bibb superior
court Mrs. Frobel, widow of Col B. \V.
frobel, vice-president and general manager
of the Covington and Macon railroad, filed
through her attorneys, Harrison & Peeples
0 f Atlanta and Dessau & Bartlett of
Haion, a bill of injunction against the
Covington and Macon railroad and Col. E.
C. Machen.
Attached to the bill is the order of Judge
Richard H. Clark of Atlanta that “the
Covington and Macon railroad and E. C.
Machen be restrained as prayed for until
the hearing hereinafter provided for. Let
defendahts be served with a copy of the
bill and show cause betor* Hon. George
xf (; us tin, judge of the Macon circuit, at
Macon, on Kept. 29 at 10 o’clock a. m., un
less the time be changed by agreement, or
by the order of the said judge or some
other judge qualified to do so, why said re
straining order should not .be continued of
force until the final hearing. This order
to continue of force until the final hearing
can be had.”
thk full tf.xt of the bile.
Conies of the bill have been served on
Col. Machen and other officers of the road.
The bill is quite lengthy, but the following
is a copy of the essential portions of it?
Mary id. Frobel, administratrix on the
estate of her husband, the late B. W. Fro
bel, presents this bill against E.C. Machen
of New York, now sojourning in this state,
and the Covington and Macon Railroad
company. She sets forth that iter husband
was a civil engineer and was often engaged
in works of public improvement; that on
the 27th of April, 1885, he procured J. A.
Ansley of DeKalli county and Leonidas F.
Livingston of Newton county to unite
with him in an application to the state for
a charter, which was granted J une, 1885,
and on that day the road was organized
with Frobel as vice-president, general man
ager and chief engineer, and on July 24,
1885, the capital stock was fixed at $2,000,-
000; and that at the meeting on Aug. 25th
following authority was given for
the issuance of the first
mortgage bonds of the company
to an amount not exceeding $12,000 per
mile on each and every mile of said road
then in process of construction or to be
constructed in the state, said bonds to bear
date of OcL 1,1885, and t" In- made pay.
able to the Mercantile Trust Company of
N.» York, or bearer, on Oct. 1,1915, with
inteiest at 0 per cent, per annum, payable
semi-annually, on the 18th day of March
and September each and every year.
That on August 31, 1885, the directors,
Frobel, Livingston and Ansley, entered into
A CONTRACT
with E C. Machen for the construction and
equipment of said road, which contract,
among other things, said, “in consideration
of the fulfilment of the foregoing provi
sions of this contrail by the said party of
the first part, to-wit, the said Maclicn. said
Covington ind Macon Railroad Company
hereby promises and agrees that they shall
and will, for drawing and preparing the
work ar. afereeaid, »■*»» nr cause to be paid
to the said party of the first part, his h^jrs,
executors and administrators or assigns,
the entire capital stock and first mortgage
bonds of the said railway company, to os
issued at the rate of $12,000 per mile of
each ami every mile of completed road,
and all subsidies, donations, etc., of what
ever kind or nature they may he, sucli as
lands, subscriptions in cash, or other
property, as nmy be received in aid of the
construction of said work. Whenever any
section of ten miles or more of ssid
railroad shall be completed, the contractor
shall notify the engineer of
said company and he shall fix a'day
for the inspection of such lines so com
pleted; and upon the written acceptance
of such section or sections, the railroad
company shall issue an order to its trustee
to deliver to said contractor $12,000 in
bonds and $12,000 in stock for each and
every mile of said accepted road. In case
said contractor shall or may require an ad
vance of ten or twelve thousand dollar* in
Imnds, or a greater amount, for the pur
chase of rolling stock and material, the
same shall be furnished him on order of
the board of directora, provided there is a
sufficient number of miles of road com
pleted, hut unaccepted, to equal the
amount of advance required. And
it is herein further provided that
there shall be no further issue of
hoods or stock by said company than those
herein specified without the consent of the
party of the first part in writing first ob
tained, and that the entire issue of stock
and bonds is limited to $12,000 per mile of
roid,” said contract was predicated upon
an agreement had between the said parties
as evidenced by a letter from said Machen
to said Frobel dated at Atlanta, July 24,
1885, which said “under the arrangement
for building Ihe Covington and Macon
railroad it is understood and agreed by me
that one-half of the capital stock of the
company and one-half of the. lands
acquired on other property acquired by
Livingston, Frobel and Ansley,
•hall he turned over
t° the syndicate furnishing the
money, and the ojier half shall be divided
ja follows: To L. N. Livingston, B. W.
* rebel, J. A. Auw), tsrc cizth* nt the
whole; E. C. Machen, one-sixth of the
whole.”
At the same time there was
A CONFIDENTIAL MEMORAVDUM
to the effect that this agreement existed,
and that Livingston, Frobel and Ansley
were auxioua to build a road from Cov
ington to Mocon, and had obtaiued certain
donations of land, water power and prop
erty for the purpose of aiding the enter
prise, and were unable themselves to equip
the road, were desirous of contracting with
Machen and his associates for that pur
pose. Then follows the agreement noted
10 Machen’e letter above.
The complainant alleges t hat udder the
•Ereement andconteacts Machen became
the sole stockholder of the road, holding
two-thirds of the stock for himself and as
sociates and one-third interest for Frobel.
Livingston and Ansley; that he held and
still holds title to all its property as weli
as that which had been acquired or was
acquired afterward by Frobel, Livingston
anil Ansley; that these gentlemen procured
from limc’to time Urn donations iq land
aud interests in lands along the line of
road and also large amounts of subscrip
tions to the capital stock of the corpora
tion of about $100,000. Among other sub-
script ons the cities of Madison and Athens
agreed on June 18, 1886 to take at par
$150,000 of its first mortgage bonds
and pay for the same on the completion of
said railroad from Macon to Athens. It ia
further claimed that of the subscriptions
for the bonds the city of Madison agreed to
take and pay for $5:1,000 of the bonds, and
that the Richmond and West Point Ter
minal Railway aud Warehouse Company
and the Richmond and Dauville Railroad
Company agreed to take and pay for $97,-
000 of the bonds when the track should be
connected with the track of the Northeast
ern Railroad Company to Athens, on con
dition that Athens would release the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad Company
from tho existing obligation to extend the
Northeastern railroad to the town of Clay
ton, in Rabun county, which release was
granted.
The complainant says further that now
the track of tho Covington and Macon is
about to be connected with the -Northeast
ern railroad, and that when it is done
Madison is bound to take aud pay for
$57,000 of the first mortgage bonds of’ the
Covington and Macon, and the Richmond
and Danville and the Richmond and West
Point Terminal Railway and Warehouse
Co. became bound for $97,000 of the bonds,
and that Machen is daily collecting other
subscriptions, donations and contributions
to the Covington and Macon railroad.
WHAT COL. FROBEL DID.
Complainant further alleges that her
husband labored - incessantly with great
zeai and persistency for the construction
of the road from its inception to the day
of his death, which occurred at Monticello,
nn the line of the road, on July 12, IssK;
and that for his services as vice-
president, general manager and chief
engineer it was agreed by all the parties,’
Livingston, Ansley and himself that lie
should receive $300 per month, and that
bis services began with the organization
of the company, June 11th, 1885, and that
only $480 has ever been raid on account
of this salary ( ar.d that tnereaow remains
due and unpaid for his services $10,G20,
payment of wli.cn lias been demanded of
Machen and the Covington and Macon
Railroad Cempany, and has been refused.
Complaint further alleges that her hus
band paid out and expended of his own
money for the construction of the road
large sums of money, the amount of which
is unknown; that $29,000 was so paid to
Port A. Ingersolljfor the benefit of the road
and the road has also refused to pay this.
Complainant further says her husband
used in the servico of the road his own en-
g'nei-ring or surveying instruments valued
at $1,000, and these instruments were in
the possession of the road at the time of
his death, and these have also been de
manded and refused.
Complainant further says her husband
purchased in June or July, 1886, the rights
of Livingston and Ansley and paid each
in cash $3,500, and therefore, her husband
was entitled to one-third of all the
property belonging to the road procured
by Frobel, Livingston and Ansley, and to
one-sixth of the capital stock, to-wit,
$333,553.33j; . iuat iL proceed: of the
bonds at $12,000 per mile have been more
than sufficient to pay costs of constructing
the road, and that such excess and all cer
tificates of the capital stock of the company
and all titles to the property of the road
have been carried by Machen to foreign
jurisdictions and beyond complainant's
reach.
AT her husband’s bedside.
Complainant further says that during
the last days of the life of her husband,
and when it w-as apparent that his sickness
would be fatal, Machen was a frequent
visitor to his bedside and often exhibited
great excitement t.m! cmbarruMment
because of the presence of others that at
different times he was discovered in the
midst of efforts to proenre her husband to
sign papers, the contents of which were
unknown to iter, and that her husband
was greatly annoyed and disturbed by the
importunities of said Machen and finally
requested that he be not allowed to come
into the room.
That while on the road from Monticello
to Atlanta with the remains of her hus
band, Machen persisted in talking to and
advising complainant greatly to her an
noyance and distress. She cannot now re
member distinctly and exactly what he
said and advised, except that she should
not advise with any one other than him
self, that he alone knew the condition of
her husband's affairs and could do
more for her than anyone else, and espe
cially she should not talk to a lawyer
about tier husband’s business.
Complainant further says that after the
funeral Machen returned to Macon and
took possession of the office and de-k
which bad been occupied by.her husband,
and that he procured keys with which ho
opened the desk, and that he lias since
and until now continued in exclusive use
of the same.
That during the last three years of the
life of her husband, lie practically lived in
Macon and that the desk was ths repos
itory of ilia personal and official papers.
That within a few days after his return
from the funeral to Macon, Machen, with
out being 60 requested, entered the room of
the hotel which had been occupied b) her
husband, took possession of his effects,
some of which he shipped to complainant
in Atlanta.
A VISIT TO MACON.
That about on July 20,1888, she came
to Macon and found Machen in possession
of her husband's office and desk; that she
requested leave of him to take from the
desk the papers of her deceased husband;
that lie opened the desk for her. and upon
her remarking the confusion therein, he
replied that he had done them so.
indicating by a gesture that he had
wrought some of the confusion therein,
rvminlainant failed to find, any . papers of
value. She then requested Mm-ueu to In
form her fully of the amounts due by the
company to her husband and to bis rights
and interest in the road; that Machen re
plied in many and abundant protestations
of friendships for her husband and his
family, saying that he only had any
knowledge of the relations which her hus
band had sustained to the road and his
rights thereunder, and that it was his pur
pose to do all that he could for complain
ant and her two daughter (who
are the only surviving children
of her husband) and that if let alone and
not in any way embarrassed in his efforts
to complete the road to Athens, he would
then give complainant and her daughters’
$50,000 of the stock of .the company,
which he said was then worth in the
market 70 cents on the dollar; but com
plainant s-tys that during the two hours
Interview Machen wholly failed and declin
ed to answer any specific inquiry, until
finally wearied by her fruitless efforts to
obtain the information she sought, she
went into the adjoining room,
and then and there in the
presence and hearing of Machen,
requested A. C. Palmer, the secretary and
treasurer, to deliver to her a full
STATEMENT OF THE tCl’Ol NTS
of her husband with the company asshGwn
by the books. With this reasonable re
quest, Palmer promis-d early compliance.
Afterward, on or about Aug. 1st,last, com
plaint received by mail, in answer to let
ters addressed to Palmer requesting that
the statement she had personally asked for
be sent without further delay, a letter
from Palmer of which the following is B
copy:
. Covington and Macon Railroad, l tffice of
Secretary and Treasurer, Macon. Ga., July
5.M, 1”'- Mrs. I!. W. Frobel, Atlanta,
Os.—I herewith send statement of Col. 11.
W. Frobel’s account as per his books, etc.
M ij- salary e**
June salary coo oo
July salary so uo
Total jiso no
Advanced by E. C. Machen SOO no
Total s>m no
Expense account as per his book E'-O to
Advanced by E. C. Mai-licn 00 no
Advanced by E C. Maeben SO to
Advanced by A, C. Palmer eo oo
Advanced by A. O. l'atmer 01 to
Total flHO 60
YourB very truly,
A. C. PALMER, Assistant Treasurer.
A LETTER TO COL. MACHEN.
Tbat.sqon after the receipt of this lellei
complainant came agiin to Macor. and
tried to obtain from Machen information
as to the rights of iter husband from his
connec'loD with the road, but in every
effort she was baffled as before, and think
ing that it would be useless to jiersist
further she requested payment of the
$340.50, and it was then and there paid
without hesitation by said Machen.
Complainant was reluctant to believe
that Machen had wilfully withheld the in
formation she had siught with in
tent to defraud the wife and
children of hij dead friend, and
was still unwilling to heed the warnings of
others, and would not believe Machen
capable of such inhumanity, and therefore
on the day ot September, inst., she
addressed him a letter of which the follow
ing is a ropy:
“Atlanta, Ga., Sept., 1888.—I have
waited, it seems to me, a long time for
your promised visit, when I hoped you
would inform me fully and definitely as to
the interest of my iate husband ill the
Covington and Macon railroid. On my
first visit to Macon after his death, you
told me you intended to come, and re
quested me to do nothing until you did
come; that you knew more than all
others and intended that I should have
the full benefit of vour knowledge and
friendly interest. You also said that the
company owed my husband $2,900 paid by
him to Mr. Post, and that when the road
got to Athens 1 should have $50,000 in
stock. Before leaving, I requested the
secretary of thiscompany to send me a full
statement of the interest and claims of
my husband as shown by the books of
the company, A very brief statement was
afterward sent to me showing an indebted
ness of $310 which you kindly paid me on
my secand visit to Macon. How
is it that the statement did not include the
$2,900 and contains no reference to stock?
Oh, Mr. Machen, how can you so soon for
get the man who stood by you when :H
others deserted you? Do you think Cob
would have thus acted toward your wife
and children? Forgive, me, I do not in
tend to wound yott; t only feel deeply
hurt. Please let me hear from you very
soon. I am yours, etc., M. L. Frobel.”
cot- MAUHWN’a reply.
Complainant’s apprehensions that sh
and her daughters would he cruclia
wronged bv Machen w< re greatly increased
by his only answer to the above letter, of
which the following is a copy.
“Atlanta, Kept. 12, 1888.—My Dear
Mrs. Frobel: I started here yesterday to
ynn ; but cur train live hours late,
throwing me in here after 10 o’clock. By
the time 1 got a cup of coffee and a little
to eat it was 11 o’clock—too late to come
out and see you. I am due in Athens to
day, to attend to twelve injunctions against
the Covington and Macon railioad. and it
will absolutely necessitate my going on the
first train—7:10 o’clock a. m.,or would strp
and see you. It is net certain that we
will ever get through with the roail at all,
as the opposition to it seems to grow
stronger. In the event it should ha final
ly overthrown in its efforts to get through
there would be nothing to fight over ex-
ccptjits debts, ns it would go to the bond
holders. I fully realize the nlaolute
necessity of stayingclose by it as the only
hope of bringing it through at all, hence
nmgiving it undivided attention loKheex-
elusion of everything and everybody el-e.
Hope vou ami the girls are well ami that
I will get a chance to see ytu
soon as I desire to do so. I 'will
run for the train. Give my love to all.
Ifartily your friend, E. C. >f.’’
AN INJUNCTION TRAYED FOR.
Whereupon complainant prays that
Machen and the Covington and Macon
railroad officer* and agents lie restrained
and injoined from issuing or dis|>osing of
any nf tin* bunds nr capital -tuck of the
company after service of this bill, and that
each and all be restrained from collecting
sny subscriptions, etc, to said road, and
from delivering any bonds to the cities of
Athens ami Madison or to the Richmond
and Danville or Richmond and West
Point Terminal Railroad aud Warehouse
Company, or from receiving any money
from them until the just claims of com
plainant have been paid and tier rights in
these premises have been secured and a
final decree can lie obtained
in this case. Unless im
mediately restrained Machen, and the
Covingreu and Macon railroad will de
liver *150,0011 in Imnds til Athens, Madi
son and railroads named, and collect there
fore the said sum of $150,000, and this
done the said Machen would flee the state,
and thus leave complainant without
remedy. Whcreforeshe prays that Machen
and the Covington and Macon railroad be
reatrained. etc. Complainant further prays
that upon the final hearing oi this bill
she may have a decree against said Coving
ton ami Macon for the said sum alleged to
be due a* salary, value of engineering
tools and for the monev advanced by him
to Port & fngcrsoll. She also prays that
it be decreed that there he Issued to her as
administratrix by Baid railroad company
$333.33:! 33 of the stock of the slid rail
road company he held by her as said ad-
minis-ratrix, to be disposed oi according
to law. ***
One Trust Which They Don’t Like.
From the Charleston New- ami Courier (Dem.)
There is only one trust to which the
republicans are bitterly and unalterably
opposed—the trust of the people of the
United States in President Cleveland.
A NIGHT SCUFFLE.
Watchman Pat Pierce Re
ceives a Pistol Ball.
THE WOUND NOT A DANGEROUS ONE-
Hull Enters the Left Leg—What Mr.
l’lurce 8ays About It-Tlie Story ot
the >1 HU Who Shot the I’lslol
to he Told This Morning.
When a threatening lung iliiord*
Shows its tire: proclivity,
Do not let it cro-s the noritei -
Quell it with activity.
Many a patient, young or olden,
Owes a quick reco-,ery
All to Dr. 1’ierce’e Golden
Medical Discovery.
Mr. Pat Pierce, night watchman at the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail
road freight depot, lies at his home this
morning witli a bullet in his left thigh.
From what could he gathered of the par- i
ticulars of the shooting it seems, according
to Mr. Pierce’s statement, that about
9:30 o’clock last night he
found a man lounging about on
tho tracks immediate to the depot, and on
going to him he was recognized as Mr. Jim
Davis, who keeps a bar on the corner of
Bridge Raw anu Uomnlgee streets. He told
Mr. Davis that he would be run over by
some of the shifting engines and that he
had no business in that yard no how. Just
then another man came up leisurely and
Davis began using harsh words to Pierce,
who finally drew his pistol and said lie
would call a policeman. Davis followed,
and when some distance from the depot
building Davis pulled out his pistol and
tired three times, one ball taking effect.
Mr. Pierce sayB he immediately closed in
on him and beat him over the head until
lie was exhausted. In the scuffle Pierce
managed to lose his own pistol, but suc
ceeded in getting that of Davis, who ran
off'. Pierce says he does not know what
became of the man who was with Davis,
or does he know who he was.
As soon as the scuffle was over Pierce
hobbled to the depot, some fifty yards dis
tant, and telephoned for a physician and
also to the city hall for an officer. Mr.
Cress and others front the office over the
J iassenger depot then arrived and Mr.
’ierce was made as comfortable as possible
while waiting for the arrival of a physi
cian.
Dr, J, A. Etheridge arrived and made an
examination. It was found that tho ball
had entered the left leg a few inches above
the knee, causing considerable loss of
blood, which had the effect of weakening
Mr. Pierce. After the wound was dressed
he was carried to his residence near the
city bridge.
Officers Baugiin, Grace and Mathews be
gan a search for Davis. They found that
almost immediately after the shooting he
had gone into his bar and called for some
money. This was given to him and he
walked out. It is said that he came to
Macon from Hawkinsvilie a short time
ago and opened tlie)saloon. Mr. Pierce
says that he is satisfied he was drinking
last night.
The wound is not’ considered dangerous,
though it is likely to lay Mr. Pierce up for
several days.
Mr. Davis sent word to Lieuiennut
Wylie lute at night that he would beat
the recorder’s court this morning; that lie
had done nothing more th*n to defend
himself and not wishing to be locked up
for the night would keep out of the way of
the police until this morning when he
would give his side of the case.
‘ AN UNFORTUN ATE WIFE.
An lnsau. White Woman from Clay Coun
ty Whips Her Hnubanil.
Tuesday evening there arrived on the
Southwestern railroad Mr. J. II. Bailey of
Clay county with his wife, who is hope
lessly insane. She came ou the train
peaceably, but when Mr. Bailey tried to
carry her to the jail Bhc resisted and
fought her husband manfully. She was
finally placed in a hack and carried to the
jail to he kept until this morning When
the hack drove up in front of the jail Mr.
Bailey got out and instantly his wife
jumped out on the opposite sido and be
gan walking away rapidly, looking be
hind her at the same time Mr. Bailey
ran to her, lmt she fought him and no
doubt would have whipped him but for
tiie timely arrival of Jailer Birdsong, and
the unfortunate woman was carried into
the buildhtg. Inside the office she again
fought her husband, but was finally locked
up- ,
Mr. Bailey says she was in the asylum
for two years, and aheut a month ajjo he
carried tier home. He became so violent
in her efforts to kill her husband and five
little clisldren that he found it nccestary
to return her to the asylum.
Mr. Black of Errly county brought on
tlie same train a negro woman who was
also insane, bnt she was not at all violent.
The Americans Heat AH Dancing.
From tho Philadelphia Record SepL 1.
“Americans are the best dancers in the
world,” said Prof, Solomon Asher, the
well-known dancing master, yesterday,
who arrived home on Friday from a trip to
Europe. The professor is more enthusi
astic than ever abont the merits of his own
country and fellowcountrymen. “I visited
the principal dancing schools in Vienna,
Paris ami London,” he said yesterday.
“Why, when I danced at Wiesbaden the
whole company stopped after a round or
two just to watch me. Y’ou see, I reversed,
and they cannot do that over there.
“ When I asked them why they did not
reverse they said they did not like that
kind of dancing, hut the truth was they
did not know how to. They have just got
the American glide over there, and Paris
and Ixmdon arc wild over it. When I was
in Paris a number of ladies waited on me
ami :u,ked me to form a class and teach
American dancing, but I had to decline.
They made a lion of me wherever I went,
and 1 had a splendid time. I visited
Bremen, Beriin, Vienna, Liepaic, Dresden,
Wiesbaden, _ Frankfort, M*y«oi», Park-,
London, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Paris!
O, that’s a grand city, and so are Vienna
and Berlin.
“There was really nothing new in the
way of dancing. I fbuml that everywhere
they locked to the Americans as the best
dancers. When an y American dances
they say, ‘Ah, there i- dancing for you.
We can do nothing like that.’ We are
ahead of them in everything, dancing and
all, and I returned better satisfied with my
country than ever. They are all trying
to get Americanized over there, and I saw
i signs of American drinks and all sorts of
American things everywhere.”
The professor came to the conclusion
from bis observations that Americans are
the most jKilite and gallant jieople in the
world, and that ibis country can give
points to Europe on pretty much every
thing except ruined castles, picture gal-
lerie-, museums ami cathedrals. The
fashionable dances in, Philadelphia this
winter, he said, would be the York, which
lias been popular at Bar Harbor, the
glide polka and the glide.
UNCLE IRA’S ROMANCE,
Crawford
Too Good to Uo True.
New York Correspondence Philadelphia Ledger.
From time to time the sugar trade here
has heard of experiments with a new pro
cess of refining sugar, whicli was being
kept a profound secret, but which, it was
promised, would, when brought to perfec
tion, work wonders. The only thing
known about the process was that it was
an electrical one. The trade has never
taken more thr.n a passing interest in the
experiment, and never possessed any con
fidence in its success. Indeed, os year lias
followed year without a demonstration of
absolute practicability, the trade lias gen-
or illy regarded the whole thing with sus
picion and incredulity, much as tlie world
regards the pretentions of Mr. Keely.
Lately, however, there has seemed to be
something of a change of sentiment in re
gard to the process. Sugar men are begin
ning to fear that there may be something
in it after all. Actual sugar, of the
most beautiful crystals, manufactured
by this process, has been exhibited on
tne “street.” Last week there were two
tests, to which several sceptical sugar mer
chants were invited, and, according to all
accounts, they came away greatly puzzled.
A refinery has been put up in Brooklyn.
Tin* machinery has been manufactured in
different parts of the world, in order that
the secret might not be disclosed, and this
has been put together. I am told that a
final test must I c made before Oct. 10. If,
on or before that date 1,000 tons of sugar
are refined by this process in a given time,
it is said that English capitalists are will
iiig to invest $15,000,000 In the enterprise.
1 have no means of knowing how true this
is, but it is evident that the trade is now
awaiting with much interest this final ami
conclusive test. If successful, according
to tlie measure expected by its projectors,
thi: process will i-.s one of the greatest
commercial sensations of the cen
tury. It would revolu ionize the
sugar trade. It would close t!
existing refineries and drive millions of
capital out of the business and break the
great trust. The cost of refining by this
process, ns compared with that of tlie ex
isting method, would be os 70 cents to $14,
and the time consumed in the refining ns
ten minutes to twenty hours. VII this, of
course, reads like a fairy talc. It seems
preposterous, but in tiiese days of steam
ana electricity, when one can put n “griale
around the world” in forty second*; when
one can talk from New Y’ork to Washing
ton; when one can reproduce bv a machine
the voices of friends far distant, and, per
haps, in the grave; when steam has anni
hilated space and revolutionized trade, one
cannot afford to treat scornfully a new
thing because it seems strange and prepos
terous. The inventor of tlie alleged new
process was a German, who, after laboring
eight years on the invention, died some
time ago, leaving his secret with his wife
and one other person.
A Floating Sum me House.
From the Troy Times.
William H. Westfall,a retired capitalist
of Burnt I fills, Saratoga county, has just
completed a floating cottage, which he has
placed on Saratoga lake. The size is 19 by
39 feet, the boat part being built as a cata
maran and buoyed up by twenty-two kero
sene oil barrels, eleven barrels on a side.
The cottage consists of five rooms, includ
ing a reception room, dining room, kitchen
and two double bedrooms. Tim cottage is
furnished with beds and bedding, three
stoves, closets, carpet', and everything
needed in a house, ev. n to a pump. Each
room has a large window, the kitchen hav
ing two—one on each side. There are
three doors opening on the deck, one on
each end and one on the side. The deck is
entirely surrounded with a substan
tial railing, jiving a pas
sageway on each side of
three feet in width and front and rear
decks of 8x19 feet. The roof is so
arranged as to project over the side passage
ways, protecting the deck from the sun and
rain. The front and rear decks are pro
tected by awnings, so that by
pulling on ropes they are r.iistd, and can he
used as sails when up. The whole collage
is pain’ed inside and outside, and the
rooms are all neatly papered. The cottage
is propelled bv a l..rgr wheel worked by-
means of two hand wheels, ami is steeled
by rudders and a’so supplied with ani-hon
SICK HEADACHE
IIKAKTISCKN, LIVER INDII.hSTlON
EIIPEI’SIA, COMPLAINT, .IAUNDIC*
c T7 23 32
uuiy Malden Who Went I * w ““ w
to Uio spring tiller ’-Voter. BmOUKffi
UlcIc Ira Jennings rarely fails to bring
in n batch of news troiu the country when
lie cornea in with the mail from Warrior
district and Crawford countv; blit his
news consists ma nly of swollen creekB,
submerged bridges, col’ll gathering, cotton
picking, frolics at HcElmurray’i store, and
the effect* of '‘aantiuildietv foginossitv” on
the boys of bis district, iiut Tuesday he
varied the monotony by bringing in a
romance.
It seems that Mr. Joint Smith, of Craw
ford, (John Smith in this instance is a
bona tide name) is a hard working, indus
trious farmer. Neatly a year ago he lost
bis wife, and not long ago lie decided to
wed again. His choice was his sister-iu
law, Miss Lizzie Kcarboro, but her father
was unwilling to give her up. She was
Itis idol, and he bestowed upon her all the
wealth o? a father's affection. A few days
ago Mr. Smith secured the services r>f
’Squire Green Holloman, and with the
license and a witness they went to the
Bpring not fnrfrom Mr. Albert Scarboro’s
house, and there sat down and enjoyed
occasional draughts of the
clear, cold water. They knew
that it was th^custom of Miss Lizzie to go
to the spring alter water and they waited
patiently for the coming. They were final
ly rewarded for their patience by seeing
her coming tripping down the hill with
her pail unconscious of the fact that her
lover was in tho vicinity. Arriving at the
spring she was startled to find the party.
Mr. Smith informed her that he had tlie
license, the 'tquiro’s services iiad been en
gaged and all was now ready for tying tlie
knot. She hesitated, but the lover’s per
suasions were too powerful and when she
carried the pail of water back she was Mrs.
Smith.
Uncle Ira says Mr. Scnrboro is a very
sensible man and when told of the mar
riage he acknowledged that he had been
outwitted and then extended his congratu
lations.
BY USING THE GENUINE
Dr.C.McLANE’SHH
CELE3RATED——
nmLIVER PILL8I
FnnrAnno only by
FLEMING BROS., Pittsburgh, Pa,
asrDewarei’f Coca ruttrcm muto to St. Loula.*8|
A New Yorker wilh n fltatorj.
From t’.ic Chicago Mall, Aug. SI.
One night, just after the big fire, three
young men sat down in the ruins and talked
about what would probably be their fate.
These three men were If. G. Front, a Mr.
Boardman and a newspaper man. l’rout
was a quiet, determined sort of fellow,
wh se home was at Riverside. Ilia projio-
sirion was that they should leave the city
and the country and cast their fortunes
with the khedive of Egypt. He made a
glowing picture of the land of the Nile and
predicted fortune and fame. There was no
outlook here. They decided to go. In the
midst of the : r arrangements, Bcardman
received a flattering offer to go to New
Y’ork, which he accepted, and the news
paper man received one to go elsewhere,
which he accepted. Prout accepted his
fate, and started alone for a world he had
never seen and of which be knew compara
tively little. Of his journey there and his
first experience there is uot much to say.
In time he reported to Gen. (Chinese)
Gordon nnd became one of h's most faithful,
and trusted aids. After a short service
lie was promoted and had the title of
governor-general of tlie provinces of the
interior. His capital was Zado, n point
1,000 miles south of any white settlement.
Here the young Chicagoan ruled nnd
reigned in a sort of oriental magnificenre
—for that country—which makes his life
one of romance. He had his courtiers and
courieis, who did him the homage due -a
potentate. Many of tlie manners and cus
toms of the people of that land were re
tained by him. He had his troops, and
with them made invasions and conquests,
and now nnd then discovered a race of be
ings of which history and explorations
had made no mention. In the fastnesses
of one of the mountains he found a tribe
of blacks who were giants in physique and
more than the average uncivilized tribes in
intellect. He gave a dress parade before
them and made such ostentatious display
that they enlisted under his banner. lie
found their perceptions quick. They
learned the evolutions of his tactics in re
markably short time, and everything ire
taught they grasped with eagerness, aud
maiie good a..!,II,. ..
lie was restless, and in conseqdence he
pushed his invasions and came bark loaded
with the riches of some remote tlibe. He
had enough of the romantic in his make
till to adapt himself to the religious forms
of the country, an 1 his capital at times
presented a strange appearance.
Having spent much of his time in the
service of the khedive in the manner
stat ’d, the government at length ronol
ded to negotiate with England for the pur
chase of gunboats for its service. General
Gordon sent l’rout to Ixindon for that pur
pose. lie had fl leave ot ahtcenee in order
to do this “ork. Having made his pnr-
eha-.es in London heaskea reran extension
of his leave of absence, which was granted.
He turned his face toward tiis native
rountry. He reached New York, tarried
there one day and came west. He reach
St. Louis and saw his friend, whom lie li
left in Chicago, and tried to get him to go
witii him to Texas, where he had a rail
road scheme. He left St. Louis in the
afternoon of the day of his arrival nnd
went to Fort Leavenworth, where lie mar
ried a young lady whose aronain'-aure he
had formed before Le left the United
Slate-.
Tlie Evil KfTects of Protection,
Speaker Carllslo In Uclford’s Magazine.
That taxation for protective purposes
has resulted so far in a continuous waste
of capital and labor in this country is con
clusively shown by the present condition
of tlie so called protected industries, and
by the history of our legislation on the
subject. The early ndvocates of the system
proposed it only us a temporary expedient
to aid in the permanent establishment of
certain industries, ami insisted that after a
tew years of dependence upon the bounty
of tho government and people they would
be strong enough to stand alone nnd com
pete successfully with their rivals, not only
in the home market hut in all others. Un
der the influence of this argument the first
protective tariff was enacted in 1816, and
yet after seven y years have passed, many
of tlie same industries which then asked
temporary assistance only are now demand
ing more than double the rates of duty
then deemed sufficient, and their accredited
committees and organs unanimously de
clare that unless these enormous bounties
shall be indefinitely continued the indus
tries must cease to exist. According to
their own showing, the policy inaugurated
nearly three-quarters of a century ago for
the purpose of rendering them independent
and self-sustaining ha- had exactly the
opposite effect. Its constant tendency has
been, and is now, to impair their
ability to comjiete with the products
of similar industries ehewhere, aud
to make them more and more dependent
upon bounties and special legizlation for
support. It lias added largely to the cost
ot production by iiauMticg the price if
machinery and mati rials amt the necessa
ries of life; it has confined the products of
the so-called protected industries to the
home markei exclusively, so that the
amount of production must be regulated
by the domestic demand alone, and opera-
- , , , -i . , . ttons o ust be suspended when that de-
amt a rowboat. In coil weather tain- ma nd b satisfied it has obstructed inter-
mitescan " - 'ire a mew ot ^h-dijiy fishing . nal j ona | exchange,, thus partially exclud-
ther industries
road, diminish*
resting their growth
‘cure a tnmmm iisn oj tinning naliona i exchange.-, thus p S
miows and doors with Which j the Iir0l i„ ct , of 01lr ' 0
u ampW provided. A stock | fn ? m pf^tabU markets atn
i been loriued and now owns ;n«#k«tr*.nrmn,r a! .n.i .,r rest
out oi the windows and doors
the cottage
company has
The cottage, while building, attracted much
att* ntion from vuiiora at Saratoga, and
will be one of the feature* of the lake next
Hummer.
FOR NKRVOL'H DKHILITY.
t’*« Horaefard’# Acid !*bo«pliate.
Dr. A. M. Bilby, Mitchell, Dak., »Aja: *‘I
hare u*ed it in a number ot eaten of nervous
debility, with good reaulu.”
giving preference to the product* and trade
of our most formidable riv;iln; and here at
home, by encouraging capital and laboi
to rely upon legislation for profit*, rath**:
than tliHir own capacity, it has greatly im
paired that spirit of inde|>endence and en
terprise whicn is absolutely indispensable
to the succeeaful prosecution of buainew in
this age of improvement and progress.