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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY. OCTOBER2-TWKLVR PACES
THE STATE FAIR"
The Council Insists that it
be Held in November.
AND ENOORSESTHE MAYOR'S AN
In Protesting Against the Indellnite Post*
punement of the Fair—The' Dlsi u*-
slnn Upon Resolutions Offered
Mayor Price.
The city council at its regular meeting
last night fully indorsed the position taken
by Mayor Price in protesting against an
indefinite postponement of the fair.
As will be seen from the official pro
ceedings below, the State Agricultural
Society sent a formal notification of the
action of the fair committee on Saturday
last. After this communication was read
Mayor Price said:
“Knowing that you are not as familiar
as I am with the manner in which this
postponement was brought about, I wish to
say a few words about it. A few months
ago Mr. Pat Walsh and others came here
from Augusta, at the request of Mr. Han
son, who suggested to Mr. Walsh to offer
the State Agricultural Society $2,500 not
to hold a state fair in Macon this year; m .
then they petitioned this council to let the • • _
society off. Now they have a good excuse
for not holding it, so Mr. Hanson siys, f
suppose. Last Saturday the fair commit
tee met at the Hotel Lanier. They sent
for me and a hen 1 went in they asked me
what I thought of the postponement of the
fair. I told tnem 1 was in favor of a
postponement until November. Then
somebody telephoned or sent
for Mr. Hanson. He came in
and he was also asked what he thought of
the postponement. He replied: ‘Von
know ray ideas about it.’ He said if he
was a member of the committee and the
city council forced them to hold a fair, he
would hold the city responsible for every
dollar of the premium list. At this the
fair committee clapped their hands. Mr.
Hanson was asked how soon he could call
a meeting of the board of trade, the com
mittee reminding him that they wished to
leave on the 2 o’clock train, lie said the
meeting could not be held before 5 o’clock.
1 told the committee that the matter ought
to be brought before the city council. The
beard of trade met and adopted the resolu
tion to postpone indefinitely. I think it my
duty, therefore, to offer this preamble and
set of resolutions.”
Alderman I’rouJfit said with one excep
tion he heartily concurred in the resolu
tions. It was stated in the resolutious that
the city would lose between fifty and one
hundred thousand dollars by not holding
the fair. He did not think any specific
amount should be named.
Mayor Price said he was wili ng that
the change should be made, and his reas
ons for inserting the amount was that the
fair authorities claimed that the fair would
benefit Macon one hundred thousand dol
lars, and by not holding it he claimed that
would injure Macon at least half that
amount.
After the resolutions were worded ac
cordingly, Alderman Proudfit said there
was another thing he would suggest, and
thnt was to add that the fair be opened on
some certain day in November.
Mayor Price said it was not for the
council to suggest anything. The society
was under contract with the city to hotel
the fair, and they must fix their own date,
lie then read a clipping from the Augusta
News, which said the postponement ol the
State fair will be wortnthousands of dol
lars to the Augusta exposition. Perhaps
there was a cat in the meal tub, though he
did not charge anybody with receiving
any pay for having the fair postponed.
Mayor pro tem Davis was about to put
the motion to adopt the resolutions when
Alderman Conner said while he was in full
accord with the resolutions, in voting for
them be meant no censure for Mr. Hanson,
the hoard of trade, or any auxiliary body
of the city.
Mayor Price said the resolutions con
tained no reflections whatever on the
board of jtrade or on individuals. He did
not censure the board of trade, as it was a
good body, organized for a good purpose,
hut the action of Saturday was that of a
few of iu members—thirteen in num er.
Alderman Proudfit said the board of
trade had nothing to dolwith the postpone
ment. There is a contract betweeen the
Agricultural Society and the city of Macon
and the council ought not to pay any at.
tention to that board.
Mayor Price hoped the resolutions would
pass unanimously, as lie feels as though
the fair committee had insulted the coun-
ciL
Alderman Horne said he was heartily in
favor of the resolutions, but he was like
Alderman Conner, he did not wish to
censure the board of trade or to censure
anybody.
Mayor Price then re-read the resolutions
to council that whatever cenaurious re
marks had been made were made by him
in offering the resolutions.
The motion to adopt was then put and
the resolutions were passed without a dis
senting voice.
In the council chamber were quite a
number of citizens who probably attended
the meeting through the interest felt by
them in the fair.
Secretary Kisbet telegraphed to Presi-
dent Northen last night to come to Macon,
and it is understood that the executive
committee of the society will be called to
meet here and decide on the matter in a
few days.
mix ktatk n:n mattv*
Mayor pro tem. Davis lielng called to the
chair, Mayor Price read the lollowtng com
munication (ram the Mate Agricultural society:
Secretary's Office, Macon, Oa., Sept. 21, lw.-
To the Honorable, the Mayor amt Council oi
the City ol Macon: At a meeting oi the fair
committee of the Georgia State Agricultural
aociety. held in this city September 22, lgss, the
following was unsnlmously adopted:
Macon. Ga., Sept. 22.—The fair committee,
alter mature deliberation, and after a full con
sultation with Mayor Price, Mr B. C. Smith,
president, Mr. Geo. T. Kershaw, secretary. ami
the membtra of the * oard of trade. Dr. F. Walk
er, chairman of the board of health, and Major
1. r. Hanson,Col. H. H. Junes, M«j. A. C. Knapp,
general traffic manager of the Georgia Southern
and Florida railanad, and many prominent clti-
aen« ot the city of Macon, we have concluded
that the bolding oi our fair in thiacltyin the
month ol October is wholly impracticable. Thie
conclusion is reached by the excitement pro
duced by the prevalence of yellow fever In cer-
and the Georgia State Agricultural Society,
which provides that the Agricultural Society
shall hold a (air In the city of Macon, for at
leot one week 111 each year, unless prevented
by some providential cause or epidemic, In
which case ample uotico shall lie given to the
mayor and council of the city of Macon: and
Where,*, The Agricultural Society has ext u-
slvely advertised that the fair will be held In
Macon this fall, and the citizens have been
called on to contribute iuuds for the purpose of
such advertizing, and have so contributed; and
Vhereas, Preparations have been made by
our merchants, hotels and other places of bu»I»
ness In anticipation of such fair, and a failure
to hold me samfe will eutall great aud unjust
loss upon Hn-m; and
Whereas, The city of Macon, in accordance
with its contracts, lias spent thousands of dol
lars In keeping the fair grounds aud the build-
iriPM in ronair: and , ,
Whereas, A lew days since the Agricultural
Society, without any consultation with the
mayor and couucil of the city of Macon, further
than listening to the earnest protest of the
mayor of said city against the postponement of
the said fair, have passed a resolution declaring
that the state fair shall he postponed Indef
initely, and that this action has been ratified by
thirteen inemlwrs of the Macon Board of Trado;
now, therefore, be it
Resolved, first—That ihe only thirteen men
Who are authorized to speak for tho corpo
ration known as the city of Macon, is tho
mayor and twelve aldermen, elected for that
purpose by it* citizens. It Is their province
to make contracts for the city, and they, and
they alone, have the rlgLt to release other par
ties from them
Second-That we, the mayor and council of
the city of Macon, do dec arc this action of the
agricultural society to be. in our Judgment, un
warranted by tbc contract, unjust to the corpo
ration with which they contracted, and to work
great hardship upon the citizens of a city who
have liberally and energetically contributed In
the past to promote the Interests of ihe society.
Third—It is the seuse of this body that this
action on the part of the Agricultural Society,
if persisted in, will be a great loss to Macon,
not only by depriving her of a large amount of
money which the holding of said fair will cause
to be expended in tbc city, but because It in
jures the city, to advertise extensively that the
fair would be held, and then to declare that no
fair would bo held on account ol the preva
lence of yellow fever. It places the city in a
bad light, both as to the health of the city, and
the good faith with which she executes enter
prises which she has undertaken.
Fourth—We earnestly protest against! this
action on the part of the Georgia State Agricul
tural Society. Under the terms of our contract
we respectfully requestand legally demaud that
they do not inflict this unnecessary loss upon
our city, aud its citizens, and that they comply
with their contract with us and hold the state
fair ie the month of November, or at any o her
time that may seem proper to them this year
We do not concur In the appreheuslons of the
society that that the fair would be a pecuniary
loss, hut even If if were true, under their con
tract with the city. It is not right and just that
our municipal government aud our citizens
should be put to large expense and then ha de
prived of any return therefor.
No yellow fever exists here, and wo sec no ne
cessity for creating any appreh-nslons that it
might. Long before the middle of November
frost will have fallen, quarantines will
have been raised, travel long suspended will
have been resumed, people will flock to
to the city, and the attendance on the fair will,
in our judgment, be unprecedentedly large.
Resolved further that a copy of this preamble
and resolution be submitted at once to the
president oi the Georgia State Agricultural So
ciety, and that he be requested to call a meet
ing of the executive commute of said society at
ouce, for the purpo-e of reconsidering their ac
tion In indeflnltely postponing the holding of
the state fair,
FROM MACON TO PAhAlKA.
The Georgia Southern and Florida Rail
road Building Rapidly.
The Savannah Morning News of Tues
day says: Traffic Manager A. C. Knapp
of the Georgia •‘outhem and Florida rail
road was in the city yesterday. Mr.
Knapp i6 a thorough railroad man and
was tor a numher of years agent of the
Central railroad at Macon, lie resigned
August 1 to become the traffic manager of
the G orgia Southern and Florida, a line
which will run direct from Macon to Pa-
latka, a distance of about 285 miles.
The Hue is already completed sixty-five
miles from Macon to Coracle, on the
Americus, Preston and Lumpkin railway.
Cordele is a short <l ; jtance fro Americus,
and tnc Georgia Southern and Florida uses
the Auiericus, Pro-ton m d Lumpkin’s
track Jo that point, lints giving it an out
let. Since the i onip'etion of I he road to
Cordele and oh aiuia.- an cadet '■} way of
Americus, the lucrecs- in freight and
travel has warranted .lie nutting on of a
regular freight and pasetnger train.
Mr. Knapp said ilia’. he has been in
formed that his line has broBglit to Macon
foV the past lew weeks in re cotton than
ull the other lines. Of course, this was
due, in a measure, to the recent floods,
which blocked some of the other roads.
Track-laying is heitig vigorously pushed,
and the road will be completed to Tifton,
a point on the Brunswick and Western
railroad, 105 miles from Macon, within the
next two weeks. This will give the Geor-
5 1a, Southern ami Florida an outlet to
acksonvtlle over the Brunswick and
Western railroad ana the .Savannah, Flor
ida and Western railway, by twelve miles
the shortest line from Macon to Jackson
ville. The East Tenues ee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad has heretofore been the
shortest line.
The Georgia Southern and Florida rail
road will be comp} ted to Valdosta in
November, and will be seventy miles
shorter than by the Central railroad, and
eighty miles shorter than bif the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia road.
Mr. Knapp said that already a number
of millmen are establishing mills along
tha route. Telegraph wires are going up
as the road progresses, and Mr. Knapp said
that it is his purpose to have the telegraph
line completed dy the time that the road is
finished. There will be telegraph stations
on an average of every ten miles. The
floods rarely, if ever, reach that portion of
Georgia, and the road willenjoy immunity,
so to speak, from freshets.
A lUUBKAULE WOMAN.
Eightj>une Year* Old, .Still Active. Healthy,
Cheerful and With Good Eyesight.
From the Matthews Free Preas.
F'or eighty-one years she has resided
within three miles of where she was born.
Fifty-six vearo ago, an orphaD, poor,
homeless and nearly dead with dropsy, she
entered as nurse the house in which we
now write. She at once assumed the re
sponsible duty of giving catnip let to the
writer and keeping him, then an infant,
out of mischief. Though p-rhnps the third
iu portion, oi the south, and the fact that the
condition of (.risen in tcctlons visited by the
recent floods give cause for prudent action. We
therefore declare the state fair for MM indefin-
^‘LFOstPOMd. w. J. Northen, president: J.
O. "» • 'tell.- general vice-president; Samuel
| lsrt P iecreury 1,I1J,m ‘ ,ere “ olli *' Eobt ' A ' KU
“f ** respectfully submitted with
the request that your honorable body endorse
i action. Very rnnecifullv
Very respectfully
KOB T. A. N IS BET,
this a
iBIpieil) Avu i,... aisozr,
Secretary, Georgia Mate A K r!cn!tur.l Society.
^After ^ rci‘urjj( th« rommunicaifon Mayor
itew prefcAii ry remarks, ottered
TDK COLD WAHtttJVOTE.
Half a Million Claimed by Gen. Fink's Sup
porters.
From the New York Herald.
Chicago, III., Sept. 21.—The prohibi
tionists confidently expect to poll 500,000
votes this fall in the United Etates, and if
the claims they make have any foundation
they will certainly astonish some of the
people who predict that the vote of 1888
will not exceed that of 1884. The recent
experience in Maine, where the third
party claimed double the number of votes
actually cast, would seem to indicate that
perhaps the prohibitionists don’t know
what they arc talking about,'but however
this may be, the republicans are very much
worried and fear the worst.
Walter Stewart Mills, one of the most
effective of the third party speakers, is
now in the west delivering addresses, and
his estimate of the vote to be polled by the
prohibitionists in various stairs where the
democracy hope to be victorious is signifi
cant.
“We will cast 30,000 votes in Illinois,
beyoud a doubt,”said Mr. Mills; “we will
poll between .'15,000 and 40,000 ''Minne
sota and UiU. lout uia ,y iu Wis onsin,
aud I should not be at all surprised if we
polled twice as many votes in New York
slate in November at we did iu 1884. Gen.
I’i-k’s vote will be fully three times as
great in thp country nt large as that given
Governor St JohD, and it may be four
times.”
STRONG features of the campaign.
“What has been the most powerful fac
tor in the present campaign in the way of
making votes for the prohibitionists?”’
“The gospel or prohibition tent. We
have been conducting a canvas crusade,
and it has been very successful. The idea
of pitching tents throughout the country
originated in Steuben county, N. Y., and
it was nn inspiration. When meetings are
held in the country farmers come from
miles around and bring their families
with them. In this way the influence of
women is brought into the campaign, azd
thousands of votes a e made.”
“But you are not in favor of woman
suffrage. Was it not this question that
raised tho row at Indianapolis ?”
’'That may be true enough, but women
are a power to get prohibition votes, apart
from the question as lo whether or not
they should have the ballot. If it were
n. t for the women, the prohibition vote
would be much smaller than it is, while
the t- mperance cause would suffer materi
ally, if not languish altogether, should the
women desert it?’
“What about the prohibition vote in
New Jersey and Connecticut ?”
“Southern New Jersey is to be vigorous
ly attacked, and we hope for good results
there. It is probable we will recruit
largely from among the democrats there.
At least the indie itions are that way. In
regard to Connecticut, it can be depended
upon we will make a good showing there.”
There is one danger to the prohibition
vote not touched upon by the speakers,
and that it the fight going on between the
women suffragists and those opposed to it.
It is assumiug alarming ptorortions, and
there can be lmt one result 1'lie woman
suffragists will win, hut it will weaken the
jirohib tioiiiatu S« a polit'cal p “er, be
cause by reason of the light many men
will vote their party tic.et vho would
otherwise vote a prolii ution baifot.
The statement of Mr. Mills that a large
prohibition vole will be cast in Minnesota
and Wisconsin is verified by reports from
there. A private U tier from a leading Iowa
republican now living in St, 1’aul takes a
very glmmy view of tiie siiua.ion from a
republican standpoint. The letter says it
would not be nt all sit prising should Min
nesota cast her electoral vote for tlio Presi
dent, for two iea»ons--first, because the
prohibitionists will draw largely upon tli
republicans, and second, h. cause the tariff
reform sentiment is unu'ually strong
there. Many republicans in Minnesota
will vote for Gen. F’isk because they
do not wish to vote for Mr. Cleve
land direct, though the effect will
bo nearly the same. Two years ago, when
“Doc” Ames ran for governor against Gov
ernor McGill, tho latter’s majority waa but
2,483, while Ames claimed to have been
elected. The result was a great shock to
the republicans, who did not imagine they
held the state hv so slender a majority,
and a nnjority at that which could Irardly
bear inspection. Mayor Ames, who at
that time was the chief executive officer of
Minneapolis, claimed fraud, and openly
declared that he had been cheated out of
the g< vernorshin by crooked work in the
northern part of the statf, where the pop
ulation was sparse.
With fighting chances in Illinois, Wis
consin,_ Minnesota and Michigan, tho dem
ocrats in those commonwealths are anx
iously watching the growth of the prohi
bition vole and the spread of tho temper
ance sentiment. Those republicans in Illi
nois, Wisconsin and Michigan who are
tarifl reformers, but do nut feel exactly
like voting directly for the democratic
nominee for President, will follow the ex
ample of their brethten in Minnesota and
vote the prohibition ticket. In Illi
nois, the greatest gains for the prohibi-
tionists will be in the northern and
northwestern portions of the state this
year, whereas the gains two year*
ago were In central and southern Illinois.
There gains of 1886 will be held,and itcan
be seen, therefore, that the prohibitionists
have good reason to feel elated. They do
not seem to care when the fact is demon
strated to them that thousands of these
votes will be cast directly for the demo
cratic national ticket in 1892. They only
look at things in the present, leaving the
oldest person in the county she is in good f?. 1 ,"”. ? Uk f it,elf '.P roh "
health, cheerful, and lives with a member , , 1 *c**l->0,000 'sous tms tail in tms
of the lame family that first gave her a . P r< \ hahU . ,l '“ no *. a . re tlie y
home as above. She has been for fifty
years a Baptist and from an income of
$25 pays the preacher, besides giving to
missions and other charitable purpose*.
She has never been charged a doctor’s bill;
never paid for a meal or a night’s lodging;
she milks and churns regularly and has for
seventy-one years, though she has not
tasted either in over fifty years. She
drinks neither tea nor coffee and hat never
been addicted to the use of tobacco or any
other stimulant in any form; never sleeps
with a window up nor ever bad a bedroom
with a fireplace in it. She has an un
broken set of dishes she has had aixty-
seven years sud hss dishes that were
bought 100 years ago; wears clothing she
wove with her own hands over fifty year*
will, Gen. Harrison’s majority will be very
small, if in fact, he has any.
FIGIITINO FOR ILLINOIS.
The democrats are preparing to circulate
by the hundreds of thousands the Presi
dent’s letter of acceptance, and every voter
in the slate will have the opportunity of
resiling it, no matter what his political
predilections. The democrats are enthu
siastic oyer .the document, and for this
reason think it the most powerful argu
ment possible to advance for the conver
sion of voters. The Kercnue Reform
League, whose officer* are all republicans,
will also send ont the President’s letter.
The war is to he carried into
Africa, and when tbe republicans get their
victory in Illinois—provided they do get
THE GOOD GRAY POET.
the mayor ami council oi the city of
ago and wca-s to church dresses she has j it—it will be earned. To date tiie repub
worn twenty-five yean; baa handkerchiefs licans have con-enti <1 themselves with the
thirty-five yean old and never lost ball a j stereotyped and c. mfmting assurance, “It
dozen in her life. She never starches her | is non-'-nse to la.k of Illinois going other-
clothes, never made but one promissory wise than oven-, lelmingly republican," but
nolc, nor took bnt one. She reipls tbe now they,havt- changed their tune and ad-
fincst print without glasses and his read mit the possibility of what they call a
the Bible through nine limes in tbe last ‘•reasonably” cloze contest. The activity
■ghievn months. She attends preaching of the prohibitionists is, primarily, the
.vularly and expects to attend the expo- cause oi thh, and secondly, the zeal and
, sition this fall. hard work of the revenue reformers.
wiollowi,.. preamble ainU rwol mioiiis: , ngntSenmotUlis. She .
Whereas, Thereja a contnet existing Between | T \ eularly and expect* to attend the • expo-
A Sketch o l I Vo It Whitman nml His
Struggles.
From the New York Herald.
Philadelphia, Sept. 22, 1888.—When
ever I reach this city I always cross the
ferry to Camden, for a visit to Philadel
phia without seeing Walt Whitman would
be no visit at nil. Somehow I have always
been impressed that there by the shores of
the Delaware is one of the grandest spec
tacles of the nineteenth century—thcoraclc
of the age waiting calmly for his time to
go, and amid his infirmities,. launching
those daring hieroglyphics which are to
adorn his lofty and immortal shaft
I first met Whitman in June, 1885. He
was then, doubtless, in his lowest ebb of
poverty, living on the proceeds of “Leaves
of Grass,” which lias amounted to $56 for
1884, and a little money loaned by a
friend.
During not a few visits to his little home
Whitman hsa given me many of his ex
periences, struggles and impressions of
men, He eubseijuentlv examined the notes
I took for revision and correction. I am
therefore able to reflect him accurately.
The “good gray poet” was 70 years old
on May 31. He came out of the war poor,
after having nearly exhausted HIb vitality
in nursing soldiers in the hospitals. He
was given a place in the office of the United
States attorney-general, but in 1873, on
account of a stroke of paralysis, due to the
exposure during the war, he was cruelly
discharged, and thus deprived of his only
income. “Leaves of Grass” had been pub
lished in 1855. It came
into the world unnoticed; a finan
cial investment, paying no dividends for
years. It had a second edition in 1857.
Third edition, published in 1861, paid a
small sum. Then came the war, during
which Whitman worked heroically for the
wounded in the hospitals and on tbe battle
fields. The fourth and fifth editions of
the war period were likewise failures. So
it happened that he was without an in
come when discharged by the attorney-
general.
The critics sneered at his volume of
poems, some of the book agents embezzled
its proceeds and Whitman retired to Cam
den to die. His mother and sister died,
poverty went hand in hand with him, the
papers ridiculed him, but Whitman was
always possessed of buoyant spirits.
Whitman did notdie’in Camden after he
left Washington, according to his own pro
gramme, which include 1 death among
other lungs. On the contrary, in 1876 he
issued the centennial edition of “Leaves of
Grass” and “Two Rivulets” in two vol
umes, with autographs and por
traits. These lie himself sold from his
sick room at $10 dollars each. There was
not much sale at that price, or public
favor,naturally but, as Whitman remarks,
“enough of both to swear by.” Tennyson
headed one list of purchasers, Swinburne
another, Prof. Dowden another aud Lord
Houghton a fourth. Swi burne has since
and recently published a furious attack on
Whitman’s poems, but no one, except pos
sibly hitmeL, can fathom his motives.
then people bead it.
The edition of “Leaves of Grass” issued
in 1881 by Osgood & Co. was successful
until suppressed by the Puritanic senti
ment of Massachusetts. The only effect of
the suppression on Whitman was that he
immediately issued a work of prose en
titled “Specimen Days.” The Osgoods
owed Whitman $500 when his poems were
suppressed. Iu payment ho took the plate
of “Leaves of Grass,” and in 1882 he issued
two editions, receiving therefor $1,3U0;
from ibis edition of 1883, $300; for the one
of 1884, $200.
“Leavis of Grass” continued its search
for publishers. Mr. J. T. Trowbridge in
terested hints-If in the work and took it
to Ttckner A F'ields, nnd to him Mr.
Tickncr sa‘d:—“I have thought seriously
on the subject. There is money in the
book as well asgeniu*, but upon the whole,
situated as we are, it will not do for us to
take hold of it." Mr. Trowbridge then
went to Lee A Shepard. Mr. Lee replied:
| “From mote considerations of policy 1
wouldn’t to-day put our name to a first
edition of Byron or even the Bible. When
‘Walt Whitman has become a standard
like them, as 1 -iipp'i-c he will, any firm
will beglad to publish him.” *
Whitman has commemorated many pub
lic events, such as the deaths of Grant and
Briguoli, the completion of the Washing
ton monument, the rescue of Greely and
the Red Jacket memorable at Buffalo.
Mr. E. C. Stedman several years ago
wrote a severe criticism of Whitman,
which appeared in tbe Century. It puzzled
Whitman to account for the statements
made, nnd he always wondered what he
had said or done to cause Mr. Stedman to
allege that he (Whitman) “derided his
compeers" and made “tut lerant strictures
on the poets of his own land." No doubt
Mr. Stedman will some day look into the
matter more closely nnd retract if lie really
did Whitman a wrong.
Amelia Illves Cliauler at the Hall.
From the Chicago Tribune.
The last dance of the season took place
nt the Newport Casino Monday evening.
Mrs. Amelia Rives-Chandler was again a
center of attraction, this time dressed
more cinspicuously and becomingly than
before, in a white tulle, with a while sash
and gold embroidery, which accented
strongly her peculiar beauty. She alter
nately danced and chatted with her admir
ers in a corner- It was amusing to watch
the spectators in the gallery when her
identity became known. In their anxiety
to catch a glimpse of the genius who had
dared to write “The Quick or the Dead?”
they nearly fell over the railing, while
some of the more enterprising, not to be
caught napping, produced opera glasses
and proceeded to inspect her with all the
due pomp and circumstance, as if she hail
been the leading My at the play. Her
skin is as white and fair as a lily, and the
contrast between the infantine blondeness
of her hair with those dark brows and
lashes is absolutely startling. Itwasmuch
discussed on this occasion by the grand
jury of society, which sits in high seats at
theCaaino to watch the procesaionof Vanity
Fair go'by and make its comments, gen
erally unkind. Popular opinion, inclined
to a’ malicious view, declared that her
lia r had been bleached and faded to its
auriferous hue by some of those prepara
tion known to the apothecary.
Thanks tor Harrison.
From the New York Evening Post.
We must all, of every party, give thanks
to the republican convention for Gen.
Harrison. He is not a great roan, and his
attainments in some fields are small, but
there is no need to discuss his personal
character which is in all respects worthy
of the great place to which he aspires, and
the same remark maybe made of Mr. Mor
ton. Consequently we all have time for
the discutsion of political opinions or
ideas to ili<#iniiiit-n*c lien-fit of the coun
try. No matter how the election goes in
November the gain to the American peo
ple from the controversy now raging oyer
tbe tariff will be great and jn-raianenl.
PATRICK TRACY’S HHIIOISM.
He Loses His Life in Trjiig to Save An
other's.
From the Boston Herald, Sept. 22.
‘.‘Lost his life in trying to save thnt of
another,” is the store in brief of faithful
Patrick Tracy’s death yesterday afternoon
in front of the Old Colony depot at Hyde
Park, where he has so many times before
rescued patrons of the road from danger.
Mrs. Mary L. Young, whom he was trying
to pull from the track, escaped with" her
life, hut had one leg cut off just above the
ankle, one arm broken and was otherwise
bruised. There were a number of horror-
stricken witnesses of the accident, and as
the Lews was quickly spread that Mr.
Tracy, whom nearly every man, woman
and child in Hyde Park and hundreds of
other patrons of the road were acquainted
with, was dead, the depot was surrounded
by hundreds of people, many of whom left
their places of business to hurry to the
scene. The accident otcurred as follows:
Mrs. Young was waiting in the depot to
take the 4:32 train to Shnrop, where ihe re
sides. Another train, also from Boston,
was due at 4:31, and both trains came in
sight about the same time, the 4:32 being
on tiie track nearest the depot, while the
other, Conductor Williams’ train fo? Read-
ville, was on the third track, the one
fartherost from the depot. Mr. Tracy
opened ithe ladies’ room door and an
nounced “train for Providence,” meaning
the one nearest the depot, which Mrs.
Young was to take. Mr. Tracy then ran
across the three tracks to the opposite
platform to attend to his duties ns baggage
master in waiting on the other train. Mrs.
Young followed him, evidently thinking
that she, too, must cro«s to get to the Prov
idence train. Meantime, the latter train
had stopped several hundred feet from.the
depot, while the third track train was still
approaching to make its usual stop. By
standers saw Mrs. Young’s danger and
shouted to her, aud she turned first one
way and then another, finally falling down
across the rails in front of the train. Mr.
Tracy jumped from the platform and
caught the woman under the arms and
swung her around, getting Iter head and
body clear of the rail, and in an instant
more would have been safe himself. As it
was, the engine struck his head, killing
him instantly, his neck and one leg being
broken.
Mrs. Young was carried to the depot,
where she was attended by Dr. Lincoln,
and was subsequently removed to the hos-
pitvl. Mrs. Young is the widow of Mr.
Pipes Young of Sharon, and the mother of
Mrs. C. A. Ifixon of the same place. Her
age is 69 years, and serious results are
feared from her injury.
Mr. Tracy, aged 58 years, leaves a
widow, two sons and a daughter. Deceased
has worked for the Boston and Providence
railroad for thirty years, the last sixteen as
assistant to Depotuiaster (Jriiiueltj and pre
viously as a section master on the track.
His faithfulness to the corporation and his
care for the lives of people taking and
leaving the train? at the depot, where he
has be< n a familiar figure so long, arc
known far ami wide. Examiner Slurte-
vant viewed the body and gave it in charge
of the family, and an inquest will be held
by J ustice Terry.
PUGILIST FULUJAJIF.S KILLED.
He ts Struck a Fatal Blow In n l’rlze Fight
With au Unknown.
Says a Philadelphia Press ipecial from
Grand Forks, Dak.,Sept. 23: A prizefight
was arranged hetween George F'ulijames of
Winnipeg and an unknown who was backed
by local sporting men At 2 o’alock yes
terday morning a lar^. crowd went into
the barn where tbe ring bail been pitched,
iiaif an hum i tier ihe meu entered the
ring and began their battle. As soon as
they had shaken hands the unknown
struck F'lilljaoies a terrific blow on tbc left
temple, which sent him to the floor. He
soon recovered and, staggering to his feet,
started to continue the light. The fighting
became furious and bloody, F'ulijames’
face being battered in the most horrible
manner. Tbe unknown, who was a power
ful fellow, finally landed a slashing blow
over Fulljames’ heart. Thu famous pugi
list reeled and then fell, white and rigid,
upon the floor. Men who examined him
declared that he was pulseless. The crowd,
now thoroughly alarmed, fled from the
building, leaving the stricken pugilist
where he fell.
At 7 o’clock in the morning a doctor
who had been asked to visit the barn
found F'ulijames in a dying condition. He
Sad vomited blood and his heart was beat
ing feebly. The pugilist never regained
consciousness, and at 6 o’clock in tbe after
noon he died. The police did not learn of
the tragedy until last evening, when they
arrested a min named Barrett. The pris
oner declared his innocence and said he
knew nothing of the fight.
This afternoon while the police were
down town, somebody hrok- the lock of
the station-house and allowed Barrett and
several other prisoners to escape. Diligent
search has failed to find Barrett, and it i9
believed that he is the man who killed
F'ulijames. A coroner’s inquest was held
list night, but there was great trouble m
securing witnesses. The d- ad body ol the
pugilist will be buried here unless rela
tives or friends claim it. Fulljames had a
great record as a pugilist, he having
fought many of the best men in the East
and in Canada.
judgement of Thomson; nor has the oner,
ting department of anv oth-r railrn-,,1-
the country reached the standard wtsk
! lished on the Pennsylvania by Scott an*
Thomson and the men trained m
their eyes But in business sagacity
I ‘l 10 , 86 T'alities which pertain to the
' ctal management of property, Scott
surpassed by Vanderbilt? The work ofThl
i two men was so totally indifferent in char
■ acterthatitis hard to compare them
Vanderbilt was not so distinctively a rad'
road man as Scott. 1 '
Dr. Tanner's Ambition.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Dr. Tanner, the man who broke a fast of
forty days on a Georg a watermelon . °1
j stiff lived believes t.,5t hunranTeft “
I hibernate like bears, and wishes to tesuh
, matter by being.ealed up in Tn
, coffin and laid away for a f ew months j ‘
I should be accommodated. Seal him un
and lay him away As to the success of.
the experiment—that is a matter of uo con
sequence whatever. TOn '
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We extract the following from "The
Railroad in its Business Relations,” by
I’rof. Arthur T. Hadley, in Scribner’s for
October:
In 18-17 J. Edgar Thomson, an engineer
of experience, entered the service of the
Pennsylvania railroad of which he after
wards became president. Three vemlater
a vouhl’man without experience L** rail
road butiness applied to Him for a position
as clerk in the station at Duncansville and
was, wilh some hesitation, accepted. Not
long after—so runs the story—an influen
tial shipper entered the station and de
manded that some transfersshould be made
in a manner contrary to the rnles of the
company. Thia the clerk refused to do; and
when the influential shipper tried to attend
to the matterhimielf, he was forcibly ejected
from the premises. Indignant at this, he
complained to the authorities, demanding
that the obnoxious employe be removed
from his position. He was—and was pro
moted to a much higher one. This is
said to be the beginning o{ the railroad
. career of Thomas Alexander ScotL Edgar
i Thomson waa a sufficiently able man to
I appreciate Scott’s talent at ita full worth,
I ami took every opportunity to make it
! useful in the service of the company.
; Both before and after the war the system
, was extended in every direction; and the
■ man who in 1850 had need of all his nerve
; to defy a single influential shipper was a
quarter of acentury later the head of 7.-
000 miles of the roost valuable railroad in
the country.
As an enterpriatag and active railroad
organizer, S.’ott waa probably unrivalled—
especially when aided by tbe soberer
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Incorporated by tho Legislature In 1»A. lot
Educational and (
Charitable
I, and Us
cpn
constitution in 1870, by an overwhelming pop
ular vote.
Ita Grand Extraordinary Drawings take
place semi-annually, (June nnd December),
and ita Grand Single Number Drawings take
place on each of the other ten months in tbs
year, nnd are ull drawn in public, at the
Academy ot Music, New Orleans, La.
"We do hereby certify that we superrlje flu
arrangements for all the Monthly and SimlI an
nual Drawings of tho Louisiana Stale lottery
Cu. pany and In person manage and control tee
Drawings themaalvea, and that the sans■an
conducted with honesty, fairness, and ingooa
faith tqward all parties, and wo aulhotize thj
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oi our signatures attached, fn Ita advertll*
menu.”
We, themutoirfRned, Rdukiftnrt
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GRAND MONTHLY DRArtTNG IN W®
ACADEMY OF MUHIC, NEW ORLEANS,TUES
DAY, Oct. Wl, 1888.
Capital Prize, $300,000.
100,000 Tickets at Twenty Dollars Back
Halves, »10; Uunrters, 83; Tenths.
«2; Twentieths, 81.
LIST OF FRIZE9. -e
I PRIZE OF >300,000 U
1 PRIZE OF ICO,W0 L
1 PRIZE OF 50,000 ll
1 PRIZE OF
2 PRIZES OF AU,iAA/a4»— =■.«,
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6 PRIZES OF
25 PRIZES OF
100 Pitl/.IM OF
200 PRIZES OF
500 FRIZF.S OF
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10,000 are—
5,000 are—
1,000 are-... gjg
600 are—
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approximation prizes. m008
100 Priie* of $500 are — S’Sl
juu f rtxtw ot *.mu are — .*uco
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TERMINAL PUIZE8. —
000 Prizes of lico arc. ——-—• S'g,
099 Prize* of 1100 ore. — '1-
8,134 Prizes, amounting to —
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