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MACOtf GEORGIA TUESDAY.: OCTOBER28,1888-rTWELVE PAGES.
VOL. LX III. NO. 29.
the GAYEL falls.
First Session of the Fifthietli
Congress Ended,
the SESSION'S CLOSING HOURS.
lte]>reientativeN and a Doran S*nn<
turH Participate in the Final Scene—
The Proceedings in the
Two Houses
Washington, Oct. 20.—The closing hours
of the session of congress were comparable
to those of none of its predecessors within
the memory of the present generation. The
bustle and excitement, the crowded corri-
dors, the anxiety of claimants, and the lobby
etforta of legislators in behalf of belated
measures were conspicuously missing.
In the Senate gallery an audience of a
score of individuals at 11 o'clock had in
creased to 200 or 300, and these looked down
in pacified silence on the round dozen of
senators sod thd complement of clerks,
pages and attendants busy doing nothing
upon the floor of the chamber. The dig.
aity and decorum of the body were
preserved to the end. Despite the meagre-
ness oi members and the fact that there was
less than a quorum present, nnd that the
body was practically powerless for any legis
lative purpose, was successfully concealed
from the official eye of the official reporter,
Constructively the tariff bill was under dis
cussion, but practically not a word was said
on the subject. The greater part of the first
hour was spent in a recess, formally
proposed by Senator Allison and
formally ordered by the Senate,
but the last boar, with few momentary in
terruptions,was spent in a state of suspended
animation of waiting for th« lime, Sixty
seconds before 1 o’clock President pro tern.
(Ingalls) arose, and w.th the utterance of his
first syllable a hash of profound silence fell
upon the body. With the fall of the gavel,
die act which formally terminated the firet
session of tbe fiftieth oongresa, the audience,
and attendants, and even senators, relieved
now from the operation of rigid senatorial
decorum, applauded the brief though digni
fied and courtly remarks of the chair and
celebrated the beginning of the recesa.
THH HBMATK
Presentation of the minority Report outlie
CtvtlHervIc©—Final Adjournment.
Washington, Oct. 20.—Only seven sena
tors had tbe benefit of the final p ayer this
session of the chaplain, Kev. J. G. Butler,
namely: The presiding officer (Mr. Ingalls),
aud Messrs. Allison, Cockrell, Mitchell, Pad
dock, issoitbury and Teller. Tue ciispiaiu
asked a blessing on wlmt hod been done by
the Senate; that Uoil would he present with
those who were now scattering throughout
the land; that he would direct the ballot of
the nation and that he would make thi: a
righteous nation, lending the nations of tbe
world in their onward progress.
Daring and immediately alter the reading
of the journal the Senate was reinforced by
the presence of Meatrs. Blackburn, Reagan
ami Sawyer.
On motion of Mr. Aliisou a committee of
two senators was appointed (Allison and
NaaMiaryjrto join a like committee on the
part at tie House to wait upon the President
and inform him that congress, “having fin
ished its business, wus ready to close tbe
present session by adjournment at 1 o’clock
today.”
Mr. Blackburn presented the minority re
port of the select committee on the operation
of the civil service '.aw, and it was ordered
to be printed with the majority rcuort.
The last bill of the session to be introduced
was one by Mr. Mitchell, proposing an
amendment to the constitution providing for
the election of United States senators by the
people, which was referred.
Business was then informally suspended,
awaiting messages from the President or
from the House. The first message received
was one from the House announcing the
passage of the joint resolution authorizing
the government exhibits at Cincinnati to
remain there till the 15th of November. It
was immediately passed by the Senate. Also
one announcing the appointment of a com
mittee to wait on the President.
The next message from the House wus one
sending back the enrolled joint resolution
(signed by the speaker) as to government
exhibits at the Cincinnati exposition, and it
was immediately signed by the presiding
otiieer and dispatched to the President, but
as the hands on the dial of the clock ahowed
that only twenty-five minutes of the session
were left, the question of ihi being approved
•nil signed was very dtAibtfui.
Five minutes afterward Mr. Allison, of the
lorumittee to wait on the President, reported
that the committee had performed that
duty and had been informed by the l’resi-
dent that he “had no lurther communication
to offer.”
A resolution tendering the thanks of the
Senate to Mr. Ingalls for the “uniformly,
able, conrteoua and impartial manner in
which he had presided.” was offered by Mr.
Seulibury end adopted.
At five minutes before 1 o'clock a message
from the President announced his spproval
sundry Senate bills anJ joint resolu
tions.” 1
In a few minutes afterward fame the final
incident of the session, the farewgll remarks
of the presiding officer, Mr. Ingalls. With
grest deliberation aqd fine HOPtttioO he
fpt'kg as follows : “•‘if gaton—k'ratitnJe ]
impels, and usage permits, the eb&tr
*u postpone for an instant the moment
oj our separation to acktowledge the honor
°‘ your resolution of confidence and ap
proval, hut insure demands the admLwiiou
“at if the chair has succeeded in the
Wo;i«ro^e?Las‘muralntM^
id dibit*, M the laws have been adtuinU-
tered, and il the traditions of lh« Senate,
which are itr noblest heritage, hare been
preserved iaVlolate, it fa due to your codaM-
indulgence, to yonr constant and eor-
dial co-operation. Without these the grvat-
*Jt ability could not aoceeed, and with these
“i* humble*! faculty could not fail. The
termination of tbe longeat con-
tinuone session of the Senate
’“We the fonndatiou of the government ap-
proacheit, and trusting that tlmt Hupreme
* owrr which controls tne destinies nations,
•J wtll as the fortunes of men, may, during
the brief intervals of your labors in this
•hamber, continue his oenefieenee to each
°* you personally, the families of which you
*** members, to the states of whfch vou are
representative!. and to tbe country of which
S ou are citizens, the chair annonncea the
enate "lands adjourned sine die.**
The speech was warmly applauded by the
•*natore on the floor ana by the large au*
in the gaUerica.
HOUHK OK KKPKE^ENfATlVtA.
Fifteen Members rrosent-Concluding llusi-
neso— Adjourn nient.
WAhiii50TO?c,syotw 20.—When the IlouaC
m et thia morning at 11 o’clock, on the hut
day of the moat protracted seaaion in the
annals of congress, in addition to the speaker
theie were fifteen members in attendance.
Iu the galleries there were not more than
100 persons to witness the closing scenes.
In his opening prayer, the cuaplain re
turned thanks for the many mercies vouch
safed to members during the session, and
invoked the divine blessing upon the
speaker, the officers and member* of the
House and the members of the press, whose
duty it has been to report the proceedings of
congress. •
On motion of Mr. E. B. Taylor of Ohio, a
joint resolution wa9 passed authorizing the
exbihit made by the government at the cen
tennial exposition at Cincinnati to remain at
the expo itiou until Nov. 15.
In accordance with a resolution adopted
on motion of Mr. McMillin of Tennessee, the
speaker * apj ointed Messrs. Clements of
Georgia at d Ryan of Kansas as a committee
on the part of tne Home to wait upon the
President and inform him that Congress was
rcadv to adjourn, if he bad no fhrtner com
munication to make. A recces wa9 then
taken until 12:30 o’clock.
After the recess Mr. McMillin, chairman'Of
the committee appointed to wait upon the
President, reported that duty had been per
formed and tne President had stated that he
had «lo further communications to make to
congress.
A further recess was taken until seven
minutes before 1 o’clock.
After the second recess, Mr. McMillin of
Tennessee in the chair, Mr. Ryan of Kansas
offered and the House unanimously adopted
tbe following resolution: “That the thanks
of this House are hereby tendered to Hon.
John G. Carlisle, speaker, for the courtesy,
ability and fairners with which he has pre-
sidered over the deliberations of the first
session of tbe fiftieth congress.”
Speaker Carlisle having resumed tbe chair,
Mr. Hopkins of New York offered and the
House adopted a resolution tendering the
thanks of tbe House to the officers for the
courteous manger in which they have dis
charged their dntieft.
As the hands of the clock pointed to the
hour of 1, the speaker "aid, “The hour of 1
o’clock having arrived. I now declare the
House adjourned sine die.” The announce
ment wus received with applause aod the
correspondents in the press g-iliery evinced
their thankfulness by chanting tbe doxology.
TUE CIVIL SERVICE.
Report of tbe Minority of tbe Senate Com
mittee or Investigation.
Washington, Oct. 20.—Mr. Blackburn
today submitted a voluminous minority re
port from the committee on the operations of
tbe civil service and asked that it be printed
with the majority report. Tfce very elabo
rate report of the majority, saya the minority,
gives evidence of many months of caretul
preparation- No information, it is declared,
was Tarnished to the minority of the com
mittee of the purpose to close the case, nor
was it even intimated that the end has been
reached and the matter summed up. For
this reason the minority was uuable, in the
few days allowed them, to follow out iu de
tail the tediously stated case, but it would
endeav r to show more fairness in the deal
ing with the testimony thou the majority
had done. It is declared that an effort bad
persistently been made by the majority,
against tbe protest of the minority, to Hunt
the inquiry to the time covered by the pres
ent administration, and all eflort*
to bring out the facts as to
the operations of the law under previous re
publican uduiiulatratiouB were invariably
denied by strict party voter#. Despite the
efforts of the majority, however, the report
declares that it appeared from the tefttimony
of several of their witnesses that a 1 the evils
and abuses complained of today Cime down
to this administration as an inheritance. The
levying of assessments upon government,
officials for partisan purposes was in gfcu-
«ral, but uut universal, practice prior to
March 1885, and discrimination in the matter
of appointments because of political views
was proven to be by no means a novel feat
ure, nor one which hod been introduced by
the present administration. %
The testimony with regard to the New
York custom house, it is declared, shows
that nine-tenths of the witnessed who testi-
lifti \vv r tl.MiiihM’d official*, itimou* to air
their grievauces and to tell what outrage
had been perpetrated by reason of their dis
missal from office.
The minority declare that after reading
the majority report carefully the coucluniou
is well nigh irresistible that improvement of
the civil service of the country was not the
idea kept in view, and that the purpose of
it* framers was not to enlighten the country,
as was proposed in the resolution.
Nearly fifteen type-written pages of the
report are devotea to an analysis of the tes
timony taken with respect to New York.
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Indiana, and
the points made in the majority report ate
discussed at length.
The report concludes: “If Jbta proof, taken
from four cities or from four states, is to be
accepted as evidence of the present condi
tion of the public service thronghout the
country, intelligent men will realize and
honest men will admit that today, after
nearly four years of democratic rule,
there are ten republican* holding office and
drawing pay from the federal treasury
where there was one democrat in the service
on the 4th of March 1885. Under a demo
cratic Administration it is not to be wondered
at if, conditions being *equal. preference has
been given to democrat applicants for office.
Plato dreamed of an ideal republic but the
world has never witnessed its realization.
No system of government nor any code of
law has ever been devised by human wisdom
that was perfect. Whether the civil
service law be good or bad, truth
and candor compel the admission that its
execution has been more jest and fa r under
this administration than ever before.
Whether the fidelity with wliiv'h tbe Pru
dent and his subordinate officers have sought
£ pb^eo'e lbfo 1*W BfT b$ diiWQled, bm the
huiiMy of ptirpo«e with whlcn he and they
have eudeavored to execute it cannot be
truthfully denied. An army of holding-
over republican official" is todAy
drawing it* {f?Bk ^
t»JJ;tj>7 of thi (otttilry, find. If cor.
H»nt report be true, contributing from their
salaries to the effort tnat i* twin# made
to dislodge Troni power the party
suffrance they hold their place, in the light
of the proof employing more reckless and
desperate methods to *erve or save a more
desperate cause. «'»n<lor will not permit
the claim to he made that in every instance
everv officer of the government, superior
and ' subordinate, ha- been exactly and
judicially fair and haa acted ".iliout regard to
the natural and Inevifahle Maa that cornea
front sincere eonvic’ioi,. but fair-minded
men will take up the t. • rd und will declare
that thia adminUtra::<“. t.as not been lack
inc in houeat, eanu". persistent and suc
cessful efl'orta to execute th« law and main-
good the pledges that it and iU> party gave
to the American people-
Stricken With J’araljsie.
Covikoioif, Oct iff —ft W. W. Stone,
ptofo-.ir of mathematici at Kmory Col
lege, Oxford, Ga., I learn, *»■ partially
Hlricken with paralv-ie a few day. dime.
The expressions of sympathy from our
community are univereal. 1‘rvf. Ptone
haa filled the chair of mathematict id
Kmory College for more tl.au thirty yearn
consecutively. He haa but a few equal, an
a teacher anii eapccially ao in mathematic*.
He is aleo one oi the mout logical divines
yoor correspondent ever had the pleasure
of listening to.
TRADE REVIEW.
fended A^ni
Export Trade Badly Crip- KmeH,E - B,rr '
pled by Speculation.
LARGE ADDITION TO CIRCULATION.
Speculative Priee* Going UrtWTi *nmi
.-4n Spite of the Enormous Supply
31oi»ey- Domestic Trade .Siill
Very Large.
New York, Oct. 19—R.G. Dun A- Co.’s
review of trade for the week inys: “Another
month’s official returns show that the export
trade is seriously retarded by the prevalent
speculation. The exports of breadstuffs,
cdtton, provisions, petroleum and cattle
from the principal ports in September were
$33^08,^79 in value, against s-i7.W!i,76! lost
year. The decline indientes an eteei.8 of
imports over exports in September as in
previous months, probably amounting to
$ ,000,000. But since Oct 1st, the bread-
stuffs movement has been almo.-t entirely
arrested, os is natural when prices at New
York are higher than at Liverpool, and
December wheat, as high at Chicago as at
New York. Perception of the unnatural
state of the markets has led to some decline
in speculative prices during the past week,
wheat having fallen cents, corn 2?< cents,
hogs and lard a quarter each and cotton an
eighth, hut the enormons supplie. of money
stiil stimulate great speculative activity
SWELLING CIRCULATION. H
During the past week the treasury bar re
duced its cash on hand by $12,000,000 m
gold, $240,000in silver and $900,030 in legal
tenders. An addition of over $13,000,000 to
circulation in a week would tend in ordi-
nary conditions to lilt prices in speculative
markets, and yet the tendency of prices ha-,
been downwardduri-g the week. And even
the stock marxet has yielded a little, prices
averaging a shade lower than a week no,
though somewhat stronger on Friday. Rot-
V ilhslun. ling the h. t’er new-, in rigardto
northwestern rates and favorable repnrtqof
earnings, it was seen that the shrinkage in
exports would afiect traffic, nnd full reports
for September showed a decline of 6 per cent,
in earnings per mile operated, and statements
-considered dishearteningappenred regarding
Baltimore and Ohio tind Missouri Pacific
finances, while the large decline in Atchison
and Topeka stock had some influence, hut it
is held to lie encouraging, too, that prices
are so well maintained.
DOMESTIC TKIDE.
In spite of the adverse influences, domes,
tic trade continues luge and the'iiopeful
feeliiig due. not«i»W. liverj interior point!
reports present business as improving and
»t not a few points it is larger than a year
ago. Tbe Increased transactions ut anectila.
five centers swell hank clearings mi that the
increase outside of New York over last year
Is about 10 per cent., but with full allow
ances for the iufloeuces of speculation it is
evident that the volume of legitimate trade
’ very large. No cnuipluiut oi scarcity
is als
HKJtOKS I.V t TIGHT PI.ACK.
w the Alamo .t rum Antoulo-XVin
Santa Anna.
The little garrison at i-au Automo tmm-
bqKeil only 183 men, but U included such
heroic end forceful spirit* as Davy Crock
ett, James Bowie and Barrett Travis. An
order came to blow up the Alamo and fall
back on Gonzales, hut with one voice the
men refused to obey it. They proposed to
stay there and die, if necessary. “Mili
tary defeats may be moral victories,” said
Crockett, “and moral victories make na
tional greatness.” Said Travis, “If wc
hold the Alamo, it is a deed well done; if
we fall with it, it is still a deed
well done.” And Bowie said, “Com
rades, I do not want a prettier
quarrel t-> die in 1 «1<> not want
a better monument than the Alamo!” So
they loaded their trusty rifles, sharpened
thetr terrible knives, and wnited for the
coming of Santa Anna. “He shall have n
square fight for every life he gets,” they
promised one another. The Mexican army
readied San Antonio on TucMiay, Feb. 23,
1888, and by the 27th the city was clo.-ciy
invested. Entrenched encamjiments encir
cled the doomed Americans in the Alamo,
and from dawn to sunset the bombardment
was on. Not until March 6, hewever, did
Santa Anna succeed in getting a large can
non near enough to tl»e fortress for really
efiective workt. and then it could not at
once he used, for Crockett stood on the
roof all day and shot down the gunners
one by one as they advanced to fire it.
Then Santa Anna swore “by every saint in
heaven or hell” to enter the Alamo the
next day at all hazards.
At -i uVI.M-k oi that Iiu-moinlile nioriiirg
of March 6, the storming of the fortress
began, led bv Santa Anna in [ierson—4,000
infuriated Mexicans against 183 resolute
ami undismayed Americans. Charge after
charge was repelled witii awful loos. F or
every life that went out in the Almo, a
dozen Mexicans bit the dust. At length,
about 10 o’clock, theouterwnll was gained.
Then room by room was taken with incred
ible slaughter. At noon only six of the
garrison were left alive. Crockett stood in
an angle of the,fort, witii his shattered
rifle in his right hand, and in his left his
warrior knife, dripping with blood. At
iiis side wus Travis, scarcely alive, but still
erect and defiant. Iiowte lay murdered in
hia sick bed, hut at liik feet lay
also the dead body of the murderer, witii a
knife in his heart. Santa Anna’s chief
officer asked him to spare the lives of the
remaining six heroes, but he answered,
with maiiguaut emphasis, “Firel” und the
Inst man of them |x-rishtd. The Alamo
was taken, but it had cost 1,600 and black-
enud the name of Santa Anna with over-
lasting infamy. History does not afford
another sucli instance of aaoonqueteble
com nice and nroud sclf-tacrifice ns the
story of this Texan martyrdom presents.
Every man of the little band died iu high
Human fashion, and no voice was left to
£ lie tale, *TheriiK)j>yJ;e had bin in
>f defeat, but the Alamo had non
- Then followed ^he korror of • G|
of money is heard this week from any ^
ter, and the demand from this city, thou*n -
Mill larsfe, show* some siirns of abatement.
Nor are complaints of Mirdine*s iu rollec-
tioos as frequeut a* they were recyntl
nearly all points, improvement iu that re
spect i* noted. A decrease of 1,000 ton* in
weekly output of cnurcuat iron makes i'ue
net increase during September in iron of all
kinds 3,645 tons weekly, or 3 per cent.
A WAITING MARKET.
The market for pig iron is a waiting one,
without change in prices. Bar iron is rather
less (irmy owing to western offerings, and in
rails no eastern sales are reported and only
10.000 tons at Pittsburg and 20,000 tons at
Chicago. The official report shows that sales
for the nine months ending Oct. 1st were
1.134.083 tons against 1,833,126 hint year, and
tne cleliveriea 921,363 tons against 1,390,825
last year. The coal trade is now quiet, au
tumn purchases having been largely antici
pated. Id lead n fall of 40 cents per 100
pounds in a day was attributed entirely to
speculation, and the same intluence lifted
coffee slightly, though the distributive de
mand is still restricted. The sugar nmrl* t
favors buyers, and in groceries generally
there is some evidence of a slackening de
mand. The wool market continue* strong
with the best grades scarce, and prices have
again slightly advanced. A firmer feeling is
noted in dry goods, though the trade at
present is only moderate in volume, and buy
ers continue $o operate with caution.
DUH1NE88 WELL gUOTAINRI).
In the light of reports received it will he
sees that tke volume of business is remark
ably well sustained on the whole, notwith
standing the influence of politi.’al excite
ment. With niauvpersons deferring oper
ations because of "tne uncertainty regarding
the future policy of the government and
with many others devoting much of their
time to political activity, some diminution
in the volume of trade would he natural.
But dispatcher indicate that in all sections
of tbe country the impression prevails that
more active and prosperous trade may be
expected after the elect ou.
Business failurrs occurring throughout the
country during the past week number for
the Uuiicd Laics 203 and for ('nmuiu 22, a
total of ‘225, against 227 last week.
TARIFF REDUCTION.
The Preslileut to C
Meftgiitfe on It tit
WAWOTCTOTt, W;
President said to A friend this
Coiigr*** Auothsr
December.
LJ-Tftl
ek that
whether he whs re-elected Or not, he would
send a vigorous unit reform message to
congress on its reassembling in December,
lie said that the financial condiiiou which
will then confront the country would
be th* financial condition of laM
December aggregated by a year’s
delay, with its cumulation of
surplus funds in the treasury. He added
that its importance warrant* him in again
devoting his entire annual message to the
the question of reducing taxation.
There is a tacit uwdorMunding muoug the
leaders of the two houses oi congrcw that
the Seuate shall t«k» up the tarill
hill, just where it left it today,
during the ti rr-1 week in December
and that the holiday rece** nhall only la>»t
from the daw before Christmas to the day
after New VearV, but nnle**- the democrats
carry tne election in November, this under
standing will not mat rially facilitate the
passage of a hill re joeing the tariff and cor*
reeling tarilHmperfectiom.
Hi- Ann I-r.. 1’itrrt.
Athks-, Oct. lib—[Special.]—D. B.
Jackson of Oconee county, a justice of the
peace, had hi* arm torn in pieces a few
days ago by a gin. The doctor* declare
the limb most be removed, but J&ckaOQ is
so critically ill it i* impossible to under
take the operation at pre-enL
....
inut> independence I)?'
Tevas. “Remember the Alamo” was the
shout of vengeance with which the Ameri
cana advanced upon the Mexic u line- i >
that conflict and paused for nothing until
firm victory i»«ji achieved. Tile TtETi
fobbed and there came a day when San
Antonio w.ih arrayed in holiday garb to
receive Gen Houston. A rostrum had
been erected in the plaz*, and Gen. Hous
ton stepped upon it And stretched out his
arms to the assembled people. ‘‘Whatever
BLESSED FROST
Falls Upon Fever Stricken
Decatur.
JACKSONVILLE CHURCHES FILLED.
Only 37 New (Lute* &ud Tour Ucntlis—The
Weather t urn- Somewhat Cooler
anti Oootl Hope* Are En
tertained Now.
Jacksonville. Oct. 20.—The weather i.
decidedly cooler, with a prospect for rain.
The chaoge from yesterday is said liy physi
cians to augur ill for the sick, and likely also
to Induce new sickness.
The churchea genejally are open for ser-
vicea today, the first time in many weeks.
The attendance is pood. J. Knrly iu the epi
demic the board of health officially discour*
aged gatherings of people, fearing n spread
of the infectiou by this means. Since then
the infection has become general, and the
people have lost all fear of taking the dia
base by mingling together.
In an editorial this morning the Times-
Union Btrongly urged a general attendance
at church services, as haviDg a beneficial
effect in bringing the people together nnd
by stimulating the social side of life help to
restore the remnant of population to its
normal condition of activity and pursuit of
ordinary avocations. This, no doubt, hkd an
effect upon the people, for the attendance
was general throughout the city.
Tbe question of disinfection is still the nil-
important one discussed everywhere.
Dr. Porter la tonight In receipt of a tele
gram front Burgeon-General Hamilton in
which the latter saps he is unwilling to
assume the responsibility of entering private
dwellings and destroying property without
first consulting with the executive branch of
the government. Be will hold an interview
witii President Cleveland tomorrow, lenrn
his views on the subject and consult with
Dr. Porter forthwith. .
The magnitude and delicacy iu many par-
ticnlars of this work Is without precedent in
the history of the epidemic. The/hut two
days have witnessed a decided decrease in
the number of new cases, and today the
death rate iu not very encouraging, but there
is hope in the steady lowering of the tem
perature. The people are tbinkiDg upon
this more than upon any other condition.
Dr. Mitchell president of the hoard of
health, reports 27 new eases up to 6 o’clock
p, m. today; deaths, 4: A. B. Thrasher,
west Ashley street, comer of Hogan; E. -S.
Ulmer, Liberty street, near Beaver; Hicks
McKnthon (colored), Brooklyn; Mattie Scott
(colored), 210 Ward street.
Total cases to date, 2379; total deaths, 331.
Of the new eases today eight arc whites aod
nineteen colored.
By a coincidence a little singular, Drs.
Mitchell and James Parteu both had their
birthdays today. I he former i.- 3-4 tears old
and thy latter 40, Both were . recipients ut
iinhietqu»j{ifu, A ■ \
i %5& p^ii,
state gave us birth, lie cried, “we hav
one native land and we hare one flag!’
At that instant, from the grim, Mood
stained walls of the old fortress, the blessed
stars and stripes fluttered in tile rich sun
shine, and in a moment a thousand smaller
flags, from everv high place, gave it salu
tation., Then the thunder of cannon was
answered by the thunder of voices. “And
far off, far off,” exclaimed Houston, “yet
louder than any nuisu on earth, I hear
from the dead years and the dead heroes
of the Alamo, of Goliad, of San Jacinto,
the hurrahing of ghoetly voice* and the
clapping of unseen hands I”
The Next Wnr nnd the Map of Kurops.
M. de Laveleye lias been telling a cor
respondent of the New York Herald what
will be the result of the war Husain U sure
to have some day with the triple alliance.
Germany will restore Finland to Sweden,
taka Kussis’-, Baltic provincts for herself
and make of Russian Polands nominally
independent state. Bessarabia would be
restored to Koumania. France would be
dtspoiled of her northern departments,
which would go to Belgium, and Nice anti
Havoy would go to Italy, with Tunis ahd
Tripoli thrown in for 1
Holland would be absorbed^ Germany.' univ. rsily. Il was-Msobject, how-
What would happen in the east M. do
Lave I eye does not say. He should have
been kind enough to tell us the fate of the
territory acquired recently by Ktiseia in
Centra! Asia and in the Amoor. The lat
ter tirritory China view* with longing
eyes. The Turkomans and Bokhariub
might perhai*, be relied upon to improve
Kuteia'a hour of misfortune by regaining
their independence.
d *l.ator Fight.
Ff«ia IM Ferry journal.
Wc were told last Tuesday the purlieu.
Ian. of one of the most novel tights ever,
placed ou record. On Col. 0. C. TiUncan’s
plantation, several mi lot lielow Perry, la
an ox about two years old. We do not
mean that there is no other ox on the
farm. However, this ox was grazing near
Big Indian creek several days ago. Un
noticed by the ox an alligator came lip
out of the w ater, and soon the rapacious
jaw s of the 'gator held a considerable por
tion of the ox's tail. Then ensued a rogu-
i.u rough and tumble scuffle, which ended
only when the oi’s tail waa bitten ofi by
the alligator. The reptile returned to the
water, and the ox scampered off over the
plantation, bellowing at every jump.
A Very hmart Dog.
Krcin the WarthtiiKUm Chronicle.
Willie Maltbie haa a clog of unusual in
telligence. He goes regularly at meal
times to the house of a neighbor who has
breakfast and dinner earlier and Mipper
later than at home. He knows the hour*
of each meal at home. He U also a good
hand at grabbling potatoes. Just show
him a cracked hill md he will scratch the
dirt from around the potato with his feet
and then pull the potato with his mouth.
When you learn that the dog is named
Grover, vou will certainly admit that there
ii something in a name.
case of ytlJo* ftttr zed otfHTcnJ if hud
a good frost la-t night, enough I think to
put an end to tl..* epidemic. We “hull still
liave a few additional oases and deaths/ I
Old Decatur.* 1 think it in *aft' for them to
return to New Decatur. There i» no longe
any excuse for (juarautine against u>
Signed Jerome Cochran.
LKLaNL> MAN FOR IK
TIIK MODERN SCHEIIKUAZADJL
Some Account of ilie Romantic Life of
Itoumania's Poet Queen.
Scheherazade— if she ever existed at all
and is not a solar myth—is dead and * m-
balmed; but the moderti “Queen Bee of
story-tellers is yet alive among us, and we
have beard now« of her. Fsr swb v on the
sands ly the North Sea watering place,
Westerland, she has been holding a juve
nile court. Every day she plants her
campstooi by the edge oi tbe riyples lhaf.
furrow the “ribbed sea sand,’’ and the
children call at her throne, decorate it
with wild flowers and dig entrench mentis
round it with their little wooden spades to
keep ofi the kracken and the sea herperp,
who are, of course, singularly active and
dangerous at this season of the year*
They build up a huge fort of sand,
probably nearly a full yard high, and
defiantly plant their small toy flags
tured at tlie point of the fork from t4-e
sugar bastions and mamelous of many
cakes, as a warning to the great powers imt
to interfere. Then they sit in a circle a> d
listen to the roval ‘ Maerchentante” Die
fairy-tale aunt—as she weaves them h;
ends of elves, gnomes, pixies, sprites, wan r
babies anti “good people”generally. Who
is the artist queen wjio tells stories on the
sands? Well, it is a story in itself,says the
London Daily Telegraph. She was tke
daughterof I’rince Herman of Wied and t lie
^Princess Marie of Nassau, and in hergiriitE
days at Bonn, when she used to wander
into the vilJago school and sing with the
children, her “sweet yet sometimes w.ld
and turbulent tempe-, says a recent writer
on her life, gained for her from her p.r-
ents the name of “Waldroeschen”-little
wild rose. The story of her education
bring! her close to us, for we know that
“Ivanhoe” and that pathetic American
tale, “The Wide, Wide World,” anil the
works of Shakespeare and Dickens, were
among her favorite books. She wrote, as
she still writes, touching and graceful
poems, even when wandering through
European courts. As became *
'princess of her rank, site mastered
many languages, and when site went with,
her mo her to Sweden in 1868 to visit her
royal relatives site waa soon able to read 1
the fairy legends of Friesland in the oritr-
jnal. She was a born story teller, a hered
itary interpreter of fairy lore to mortals.
Then she sang of willow trees, of birds, of
mystical sorrows, and the world came to
know of her, not as a princess, hut an
a sweet binger, called “Sylva Carmen.”
“Now, long before this, when she
was quite a girl at the court of Berlin,
she hud made the acquaintance of Prince
Charles of Koumnnia in a rather romantic
manner, for her foot slipped us t,h<> wqg
hing down-stair*, amt “the gallant
young lieutenant caught ln r in his arm*
ind saved her” so bays Mrs. Master in
th. iBter-eUas sketch w- from ''.He
Woman's World, "from an ttglv fall.”
aflil now that young lieutenant is King «f
Koumania niid “Sylva Cprmen” is h»
yiieen. Poems, tales, the libretto of at
qpera, "Neaja.'' |>erfurmnf ^iritlkifiis
success iff fct<
' •-•ftr-V ' ' — '
rim Millionaire Senator Jlevottua ItK rl
to HU Great University.
Ptotn the Uiul.vllle Conrler-Journal.
New YoiiK,Oct. 19.—Despite ail reports
to the contrary Senator Inland Stanford,
who arrived iu the city of New York yes
terday, is in excellent health. He was
seen at the Windsor hotel last evening, and
slid that he had not felt better in thirty
vears. His trip abtoad, which was begun
M»y 29, was taken by the mlvice of his
physician, and Mr. Stanford says the pre
scription was ho good that lie does not
expect to call in another doctor for some
time. He has lost thirty pounds during
his trip. This would he disastroua to many
men: it it bem-fidel to the well-fed Cali
fornia millionaire.
Humors have played ail manner of tricks
witii Senator .'-Untold during lit- alienee.
It was several times confidently asserted in
many newspapers that he hail gone abroad
solely for the purpose of securing the valu
able services of Herbert Spencer as presi
dent of the great university which lie I the
Senator) has endowed to the extent of $20,•
000,000 in California, and which is now
rapidly nearing completion. This Senator
Stanford denies. He says he has never
thought ut Herbert Hpencef in connection
ever,while iu Europe,to pickup treasures
fur the magnificent mnseutn which i.-J'to
form a part yf the university buildings,
and in tniaobject he abundantly •uerceded.
He purchased att models and work- of art
in all parts of Europe, regard let-- of ex
pense, and has, he thinks, today, the nu
cleus at least for a university museum su
perior to any in the country. He tays if
congress adjourns this week, he will pro
ceed immediately to ban Francisco. It is
his principal aim of life to establish, as
speedily *t possible, the flret l’acific coast
seat of learning. J
“It waa my intention," said he, last
evening, “to have the university opened
=a (he twenty-first anniversarv of ntv son's
birth. He would have been 21 years old
next May, had he lived. As this -eems to
be impossible, 1 cannot bay when the uni-
versitv will be opened. The more I aee of
life abroad, the more 1 am convinced that
such a seat of learning as l hope to estab
lish in Calit 'mia will prove a great bless
ing in thi* tree country.”
Among the n nature visited last evening
was Mr. Frederick Law olm-tead, to
whom ha* been intrusted the iui|>oriant
work of laying out. landscape gardening
the 76,000 acres embraced in the university
ground*.
Ilia Ruck Wi.li.
From the Altnux News.
A lOj-pouuti rock fish waft one of the
moat intcrertiug and coveted objects to bo
seen on Albanv’e streets yesterday. It
was cangbt on a fall trap in Muckalee
creek, about six milt* above the city. The
rock fish is one of the finest of tbe finny
tribe, and while very gamy i* rarely c*p-
lured, though they abound in these water*.
Several rear* ago Dr. Total, Mr. Abraham
Lincoln* brother-in-law, then a resident of
this city, landed a 60-pouud rock fi&h with
a rod and line at Bower's mill cteek, in
Baker county.
frail) w it oime t on> f * *
food and clothing and nursin . _
valid* on their arrival. These deodi
“Minna K:initilor”— the “Mother of the
Wounded”—and at the coronation of their
mnjentUM, when Kouuianiu bccuim* :$ king
dom in 1881, we learn from thiN Muthor
that the word.** “Muma Rftniti!ot M were
seen in glittering letters over many a tri
umphal arch, ami »t the end of iho war
the officers of the Boumnniau army efiered
tneir queen u statuette in silver, where she
ik representfd giving a enp of d/ink to a
wounded soldier.
SHAKES THAI- CLIMB Yrkks.
rmillnr Fail Which tli« N.T||,.|.t. .irtiunrf
Klng.tun llav« Ure.iitly A.loptml.
Tl|e Kitigbton Freeman tells litis snake
btory, which will bear inspection; David
Bailey ami Lincoln Dunn went hunting
one day this week in the wood, near Pon-
necook creek, not fur from Accord. The
K'.ility is wild .,iu! ti.r.-r.jii.-, tl„. Dela
ware and Hudcon canal running alcng in
the foreground, while the sterr old
Htawnnguuk mountains loom proudly
3p on (he opjioaito side, in* huntcra
stopped near the creek to locate a
trie on which they shot two large black
uni..- about a yearago. I’wring through
(lit? branches, three wriggling reptile* were
discovered anspendetl ill the air, and
kuolher .Id-timer na> crawl! g about on
the ground beuvain. The one . n the
ground made o leap tor the tree, am) then
all four snake* lift! tl their he.uN high in
air, thrust out their liiligutSi and i.iwed
vroomoudy at the tWII on ii who I id in-
liodid themselves into the mured pre
cincts of their annkiship-.
Taking careful aim ls> h hntr- fired
bimullai.Cbtisly, anil a great, slimy, wrig-
glit.g niaas fell to tin ground l» I. * Three
f the snakes were dead, hut the biggest of
the quartet, a “manly aix-fooler,"had been
lazed only, ami one oi the men was fright
ened nearly out of Ilia senses when the
tgly reptile suddenly raised itself and
“made” for Mr. Duun. The hunter
dodged, but the snake followed up the
attack so lively that had it not been for »
smart rap dealt with the bntt end of Ms.
Bailey's gun serious result? might have
followed.
Tite gamy snasc Vs* vis Let in b-nglb
‘lit" ® fn —l•**liftp?TUn «■.
U.-.tt l/fg IttUUUU IU »***“• • —JJ
gregate length of the other three w .»n nix-
tecn and a half feet.
The exunt of the hunters’ game for tin
day was the four snakes and throe par
t ridges.
A Little Kx ited.
From the Maritballville Times.
Messrs. 1. F. Morph and W. fT ft **
were in the river swamp on last Wednesday
morning hunting* squirrel#,* wlitn they
heard a hog making’quite a noh*, »m4 a*
Mr. Murph lias-ome hogs in the '\vamp
that are wild, he was anxious to tee whether
the hog was his or not, aud started in the
direction of the noise, and had gone but a
short distance on hi* way when he saw the
vicioi i* brute making full tilt fm hiu*
whereupon he raised such an tine urthlv
yell that he frightened the hog, causing it
to change ita coime. On Mr. ILi*n.* lookiBf.
to see tne cause of the row. h* *aw the hoe
going at break-neck speed in one dir\et«o«»
and Mr. Murph running like r qmrltt
hor-c in the opposite direction.
We don’t accuse Mr. Murph of being
.**« ared, hut think he wa- a little excited,
from the manner iu which he made the
mud fly while running ami the short tim*-
it took him to get out of sight.
