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TRFi WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TPRST?A7 1 NOVEMBER 21. tS^-TWEf/Yfl PAGES.
THE TELEGRAPH.
OlHoe 597 Mnlborry Street.
A Great yafstion.
I Every intelligent man and woman in
1 Georgia should read the 6ermon which
' Dr. Haygood preached at Trinity church,
gUBCtiBKD KVKav day is me ykak AND wekkly Atlanta, last Sunday night, and which
was publishtd in yeaterday’s Tki.k-raimi.
Every member of the legislature should
study it wi h especial care. It is a mas
terful treatment of one of the great ques-
The Dally ts itetlrercil by carriers In the city (Jons of the day.
or mailed, postage tree, to autwirlbari fir 25 j The doctor talks very plainly about the
«utss week; 75cents a month: 1221 for three , public school systen of Georgia, or rather
icentte: tt H) for six months; |e for* year-In ' a bout the way in which the system is sup-
sAvsnre. [ported. He says some things which are
The Weekly ts mallei to subscribers, postage : humiliating to Georgia pride, but they are
rec, at tl 25a year. In advance. I facts, and though we cannot fail to be
Transient advertisements will be taken for the J ashamed of them we cannot cast them
Dolly at $1 per rqusre ot to tinea or less for the ■ aside. Under our constitution and statutes
first Insertion, sod 50 cents for esch subss- we i, ave provided for public schools on a
quent insertion, and for the Weekly at Jl for I good plan. The doctor says:
tr ->. insertion. Death, funeral and marriage I There Is no trouble with our Georgia school
notices St system; It Is patterned after the best In Amer-
' . ,., ' lea. Its anatomy fa ail right; the bones are
All communications should be addressed, and , ounrt , nd ln p ,« e- wtalll wsnls it mnicto
all money orders, checks, etc., be made pays- {OTor h, bones and blood to rouad out Its
muscles.
The trouble is that we starve this sys
tem. There are in Georgia, according to
the recent census ol the department of
education, 500,281 children ol “school
sge,” that is between the ages of 6 and 18.
Of these 202,027 are white and 267,754
colored. The total fond given by the state
last year for the education of these chil
dren was $488,740 40, or ai average of 87
cents for the year’s tui ion of each child.
Probably no slate in the union makes a
worse showing, and the fund, pitiful as it
i«, comes mainly from precarious sources.
TUB .TKLEGRkPH,
Macen, Go.
This is no time for independentism in
Bibb county. It will be nipped in the bud.
The Home of Representatives still
trembles in the balance, but the scale vi
brates a little toward the republican side.
Republican abase of the Fouth nearly
all ended with the election, but the abuse
Of Cleveland .continues with unabated
vigor
Tub preachers of Chicago have made an [
orgm r. d attack on the dance. Whi.e . The backbone of it i* the half rental of the
Chicago reeks with so many graver Bins] Slate road, $150,000. The poll tax adds
this appeals to be a wasteof energy.
Db. IIavoood’s sp'et.did plea for better
public ichools in Georgia has been pub
lished in pamphlet form. We commend
it to the pray.rful consideration of the
Georgia legislature.
Lord Claud Hamilton of England Is
Coming to the United States in the interest
of a syndicate which has a plan for heat
ing cities. As we have a syndicate in the
fcutli which proposes to keep cities cool,
•the protpeef* are that we may be happy
ye‘-
Next Thursday, l hartktgtving day, is
Georgia day at the Augusta Exposition.
All parts of the state will be represented
-on that occasion. Macon will send a large
delegation. Macon is proud of Augusta’*
great show, and is glad to contribute to its
Tiie farmers of Kansas gave p otection
* majority of 80,000 about the s-itne time
ft&t free freights and free seed were asked
for various counties in the wet tern part of
that Mato. Perhaps Kansas farmers will
feyfu after awhile that protection and
poverty g-i together.
Thk republican papers are warning his
party that the Pr<sident-elect’s grand
father was persecuted to death by the
Office-seekers. This contradicts the story
told by one of them during the campaign
thnt the old gentleman waa poisoned by
the wicked d^u-ecrats.
Dr. J. P. Stevens contributes to the
TtcLBOluru of this morning an article on
yellow fever, which will be found inter
esting to the general public as well as to
the scientific student. The dootor is re
markably calm in his treatment of a
subject whose very consideration makes
most men nervous.
A kjh-urucan contemporary warns the
Democratic party that it mu*t get rid o
Carlisle, Mills and the other Southern
leaders, but we don’t think the advice will
be adopted. That the Democratic party is
In a somewhat gloomy state of mind is
true, but it will not commit suicide. The
Democratic party remembers to have been
gloomy before.
Tn« Americ'n is a for nightly magazine
published at Atlanta, devoted to literary,
•ociologic and religious questions. It is
edited by Dr. James G. Armitrong and
Maj. C. W. Hubner, and numbers among
ibi contributors some of the most popular
writers in the country. The magazine is
young, but it has already had a large
measure of success.
Presidential inaugurations are getting
to be gorgeous attain, and it is proposed
to make the next one eclipse all its prede
eeesocs in magnificence. About $30,000
has a'ready been subscribed in Washing
ton for the inaugural ball and other cere
monials. Washington can atlord to con-
tribnte to this cause liberally, as an in
figuration pours about $1,000,000 into the
pockets of the merchants, the hotel men
•nd the sharpers ol that gay city
itui ’<aw'-tutc Will Cwu4,uti
next Wednesday Senator Bartlett’s bill to
increase the salaries ol superior court
udges from $2,0C0 to - $3,000 and of
supreme ccurt judgesfrom$3,000 to$4,000.
The bill ought to pass, of course, but it
will require the moat assiduous efiorts ol
its friends to carry it through. It is not a
question of liberality. It is merely
proportion to do jus'lee to the most im
portant officials of the state
Eluott F. Fhepahd, the alleged editor
of the New York Mail and Express, is a
candidate lor a cabinet office. The New
York Bnn supports hinf which fact onght
to be a good reason for his rejection even
if he were not recognized os a crank.
Shepard i* the monumental son-in-law,
W i-liam H. \ anderbilt said of him long
after he married bu daughter that he hsd
►een a great many foola ol different kinds
but that Elliott Shepard was a fool in
>
about $185,000. The other items which
make up our noble school fund are liquor
licenses, hire of convicts, fees from
the inspection ol fertilizers, and
the interest on a little Georgia
railroad stock owned liy the state. The
dependence of o>r state school system i,
on these scraps from the state’s revenues.
It is not remarkable, in view of this fact,
that the last United States census showed
that the proportion of illiteracy in Geor
gia was greater than that in any state of
the nnion.
Cities, incorporated towns and some
comities have taken advantage of the law
which allows them to receive their share of
the state fund and increase it by local tax
ation. A* * a result, we have in spots in
Georgia excellent poblin schools, but 490,-
270 of the 500,281 school children cannot
enjoy the privileges of 5Uoh schools.
The average public school in Georgia is
open three moaths in the year. It is
usually conducted with shabby surround
ings and cannot iflen le in charge of good
teachers because the pittance paid for this
O. 4 !! COLDn i ■ n.l ntJu cliSSp ls!c"t. I
is tinpli e-nnt to publish these facts to the
world but the only way to better them is
to arouse the intelligence and virtue of the
state to a proper view of the situation. Dr.
Ha.'good has often written and spoken on
this subject, but his address last Sunday
night is the fullest and most convincing
plea yet made by anybody for better public
schools in this state. The attention of the
legislature nas been called to the facta
many s time. The lamented Dr.
Orr, as state school commissioner,
worked and begged for years
that the school system might Iiavo a more
decent support. Ilia successor, Judge
Hook, has taken up the good cause with
vigor and enthud&sm. All efforts at im
provement in this direction have been
defeated hy a character whose power and
Influence in shaping public affaire, we
sincerely hope, are soon to be broken down.
Tbit pen-re is admirably described hy
Dr. Haygood. After enumerating certain
classes of people with whom it is useless
to argue on tbo subject of public schools,
he says:
There may be many more equally Invincible
by argument* or facta, but I mention ona more
only. With h-tn you can do nothing until he
U "born again.”
It la a delicate matter fora apeakcr to run the
risk of being personal, hut I am rea-onahly
safe—he It not here tonight, ft Is against his
prlcclpleato attend meetings In tho Interests
of education. Besides, he la fully employed;
Indeed, be has a "mission" and he devotes
himself to It. Ily t V votes of Ignortnci he la a
member of tho legislature. Ilia conanmlng de
sire Is to save—or pretend to atve, which Is far
better f sr hta purpose-the people's money tor
them. lie vote* against all apprnprlattona,
for the lowest stun, not because It la enough to
a'compltsh a needed work, but because It la the
loweat sum. All rules, they say, have excep
tions. Ilia exception la to vole for the highest
cum when It concerns btm or his. With this
alight exception ho la consistent.
These are severe woidi but jaat. Let
ut< hope that the prtse it legidatuie will
be able to rise above its predecessors in
dealing with the great duty of supporting
the public schools. The way to influence
the legislature to better action is to agitate
iue need for it among the people. Dr.
Haygood made noble ute of the pulpit
when he delivered from it his powerful
plea for half a million children. Our
preachers cau well spare a Sunday from
doctrine and give it to an intelligent pre
sentation of this subject. The press of the
state has not done it* duty in thi* pmicu
iar. The newspapers shot Id take hold of
this diicui ..on and never let it alone until
the public schools are greatly improved
Intelligent men and women in every com
munity can aid in the work. Georgia it get
ting farther and farther behind other
stales in thi, great ess-nlial of prosperity
and progress. It ia lime to move forward.
Redaction nr Representation.
If ono may judge correctly from th
reading of the chief republican papers,
there is a strong inclination in their party,
amounting almost to an intention, to re
duce the representation of the state* in
congress to the basis of actual votes cast.
Thoug'i general iu applicati n, the law to
effect this woulS be aimed entirely at the
Fou'h, and an attempt would he made to
justify it hy the claim that r.egroef,
though counted in the apporliomucnt of
tongressmen, are not allowed to vote, the
while voters of the South thus
quiring double the power in congress
and the electoral colhge enjoyed by an
equal number of white men in the North
ern states. To the men who believe th*re
is suppression, and many thousands do,
such action on the part of the republicans
m'ght seem entirely proper, and they
would not question closely the authority
of congress to pass the law and enforce it.
We do not believe, howev-r, that such
authority exists. It could be claimed
only fiom the clause of the fourteenth
amendment of the constitution, which
says:
But when the right to vote at any election for
the choice ot electors for President amt Vice-
President ol the United States, representative*
in congress, the executive aud judicial officers
ol a state, or the members of tho legislature
thereof, Is denied to any of the male inhabitants
of such Mat" being .1 years of ago and citizens
of the United Slates, or in any way abrlged, ex
cept for participation ln rebellion or other
crime, ibe basis of representation therein shall
be reduced lu the uroportton which the num
ber ot such male citizens shall bear to the whole
number ot male cltls.-ns 21 years ol age In such
state.
The plain meaning of this, in the con
nection in which it occurs, is that no state
shall in its law-makiog, governing ca
pacity, abridge the rights of
voters on account of color.
The ^Georgia law requiring I he pre
payment of taxei and the law of Rhode
inland fixing a properly qualifier.ion
abridge the right of citizens to vote, but
they are of geueral application and their
constitutionality has never been seriously
qitrstiomd. The civil rights law in de
fining he common rights of citizens and
providing for the punishment
of those denyiog them is
quite as comprehensive as the paragraph
quoted, and, indeed, the terms employed
are similar, but the supremo court has de
cided, in efiect, that the purpose of that
act was to prevent discrimination by slate
laws against any class of citizens. Where
slate laws do not discriminate, but piace
every citizen on the same footing, federal
authority cannot interfere. There is no
reason to believe the supreme cnirt would
adopt another principle in dealing\ith
the sabject now Under dltcus-itixf
Ttyere is another than t'e ieg.-f*.point of
view from which Ibis stibj'tf;; in*a^ be ex
amined—that of ezpi diency. Would not
the enforcing of a law limiting reprrsen-
tdtiun to the actual votes
cast open the door to evils
moro serious than any that now alllict us
through our system of elections? The
party that lost would certainly endeavor
to g t even. Suppose the vote in a pres-
iden ul election were chosen as the basis
for repriBentation, as it naturally would
be, being the fullest. Would it not then
be to the interest of democrats in hope
lessly republican elates or districts, and ot
republicans where the circumstances were
reversed, to refrain entirely from voting?
Take the state of t’ennsylvania as an ex
ample. In that state the democrat* cast
about 460,000 vetes, but they elected only
seven congressmen. The republican*, with
about 540,000 votes elected twenty. The
democrats could by refraining from voting
greatly reduce the state’s representation
aud Lfterwards, In off years, stind as good
a chance as ever of electing their propor
tionate share. The Bimo condition of at-
fairsexists in other states; and if the pol
icy of abstention were resorted to on a
large scale the effect would be to give the
close states an abnormally large repre
sentation in the House and an influ nee on
legislation out of all proportion to their
population. Already, under our present
system of equal representation, they have
a power in politics beyond what is healthy
and desirable; with that power doubled or
trebled politics could not fail to become
even more corrupt.
But whether events should follow the
course outlined or not, in the event of a
change being made in the basis of repre
sentation, it can hardly be doubted that
tha power of politicians to manipulate
elections would be largely increased, and
that would be an unmitigated evil. The
increase or decrease of population springs
from cansra that cannot be controlled,
and when representation in legi-dative
bodies is apportioned according to the
number of people substantial justice must
be done. The came thing could not he
said if the projicied system were adopted.
The change would be from a natural ba
sis, sabject to modification only by the
forces of natu e, to an artificial basi*, en
tirely within the control of short-nightcd
politijians. The efiect could not fail tt
be bad.
We believe, therefore, the latest repub
lican scheme to be not only illegal but
inexpedient.
A NewMpnpnr Incendiary.
The Chicago Tribune is commonly re
ferred to as the most powerful republican
paper in the West. It enjoys a large circu
lation, has earned a vast fortune for itB
owner, and presumably reflec's, or en
deavors to rellect, the sentiments of its
constituency. The attitude cf the Tribune
toward the South cannot, therefore, be re
garded with indifference. What that at
titude is may be seen from the following
extracts from ita editorial columns:
When we see states like Fouth Carolina,
Mlsiladppl. Alabama and Louisiana, that wo
know aro republican, put down as giving from
50,003 to (0,000 majority for a democrat. « hat
can we do with each returns but reject them?
Of the votes honestly cast and honestly counted
Blaine had an overwhelming majority. So ha
Harrison.
The source ot trouble Is that the blacks
not fight for themselves, and any coercive
power to enforce their rights must be used
from the outside White men or Indiana situ
ated as the Southern negroes arc won'J make
the rivers ot the South run red before they
would submit to the usurpations and wrongs
which the blacks passively endure, Op
pressed by generations of slavery, the negroes
are non - combatants. They will not
shoot and burn tor thetr rights. They lack
even the combatlveneaa found ln the women of
the raees long accustomed to freedom. • • *
The negroes will not light except In association
with and under the leadership ot white men.
Wherever there Is a considerable portion of
white republicans read? to fight. If necessary,
for a free ballot and a fair count, the negroes
can and do vote and have their votes' fairly
counted; hot If left to themselves, they are
helpless, even where they are ln a vast majority.
In what manner can outside federal power be
brought to bear to secure the rights of the
negroes ln states where they can not act In as
sociation with or under the leadership ol white
men? That Is the great question. Will Sena
tor Ingalls cast light upon it?
Nothing more infamous has ever sp.
peared in the columns of a responsible
newspaper than the lost paragraph, in
which the negroes are, in effect, advised to
murder and burn, in order to establish
their supremacy over their white neigh
bors. They are reproached for cowardice,
because they have not shown the ferocity
and bloodthirstiness of Indian savage*, and
made Southern rivers run red with white
men’s blood. Because they have not com
mitted the horrible crimf sof indiscriminate
murder and arson, the Tribune says they
have loss courage than women.
The only inference from its words is,
that the Chicago paper believes that in
Mates and communities in the Southern
states where the census shows a negro
majority, republican office-holders should
be installed, even if the white minority
mast be killed to bring that result about.
Civilization itself ought to be destroyed,
that the Republican party may flourish.
Some half crazy fanatics a few months
ago printed in their obscure newspaper in
the Tribune’s own city a series of articUs
om Which we have quoted. They ad
vised workingmen to resort to rifles and
bombs to destroy the rich; the Tribune ad
vises the negroes to murder and burn. The
Arbeiler-Zeiling’a utterances were power-
erful in convincing the jury that tried
.Spies and his comrades that these mon
sters deserved death at the end of a rope;
the editor of the Tribune is, morally, as
guilty as they, and doubtless would find in
the news of the murder of Southern white
people hy negro insurrectionists tho same
pleasure that filled the anarchist leaders on
the night of the Haymarket massacre.
The safety of th* Southern people is that
the descendants of the savages who were
brought among them a few generations
ago are gentler, more civilized than the
bloodthirsty brute who would lead them
back to the ways of their ancestors.
But it will be seen that murder and ar
son are not the only means by which, the
Vribune think*, republican atcendenry
can be made secure. When a state in
which there is a negro majority selects
democratic official*, the election must be
set aside and the offices given to the re
publicans. The»Tribune forgets the fact,
or is indifferent to it, that the states ‘still
have rights, and that on a famous occa
sion, twelve years ago, tho principle
was established that no power
exists in our government which can go be
hind the Btate returns, even though fraud
be proved. That principle waa necesiary
to the seating of a republican in the Presi
dent’* chair who was not elected, when
fraud was so apparent that it could not be
denied. There could not have been a more
pointed acknowledgement tf state rights,
and, though the principle was established
for a temporary purp«se only, the republi
cans will find it difficulttooverthrow. The
supreme court, even before the recent ac
cessions of democratic members, showed a
regard for the constitutional limitations on
federal poser that gives prornim of pro
tection from the revolutionary scheme
suggested hy the Tribune.
Let it* hope that tile new President will
rej-ct the advice of the rabid school of
Houth-haters to which the Tribune belongs.
Nothing hut calamity to the nation, as well
as the South, could result from a contrary
course. __________
Our Public School*.
With public schools which run only
three months in the year, Georgia is not
liable to attract the best class of irnrai-
gr. nts who gnme to this country to find
freedom and opportunity for themselves
and tl-eir childien. If we cannot get the
better class of immigrants we do not want
any. The legislature ought to past the
Thn .State Road.
The lease under which the Western and
Atlantic railroad is being operated expires
in October, 1890, and upon the present
legislature devolves the duty of protecting
the stato’s interests in the closing up of
that lease, as well as of making a wise dis
position of the property after that lime.
In c nnection with this business many per
plexing questions have ari-en, the proper
and just solution of which will require the
exercise of courage and discretion ou the
part of legislators.
The lessees of the road, it is understood,
will put in a claim for compeiiBitiou for
money expetded in improving the condi
tion of the roadbed, io substituting iron for
wooden bridges and increasing largely the
number of engines and cars. If allowed,
tills claim would compel the payment of a
very large euniof muney and mightseriously
embarrass the state’s finances, but this con
sideration alone should not cause it to be
rejected. Georgia cau always afford to be
just in her dealings. But does justice de
mand that this claim should be allowed?
We believe the general 6ense to be that it
doeB not, but that there h reason for the
claim in part. Under the lease and the
interpretation of laws dealing with analo
gous subjects, ii seems to us the lessees can
only cla m payment for the excois of roll,
ing stock, which may be regarded as per
sonal property, while the permanent im
provements to the fixed properly of -the
right of way belong of right and custom to
the owner, the slate. The claim for better
ments, therefore, should not be conceded
beyond the payment of the difference in
value hi tween tho rolling stock of the
road in 1870 and the value ir> 1800. Wo
believe the legislature will como to this
decision.
A more important matter is the disposi
tion of the roal to be mode after the
present lease expires. Shall it again be
leased, or would it be wiser lor the state to
sell the road and go out of the transporta
tion bnsinrs,? In deciding this question
it would be well lor the legislature to con
sider carefully the changed condition of
the railroad world since the present lease
was made. Then the state road had prac
tically a monopoly of a largo scope of
southern country. The business ot all the
lines diverging from its southern terminus
was concentrated on its rails, and at its
northern terminus the-- conditions
wer* alniuot as favorable. Ib the
shut lion still favorable to the independ
ence aud power of the state road’s man
agers? We think cot. Every road enter
ing Atlanta now be’ongs to a siogle com
pany, and one branch of that company’s
system parallels the state road its entire
length. The southern connections, which
contributed so iarg-iy to trie prosperity of
the Western and Atlantic,' are’now com
pletely under the control of itB rival.
The state road is, nevertheless, a valu
able properly, but there is no reason to
believe that under present conditions the
lesse price of (31,000 a month, fixed by a
bill already introduced, can be realized.
Probably, if a lease is decided upon, a much
smaller rental must be accepted, aud
at this point the question arises: If the
state cannot lease the road for a larger
HDnual payment than the interest on the
amount lor wh : ch the property might bs
sold, why not sell? The state will be in
belter condition without a debt and w.th-
out a railroad, unless the railroad more
thin pays the interest on the debt.. We do
not believe it has done eo for the last
twenty years
We think, then fore, If the (nil value of
tho state railroad properly can be ob
tained, it should be sold. The state’s
ownership ol an important line does not
insure competition or lower rates, a fact
acknowledged by the law-making power
when arbitrary power to regulate these
matters wa< put in thehands of the railroad
commission. Rates can be male reas
onable and juat more cheaply and satisfac
torily through the commission than by
the state entering into competition with the
Richmond Terminal.
Let the legislature find ont as near as
may be the highest pries lor which the
road can be sold and the
largest rental that can be ob
tained for it. Then the decision might be
settled by five mlnstes’ figuring. The
question is purely one of businrst. There
is no reason why the state should hold the
road, unless it is an investment paying a
higher rate of interest than its own obliga
tions to creditors. If it only pays the
same, then sell. Railroading is not a de
sirable business for a state to engage in,for
politics should be as simple ob possible.
PERSONAL.
I’resident C-rn^a^e U lhe
?.:* lea '! or f m, * ,e fashions ot that counwv®
be Emfjkror of Germany is h.ving la
W W C rC Ca 7 0 " StrUCled (l r himself.
W. W. Warren has present.d the .„i n .
ns press worked by Be. Junta Franklin it tot
tuu to the BmtonUn Foe-let,. 1 “*•
Lew Gim Uong of North Adams, Mss*,
has eased an i,la„d m ur Savannah and "lit.’
tL V" e ‘ s “ rdeu °“ ,be Coloeae pia n
lhe Emperor of Amiri, ha, lo.ro.d tha
American game of poker, and the edict agsln.t
£^r chun<m iufor “ ,u
re«\ hU H M h ttllCWArnol<1 fund has
reached tho aum of 823.000. which after
vhllug the memorial la Wetunlnit r Ahbct
‘“ al ' C to -caro Mrs. Arnold a "S
coiupctuuco." u “*
A paper by Henry Ward Beecher, giy.
iug.an account ot hlsce ebrated Kngli.h run
ofl8A will bo printed in the Ueutur. l. r tv
comber. Mr. Beecher wrote It during the l„i
wcekot hi* life and left It la an uaBulshed
Amid all the slush that finds place in
the newspaper* aneut the wife ot the Preaideat-
clecl. it Is reircahlag now and then to find an
estimate like the following: '-Sho 1* a wonun
without a history, except the noblest thst a
lad, ma, have that of a faithful helpmate to a
disiluguifihed man."
Rev. James Rune, the archologht, who
has j .st been appointed to a stall at York Min
ster, wa, engaged one ds, In researches In tho
Mlusler library, when two jrouug officers of
-ho gar Ison, on a sghtseeing ezpedliton
luu ged lu. Mistaking him-and not unreason
ably - lor a verger, they accosted him th .s: “I
say. old fet ow, what have you got to show nit"
They felt sorry, however, a moment later, when
the sUppoe.-d verger replied: "-lr, to gentle-
menwesbowthe library; to others the door."
Prof. Chandler Ro verts estimates the
weight ot the smoke cloud which dally hangs
over L n.tou at about fitly tons of sotln carbon,
aud 25U tons of carton in the form ot hydrocar
bon and carbouic oxide gaaes. Calculated trom
tbeaveiage result* of tho te-ts made by the
smoke abatement cnmmUleo, tbo value ot coal
wasted trom domestic grates reaches, upon the
annual consumption ot 5, 00,100 people to
£2,275.500. The cost ot cartage on this waited
co <11. calculated to bo AJGS 750, white tbo psj-
sage ot a large trnmber of horses through the
streets iu drawing it adds consld-rably to the
cost of at- cet cleaning and repairing. There Is
at o the cost of taking away the extra ashes,
Ltl.OOd a year. Summing 1; all up, the direct
aud Indirect cost of the wasted cotl 1* set down
at£.,000,0X1, pins the additional loss f.r the
damage done to property caused by lbs smoky
almospbert, estimated by Mr. Chadwick at
£-'.0.0 000 -the whole amounting to £l,000,U)Jk or
J2I OUI.OOO.
BREVITIES. ’
Newman, Georgia, is one of the coming
towns of the state. By its own public spirit
and enterprise it hu within the last ytmr
builta$100,000cotton factory,a$25,000<
risge factory and a (5,000 wagon factory.
Several other manufacturing schemes
more directions than any man he ever j proj*-ct>-d and will surely be pushed
»»W. Vanderbilt was an excellent judge [ pra
ol human nature. ■ Ns-
access. Ia the
■ere l* no such w-
hill ary
a fail.
Next Friday night Macon will enjoy a
care treat in the appearance of Bill Nys
Whitcomb Riley and Harry 8. Edward
lor the benefit of the Public Library. '1 lie j o( j u | Ke H*U l0 support the schools
programme for the evening is made up of 1 (jr hir munl h, i„ the year. If the present
the best specimens ol Nje’a humor, the , leKll |at ur e shall adjourn without doing
f.m-il of Riley * poems and the choicent „jaielhii.g to improve our public school
g' lis of thoss stories which have placed ! the voters of Georgia will have a
H*rry EJwards in the front rank of Snilh- j ri( , ht lu f, e ] t | ia t they have been swindled.
ern writers. There is a delightful evening j
in store for Micon, an<l we are mrc th»^ j Til* Ctitcago Hemld held# ft leading
ih- Acidt iu7 will be filled froru pit to editorial ‘*Oal7 One Chicago.” Thank*,
dome. 1 ikwfullr.
It U proposed in Connecticut to amend
the state rongtitution to as to 2ef. a plural
ity of vot?« elect the go/emor. Under
the present ridiculous plan a majority of
all the votes cast is required. There are
alwajs at le&st three tickets in the field
and the two great parties are bo equally
matched that the candidate of neither has
a majority. The election is thrown into
the le^itdatnre and the elate has bren so j
gerrymandered by the republicans that it
i* almost impossible for them to loee the
control of that body. The result is that
Connecticut has a republican governor
when the democrat? carry the stale. Four
years ago Qov. Waller best Lounsberry
several thousand votes but the legislature
choee Louasberry. At the recent olecti n
Judge Morris, the democratic nominee,:
beat his republican opponent, Mr. |
Itulkeley, 1,500 vote* *»d yet liulkeley is
to be governor. Four times since 1870 the
legislature ha* given the office of governor
to republican candidates who received
votes than th lr democratic opponents, it
is hoped th*»i the prup>j*e«l rtf >rinwill be
dopted.
Bull fighting is increasing in popular
favor In Spain. Mo o new rings have keen
built during the hut twelve yean than during
the previous twenty, and tho pay of the wt-
former- has increased.
Wasn’t P»'coming: Affectionate Wife—
I saw the young Widow Green today. You
dou’t know how bewitching she looks in her
mourning." Fond Ilusband—"And I luppo^o
you envied her tho opportunity, thf Affec
tionate Wife—"How can you t*lk so, Charley?
You know black was never becoming to me."—
nostou Transcript.
TJie curi tin fact has been demonstrated
by Sir John Lubbock that certala kinds of tuts
are unable to exist without keeping otn *r auu
as slaves, though wxy this Is so he has not
found out. On removing the slave»from a nnt
of fifty slave-holding ants ho found that the
latter immediately commenced to die off, and
were speedily reduced in number to six. When
the slaves w£re returned the mortality ceased.
The President’s writing desk, a Wash
ington letter ntys, i« made of oak from the Drlt-
Uh ship Resolute, which was rescued in tbo
Artie ocoau thoroughly rvbulltbytbo Uoited
States government aud sent to England. This
l« not a last card. The British government took
out some of the oak In the original framework
of the ship and bad a supi'rb doak made, *blch
all the Presidents of the United State# have used
since.
At Danbury, Conn., last winter a blimrd
broken large limb from an elm tree. The limb
was not severed entirely from the trunk, bat
hung, head down, supported by the bark ou the
uuder side. When the sap ascended in the
spring this limb received none, and bung leaf*
less all summer. Now the tre*j bos shed Itt
leaves and the sap descending has entered the
limb, and it is covered with the soft, light green
foliage of June.
The captain of the steamer Boovenue,
which was recently caught In a typhoon ii the
China Sea. says of the center of thedlaturbiocc:
"It wa* filled with lightning, and a heavy roar
made it impossible to distinguish the noise of
the wlud from that of tho thunder. The smell,
too, of electricity, like tho snudl of burning
sulphur, wav so intense av to cause on almost
overpowering sensation of suffocation, and the
biscuits and food not washed away by the storm
tasted so of sulphur as to be unfit for u*e."
Lead in the form of filings under ft
pressure of 2,000 atmospheres or thirteen tons
to the square loch, becom e com pressed into ft
solid block, in which it is impossible to delect
the slightest vestige of the original grains. Un
der a pressure of 5,00) atmospheres it Uqnlfl>*-
Tin, when compressed in powder, b'.comosolid
under a pressure of ten tons on the square Inch;
sine at thirty eight tons, antimony at thirty-
eight tons, aluminum at thirty-eight ton*, ft 0 * 1
copper at thirty-three tons.
A memorial tabltt has been placed in
Christ Church, Hartford, Conn., above the pew
long occupied by Lydia II. Sigourney. H bca™
some linca by John Greculeaf V\ hittier, who
says; "I knew Mrs. Blgourney well when, m »
boy, I came to Hanford. Her kinduess to the
young rustic stranger I shall never forget*" T e
lincf. ssro mh fnllnwt?
"tihe sang alone, tie womanhood had known
The gift of song w^ich fills the air today:
Tender aud sweet, a mu»lc all her owu ^
May fitly linger where she knelt to pray*
An interesting astronomical expedition
is being fitted out at Harvard College for a two
fold purpose. The first in order of time wu
au expedition to California for observation^
the total ccllpae of tne »un on Jan. 1.1W* * m
mediately after the eclipse one of the
observers will proceed to Peru, taking vrl “ l
a part of the apparatus, lie will he Jo DC
later by others, and tne work will then bu e
tv red upon which ha# been a y»ar or more
CJUtemplatlon, of rnaklug a complete survey
the Southern heavens.
Many ye ra ago there lived In Bnm»*
wick. Me., a rrosper. ua old Quaker
prospctt'ua «•- n .
named Jones, who*ie consc cnee troubled ui
he look suy lit ire of his ni-!ghb*r> ui ius 1 ’
he couM.lereJ s l»lr equivalent Lr “
sold. lie fixed one prk-s (or b.s
never vr,.ul 1 lake urij D ire. no matter what me
4talc of the market might be. One morning
son Thoms* ws* «eni to the vtlUf. with s po
of butte r which he sold for 15 cents a t
On fch retur i he gave his father the proci-ois ox
Tbsold gentleman .cut him
* ety Urk LI th? purchaser m riluoa»«“ l "
pound.