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THE TELEGRAPH, Macon
FEW dtieajin the South made as much
substantial progress during the year
-s did Macon. But Mac™* i* h 7 no m
satisfied. She intends to do much better
during tho year 1890.
Iceman Turner u the youngest man in
congress. This distinction and Mr. Cum-
filings’ work in tho newspapers will koop
the New York city delegation from be
ing forgotten.
31b. JrsncE Brewer will take his seat
on the supreme court bench this morn
ing. We hope be may long be recog
nized as tho moat creditable relic of the
Harrison administration.
Tee social rivalry between tho Harri
sons and the Mortons has been the only
excitement Washington has known dur
ing tho congressional recess. This inter
esting contest Is still undecided.
The metal output of the mines of
Colorado last year was worth $30,000,
090. A* mest of the metal was ailrer, it
is not retnarkabi# that Colorado states
men, without regard to party, are ram
pant bi-metal ist*.
A republican paper predicts that this
year will witness “groat triumphs of
brain and boodle,’* from which we infer
that the editor bus failed to get an ofllco
and is tlwreforo disoouroged over the fu
turo of his party.
Mn. Gladstone is probably tho most
famous man in tho English speaking
world, and yet a number cf American
newspapers in referring editorially to his
recent birthday made some striking er
rors. Tho New York World compli
merited him on attaining his 81st year
when he was only 60, while tho Norfolk
Virginian changed bis second name
from Ewart to Evart.
Mr. George Westinobocse, the head
of one of the largest electric light com
panies in the country, think* he lias
solved tho problem of the deadly electric
wires. Ho has invented a new system
by which the current will be supplied
separately to each lamp instead of to
many on one wire. Mr, Westinghouso
says it will be perfectly safe to monkey
with bu new faabtoned electric wires,
A North Carolina paper reports that
negroes aro still leaving the state in
large numbers for the Southwest, In
duced by tho glowing promises of the
emigration agent. Who knows but
won mis an wo iiertluiirto |itwnbeU
and despised emigration agent may be
tho principal factor in settling the ■
called race problems The Georgia legis
lature should give him a chance.
Mm Mart Anderson aaid to a re
porter at Nice a few days ago that tho
had “no intention of returning to tho
t-iago, at least for an indsiinite period."
Thu American colony at Nice is firmly
convinced that Mia* Anderson is engaged
to Mr. De Navarro, a wealthy young
New Yoik gentleman, with whoso
MNfthtr ihelnf bees traveling. If this
report is truo tho gifted young trage
dienne Is probeUy lost to the stage for-
over,
A GENTLEMAN whom Bradstrect's de
scribes as “oos of the most eminent of
Bouthem engineers," said the other day:
“We can make iron in Alabama, send it
to Pennsylvnia and sell it there $3 e ton
chcajx r than they can make it." This is
exactly in lino with what has been said by
other practical and experienced Bouth
orn iron-masters, snd, perhaps, reptv-
rents about the truth of the situation.
Tho South is bound to become the greet
seat of iron production oajthis continent,
with the tariff or without it— but more
quickly without it*
The Teixorauu favored the appoint
ment of Mr. Walter B. Hill as judge of
tliis circuit, to succeed Judge (Justin,
because of what we thought his pre
eminent qualifications for the place. The
governor thought otherwise, and it must
be admitted that in e choico between tho
two gentlemen whose narnos were pre
sented to him there was no chance for
him to make e serious mistake. Judge
Miller stands among the highest, both os
a lawyer and citizen, and during hi* ad
ministration tho Uw will doubtless be
enforced wisely, impartially and firmly.
The Telforapji ^congratulates Judge
Miller upon his appointment, and wislioe
him a continuous increase of honors and
The election of a mayor at Windsor,
Ontario, on a platform of annexation to
the United States, is particularly signifi
cant, since the town to sold to have been
formerly econservative stronghold. Mr.
White, the successful candidate, to rep
resented aa a former political worker for
ow Jwlm _ Auwnliug to a
dispatch from Ottawa, Mr. Whim takes
tho ground that the future welfare of
Canada depends not upon the British con
nection, tut upon political union with
the United State*. The former, he con
tend*, to a standing menace against the
development of the country. He asserts
that nature never intended there should
be a customs line between Canada and
the United States, and that one form of
government should control the affairs of
the whole North American continent
The leading statesmen of the United
States seem to agree that Canada must
tike th j iniative In this matter; and
though Windsor to not in any sense a
metropolis, it to a very distinguished and
pn-gre^tvo town. Greater movements
Lave .taro. J in »ma.Lr places,
A NVnunfarlurerta Trstlmonjr.
There has l.oen a wearisome sameness
about !Ui.»t of the testimony before the
way* mid means committee of the House
of Representatives at its holiday sessions.
Noarly all the gentlenion who bavs ap
peared before that^body have gone there
either with studied defenses of the pres
ent tariff or with pleas for more protec
tion. Their position is what was ex
pected, since they nro the representative*
of certain lines which profit largely by
the present plan of over-taxation. But
lust Tuesday tho committee was enter
tained by a gentleman whose testimony
varied the monotony that had character
ized most of the proceeding* before that
body. His name is George A. Macbeth,
and ho 1* oiigugcu in a proit-uu-u
try, being one of tho largest
glass manufacturers of Fittoburg.
But Mr. Macbeth wants to get rid of the
sort of protection that is irupotted on him
and ho gavo very forcibly the reasons
why ho so desires. He does not ask that
any protection bo given Jto the products
of his works. What ho does ask is that
tho raw materials on which ho is now
forced to pay heavy taxes be admitted
free. Relieved of tha burden tho tariff
thus imposes upon it Mr. Macbeth think*
the glass industry in this country would
prosper as it never did and as it never can
tinder existing conditions. The following
interesting colloquy took place between
Mr. Macbeth and Mr. Bayne, a republi
can member of the committee, who
lives almost within sight of Mr. Mac
beth's glassworks:
Mr. Hayae-lf tliflOeriaan* cams luto compe
tition with you with their lower rates of *a*»
could you compete with them on your ISO varie
ties of lampshades outside of this country?
Mr. Macbeth—diva res free material or
trade such ss England has, and Kite m<
proper products of my labor, ami I defy any
competition on the face of the earth.
Mr. Bayne—And pay your workmen tho wages
you now pay them?
Mr. Macbeth—I will pay them more.
Mr. Bayno-IIow much do you pay them on
the average?
Mr. Muchetb-About $4.60 a day.
Mr. Bayne—Do you claim that you could pay
yotir men $1.50a day If the Germans could manu
facture the same kind of chimney and employ
the same amount of labor at say $.’.!» a day?
Mr. Macbeth—Yes, sir.
Mr. Bayne-You could, under this condition,
compete with the Oennaa manufacturers?
Mr. Macbeth—Yes, sir.
This is about as strong a statement os
could be made in favor of free raw ma
terials for the glass industry, and it came
from an oxpert who lias bad experience
cf the effects of the present tariff policy.
Many of tho leading manufacturers of
woolens aro equally emphatic in their
demands for the removal of the duties
on the raw materials they use. The
president of a large steel association in
Philadelphia said not long ago that if tho
tax were taken off iron ores, he would
unload American steel pigs at the wharves
Liverpool «fi«l wll Aiuwicau
steel rails in London. And
et the Senate tariff bill l_ ....
ist congress, upon which, it is un
derstood, 3Ir. McKinley snd his republi
can associates on the ways snd means
committee intend to model the bill they
will introduce st this session, refuse* the
relief which not only so many manu
facturers but millions of consumers in
this country aro seeking. Its effect
would be to j revent the solo of the pro
ducts of American industry in tho mar
ket* of the world, to increase their price
to tho citizen of tho United States, and
aa Mr. Macbeth declares to debar labor
from the opportunity to earn better
wages.
ItlilepultcJ fiuui Vi'iuliiu^Mu tea
Western paper that so many influential
republicans are opposed to tlio summary
unseating of tho Bouthem democrats
whose scuts aro contested that *it is
doubtful whether oven one of them loses
bis chair." If this report be well founded,
it to to be supposed that the loading re
publicans referred to have come to the
conclusion that to override law snd
justice in these case* would not be profit
able to their party, or that they have
found a way to accomplish their purpose
which they think will not causo so much
scandal. Thsy realized, perhaps,
tliat the country would not re
gard with complacency tho unseat
ing of sixteen men representative of tho
intelligence, wealth and energy of this
section in order to make room for as
many adventurers, representatives of
nothing valuable In citizenship
But it is not to be supposed that these
republican leaders have abandoned their
purpose of getting rid of the surplus in
short order by wasting it, of rewarding
contributors to Quay's fund by fixing the
tariff to suit them, of repayiug tlie direct
taxes, and, perhaps, of coercing the
ttouthern states by taking charge of
their clectiona Under the House rules
which have long been in force, which the
democrats thought gave their majority
ell the power to which it was entitled,
the republican programme could not be
curried out. A majority of eight to not
big enough to make a revolution when
the minority is not guggctl. But when
there are no rule* cf procedure and au
tocratic power to in tho bauds of one
man, the speaker, even tho slenderest
majority uuy do almost anything it may
so* fit, with hi* help The House has no
rules now, and the majority of the com
mittee on rules either proposes that it
shall not havo any, or to preparing rule*
la secret designed entirely to aid tho re
publicans In carrying out their will with
out regard to the righta of the demo
cratic minority. If the committee has
had meetings, there wo* no democratic
member present.
It behooves the democrats of the House
to fight against any attempted tyrannical
proceedings from the atari. They are
strong enough to win, or to force their
opponents to display in the most con-
HiirtV4» wsv llmu>lll«h narrow, parti-
ran spirit wfiicli animates them. ’
Tiu agitation in faror of an interna
tional copyright lav during the loot two
or three yeanhei don, very much to
gin Ilia public a trua conception of the
great wrong done both foreign and home
writer, by llte refund of the law-making
power to acknowledge their property in
the work they do. The wrong is a very
groaa and palpabte one, and if the people
can be induced to oooaider the matter at
all—to raeliza that the question ia not one
of mere expediency—they will aee that
tho wrong la epeedlly corrected. We aro
glad to aee, therefore, that many of the
newapapera are reminding congreae of
it! duty. The more fully the matter ir
dbeuwed, the more Certain the tell ie to
receive popular approval.
Nrirro Finlrrntfon.
A gniletuan wbotu tin Telkorahi
esteems highly writ** a totter of protest
against vital ho understands to bo our
poritwa on a subject now being n
dbcussed— government-aided emigration
of tho negroes of the Boulh. The
letter to printed elsewhere, and examina
tion will allow careful render* that oar
correspondent's protest to based largely
on a misapprehension of what file TELE-
ora nr has said. Wo have expressed
doubt whether any scheme to remove
rapidly increasing imputation of 8,000,COO
to Africa or any other foreign country
was capable of execution, hut havo not
contended that their removal in whole
or part is not to bo desired. On the
contrary, *!» Tcleubaps Has alwa;
been kec-aly alive to the danger to goed
government, if not to civilization itself
(using the word iu Its broadest tcnnei, in
volved In the presence among ttu of n
large population controlled in tho per
formance of public duties entirely by
racial instinct.-* and not by the sense of
duty which guides good citizens. This
danger would exist under any circum
stances where (he population was divided
on the lines of race, as It in here; it to
greatly magnified when one of the races
is but recently released from slavery, ig
uornnt, j»uor and fully persuaded that it
ia now and mis been for centuries the
victim of cruel oppremion by the other.
That this condition of affairs exists nt
tho South all m< n who have uny power
of observation know. They know, too,
if tho isGiie were simply between the
whites and blacks of this section, thst
there would fce no pressing danger—per-
hap? never would be. The whites are
strong enough, if not intsrfered with,
to iiupoio their will, to pre-
servo good government, to keep th*
country in tlw rood of profre**, while
tlie slow-working forces of education
exortod through schools and the contact
of every-dsy life, are raising the negro
to the proper level of citlzonship—■
if those force* no equal to tho
task. There are thou* who do not believe
they are equal to it, but It seemed to the
whites when they regained control of
tlieir country that tho most promising
way to ward off the dangers which
threatened them was to give thoeo forces
full play. They have tried the experi
ment faithfully, spending millions of
dollars every ye«T for schools and watch
fug with unabated interest the effect
upon negro character of education and
flie new conditions of freedom. They
are willing to persevere in it, for the re
sults have not been wholly discouraging:
but they login to see that they will not
be permitted to carry on the experi
ment in peace. The issue to not
merely between them and the
negroes, but between them
-ml a grtat political party wLki;
uses the negroes for tools. Whenever
that party is in power the straggle for
political control recommence*, race feel
ing to exacerbated, (ho educations! ex
peri men t to interrupted and danger to
tho community U created.
The educational experiment has been
carried on honestly and earnestly, if not
very hopefully, Tho demand for negro
emigration to largely tho result of tho
feeling that it Is doomed to foil ire, as
the result of republican interferone*
with it, snd the rasultiny ronvicth
that another remedy must bo found
for dangers end present evils that
have all along been acknowledged
to ssM. it is a very natural demand.
If the negroc* aro to bo used by a politi
cal party as a constant menace to the
South's peace, and the party itself can
not be overthrown forever, tho only re
maining remedy to to reduce tlio num
ber of negroes. The Telkmuimi does
not Lottovc this can be done by sending
them to Africa, Cuba or San Do minigo,
because they cannot be induced to ga
They havo no desire to stand atone, how
ever much they may dislike the white
men on whose strength they lean. But
there is a possibility thst tlwy may be
xattersd more widely within the limits
of this country, or may even be induced
to settle in targe masses in the far West,
in spite of Frederick 1 lougtoaV warning
to them never to put them* Ives “in
front of the bayonets of the white race"
in its march toward the setting son.
This second experiment to ae well
worth trying a* was the fir*. U has
the advantage of yielding immediate re
sults. _______________
An tofsurr fer Wsnta,
Tho Department of Agriculture at
Washington has established a bureau of
silk culture, in tbs belief that there are
great possibilities in this industry in the
United States if intelligently pursued.
There are excellent reasons for this
faith, snd the Department of Agricul
ture can be of great service in the pro
motion of silk growing by supplying
egg* and tho best information obtainable
as to the ratoiug of ailk worms,
their proptr csro and the tort of food
which should be provided for them,
Mr. Walker, tlio head of the new silk
division of the department, has recently
returned from Euroiw. whither l;e went
for the special purpose of studying tho
subject of silk culture. The only dif
ficulty that has stood in tho way of the
success of this icdu*try iu tho United
Htatc* has liven the wsut of a ma
chine for reeling the silk from
the cocouiu. The total production of
cocoons in (Ida country does not now ex
ceed 10,000 pounds a year. The pro
cesses of reeling have been so slow and
expensive that there was not a prospect
of sufficient profit to encourage the at
tempt to build up any extensive business
in this line.
Mr, Walker while in France saw a
machine wnicn suggested to him a de
sign which he to confident will solre this
problem. It to said to reel silk almost
automatically and at such a small ex-
pem-e that its introduction into silk
manufactories here will create st once a
great demaud for cocoons and relieve
manufacturers from the necessity of im
porting row silk from Japan. Mr. Walker
believes that the success of kto invention
will soon be so fully demonstrated that
there will be provided easy snd profita
ble work for uomea on the forms in
this country in the raining of silk worm*
The best food for the silk worm to the
Italian mulberry tree, or the Japanese
morus tsulticaulto." It to sold that
the former to lew-liable to disease. There
has been formed iu Philadelphia a society
called “The Woman's Bilk Culture As
sociation," which will answer all in
quiries and give information as to how
and whet a the right aort of trees con be
obtained at a wnall expense, how they
sliouhl l*o piauted and cared for, os well
as practical directions on the general
subject of silk culture. Any wo
man who will write to the Department
of Agriculture at Washington
about the first of March
and | refer tho request for them will re
ceive alxmt the first of April a quarter of
an ounce of silk worm eggs which is
about 9,000, These put in a dry place
will hatch themselves. This number of
worms will require a space about forty
feet square, and the beat way to provide
for them is on a layer of shelves about
two fort njHiri. It ia estimated tout Uo
ounces of eggs ought to produce sixty
pounds of cocoon.?, worth Si a pound, to
that after the first year tho supply sent
out to each applicant by the Deportment
of Agriculture would guaranteean ample
quantity of eggs to conduct the business
on quite a considerable scale.
This subject is being brought to thr
attention of women by several journals
devoted especially to their interests, as
well as by the Woman's Silk CMltoi* As
sociation of Philadelphia and the publi
cations of the Department of Agricul
ture. It to the fath of many who have
studiod the question that silk culture
will, before long, furnish profitable em
ployment to many women in this coun
try. No eoction of tlie United States
offers such favorable conditions for it as
the South.
Mr. Sherman** Proposition,
Thar* to at least one republican paper
which tikes a just, nnparttoan view of
the situation in the South. In discuss
ing Senator Sherman's bill to wipe out
state lines and turn over the control of
Southern elections to the Washington
government, the Philadelphia Evening
Telegraph says:
It is rstber more likely than not that, if the ne
frees wets to obtain control of the stats
mem* In tho rtcuth, as fora tfcna they did in South
Carolina Juris* Governor Mssea' term, the
Southern people would begin to go backward in
stead of forward. Negro rule bankrupted South
Carolina and Imposed financial burdens upon the
whites from which they hare never recovered.
The blacks passed th* appropriations; the whites
pni-1 them. The Hacks made tho laws sod the
white* obeyed them. AH natural coodWocawere
revererrt under the carpet-bag rale In Booth Caro-
the rale of the colored people.
yopeas to retmpoee the carpet-bag or
le half* doaea of the tkmtbcni states
upon them an Indefinite races—of Mm
mlufclraUoM. The inferior claw is —dominate
b j superior one. Ignorance ie to be art up over
Intelligence, and Industry, wealth and eoergy an
to pay the no— hnpo—d by sloth and poverty,
if It wens proponed that totettfceoe* or worth,
whether white or Mack, should be placed upon
the same footing, then there would be both
son and justice In It, but it U scarcely Jtud that
thrift aud tntel*?»e* should be dominated by
sloth and ignorance.
Asa mere statement cf what the radi
cal republican* named propose to do. the
above cannot be *arpa*e>l. They pre
tend that they ore trying to vindicate
the law and the constitution, but in fact
they are only trying to gain a party ad
vantage, and ore as indifferent to tlie
fate of tlie law and tlio constitution us
they are to tha welfare of the slate* in
which they propoee to try tho exi*eriuient
of putting the lowest strata of society on
top.
They treat this negro question
trivial matter, however annoying, which
may be disposed of, to the advantage
of their party, by a little core and
Atu-rdiun c-n tho part of e*5S*iei£ and
United Btatce marshals. Yet If they
read Southern newspapers tboy will
see that the editors of many
of the more important
them are urging that the almost impos
sible task be undertaken of sending the
millions of Week people In th* country
beck to Afrieo. or at least out of the
United Bfatcs. Wo have no doubt that
thousand* of the readers of those papers
agree with tliem tliat even the detwrta-
lion of 8,000,000 people, with all the
suffering, injustice, immense cost and
lose of wealth by which ft would necea-
«m!y be accompanied, to to be deliber
ately choaen as the least of the svito
which threaten the Booth by reason of
the presence of the negroes
in these states. We think these
papers are wrong; it is impossible,
even If it were desirable, to get rkl of
the negro population of the South in
the way proposed. But that auch a
proposition to seriously and persistently
urged by intelligent men who are fully
conscious of th* difficulties whioh would
be encountered In carrying it into effect
should awake in th# mJudsof Messrs.
Sherman and Chandler the fear that they
are treading on dangerous ground. In
their i Rternrts to gaiu an advantage for
their party they may hasten the corning
of the evils which Bouthern men, with
full knowledge of tlie situation, so fear
tliat they they turn willingly to the des
perate remedy of negro deportation. The
coming of those evils would not be well
for the country nor—a matter of more
Importance to the senators named—for
the Republican party. Mr. Sherman
and Mr. Chandler should take counsel of
the fears of Bouthem men better in
formed than they.
Col. Wiluam W. Dudley to suing
the New York World for libel, because
it published his notorious “blocks-of-fivo"
letter. Dudley's couitoel made a motion
before the supreme court of New York
recently to vacate an order for substi
tuted service on him of an order for ex
amination before trial to enable tho de
fendant to prepare an answer. Judge
Lawrence, in delivering tlie opinion of
the court, refusing this petition, dressed
Col. Dudley down in tlie following style:
The plaiotur. Who, In tb* lacrtage of the sen-
rat trviM, i<; L* •*>*•«* ii*I* wtiuM m iuu)n|«|
blmarlftoRa Jurisdiction, now aarfcs to vacate
tbe order mad* by Mr. JnaCfc* Fmttmom, hut aa
la- kcvja without lho territorial Mmtu of tlie
state, as4 lt« refrwv* U* o—y tha order of tho
court, ha cannot, to my opinion, be heard affirm-
aUvety Iu oppo*ttk*i — this ordar. Wb«i ha ill*-
play* a wtHtegaeM to au—na bisMelf to the jar—
diction uf tha court whose aid he has sought to
relrra the to jury which he allrfas be has nin-
ueuod. he will stand Inn very dWcrvat poctUea
oet that which he now occupies.
The Indianapolis Sentinel has had for
more than a year a standing offer to pay
CoL Dudley $1,000 if lie would make an
affidavit tliat be did not write tlie
blocks-of-fivo” totter. It would
strengthen bis case agr.inst the World
and help him to pey attorneys’ fees if he
would take up the Sentinel’s challenge.
Presideut Harrison's “Dear Dudley" to
apparently in a fix.
An Important Rumor.
A Pittsburg diapatch to the (liicngo
Tribune announces that a new process
for, making otee! has bren discovered
which will work a revolution in thia
great industry. It is stated that a pro
cess has been perfected and patented by
which open hearth steel can be put on
the market at $0 or {6 per ton leas than
tho present market price. It is said that
a company of Pittsburg and Indianapolis
capitalists represent ng $15,000,000 has
been formed to back this new enterprise.
A test of the new process was made at
ihe Premier Stool Works of Indianapolis
last Sunday, which, we are told, resulted
“to tlie complete satisfaction of all con
cerned," These works will manufacture
•twl by tlio iiv* |irwcH liuucr uiuyulir.
There is undoubtedly considerable talk
at Pittsburg and Indianapolis about
this alleged new process and its
capabilities, but the claims made for it
are so great tliat more convincing evi
dence than the private test of last Sun
day will be i*Hjuired to agitate the steel
mar ket to any considerable degree. Tlie
processes of steel manufacture have been
uimplified aud cheapened rapidly during
the past few years, and wo may expect
progress In that direction to continue,
but it to hardly probable that tbe indus
try is to be revolutionized by any such
dii e »very as the Pittsburg correspondent
of the Chicago Tribune has referred to.
The news coming from Brazil is sorao-
what contradictory, but on the whole
indicates that the new government is
getting along smoothly. The new
finance minister, however, starts out
with a deficit instead of a surplus, and
as tlie credit of the nation to doubtless
somewhat shaken by reesnt events, he
may find it difficult to negotiate the
loan that will probably be necesaary be
fore the year to over. Tlie public debt
of Brazil is more than half as large as
that of the United States, amounting to
$400,000,000, though the coun
try’s available resources ora proba
bly not a tenth a* great, and the
new government may find this
heavy burden very embarrassing. The
undeveloped resources of Brazil are,
however, immense, and if the govern
ment establishes confidence by a wise,
conservative and patriotic administra
tion of the national affairs, a wonderful
development may confidently be ex
pected within a few years. The countries
which have drawn cn the surplus popu
lation of Europe during tbe last half
century, grsatly^to their own good, have
been republics.
For many years Pimlico, just outside
Baltimore, wss one of the two or three
most famous race courses in the United
State*. It begun to lose prestige and
popularity several years ago, however,
and at t> meeting of tha direciora, iiviu
last Monday, it was decided to have no
more racing there and to offer tbe prop
erty for sale. Tlie increased number of
courses around New York with tbeir
rich stakes, and the successful establish
ment of the Ivy City course at Washing
ton, were the immediate causes of tho
decline of Fimlicot It will linger as mi
interesting tradition to lovers of the turf.
After all tlie newspaper fuse over the
matter the police did not enforce the or
der to stop wine drinking at Mr. Ward
McAllister's grand ball at 1 o'clock.
Champagne was popped with a reckless
hand until everybody went home, which
T5? !! ••!!•? !.
SMOOTHED THE IEA ft ITU OIL,
The Hotish Vojaa* of tha Cram a—
Tho Captain’s Star?.
New York, Jno, !.—Capt. Lord of the
steamship (’roam has been traveling the
Atlantic for many years, but tbe voyage
lie completed yesterday be says was th*
most terrific and thrilling in bis long and
varied experience. The Cronin sailed
from Dundee Dec. ti with a general
cargo of merchandise and one pamenger.
“Upto Deo. 17," eetd CepC. Lord, “we
had a aurcerainn of gales, right furious
ones at that, culminating on tha after
noon of Dec. 17 in one of tlie most vio
lent hurricanes thst a ship over encoun
tered. At 8 o'clock tho hurricane was
at Its hlght. The wind had assumed n
velocity of over eighty miles an hour. It
blew so haul that although the ship was
going at foil steed, she became unman
ageable snd fell off into the trough of
the sea, lying broadsides on to it. AU
efforts to get the sliip's heed up into the
wind failed, and as iha seas w ere mak
ing a constant sweep over us, we antici-
C tod every minute tliat our vessel would
swamped.
roCRSD OIL ON THE WAVES.
“As a final resort wa placed oii-beg*
over tbe bow and sides and also ran oil
through the waste-pipes. This a loo#
saved u* It broke the crest off th*
monster waves and enabled us to rescue
our ship from the trough of the sea and
get her head up with the wind. Tbe
ship was on her b#am-e<ul* in tlie trough
of the sea fur over eight hours Alout
midnight Oeorg»Watson, an oiler, was
going roe ward to call the fire-watch.
Almost without a moment's notice there
rose up before tlie fehip a huge wall of
water. It looked meat terrifying, and
for a moment all on deck stood breath
less, thinking that w# would he
crushed into atoms. The wsvo rolled
r the bows and dashed volumes
of water on to the decks, spreading
havoc und ruin everywhere. It swept
Watson off bis feet and landed him,
bruised and tmcmibic, among tlie wreck
age of the demolished bridge, the ruins
of the lifeboat* aud the other deck
fixtures, lie was injured internally,
and it was hours before lie recovered
consciousness. Beaman Mounts, who
was at tbe wheel at the time, wa* tossed
to tho lower bridge, end wua seriously
injured. The wave, mad* a complete
wreck uf everything on deck, including
waves mountains ii;o l
•To give you an idea of how high the
wave wss, the steamer's funnel is fully
llfij-oia •««*• aLoVv MHt ttAma. Tut.Lift
wav* dashed immense quantities of
water down the funnel and nearly ex
tinguished tlie fire*. During this storm
the barometer went down as low os 38.70.
Toward morning the *torm began to
abate, and by the constant use of oil wa
were able to again make a little liead-
w ay. Again, Die. 20, we were struck
by another furious hurricane. A big sea
swept the wreckage from the main deck
over the upper bridge, a distance of over
thirty feet. We battled with this one,
however, very successfully, and came
through ft without sustaining any mors
dam&gi* If it wasn't that the Crorna is
a good, staunch ship, she could never
have withstood tne battering site re
ceived. Wiien almost on her b-vnu-end*
she lay in the trough of the sea,"
Itch cured in thirty minutes by Wool-
rvfs b.m.tar/ I-otioo. Bold by tiol
tge and ail druggists, Macon.
TRADE'S HAPPY NEW YEAR
Tli* Nfliifv .Rarkcta, However, Are
j &III1 Siraitied and Collrrlloas Slow
—The Derllno of VrIco* In 1880
— Die luduUritt Prosperous.
New York, Jan. .T.—R. (1. Dm A
Co.’s review of trade for the week, says:
Tlie now year open* with the most
confident feeling prevalent in all parte of
the country, and yet eotue feature* sug
gest especial caution. The volume of
business in progress, though a little more
curtailed than is usual near the end of
a year in the wholesale and jobbing
lines, was nearly, if not quite, tha larg-
tho whole, close to the maximum. But
in several important trades the profits
have not been commensurate with the
magnitude of th* transactions, aud slow
collections have caused many failure*,
with apprehension of more in tbe near
future.
MONEY TIGHT.
The money markets aro strained et
the cast,' close at Chicago, Detroit and
C leveland, and closer than before at
Kanins City aud Omaha, but at other
western j>oinU fairly supplied; but the
ndvance in tbe Bank of England and
signs of possible disturbance resulting
from excessive speculation abroad,
rein e. the monetary outlook kero lew
char. The heavy disbur-emeuts for in
terest and dividends estimated at $60.
294,370 at New York alone, nearly six
per cent, more than last year, will doubt
less give present relief. The reports*
from other centers of trade ail show that
the unseasonably warm weather to hav
ing a depressing influence, but in other
respects they aro greatly encouraging
T.IE LARUE INDUSTRIES.
The chief industries are on the whole
unusually prosperous. A full statement
of the cotton mills’ dividends for 1830 in
dicate that they were larger than in any
previous year. The leather trade has be
come hojefuJ, and tho consumption of
boots and shoes to prodigious, but over
production put* prices too low for
healthy profits. The iron trade pauses
at this season, but prices are firm at
previous quotations, and though soles at
an advance are scanty ns yet there to
general confidence that the demand will
prove equal sveu to the unprecedented
supply. An open winter makes even re
stricted production largely exceed tlie
consumption, sml tbs output for 1880
was but 34,759JHiO tons against *7,800.•
010 in 1888. but bituminous coal is in de
ficient supply for lack of trade.
THE GLASS TRUBT.
Combinations of glass producers hare
raked the price of window glass higher
than for the post five years, aud expect
to make business profitable. Copper is
selling at 14 j for Lako with increasing
consumption.
The woolen business is still a cloud in
the sky. The stocks carried over nt the
chief cities prove to be : 2.000.000 more
thnu a year ago, and tho sales at
Boston for 1880 were 13 l.kbO.OlO pounds,
against 100,000,000 pounds for tlie
previous year, a decrease of ueariy 33
per cvnr. The produce markets have
been dull. "\Vh< at has risen 1-3 a cent,
with sale* of 8,5t0,000 bushels and oats
ns much, but corn has declined 3-8 with
sale* of nearly 8,000,000 bushel*. Oil to
1-8 higher, but pork to 30 cents lower.
Lard declines a shade. Tlie conflicting
estimates of tho Brazil crop make coffee
1-8 weaker and cotton is unchanged
with small trading.
THE DKCLIXK IN TTACT.A IN If 83.
Tlie decline in price* of all commodi
ties from Jan. 1, 1889, to Jon. 1,1800 was
about H per cent., and the range is now
a littlo lower than In any previous Janu
ary for thirty y-arr. The nvrrsge fer
1889 waa 4.W per cent, below that of
1888.
The stock market has been weakened
by monetary pressure for th<f past two
weak*, but the average of pricea to $5 per
share higher than a year ago, Tbe large
earnings and dividends would justify
fully that advance if the prices or last
year were not too high, and tbe recent
stringency with considerable telling on
foreign account has caused but little
depression in railroad stocks. The for
eign trade continue* heavy, exports for
the five weeks of this year falling off 1.8
st New York below those of tlie previous
year, which indicates an excess of $30,-
000,COO, or more in exports over imports
for December.
THE FAILURES LAST YEAR.
The failures in 1889 numbered 10,*B2
in tlie United States, or ono in every
ninety-seven firms, and 1,77*3 in Canada,
or one in every forty-five firms. In 1888
the failures were 10,079 in the United
Mates and 1,077 in Canada. The aggre
gate of liabilities wa* $148,784.3:17 in tbe
United States, against *1*1,880,9?.! in
1888. ami $14,779^ in Canada, against
I14.UH1.109 in 188* But tbe average
liabilities for each firm failing waa lower
in Canada. $S,270 loat yearazoimt $8,3f0
in 1888, and larger in the United Bute*.
Tlie average in 1889 woo but $19,073
again-t $11,393 in 1880, $17,979 ia 1867
and $20,3d3 iu I860. Tbe failures oc
curring throughout tbe country during
the tost week number for the United
States 291, Canada 91. Total 323 fail
ures ogainst 2b8 last week.
RLOOD TO FLOW IN AFRICA.
Tfei Itelailnna Hviwecn England and
Portugal .vinrU Strained.
London, Jan. 4.—The government has
received intelligence of th# safety of
Johnston, the British consul at Mozam
bique, who to traveling in the interior of
Africa, and who to charged by the Portu
guese paper* of having been iutriguing
with the native* agnltiot the Portuguese
in the territory along the Shiri riTer.
Johnston ha* pacified tbe Karinzoa and
subsidized VCotkota, and has by treaty se
cured Western Nyassa to the British.
Tbe Fortugiae reached Katungns,
where tbe remaining Makotatov trusting
to British protection, refused to surren
der the British fiogs tfiot hod Icen pre
sented to them when called upon to do
so by the Portugese commander. Tlie
Portugese thereupon again searched tlie
steamers and compelled them to lower
their ensigns. Fighting in Africa to be
lieved to be certain.
CATiKRII,
Fever-A
dtarun are ftau< nw. or Uui Or; art 4mm to
prrarncr of bring pererttm In Uw Unto*
iinraa* of tbe name aodrastacbtati lubraMj-
crowetfc-* rewarck. boa^ar, baeprared thia to
be a tact, and Uw rrauk of this dweeroy 1s Oat
»tn an-atiy cured in frwu oo* to three aioipla
ppbeatjona made at borne by the patleat oacula
K it.- TWa trestiarar to act a rarif nr aa
_i»tmeat; U*bh*v« bora dtocardod by reimtahte
isjsr,;£2£2r5
SfS.-EL'ST^: q!SLl-
CbrtottoB Advocate.
H offerers (ram cat irriol treubtos should care
fully read Uw above.
3Iany Persons
Are broken down from overwork or hoorabold
cmm ltrown's Iron Hlttera
rrhuR U tu spSMt. arts d^azUss. rsajrcaex-
RftHrnr nRowiuau,
Anecdotes sad Noln on Some Per*
■oual Atperl* of His Character,
Oanrgi W. Smaller in New York Tribune. t t
Mr. f "V. ■ il aa} a tliat the choractcranfe
of Browning's poetry to strength. It was
characteristic of the man, too, and not
less characteristic of him was bis cheeri-
nesi. His entrance into a room filled it
w ith sunshine, rte had more manner
tlian is usual with Englishmen; long resi
dence abroad had left iu mark upon
him, and he had adopted some habits
from his beloved Italians. He had a
way of his own of greeting hto friend*.
Ti e right hand was ratoed aud half-ex
tended bidewars, and came down into
yours with a kind of swing, the other
hand bometime* supporting yours against
the shock. Tbe voice was loud; at times
almost harsh, or rather strident, snd by
uw umtmu* always buuuucu iw liw con
ventional tone of tlie drawing-room; still
less often of tlie dining-room; where he
liked to sit, a* it were, ou a throne,
which other* were always ready to build
for him.
He would talk admirably in any do-
cunntances, but he preferred a gell.-ry,
and the most successful dinners were
those in which Browning himself boro
sway. Ho could hold hto own against
competition, if need were; his voice,
when lie choee, filling the room, and he
stuck fearlessly into the current of talk;
and was for too much a man of the world
to expect always to havo tilings his own
way, and every company t * «*onsist of
idolaters. There wore, however, certain
houses where only the faithful were
asked to meet him; personal friends, at
least. If not devotees of his poetry; and
there it was that bespoke most freely,
and on the subjects for which lie cared
most.
lie was quite free from all the little
vanities and irritabilities in which lesser
author* indulge themselves, bat he set a
just value onlito position and on the var
ious recognitions of it which canto to
him. II* was delighted when Cam
bridge—I think it was—made him an
honorary master of arts, a distinction al
most unique. His Oxford degree pleased
iiim and hto honorary fellow-hip of
Iiallioi. When Lord Koes^ury gave his
state dinner to the shab, a representa
tive function, and guests were expected
to come in uniform or court dress.
Brow ning wrote to hi* host that os he
was asked as a man of letters he thought
it might be proper if he wore his gown
ss doctor of civil law. It struck every
body as a happy thought, and Brown
ing's appearance in the flowing scarlet
robes of the university was one of the
events of the evening; pica el bis host
and tho shall and Ur. Gladstone and
everybody else.
He was, in all essential things, per
fectly simple end genuine; transparently
so sometime*. Tlie beginning of tbe
Browning societies was an instance.
Shortly Lefore, Mr. Furnivel liad driven
out of the new Shakespeare society a
great part of its led members by the
extreme violence end even brutality oC
hto attack on Mr. Swinburne and on the
late Mr. Halliwdl Phillip* The loetoty
was g*ked to disown Mr. Fnrnivall, but
the machinery was in hto hands, and
nothing was done, *o the»eevosion U o'i
place. Mr. Browning and some of the
secetiers met at dinner, ami there was a
discussion from which Browning, tliough
a member, and I think vice-president,
held aloof. He was pressed for nn opin
ion, but would give none, and when
asked if hk intended to remain a mem
ber of a society responsible for th* rof-
fiantom of Mr. Furuivnli, said, rather
shortly, that he did. A few days later
it came out tliat Mr. Fund vail was about
to start a Browning society.
The formation of these Browning so-
ctoice undoubtedly ptozaed Browning.
Ue liad lived more than half of hto
poetic fife in nectoct and under a cloud
of critical hostility and obloquy, all
which he liail boms stoutly and for th*
most port silently, adhering through
evil report and through good report to
the faith that was in him. His fame
grew very siowty. ”My publisher*," lie
once sak), “know just how many copies
of a new poem they can sell, they print
so many; uo mors and no toss * But
never was a more striking example of
tlie truth of Emerson's remark that
tho influence of any writing to in mathe
matical proportion to it* (kqith of thought.
Whatever else there might be, in Brown
ing's books, there was plenty of hard
thinking, and some of ft was so hard
that these societies were formed to make
it easier.
Before the time of the societies snd
their practical proofs of tbe difficulties
that beset hto verau he used to be rather
impatient of any suggestion that lie was
difficult, or more difficult than a thinker
ought to be, and must be. This he ex-
pretwed with startlingshnplicity, '*7(107
talk," said Browning one night ton
dozen people, “of my being obscure. Do
they consider that the commentators
have been at dark on Shakespeare for
900 years, aud have not made him out
yetr What answer could be made to
that? He ha* been, heard to a att that
tliere to not a sentence in his poems
which can not be parsed. Carlisle said
the same thing of fits own prose.
the cextkal im court,
A Port Royal and Augiuin Roud*
holder NIaKcs a Flslit on Hie Cen*
trad.
Savannah, Jan. L—[Special.]—Judge
Emory Speer of tho Uuited States cir
cuit court at the Instance of Leo Sparer
of New York, a minority bondholder in
the Port Royal and Augusta railroad,
bs* granted a temporary injunction re
straining the Central Railroad Company
and the Georgia Railroad Company from
doing anything to change the statu* of
the Port Royal and Augusta road, re
straining the latter fiom making pay-
meut of and the Central from receiving
the mutest under tie mortgage of 1883,
and tying the hands of the defendant
railroad committees from carrying out
sny engagement or agreement for the
transfer or other disposition of the stocks
or bonds heid by the defendants in tha
Fort lioyal and Augusta road.
ALLEGED WRECKING.
An accounting is asked for in tbe bill,
which to one of tbe most voluminous
ever filed in Georgia. The papers were
served on Gen. Alexander and Patrick
Calhoun by a deputy United Mates mar
shal to-night, and Uiedefendant railways
are required to answer befure Judge
Speer ia Savannah Jen. 20.
lb* complainant alleges that th* Port
Royal and Auguste lias been run in the
interest of th# Central, expenses charged
ancTwCiie'ito net earnings have Uen
nearly half a million ikJlars since 1880,
none of the money has been on the
bonds. Tbe court to asked to set aside
the election of last November, in which
tho present directors of the Fort Royal
tod Augusta were elected.
Tbe plaintiff is tbs Port Royal and
Augusta Railroad Company; the defend
ants 11 • tha Central, lb* Georgia Hail-
r >ad and Banking Company, the Geor
gia Railroad Company, th* Acgiuta and
Knoxville, tbe Fort Royal ami Western
Carolina, th* Richmond and West Point
Terminal and tbe Union Trust Company
of New York,
ftitrklrn** Arnica Salve.
Jit bnt sails ta ifc« world ter cots, bruises
sores, ulrers, sslt, rtras, fever sores, truer
chapevd Santis, rtiflMsIra, corns and all afcla
eniiaioas, and pssdivstjrcaras piimcr so pay
require*. It is guar set** to jp»s perfect tmu*-
favt‘~-P, cr rr.ney Tr*x * c-tuj per
MX. A cvsatohiy XL J. Lamas A tvx.
DEATH RODE THE FLAMES.
Tirenty-<lie> of (lie Victims Were Suf«
formed, One Was Cremst*d-Tfc*
Xlcart-rcmlln? tirlcf of tlie Pa
rents ami Relatives.
London, Jan. 1.—Tiu> boys’ section of
the paupers* school ia the district of For
est gate, in connection with tho White
chapel nnd Poplar Union, took fire tost
night while the inmates were asleep and
was buruod with terrible results. Twen
ty-six of tho boys were in tho upper
stories being suffocated before they could
bo rescued. Fifty-eight other boys wero
safely taken from the burning budding.
Two of tho matrons of tho institution
, escaped ir. safety by down water
pipes. Several of the boys escaped in
tho samo way. The superintendent of
the school rtnliod throngn the flames re* ■
nestedly and brought ont a number of
inmates, Thera w ero 0.0 persons in the
institution.
BODIES OF TIIE DEAD,
The bodies of those who were suffo
cated were carried to the main hall of tbe
building which was still profusely decor
ated with Christmas green.
The flie was started by an over heated
stove. The female department, in which
were 330 girls, was not touched.
Tho boys recited last evening in th*
highest spirits, having been promised
presents and a New Year fet* to-day.
The scenes in tho main hall, where tha
bodies of the dead boi • lie. are harrow
ing, The relatives and schoolfellows of
those who perished are lend ia their la
mentations.
ORIGIN or THE FIRE.
Further reports of the firo show tliat
It originated in tb* clothing room be
neath th* boys* dormitory. The smoke
and flames issuing from the stove flue
alarmed those sleeping on the top floor,
and they made their escape. The firo
engines were promptly on tbe scene.
Tlie employes of the adjacent railway
stations rushed to tlie sceno and rendered
valuable aid. The cries of the boys who
were unable to escape were terrible. The
bodies of two boys were badly burned,
but it is believed that they were suffo
cated before thsy wero burned. Th*
ages of the boys range from 7 to 12 years.
ROYALTY DRIVEN OUT BY F1EE.
Brussels, Jan. 1.—The royal palace at
Loeken. a suburb of this city,is burning.
Princess Clementine, daughter of the
King, bad a narrow escape from being
burned to death. Her govemeas waa
burned. All the royal art collection has
been destroyed. The fir# ha# been pre
vented from reaching tbe King's private
rooms.
At 10 p, m. tbe palace at Laeken has
th* appearance of a huge furnace. The
heat was so great as to totally prevent
tho approach of tho small fire brigade
which at best could have dvuo but little.
The queen’s apartments liave suffered
mobt.
Much plate has been saved, bat tho
valuable picture.*, the Gotwfin tapestries
and the grant library are all coreamed.
The green he*fee »?*4 rinWee
are not touched. The king is very
anxious about the statuary in the
rotunda. There is little hope that any
of it to saved.
TIIE GOVERNESS CREMATED.
The only occupants of the palace at
the time of tho breaking out of tho fir*
were Priuccra Clementina, aged 17, tb*
lady attendants and governess. Die
governess, bavins escaped with tbe oth
ers, returned to the prince#*’ apartments
to a.’curo tome valuables and was suf
focated. The queen to greatly
grieved at her fate. Another
lioignant source of regret for her ma
jesty to that tbe loses tlie interesting
souvenirs of her children, especially of
her son, who died at the age or 12 years.
VatwLnn thm Kir«» ft*r « lim*
in fhis palace, but it has since that tiro*
been much enlarged aud improved.
As toon as the fire at Lsekan palace
was reported tlie king aud queen sus
pended tho Now YeeFs day reception
and hastened thither. They witnessed
(he total destruction of this magnificent
palace. Tliis was their summer resi
dence. It is said the tire was erased by
a defective stove in tbe officers' depart
ment. Th* loss to immense es to money
value aud as to tbo destruction of art
treusurea that cannot be replaced.
EIRE INCENDIARY.
At midnight there to a report that the
fire was of incendiary origin, and that
Drancourt, tho governess, was a
victim of tlie flames while search
ing for the Frmccs* Clementina,
whom she supposed to be still in tho
palace. All the private papers of the
King and of Leopold I. and the queen's
jewels were destroyed. Only tbe walls
are now standing. Tbe body of the gov
erness has not yet been found.
The Three fiakdl*.
RToei I*** flt. Janra (hHfUt.
Thu Mahal of Kbutviim i» cot among
the illu*uiou* potentate, whoa, grata-
ologt« and king»bi|« mar he found in
tho Alinanach do Uotha, but tom. of tlio
fpf.in.inn which ie*au toobcun bia
peraooalitr can ba caaiir nmorad. Th.
original mahdi whom Ohriloo waa tent
to mik. ternia with waa Mohammed
Ahmed. Hi. name and fame wen lira*
mail, known to tha cirillaed world in
Julr, 1811. wiien Bit axrelleucr Iieuf
Hu iha heard that on an inland in tha
Whita Nik u.hetk bearing thin name
liad proclaimed hiuurlf to b. tha mahdi
wbo e adeent waa foretold br Mobam-
m.d ilk. lYupbet. Ahmed died after tha
fall of Khartoum, probably in tbo middla.
of 1S“&. Ho waa auccewted by the
Khalifa Abiulle, hit kimnian. Iu
Auituat, 1*8, it waa reported that tha
Khalifa Abdulla had foraaeeu in a eiaion
tlie drttructhin of hia power and bia own
death, ami U was aaid that ho norer left
hto botue. Aa the praent Khalia It
•pokes of a. Mohammed, the mn of Ab
dulla, the dream mma to bar. been ful
filled. .
It la Itettcr la Live.
I bare rrt* tliat Jbe tatrdm
Awl Swah«*3Sb?E»» at tha amoUd*
w&dSEB&VJSS*.
.JKB&ffM:iKtetr,.
Than to die to he rid of the pita.-
There la iwtte the dwkawaofdytaA
Awl «.«*•» the wea^dniwlr. _ .
The dive hetde «w> praca aedcatta aOcKA
ito art, ww pataSba there;
T.KafSJr£23!WSK
•swisfJtfKKJnSe
Twoolit ha eaay Waa/ “I iai»eWT."
_ And* *>>. aad gw^thf-rtta.
tut pwhap.truiiwjrMTowe.ept beai
A metoura—aturt—-maf.
lwlwr^jjiwh^m^r^i*CTP"f 1
’Tia ao hard to ba pattat wtth lie tag,
Who. all of tha world laowry i
Bo oreaewow» wtattad tar pliwiiru
That will 00 J .-awe after tta.dty
“f» Is better 10 9** a»d re rafter. ^
Than to Sto sod b* eel e« tee feta."
I wdl Hr# and ba *Uoe»i and win suitor,
K wr<t to, uaU 1 6*U ra*,
Whra 1 f* a»4 Rs trials are ortn
Ihmotnnermrmfhfmttemmbtbimt.
Tbf.urii Shrajra tit ana riw*M R* Sarins*!
Br u.* cfewl* that Kaaf ray awr way.
I all trast teat tea liriri *nB ba ckarev
Wl-a. * laa« I awAi- tea4ay.^
—Afwa L. Dratt la Uttom (ilufc*.