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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: WEDNESDAY. APRTL 8. 189U
SPRING FEVER
At this time of the year
the blood changes, its cir-
eolation is. sluggish and
the system is not properly
nourished. The result is
loss of appetite, weakness,
an oppressive feeling of
fullness, too hot, and Oh!
so tired. To cure and pre
vent Spring Fever take
Simmons Liver Regulator.
All nature is now waking
and everybody should in
vigorate the liver, kid
neys and bowels with Sim
mons Liver Regulator and
they would not have so
much biliousness, head
ache, dyspepsia and mala
ria all the rest of the year.
You would not expect a
plant to work off a win
ter’s decay and bloom as
good as ever without atten
tion in the Spring. Don’t
expect it of your system.
Take Simmons Liver Reg
ulator.
AN ALLIANCE DILEMMA- 1 p v‘ ,ome ""‘r aiumc* politic.
I into us columns.
j The Economist remarked of the situa-
THE DANGERS OF THE APPROACHING 1 1,0 “ the other day:
“The fight against the Alliance is grad*
ually but surely drifting to Wall street
and the East. The wires have been pulled
CINCINNATI CONFERENCE.
The Alliance Leaders Propose to Or*
ganfse a Third Party, nut Not Yet
■-Unable to Quench the Western
Thirst for lllood.
From the New York Run.
The moet anxious problem which just
now disturbs the leaders of the Farmers'
Alliance is how to deal with the Cincin
nati political oonferenco which has been
called for May 1ft, The popular impres
sion regarding this conference is that it
will be held with the tacit, if not the
avowed, approval of the Alliance, and
that the real political plans of the Alli
ance will there be put forward. Such,
indeed, is not the fact; hence ths embar
rassment of the Alliance leaders, compli
cated by the impatient demands of the
more hot-headed of their followers. The
situation Is so difficult that the national
formulators of the Alliance policy feel
that they have infinately more danger to
fear from their friends just
from that locality all the time, but the
contest is getting so earnest that the
sources of the opp<
covered.”
) opposition are being
MONGOLIAN PHEASANTS.
Efforts to Be TIadc to Introduce Them
In Illbb Connty.
There is no more game bird for sports
men than tbs Mongolian pheasant.
Id addition to this it is a beautiful bird
o! plumage, and one that will do well in
the South.
An effort it being made by a few local
spirts to introduce a few pair of these
birds into ths vicinity of Macon and so
prewrvs them that they will furnish
wsmSwu sport in the near future.
Archbishop Close of Portland, Ore,
writes a* follows in answer to a letter
from Col. K. W. Jemison on this subject:
•'Portland, Ore., March 31—R. W.
Jemison, Esq.—My Dear Sir: I ain glad
to he able to do a service to any citizen
of that grand old state where 1 spent
many a happy year. 1 often have seen
Iks Chinese pheasant, and have also had
it for dinner. I can cheerfully testify
that it is a iieautifiil bird of plumage and
i rare delicacy for the table,”
Tbeao bird* have been a great success
in Portland, Ore. It is possible to
senirs the eggs and on this subject
another correspondent says:
"if you will write the postmaster at
PUinview, Ore., or Mattesou Sc Matte
ion, Aunisvdle, Ore., 1 think you can
let all the Mongolian phasant eggs you
vast.
Have some gentle hen raise them and
k«ep them in an enclosure or where
•omsUxiy can look after thorn, and you
j ought to succeed in raising enough for a
food start. They will stay around the
place with the chickens but are very
•hy of strangers. If you could get some
body that lives off in a secluded place
where they would not be moloeted to
| take them you would be all rjghL^ They
hunter will not get in his work in on the
| ground or in trees.”
Thers aro largo numbers of the Mon-
I golian pheasant all through the valley of
the Oregon, but it is almost impossible to
| catch them. They are very gamoy, and
I run s great deal, They hre*«d very fas*,
j laying and hatching two to three sets of
| tii S 3 s season, and lav from utteen to
I tvmty-five eggs before hatching, as near
ta can be found out.
A Par Ultli the sultan.
r.-rm the Tall Mall Oaxrtte.
Abdul Hamid gets up early. His toilet
I doss not detain him long; indeed, it
■ night detain him longer according to
I European codes. Dressed, he at once tie-
■ votes himself to recite the prescribed
|rr*T>r», after which he drinks a cup of
IblacL coffee, nd instantly afterward be-
coffee, nd instantly afterward be
lies to stuoke cigarettes, a pastime that
St continues allMay almost without in-
UrmUtion, for he is an ardent smoker.
Breakfast ended, he arranges family af
fairs. when these require hie attention,
as is almost always ths case with *o large
a Dully and of such varied ages and
nstda
Thii done, he quits the harem and goes
»to the svlnmlik. Here he receives the
ryports concerning court affairs. Toward
10 o c ock hie court secretary and chief
dignitaries appear, bearing the day’s die-
p*tcnet and rejorte. These handed in,
Im sulian seats himself on a sofa, with,
co ha right, these documents, and on hie
wit a j ittt of Turkish newspapers and es-
teacts from the European press translated
Itoto Turkish for hit benefit l y a transla
tion bureau specially appointed to that
•nd. Hu lunch, which follows the <ii»-
latch of this business, is moet simple—
June meat, a lair amount of vegetable*
The meal ended, he will take a walk in
S'Pwkoerow in a little boat upon one
|c< tne lakes U incloses, a'.way* uctoiu-
saiea by a chamberlain or somo high
tjniury.
Aftsr taking two hours* exercise in
[^s^trbe.returns to bis sitting rooms,
r™ "• h «lds an open reception or else
presides over tome committee meeting.
An hour or two before sunset he once
fore goes out for a walk. HU dinner U
P«»fnple as hU lunch. HU favorite food
pilUf, sweets, and a very little meat.
? 8 2 i 5, touebee spirituous liquors, in
• obedience to the commands of the
'poet, but he drinks Urge quantities
d anerbet and eaU a great deal of ice
•am. Dinner over, he receives com*
* n Mlamlik, or he will retire
to the harem, where hU daughters play
to him. He himself on these
*a*ion» will often seat himself at the
•* instrument he plays fairly
. *** painting, for fine arts in gen-
7 "• no taste. 11U women, too,
J*,?!?? coW » h« U devoted to
“children, and aho much attached to
the members of hU family.
Don't Feel Well,
you no * ,ick enough to con-
tor » ° r you Dom eo do-
fcJ! *V * CAr »*»»* alarm yourself and
W ,‘ U UI1 J° u i Uit *hat you
(Ji, ,-A 1 *• Uood’e bareaparilU. which
Vrif lft .%°° oul °* lba t uncertain, un-
dangerous condition, into a
°J good health, confidence and
Guinea* You've no idea how potent
“ PRculUr medicine is in cases like
from their enemies.
The Cincinnati meeting will undoubt
edly prove to be a political fiasco. The
Alliance leaders know and acknowledge
this, and they also feel that it will thero-
foro l>e regarded os a groat collapse of the
plans and power of the Alliance in poli
tics. Yet they hesitate to denounce the
movement unreservedly, because moat of
the people who aro helping it along are
their friends and thousands of the rank
and file of the order aro in sympathy
with it.
The impatience of the Western Alii-
ancemcn U almost impossible to control.
The men who scalped Ingalls in Kansas
are continually crying for blood and they
demand {immediate battle allfalong the
lice. The national leaders are at their
wits' ends to furnish food for this insa
tiable appetite for war without destroy
ing what they believe are the Alliance’s
chances of success iu 1892. They fear
the effect upon their own followers of a
summary squelching of the Cincinnati
outbreak. The dilemmA will have to be
met right speedily. If the Cincinnati
meeting U tallowed to develop into
a demagogical outbreak that will merely
excite popular derUioo, the effect upon
the Alliance will be almost disastrous.
The chances are, therefore, that before
the 19th of May the Alliance, and the
Citizrff’s Alliance as well, will, through
their national officers, utterly dUcredit
and repudiate the Cincinnati conference.
Certain it is that neither the Alliance
nor the Citizens’ Alliance will tie repre
sented at Cincinnati. The conference
has been called by individuals, and it
will i e held under only individual aus
pice* What will result from It ;nobody
can telL it will be an odd gathering,
representing probably as many shades of
political opinion as there are individuals
composing it.
But the discussion of the Cincinnati
movement has forced a clearer expos;
of the real political plans of the Alliance
and Its allied oi sanitations. The leader*
acknowledge now, in so msny words,
that a national third party is sure to take
the field early next year. The National
Citizens’ Alliance, organ of the ordor of
the same name, says editorially;
“Five of the large bodies of organized
workers, the National Farmers' Alliance,
the National Farmers’^Alliance and Inj
Farmers' Alliance, the Knights of Labor
and the National Citizene’ Alliance have
agreed upon the 324 of February, 1892,
as the date when a convention shall be
held composed of representatives from
all of these bodies, and such other or
gan ir*ri bodies a» may rhonae to partlci-
pate, with the object in view of forming
a third political party tor the campaign
of 1892; that a third party will be formed
there is no longer a question of doubt;
that today a large majority of the hun
dreds of thousands of members of these
organizations are daily becoming edu
cated to see the matter in t»*t light is
true, that a spirit of enthusiasm upon
this issue Is on the inctease, and that it
bodes the politicians in the two eld par
ties no good, is not to be gsiusaid; tbst
they are sorely worried about it is also
•erenL”
alliance leaders have made up
SAVED TllEllt NECKS.
The Close Calls that some Condemned
Men Have Had.
From the Omaha Bee.
Some intensely interesting criminal law
cases have been related to the writer during
the past week.
Judge Baldwin, with a career of more
than forty years at the bar, proved to be
one of the most valuable contributors.
‘‘One of the most remarkable cases that
has ever oome to my notice,” said Judge
Baldwin, “was that of the two Booms, who
were convicted years ago in the supreme
court of Vermont, in Bennington county
of the murder of Russell Colvin. It ap
pears that Colvin, who was a brother-in-
iaw of the prisoners^ was a person of weak
mind, and was considered burdensome to
the family of the prisoners, who were
obliged to support him; that at the time
•i»n biS disappearance he was in a distant
man n .. _» ‘ r .i . t_.
"ft
i v A Furnace to be Sold.
I** Willi, April L-A Birmingham
* ** A decree of the chancery
t has been rendered thie morning
ring the sale of the Mary Pratt fur*
'.which was recently thrown into the
■rii * of .• A half million
| cU «« i» involved.
i The Nina Floated.
I April L-Information
|u received at the Navy Department to*
T that the tug Nina, which went ashore
td when Um ~
their minds that neither of the existiug
parties will grant the extraordinary de
mands in their Ocala platform. They
have eaid all along that in that event
there would be a new party, and so they
are getting everything ready for neat
year. They expect tue Citizene' Alliance
to take care of the cities. The Citizens*
Alliance is doing the best it can. but it is
encountering some difhcultiee which do
not trout le the Farmers' Alliance much.
Chief among these is the difficulty in
keeping local leadership out of the bands
of tiie labor leaders and socialistic
•houttrs, who are anxious to gaiu influ
ence and dollars by means of ibe new
agitation. The Citizens’ Alliance
U.den believe they will gain support
from a large class of roiers who never
before Identified themselves with a labor
movement, provided thsy can suppreM
the demagogues who disgust intelligent
men by their anarchistic howling and
indiscriminate denunciations of the
oppression of capital.
Jerry Simpson and Ralph Bsaumont
are still entertaining the New Englanders
in their campaign of education. They
are doing missionary work for the Citi
zens'Alliance, and they think the de
serted farms of Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont furnish an argument which
should gain them hearty support among
the impoverished agriculturists, and the
urban residents as wall, In New England.
The Alliance la already talking about
what it has done and is doing in New
York state. National Secretary Turner
told a Hun rep ru r in Washington the
other day that the membership in the
state is now between 8,000 and 10,000.
Five county organizations have alrimdy
been | formed and aix more will be
organ ized before the State Alliance is
chartered, April 22. There are sixty-five
sub-alliances .in Allegany county alone,
with a membership of more than 2,900.
The Alliance leader of |Bo!ivar, N. Y.,
in iu last issue says:
“We have begun the reform. As we
look down the list of supervisors that
have been recently elected, and who are
to be the legislator) of Allegany county
for the riMrtinv year ; w« find that the al
liance bos had an awful effect At least
seventeen of the twenty-nine of the next
board of supervisors will be AUiancemsn.
In reading the party papers we find
nothing is said about the aid which the
alliance lent in their election, but simply
•aye Republican or Democrat, and thie is
all' right tines thsy ars Republicans and
Democrau the earns as of old. But they
ore not the same class of men whom
these old parties have been in the habit
of electing. We are not working this
reform for honor, but for profit and the
welfare of the country at larga”
Jerry Simpson is going to inaks a
■tumping tour through the state early in
April. He is expected to speak in this
city on Monday next. There seems to be
Ia n<- vnl I Km Kiln's in till.
field where the prisoners were at work;
that a violent quarrel hod broken out be
tween them, and that one of them had
struck him a severe blow on the back of
the head with a club, which felled him to
the ground. Borne suspicions arose at the
time that he was murdered, and there sub-
icions were increased by the finding of his
at in the same field a few months after
ward.
“These suspicions in process of time
subsided, but later one of the neighbors,
having repeatedly dreamed of the murder
with great minuteness of circumstance#,
both in regard to the missing man’s death
and the concealment of his remains, the
Booms were vehemently accused and gen
erally believed to be guilty oi the murder.
After a dose search the pocket-knife of
Colvin and a button of his clothes were
found in an old open cellar in the same
field in which he had been seen, and in a
hollow stump not many rods from it were
discovered nails and a number of bones
believed to be those of a man.
“Just prior to their trials friends of the
Boorns said that the evidence against them
was too unmistakably plain for them to
longer hold out, and urged them to make
a clean breast of the entire matter, hold
ing that if they did so they wonld
doubtedly gel their sentence of death—
which vu sure to be the result of their
trial—commuted to imprisonment for life.
“They were tried and sentenced to be
hanged. Their friends renewed their re
quest that they make a full confession.
Une of them finally complied with the re-
it, detailing a long story as to just how
murder had been committed. The
other confessed, but with great reluctance
and doggedness, and would not go into
details.
“The one who had made the full confess
ion had the sentence of death commuted,
while the sentence of the penalty of the
law was ordered carried out in the case of
the ether.
“As the day of the execution approached
the doomed man made a declaration that
he and his brother had lied; lied outra
geously ; and that for his part ho would
not risk facing his maker with so awful a
lie upon his soul. The declaration was
received simply as an act of supreme cow
ardice in the face of death, and caused all
but two or throe of the most intimate
friends of the maker of it to turn^against
minds o r,h e entire community, was it that
both men were guilty beyond all possible
doubt.
“The last sunrise but one, for the doomed
mao, was jnst Hooding his Vermont home
when who ehould appear aa the door but
Russell Colvin—the man for the murder of
whom Boorn was on the morrow to he
executed.
The explanation of the whole matter,”
added Judge Baldwin, “is simple in its
character.
“The two Booms had jumped upon Col
vin in the field and beaten him. He had
escaped from them, leaving his hat behind,
and so overpowered was be with fear that
he continued his flight until he found him
self in New Jemy. At the last moment
ho had learned that one of his persecutors
was about to be hanged aa his murderer,
and although he had suffered great bru
tality at his hands, Colvin immediately
an'inclinalion to ac »pt the Bun’s invita
tion to sotabllsh active Alliance prop*
ganda right in the metropolis The Ctti-
zeoa* Alliance will establish branches
hero right off, and lha Wall Street
Farmer will probably soon become the
I iw-w . ~ I -AlUancr state organ. Editor Cram now
k MK “*n»’s HU§ curs s»k headacha * bos eole control of ths paper, ami bs pro-
hastened back to save the unlucky fellow
neck. As fer the confessions the Booms
made—particularly the fall and very ex
plicit one—they were made simply for one
purpose, that of trying to save their necks.
“vV bile addressing the jure in a criminal
case a few years ago,” continued the judge,
“I found myself at a lose for a suitable
story with which to illustrate the greatgpd
supreme need existing for calm judgment
•nd a complete investigation, particularly
when human life was at stake, and so I
manufactured this one:
“A panenger train waa pulling into a
station of a little New England town. The
engineer had seen many years of continu
ous service on that particular run and was
known and honored as a reliable man, and
and it was known to an inch where he
would stop hie engine upon reaching the
town.
A great celebration was held in the
town one day, and whan the train came in
the track for fifty (set ahead of the pof
where the old-time engineer hrd always
stopped his train was crowded with men,
women and children, eo great a confidence
did all have in the power and rule of the
old engineer to always stop his engine at
the one particular spot.
“But on this festal day, when the train
came in—horror of all horrors! instsad of
stopping at the usual siot, it plowed on
through ths dense mass of humanity,
grinding the life from oot a score of hu
man beings, and stopped only when iu
wheels had fc
to drink.
‘Corses dssp and black as evtr wars nt
It red were rained down upon the engii
Then cams criee of ‘Lynch him t Lynch
him.’
‘‘A rope was procured, but before it
could be wound around hie neck some of
the cooler heads in the maddened mob
counseled lees haste—advised that the
fiend of an engineer* be given a moment
or two to explain.
“With his face as white as a specter the
3 ineer stepped to tbe platform of bis
and looked at the turbulent sea of in
furiated humanity full in the face. But he
was speechless.
“‘.Enough!’ bused ths crowd. ‘His crime
has stricken him dumb. Put the rope about
his neck—the bloody monster!’
“‘Neverl For God’s sake, never!’
shouted the fireman, whose trained eyes
had been eagerly scanning the mors im
portant mechanism of the locomotive.
“‘Here,’ he continued, bolding aloft a
little broken bolt, not 1} inches in length;
‘hero is the cause of ths accident—a broken
bolt at ths throttls.’
“And so it proved to be, when those who
hail counseled discretion in the wrecking of
vengeance upon the engineer, had made an
examination.
“I believe,” concluded the judge, “that
I won one of the greatest cases of my life
on that little bit of fiction, ami what do
irt had
here rigni ou, ana ana v*an nines*
fl< * Ud uk * n “to V fry"* Farmer will probably soon become the
THE INDIAN .VIA9SACHK.
Troops and NallvsSoldlers Descended
Upon by Hie Infuriated Natives.
Caixjutta, March 30.—Official dis
patches received here by tbo government
officials confirm the report of the mas
sacre of ghoorkas at Manipur, in tbe
province of Assam, wheie about 470 of
these native soldiers were slain by hostile
tribes of Assam after two days* desperate
fighting. The fate of tho British officers,
who bad command of the ghoorkas and
of Chief Commissioner James W. Hwin-
ton, who was conducting negotistions at
Dunbar for tbe arrest of a prominent
chief who had been instrumental in
deposing the Rajah of Manipur, is still
uncertain, but the viceroy of India, the
Marquis of Lsndsdowne, believes that all
the officers and officials have either met
death at tbe hands of tbe rebellious tribe
in Assam, or that they are held as pris
oners.
In addition to the disaster at Manipur,
it is believed that a force of British
trooDs composed of a detachment of 200
soldiers of the Bengal infantry and about
eighty ghoorka*, who were marching
from Shillong to Manipur in order to re
inforce the forty-MCoad and third
ghoorkas light infantry, which com
posed the escort of Chief Commissioner
Swinton, have also been attacked and
have shared tbe fate of their comrades at
Manipdr.
The Bengal infantry and eighty ghoor
kas, it appear*, were set upon by the
Assamese, or native troops, referred to
while they were passing through the dif
ficult and dangerous passage and though
they fought gallantly ngaimt heavy odds
tho rebel tribesmen from tbe advantage
ous position which they occupied on the
sides of the pass and ahead of and be
hind the British force poured such de
structive fire into the ranks of the lieogal
and ghoorka troops that the latter are
said to have been killed to a man.
The viceroy is hurrying troops into tho
rovince of Assam in order to punish the
ioetilea.
Reinforcement troons are being sent
ato the states located in proximity
Assam in ordsr to prevent aov poeslblo
disorder or w*arlike outbreak which is
thought might follow the spreading of
the news of the massacre of the British
troops at Manipur.
THE .NATIVE’S NUMEROUS PRISONERS.
Simla, March 31.—Further particulars
received from the scene of the Manipur
massacre show that the insurgent tribes
have captured a cumber of prisoners, in
cluding tbe Rajah of Manipur, whose
deposition was the cause of the trouble.
Chief Commissioner Quinton, F. C.
Grimwood, the British political agent at
Manipur and Col. Skene, who was in
command of the detachments from the
Forty-second and Forty-fourth ghoorkas.
Mr. Grimwood, wife of the political
agent, two assistant commissioners and
one of the officers of the ghoorkas es
caped in tho direction of Hilehar when
the insurgents made their final charge
and broke through tbe ranks of tho
ghoorkas. The fate of tbe remaining offi
cers is still unknown.
bOLPIEKM SENT TO THE SCENE.
Four regiments havo already started
for Manipur with the object of affecting
the release of the prieonora and of pun
ishing the rebellious tribes. Several
mountain batteries of artillery and a
force of cavalry are alto being prepared
to take the iisld iu Assam immediately.
The general opinion seoois to be that tue
military authorities will have to punish
the insurgent tribes severely and
promptly iu order to avert a more seri
ous revolt which might follow any hesi
tancy or display of weakness upon the
part of the British officials.
The seat of the government of Assam
is at Shillong, which has a population of
about 2,000 only. Ths population of
tns providence of Assam, however, is
estimated at 9,000,000. The hostile
tribes are comesssd e! rrt!! armed, brave
and cunning fighting men, who are liable
to viva the British fornea * conoid#ralJe
trouble before the revolt is entirely
•mle<t
Itecent Development* On the Scene of
the Horror.
London, April 1.— A dispatch to the
Timet from Calcutta says the fugitives’
stories of the Manipur massacre are
vague. It Appears that a sudden attack
was made on the residsnti on the eight
of March 23.
The report that ammunition was ex
hausted and that Commissioner Quinton
gave the order “Sauvequi pout,” appears
to be of doubtful authority. It is not
>*yond hone that the party is still am-
bu»hed and that it has been joined by
Crowley’s force o( 200 men, which was due
on 31srch 27, and Grant's eighty men
from Tam mo, neither of which forces
have been heard from.
The Times’ correspondents at Rangoon
say that Commissioner Quinton was
raptured near where a narrow bridgo
track traverses a jungle. Tbe lives of
the prisoners, according to tbe fugitive#,
are not in immediate danger,
ANOTHER SToRY,
Calcutta, Auril 1.—It it officially an
nounced that Mrs. Grimwood, the wife
of Mr. F. St C. Grimwood, the British
political agent at Manipur, the scene of
the reoent massacre of British troops, it,
company with Lieute, Gordon, Boileaux,
Butcher, Woods, I.ugurd and Calvern
lias arrived safely at Laklipur with
Crowley's detachment. A number of
other British officers, who were treach
erously captured by the Assamo&e, are
held as prisoners at Manipur.
ALL 8AFK BUT OMB.
Simla, April 1.—A force of 600
Ghoorkas and Crowley's missing detach
ment have arrived at Laklipur on the
direct route from Sitchoir to Manipnr.
It is believed that all members of Cnief
Commissioner Quinton’s staff are safe,
with the exception of Mr. Brackenburg.
A PRETTY SHARP ANSWER
THE CITY COUNCIL AND AGRICUL
TURAL SOCIETY.
Will Pay tl»e Money If They Owe It
— Wlimt Nlaron llae Already atone
tor the Mate Fair—The Official
Proceedings.
From Daily Telegraph, March 3L
Tbe city council met last night in reg
ular session, with ten aldermen in their
■eats.
Aside from the usual number of pro-
te>ts from ovepassessed citizene and the
report of the committee on protests that
had already oome under their juri*dic-
tion, the main matter of interest was the
report of the committee appointed to
consider the communication from the
State Agricultural Association.
The report reads as follows:
*’Th* «necial rmr}m|lt»e, fO whom *»*§
referred the communication of R W,
Jemison, Eeo., tecrotary of the Georgia
State Agricultural Society, beg leave to
report that the following answer thereto
on the part of the mayor and council be
forwarded to Sir. Jemison by the mayor
of the city: R. H. Smith,
“T. o. Chest*ey,
“T. J. Ware,
“W. T. SlIINHOLSER.”
“Hon. R W. Jemison, Secretary of the
Georgia State Agricultural Society-
Dear Sir: Your communication of the
fid instant, addressed to the mayor and
council, was duly received, and by them
referred to the appropriate committees.
“I am instructed by the mayor and
council to make you the following reply:
“We regret extremely that tbe agri
cultural society has any fault to find
with ths manner in which the mayor and
council has complied with the contract
made with the Georgia State Agricul
tural Society on the 4th of April, 1887.
ijirgo sums have been spent by the
mayor and council in an honest effort to
carry out this contract to ths letter. In
the year 1887 alone over $7,000 was
•pent by us for that purpose, and from
that timo on its expenditures havs aver
aged something over $2,500 per annum.
'Tho attention of the mayor and coun
cil has never before been called to the
various items of expense enurmerated in
your lotter, which you claim that the
agricultural society paid out for matters
and things which should, under the con
tract, have been furnished by the mayor
and council. It is s source of regret to the
mayor and council that their attention
was not called to these items earlier, for
the double retson that the city had no
dtsiro to remain a debtor to the
agricultural society, and the lapse
of nearly four years seriously
complicate* the correct auditing of the
account. Two-thirds of the expenditures
for which you desire to bo reimbursed
appear from your letter to have boen
made in the year 1887. By far the bulk
of the items suggested by you appear to
havo been moneys paid for lumber and
carnonters* work. If you will favor us
with the evidence that this lumber was
him] for any of thnoa things which, under
tho contract, the city rndertook to do,
the mayor and council will take pleasure
in reimbursing the agricultural society
for tbe amounts so paid out, .
“There is an item in your account of
rubber hose purchased by the agricultural
society. 1 am not aware that this hose
was ever turned over to'the city, but 1
sm instructed to say, briefly and plainly
part of the contract, provided the agri
cultural society will give security in an
equal amount to carry out its part.
“You further desire a guarantee from
us of our “enoouragement in your ef
forts.” If enthusiasm and encourage
ment are matters which can be gauged
by the plummet of the law. tho mayor
and council will enter into a “end «' 4 ' h
good security, to do all they cm to make
the next fair a grout success, provided
the agricultural society will enter into a
similar recognizance. Very respect
fully, “8. B. Pric e, Mayor.”
The report wan adopted unan
imously, and the communication will be
at once forwarded to the secretary of the
agricultural misociution.
In connection with this, while not p-irt
of the proceedings of the city coiiucil lust
night, the following letter from _ Pru
dent John O. WaJdell of the agricultu
ral association to a Macon member of tho
committee will be ofinterest:
“Atlanta,Georgia, March 28.—CapL
R E. Perk—Dear Sir: We are in receipt
today of a telegram and letter from
Augusts invi.ing ub to hold our
next State Fair m that city,
and saying they will iu.ike us j
generous and lilieral proposition*. The
authorities of M»con evidently do not
want, us and have not for n year or t *o
past. What must we do? Give me vour
views. Havo written to each iueml*er o!
the committee, and when answers are
received, I will call the committee to
gether, if their answers justify such a
course. Truly yours,
“J. O. Waddelu”
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Wis.,ssya Judge Paul A. Weil committed
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Ho had been a sufferer from la grippe.
The deceased was about ou years ot age.
Office F.Cberry, SI Drayton street. Ns van-
ab, <•*.. Dec, IS, MBU. -Mowre. Lippman Bros.,
*v*u ush. Go. Dear din: | woo Id like to
add wy tcatimnnr to the almost miraculous
effect of I». P. P. In the com oTMory In cram.
It vine on my place. Hhehed ocoa-
that on a prot*r auditing of the account
which you furnish, and a satisfactory
explanation of what the items therein
were used for, the mayor and council
stand ready to reimburse the agricultural
society for any sums paid out by it in
|ordor to place the grounds aud buildings
at Centra City Park in a state of repair
•pecificdC. liiis coniraci, or for our oiher
item specified in this contract which the
city u«k= v"»r foireu tv tsppili
“In reference to the ;>olicing of the
park or fair ground, I am inatructod to
say that the mayor and council’e con
struction of the contract is that they
should furnish a sufficient amount of
|policemen to preserve order and protect
the property of the society or tbe exhib-|
itor# at the fair and prevent, of course,
violations of state law* or municipal
ordinances upon tl e fair grounds. They!
do not, however, construe tbe contract to
mean that they should furnish a suffi
cient amount of policemen uL
keep watch around the entire
fence which incloses the ground, for the
purpose of preventing the entrance of
persons dsstring to witness the exhibits
and performances without paying their
money at the gate, any more than that
they should furnish gatekeepers. This
they do not understand to lw included
under tbe head of policing the premises.
“In another portiou of your comuiuni-1
cation you desire to be assured before
you hold another fair of our 'encourage
ment in the efforts of ths State Agricul
tural Society, and you state that Hming
to the manifest indifference of tbe citi-l
zens of Macon, including your honorable
body, evidenced by their failure to ac
knowledge thopr.svnceof the committee
in session in the city recently, it would
be with no little misgivings that the
commute* undertake to bold the fair the
{present year.' 1 beg leave to assure you
that no discourtesy or disrespect has re
cently, or at any other tims, been in-1
tended by the mayor and council to the
honorable body which you represent, or
any committee therefrom, though a care
ful examination of the contract faila to
disclose any obligation enjoined therein
^ the mayor and council to ocknowll
S ou think! Alter court had adjourned, a
ne-appesriug, gray-haired old geailei
came forward and, grasping my hand,
claimed:
“'You told that atory well, judge,
told it well! I was right in that crowi
the time of the accident and saw the whole
thingl*
f give*
iinous so-called bland nisdtrlne i
least effret. until being pat seder the P. P. P.
she imtmdiatrl; to improve, and Is sow
in a* good health *» ever is bar life. You cos
aood health aa ever in
refer to dm at any lima as to ti
P. P. ia the foregoing com. Yo
hole J
MAkcanCuxoa.
When Baby was tirk, v» gave h«*r Castorla.
Wbss she was a Ctuid, sheened for Csstoria.
When sho became Mbs, ah# ctssg to Osslerta.
When she had Chiltres, she gave them Castor ia
edge the presence of committees of the
agricultural society when la see-
b iuii in ths* city. Wo do
not think that the society
iu committees have ever had cause for
compUiut in reference to the manner in
which they have beet) treateJ, either by
the mayor or council of Mscou, or the
lik.-eral aad progressive citizens whom
they represent Ths history of the state
fairs held in Macon will show bow
largely her people have by their energy,
their public (spirit and their pecuniary
donations contributed to what measure
of success has befallen them. Estimate
the effect of Macon's money, Macon's
patronage sad Macon’s exbtbiu in the
exhibitions which your society hoe held
in this oty, and yon will appreciate the
courtesy and generosity with which the
society has always been treated by the
city.
a “Yon further desire that we ehould
ive a guarantee that the social? will be
;pared the inconvenience and expense
cuniequent upon a failure to carry out
all the provisions of the contract.’ I dc
not 'xnctly understand tbe nature of the
guarantee that you desire. Ths city has
by solemn resolution of its council and
through its proper officers executed a
written contract which is as stroog an
individual guarantee as they can give.
If, in any respect, tbe society has suf
fered from her failure to carry out that
guarantee, upon proof of the same, *bs
stand* ready to reimburse it. If you
mean by a guaranies that the city should
give security to carry out her contract,
1 aui instructed to say that where a con
tract Ia entered in.o tot ween two parties
without security being exacted from
either, neither party has a right
at a subsequent time to demand
that security should be given
by the other. But as we are not dispo* d
to quibble about technicalities, I am in
structed further to »»y, that tbe city
Aland* ready and willing tog .ve security
i story of a
once took on the back of a buffalo near
Fort Wallace, NeU Returning from a
hunt alone with the hindquarters of a
couple of young bulls he had killed over
his shoulders, he accidentally ran into
the herd again and was surrounded be
fore he realized his situation.
My dodgiug in and out almost caused
stampede.” he continued. “I knew if a
isnic took place among the beastalwould
« trampled to death. I suddenly deter
mined on a bold stroke, and, edging up
close to a shaggy young bull, grabbed hold
of the long hair on his fore shoulders aud
swung myself on his back.
“The bellow that came from the fellow
made me with that I had not decided on
such a risky push for liberty. The bel
lowing was taken up by the rest of the
herd, and soon we were flying along at a
terrific rate over gulches and up hill and
down. 1 was blinded by the sand thrown
by ths hoofs of the beasts, but, with my
eyes closed, hung on like grim death. For
half on hour tbs hard kept up a terrific
pace, and during that time my legs were
almost crushed ont of my boots by the
crowding animals.
“I began to think my time had come. I
was so weak I could scarcely keep my seat,
and was about to let myself fall from the
back of my buffalo when I succeeded in
■craping some of the sand out of my eyes.
* discovered then that we were running
•r«!!c! with ths railroad track, and as the
•ank was high and steep the animala had
not ventured to climb the incline.
The beast I was riding was the closest
to the track, and I know if 1 reached the
top of the embankment 1 would be safe.
dragged mytelf together the best I could
and prepared fdr a spring. I cot mv feet
on his back and jumped for the embank
ment. 1 leaned at the right time, for the
movement oi the young bull’s body sent
mi ujing half waj up the hank, and there
I was safe in the sand. For five weeks
afterward I was confined to my bed.”
Pelican and ratfish,
rnm tbe Forest and Stream.
For sovcral years a couple of patri
archal pelicans have fished for a living
ju*t off tbe snd of my wharf. I havo
repeatedly begged their lives oi e{K>rdag
tourists, and so accustomed them to rnj
( irosenco that I could row within an our’n
ength of them without their taking
fiighL I have often watched their opera
tions with curious iotereet,and was really
much atuebed to the solomn looking
couple, who, with their smooth pates
and beard-like pouches, reminded me of
feathered caricatures of Father Time.
Yesterday, on going down to the beach
I discovered one of my pelican ;*>t*
drifting helplessly toward land.
When he came within react'
found that he was dead, while
his pouch, with its head com
pletely closing the bird’* throat, was a
catfish, still alive, and measuring four
teen inches in length. Ite horns stuck
oul through each side of the pelican’s
pouch, and thus the unfortunate bird
had been nnablv to swallow, or reject ite
unwelcome prey. The pelican's pouch
was also torn and perforated in a num
ber of pile**, showing that the struggle
between the would-Tm swallower and
wouldn't-be-swallowed had been a long
•nd desperate one. Tbe fish died a few
minutes after being removed from the
trap into which he had (alien. The bird
me as u rod seven feet eight inches from
tip to tip of his extended wings, and
from his iappearance was evidently a
patriarch of his race.
Now, Mr, “Forest and Stream.” as
you know all about fowls and fishes,
please tell me if catfish always prove
thue fatal to the pelicans that catch
thsm? Also, can s pelican, plunging
down from hie aerial observatory, dis
criminate tietween the many kinds of
fish swimming beneath him? If so, why
did not my pelican thus discriminate,
and shun the pernicious cal?
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JLippman’si XHook, bavannuh, Ga.
LAMP CHIMNEYS.
One of the minor troubles
of house-keeping is the
breaking of lamp-chimneys.
Chimneys cost but little
apiece, and break but one at
a time. You class these
little surprises among “mys
terious providences,” and
bear them, meekly resigned.
All wrong! the chimneys
arc wrong;, the glass was
ready to pop the minute it
cooled.
The maker saved two
cents on a chimney, and put
this loss and annoyance on
you. > •
“ Peart-top’’g^Jchimneys
_do not break Y—* j n use.
Pearl Too Lamp Chimneys can he bad
st ths FAIR STORE, 408 Mulberry street
kOLLY PUT THE KETTLE ON.”
5HE AL50 COOKED THE MEAT.
AND WHEN BRICK OVENS WERE
IN 5TYLE
'TWA5 FIT FOR KINGS TO EAT,
IF ANY MAIDENS NOWADAYS
W15H FINE RQA5T5 AND GOOD
LOAVES
THEY MUST HAVE WIRE GAV2B
'put or? t3?r QMER.OniW
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Buy the CHARTER OAK,
’Witix Wire Gauze Oven Doors.
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STEAM ENGINES AND MACHINERY.
r farming land*obtained at Unreal r.ure
_ in* landi
W. D. Nottingham-
CTAMMERINO r«red. Rook
O the p ----- -•
925.000 £
' Uijzjl* ioads. Apply to W. b. NclLSgbAxu.
of $.'0,000, to carry out its' tlxuug
MALL ARY BROS.&UU.,
MACON, GEORGIA,
SUCCCSSOItS TO
SMITH & mallary;
Wo sell the well-known WATERTOWN STEAM EN
GINES and a full line of MACHINERY generally. D.ufc
buy machinery of any character without first writing US.
MALLARY BROS._& CO.. MACON. GA. _
-Children Crv for Pitcher’s Castoria.
