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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1833.
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USURERS AND
THEIR CRIME.
p ev . Thomas Dixon Arraigns the Money
Hucksters For Their Sordid
Business. -
THE PANIC WAS FICTITIOUS.
Ib . Remit of » Grand Complmry Be.
lw((n lh« Great3IonejrLfmIo«-
Lnioni Which the Young
Divine Dram.
New York, Sept. 10.—Rev. Thomaa
Dixon, Jr., continued this morning in
,'ssociation hall his series of sermons on
•The Panic—Its Causes and Cure.” The
object of today’s sermon was "The
Primal Causes of tho Panio,” in which
he arraigns the great money tenders for
the crime of producing the panio for
personal gain and declares their pro
cedure nothing short of “a conspiracy
against tho race." The texts chosen wero
from Ezekiel xii, 23, and vii, 19, in con
nection with Jeremiah xvii, 11:
"Thou hast taken usury nnd increase,
and thon bast greedily gained of thy
neighbors by extortion nnd hast for
gotten me, saith tho Lord Cod."
"As the partridgo sitteth on eggs and,
bstcheth them not, so ho that getteth
ji-i-ee and not bv right shall leave them
in the midst of his days and at his end
shall be a fool.”
••They shall cast their silver into the
streets, and their gold shall bo removed;
their silver and their gold shall not he
able to deliver them in the day of tho
wrath of the Lord.”
The temptation for tho enormously
rich to use the well nigh resistless power
of their riches to increase them still fur
ther by wrong and oppression is some
thing appalling.
It is hard for a rich man to enter the
kingdom of Cod.
He is not condemned to hell by the
fact of his riches, but if ho ever gets to
heaven it will bo by the skin of his teeth.
Jeans Christ said it is eaaior for a camel
to go through the eye of the needle than
for a rich man to enter. He does not say
that a rich man cannot enter. He does
■ay that it is harder for him to bo a true
can than for bis poorer brother.
Tho only description of hell Jesus
Christ ever drew was the hell of the rich
cm.
The present panic is a possibility be
cause of the selfish fear that on occasions
sill dominate and stampede a nation.
It is a groundless, ignoble fear and re-
' frees men to tho lovel of the animal
heilr
The stampede is tho immediate cause
of ruin. 1’eoplo nro b utally and use
lessly and senselessly t mpled to death.
The moment you can llay this sense
less fear and restore reason the danger
is practically over. While tear and tho
basest selfishness aro tho immediate
cases of a panio they are neverits primal
causes.
KNJLVE OR TOOL.
A panic always has a first cause. Some
knsvu or fool must raise the cry of fire
before the stampede is possible. A fool
causes a panto fur tne lack of sense, a
knave because he l.as an end to serve—
generally that end Is to pick tho poekets
of the herd as they trample on one an
other. Was tho primal causo of the
present panio folly or rascality?
Tho man or men who started it—fool
orlmsve? It seems to me a perfectly pat
ient fact that the present panio was pro
duced
great money
financial centers.
First—All the accompanying pheno
mena tend to establish thle fact
It certainly was tbs product of artifice,
not nature. There was nothing natural
about it. It was produced in the face of
nstnro's loudest protest
Ths fertile portion of tho earth’s sur
face is estimated by geographical exports
st 29.260,200 square miles. Sian and.
dond, dew and wind and rain never
kissed this fair foco of the earth with
more passionate love than in this present
year of our Lord. There is no war, no
famine, no pestilence to speak of. Oar
fields are heavy with grain. Onr barns
groan with plenty. In tho midst of this
real prosperity suddenly stalks financial
min!
TRICK LVD CHICANERY.
We bad lost not ono dollar of the real
wealth of the nation. Wo are not today
one cent poorer in that which really con
fiture the wealth of n people. Tho
conclnaion Is inevitable to nn unpreju
diced mind that it is the work of some
“isve who has a deep purpose in the
desperate game being played.
Such a panic could havo been produced
•"dr by human trick and chicanery. Is
°nr national prosperity real? No man
can dispute it successfully. Then tho
panic was fictitious. It was manufac
tured to order. It was dono with malice
aforethought, and it has in it all the ele
ments of tho deed of Cain.
Kot only fa the panic a contradiction
°l nature, bnt tho method of its approach
Kjves inevitable signs of its true origin.
1 here was a concerted action of a cer
tain coterie of great money hucksters
throughout tho world. They began
without catue save the secret decree of
conspirators to call In their loans, to re
fuse applications for money from the
'•rat security and in every way to con
tract businesr. They issued a year ago
c' r min secret financial bulletins to the
lesser lights, giving them warning tofol
low in the footsteps of their masters.
Tlirough their o rgans of news through
out Europe and America they exagger
*i«l systematically every bank failure
that could possibly further the end of
doors. They onconraged the hoarding
of money; they inaugurated the policy
of refusing loans to the people even upbu
the best security; they circulated false
petitions, passed absurd nnd alarm
ing resolutions, predicted the direst dis
aster, uttacked the credit of tho gov
ernment, sought to exact a premi
um upon currency and attempt
ed in every way to spread dis
trust broadcast throughout tho land.
The best financial system in the world
could not stand Buch an organized and
vicious attack upon it. These disturbers
—these promoters of the public peril—
represent largely tho creditor class, the
men who desire to appreciate the gold
dollar in order to subserve their own
selfish interests, men who revel in hard
times, men who drive harsh bargains
with their fellow men in periods of finan
cial distress and men wholly unfamiliar
with tho true principles of monetary’
science."
Can any sane man believo that the
senior senator from New York, convers-
sant with the daily transactions of onr
great money center, was just talking to
hear himself talk when he penned that
paragraph? Whatever his motive, he
certainly did not bid for popularity in
that statement. An astute politician
would hardly bo guilty of telling an un
popular lie fee the *— cf it.
THE REIQNTNO PLUTOCRACY.
ino man wno ror tne past year nas
studied with-any degreo of care tho
sources of public opinion, real and man
ufactured, is driven to the same conclu
sion.
Tho present panic cottld have been pro
duced by bnt one power—the reigning
plutocracy of the world. It was inter
national in its movements. It amounts
to a conspiracy against humanity.
It is useless of ns to make observations
Mr. zsairour. tne Con6erv. , ui’’9 leader
in England, recently said: “The govern
ment had been driven to commit a finan
cial crime. The speech just made by
the chancellor of tho exchequer was vir
tually a sneer at the present financial
situation. For the chancellor of tho ex
chequer to get up nnd tell the country
that he regarded with absolute indiffer
ence what happened to silver appeared
to him to bo something approaching lu
nacy. Let Germany, India and the
United States try a gold currency, and
a tremor seizes every ono of onr com
mercial magnates. They look forward
in tho immediate future to catastrophe
and feel that tho ultimate result may bo
a slow appreciation of tho standard of
value, which is perhaps tho most dead
ening nnd benumbing influence that can
touch the enterprise of a nation.”
It is so because it makes the mochan-
ism of exchangoacommodityandcreates
the imperaiism of the money huckster.
Let the friends of the people bemot de
ceived by a Into and cry. The hue and
cry was raised for a purpose. That pur
pose was the picking of their pockets in
the disturbance that followed.
SHELLING THE WOODS.
We are all the enemies now of the
"Sherman act.” Wo bombard it mighti
ly. Well and good. But let us not be
too enthusiastic about it. History tells
us, you know, that when tho Earl or
Warwick and Edward IV wero to fight
a decisive battle at Barnet some 400
years ago Warwick spent tho whole
night throwing his artillery shot into a
field where ho thought tho king’s troops
lay, bnt which was absolutely vacant.
The king craftily encouraged the mis
take nnd took tho time so to moss his
forces as to secure a crushing victory in
the next morning’s mists. History has
a way of repeating itself, they say.
from tho end of our nose and ignore this I*®t us repeal by all means. Certainly,
tremendous —4—-! »•_«» If «—crcd, our Wo must. It is the crice. We have no
1 primarily by a conspiracy of the
money hucksters of the world's
conclusions most bo all in error. Jnles
Verne tells ns in one of his stories of a
party accompafaying a noted astronomer
to a spot near the north pole to take
observations on certain heavenly bodies.
They fonnd tho location defined by lati
tude and longitude. All went well for
a time, bnt at length the astronomer
discovered that thero was something
radically wrong. He found that tho lo
cation had been ignorantly made upon
an immor.ro field of stealthily moving
Ice and not on tho continent. To make
observatiot-s on the present status and
ignore its primal causes is simply to take
yottr reckoning from a shifting base and
ignore the continent
THE PURPOSE or TUB CONSPIRACY.
Second—Such a conspiracy further
manifests itself in tho purposes sought
by tho present agitation.
It has been npparent from tho begin
ning of tho present movement of ruin in
. financial centers that the purpose of tho
agitators was to decrease the stock of the
world's money and increase the preminm
exacted for its use.
To this end they have determined first
to demonetize silver and make gold, tho
scarcer metal, the only standard money.
After months of successful manipula
tion of the ruling powers of public opin
ion and government they succeeded in
closing the mints of India to silver.
Their next movement was against the
money of America. They demanded tho
repeal of the silver purchase clanso of
onr present law. And they demanded
its “unconditional repeal—that is, that
gold should for tho timo be only recog
nized os fully money. They forced the
president of the United States to call
congress together and recommend this
By all means let it bo done. The law
as it stands is a confessed failure. It
satisfies no one.
Repeal it at once for a more important
reason. It is the price Shylock demands.
You hare no choice. He has yon on the
hip. You rnnst. He will make his bill
ions in the transaction, manipulating his
gold, and basin as* will than resume ita
normal sway.
Let this be done at once that Shylock
may be satisfied for the moment, and
wo may breathe easier for a brief season.
Bnt let tho masses of the nation under
stand it clearly. To establish a gold
standard for money is to deliver the na
tion, bound hand end foot, to the money
hucksters. Gold Is tho easiest commod
ity to cover. It bos never served the
needs of n great peoplo and never will.
It is tho money of the rich man. It U
the enemy of the poor. It always has
been so. It always will bo so. Better
demonetize gold than silver. Thero is
really no intrinsto valno to either.
MONOMETALLISM A CRIME.
l no masses ot tne peoplo will never be
emancipated from tho dominion of Shy
lock until both gold and silver are de
monetized and relegated to tho arts and
sciences, whore they belong in a condi
tion of true civilization. Both gold and
silver are ntterly inadequate to the needs
of commerce today as a mechanism of
exchange. The world's commerce has
long ago outgrown their combined ca
pacity, nnd more than 00 per cent of the
transactions of the present commercial
world are consummated with paper not
recognized as currency.
Bimetallism is utterly inadequate.
Monometallism Is a crime.
It is a conspiracy against tho masses
of mankind. 1 care not what nation prac
tioeaiL
The aggregate stock of gold in tho
world today is tJ.CS2.005,000. Tho ag
gregate stock of silver in the world is
$4,012,700,000. These combined are not
more than a drop in tho ocean of the
world's trade. Let us remember that
in the present crisis, with both gold and
silver as money, yon paid a preminm of
3 per cent on silver dollars on some days.
Thero is not enough gold and silver in
tho world today to answer the needs of
ono-tenth tho bnman race for the pur
poses of trade. To decreaso this stock
by any process Is to put up tfcs premium
on currency and sell the people into
slavery to the money lenders.
Mr. Chaplin, the president of the board
of agriculture under Lord Salisbury,
characterized the closing of tho mints of
India to the freo coinage of silver in these
terms:
I -By a single itroko the government
er left in its swift wings, rihd in th'o re-
mot<jst corner of tho meadow it can
roach pours ont its lifeblood in silent
submission. Tho deer wounded speeds
to tho thickest brake and in pitiful si*
kmce waits for death. So animals bear
pain.
So man in his anima’i ignorance and
helplessness has borno pain through the
ages. But man is emerging from the
mere animal. The average iifo of tho
race is now too high for the mero sub
mission of the animal. Let Shylock have
a care. The great, silent, suffering mul
titude has dawning within its bosom the
solemn and awful cense of wrong and
injustice, and tho day of tho uprising of
tfie raco draws nigh.
Shall it be evolution or revolution? It
must be one or the other.
Let Shylock beware! Tho peoplo may * 11
suffer long and hopelessly and helplessly,
but tho day of the Lord draws nigh!. And
they shall bo delivered! God has said it.
Robespierre abused tho power intrust
ed to him for awhile. Ho laughed at
God and man. But at last they drag
ged him through the streets ho had pol
luted to his own guillotine. It is said
that as tho death cart passed through
the streets with Robespierre standing in
chains, his hair disheveled, his face
covered with blood and his jaw shattered
by a pistol ball, an old man hobbled up
to tne cart and pointing his linger up to
him cried, “Yea, Robespierre, thero is a
God!”
LITTLE RUTH
HAS A SISTER.
Important Occurrence at the Fxecutive
Mansion at Washington
Yesterday.
A HEALTHY LITTLE LADY.
Not Been Weighed, hut fa Con*
deroil a Very Flue Specimen of
Babyhood—The Event Closely
Gunrtled From the Public,
choice. Bnt lot ns in duo time take ef
fective measures that Shylock may not
own us body and soul.
Third—Tho significant effects of tho
present panio aro a further indication of
its trne origin.
INTERNATIONAL.
The distress has not been local or na
tional—it has been international.
Tho causo was international. The
remedy likewiso must be international.
Wo must have nn international agree
ment about money. There must be a
federation of man in which national lines
shall disappear if the people are to main
tain their life against tho encroachments
of an arrogant plutocracy. Tho plutoc
racy of the closing days of the nine
teenth century is on international affair.
Tho mosses of tho peoples of different
nations must federate for the protection
of their lives and the progress of the
raco.
The intensification of capital has been
vastly increased by tho present panic.
There will be fewer business establish
ments after tho wreck. The rich will be
mnch richer and the poor much poorer.
VOICES OP THE TAST.
Let us hear tho voice of history. This
cannot continue without a climax of
revolution.
Daniel Webster said: "The freest gov
ernment cannot long enduro where tho
tendency of tho law is to create a rapid
accumulation of property in the hands
of the few and to render tho masses of
the people poor and dependent.”
Garfield said: “Whoever controls the
volume of money of any country is ab
solute master of all industry and com
merce."
Abraham Lincoln said in 16G5: “I see
in the near future n crisis approaching
that unnerves mo and causes me to trem
ble for the safety of my country. As a
result of tho war corporations have been
enthroned, and nn era ot corruption in
high places will follow, and tho money
power of the country will endeavor to
prolong Its reign by working on the
prejudices of tho people until all wealth
is aggregated in n fsm hands end tie
republic is destroyed. I affirm it as my
conviction that class laws placing capi
tal above labor are mora dangerous to
the republic at this hour than was chat
tel slavery in the days of its haughtiest
supremacy. I feel at thia moment more
anxiety for the safety of my country than
•over before, even in the midst of tho war.'
It is said that—
When Egypt went down, 2 per cent of
her population owned 07 per cent of her
wealth.
When Babylon went down, 2 per cent
of her popnlation owned all tho wealth.
When Persia went down. 1 per cent of
her population owned the land,
When Romo went down, 1.900 men
owned all the known world.
There are about 40,000,000 people in
England, Ireland and Wales, and 100,000
people own nil the land In the United
Kingdom.
For the past 20 years the United States
has rapidly followed in tho steps of these
old nations. Hero aro the fignres:
In 1830 capitalists owned 374 percent
of the nation’s wealth.
In 1873 they owned 03 per cent.
FORSYTH I--KELS BASIS
‘tampede. They began the boarding of ! ha* depreciated by IS per cent thewatae
toraiey. forced th d. nd. i.t n of the silver )"dd bjr the JpoptLSbCB of
tletu to do tho same and frightened
i-ose who were not into doing Iik
Senator David B. Hill of Hew York, ad
mitted by Ida bitten -l enemies to be one
of the shrewdest politicians nnd closest
students of current events in America.
H ist graphically and nccnrately mm-
raed Op the seri n of th* conspiracy in
tho following paragraph: *
DUN & CO.’S REVIEW.
New York, Sept. 8.—R. G. Dun A
Co.'a weekly review of diet rado will
say:
The improvement has extended from
the banks to the mills. The condition
of great Industries is distinctly mend
ed, though still seriously depressed.
Mort Important by far than any rise
In stocks is the fact that more works
have resumed during the past a-rt
tnnn nave stopped operniions, so ii>ut
the producing force of the country, rf-
ter months of constant decline, , has be
gun 1o Increase. Dispatches mention
twenty-eight textile nnd thirty metal
works which have resumed, some with
part force, while twenty-five textile
and iron works have stopped. It Is
expected that most of the Fall ltlve-
mills wlH start soon, the hands assent
ing to reduced wages.
The money markets are more
healthy, the premium on currency has
almost vanished, the embarrassments
In domestic exchanges have well nlstli
disappeared, and while very little
money is yet available for commercial
or Industrial enterprises, there is some
relief in that respect also. It was tin?*
for some improvement. September 1
the output of the iron furnaces in blast
was only 85.510 tons weekly, ngamst
107.042 August 1, and 18t..V>l Mav 1.
so much less than half producing foe.es
was engaged, nnd ynt the manufacture
-was so stagnant that unsold stocks of
pig Iron increased 22,000 tons n week
fn August.
It Is stated tea’ s further reductotn
In the oupnt bn* been made sine* th«
month began. The Thomas Iron Com
pany has reduced Its price for pig Iron
50 cents, but « tr." other concerns ore
•riling standard No. 1 as low ns $14
per ton. Soft st.-ei has reached the low
est point on rwvrJ $20. at Pittsburg,
and nubstoBtlafle all the rail mills dr.
the country ace Fie, but there Is a
somewhat better cen.and tor hardwa-c
wire, rods. biarr*.d wire, and contract'’
for architectural at.d agricultural 1m
pjement suppli-s. In th* cotton mi <
the resumption of work Is quite gen
oral. The pap*’ business Is doing be;
ter; the Troy mi»r and th* lllln u-
great glasa worlr.i starting. Whll* th*
monrv markets Im"* greatly Improve?
thrv are yet far Item Ihe normal conrt-
tion. nnd rn.ni are In doubt. Tht
monetary sltuatui; has changed hut lit
tle, for there .■’A* been nn ahundanc"
of money, and i t.*v confidence In em
ploying It Is lathing.
, The failures for Ihe week have inly
(wen 323 lit nuir.tir. against M5 ln»:
S eek nnd 4S0 fn.’ th* week preceding-
In Canadntae’a’.nsi JJ the name we.d;
last year. While rne large mortgag
rompnny swMIa th* aggregate of llabill
ilew .for th* we*d th* average of oth -r
failures was low*-’ than usual, M2 bring
far less than $5.’s0 each, and only fo.r
pver *100,000 enoV
STEAMERS TO LIVERPOOL.
Newport News Had a Omat Dxy of
Jubilation.
Newport New*, V*.. S*pt. 9.—A
rial train from Ctneinmtt, conveying
several hundred guest* of the Ch*aa-
p*ak* nnd OlFo Railroad Company from
th* Ohio Valley. Chicago. At. Loul* and
Omari* rallmul. reached Newport Nrw*
this morning for tho purpose of wit
ness trie inauguration of th* Chrea-
ra’ik" and Ohio Steamship Corapiny.
Th* first steamship of this line, Th*
Rappahannock. Oapt. Perwlli. now lire
at Ih* wharf at Newport New* and wli
mokjo Mb first sailing th* etrly part of
next week. Thia » to be followed reg
ularly by weekly sailing to and from
Liverpool and London. Thle *team«hlp
line will uouiprtar a fleet of six steam
er*. three of which were built by Fur
new. Witriey * Co. of Westriart, Ltv-
erpool, Kng, and threj by A. Stephens
A- sosi. UntbouM. Otosgow. Th*
•teamera sr* $70 foot m length and 4t
in hr ndtti. -with a cargo capacity of
r..7V) ton-, anl contain fittings for T70
bead of c*tH». Additional tracks, pi-re.
at&y fear* i Matty been added to the
Ch- rupc.ik and Oh*o pirn* at UtHpnbri,
Washington, Sept. 9.—Another girl
baby was bom to President and Mrs.
Cleveland today. The birth of a baby
in the White House was of course an
event in which more than usual Inter
est was felt. In an incredibly short
■msec of time the news was known in
congress ami was spread through nil
the departments. The hnmloence of
the Important event was made known
early In the day by the issue of nn or
der countermanding the usual Satur
day concert by the marine baud in the
White House grounds.
Dr. Bryant, who accompanied the
president and Mrs. Cleveland back
from Gray Gables and took up his
quarters in the White House, was the
attending nh.vsidnn. The latest In
formation Is Chat Mrs. Cleveland and
her latest daughter were both doing
well.
The closest reticence was maintained
the White House as to tho event.
The first statement given out was that
the event took place at 2 p. m. latter
it was permitted to be known that the
event occurred exactly at noon. The
president was informed of the event
Dr. Bryant, but it Is said did not
mention It to Private .Secretary ’num
ber until 2 p. m. In the meantime the
news had become known outside, the
first public mention being made of it
in the war department.
Mrs. Perrlne, Mrs. Cleveland's
mother, is on her way to the city, but
has not yet arrived. The president
during the morning n Mended closely
as usual to official duties. He signed
two bills passed 4>y congress in connec
tion with the celebration of the one
hundredth anniversary of the founding
of the capital, on the 18th ins*,, anil
gave an Informal reception to Prince
Vorihlto Komatsu, a friend of the Mi
kado of Japan, who Is traveling In this
country.
The president absented himself from
his office shortly before 12 o’clock and
remained anxiously awaiting a mes
sage. When Informed by Dr. Brynnt
and the professional nurse of Mrs.
Cleveland's safety he at once went to
his wife's chamber, and two hours nf-
tenvatds quietly re-entered his office
and authorized Mr. Thnrber to con
firm a rumor which by this time w
running all over the city. The baby is
bright-eyed, lieatlhy lopklug young
lady. She ha* not yet been w eighed
but It Is said to be of good size.
Tht. Is tho first Child bom to a pres
ident in the White House, although
there have been other births la the ex
ecutive mansion.
Just before tho occurrence of the day
the gates leading through the rear part
of the executive park were dosed to
Insure ehooluto quiet about the man
sion. Earlier In the dey order* had been
Issued suspending the regular Satur
day afternoon concert of the msrine
band for today and the rest of the
season. Immediately after the rumor*
had been confirmed member* of the
cabinet and their wives called to con
gratulate the president nnd leave their
cards for Mr*. Cleveland.
Attorney General Olnoy happened to
be nt the White House when the presl-
dent came back to Me office from the
strk room. Shortly after 2 o’clock, and
was the first member of tho official
family to tender hi* good wishes.
Hunches of ro*e* from Intimate friend*
are pouring Into the White House to
night. and there Is a general air of
auppreued excitement among the em
ploye* of the mansion. Telegrams of
congratulation hare been received
from all part* of the country.
Cotton Coming In nnd Being Sold at
Good Prices.
Forsyth. Sept. 0.-48pecUU—Funyth.
presented a scene today that reminded
one of the prosperous days of long
ago. Everything assumed a brighter
look, the merchants feel encouraged
and the people generally happier.
Nearly one hundred bales of cotton
were rece.ved up to 2 o'clock this af
ternoon nnd brought a good price,
ranging from 7 1-4 to 7 1-2 cents. The
banks have all. the money necessary
to move the crop and the farmers feel
cheerful and happy. It may be safety
said that the oppressive times have
passed oh far as Monroe county is
concerned, and that brighter daya haTO
Oomo again.
The city court of Monroe county ad
journed today. Many cases, both civil
and criminal, were disposed of. The
most Important criminal case was that
of Hirat.i Wlnslett, the young white
man charged with assault and bat
tery. Young Wlnslett. it will be re
membered, severely beat his aged
mother some time ago. He was fouud
guilty nnd will have to pay a fine ot
$250 or go to the crialngang for twelve
months. Judge Julian WUtiamaou. al
though the youngest Judge lu the
South. Is considered one of the ablesL
Judge Williamson is making a splen
did reputation for himself and for the
City court ot .uonroe county.
Messrs. Samuel Rutherford of Cul-
loden nud George Persons of Fort Val
ley have located here ami formed a co
partnership for the practice of law.
Botu ure energetic, capable young
men. and their success W assured.
The announcement of the marriage
of Miss Maude Hammond of mis city
to Mr. Charles 8. Johnston of Atlanta
on the 4th of October will be received
by the friends of thia popular young
couple with great pleasure.
Mias Hammond la the daughter of
Mrs. A. D. Hamtnond of this city, amt
well kuowu ju y,awu, ..hire she hae
_ number of relatives. She Is noted
for her personal beauty and amiability.
Mr. Johnson Is well known as the pop
ular trarellng representative of the At
lanta Journal, ntid counts his friends
by ihe score, who will congratulate
him <>n wlnn.ng the hand of such a
cliarmlng youug lady. The wedding
will take place ot the Methodist
church at 8:30 p. m.. and will be onu
of the most notable social CTents that
ever occurred here.
Miss Mantle Smith, one of Eatonton'a
most popular young ladles. Is visiting
her friend. Miss Mary Boydcr, In this
city.
Misses Hattie and Mary Locke, two
charming young ladles of Vlnevllle.
avlio have been visiting the family ot
Dr. O. C. Collins, have returned home.
Miss Annie Bowman, an attractive
young lady of Savannah, la visltlug
Mrs. Dr. W. T. Heidt in the city.
The superior court convenes here
Monday next. Judge John J. Hunt pre
siding. Judge Hunt is very popular
here, nnd Is recommended unanimous
ly by the Forsyth bar for re-election
io tlio judgeship of tills circuit.
FLOVILLA CLAIMS THE LEAD.
LETTER FROM DR. GRAVES.
His Declaration Written in Canon City
Prison.
Her Factory Fanned Sweet Potatoes
n Month Ago.
Flotilla. Sept. 9.—(Special.)—I no
tice In today's edition of your valued
paper that Mr. Cutter of the Bellevue
Cann g Factor)’ has a new plan for
canning the Georgia sweet potato that
refuses to divulge to the raxtouo
public, and that lie canned the Hr-: or
goods tint have ever beencennc 1
In the state yesterday. Here, the l-'lo-
vllla canning factory Is away yonder
in the lead, having canned several
town cans last month as samples, and
they have been pronounced by expert •»
Iti Chicago ami St. Louis ns being a*
good as can be made. The factory baa
Xpert canner who has been a' this
business many years and has canned
thousands of cans of sweet potatoes,
nnd lie piimoim-es rhoin is I :e- h"
has ever seen. I was shown a sample
from a can that had just been opened
and they were excellent. This is a
gr.-it thing for the farmers. The sub
ject of saving the sweet potato, a
most valuable crop for Georgia, has
been solved. These goods have ready
sale In the West. The factory bars
has orders now for all It can put up.
This factory has put up this year 5JXJO
or more eases of the tine-: tomatoes,
and this Is only a beginning, as It was
late getting started anti could not get
any farmers to take hold of It, amt
then the weather ha* been bad. It U
fully expected that 10.000 case* of
sweet potatoes will bo put up thls^falL
Th* factory has a capacity of HIM)
can* a day. It works from fifty to
seienty-fivo women and children,
thereby giving employment to many
that otherwise would have nothing to
do. These women and children amt a
few men cant from 50 car- to V- per
jay Tho l'lovllla canning facto
Uffh L* 1
„ Virginkx nnd Governor
•orkle of WM Virginia were pr*s
ent and madli opeMira.
The "City of Cincinnati” wm
sp il led by Mr. Brent Arnold. I
dent of «■• chamber of commerce of
(IM city, and "VirginSa" by Meyor El
lys-’P of Richmond. _
I’r-ldent Ingall* In ht» remark*
said: "We belter* that rite opening
this line ta an event In the cannem
this country which fully Joetlftre the
trouble and tlm* that It taa given to
C*l brat* it It Is the completion of on*
India. A more flagrant act of public
plunder has never been rommittcl Ly
Civilized government. Tlio resu.T 1
a convulsed finandaleitiiauon m . .
China to Pern. If the repeal by the
American congress of tho Bbmuui act
-'■■ill 1 Mi 1 \ liable, it would !.-'
curtly d i» to tb* error that has bo
•a, little di
.-M toon
ch foil-
imittod i:
ir. .-* to held nn
could no*, fail t..:
out the world
tncrcial difficult
In
Tho governin'
•ible. Their anti
'•-rate go’. 1 thr. u.
, .. i Th- visitors were taken out to the cape
In the 20 years einco 1873 tills concern :lnd ta , k to ji yK > a hotel to a ban-
tration of n."my into the Irands of a few ' q :-: presided ovtr by Mr. " *■
has been greater in proportion than at gall*, pres..tent of the Ch«
any previous period of our history. u ?.,; V e‘n. n -“.McKinney and on. Fits-
What will bo tho future of these vast ’ -
fortune?.? Who can calculate their power?
sanxxac 1 ! table.
It U Aaitl that if when Judas betrayed
Jesus for 80 pieces of eilver, each piece
valued at 8 cents—90 cents in all—that
ium had been put at 4 per cent the year
following it would now amount to $207,*
8S8,000 ,*C00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,-
000, This would make a solid globe of
pure gold ms large as 17,000 such planets
as the earth.
Napoleon said when computing the in
terest table, “It in astonifhing that tho
deadly fact which lie* buried in this table
haa not devoured the whole human race."
Let Shylock and his followers take
warning. Toe day of the Lord will come
at hut. Thero is a point beyond which
the dumb multitude will not endure.
Tho animal will bear much, but when
the deep sense of injustice takes posses*
fiion of the wounded and downtrodden
manhood, then 1st the fool who has ven
tured too far beware. Ilis gold and hi*
silver will be caft into the Mr* «-U. They
will not avail. God has said it.
Tll£ ANIMAL AND PAIN.
It is on^ of tho most pathetic things in
nature h dw tho animal endures pain.
The honk? htruck in battle after the fin**.
m. <k of th*- wound make^ no sound.
Tho dog Carries a broken leg for dsj
wistfully, but unc« mplainir.gly. The
cat stricken with a club or craw.
t., ,n;o f-wrai place and bears in f- >u<
- the farther.* limit of ti.
of the links In tho chain in commerce
that has been mor« than 100 v**r* in
forgtQff. The meats and irraln and cot
ton and tobacco of On Ohio s«d Mis
sissippi vakitya can now be «rrw out
through this port and by this •O’MTjihJp
line to all parts of Europe cheaper and
quicker than thrwgh *«y other oort
on the ocottnot. The opening of thta
line of atcKnMttfps makes * new *raln
th#* commerce of eh» country. The
nvTcbibt ot Cincinnati. St. lout* and
Chicago cm tt>$ay haw hi* through HU
of I tding for go-vl* for lyradoa ind Liv
er I, , 0 i given to him direct by Ibto line
and be can make his own Import*' *
through lhi, port."
S' lloONER towed to port.
H i Hi S'. C., Sept. 9—The
abandoned three-masted schooner \\
Uga, EMtti baa ban towed tnto Bonds
,,on hv the tug Alexander Joo
a.!* plck.-d up at ee» by the Clyae
■tewnwr Seminole, bound tor Jeekeon
Denver, Col, Pept. 8.—The follonin
letter written by Dr. T. Thateher
Grave*, tvn/t found among the paper*
left by him to ms wife yesterday:
To riie United Press (written at ev
eon tion hraw. Canon C,ty stite pent
tentirry)—Kxvnv all men by these pr.
cut*, greeting: That 1, T. Thatcher
Graves, living under sentenoa of flea
spec ring noon to be hanged, i
hereby make the following e' item ent
Iu no way. .shape, manner nor d'
id I hr.ive mthing to do with
d«nl of Mrs. Josephine H. Burnaby
that I have never eonfeseed to any
person that I had anything to d
th" matter. I do declare this upon my
Masonic oath. I declare this on my
oath as a member of the Grand Army,
as a member of the Golden Cross, and
as a soldier, veteran nnd gentleman. I
can upon Fice nnd Accepted SIliw,
upon all the soMlera and veterans of
the Grand Army that responded to the
wall of the nation, upon all members
of the GoMta Cron, and upon all tor-
era of truth to bcBere th:-, my test
statement.
(Signed) "T. Thatcher Graves,
“Hirvacd Tl.”
7 Th> letter Is without date, but R Ss
supposed to hare been written while
Graves was to prison at Canon City
under sentence of death nisi prior to
the rime of the granting of a new «•!
in hl» ease by the supreme court. The
remains of the doctor wifi be taken to
Bridgi-port. Conn.. Bonday night tor
’.mrlal Shift funeral eerv.ee* will tv>
con- noted by the G. A. It d ih * city
Sunday afternoon prior n th* removal
of tho body.
| THE CASHIER GONE FOR GOOD,
i.. n
have found ready sale for nil gooda
canned, and U moving upward .ind on-
wanl. and arc ■till la the lead.
DIPHTHERIA at eatontox.
Kotonton. Sept. B^-tSpcoril >—Mr"-
Conley, a lady who brought her fam-
1h h'T" I;' II: i.I' * 1 ’ 1 r 11 — ,v '
yellow fever scare, has * '>right-cyrd
littl, girl who i* down to bed wlw a
genuine case of diphther. L
AID FROM WASHINGTON.
Col. Elliot
11"
Nib.. Sept. s.—J. M. i - a v.
' 4 '» -w *be be- «• She oasnier ot the Fire- National Bank ol
gruunjed on the ter « StoW left b«* Sunday n ght I r
RoalhpOrL ‘W . ._,!_«#» .intrnewn nhSe, the time Inks
hours
Enlisted the Help of
aternmenL
Washington. Sent. 9.—C°l. Elliott, ex-
metnber of congee** from Beaufort 8.
C. reached W»*h’u*ton yestentay. ac t
vu roon in confluence with Surg on-
omeral Wyman, tad told * etorr «f
S73USRT**«« in that country
that promptly eecured the aid of that
department *nd lb* cooperation of the
president of the Lult*d b’atc*. Cul.
Elliott had a confui-uce with the orra.-
dent, who ordered Pawed AwUtant
Surgeon Mngruder with a fore* of of
rirer* to go to Bcsul’irt and take ch- r-
of the work and , ,h *
cutter at hi* d!*po*al. Tht* cutler wi.l
be *urt‘d south wi;h dWnfcctant*. nm t-
lcine and «u*t*nahic to* w!w arc
down sick. „ . _. .
Chicago. Sept. Frd Douglx**
prim* a - *rd cslttn* for money, to...
a&d clothing tor the norm ntJMm
in B»uth Cnroltoa, and *sy»
*.*-at to Robert Small* of L*il-
itc. will tw faithfully diet rl but *d
to the needy.
TnSOBOlA.. JO.HIBg'cOCNTVTWPbf j
•nil before the court hour,: .,oor in riot
county on the first Tu’M*>' -n Oct ter
iS.t during the l*g»l hour* of »al at
public outcry that tract or body of !-"• 1
cnniAlnlrtr one hun4rt-l »cr« l>in< *n
Tritrlfs district of mM county, lwwn »<
SmTpSmi wSrt tboiMW Henry Lon-; re
too — adjoining land* of Jotm
IT tt [y>n * ^- • T
ise n U from
the superior c rt of raid ••-inty H tr
of Joha f.
etc. ta Hteo.tera, WJ'rRH'f
out tn uM B Ik aim kJJJJ
Bf'-rnv.r 4er »•>' ’
It. N. ETHERII" 1 w *..
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