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THE "WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: JAKUARY 10, 1895.
THE MACON TELEGRAPH
('UHLIbMtU tvtttY DAY iriTnt • CAR
AND WEEKLY.
Office 569 Mulberry Street.
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camera In the city, or mailed, postage
tree, CO cents a month; |L7S (or three
month*; f3.SH for six month*; 17 (or on*
year; every day except Sunday, JO.
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days, Wednesday* and Friday*, or Tues
days, Thursday* and Saturdays, three
months, Jl; six months, pi; one year, H
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one year, IL
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Macon, Os.
MAY BE A COMMERCIAL WAR.
The discriminating tax Imposed by
our tariff law on si war imported from
countries in which a bounty is paid to
Its producers Is likely to lead to c< m-
merolal afar on tlie Uiklwi States by
countries SmmotUately affected by It.
Already Gormuny tots comtneueeu tbo
war by excluding American cattle, on
the ground tilr.it they are Infected avitii
pleurotpueaimionla, avtollo Austria,
France and Belgium taw lotlgeil pro
test* against lihe tux, ns hr violation o(
m«0 .till. At'/or-.''! twhlnn" clause In
their treaties avitii our governmour.
Such a war avlil douftiie&i result in se
riously cmtanrasslng our foreign truue.
If It be tindoiltnkon and persisted in.
The dame tax ovas levied by the Mc
Kinley law, and did not ttiuse tue conn
trice discriminated ugaluet to do more
rliun protest.. 'Bhoy may go furtlier
nmv because ( ulu*y tav« plenty of evi
dence that Hie American jicapte tSom-
wives are Strongly oppewrel io It. W llti
public opinion In the United litotes on
Hear side, Ilhoy «i>uWl«» hope that the
tnitueuce of title sugar trust with our
government In favor of (he tax, trom
which It alone buuuUts, way be over
come.
Thte tax Is ceutiainiy one iwthdah ought
to be abolished. First, because ns long
as it storah It Is a badge shoiwiog the
subserviency of our govenmnc.ut to ino
truth nod reminding «vcrj*txxly o( one
of tihe greatest legbaaitlw scandals that
ever disgraced our Inatltutlous. Hut
there are ipb-nty of rnasous to provo
that It ought to bo nbotlitowl wh en
have no oonncotiou ovidi party politic*
or the sugar trust scandal, one is
that expertanoc has tStown that alter
& certain stage the bounty, or most o(
tl, goes to the consumer nnd not to tho
producer. Not a pound of sugar Is pro-
filmed In England, petbaps, but the sell
ing iprlco of sugar in England is lower
fun In any European country. 1ha
la because In the competition for Eng
lish ItRido the oxiport bounty ptld to
Frondb, Gt-nu-ah and Ikdgltin producers
Is saertfleed. In effect, therefore, tlio
govcnumtmb uhlcb pay export boun
ties contribute part, of the parctiaeo
price of 'the Eugllrfmian's sugar. Duo
result, ns wo have said, is Hint Us su
gar to ebaipur Hum anybody rise's,
awl an-itbor Is that tho English are
given an adviinthtge in the manufacture
of all amtUfcs into 'Width sugar enter*,
lt'vauao of It, English Ja«us, preserves,
etc., are sold in Mikvki, nud perhaps In
nearly every other American city, ta
spite of our protective duty.
Another nason Is that ttko discrim
inating ta* Is, In effort, a coofewlon by
. our lawqnakom (but the bountypaylug
policy It n wise one-a good *hlng (or
the people 'Vt1>> have to furnish the
money to pay the bountles-dte *eory
on which the tax ta lased being
tluit something must bo done to i>ut
Americans and Gormans an an equal
footing.
The sugar 'trust will nok be hurt by
the war. Ibe American trade I* all It
wants. But If (he somite cares any.
thing for ‘the geatrna good, It will let
live sugar bast take care of Itself—
which It is amply aide to do-aml avert
the war by repealing the tax.
LAST YEAR'S EMBEZZLKMENT».
090. The fiuth Is, probably, last amy
la hanl times do business men look so
closely after Utelr affairs as to discover
tbo wmng-dnliig of (heir trusted ,an-
ployte, or else It Is |u such time* only
that defaulters, sufferlug with ohe r.jst
of tho community, are no longer ab'f
to conceal their crime*.
In rills record of sbamo (Or last year
the Southern ethics make a creditable
Showing. No one of thWn eoatributi'S
us much as If200,000 .to the »2J.OOO.tuo
total, excupt Tcuncwco, wlilch contn-
bate* $1,000,000—cxotvyltvk only by
New York. Baulk Carolina make* no
contnilintlon at all, und Georgia only
$171,000.
The Chicago Tribune make* It Its
business, to keep rab on the crimes com
mitted, and *<t the beginning of each
your [trims * statement of bow many
muiders bnva been oomnUUed, bow
many men hnvn btvn Jyached, now
much has teen embezzled, et:. Tots
year It* report on the number and
amount of wnbezzloniuois is particu
larly Interesting, far du) reason mat
the record Shows ISM so have b:en tho
star yecr In (ha country'; blswry for
breaches of trust The 'utuu amouuc
of ambeuhxnoots was no" less own
$25,234,112 During tbs slsreeu years
for which (he Tribune has kopt tbs
r -"«>id, the autal amount is stm.boo,
601-an average of brtnroan FMMO.Ouu
(tul $0,000,000 • year.
It Is nottcosbta kfaat every year of
Utii octal trouUa ta prounc of embez
zlements. In good time* theca are few.
Linking error the Tribune's table, it will
be seen that tbo record of ordinary
year* straws steaUngi ot only two,
three, four tor five tnlMaas, but ttst
wb•mover there is trouble in thJ nnsa-
cktl world (he amount* stolen sre Ini
meuM. Thus, in ISM, tho year of the
Grant A Ward failure and the Corne
ll Ut-m semi-panic, the total of etcDt^-
tkaoeots was $22,154,000—Ho targist
amount until lost year—while the rec
oni fer the yeer tehee ants only 12,-
350,000 and Ax tha year after $3,175,
THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK.
MV find lit one of our exeta nges wka t
is said to bo am exact translation of
the official prayer of Islam—the prayer
which 1* u»-d 'throughout rite Turkish
ouipire and Is dally repealed In the
schools nud colleges. It Is ns follows:
■'I seek refuge with Allah from Batan,
the rejeem (the accursed). In the name
of Allah the Compassionate, the merci
ful! O Lord of all creatures! O Allahl
Destroy the Infidels and polytheists, thine
enemies, the enemies of the religion!
O Allah! mako their children orphans,
and defile their abodes, and cause their
feet to slip; and give them, and their
families, and their households, and their
women, and their children, and their rel-
atives by marriage, and their brothers,
and their friends, and their possessions,
and their race, and their wealth, and
their lands, as booty to the Moslems,
O Lord of all Creatures!"
When 'the 'Moslem fanatics started
out from itbe deserts of Arabia to found
a great empire 'rimy vivcv animated by
tile same spirit 'Ubati appears In Mils
centuries Itho sent of bloody religious
wans, in .which every sect sought to
oxtormtnnae rile pc* .pie wlio did not ac
cept it* religious beliefs, and by tho
lust for wreilili, born of dire poverty,
that bad made of every Arabian trilte
a baud of robbers. 'Pile la,jew- of centu
ries amd contact with European civili-
aaitkin has made jui change in the
teach lugs of rive Motamuiotkn church.
To kill in the name of Ills religion and
to seize for Ills own benetit thte propor-
ty of the victims of his religious zeal
is still the ihWhkwt .iriplilaitioa of '(he Mo
hammedan, If bo ucotullw Wio tauchlogs
of his religious suptmlom.
It is 'this surviving spirit of She desert
fanatic and tntaberMIkU muko reform of
thh Turkish government! Impossible.
The sidtuu cannot in tils capacity ;ts
tread of .She 'Moslem religion protnul-
Sato such e prayer its die above with
out hingoly null.lying his own effort*
as brad of 'Shu State to give peace und
Kouurity Ito rive people of the Christian
provllKSte of Ills empire. Ills duties as
she tvuad of 'the Church and ns head of
the ridatio cootliot with each other. He
no doubt realizes rival such horrible
atroeltlc* os wore recennly perpeiu.ted
upon -the aSvrimian pojKtUtiou of Ar
menia are dangerous to him as u rater,
but be must also know tUa t they were
direutly in Hue ovlah the Snvcblugs ot
his religion.
A “rovlvar at religion in a Christian
country toiuiw lu Its effects an ln-
er.iia.vl desire among She people tluit
tihure tngy lie peaav ou earth amt good
wlU 'tuwuPlain'll. Such a revival among
Mdiammalans tti.ttns a ruuewal of the
Dana turn! zeal tuugln by their religion
for tliu slaying uud rolib'.ng of aU who
do not accept the lYuphoa.
Europnn oafioos will get tired of the
Turk after uwdUle *ml target their jtrii-
ousy of each other long enough to kick
him out of Europe.
CANAL BUILDING.
The Chicago drainage canal, now In
oourse of construction at the expense
of 'that city, wit 'probably develop into
a skip-bearing omul connecting *ho
Western metropolis with the Missis
sippi river. It la intended chat It shall
do sc. Piilt.sburg is now trying to ra se
rite mowiy—about $tW,tJ00,uot>-hece»*a-
ry to give that dty a waterway t»
Lako Eric. It is calculated that such
a canal, at very low races of freight,
would yiokl a rovenuo of $3,500»rtXt a
year, and rival It would bo a payiug in-
yeatmuut to stockh.iklers as well
as to tbo people w1*o are luieruged outy
in souuring tow freight rates. The N'.c-
atugua caavul project Is of oounaa well
known. Sow, a* for several years piwr,
oongrvas la being urged Co put the re
source of the government bhlad It.
For many year* rive use of uiuaia
seemed to bo at an cud. Uailroada
made them unnectwiary. But the time
bas come, as there great uiklernikui©*
show, wlmn rsUTOkids cannot under all
clreumataiioe* nveot the deuututU lor
trattaporution. They have "educed
their rates wotvl.rtully during the last
twenty-live pan, but the competition
of one kmltaririul center with another
compels them to neck lor yet lower
ron*. The tmtMoondnencul line* uuos
it much cheaper, quicker and safer to
go or to Chip goods from our Eastern
statiB to rite Pacific coast and to A«t*
than it bad over been bof >ns, out the
improvetnent in geim navigation bn*
wiped out tie advantage wntcb mis
gave, aid now Bqgllali merebania can
ship to eastern Asia and the Itactna
coast of Sooth America at has coal
than ran those of New York and Bos
ton. The Nknrigu canal Is tntetvK-d
to rtmtrue itbrae aunlttu.tvs oiwl give tbo
advantage ho oar moMmu s, tnlnera
and monulkrtun-re. The Obleago ca
nal is intend'd to give that city *
stronger hold on the trade of «h* w es*
than tbe railroads ran insure for
her, and to enable her ta stop
In bulk from her <«vo wharves to for
eign coontrira—partlouUriy those ct
Sooth Amerka. The canal from fitts-
burg to Lako Eric will Ui built mzlaty.
tor rive purpose of reiludng the cost ot
dted-snaklng ore at Pirigiiurg rurnact*.
Tlie gr«Wt supply of bu.'Ii or e |« (oiinu
ou rite shores of Lako Superior, ana
their cost, lakl down at PMUburg, must
bo reduoed If .riwit city is to retain, mo
supremacy it gained at a time wben
seed hnil no»t mo kiwiy gupplruwnl iron
In manu&irture.
Industrial derveV.pmooft, like tne fasn-
Ions, Homiitlmea goes hack to old ana
abandontd forms.
A CURRENCY COMPROMISE.
Tbe TVnritlngton correspondent <-r
the Neiw York Times U more hopeful
of action by the existing congress on
the currency <m>'stlon tluvn moat news
paper write** ut the capital. In Ills
dispatch of rive hth ho reports a conv.T-
siltkm with a senator who “exerts n
strong liitlu.'iixv on the D-nioc-ratle
side," in which the outline of a cnrrtn-
ey lilll which would have * chance to
become ;i law by the hrtp of a few Re
publican amt Populist voters is given.
This Senator is quoted as siying:
"In my opinion the house will soon
decide upon a measure, and the commit,
tee on rules will bring In s rule tvhlcti
will result In Its prompt passage. I do
not believe that the caucus to be held
next .Monday will favor the bill now be
fore the house, and I am Inclined to think
that some substitute will eventually he
decided upon. The people would take
kindly to the Idea of a loan such as Is
proposed by this bill, and there would
not he any trouble In raising the money
necessary to retire the legal tenders. 1
am convinced that It would be necessary,
In order to secure rile votes of silver rep.
resentatlves and senators, to make some
concessions to them, and for that reason
1 would favor the Insertion of n provis
ion In the but calling for the coinage of
"It the Stiver bullion now stored In the
treasury. There are about 128,000,000
ounces of this silver, which, If coined,
would Thnlcn about Jl.s.wu.ooo. This would
be a large sum of silver Oo throw upon
the country, but 1 have not the slightest
doubt that the country would absorb It
without Injurious results to the treasury.
"In case It should be thought Inadvisa
ble to go so far. provision might be made
for the coinage of a sum which would be
equivalent to the seigniorage of the stiver
In stock, or about 854,(AW,000. It seems
to me that the radical silver men would
hardly refuse to support a measure which
permitted tho coinage of silver bullion.
Certainly It must be plain to them that,
with the green backs out of the way,
the prospect of silver coinage In tho fu
ture would be materially increased, and
the coinage of the bullion would go far
toward satisfying the demands they have
been making right along. It is. plain to
mo that concessions will have to be
tnude In order to bring about legislation
calculated to relieve the treasury of the
danger which constantly besetii 'it through
the withdrawals of gold. If tbe silver
people are . willing to accept a compro
mise on the llnee I have Indicated. I eee
no reaeon why the sound money people
df the East should offer any Opposition,
for they would. In the long run, come
nesr to getting what they hove long been
asking for."
Wo Iktvo serious doubts wltcher 'ho
“sound money” men of tne Eost would
willingly fU5uoi>t witch n biUtirffwt pro*
postal. They hive klid mtch .1 goare
that they tiro disposed to lake,no risks
they can avoid. Blit there Is ifood rea
son to believe tiuut no addition ot
$M,(X)t),000, gr uvea $178,WU,UW, In
gllTur to the volume of the currency
wouhl leave 'our llicinci.il system
stronger titan R 1* oow, If tut tbe same'
time provision were made for trtirtng
all of the government's demand notes.
It 4s by ancitus of these notes thkt the
tratsury hi raided wtvenevtr tiny pri
vate 'person, corpunwico or foreign gov
ernment thwires to accutmikiSe n sup
ply of gold. Tbe government, so long
as tlttso notes are tn eineuluHon, is In
the dlS'titva.ut.igeou.s position that
every dtlxor occupies. Fw n ytwr It
has sbeen borrowing und giving
liouds, lt^ order to pay rinse
note*, which are liuni«Haaely
paid oat again, nnd thus again
mule illie monna by which another (s-
huo of Immls otin bo cXtortAl. This pro
cess, It snoniK to its, by whit* our gov
ernment can. by anyliody be forced to
Income an agent for tbe collection of
gold, at Its own expense, I* more dan-
gerisis do (ite t4t.ilr.llcy of our system
than dm ndtUdon of gome miliioiM of
silver to (he currency would ot. It is
pMslhle, even pretuiMe, tiiat the addi
tion of mlUiors of silver, at a time
when there Is a superabunikml supply
of currency at the ttnanoiol w-ntens,
would ivwutt tn tin equal amount of
gold going atsnoad; tail U that u danger
very much to 1st fittnil whoa tbe ttav-
ernmeut U rvllovol of «he necessity of
furntshiug gohl ou deununl? It mvuih
to as Hut even K «lw addtvl sllv-r ns
sultcil la the disp'-riotauent of un equdl
amuunt of gokl, the tUugtv wuuld be
come irctstang only lu the ev.su tlittz an
unfavorable lot knee of crude, long per
sistent, or un enormous withdtuwul of
foreign oMpilul duvatunol to cxitathK
tbe eouut>ry’a gold supply.
The Ettst would do well to think
rwkw before tvj«*t;ng a compromise on
tbe Hue* HUggtwted.
WHITES AND NEGROES.
Sir. Henry Gaanrtf, one of tbe ex
perts or the census office, htw recently
completed un lu retail got ton of tfae ruoa
question, us (lluiatutol by tte ova*
returns, and (be main point* of bis re
port we rind in the Philadelphia Rec
ord. Mr. Gannett'* tarew lgutton show*
tint the ckgroea, wtdto increasing rap
idly in kfal* cuunlry, are tBmlnVsbmg to
ntunbn* refctUvefy to Mu- wtdtra. They
are moving BouttnAinl from tbe homer
state* Into ritore of the bomb Atbntlc
ami the Gulf. They p**ler rural to city
life. Hie proportion of criminal*
among me mgroea m much greater
tbnn nevoow the white*, nnd Shat of
panper* Is at Trast a* greet. Ia tt*
matter of xlnrattoo tte number of ne
gro attendants at reboot Is far bifrind
the nutnbor of white*, but Is gaining
rapidly upon (hat race.
In regard bo tbo number of slaves
fen
brought from Africa, eMliotr dlnxtlly or
by wuy of ilho West Indies, Mr. Gan
nett Bays we bnve little Information.
The first reliable data of the number*
awl distribution of itho negroes are nf-
fordal by rite census of ITHO. In die
apace of one liuntlred yeses, tetween
the atStanS pbrtod* of 17U0 rand 18UO.
the white populttion Increased from
n little more than .T.oou.ooo to anout
53,000,000, ami the colored population
from 750,000 to 7,300.000. ls» ItflKl rbo
wliides were eighteen limes us ntunore
otts ns 'Ithey were ni hundred years be
fore, ond the blacks oniy ten times ns
numerous -.is in 171)0. In other wotds,
a hundred years ago the blacks ooastl-
tvtted nettttly 20 per cent of trie total
popnhtlon. and they mow cotwtlMrte
not quite 12 per cent.
Tills relative inoroaHe of tbe iwhlte
popuTiitilon 'Will lie rnsddly attrltnibHl to
the gre.u vdlume of tmmigratlom. Mr.
Gaanelt rfrows. Itowover, fltat In trie
five census periods from TTOO to 1810.
thirlng which rive Immigration was tn-
slpnifle.tin;. the wb'.te papulation tn-
cri-tmd more rapidly Hnn the colored,
lie thinks tint Itho figure*, nnd the tvm-
ciusions from Item, should wk at rest
all fear of a possible rnce conflict. Tito
negroes, while to no danger of extlnc-
t'jon, are Incrtuskog lens Riipldly than
the Whites, who wifi become
numertoaUy more tund more me
dominant itaeo In Aitnesloa. This
conclusion will banlly servo to
remove altogether tte apprerienston
of race oonfllat* to Louisiana nnd Mis
sissippi, wtero (he negroe* constitute
more than balf, ond In South Carolina,
where they constitute two-thirds of the
imputation. But la all tho Southern
sin PCS except Arksnisns the colored pop
ulation let* decllmd to the last ten
ymrs In relaitton to the whites.
A* evklonce of the tendoncy of ihc
nqgroep to country life, tho figures
if row (hat In IStm only 4.2 per cent, of
all <ho eolorrel .popnlitlon lived in cit
ies of 8,000 inhitbltant* and npivartl.
In riie drains yoant of the iloretde
from lfWO to 1870 the negro-* tlorked
to the cities, and the year isrn saw
8.5 per ooot. of them there. In the fol
lowing disable ate wlilte as well ns the
colons 1 prpultitlcm to cities aecttnea
relatively In the mane degree. But In
1890 the census allows chat 12 per cent,
of nil The ntmroo* nnd 15.7 per rent, of
aU iho white* of the United 8U.tcs
lived to citiw and towns.
Th.t position of Dr. Price's Bakin:
Powder a* the temlkmc baking ts,trier
oJ the werM la now etatnhllKaej.
THE JURY UOMPLETHD.
Tvrelve Men Oltatiutd lt*> Puss Upon
the It.uk'e Case.
Amerleos, Jan. 8.—(Speckil.l—The
twclftli Juror in the Hinkle (rise was
■ill, ilii-d ttit 3 o'clock rid* uficmotm.
TIh 1 * * * * & * * * * ll folknring sixsi coamtiHute (he Jury:
W. A. Hogue, E. L. Harper, E. G.
WcUb, J. O. Butt*, J. B. Butts, J. D.
Martin, R. E. 'Mann, Rufus A. .Smith,
J. A. Ik Ikigtey, T. G. Aimh-ruon, .1. E.
H<sh»« anti K. A. Brown. All arefann-
eiv except W. A. Hogue, 'Wti,i Is a me-
cbanle.
At 4 o'clock Col. E. A. Uswklns,
leading ooun*4 for the *:atc, opnmd
the ease to the Jury. The taking ot
tcarinsany wlK Ivtgln to rornrat in the
morning. The auto Is represent rel by
Sollelftor Duproi*. Oil. E. A. U.twkJwi,
R. L. Beruer, Jialge J. A. Hix»n. IV.
K. Whatley ami E. F. Hinton; trie oe-
flkun by Ju«tee''nwigw, OoL L. J. Bla
lock, Amdey Sc Son, OoL W. A. Little,
Judge Alk-n Font, Dodson .V 8<*1 nno
Judge PlWbury. Tlie it**> will bo Htub-
bonoly ourirated and will last at least
ten tkiys.
(MURDER AND ARSON.
Two Grave Ohoiges Aga.nst a Negro In
{lull Bounty.
G»lnrMvHk\ .Tan. 8—(Special.)—A ne
gro about 40 years of age named
(Jhirile Ware w*» .aptunxl near th>
place Munrtay ewnlng by Oblof St a us-
bury of (tala city and Slienff Mu tidy,
lie is tthargal'WMi nmnleraml arson.
OrUleatv. cltvummahtf.il but strong,
goes b> tauiw .that ou tbe previous night
he bad gone to ate home of l.'S w fc,
from wham he had for Home time been
etasutspil. k.Ked her tund her mother
aisl risen lKtro.il «te cnbto In which
they were living to conceal the awful
crime.
TALBOTTON'8 bank.
Talbotton. Jsn. (.—(Special.)—Th* stock-
holders of the People's bank, met today,
and after heclsrtnc a dividend of t per
cent., re-elected O. Jl. Estes, president;
E. L. liradweU. vice-president, end C.
W. Ktmbroufiii. cashier. Klxbt hundred
daUsrs was added to the sinking fund.
GEORGIA NEWS
AND COMMENT.
Negro burgtars have been operating
around Gritfin lately.
An Immense new sanv mPl is soon to
be erected In Brunswick.
ni** Muuuo AihiiuHm ilivsliiui'i o«>r„-
pany lias stranded at 'Brunawlck.
'Mr. John P. Tomb has been stricken
with paralysis at his home near Bruns
wick.
Covington citizens have been killing
some tine porkers. 'Mr. Ben 'Reed kl»Vd
two that weighed 500 and 475 ounda
nnd Mr. A. E. Bearing slew one which
netted 525 pound*.
The Clarke Rifles of Athens reor
ganized last night. The company wa*
formerly one of the finest among tlie
-state troops, 'but had recently lost
membership.
A negro named Wesley Johnson wna
shot nnd killed in Webster county on
Saturday afternoon toy Mr. E. A.
Clarke, a former. Johnson had pre
vious 8toot at CTarke. Great excite
ment prevails concerning the affair
and the negroes threaten to kill Mr.
Clarke If he does not leave the coun
try.
Griffin News and Sun: V,a rejoice In
tlie appointment at Miss Elien Dortch
ns assistant state librarian made by
the governor on Saturday. MIhs Dortch
1s n brave, energetic, capable artl de
serving young women, who bas done
valiant work for tlie party as well as
Its present -leader in many nowwpoper
campaigns, and we are glad to ace
this proper recognition of her work and
TSEL *bq defeat of the en
abling act by the last legislature.
OF GENERAL INTEREST
There are In this country 182.710 miles
of steel rolls nnd 38,317 of iron.
Labrador has 900 specie* of flowering
plants, 59 ferns and over *50 species of
mosses and lichens.
Oakland, Cal., has a fashionable
young ladles- Natatorial Club. It Is
getting along swimmingly.
Custom has firmly established the
rule of always keeping to (ho right In
walking the streets of London.
Keys of bronze and Iron have been
found In Greece ond Italy dating from
ut least the seventh century before
Christ.
Rome reached Us greatest size dur
ing the fourth century of our era, when
Its population was estimited at
3.500,000.
God never created anything fairer,
squarer or more honest then a good
woman, but, all the same, she dusts not
like to pny her leases at 10-cent whlat.
The art of ruby-making Is now exten
sively practiced. The gems thus pro
duced ure known to the 1 rule as "ao-
neva” and ove largely used for jewell-
wcitcbes.
Frogs are muinCy Juice. If they try
to make more than a *h»>rt Journey
away from moisture they will perish for
want of water and their bodies will
dry away.
Shavings are coning Into demand for
bed and mat tress filling md the Wis
consin planing mills have strtlt-k a rich
bonanza 111 packing them like hay and
sending them all over the country.
Benjamin Cot.Ins ot Blaine, Me., now
Sfi years old. ».iw a railroad train tor
the first time a few days ago. He Is
still alive.
Dr. Morrill Wyman of Cambridge,
Mass., Is a giddy boy of 83, and he is
as fond of mounting his bicycle as any
ether young fellow.
A. J. Balfour setdoms carries either
slick or umbrella. He la seen walking
about the streets, as a rule, with his
hands clasped hclilnd^hda back.
Fadennvskt's father, Win* filed re
cently, had served u seven years’ Im
prisonment to Siberia. He was <4 years
old. but his incarceration made him
look as (hough be were 80.
Mroe Grand has contributed an artl-
cfe on “Should Irascible Old Gentlemen
Ito Taught to Knit T" for the forthcom
ing Issue of PhM May’s Ulustretrtl win
ter annual. /
Percy Sanderson, (he nearly appoint
ed consul general at New York, who
arrived two weeks ago, sss formerly
an officer lu tte army and tor a time
an aid tn Lord Napier. He has been to
tbe consular servloe eighteen yeans.
The man whb has been longest In
the civil service of the government Is
Isaac Bassett, the acting assistant
doorkeeper of tte United States sen
ate. Sixty-three years ago Daniel Web
ster had Bassett appllotod a pegs In
the senate.
After twenty years’ litigation the
government nss paid heir* of Samuel
Strong the amount due for work done
under contracts with tte District of
Columbia. The origins* amount was
828,000. but the Interest has brought It
up to »4^80.M. t t #
'lord Beeforth. the present mayor rtf
Scarborough, Eng., and one of the
wealthiest men in England, was horn
In one of (he poorest districts of Lon
don. He owes mnrth of his money to
MsstaidatM with Gustave Dare, with
> stem ha founded tbo Dorc gallery.
M’RAE’S NEW YEAR.
A Prospect of Prosperity for the Torn
and Surrounding Section.
•McRae, JVm. 8.—(Special.)—Ti
spring term of the South Georgia (V
lege opened yesterday .with ta lara
attendance than at any previous -v-.
sion. Tills institution is only two yw
old. and notwithstanding the flnanci.
stringency that heavfiy oppress-m c<
country ever since Its establlslB'nt
It Isas done rrtmakrabjy well and it
future prowpects are flatteriivg 7",
college building Is a handsome an
commodiJus structure and Its aurroundl
Ings are oommcndoible In every
spect, the location being perfe J
healthy and remarkably free front b
moral lntlucnce, whllcthe faculty Is
to date and untiring in Its effort!;
Ifflace the 8outh Georgia in tlie r.inksi
of (he leading educational institution
0it the country.
The town of McRae, too, has rt«.
the hard times surprisingly well an]
starts out In (hie now year with rr
newod hope, occupying a position
teriaTy and commercially consdderaM;
in advance of wbat it was a year ,i«i
M'any handsome buildings wen' erect!
during 1894, and there is not a vurai
house In the town und the. oh] strec
have been greatly Improved and ’nr
ones opened. Business lia* Increasi
and the merchants Keren to bo pm
porous. Five cent cotton has not n
tattled the progress rtf McRae, nor th:
section of country, because the ftu'inei
for some years past .have planted i
only us a surplus crop and kept the!
com orfba and smoko houses at hom
Instead of in the West.
The splendid advantages nf this
tlon of country ore annually drawls
many good farmers from (he Cart
Unas and other states, who are tuiyv
and Improving hundreds of farms. 8t
era! families arrived at MoiRae h
wook from South Carolina and wt!
settle In the county. -They were In
duced to come here by ’others who ha
preceded them nnd reported the st
vantages of the wlregrass section <
ter giving (he Hands a fair and. sat'i
factory trial. These people are cn
dlally •welcomed by the citizens of thi
section, as (hey are anxious to s.-- tj
waste places of this splendid coun
settle disp sn dhnproved. The wlregrs
section of Georgia Is undoubtedly fi|
best country on erarth for poor pee:
or those wfth moderate means. Lae
are cheap nnd can be bought on tl
most liberal terms, and art Who wm
Industriously can soon accumulate
comopteney. In the language of t'
Florida fisherman, “people are as goo
ns folks" In (ho wlrevrass. There
no upper set or aristocratic cotcrlo l|
oppress or embarrass those In hum!
circumstances, but (he rich att.l
poor pufl together foe the -welfare
prosperity of the country.
MTCAE’S NEW OFFICIALS.
Melhio, Jnn. 8.—(Sj»MnJ.)-At n »
meeting of the citizens of Moll.i
at Kle dirt house laMt night, 1
Parker, ipreaent Inetltnbent, was 1
lixitcd for mayor tml (te foiow
grtVanen wore rt*leotetl fur (he ts-'i
of nltlermto: T. W. BtHith, II. L. "
son, W. D. Gilmore, C. C. Oliver *'
J. H, Rodmonil.
Mis. Fred Davis, nrumtly from L
lugton, Ky., has taken rtiarge ot
Meltae !»>tx4 and Is giving gcortui
Isfaetloti to abe traveling public.
OJ.pt. Frol Davis, toniu riy of th"
East TcmvsKoo mllrotul, but mor-'
cently of the Clnclnottfi 8rtuSi“rti,
spmtling a fmv thty* wlilt friomls 1)'
lie wits jwoutfw injured to an areM
on his road, but Is rapUUy recover!]
Beyond all rivals In Jrtuvcmtn* 1
Is'Dr. Price’s Cream Raking Fowl
Gowrnroent analysis gives It 168 ■
inches avail U8e carbonic arid gas t
otttKc, hlgfler by far than any
baking pawtler known.
COFFEE COUNTY NEWS.
Newspapers Fighting—Negro’s Hor* S
on Election Day—Marriage ta '
County.
Douglas, Jan. A—(Special.1—Now
the election Is over the people are wtt|
down to work and are
except the two local papers, the /! r
Democrat, and South Georgian, Pop-
They continue to pitch a few hot
at each other. This state of affair*|
to be deplored.
The foremost farmer* are of the
Ion that early oats are killed, and '
seed cane and potatoes tost by the '
billiard.
On election day. on the extreme art
ern boundary of Coffee county. *■
Janes an Industrious colored fanner.'
of the few ante-bellum darkles left >
bis horse killed from under him. *
being shot at by one ot his colore, j
lltlcsl opponents.
Runday. at the residence of the I
parents Miss Fannie Carver woe =1
In marriage to Mr. Trav. Kirkland.
bride la the daughter of Mr. Alba '
ver. one of Coffee’s honored cttlseaz •
the groom Is e well-to-do farmer. *1
la addition to his cotton crop enmi*
sells a goodly amount of meat and ‘
The Breeso editors repaired up
to type and machinery In lime to '
out on the half shell Saturday.
The mall system somewhere
eastern dt' Uton Is In bad shape,
the Brunswick and Western railroad <
had one dally mall train. BavanmH '
came through on the day of ■“
Now they have a double dally mall •
Ice, our mall from that point t>
two to four days old on IU arrival |
Dr. Elliott Oboes has lately
elected tenornrr member of the
norotu Historical Soclrty, In r.vri
tlon of Ws extensive original
searches In Mias last replan nlstoiT
connection wKh Zrinikm M. tok'> ,
isslltloa to tbe *>uree* of that n* j
hf
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