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IT MEANS MUOII.
tvotdil odhenwlso have been the case.
Iliad there been no greenback*, or other
demand notea outstanding, tbo Now
York banka would mrobihlv Itave been
forced themselves to furnish fiotd
needed by thoir customers, and tho gov
ernment, not under tho necessity ot
maintaining a sold reserve, could have
allowed It* cash buimtoe to have run
very much fawner ithnn It can do now,
when lit is famed not only to pay Its
ordinary expanses, but to provide for
dve rwltiiuiflon of Are hundred millions
of dollars of oufatiuiding notes. As a
mirwT of ftu.fi, irbo cash balance bus at
no itlmu been so low an to cause anx
iety, but for ithe responsibility of the
treasury for the rotsupttou of those
notes. That cash ibUlauoe Is now about
oue hundred and fifty millions, we be
lieve, and yet newspapers are tulk'u*
about itae nooctsnlty of another issue of
bonds in rlw uoar future. Would lUero
be any talk of the kind If the govern
ment needed -money any fl>r tho pur
pose of puying Its expenses? If that
issue of bouds Should be made, It will
bo entirely due to tho fact thttt Hie gov
ernment -monst maintain its ability to
pay Us dernund notes when itbey are
prcu-iuitcd ait its counter.
'Rio Telegraph's dispa,Idles yesterday
luocnlng itivo an Interview with -Mr.
T. Jeflteirson Ooolldge, who. It will be
remem'jerod, served as minister h>
France duping (the Inaior part of Air.
Harrison's iidmiu'.fttnaitlja, but whoso
chief impo-iltuiioe lies In tbe fact thot
he is at ithe head of ouo of the greatt-st
colcon mmiufiidturing concerns in tho
world and leas made an entutnous lor-
tune out of Ms business. Presumably,
he kttors as amich snout coition man
ufacturing as ateybodiy in the country,
a nd of ithe conditions under which tunn-
aiiOMuiuig Ui-iiSi be djeue iu New Ellg-
lnud and In the South. The statement
iif Mr. Coolldge, itherofore, that “tho
tfouthem mills will Increase," tout
“ive"—that is litha ootiron manufac-
tuit-rs of M'issoiiHiscats—jre tiinll'ig it
more and more difficult to manufacture
dt a profit, and that tins goods can be
nude dituper In the South as well tis
course goods, uro of ttio utmost im
portance. A ftwv ycurs ago Now Eng
land experts laughed when It wuk sug
gested itlhnit the rirotili mlghlt become a
great manufacturing es-utcr. Now-Eng
land had iidvantagiw, they mid, which
the South could not overcome. After
it. fine, (these same exports came to ad
mit Ibnt Ute South could make coarse
goods dhotper tlhan Could Now Eog-
ktt»d, but them*, they said, her advan
tage ceased. Now com-M Mr. Goollclge
and axnkes the further admission that
the South e#n make fine goods cheaper
also, and Iliac unlives 'itio legislature of
Mussacfiiusct 1 :* assists tho edition maa-
ufaaMirem of (tut sMile, there will be a
furthir Kina of business. The -Mtissii-
ebusaats, dm BctM, tbo Dwight, the
Motrlinac and tho WhlMlor Mill* all
of which are about to cslablish mills
In the South, are amarig title greatest
mnuuflnamrlng concerns in Now tiug-
liud. Wo way be sure that they did
not decide upon -this (top until they be
came convinced that they wore obliged
to take It. Tile pirtlofc (r.Ht*ri-r of
Now Kiftfiand uapi-tul, energy and bus-
tm-ss «x*sdty no -the South, ludlcmed
by die eroatlnn of these mills, means
a groat deal for it his sccthsi. It is «n
lU-kn.iwUiilgUH-iit stoat me Soutli Ckis
dt-roonMWaital l»>y.>nd cBvil It* mtpe-
rlor adnuXisgiM or they am no longer
do a profitable bus;twin. Tho result is
1 kely to lie a vary rapid investment of
Eastern money 1n -this section.
GOVERNOR ATKINSON'S START.
the itrns remotty for the troubles of
Southern outturn producers wvi* not tho
reduattoa of ttoolr crops, but tho saving
of dm Kxnanao of sending their cut ton
to the North and to England to be man-
uftuttured. IIo thought that L the mills
to manufacture tbo Sautiiem crop were,
loaMted in Southern fields, and tbe
profit of uiBimfaOture thus saved to
this sedition, us iwcU as tho expense of
transportation, ittoat tho Soutli could go
on producing oven larger crop* than
now, awl find in them a steady awl In
creasing profit We believe that Gov
ernor Stone's Idea Is a correct one. Any
expedient for reducing the crop must
be iteimpomry In Its nature. If the
Sou-tli, healths raising tbe oottoc, .will
manufacture it, It will have most of
tho (profit .which may be obtained in
clothing the wank! with cotton goods.
Tlie roooni hard time* have brought
distress itn our people, as well as to
those of Other sections, but that dis
tress wilt not ho entirely without com
pensation If It farces recognition of
tho fact 'limit tho merit economical man
ufacture of eafttnn Is m the field where
the oOtiton Is grown, anil lump to this
section capital now wary to make the
row cotton Into wfilton cloth.
BUT THE BEGINNING.
When Mr. Atkinson won the Demo
cratic nomination for Governor, There
were not n few people w'uo seeii-’d to
ttilnk 'that bis success meant a division
In the party. If there was ever such
danger of division, It has passed uiwuy,
oaul its absence Is largely due to the
wisdom .with whldh tho uuw governor
has exorcised his aafthorlty. In his up-
pohtaionts there lias been no evidence
of the exie'.etiee of the “ritig" so p»'tch
talked alight during the campalgu. The
men -who wore said to make up That
ring have not lnvn prominent since
the campilgn, and it is now apparent
that If they took a prominent part In
the campaign itself, they did so in vin
dication of a .policy which they tliought
wise for nthle parry and for the people
of (he state. They might justifiably
huvo ekiimed Ithe rewards of success.
That (hoy harcutono so is, under all the
clrcunistancos, highly crwlitabfa to
them.
Our Altkmltu comwpowlent yestenlay,
o unni'-nting upon tho ailtltude toward
Mr. Atiklnwou' odiMnUtRltlou of Jhe
men promitiKMft it* the Atklti.-vm eun-
puign, said Dhait irhuso who have seen
tlus reconls have onarrelod at the ab
sence of JndorscmiuUts from these men.
who have givien ito nobody (lie tntlii-
ceico of itbelr pers.ju-.il re.'Ul.sis w ,h
the chief executive, but whin it cime
to the quwiiion of apjiolniiiicait sn-od
blinds oft uml told lot* governor to
name -the mien wM> would uphold his
udmmrsrruit'.on bolt, without tvgaed to
pcrsoD*'. pnifert-noea or retu-tou*. Our
corrcwpondemit adds tSii this Is one of
the most mnairkalile fouures of the
now uilmlnbtnmtlon, amd sa It Is.
The nomiuaiAon awl election of Gov
ernor Atkinson imams the coming for
ward ot (Mr leaders, uac a division in
the party, and .those new loader* are
(blowing themselves In the highest de
gree capable of so managing a (fairs ns
to give Itho Utah! gmxl government:
unite tlie putty, tiwl Inspire It with -ag
gressive courage. Those Who supported
Governor AVk'.wvjn in the eampa*):n
Ikive nelson -to iv»ngra,tulate themselves
tbU they did so.
FACTORIES IN THE SOUTH.
THE PBOPlaE Norr UEPUESBNTED.
Tho prellmltKiry contest for the two
i-aeant seiutorshtpa is uow going on
In 'the North Cirifllai legislature, und
It sootnx ivtttnan nha.t tho ileal between
tbo P-MSillStH awl Republican* will p>
rhsiugh, with the reoulti ilrat North
Carolina -will for annul years be ropre-
aeated In tbo upper howrn of ongress
by a Topulliet awl a Ropublloau. One
of tbnte men pr.vamtildy will vote for
u 1 the currency Inflationist ideas of
Us party and probably, if fhe ttiriff
question onniw up, will show that ha
la a free trailer. Tlao oth -r, equally
f i rhful to hi* party, will support tho
extreme Eastern idea* of what tlie
curienoy ought to be, pud on the tsrtIT
will vote for high pmtwitlon. Bach of
them tiavlng behind him a little more,
puihaps, than * fourth of the people of
the state, will use the political power
of (ho State Iu carrying out scheme* to
which the <uuw of North Carolinians
are apposed and <uch will neutralize
tho other'* eHom* Tbo Democrats of
thh stage, who In the tost election fell
but Uldo short all • majority, are
i-iu.ti.ly ap(*Med to both Republican
and I'opullat s-hutn-s, the net result of
tbe trails U that (be people of North
Carolina will bo pnaouaally unrepre
sented In the senate. This ti about the
usual remfr of fusion biiiween faction*
sooklng dlffirrent objects In legUbitlon,
but bs-viug (bo common purpose to get
hold of tbe office*
THE “BNHIaBSS OHA1S."
I
One of our Now York oon tempo ratios
daubs (hag D bos been by moans of
die “endless 'tola” funcd*hod by the
graeatoOks that (be tnstsury has been
*> froquecltly isrgitied of gold, h wonkl
have Ivon entpUcd, ft cpmowlx. If there
had bent no gnoenbocka, for the reason
that the rewesmes of the government
lut e fasoa Inn (h.m Its expenditures.
Its main HuuUje being the general leek
of moony and rM Che specific bek of
gold rnouejr. There is u» draylng tho*
the deficit In tbe revenue* has oon-
trlbutod kargrty •»» tho pres-nt etate of
tbe tmaenry, but tt le also true that
the “eodtao Chain” le ao couvenieut an
ftflp.ve.tiaa that tt baa been frasCy used,
with the result that tbe treasury
b.caa emptied modi mors eattly than
The Ti*grapli cabtikim-d y eat inlay u
renin rttuU.u tolegitiui from Dowell,
Mhos., In which -the executive "ill
of certain grtut mauufanturing con
cern* In ifxiit center of New England
cotton spinning admitted the font that
MuMsaobusilt/is mills could uo longer
oomtpute with the South lu cennin
tirnu-liiM of collton inauuftia'.urinc. The
sutisuents made l«y theso geintletnou
Id expkilnlng why they were about to
establish mills In the Hontlr, confirmed
■mlraiy the Sto'temetMs heretofore made
liy Southi-ru tnoa In regtaul to the nil-
vumhgw of tills section for rmuutfac-
tvirkng aothnL It is true that they go
no further ilian u> soy tlu t In the pro
duction of certain heavy goods the
South has an advantage over New
Bngkwt! which (tie laker cannot over
come. But we Beginl It as certain that
If the «outlt cun force the removal of
Now Enwitml mills to this section for
tbo production of di.Se class"* of
goods, eventually her advaniUge*
In the production of all kind* of cotton
goaito -will be deroonnutw.-d. One of
the gentlemen, Mr. Ooultoock, said
frankly Asm he thought New England
had ooen Its best days as a manufactur
ing center. It wo* to bis Interest to
take the other view, because he 1* tho
head of one of the largest of New Eng-
Und nmmfrptortqg co&afiu.
Tin- fine Is lieilig rtxvwalxed because
It Is forcing recognition, ihat with the
cluuiK-rtt coal in the world, with rail
road fuel'iitien as good as the best, with
cotton fields uA the door of tbo factory,
with ahuwkinrt fcibor at wa«w lower
than iptvvail in otter pare* of the couu-
try, ortth a. cUuaoi more favorable
than any Otfter section of (he omntry,
tho S<«lth ha* advantng.w for the tnan-
ttf-jomte of odtDiD which cannot bo
ovenwme. It U uudoubatlly with re-
luotaoce tttkvt manufacturer* firmly sit-
natnl In other parts of tho ouniry,
with a trade cstsblisbol for many
jvini, consent to acknowledge this fact.
Bnt they are doing so, ami wo
not desfijc that wlttin a few y<
when the result ot present expert
moot Is wtieiy kiaeru, ihnc there will
be a very large diversion of tho capital
now employed in Now England to the
South.
In his recent address to the cotton
convention or Jhi-kson, Governor Stone
of UirMivi advanced dm Idea that
The promise of coming eleotrlca!
achievement more tnarvefaug than all
tdiait has preccdrel tt Is In the air. Elec
tricians w-lio have been admitted to
witness recent experiments to tho lab
oratory of Nikola Teeti, says
tho 'Boston Herald, have come
away fully Impressed with the belief
that tho nttw wizard bhs within his
grasp the solution of -the problem of
uuiimmirtuilg iutC-illgCSCG and pC.VCT
ithout ithe use of wires. Tesla fins
long maintained itihut this could be
done, lie iloiflared In a public addrers
two ycurs ago -tut his conviction had
grown so strong on that point that bo
no longer bxikeil on this plan of energy
or itttolligcnce transmission as ft mere
theoreUca-l possibility, but as a serious
problem iu .-liv.ri.-al ntglnoecing wfilcfi
must be curried out some day. He has
lie.m working .it it’he iirobt.'in ever since,
anil the invention of his “oscillator”—
destined to bo un upoch making ma
chine in tihe iinjdnotion of power—has
been merely «.n incldeat in his patient
sclcuiitic soare-h for the “period" of tht
ilee hi cal charge of The earth.
The scleu'tlfic btisls of tbe theory «iat
the earth is an cfaatrtoully charged
Imdy tusuliitixl in sikicu Is to be found
lu tiho aoctipiled vfaw of its origin—that,
namidy, of antvlifiuleal separation tram
other btslltt*. But idhe Important ques
tion avis 'to diseovor wtot quantity of
electricity the earth contains—wifitit. in
scientific litigiiiiga. Is !t» "exp.ielry"
and wtot Is tho period of vibm
On the answer to that depended the
possibility of disturbing tW’'oioc
static cotsl.-tlou of tho earth so as
transmit IntcUigllile nigiuis b> any
lance simply through the itirth ii
or Its environing nit-diam. Mr; Testa
lull suecoeileil -In Ruining that posslbll
tty to tbe ntnk of a probahtltty, if not
of a certainty. He has pumped elec
tricity toootte earth, ami ha* secured
“r.«orviiu'e" so powirful a* to tmvfiH
itself in lightning thuds** of oousidem.
ble length aud vIvtdncHS. In other
words, he leas boon atoue to grtt a to
aliens.' through kho rfodtRcal vibration
which he 1iJ* tnvpresttcd on tlie earth
from tho deotrle charge which It- dis
turbed there. Hie iftwo must, Jh'
fore, have somoiltlng In commoi; must
hove a certain degree of rbytlunleat
corresiMiiMl.-uilo lu.A'evar wide of com-
pinto uixainl. They may uut tornti
more okis.a'y ttou -would the nntts
width go to make up 2,000 and'2,000,
000 It rho funner wore dlstribut.xl o'
a line forumsl by the units which go to
make up tlu- CaiWcr. Rut ns in this raw
one to a huialrul would touch, anil tt*
whole be covered cut cortnln flxe.1 inter-
MB Royal Baking Powder is the
purest and strongest baking pow=
der made. It has received the highest
award at the U. S. Gov’t official inves=
tigation, and at all the Great Inter=
national Expositions and World’s Fairs
wherever exhibited in competition with
others.
It makes the finest, lightest, sweetest,
most wholesome bread, cake and pastry.
More economical than any other Ieaven=
ing agent.
ROYAL DAKINQ POWDER CO., 106 WALL ST., NEW-VORK.
bEtk, Sages, «*., # ito not only larger,
bu-t they have boon accumulated with
in oi few yvuais cind have been Uikou
mostly from ithe earnings of industry.
The reports of 'tbe bauks, building as
sociations, etc., tn -this country show
that there is a, very large number of
persona who have sunrf.ns iMptttd. The
aggregate of savings Is very large, bnt
It is oevertWelens true tluit the tendency
lids been towtanl the aocumutntlon In a
few lawnls of a- large proportion of tbo
national waiilb-ttoward the extinction,
possibly, of ,the great middle class of
moderately wcll.to-do persona, tend the
division of the people Into the rich and
tho poor—than which no greater mis
fortune could overtake the country. It
this .teudency ex sis to rti > United
States u-nil not in England aud Etunce,
or If It is stronger here than there, then
It Is proof fihat our goveirnmeut Is not
so wise ns Theirs in framing economic
legislation.
the fact ithtitt ithe revenues are less than
tbe expeanUtums and the Increase of
the penslun payments woukl- have to
be provided for by now taxation. If
the Republicans gut into power again,
and, having provided everybody with
all tiro protection they want, find that
tho revenuia are again excessive, wo
will again see the pensiou roll Increas
ing, even (though it toe forty years nrter
the dorse of (the wtir. Mr. Loebron ex-
preeises the view natural to an honest
man who thinks itUa-n ithie piyincur of
peualoas should toe made only to men
who diwivve them, but that Is not tbe
view of the situation which is Justified
by experience in Hie past.
OF GENFaRAL interest
Acute roadneu and aulclde most tre.
quently follow In cases wtiero people art*
deprived of all fluid.
ESI
THE GOVBWNOU IS TtIGIIT.
TIIE GA.USE OF IT.
The prohibition town of Portland, Me.,
uses $76,000 worth of liquor every year for
rnedMn*-! *»*»d moehanlcal purpo*#**.”
The longeat continuous etreet rallwny in
tho United States is the forty-two mile
atrip from Lowell to Haverhill, Maas.
A billion la ao much that a man win
can count throe every second would havq
to count <kiy and niaht for 10,000 yiars
to get through with It.
Moat people talk about million* without
realising what It really la. An expert uoti
counter can count about 3,000 coins pur
hour. If he works ten houra a day it will
take him thirty-three nnd one-third dayi
to flnlah the counting of one million.
vuls, so dir. TeskF* experiments have
led him far enough to (borw tho* ho
lias hit upon some lva mi onions cone-
miiim-o ImCivx cou ‘file known and the
unknown elrcull. Wleeu ho has suc-
cocded In bringing dbem Into anything by theitro. Airy becesning so walk that
r.ku perfect acotnl, ho will be aide by ! h oan no longer maintain gold pay-
gentle dmtrlc itup 'to send a noth Vj- I meuts. It Is this kind of fau.vtlctsin,
braling aver (too iwh.ge fuo» uf the I mint of Statestnanshlp, tha*. Is
lurth, as if lit toy before him like the wruaklug Jm tDiftuoctwtlc pir y. If It
The Washington corr.wpomk>nt of the
Atianth Oonn’j'.tutlon, commenting on
failure of ithe ClarUsle bill, says that
e silver m«a are trying to arrange
MU providing for a bond Issue to
take up the greenbacks and for the
free coinage of slcver. Ttn-y ore deter
mined the a no currency bill shall pass
nnlcsM there t.j sllver In It. • • • Tlie
trait ion people have given no
tice to die leading members of iho
house that unless some legislation is
mocitsl ithe itreosury will lie fore-.sl to
redeiitn the Sherman law notes la sil
ver, and that such a policy will foroo
us to n free stiver Iwsis. Tho ndininls-
tratdan ufan pinttetul that fill* will do-
troy the govrrnment. They say the
tlitiger Is of Him inoat serious nature.
Rut In the bouse there are not a great
many who agree with then. The
Sotv.hem men and tin- s'.'v.-r men. a* a
rule, look upon th'.s as n mere bluff.
They hope k will corn.' to pass. It Is
ulMit they have tom working for tlu-s"
itMiny years, and Just what they want.”
'nils t»4K tho whole story of toe
trouble tn which congress has found It
self in deoilug with the currency ques
tion. Tlie free silver tom are defer-
mined rhait nojhlng ifieall be done un-
faw It lie the passage of a free silver
net, iwhlrti is tiupr**ll*'e. They demand
that the currency system of the coun
try shall toe ohiugtal by cbangiug tlu*
standard of value, tvtfhout tho re-mont
of the ptvple of flu country. They do
not ca.ro iwhdih<tr (tits bo brought about
by the paMago of a tn» silver act. or
There has been In our history no
lynching more entirely unjustifiable
than -that which occurrad at Momici-Uo
a few weeks ago, when a negro, con-
rlotod of rape and scnUaced to death
in a'few days, was token from tuo
presence of the count amd killed. Tho
victim of the negro’s brutality was not
saved by it from 'the humiliation which
she may have suffered In proving be
fore tho court tbo crime eommlrted
against her. There iwus Untie or no
cbuooe that ighe exaaumou of the crim
inal would be ddlived. There had
been no ddkny In his ttrkri. The court,
the prosecuting offlcixs and tlfa jury
liid doneiflielr full duty. The law can
nover do muro Usui wus done -,n this
case, and this statement Is tbe most
complete condemnation of me lyuelu rs
possible-, for It 1* inconceivable mat a
civilized people «fl dbUbomtoly prefer
inunler by a mob to prompt punish
ment of criminals by tho legal pro
cesses of the eourrs.
We hope that Governor Alklnson a
efTonts to secure the punl.h.nent of tbo
men chiefly rertponslblo far this tvtu-
ble oflnk- ilgilnst (lie gmv.1 onler ef so
ciety will toq succresiful. lie 1* doing
all It Is possible to do, but bo cannot
sucwtxl without the eo-opoai don of the
|H-uple <* tho community lu wh'oh risi
riiiilts.il.-* live. He ought to Wave that
co-opera tlon.
A patent egg compound for use in hotel,
and bakeries Is obtained from tbo e.-ji
of fish-eating sea birds, which can t*
found by the million on the low untntmt-
Ited Islands of the Atlantic coast. A
pound costs t9 cents and Is equal to sev
enty-two hen*' egg*
RUSSIANS ARE. HOME SICK.
Their Dot ait Home Better Than Ex
istence In Now York.
tigbtcne<r skin ot a drum.
COMPARATIVE WEALTH.
The per capita wealth of Greav Brit
ain Is muted to be of l-'mnco
$1,081, uml of 'the United States *1,010.
'the aggregate wealth of the United
Stut>» Is -the greatest of any oatlon,
hut JKT hold, it will be seen. It la 1«
titan Hint of Gretet Britain au-1 France.
A gemuudou ugo. It Was uodoubtedly
be ipor.-sisrtd fn, tho piundo will tie
taught Ant the Democratic party can
not be depended upon to respect their
wlshta ur to ikal with business ques
tions In a aeoirtbhs way.
MAY STILI, INCRE.VSE.
Commlssfanec Loehrvn, In 111* annual
report, i*ay* atLrr “In the year 1S05,
thirty y.\irs aftiT the of toe Wer,
the pension roll must In the rourue of
true nhait iflve ilistributlon of wealth lu I na-Vure rearh to hlgluat limit lu imm-
ttiis courtTy among Its Inhabitants wu* hers and flhoreaCrer begin to Jecreu*e. r ‘
more nearly equal thaa In other conn I The trouble about thl* Imslnos* Is
trlw. It may weB be doubted wiiutber I that mature Is not allowed to run her
this la now true, lc la probable *hat I course, lhsidt-t (rtt-fi-ld, wtv-n a
lu both 'Euglatsl ami FYnreee then* is u | member of cangrea* aibont 1877, do
far la igor number of piwpo who have
Incotucs from fixed Investments suttt-
elcat tor eemfertivWe living than in
Unit'd States. The number ot coUk
foDLunn* Is has bun the number uf mod
erate fortunes gnuker. Another differ
ence is drat the great fortune* of Kcg-
laml are mostly tbe result of
wtot Henry George oatls the
“unearned Inoresncnt," They
lung to fatnt'lics who tor many
generations ttm> been possessed of
huge dunk'd *-e!t»ce* which have con
stantly looreasol In value through the
ImT.dHe of popukshiu and wesltn.
They mny Have inure than they hsv-t
eanteil, but (hey hats not actually
taken to themselves a Urge part of (Be
eland (Haiti the pension payment* hail
reached their maximum, and would
Uiuntiiter decraue. They wvre then
about cwvoty-flve million dollars
year. We have since then seen them
swell to one hundred sod fifty mill.ons
a year, and we see on the pension rolls
today tho names of about oae-thTil .-«
many men as nHUsnd In the enules of
the United States, thirty yearn ago, aud
we see this though there 1* no law al
lowing the name of an ex-soldier on the
ponded rells uoIcks he was ilisaMed by
wounds or siokniMi contracti-,1 during
the war. Judging from this experience,
there is no limit which the pension
roll may nut exceed, abort ot the total
enlistment In the federal armies, l’.-r-
tatton’s production id wealth. Their hap* some way can be devised to mike
frames were, slowly built up. The I the list eiwil oren the enliston**,
case U Uiffctwit In the Uulted N ile*. I and railly »ho only protoct.on the tax
The fixTuirs If the Goulds, Vandvt- | payers ot the country °om tors tie* tn
GEORGIA NEWS
AND COMMENT.
The fthaiM»hi»Ktaee river reactasl fif
teen feet on l-VId.iy.
Tbs Fayetteville Inritltute opened
with an uBtendiince of seventy-live pu-
Pita.
Tlie negro who tolled 11. W. Gore n.t
Lenox, lu Outqult* county, hits been
ca-pt-ured and failged In Ja.1 at N al-
dosst.
O. F. Goodman, o manufacturer of
gins for long staple oftan, I* looking
for :v lout tt on for a factory In B'lUth
Georgia.
Album .ok, to- muu arrested In Bruns
wick on the lEaurgo of counterf el t-lng,
has boon oommiwed tn defciu'a of u.
twnd of $3,000.
A fur iloiior In Brunswick ha*
oeiveil a coiwlgumewt of hear skins
from (he 10-m.Je pent on the Southern
rullwuy.
Mr. A. G. Crane, who died near Unit-
man a few day* ugo, wu* 80 yreir* »ld.
He hail been -a cHiz-'ia of Brooks coun
ty for more, .thou fifty years.
The YiaVI-wra Sarlng* and Investment
Company paid, on Monday last, a semi
annual dividend of 4 per cent on itn
capital stock.
ToStuil! Journal: Oe-vrgla Is forateh-
Ing her cities with Georgia com. Ba
con Is pliwinful In some sect'ous nnd
good si.ies bring made. Georgia can
live without: eujibu.
Dalton Argus: The Atlanta papers
say nit by people In that city have no
food nor fuel, und not eaough clothes
to keep'them warm. Atlanta's pto-
rorlsai charity should get In lu perfect
work at home.
Dalton Argus: The result of last
week’s county election* all orer Geor
gia .sight t» convince the l’optf 1st* that
tle>y are ibcL Ifc icarloceil Tom Wat
son. ami -whitt a btl'i-taiwdrd fellow like
Wntson give* up tbe rent will soon fel
low sulL
To the average reader It miMt nppreir
eXttMtuely curious ’Ch.it itho Russian
Jinvts should flock tn grea t namlii-rs to
tbe -imperial Russtau consulate In New
York -to take the oath of afioglancc to
the now czar. We are, accustomed «'
regard Iluiwla as one of the least de
sirable countries to live In, ami tx-lli-v
that .tin- emigrants from Hut pare ot
the world think of .their former hum .
only with horror. Aiparecoor th.n l*
not (he can-. A writer In the Stunt*-
Zrltung endeavor* 'to exp a in. lu a
longitiy article, why the (nbnbltau'.s
New York's "Little Jorusah.m" are
anxious to return to the Hand of tit;
Bears. Wo (alto'the following from hi*
argument:
"Tills aiixlriiy of the Russian Jews t -
strengtlH-n the lixseas'il Is,mis botn'eeii
theuisotvc* aavl tbulr former coinitci
Is due to -Uie4topeitta.it Nicholas II. w It
Inaugurate an ,-ra of llts-r.il ftoverie
mmit. The oni.gr.iUon an mHsso to
New York of alte Utnwian Jews, which
reached Its highest polim In 18U2, is I!"'-
like the siuillur movement about ton
ycurs ago, a vohtttt-iry one, and d-o
i»>t lln.1 it* Imptise In (he Idea tlia
the Hebrew will «•> to a s.citul IVit---
tlno by r-<ns,vliig itw the Land of Dol
lars.. Tliis emtgrauon was due only
tbe persecution (o which tbe Jews were
subjected (faring -the reign of Alexan
der 111. During rho llfeGiuo of Alex
ander II. (ili.-lr lot wits not int all tin-
bivir.ible. Tbo czar allowed them t«
s.taii', wiv-ro -they pleased, -ami Within
ten year* .they hail become fairly pros
perous. In Uh> cities they made tls-lr
living a* skit ml workmen and as mer
chants; in the cmirtary' they were pot
dfars, wont Into live milk trade ami ib.<
Cransportaitliin liuslixs**. Alexander III-
ft,rceil them buck Into gtielt/st, loca
tions sm apart for (heir renlileuv".
robtxsl them of their meuas of anhs'.-t-
ence, and they became as abjectly jwor
as 'before.
But the fat of the Russian J aws dar
ing Mu, reign of Alextinder wo* niueii
tiutier (hull wtot they experience lure'.
A walk through tbe streets of 'Little
Jerusaletn’ (mist convince the observer
that the emigrant wlm escaped tir-
ghdSto has Itanlly exchanged It •*
ssmihlng tuvlter. He has cxchaoig” 1
the hut of the ghotito tor a tenement
house. wMch looks well euough fin the
outside, but proves to be mueh yrow
than (he hot The dirtiness of tlie In
habitants is, probably, the same then-
as here, but one ca-n at least brvatii"
In the Russian barrack; It !* sltuu™-
not fa a »a of houses, but In a little
village, surrounded by fiekls aud gie
dens. But (be omuparison should n"t
end here, tor, with reward to lodging*,
the RnsetaniPollsh Jew Is homily m> ,r ''
prntenslons than a noma.llc g}'P;F
The other comlltloas of life u'rj't
which we find tho emigrant are
such that they may stand a cooipurt*">
with tils exlMfoiuj, fat the ghetto, W
not with hi* Ufe while be had a rg “■
to lire (rtswe toe pleased in Ilmula. 1
ronton earike of tho etoaJrmake.s »
rereakd (he present condtUon of tt»«
Jewish laborer. Whoever to* *e»<‘
hungry, fsallj-cfail women snd efi "
ran a* they ctsne mo ask food of fi>»
relief commlrtee will undsnetan.1 ' hJI
they sigh tor (ho time when Rutaia vt*
* free country (o them, where th'f
know (wthlng of labor organlxatleus
strikes.”
Ire County Enterprise: We are not
losing any atoep down here on wount
of what oongreua doesn't do. Itor peo
ple raised name corn last year and
killed m->re tot porker* tot* winter th in
e\er before, sod ccogress cso go to
grass
IBUrttesvIUe Home Joorml: Mr. WA
face W. Bmksaon U (be crack ifir.w*
of toe Matte. WeiUimelay Mr. Bw®’
tea ora* ort at Mrs. W. U. H. »»*»
on business sod while there spied .
Mg hog after Airs Bosh* <*1«t
ens und. aiming *nf.
threw s Mime direxrty «fi«
fleetag swine sod kllleil him
stoutly. Ill* hogMWp ws* s fin
amt wj* pregured tor toe pstriry.
fag short about “Wallace” —*
height.
but O'*