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NUGGETS OF KNOWLEDGE.
Tlie Augusta Chronicle says that
the young men of Augusta are push
ing the factories of the city. They
could not be in better hands.
A steamship has just arrived at
Sau Francisco from Alaska with a
cargo of seal skins worth §2,000,000.
A party of speculars has seldom got
hold of a better thing to make money-
out of than has the Alaska Fur Cora
pany.
Ex-Minister Taylor, who is run
ning the colored democratic head
quarters in New York, says 240,000
colorcdjjeoplc in the north are gninir
to votTOirCleveland and Thurman.
This mn^-Le a high 'estimate,' but it
is certain that Mr. Cleveland has
treated the colored people well, and
deserves their support.
Several young men who move in
the best circles of Montgomery, Ala.
have decided to try housekeeping,
without marrying. They have club
bed together ami have rented a house
which they call “Bachelor’s Retreat,”
and have hired .servants. The plan
won’t work well. It is an experi
ment which young men, no matter to
what class they belong, had better
light shy of.
An exchange says that thcsimplest
pocket rule is the silver that a per
son can find within his purse. A
quarter dollar piece measures nearly
an inch, a half-dollar about one inch
and a quarter, and a dollar about one
inch and a half.” The paper gives
no rule, however, for obtaining the
.$1.75, which perhaps is not as sim
ple as the rest of the receipt-.
The Americas Recorder says: At
lanta is still torn nssimdcr on the
liquor question, and every other man
has got his neighbor, by the throat.
This is indeed an unfortunate state
of affairs for the Capital City. The
Constitution is correct when it says
that the people of that city is now
confronting the gravest question that
ever presented itself to them. At
lanta sowed the wind four years ago,
and is now renpipg the whirlwind.
One of the things tho Legislature
A MILLION ODD FFLLOWS.
Savannah New*.
Savannah is the stronghold of Odd
Fellowship in' Georgia. Its five lodges
and encampment and canton have a
combined membership well up in the
hundreds. There are few people
though even members of the order
themselves who have any more than
a slight knowledge of its numerical
strength. A gentleman who has ta
ken the pains to work up the statis
tics puts the number of Odd Fellows
in the world at 1,191,049, as follows:
Adult male Odd Fellows belonging
to the American order, Jan. 1, 1888,
Sovereign Grand Lodge, 555,722;
Grand Lodge of Australasia, latest
returns, 10,507; Grand Lodge of the
German empire, 1,888; total Ameri
can order, 574,002. Manchester Uni
ty, 017,587; grand total. 1,191,649. In
nddition to this there arc 40.420
Daughters of Rcbckah. Take the
two great Odd Fellow organizations,
the Manchester Unity and the Amer
ican order together, and there are
members of any other secret frater
nal organization.
do at it»_ next aetsipn .i.ato Lauretta- wnotjM^honld not allow
if elections In those who are controlled by such a
Georgia. Wo had one lust Wednes
day; another will take place on Nov.
6, aud still another on the first
Wednesday in January. Besides these
several Georgia cities will have mu
nicipal clcctiona in December. This
is laying on politics a little too thick.
There is no reason why the elections
for federal, state and local ofllccrs
should not be held on the same day.
Elections are expensive in more ways
than one and in Georgia we have en
tirely too many of them.
A young lawyer of Brooklyn has
developed a new and novel plan of
keeping families supplied with fresh
eggs. He is n member of a company
organized for that put-pose, and hav
ing at its command $10,00(1 with
which to buy hens. These hens, it is
stated, will be of a fruitful nature
and of a docile disposition. They
will be rented to customers, will be
The Red Radge of Whisky. .
Savannah News. ,
The liquor men of Laurens'county
should be given the most prominent
place in the ranks of the anti-temper
ance meu. A visitor to Dublin says
that in the recent local option elec
tion in that county drunken negroes
were formed into processions, and.
with blood red badges on their breasts
and blood red tickets in their hands,
were marched to the polls aud in
duced to cast their ballets against
the cause of t,< mperanee. As they
passed respectable people on the
streets, these, whisky-soaked voters
snooted: “You ribboners (the tem
perance people) are lighting the sa
loon keepers, but we arc lighting Je
sus.”
Men who encourage such conduct,
or even fail to enter their protest
against it, should ponder well the
meaning of it: It denotes the exist
once of a feeling of contempt for vir
tue, for law and order, for everything
that makes a community prosperous
and contented. It means the exist
ence of a feeling that is likely to
show itself in murder, rape and oth
er great crimes. The good people of
feeling to get the upper hand in her
affairs. If she does, there will no
longer be happiness in her homes
nor prosperity within her borders.
Sanitary Reform is Profitable.
duvaiinnli New#.
.Mr. Charles Dudley Warner is
writing a series of articles in Harpers
Maguzine on the great west and its
marvelous development. In one of
his articles he speaks of Memphis
that was nearly depopulated by the
yellow fever epidemics with which
she was alilicted in 1878 and 1879,
and points out bow necessary a good
sanitary condition is to the prosper
ity of 4 city. The following is an
cxtrucl from his remarks on that
city:
“The students of social science will
find in.the history of Memphis a
striking illustration of the relation
of sound sanitary and Imsines condi
tions to order and morality. * * *
In 1878 the yellow fever came as an
epidemic, and so increased in 1879 as
nearly to depopulate the city; its
population w$is reduced from nearly
40.000 to about 14.000. two thirds ne
groes; its commerce was absolutely
cut off; Its manufactures were sus
pended; it was bankrupt. *' * *
The turning point in its career was
the adoption of a system of drainage
and sewerage which transformed it
immediately into a fairly healthy
city. With its uneven surface arid
abundance of water at hand, it was
well adapted to the Waring system,
which works to the satisfaction of
all concerned, and since its introduc
tion the inhabitants are relieved from
the apprehension of the .icturn of a
yellow fever epidemic. Population
and business returned with this sense
of security. * * * * * and it
can now truthfully claim between
75.000 and 80,000.”
No citizen of Memphis doubts that
the money spent lor sanitary pur
poses there was wisely spent, and no
citizen anywhere should object to
such an expenditure of money as
will place the city in a good eanila-
ry condition.
Florida Travel. ! A Hugo Craft.
Travel to Florida this winter will i Four hundred men are required to
he heavy, and it will go south ward take the great steamer City of New
with a rush when the fever yields its York across the Atlantic and attend
grip to the certain destroyer of th? to the wants of her passengers. The
deadly germ—Jack Frost. I engine department claims attention
1 bis opinion as to the travel into of 185 of these workers, including 26
the land of flowers is shared by the
l-aiiroad men who arc interested and
their reasons are very forcible.
In the first place, they say that
95 per cent of the refugees who arc
scattered ail over the country will re
turn as soon as tho quarantine will
permit them to do so. In nddition
to this, extraordinary efforts will
be made in the way- of low rates and
other attractions will be made to
secure the usual number of winter
visitors from the north,
Fort Valley lias one of the most
domestic set of couneilmen extant.
One of the couucilmcu gives
out his own meals, attends to his
own patching and darning. One
does the milking forhis family,draws
nil the water for culinary purposes,
and makes the tires. Another sweeps
the yard, works the garden, attends
the flowers, makes fires and dusts off
the furniture, while tlie fourth is his
own porter, carries his groceries home
himself, attends.his own horse and
makes himself generally usetut about
the house.
“Robert Anderson, aged 18 years,”
reads a dispatch from Pottsville, l’a.
“is lying at the point of death at his
kept caged, and the renters will thus s * lous0 , as * bo resl1 '*' °*" !l
be enabled to get eggs which arc ab
solutely fresh. Tho renters, howi
heart trouble produced by cigarette
smoking.” Deaths caused by cignr-
cr, do not propose to be held respon- ! ottc 8mokin S ,u ' c < l uite common - but
sible for the failure of the liens to do
their duty.
Captain Henry Jackson, says the
Constitution, has had perhaps larger
professional income than any Geor
gia lawyer since Ben Hill died He
received $40,000 for his admirable
management of the vast Harwood es
tate, which he manages; $15,000 for
his Southern Mutual ease; $20,000
for the tax cases he managed for
the Northern Insurance companies.
His fixed retainers amount to more
than $10,000 per anuni. He was
lately employed by a St. Louis client
to aegue a ease in tlie United States i
Lupreine court, and iiad an oiler of
$20,000 a year to come to New York
as counsel for an insurance company;
bat he will never‘leave Georgia,
which state he honors, and which in
turn will honor him.
the manufacture of cigarettes is not
on the decrease. Of course the man
ufactures will make them as long ns
the demand continues.
Atlanta is about to have one of
the largest manufacturing enterprises
in the South. A party of capitalists
is in the city for the purpose of erect
ing a manufactory which will employ-
eight hundred workmen. The exact
nature of the enterprise they do not
wish made public until all the ar
rangements are made.
Doodle Aldermen.
savannah News.
Mr. McQuad e. one of the New York
hoodie uldermof.. lias been released
from the penitentiary. The court of
appeals let him out. It is said that
lie had not been legally convicted.
Some evidence bad been admitted on
his U'ial’ffla^, according to ; lie opin
ion of tlie court, ought to have been
excluded.
MeQiiadii is now a free limn, or, at
least, so free that it is about certain
that he will never be brought to trial
agaiu. It cost tho county of New
York many thousand dollars to con
vict him. One of the best lawyers in
the country presided at ilis trial, and
several first-elass lawyers prosecuted
him. "'he Supreme Court of the
State said he was legally convicted.
Notwithstanding all this, and also
the fact that there is no shadow of a
doubt that he is guilty of the crime
of which he is charged, the court of
appeals has opened his prison doors
and he has gone back to join tho
company of his fellow-boodlers, who
are waiting to lie tried, but who, it is
now about certain, will never be
tried.
There are two of the boodle alder
men now in thqpenitcntiary, but they
have appeals pending and expect de
cisions in their favor. If they get
out, and there is some reason to think
they will, the boodle aldermen trials
will be about the gtcatest judicial
farce that this country has ever wit
nessed, and the most costly.
What the people want is more old-
fashioned justice. There is so much
hair-splitting among the lawyers
that justice seems to be lost sight of,
ami criminals escape punishment.
The people will begin to wonder af
ter awhile whether it pays to main
tain courts.
No Tobacco May l»e Plnnted in ’89.
The convention of tobacco farmers
of western Kentucky at Princeton
has adopted unanimously a resold
tion declaring that it would be the
interest of tobacco growers that they
should plant no tobacco at all in
1889, and they should not place the
present crop on the market 'until Ju
ly or August 1889. The convention
will meet again on October, when all
tobacco growers will be invited to
attend to back up the action of those
who want to stop planting for a year.
A retired government clerk died in
Washington a few days ago and oe-
queathed a considerable sum of mon
ey in these terms: “Up tho second
flight of stairs there lives at door 63
a widow who has two daughters. I
leave the sum of$8(),000 to the one
who always nodded in such a friend
ly way when she met me.” The two
sisters fell out as to which of them
the old gentleman left the money.
Legal proceedings are pending, and
no doubt the lawyers will divide the
money among themselves, and let the
girls go and make another “mash”
by their nods and sweet smiles.
The committee of the State Fail-
offered last Monday night, to the
(.’ity Council of Macon, to hold the
Fair this fall if the city would raise
$2,500 for them to help defray ex
penses. The amount was promptly
raised, and tlie fair will lie held from
Nov. 5th to loth.
The Bessemer Steel Company has
won its suit against Jacob Reese, in-
ventorof certain process for manufac
turing steel by tlie basic method and
the monopoly is stronger than ever.
Mr. Reese’s process will not he used
by Bessemer Company, it is under
stood. the patent to them having
been acquired merely to prevent any
one else from using them.
A fool and his money are soon
parted. Thomas Brennan, of Belle
ville, N. J.. some days ago received
$2,700 hv the death of his uncle. He
immediately quit work and arranged
his plans for enjoying himself. He
spent the money at the rateof $900 a
day, and at the end of three days was
as poor as before he received it, be
side being out, of a job and. having a,
very uncomfortable feeling about the
head, and the result- of the “enjoy
ment” lie had experienced.
assistant engineers, 30 flremcn and
54 coal passers. In the sailing de
partment there are sixty men and in
the passenger department 150 men.
The prices of flour and sugar are
advancing. It is not improbable
that flour will cost $10. a barrel be
fore long. What is the cause of its
advance? Gambling. One specu
lator in Chicago, named Hutchin
son has successfully manipulated the
market and forced up the price of
wheat. The advance in the price of
sugar is due to the trusts—those
“private affairs” which Mr. Blaine
nays neither the President nor any
private individual has a right to
interfere with. In order to raise
the price of sugar, the trust has
ordered several sugar refineries to
be shut down, so that the supply-
may be controlled. The owners of
these refineries are paid for shutting
them down, but what of the employ
es? They are thrown temporaily
out of work. They and the people
are the sufferers, while the monopo
lists rake in big money. What do
the people and the laborers think
new of the republican leaders de
fense of trusts.
McORARY’S
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STABLE
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NEW ETOGKr—s
A New York correspondent writes
that it is the exception and not the
rule for the sons of rich men in that
city to squander their patromony,
and says: “Die Vanderbilts are ra
pidly increasing their wealth, the
Astors have never known a prodigal
in their family, the Gocletsof to-day-
are as thrifty as their ancestors.
Peters Cooper’s wealth is in good
hands, and Jay Gould appears to
have uo son who will throw away
liis money.
The proprietors of tlie Baltimore
Sun have presented the navy depart
ment with a library of several hun
dred volumes for the new cruiser the
City of Baltimore. The sun has be
come a power by reason of it9*public
spirit as well as its excellent quali
ties as its excellent qualities as a
newspaper.
Tlie proposci i amendment to our
State constitution, whereby the Su
preme Court would have five instead
of three Judges, has undoubtedly been
defeated This is a severe blow to
some people, as several candidates
were already in the field fora chance
at a Supreme Judgeship, having lit
tle doubt but that the amendment
would be carried, as there was little
or no discussion on the question, ex
cept in one or two counties.
Georgia’s State Fair.
Macox, Oct. 6.—Official notice was
given to-day that the Georgia State
Agricultural Society will hold its an
nual fair in Macon during the week
beginning Nov. 5. The members of
the Society and the citizens of Ma
con have united to make it extensive
with every possible attraction. The
city authorities will raise the quar
antine before that time.
NEW VEHICLES,
Nothing Second-Hand or
Second-Class.
Best of Fveiyhing 1
D ON'T fail to call on sum McCrary when you
want anything In his line. Ho guarantees
good turn-outs, host attention, and satisfaction
guaranteed m every instance. The ladies are es
pecially invited to give him their patronage, the
gentlest horses being kept for their use.
All Orders for Braying
PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
Willi IS IT! WHO CM! TELL?
rise, sci(
it guess
jg strar
impelling every day.
A number r '
arc shrewd at guessing, but no cne can ex
plain the following strange condiiton of things
hap|p» , » i, ’ , » •»—
A number of people are beginning to “ail:”
Indisposition; the sick
ness progresses until Anally one will have con
sumption, another catarrh, another kidney troub
e, and worst of all. some will be afflicted with
that terrible malady, cancer. And to think that
ordinary prudence in the beginning would have
saved us from any of these dreadful visitors.
Cancer has taken off some of our strongest men
and women lately, and others are stricken with
it. The reflection that the dead might lie living
anti the afflicted be in good health (had the prop
er means been used) is not n pleasant one. That
king of nil blood purifiers,
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science that attains the above results. It puri
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as a perfect tonic to the whole system—prevent
innumerable cases of sickness, and save many
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