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T c J$di ei[ti5cr- appeal, 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 Sale STABLE GRANT STREET. 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. 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