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POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
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ity. *t re ugth ana waai**imanrw. .-lure troc-
omicsltaau me ordinary kinds jukI cannotbe
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OB SALE BY A. STERNS.
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Over 9,000,000 worn during the poet Shi
mus. This mansions racoon Is due—
1st—To tho superiority of Coniine orer
ill other material*, ns h stiffener to* Corsets.
2nd.—To tho superior quaitry, shape
tad workmanship el on: forests, c emblnod
irith tholr lew prices.
Avoid cheap imitetior ■ r sde.. 1 various
duds of cord, hone ace . ennine unless
"DR. WARNER’8 OCRA1AMB"
■ printed on tasido of steel cover.
FOB SALE BY ALL LEA0IK6 MERCHANTS.
WARNER BROTHERS,
BBO Broadway, New York Ctt)^
Spuing igr.omtaiously flopped back
Into the lap of winter again yester
day*
Poor Texas! drouth and frosts are
disturbing the peace of mind of her
agriculturists.
Wi notice that sympathy for Ireland
is being freely given, but no money is
being sent as, formerly.
From indications it would seem that
the Commissioners will allow all lines
to. reinstate old through rates until
they have time to promulgate a new
tariff.
Three appears to be as much jockey
ing in yacht racing as in horse racing.
The-captain of the Dauntless says that
the Coronet’s victory was a fixed up
job.
Stockton, Kansas, is to have
woman for marshal,and the police will
be women. The boys will be afriid to
go on a lark, not for fear of arrest, but
for fear of be!n£ told ’ on. Oh, the
wisdom of the moderns!
There Is always something to flat
ter Birmingham If an editor of. a
Georgia weekly should vl*it the iron-
heated city and casually enquire of a
real estate agent the price of one of Its
principle blocks, the values would
jump up ten points all arouud.
A movement is on foot in Macon to
establish a feminine branch of the
order of Knights of Labor. The prime
object of the movement is said to be
co establish a knitting factory and per
haps other enterprises for the employ
ment of women at remunerative
wages.
It is .^ported that a negro barber,
who has an office uuder the Exchange
Hotel at Montgomery, was Induced to
purchase 100 acres of land near Birm
ingham, several years ago, for which
he paid something less than $1,000.
He Is now offered $400,000 for the
tract, but holds it for more.
The wife of a high official in Wash
ington tells a newspaper correspondent
that her husband “sleeps alone to get
ail the rest possible.” The average
wife in high official circles at the na
tional capital must be—well, we
wouidu’t cast the slightest reflection
upon the “first” ladies of the country,
but the inference is plainly given by
one of their own set that they sleep
with their mouths open.
“The observations of the wife of one
of the present Secretaries show that the
life of a Cabinet officer is not altogether
pleasant. ‘I hardly ever see my hus
band to talk with him,’said tho Cabinet
lady, ‘save at breakfast and a few min
utes before and after dinner, when he
reads his newspapers, and before he
goes to his room, where a table full of
official papers awaits him. He sleeps
alone, so as to get all the rest possible,
with a lamp by his bedside, and when
he is wakeful he turns up the light and
reads until he becomes drowsy. Some
nights he spends with the President
until very late.* ”
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Railboad management has
gon. such changes within the past
twenty years that nothing Is wanted
to effect a complete revolution but the
consolidations that threaten to follow
In the wake of the Inter-State com
merce bill. The reduction in rates
effected by competition and legal re-
-trictions bad the effect of consolidat
ing short independent Hues into great
combined system!. This action was
the necessary consequence of revenue
reduction. Many short roads were
bankrupted under the old system of
management as independent lines,
hut as a link of a through chain eon-
uecting remote sections the volume of
business thus acquired proved paying,
nr aa a feeder it proved invaluable
to the leassen. This tendency of con
solidation was combatted by the Geor
gia House of Representatives, not
recognizing the underlying principles
of preservation that controled it,as any
principle of a great natural law.
Under one management a dozen lines
could be operated with the expenses
officers ot two, which would effect
a great saving in operating
The only hope offered railroads for re
munerative service Is consolidation and
stability In tariff rates.
Thx fact that the Markham House
brought on sale a price equal only to
two-thirds of its assessed value is ex
citing comments unfavorable to At
lanta property valuation. The tact
that hotel property is a poor invest
ment everywhere is, perhaps, a more
just explanation of the variance ill the
amount paid for the Markham House
and iu supposed value. Hotel property
everywhere returns but little or no rev-
venue, and has frequently bankrupted
the owners. There are a few notable
exception!, but very few. A man who
erects a hotel in any city usually does
it from considerations ot patriotism or
with a view of increasing the value of
his other property in the city or im
mediate neighborhood. Atlanta prop-
perty may be held at an extremely
high valuation, but this sale can not
affect it in either way. Other classes
of property will show a greater appre
ciation than the Markham House has
a depreciation. Atlanta is the Capital
City of Georgia, and he who attempts
belittle its prosperity assaults the in
terest of the whole State, as abroad
Atlanta and Georgia are almost synon-
amooa terms, though they are not.
Southwest Georgia stands on its own
merits, and it la not necessary to show
its worth by attempting to depreciate
the worth of any section.
Mb. Gladstone, the G. O. M., pre
sents a sublime spectacle of the cou-
s 'ieutiotts discharge of duty in bis last
great strugglejfor human liberty in con
tending for Irish emancipation. His
fame ia coextensive with the world’s
civilization. He has fought a good
light to the end of elevating the stan
dard of English statesmanship, an I
winning enduring fame. But at an
age when most men, after haring
achieved such imputation and fortune,
retire from the harassment of active
participation in politics, he throws
himself in the breach of the wail that
protects humanliberty—choslog to sa
crifice the peace of his remaining days
rather than witness a spectacle of dis
grace to England and a reproach to
every Englishman—the denial to a
certain class of Irish accused the right
of trial by jury. This palladium of
private liberty and public security is a
blood-bought right of civilized coun
tries, and the danger that menances
it through the proposed coercion raeas-
ureof the proseiit English government,
stirs the blood of age and strengthens
Chicago, March 26.—The details of
a singular and interesting bit of detec
tive work that has just been brought
to a successful Issue are made public
here this evening: July 16,1881, in a
qnarrel at Young America, Ind., Wil
liam A. Green shot and killed Enos
Brnnbangb, making hit escape with
the assistance of his brother, ty C.
Green. No clew was obtained to Wil
liams* whereabouts except a rumor
that he bad been seen in Texas. Last
January the sweetheart of the fugi
tive’s brother disappeared. The girl
was Lnella Mabbit, and the disappear
ance was a newspaper sensation for
weeks. A few weeks ago her body
was found in the Wabaab river. In
the belief that she had been murdered
by her betrothed, who was also miss
ing, a Chicago detective agency was
called upon, and a hunt decided upon
for both of the Green brothers. The
officer first found the mother of the
yonfig men, who had removed to Ohio,
but discovered she was uot In oinmu-
nicalioo with her relatives. He then
vl-ited some relatives in Kentucky,
and while there struck a clew wnich
led him to Texas. He here got on the
true' , but round that W. S. On en had
iel-i<enisou. The next clew Id him
to Chautauqua county, Kansas. This
was about five or six days ag<. Ten
days ago Mra. v William J. Ga. higher,
whose husband became noted as Joseph
C. Mackin’s Confederate In the Chica
go ballot-box frauds, and ia now in
the penitentiary at Joliet, rec< Ived a
letter addressed to herresldenct, street
and number, purporting to come from
her husband, informing btr that
he bad with great difficulty and
■langer escaped from prison; that he
was at Cedarvaie, Cbautauqea
county, Ks., and requesting her to
send him $200 at once, warning her
not to mention to any one that she
had received blB letter. Mrs. Galla
gher was sorely tronbled. She be
lieved tlie letter genuine, but knewing
that the detectives here intended to
use Gallagher aa an informer against
the Bock Island train robbers, she
guardely communicated with the
agency. Upon being convinced that
notwithstanding her belief to the con
trary, Gallagher was certainly in pris
on, she showed the officers the letter.
It was at'once pronounce a forgery,
and the postmaster and mart hall at
Cedarvaie was instructed to arrest any
one calling for mail addressed to Gal
lagher. Word was soon received of
the arrest of a man who gave the
uauie of Frank Deere. The man’s
picture was sent here, but not identi
fied. Just at this time the operative
ou the search for the Greens arrived
at the countv seat of Chautauqua
New Yobe, March 27.—It strikes
the visitor as odd at first to notice
ladies among the throng of men on the
marble-paved floor of the RcalEstate
Exchange, In Liberty street, where
sometimes $2,000,000 worth of proper
ty is sold in three-quarters of an hoar
at the auction stands, where men
grown wealthy in the the real estate
business and raise their voices in a
chant of trade like priests of com-
Seversl ladies are members of the
Exchange, including a daughter
David G. Croly, the husband of Jen
nie June and once managing editor of
World. There is always a sprinkling
of women in the crowd. They gather
around the auction rostrums and bid
themselves—$10,000, $20,000, $50,000or
more, according to the value of the
property.
The other day a matter-of-fact lady
of German birth bought two five-story
brownstone dwellings in One Hundred
and Twenty-fifth street, near the
Seventh Avenue Boulevard, for $85.-
500. A young woman hardly more
than a girl paid $18,000 for a house;
another bid $29,600. secured a four-
story house in West Forty-fourth
street, near Broadway. The ladies
are failures as speculators in Wall
street and on the Produce Exchange.
As in the Beign of Terror tile gnillot-
1 neither
iue spared i
of speculation the market deeflj rates
' partially '
■x, so in the fever
'ties
the
county (Columbus), and to his great
surprise, found one of his men in jail,
for Frank Deere and W. 8. Green
were one and the same person. His
picture was positively Identified by
citizens of Cuss county and residents
of Logansport, lnd., where he will be
taken on a requisition, to be tried and
possibly hanged for murder. The con
fidence game be had attempted on
M rs. Gallagher he had played for some
time. He would find the address of
the family of some convict, write
letter detailing his escape, and akk for
and often obtain money. On this oc
casion, however, his scheme miscar
ried, and by a strange fatality has
brought his neck in danger of the noose.
The whereabouts of the brother, A. T.
Greeu, has not been discovered.
ASP WHISKY HABIT : most superhuman strength. The
A Sioux Bill ol Fare.
Bill Kye’i Boomerang.
One of the peculiarities of the latest
United States style of feeding the
noble red man is the fact that he is
given Government rations, and at the
same time appropriations are made
which are supposed to maintain him.
Sometimes a wild Indian who don’t
know much about groceries and bow
to prepare them for food, comes In
and draws his regular soldier ration in
this way. For instance, up in
sitting Bull country awhile ago, an
Indian came in from the war-path
who had never seen any of the pale
face style of food, and drew his ra
tions.
H. nade a light meal of green, un-
grouud coffee ou the first day, as he
over-ate^md the coffee swelled on him,
he hacT difficulty in buttoning his
pauts aroutiu the.pain he had or. hand.
He felt very unhappy lor a day or
two, but laid it to the fact that be
hadn^l exercised much, and the con
sequent cunui and indigestion result
ing therefrom.
As toon as he had succeeded in get
ting the interior department quieted.
own a little he tackled his ration of
candles. These be decided to parboil,
in order to avoid trouble from indi
gestion. The dish was not so much
of a glittering success as he had anti
cipated and as he remorsefully picked
tue candle wiekingout of his teeth
with a tenpin, be made some remarks
that grated harshly on the aesthetic
ears of those who stood near.
He then tried a meal of yeast powder
with vinegar. He ate the yeast pow
der aud then took a pint of extremely
potent vinegar to wash it down.
At first there was a feeling of glad
surprise in his stomach, which rapidly
gave place to unavailing remorse.
A can of yeast powder in an In
dian’s stomach don’t seem to be pre
pared lor a pint of vinegar, and the re
sult of such an unfortunate combina
tion is not gratifying.
Every little while a look of pain
would come over the features of the
noble child of the forest, and then he
would jump about 17 feet and try
to kick a cloud out of the sky. Tben
be would sit down and think over bis
past life.
It took about a week for him to get
back to where ne dared to get up an
other meal for himself. Then bo fri-
cassed a conple of pounds of laundry
soap and ate that.
Soap is all right for external pur
poses, or for treating a pair of soiled
sox, but it does not assimilate with the
.stric juices readily, and those who
ive tried fried laundry soap as a re
lish do not seem to think that it will
ever arrive at any degree of promi
nence as an article of diet.
That is why this untutored child of
nature swore. He had never received
the benefits of early training in pro
fanity, and hla language therefore was
disconnected and rambling, but when
we consider that be wak ignorant of
our lauguage, and that every little
while he bad to stop and hold on to his
ligester with both hands and dig big
Holes iu the earth with his feet, the re
marks dklu’t seem altogether out of
place or irrelevant.
When a gallon or so of agitated ba
king powder and vinegar is singing its
little song in the innermost recesses of
au Indian, and this has been followed
»y a treatment of lanndy soap, the
student of human nature can find a
wide field lor observation in tbs-t lo
cality. The earnest and occupied
look, the troubled expression of the
countenance, followed by the quick,
.ervous twitching of the muscles of
financially with steely im^
man or the woman who happen* to lie
under the knife. This is sometiing
that the average woman cannot en
dure. She speculates too much,
moreover, on mere impulse or s.»uti-
raent. Men do that too, but not to so
large an extent. For one Hetty Greeu,
with a man-like capacity for finance,
there are thousands of her sex who
seem by nature unfitted to face the
danger of speculation and financer
ing. They weep when they lose, and
don’t see how it can be. They are
sure they have been cheated. That
broker must be a rascal, and too mean
for any tiling. Ou an elevated rail road
train the other day a beautiful woman
of perhaps 30, in a close-fitted tailor-
made suit, iu the next seat, remarked
to a lady companion:
“Now, my dear, I will see what my
stock is quoted.” She turned to the
Wall street article in the evening pa
per which she held in masculine fash
ion, and in toue that was unavoidably
audible, said:
“Why, it don’t change at all. It
just stays at the same price. That
great. It just ought to go up.”
It was only a straw, but it shows
which way the wind is blowing. La
dies lose in Wail street, but new aspi
rants for pin money or fortunes are
not wanting. In the real estate trans
actions already mentioned they show
to better advantage. They are not so
apt to get bey *nd their depth. They
pay considerable cash and then give a
mortgage, for which they provide
with more shrewdness and prudence
than many men would do, a fact which
shows that women with proper train
ing would develop a high degree of
skill in. business, as, indeed, not a few
have already shown.
Among the members of the Beal
Estate Exchance, by the way, are
John. Jacob and William Astor, who
are perhaps the largest holders of real
estate in the city. The Astors own so
much real estate that they do not insure
it. The loss of a bouse or two now
and then out of some hundreds would
uot be so serious as the insurance
charges on the whole estate. As
the general subject of real estate there
U no boom here, but there is an in
creasing investment demand and pri
ces are a little higher than a year ago.
This Is the era of great railroad or
ganizations and consolidations. As in
political systems so in business. The
tendency is toward consolidation or
unification. What struggles in former
ages to bring kingdoms and provinces
into empires under the rule of Cyrus,
or Alexander, or Julius Caesar, what
fierce contentions to bring about the
unification of Italy and the consolida
tion of German States, not to mentiou
those horrors of war to preserve llie
American Union. And so In business,
and for the moment more noticeable
In railroads. We shall yet have
great route from New York to the
South, and the so-called Baltimore
and Ohio “deal” Is regarded wijlj in
creasing interest. It will probably yet
be effected in connection with the non
famous Richmond Terminal, ’vhich
swallowed its parent the Richmond and
Danville, and has a digestion equal to
the maceration of the Baltimore and
Ohio..- I see, by the way,, that there 1»
no truth in the rumor that Alfred
Sully was to be displaced as President
of the Richmond Terminal. This is
now, of course, generally known, but
It would be interesting if the secret
history of these negotiations and ru
mors—-black ar times with venom
spite and jealously—could be given. 1
don’t know whether Mr. Sully is used
to the envy and malice of financial
lagos or not, but every other financial
leader has been called a fool ora knave
and bad to surmount obstacles reared
rosy, and be will probably fare
no better than the rest in this respect.
Of course this particular matter is of
no especial importance, except as af
fording an interesting insight into the
experience of millionaires which raav
reconcile a philosopher to his poverty.
It tends to make the nflective wind
rather disgusted with Wall street and
the whole atmosphere9f finance. As
to this great “deal”—perhaps the most
important in our railroad history—it
very carefully watched in Wall
eet. Commission houses look to its
happy consummation as a rainbow of
hope, prefiguring halcyon days ot
more active speculation and higher
prices to come. .How some of the
commission bouses manage to scrape
along with jio.-enuidc* demand fop
stocks is one or the inscrutable mys
teries of the “Street.”
Oscar W. Riggs.
ihe body, the bursting of the suspender
common to our modern civilization.
Story Wins.
We find the following item of local
interest ta;the Atlanta Constitution of
yesterday :
day, with the contested election case
of J. H.Ford againstW. J. Story, from
Taller S. Kit, the Wonderful'
Jacksonville Cor. to Savannah Newa.
The negroes of the city, as well as
many whites, for some days past have
been In a terrible state of excitement
over wonderful cures alleged to be ef
fected by “Yellowstone Kit,” a medi
cine vender. Thousands go every night
to hear him, and tho negroes declare
him to be the second “Messiah,” and
ly he can cure any ill by annotating.
To-night while Yellowstone Kit was
expatiating to an immense crowd of the
virtues and powers Of his nostrums,
his bands glittering wth sparkling
diamonds and his shirt front bedecked
with heavy gold pins and precious
stones, his neck girded with a huge
gold chain, some six feet in length and
bis body covered with a royal robe, he
was suddenly seized by the band. and
pulled from the platform by a powrful
negro man, who it was believed at the
time was attempting to dispossess Kit
of his finger rings. The negro held
on aud Kit called to a policeman to
arrest the bewildered darky. Tfle ex
citement of the crowd became intense
for a few second*, and was calmed
only by the negro being taken away
and Kit urging the people to be calm.
The negro, whose name is Henry
Thomas, said he had a “spell to corni-
over oim” while the hand of Kit was
Atlanta Constitution.
The matter of the distribution of
postal cards-to the different offices of
the country hks^een a subject of
great deal of discussion among post-
: authorities. The Government
postal cards are manufactured at Cas-
tleton, New York, and at present are
distributed through the railway mail
service to such points as the Post
master-General. orders. During the
past few years the use of these postal
cards has grown to such mammoth
prop ’rtions tha* it is found almost im
possible to keep up with the orders
which pour in from the different of
fices throughout tha couutiy* and the
postal authorities have been endeavor
ing to put iuto effect some method
which will insure a better service in
this respect. Tlie subject of distribut-
ingstatlons in different parts of the
couutry has been discussed, and uot
long since the Postmaster-General rec
ommended that such stations be lo
cated In four or five of the principal
cities of the country, Atlanta among
tlie rest.
This recommendation, it seems will
soon be acted upon. In a recent in
terview, of Albany, who is at the 1 eail
of the concern which uiajufact ires
the card*, stated that it has been de
termined to make supply depot* at
Chicago. St Louis and Atlanta. ; *YVe
have an order uow,” said 31 r. Wool-
worth, “for a train-load of _ stal cards
to be sent dii i .ago. The
weigiit of the tv be sent will
be about 125 tons, and the total num
ber about forty-.ivc million. After
Chicago ha* been' stocked up we shall
send supplies in a .similar manner
St. Louis amt to Atlanta.”
Last evening a Constitution reporter
asked Assistant Postmaster lark
Woodward whether any thing was
known at the Atlanta postoffice *a>n-
cerning any action of tills kind. “We
know nothing,” lie said, except chat
we have been endeavoring tor ? me
time to have something of the sort
done. Atlanta is the natural dis
tributing point for the South, and
it would be a great con
venience to all the offices in this sec
tion of the country to have a distribut
ing station in this city. This office has
received no information upon the sub
ject, however. Still there is no n asou
why we should have been informed,
for it is hardly likely that the Atlanta
postmaster would be made the distri
cting officer. One reason why it
would be very convenientto have such
a station here is that we would not be
likely at any time to get out of cards.
Under the present system the delay
iu filling oiilers is often such that we
are compelled to borrow from Savan
nah aud other offices. You see we sell
upwards of100,000 |K>stal cat d* a month.
These are furnished In 500,000 lots,
and if there is much oelay in filling
our enters our stock is liable to get low-
in a short time. I hope Atlanta will
be made a distributing station.”
Postoffice Inspector Booth said that
he liad received no deli ite informa
tion upon the subject, but thought such
action not at all unlikely.
Some idea of the magnitude of the
traffic in postal cards can be gathered
from the fact that the Castleton man
ufactory turns out b tween two and
three tons of cards each day the year
rouud. 31r. Wool worth states that
tlie largest order ever filled for one
city was one of 4,000,000 cards for
New York city. New York uses
about 6,000,000 cards per month.
Chicago comes second with abom
3,000,000 per month. 450,000,000
cards are manufactured each year.
"‘The adoption of the two cent pos
tage, coutiuued Mr. Woolwortb,
‘did not cause any lessening of the
riae of postal cards, but checked the
growth of their use for some time.
That check has been overcome, and
he public Is using more and more pos
tal cards every day, the ratio of in
crease being constant and steady.”
As Mr. Woolwortb is the principal
man of the great Castieton concern,
it is probable that he kiiow*s what he is
talking about, when he says Atlanta is
to be the distributing poiut for the
South. It is probable (hat arrange
ments to that end will be made iu the
very uear future.
ADULTEBAHOft OF FOOD.
fork or tb« Agricultural Depart*
meat Ctaeiuiaia.
Washington, March 30.—The chem
ists of tlie Department of 4 • iculture,
under direction .missioner,
have for a year or been investi
gating the extenuuid manner of food
adulteration pi-jiiticed iu this country,
and a report colering several branches
of the work is iu process of prepar
ation. That portion relating to specie*
and conJiments prepared by Chffoni
Richardson is already completed. Mr.
Riclianteon’* investigations show that
no other kinds of human food aie ad
ulterated to such an extent.
Of twenty samples of ground cloves
examined only two were pure. The
others bad suffered extraction of their
essential oils and had been polluted by
the addition of clove stems, allspice
and husks of various kinds.
Of eight samples of cayenne pepper
ouiy one was pure.
NO PURE MUSTARD.
Of ten samples of mustard none
were pure, unchanged mustard,
though several bad only suffered loss
of their fixed oil; others contained
quantities of wheat flour, the spurious
matter being in some cases two-thirds
of tlie compound. This made it ne
cessary to add tumenicacitl(hameless)
to restore tlie mustard color.
Ten sainpies of allspice were cx»
amined, eignt of which were pure.
Four samples of cassia were all pure.
Of ten samples of ginger four were
SaT&noah News.
. That there may be an actual sea ser
pent is what Mr. Richard A. Proctor,
with his accustomed versatility, un
dertakes to prove in his article on
“The Reality of Sea Serpents,” pub
lished in tlie April number or The
Forum. Mr. Proctor states his ques
tion thus: “Amoug the various ac
counts of strange monsters, serpentine
in appearance, which have been pub
lished at different times, may we re
gard any as relating to real sea creat
ures, as yet not classified (possibly be
longing to several classes), or must
we reject all, some as mere fabrica
tions, others as resulting from various
forms of optical illusion, and the rest
as real observations of sea creatures
already known to science, but unfa
miliar to the.obserycrs, aud therefore
inexactly described, and perhaps part
ly metamorphosed through the effects
of imagination into the semblance of
tHe-famed sea serpents7”
- Some of tlie accounts ot sea ser
pents, Mr. Proctor decides that we
may regard as relating to real creat
ures, tlie cases which he admits being
those relating to creatnres which were
seen close at band aj.idcoi.id be de-
cribed, even though for want of sciea-
tific knowledge tlie description may
be imperfect. He cites as the first sea
serpent story coming within the limits
he has laid down the following official
report made by tlie Captain of the
“British government ship (vulgarly
called ‘her maiesty’s ship*) Dsedali
iu 1848.”
At 5 p. m., August 6, in latitude
24:44 South, longitude 9:23 East, the
nd clou'
•veather dark and cloudy, wind fresh
from the northwest, with a long ocean
swell from the southwest, the ship
heading northeast by north, some
thing very unusti 1 was seen by Mr.
Sartoris, midshipman, rapidly ap
proaching tlie ship from before the
beam. The circuin
diately reported by him to the officer
of the watch, Lieut. Drummond, with
whom and Mr. William Barrett, the
master, I was at the time walking
tlie quarter deck. On our attention
being called to the object, it was dis
covered to beau enormous serpent
fa student of science would not
have ‘discovered’ this quite so readily],
w’ith head aud shoulder* kept about
four feet constantly above the surface
of the sea; and as nearly as we could
approximate by comparing it with tlie
length of what our iimiutopsail yard
wou.d show In the water, there was at
least sixtyTeot of the animal a fleur
d’eau, no proportion of which was, in
our perception, used in propelling It
through the wator. either by vertical
or horizontal uuduiation. It passe:!
rapidly, but so closely under our lee
quarter that had it i>eeu u man of my
acquaintance i should easily have rec-
cognized his feature* w iih the naked
eye, and it did no:, either iu approach
ing the ship or after it had parsed our
wake, deviate in the slightest degree
from its course to. the southwest,which
it held on at the pace of from 12 to 15
miles an hour, apparently on some de
termined purpose. The diameter of
the serpent was about fifteeu or six
teen inches behind the head, which
was undoubtedly that of a snake; and
it was never, during the twenty min
utes it continued in sight of our glasses,
once below the surface of the water.
Its color, a dark brown, with yellowish
white about the throat. It had no fins,
but something like the mane of a horse,
or, rather, a bunch of seaweed, washed
about its back. It was seen by tlie
quartermaster, the boatswain’s mate
and tlie man at the wheel, in addition
to myself aud officers above mention
ed.”
The respectful attention paid to this
story, says Mr. Proctor, called forth
several other accounts of sea serpents;
one of them he quotes. It relates how
the American brig Daphne, ou Sept.
20,1843, sighted a “most extraordi
nary animal having the appearance
of a.htige serpent with a dragon’s head:
“One of the deck gun was immedi
ately brought to bear on It, which,
having been charged with spike nail*
and whatever other pieces of iron
could be got at the moment, was dis-
ciiarged at the animal, then only about
forty yards distant from the ship. It
immediately reared its head in the air
and plunged violently with its body,
showing that the charge had taken of-
iVct. Tlie Daphne then stood toward
the brute, which was sr .n foaming
and lashing the water at a fearful rate.
Upon tlie brig nearing, however,
it disappeared, and though evi
dently wounded, made rapidly off
at the rate of fifteen or sixteen knots
an hour as was judged from its ap
pearing^ 'ieral times upon the surface.
From thVAscription of the mate, the
brure imis . have been nearly 100 feet
ougand his account of it agrees in
every respect with that lately forward
ed to the Admiralty by die master of
the Daedalus.”
Mr. Proctor decides that none of the
stories he has considered can be ex
plained by the supposition that the
creatures seen were very large speci-
‘ l»rge
■OT thirteen samples of black
oue was-feum! co be pure. A
ineu sent from Baltimore to a man who
had an army contract was almost en
tirely spurious. Cayenne pepper,
black pepper husks ami mustard hulls
were used to give flavor and pungency
while the “body” was supplied bv
i (round beans and rice and the 'color
)j charcoal.
Two samples of white pepper out of
five were pure.
Out ef five samples of mace two
were pure.
Of three samples of nutmeg exam
ined all were pure.
THE PUBLIC’S POWER.
Mr. Richardson’e experience leads
to the conclusion that the public has
power In its own bands to effect a re
form In the matter of spice adultera
tion. The quality of the article Is
usually fixed by the retailer, who
names the price he is willing to pay.
The grinder thereupon estimates the
amount of pure spices he can
afford to put in and fills out the
order with refuse. 3ir. Richardson
incidentally mentions a New York
mens of the basking shark, or
seals, or even ribbon fish. His con
clusion is:
“The'absence of all traces of plesios
auri of the cretaceous period may
readily be explained without assuming
(bat all tlie various orders had died
out. Changes of habits and of habit
at, with consequent alteration of the
condition under which the remains of
Mich creatures were preserved, or, in
deed, alterations of these conditons
independently of any great change in
the habits of the various orders of
iosauri, may quite reasonably be
regarded as affording the true expia-
fiunion of their paleontological, disai>
pearai.cp.. Ws-iTfey derive an analo-
nenner I * ous ™ *•« the displacement
aiKL °* 1,16 & reat marine saurians by the
.Where are the f«*il re
forms
o near him. and since touching ir wa-
the face and then Ihe swelling up of perfectly te'.l again. The excitement
of the negroes over his alleged rayste-.
button, the deep-drawn sigh and the rious power amouuts almost to a fren- treated exhaustively.
^mothered cuss words, all betoken the — — A —-
gastric agitaiiou going on within.
That is why an Indian prefers a link
of 3' ogna sausage and a two-y >ar-old
‘log to the high-priced groceries
civiliza
zy, and they are paying him thous
ands of dollars for his faith an 1 an
notating cure.
Haw and Why *15.000 Carat s to
Home.
Rome (Ga.) Courier,Feb. 11.
There was some excitement on the
street yesterday when it was announc
ed that some one in Rome had u-awn
. a part of the Capital prize of The Lou-
isiana State Lottery, on la*t Tuesday.
Gov. Gordon was occupied, yeters- A New Orleans paper had a list of the
._ •*-- - * * ue In
icky numbers, a* follows: ‘*2
937 $150.00 whole, sold in fraction* in
fn»n> starvation. Those who would
aid them if possible are themselves ii
c Vno-ianri’c fnr ** w “ v * — wntLVkw. rum, wuo wu: run "»»us, iuu., via., ami «im^aiiuu. Brigham Young , risky shape and have nothing that c
the purpose oi x.ng s loremos his oponeut, thought he was entitled Aberdeen, Miss. The lucky ones were discovered, however, that the sunfiow- ; be «nared. The signers of the sta
' Christian statesman to an effort of al- to the office, but on full hearing of the j found at last. They were Miss Abbie i er would thrive in a soil which pro- j ment ap|>eal to the more fortunate of
his- case, the^Governor thought otherwise, j Webb, Prof. B. F. Clark, and Dr. J. i duced nothing spontaneously, and as ; other counties to render such aid as
Worth county. At the last election ! San Francisco, Philadelphia. Buffalo,
Story was declared elected to the posi- ; and Auburn, N. Y.. Portland, Me.,
tion of tax collector. Ford, who was j Fort Wayne, Ind., Rome, Ga., and
t me worked off 5,000 poumls of cocoa-
nut husks. The ground article, the
article which sells for less than the
pure and unground, needs no test to
prove it spurious. Usually wbeu he
demanded the pare article, and called
upon a first-class grocer tor it, he got
it:
Considerable space Is - given in the
report to the operation of laws at home
and abroad relating to the adulter
ation of food, while method* of detec
tion, both popular and scientific, are
From the Early County News.
A young man representing himself
as J, O. Nelms, came to Blakely on the
first of March to see iiiss Mattie Gnrr,
a poor,though well educated and very
worthy young lady, well connected
here and at Ft. Vally, with whom he
had a correspondence. The corres
pondence grew out ef the fact that
3Iiss Gurr wrote to “Aunt Sue” in the
Atlanta Weekly Constitution, askings
correspondence with some of the
Cousins.” This man answered, and
the result was a marriage a few days
after he arrrived in Blakely. He has
skipped for parts unknown,
leaving his child-wife with nothing.
Bat this is tot the worst feature of the
Sheriff Black has received infor
mation that the scoundrel has a living
wile in Dallas, Texas, and probably
one in Atlanta. Nelms passed through
Fort Gaines when he left Bakely,
where he bought a ticket to Montgom
ery, Ala. This is the last heard of him.
Mr. Black sent telegrams from Fort
Gaines to Montgomery on Sunday to
pat officers in search of him, but what
the result was we have not learned.
Said Nelms is about 5 feet 11 inches
high, rather slender, shoulders
a little sloping and the least drooped;
has jet black hair, cut fashionably,
black mustache and muffs just in front
of ears; walks with rather a swagger
ing gait, toes turned well out and
wears about a No. 8 shoe; has some
thing of a ball-dog expression of
countenance and can look one fall and
steadily in the eye. Eyes black or
very 'dark. He claimed as his occupa
tion buggy and wagon making.
He is known by Dr. G. W. Holmes, of
Rome, Ga., and Is said to have brothers
in Dalton, Ga., Birmingham, Ala.,
and Marshall, Texas. He is said to be
interested in a buggy making firm in
Dallas, Texas. >Ye hope swift justice
will overtake the rascally scoundrel.
If Georgia’s pet, the Constitution,
wishes to help in capturing the ras
cal, we can see no better way of doing
so than in copying the description of
him in its weekly edition.
Unequal marriages.
Charleston News and Courier.
Matrimony is still a subject of the
greatest interest and importance to
both men and women, and any sug
gestions that will lead to the more se
rious consideration of so serious a
matter are sure to bring forth good
fruit. A happy marriage is the syno
nym of a happy life; an unhappy
marriage of continuous misery. And
ret, while conscions of these facts, In
telligently and otherwise well-bal
anced men and women every day
marry in haste, to repent at leisure.
Society is conscious ot this folly of
humanity, and the law recognizes it
nearly everywhere by offering the
remedy of divorce. A writer in tlie
Brooklyn Magazine argues that there
would be no need of tbL$ remedy if
men and women would onlv do a little
thiuking beforehand; bat of tills there
is uot much hope. The matrimonial
wrecks of the past are availiug signals
of danger, ami voyagers continually
set forth upon the ssa that is so fail of
perils to the unwary.
The world marries and is given in
marriage,” and the wedding bells ring
on from age to age unceasingly, ana
yet how few who witness the lile con
tract of bride3 and bridegrooms stop
to consider the tremendous importance
Upon the
mental, moral and physical qualities
of the man and of the woman may de
pend the actions and results of actions
of & succession of human beings in
generations yet to come. The un
governed will descends from sire to
sou, and the secretiveness or acquisit
iveness, uncontroled by other qualities,
in the father or the mother, may make
the thief, the liar, or the miser, who, a
few decades hence, will be the black
sheep of the family fold. It has been
said, coarsely perhaps, in the ears of
modern refinement, but with perfect
truth, that while we take every pre
caution to insure high qualities in the
higher typ<» of dogs and horses, we
seem to tbiuk it a matter of conse
quence to Insure a noble nature to our
own offspring. These are subject that
will bear tninking about, and yet the
sentiment of youth is too strong to ac
cept the assurance that love is a feel
ing wholly amenable to reason.
When it comes to marriage that is
quite another thing. There may be
very grave reasons why a man or a
woman should not marry a first love,
or a second love, for tuat matter. If
hot-headed young people can be made
u> reason about such affairs, well and
god; but it does not follow that they
can persuade their hearts to adore
whomsoever it seems wise to adore.
We must still believe in the two old-
fashioned souls “with but a sinj
thought,” and in the ideality of sue!
union.
The genius of Milton, never found a
Fort Pickens, Fla., March 23.—
Fort Pickens, situated at the extreme
western end ot Santa Rosa Island, and
opposite to Fort Barrancas on the
mainland, commands the entrance to
the bay of Pensacola—the best harbor
of the United States on the Golf of
Mexico and the seat of a rapidly grow
ing commerce. Geronlmo and four
teen compatriots arrived at Fort Pick*
ens on Oct. 25,1886, and were follow*
ed In the course of a few days by the
two chiefs, Mangus and Natchez.
Their women and children had pre
viously been forwarded to Fort Mar
lon, St. Augustine, where they are
now confined. The seventeen Indians
are held under close military guard,
onsisting of fifteen enlisted men be
longing to the Second United States
artillery, and under the immediate
command of Lieat. Charles F. Parker,
Under other circumstances this insig
nificant force might be altogether too
small. On his native heath the sullen
and desperate Apache would scarcely
hesitate before attempting to overpow
er and slay his jailers. Here he is sur
rounded by vast bodies of salt water
which inspire a superstitious dread
which he has not yet beeu able to
overcome. For a long time he de clined
to venture his precious body anywhere
near the beach. Whether he is able
to swim or not, there is not slight pro
bability of any narartory effort to es
cape. In addition to the imaginary
terrors of the waves there are sundry
real ones in the shape of man-eating
sharks, to which the toughestaborigne
would be a delicious morsel, and that
are fearfully prompt in snapping at
opportunity.
With two exceptions all the captives
are under size. The epidermis is dark
brown—almost black iu some; the hair
long, black, perfectly straight and fan
tastically bound by knots and hand
kerchief about the head; eyes small,
keen and black as jet; face broad and
features sharp; hands and feet suffi
ciently small to satisfy a Vere de Vere,
aud body thin and lithe as that of the
mountain lion: facial expression sinis
ter, furtive and cunning—as becomes
their past environment. Five months
of contact with civilization have devel
oped latent possibilities, of which their
reasonably neat and clean appearance
is an index.
Three of the seventeen merit, or de
merit. special notice. These are Gerou-
lino, Natchez and 3fangus. The for
mer Is not, as is popularly supposed,
the hereditary chief of his tribe. Like
Sittiug Bull, he is a medicine ma.. y
and like him a a chief by selection.
Head and brain of bis clansmen, his
influence over them is unbounded.
Short aud stout of figure, with large
square head, high slanting foreheM,
hooked nose, piercing, restless eyes,
^Ethiopian skin and hand of feminine
size and softness, he exhibits some
amiable weaknesses hardly in keeping
with his reputed fonduess for “har.”
Rarely does a visitant escape from his
proximity without repeated hand
shaking, that may or may not imply
an invitation to call again. How old
he is he doesn’t know, but he does
know that thirty-two years have pass
ed away since he married his first wife.
If this event occurred at the age of 18,
when Apache braves generally marry,
lie must now be about 50. Geronimo
is a much married man, having gone
through the nuptial ceremony no less
than five times. Two of his wives are
uow prisoners at St. Aukiistine. The
hope of seeing them again is a power
ful incentive to subordinate and
prompt obedience. He and his com
panions ought to be devoted husbands
and parents if their conduct be in con
cord with the tender compositions reg
ularly transmitted from Fort Pickens
to Fort Marion. The following is a
copy of one of Geronimo’s letters to
his two wives and son and daughter,
dictated, of course:
My Dear Wives, Faith-si-es-Ia and
Fedc, and my son and daughter.
Are you at Fort Marion ? If so, how
do yon like it there? Have you plenty
to eat, and do you sleep and drink
well ? Send me a letter and tell me all
the news. I am very well satisfied
here, but if I only had you with me
again would be more so. 1 work every
day, excepting Sundays. It is very
healty to work. My work is not hard.
It consists of hoeing and raking in and
aronnd the fort.' It seems to me the
C. M. Shackelford & Co’s.
WE ARE NOW RECEIVING OUB STOCK OF
SPRING GOODS,
CONSISTING OF A BEAUTIFUL LINE OF
Calicos, Lawns,
Checks, Cottonadcs,
becrsuckcrs, Laces
And everything eUe kept In Dry Gmxla. Alto a magolflcent line of Women
and Men’s
Straw Hats ! Straw Hats!!
A Bi
Flint
bottom prices.
Jig lot of the CHEAPEST and BEST SHOES ever offered tor sale east o
Biver. We keep any thing else the Farmer wants, and will sell at rock*
. Always stop and see
O. M. Shackelford & Co.,
jeasi a Lit tyT.
tastic toilers than these willing Apache
warriors can be found in all the sunny
South. One of the undistinguished
braves evinces considerable artistic
ability, .nd delights in makingcoloml
sketches of tlie sergeant of the guard.
Observers find it difficult to regard
the prisoners as prisoners worthy of
death. Visitor* cordially shake them
by the hand, and wish to possess pho
tographs of the group. Bribery is
often necessaiy to overcome objections
to the camera. Mangus is tlie only
Harkis” among the number. The
happy possessor of an old blonsit with
captain's ahonider straps, he is more
than “willin’ ” at every opportunity.
Mr. George Wratton, the interpeeter.
who has spent twenty years in contact
with the Apaches, understands their
language perfectly, and exerts a pow
erful heneflclent influence over them.
To him is largely due whatever pro
gress they have made.
W.nUI Pa, far It.
From the Arksnsstr Traveler.
A gawky yonttg man and a shy,
hang-back” girl, walking arm-in-
arm, attracted much attention as they
walked along the street. The young
fellow bad told a hotel clerk that he
lived near Carney Fork, and that he
was on his bridal tour.
“Lon,” said the husband, stopping
near a fruit-stand, “order whut yer
apertlte is er cravin’ an’ blamed ef I
don’t pay fnr it.”
Tbe wife selected an orange, and
the husband, as be handed over a
nickel in payment, said: “Oh, wheu
I go on a spree uv this sort I never
let expenses ske.tr me off. Fodner.”
nodding at the fruit dealer, “this is
ray wife, an' you bet I'll stau’ by her.
Whupped: in er head uv er feller that
had cnu’ted her six years an’ jes naclt-
n’ily tuck her away from him'. Lou,
order what yer apetite ia er cravin’ an’
blamed ef I don’t pay fur It.”
She took a nickel’s worth of candy,
and at her husbsnd handed over the
amount, said: -‘Ob, it alu’t often in
er man’s life that be gits on sieh er
sioshin’’round spellez this. Lou, I’m
with you, an’ I want yer to un'erttau’
tbatl’II lam down the cash fnr any
thing yer order. If yer’d married
Andy Buckner, yer mottt stood ’round
with yore mont waterin’ fur things.
Lou. I'm yore htuban', ain’t I?”
“Yes, Dan.”
“Then order what yore apetite is
cravin’.”
TcE GREAT CARTOONIST.
: p i“...5 r i ,, : ] r r „^ h r^ Se'sStoSi
which th*»y defended?
creatures belonging to those ancestral
forms mnst have existed, yet no trace*
of them remain, though probably the
conditions under which they existed,
amphibious as they must have been,
were such as to give them a fair chance
of occasional preservation in mud
banks or sand strata. Possibly the
changes which made marine condi
tions favorable for tbe land ancestors
of the cetaceaus may have, driven the
plesiosauri and ichthyosaurs into deep
er seas, there to undergo such changes
as the changed environment required.
In such cases it has frequently happen
ed that species have diminished great
ly in numbers, while the individual
representatives of the race have de
veloped largely in size. It is not nec
essary, however, for our faith in the
reality of the so-called sea serpent
that we should prove the creature to
be beyond doubt a large enallosaur.
sweeter theme than the ideal marriage
of our fir*t parents in Eden, yet he
who wrote so beautifully of the mar
ried state was himself the victim of an
unhappy marriage. Indeed, men of
genius have, perhaps been more un
fortunate in this respect than ordinary
mortals, because, living on a higher
plane of thought, it was more difficult
l or them to find a helpmate equal to
themselves. The same is true although
not to the same extent, of women of
genius who have married ropn inferior
to themselves in mind, because a wo
man’s nature had not only more in
durance but more adaptability in it
than a man’s. The man soon grows
ot conversation of a Mvol-
ous wife,-specially if she disturb his
mental occupation*, but. the woman
often feels a pleasureJn thehomage of
a commonplace husbamj^only he be
. .tore tttQKriL.'i man, “pitty is
* kin to love.” Hence It I* that there are
MyraiOS' Ci ^obably more clever and highly-fitted
“* 1 women who throw themselves away.
as the phrase is, upon good-natured
simpletons than of talented men who
fail in love with women who are not
in inteilectnal sympathy with them.
what as yet unknown classes the vari
ous creatures which have been, called
«ea serpents must be assigned, we
want much more evidence than as yet
we passes*. “
Brigham Young** Sunflowers.
Cor Boston Traa»rr:r*.
The traveler ' - .and train
may trace the pat.. . which E
ham Young and his lieutenant* led
tbe hosts of infatuated fanatic*, for it
i* marked by line* of golden sunflow-
Ify the monotonous landscape with
Tiie seeds of this
those rhat
STARTA.TI0S 15 TEXAS.
An Appeal for Aid to Snfferers bj-
IbeLotig Drouth
Galveston, April 3.—A special to
the News from Austin says: State
Senator Woodward, of Oilman coun
ty. has received a statement from
Atascoas county, sworn to T y four res
ponsible citizen* and endorsed by the
inty judge, sheriff anti county cierk,
giving the names of 19 families in
Precinct’s 3, 5 and 6 ot that county,
whom tiie affiants declare are
tills matter of inequality. The
that is equal iu every point of view,
however—that is, in tbe social stand
ing of tiie families to which the hus
band and wife respectively belong, in
tlie material possessions of each, iu the
temper and disposition, in the tastes
and acquirements, would not necessa
rily be a happy or desirable marriage.
When Dr. Paley, the famous author of
the Evidences of Christianity, was in
troduced by Bishop Barrington to bis
wife, the worthy Bisjop remarked
that Mrs. Barriug*on and he had never
had the slightest difference of opinion
upon any subject during a union of
fifty rears. “Mighty doll,” was tlie
reply of Paley.. Aud who shaltsay he
was not right?
The equal marriage does not depend
npon sameness, but upon the equipoise
of qualities, and the happiest marriages
are those in which there is a contin
uance of warm affection through life-
than an ecstatic fever of pas-
Great Father and God are very closely
united. I do hope he will let ns see
one another soon. As sore as tbe trees
bud aud bloom in the spring, so »ure
is my hope of seeing yon again. Talk
ing by paper is very good, but wbm
you see one’s lips move, and hear their
voice it is much better. I saw General
Miles, heard him speak, and looked
into his eyes, aud believe what he told
me, and I still think ho will keep his
word. He told me that I would see
you soon; also see a fine country and
lots of people. The people and coun
try I have seen, but not you. The sun
rises and sets here just the same as in
onr country, but the water here is salt.
The government is good, and does not
like to see the Indian imposed on. It
has given us pants, coats with pockets
on. and shoes, and enough to eat. I
think of God. the President and you
in tbe same light. I like yon so well.
When I get your letter I will think
well over it. I hope yon think the
same of me as I do of you. I think
you have influence with the sun, moon
and stars. If the government would
only gi*e ns a reservation, so we could
support ourselves—Oh! wouldn’t it be
fine? We are at peace _now, and by
God’s help will remain so. There are
seventeen of us here, and not one
thinks or acts bad. Everybody is
well ami contented. Chatto is a bad
man, and has caused us lots of trouble.
Jlis tongue is like tiie rattlesnake’s—
forked. Do not let him hear a word of
tills letter. Do what is right, no mat
ter how you maysnffe*. Write to me
soon a long letter. Your husband,
Gkbonimo.
Natches, the true hereditary chief, is
a fine specimen of Irvliaii manhood,
orer six feet high, erect, well propor
tioned, grave and dignified under his
weight of 50 years. The rest of tiie
The Cotton Seed Vlenl.
B. F. J.” In the Horae and Farm
says of the cotton seed problem:
“Just now whether to sell cotton
seed and allow the mill-owners to
make tbe price, and whether to buy
cotton seed meal and ash and consent
that manufacturers shall make the
price also, are questions now agitating
the farmer and planter of the cotton
States. On these questions we have seen
nothing more satisfactory than that
contributed to tiie discussion by Prof.
Stubbs, of tbe Louisiana Agricultural
College, in an address delivered before
an agricultural convention, a short
time since. Prof. Stubbs has made his
mark in previous addresses before va
rious conventions of the same or simi
lar character. If he fulfills the prom
ise of the past and present, he will
soon become leading authority on
practical and-scientitic Southern agri
culture.
With tlie brief introduction that a few
words upon cotton seed and cotton
seed-meal would not be inappropriate,
he made substantially the following
statement: 1,500 pounds of cotton
seed contain 500 each of lint and 1.000
of seed. A ton of seed sent to the oil
works yield eighteeu to twenty-two
pounds short lint, 1,000 pounds hulls,
which are used a* fuel under the boil
ers, and whieb give thirty pounds of
ashes, 700 pounds cotton meal, and
thirty five to forty gallons of oil. From
tiie commercial column of tlie . New
Orleans dailies we find the following
tariff of prices: Short lint, cotton, *ix
There are many cross dirUi^o r m '*“"‘1 hitn with pronoanrad re-
— — * H is words are few. and his dh§-
of that fierce light which beats
upon royalty of all grades most em
phatic.
MangUB is an intractable savage.
His arm V still in bandages from the
effects of Injury received while on his
way to Pensacola. When nearing
that city, at tlie rate of forty miles an
hour, Mangus suddenly sprang
througii tke car window* and was
stnnned by sudden collision with the
ground. Regaining consciousness si
multaneously with recapture, he w*as
put in irons uutil the final destination
was reached. Then, to his great joy,
the handcuffs were removed.
Two dingy old casements In the in
terior of the fort, each containing a
large open fireplace, furnish comforta
ble accomodations to these uncomfort
able nomads. Here provisions, con
sisting of the regular army rations,
are prepared by an Indian* cook as
signed to that duty. Salt pork is in
verb that “familiarity breeds con
tempt.” A happy marriage is that
which wins from the surviving part
ner such a tribute as was paid by
David Garrick’s
death: “He was more than my nus-
: he was my lover to tbe last.’
ers which in the summer months glor- state of starvation, occasioned by the
Iotb at the start. Sttdt red- fl'dtelyjess to their taste than fresh
fires are apt to barn oat too quick-
beef. and is cooked by frvintr, after
* ° r iy, and tiie "Tfe or husband is some- ® r f t 'j®' 1 '"*- ® u 5, al1 l, ? e i^ta' en'larees' foliaee
times painfully reminded of the pro- J’' 1 "®' ^ re8 . h which Pensacola the ^uit. Azaln, it/n«e begrua.nir-
- - I’orh tliot “ffiminaririr hrootlz eftn- bEJ *lippiieS to chOICe8t Variety, is StlB j. f h ,i rKaniUna _ _ J e-nrinmialmr rla»a
lished. but is slowlv comiwrii/V* c of h,, < ban ‘ ,l ng and economising the
ceute per pound; ashes, $12 per ton;
cotton-seed meal, $10 per ton; oil, un
refined, thirty cents per gallon. At
tlie same time we find cotton-seed
priced at $9 per ton, delivered In the
city. Applying these figures we have:
Products .of one ton of cotton-seed,
$13.68; cost of seed, $9; apparent
profits, $19.68. To a mill working
one hundred to two hundred tons per
day, surely there must be haudsome
returns. There were grown in tn<*
United States, last year, in round num
bers 6,000,000 bales of cotton of d ve h un-
dred pound* each. This gives us $3,000-
000 tons of cotton seed. Reservingone-
sixth for seed, there would be 2,000,000
ton available for the mil)*, which at $9
per ton. would yield the handsome in
come of $22,500,000. Sorely 31r. Ed
ward -Atkinson was not far from
wrong when he made the'extravagant
assertion that cotton would be grown
at a profit for the seed alone. The
seed contain about twenty-four per
lent, of oil, which has no fertilizing
properties whatever, and economy
would suggest, always, the. extraction
of this oil before applying as manure.
But can we sell the'seed at present
prices and buy back meal ? I answer,
no. When you pay $20 per ton for
meal you should for your seed, deliv
ered. at least $9 per ton and unless
this price is realized, use them
always at home as manure.
Again, whenever the seed* are
sold, the meal should always be pur
chased. If the seed be retained for
manure, they are the best used in a
compost with acid phosphate. Com
port is the best manure in the world,
*ay some. There is power in the com
bination, a strength in the mixture, a
and increases
nr. Thomas Hast Interviewed bjr
a llrporlt r.
Mr. Thomas Nast and his wife left
Atlanta yesterday afternoon for Jack
sonville, Florida, 'Where they will re
main several weeks. Before boarding
the train the world renowned carica
turist was seeu by a reporter of the
Constitution, and he talked pleasantly
for half an hour. He seemed charmed
with Atlanta, and expressed Ids admi
ration for the city without reserve:
Said be: “It strikes me that the
whole South is looking up; that this
highly favored section is now enjoying
such a measure of substantial prosper
ity as was never known before. I have
uot bad many opportunities for exam
ining the South, for I have hurried
through from Washington; but what
1 have seen convinces me that it is in
deed a new South. By-tnc-by, do you
kuow that it was 1 who first called it
tbe ‘new South ?’ Well, such is the
case. I represented the *» ew South’ as
a beautiful young maiden, aud tho
Idea took immensely.”
“Are you visiting the South seeking
new material for your arti*tic work.
Mr. Nast?”
•*Oh, no; I am not doing any work
now. 1 aud my wife are visiting the
South purely lor health. We expect
to visit Florida, aud to return North
by water.”
‘*1 presume,” intimated the reporter,
“that you are reserving your (towers
for the next presidential canvass?” .** .
“Well, to a certain extent, yes.
Talking about that reminds me that I
have just couie fi oin Washington city. -
While there I had tiie pleasure of see
ing President Cleveland. I spent half
au hour with him very pleasantly. He
is a genial, honest, whole-souled raau.
I like him, aud everybody likes him.
The rumor about bis dangerous state
of health is all nonsense. He was never
better in his life thau'he is now*. His
health seems to be perfect. The report
about bis precarious condition was set
•float by some designing politician for
effect. But it Is groundless, and will
not lie believed.”
Do you believe Cleveland will be
nominated, and if nominated elected?”
“Yes, l aiu reasonably certain ot it.
It would be Hie greatest mistake ever
committed by any party for tiie Dem
ocrats to nominate auy oilier person.
Cleveland was, when first nominated,
much stronger than his party. Now
be is decldetlly stronger than he was
theu. He is by long odds the
strongest man in either party,
and will sweep the country
next year. 1 am a mugwump, aud
am speaking after the mauuer of mug
wumps. 1 supported him with enthu
siasm when he was namiuated,and did
what I could to secure his election. It
was an experiment then. We believ
ed Cleveland to be the man, and we
were willing to give him a trial. For
the time being we were willing to sac
rifice our party pivdelictidn*. We
felt that Cleveland would give tbe en
tire country a safe and peaceable ad
ministration. Our confidence was uot
misplaced. He more than fulfilled
our expectations. He has made one
of the best Presidents this country has
ever had.”
“Supposing that Cleveland should
be again nominated, do you believe
the Mugwump element that helped to
elect him the last time, would support
him again?”
Why not? Yes, of course the Mug
wumps will rote lor him. There i* a-
much stronger reason to support him
now that! there was then. When the
Mugwumps voted lor him three years
ago, Cleveland was an experiment;
now he U proved a success. Besides,
the thousands of business men iu tiie
North who were afraid to trust tiie
Democrat* with power have been won
over by the conservative, safe aud suc
cessful administration. All fears
about the Democratic party revolu
tionizing the financial affairs ami over
turning the established institutions
and wrecking the government, have
h. ppily been dissipated. The Kdid
business men will support Cleveland
because he has demonstrated his abil
ity to serve the whole co litry. 31y
ow n opinion is that Cleveland* will be
nominated, and that he will be tri
umphantly elected. One thing is cer
tain, 1 will do all lean for him. I
will support him vigorously.”
“What do you thiuk about the fu
ture of the South ?”
“The future must be very bright.
The section is destined to make stu
pendous Industrial strides within the
next decade. It seems that tlie last
vestige of sectionalism hail been oblit
erated. There is a fraternal feeling
existing between the two sections thas
will frown down any attempt to again
estrange the North aud South. Any
man who seek* to stir up strife be
tween tlie sections will find himself
crushed beneath a weigiit of popular
condemnation. This is the era of
peace and good fellowship, aud no
politician will have the hardihood to
attempt to disturb it.”
At this juncture a party of gentle
men waited upon Mr. Nast, aud the
reporter took Ids departure.
The Sitter fruit • Crime.
The readers of the News and Ad
vertiser are familliar with th« ex
ploits of Vinceut, the embezzling
Treasurer of Alabama, who ran away
about four years ago, and wss capt
ured and brought back to Montgomery
and lodged in jail, a few weeks ago
to await trial for his crime. His wife
. bay _ _
less relished, but is slowlv coming it. ■ ( . , , . , . -
use. Clad in soldier,' fatigue roll., I ’ VM “ S * n * P°»"
prisoners are much more present '; ” of ° b « r v»tloii in the planter. > u-
trido™after hi able than when attired it. indigneo.^•' «penn>«ttt Ihare demonatra-
1J ° after h18 costume. Sereral have found or been ^ eotton meal to be theequaiotany
presented with old broad-brimmed otr>l
hats. Blit high top shoes constitute
their especial vanity. Mangus evi
dently prefers his to the time-honored
with Abscess o'f Lungs, and
friends
In-
dreuth. The number of person* in
plendfd color. The seeds of tills each family is stated, showing the and physicians pronounced tne an
flower were sown bv those that went total number to be 109 persons. The. curable Consumptive,
first, for the benefit of tho^ who pajier states that the families are iin-J Dr. King’s New Discovery for Con-
should follow. Lack of fuel i* one of able to procure sufficient food, and are sumption, am now on my third bottle,
’ and able to oversee the work on my 1
farm. It is the fl iest medicine ever
made.”
Jesse Middleware Decatur, Ohio,
*ays: **Had it not been for Dr. King’s
New Discoveay for Consumption I
IkCoiikumplion Incurable?
Read the following: Hr.C. H. Mor- m0 ccasin, and blacks them about four
is, Newark, Ark., says: “Was down times every dav.
times every day.
s Glad to be beyond the reach of Ari
zona justice, every member of the
the greatest hardships that meet-s the suffering terribly, and cattle are dyii
emigrant in crossing the plains, for
nothing grows upon the desolate alkali
without irrigation. ~ —
would have died of Lung Troubles.
band is quite, submissive, tractable
aud industrious. Shovel, rake, saw
and ax have already become familiar
tools. The wheelbarrow proved to be
a* intractable, at first, in the hands of
Geronimo. as a bucking broncho in
those of a metropolitan dude; but he ...
is said to have achieved complete tri- Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
uinph over the singular implement. 1 tions, and positively cures Piles or no
The dextrous grace with which_beXP*Y-g<miM^-—'
and children followed him to his place
ferment in the union which multipTie* oi refuge in Mexico, and now it will
be seen from the following brief but
touching story, os told by the Eufaula
Mail, that they have, after his capture,
followed him back to their former
home and visited him in jail:
“Mr*. Ike vincent and her two sons,
aged 10 aud 12 years, respectively, ar
rived in Montgomery Tuesday morn
ing, and were driven at once to tlie.
jail. The dispatch says the meeting ot
the imprisoned husband and his family
was a heart-rendiag scene. The wife
already tired and wearied from travel]
almost broke down at the sight of her
husband behind the prison bars, and
wept as only a fond wife can weep
ever the misfortune of her hus
band, and he gave way to bis grief
and sorrow anu sb *
other form of nitrogen a* a manure.
Therefore, in the South it has sup
planted every other form, and yet the
demand tor it is not equal to the sup
ply, and annually large quantities are
sent to England and to the North,
where it is more judiciously used—
first as a cattle food and then as a ma
nure. Tbe South at present exports
both nitrogen an phosphoric acid.
Bsckl«a*« Aralca Salre.
The best solve in the world for Cnts
1 shame as out who bad
Bruises, bores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum lost every hope, and drained tbe cud
Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands of bitterness to the 'uregs, mod ‘
Hypothetic children could not restrain
their suppreiwri aaii»i> ——