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r olnme XLI.—No. 41.
ALBANY. GA.. SATURDAY. JUNE 25, 1RS7.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
[ Tfaiar
»r.wh» n«*vcrvnneu. A marvel of pur*
-y.stre.iglbaan •rn^ieaoracneM. Morcccon-
inical titan «ne onimrr kind*, and cannot be
>M in comi^nttoi with the multitude of loir
set, abort weight, alntn or pboenhate powder*.
fold only in cctna
ROYAL RARING POWDER CO„
10a WALL STREET.
[ novlJAwlv Vtw Yo»I.
•‘All the world’s a stage,” anil tbe
sweet girl graduate U on It.
The Grand Army of the Republic is
rallying around the “Rebel flags.”
Price $2.00 Per Year.
NEW YORKERS WITH BIG SALA
RIES.
TAM O’SHANTER.
Wheat has taken a tumble, but the
quality of tbe bread it makes it just as
good.
Cleveland’s backbone lias given
way at last, and the innocent “rebel
flags” did It.
Mb. Blaine didn’t get seasick on
his voyage across the ocean, and Is
said to be in fine trim for tbe Queen’s
jubilee.
This is jubilee week in Great Britan,
and tbe programme that Is to lie car
ried out throughout Queen Victoria’s
realm is immense.
It’s hot to be sure, but people
needn’t flee from Southwest Georgia
thinking they will find a cooler place;
it’s hot everywhere.
The management of the State Fair
seems to be lacking in that “get-up-
and-get” which characterizes that of
the Piedmont alliance.
S*me or Them Get ms Hnch m«
jjjr tlielr pupils.
Exercises like these are a wise en-
one _ , .
Iijjijrageraent of the aspirations oi
M i»ung mind-, and stimulate the uat-
. g'al ambition of the individual pu-
1 ' They form a very essential part
my
ant j'edncatiou,andarea means of embel-
^*!jbric. Public interest always center* jssellville; June 12.—Logan
a SIC. j *u which iuuiici |im/» an iui ha
unrlwnt. rvirl rnti hnv. *n that *
ihment witliout detracting from the
FOE SALE BY A. STEBNE.
SREAT GERM DESTROYER!
DARBYS
(OZONIZED CHLORINE.)
| Disinfectant, Deodorizer $ Antiseptic.
FOR 8AFETY, CLEANLINESS AKO COMFORT
USE IT IN EVERY SICK-ROOM.
Will keep the atmosphere pure
anti wholesome ; removing all
had odors from an// source.
\ Will destroy all Disease Germs,
infection from all Fevers
and all Conlayions Diseases,
Georgia sends greetings to the
North and West in the shape of the
melon, and it is a sweet message of our
loyalty to our agricultural interest.
The Macon Telegraph should, every
Saturday, lay in a supply of bottled
soda for Sunday. Soda on Suday ap
pears to be tiie one thing needful for
its health and happiness.
Those “Rebel flags” had lain in the
cellar* and attics of the Capitol so
long that President Cleveland had no
idea they were loaded-and that Yan
kee hatred would be ready to fire them
off, but it was even so.
REMINDING OXE
< a SHAXTER’.S WIT HUES IN CUT-
lln r MARKS 15 KIRK ALLKTVAY.
circuit tbe third time they suddenly j
stopped, and, as If bv a preconcerted j
movement, knelt about the table. Then j
THE WILL STANDS.
JS^WE?SSBSS» » the decision of the stj-
«p f
I he ‘‘Dead Land*”
1,0 «t Some Hcrrnt Ghostly M;
alatmtiems of m Blood-Curdlin;
,-] : ar«ctcr.
of
' ter-Joarnal Special.
I A iccond ONC of Scarlet Fkvfk has nrv.-r been
[ known to occur where the Fluid was freely used.
I S NBhBHmhBn Ymniv Fi vrk has
contagion! fc“w; ,h h .vs
DESTROYED. I SSSESw'SES
" V vc.vr rrriiNG. The
worst cases of Diph-
TIIKFIA have VIEI.DEH to it. Attendants
the Sick will Mrnira Protection from In-
frctlonn OiaeRMM by usltti; the Fluid.
Perfectly harmless, used internally or externally.
AS AN INTERNAL DISINFECTANT
AND DETERGENT.
Taken or injected or lined uh a whkIi it
allayn Inllanimntion ami corrects often,
wive discharge*. The Fluid in a certain
cure for Diarrhoea. Dywentery and In
flammation of the Bowel.*. Being A Ika-
H"« 1» It* nature It will often nflhrd
complete relief from Heartburn, Add*
“ it the Stomach uml Dyspepsia.
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ENDORSED—By J. Marlon Sim*, M. D.. Jos.
LeConte, l»r D., Prof H. l Lupton. Bishop Geo.
F. Pierce, Bishop W. M. Wightman. Itev. Chav F.
r. ”ev. Richard Fuller, Hon. Alex. H.
Deems, Rev. ... t ,
Stephens, Hon. A. J. Walker, and many others.
J. H. ZEILIN & CO., Philadelphia.
Over 9,000,000 worn during the past sis
rears. This marvelous success Is due—
1st.—To the superiority of Coraline over
til other materials, os n stiffener for Corsets,
2nd.—To tlio superior quality, shape
tnd workmanship of oar Corsets, combined
vith their low prices.
Avoid chbnp imitations made of various
rinds of cord. None are genuine wnh»«a
“DR. WARNER'S CORALINE'*
i printed on inside of steel cover.
FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING MERCHANTS.
WARNER BROTHERS,
!00 Croedwey, (lew York City
m
tf 9
BEAST!
Mexican
Mi
ustang
Liniment
Well, the Soutli didn’t ask anybody
or tiie flags, and can manage to get
long without them. She lias sus-
ained the Io*s of thousands of thiugs
»r more valuable, at the hands of
Vunkee plunderers.
foolish
Extravagance is always
ind sometimes a crime. A man can
•ever justify a useless waste of what
• Ids own, but he cau never hope to
•scape conviction of wrong when he
••pends what belongs to others.
Three men were hanged in Geor
gia last Friday—John W. Smith, in
Heard county, Fred Morgan, in Jef
ferson county, and Jacob Leggett In
Tutuull county. Smith was a white
man, and the other two were Negroes.
If President Cleveland had turned
all the rascals out, as he ought to have
done, he might have saved himself
from what now ap|>cars to have been a
ittlc Republican conspiracy with the
“rebel flags” in the War Department.
“A point,” as the term was used
frequently in connection with the re
cent eofifee flurry, is one one-hun-
1 redtli part of a cent, this being the
smallest fraction in which dealings in
options are permitted on the New
York Coffee Exchange.
Tiik English are making a greater
•to do” over Buffalo Bill than the
lude* on this side of the pond did over
Oscar Wilde. A fan with a sketch of
•‘Rcdshirt,” in black and white, and
the autograph of Buffalo Bill, was re-
eutly sold in London for $250.
Our people talk about being land
poor with a few thousand acres of wild
Und on. their hands. Wilson Wad-
lington, of Connecticut, owns $2,000,-
000 acres of land, and Is said to be the
largest landed proprietor in the world.
Its location was not given in the pub-
ished fact of bis possessions.
Tiik criminal conduct of the two
biys who capsized the boat-on Mitch,
ell’s Mill Pond in Thomas county,
Saturday evening, and caused the
death of their companion, Lee Smith,
cannot be too severely censured. Our
L'hpmasville correspondent gives an
account of the sad occurence, publish*
ed in another column.
Cleveland’* backbone never failed
him when tbe G. A. R. howl went up
»ver Ids veto of the pauper pension
bill,' but the stiff neck of his adipoise
tissue hadn’t tiie necessary rigidity to
withstand the storm raised by Repub
lican Adjutant-General Drum’s flag
surrender scheme.
The Atlanta people appreciate what
interprise has accomplished for that
city in the past, and have subscribed
$150,000 towards defraying the ex
penses of the Piedmont Exhibition, to
come off* in that city next fall. A city
with an illiberal public policy never
att acted attention to its advantages,
If it possessed any.
Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, who was to
have delivered the literary address at
the Emory College commencement
this week has telegraphed from Wash
ington that ini|K)rtant matters peudiug
in tiie Interior Department, and which
Minot be postponed will prevent him
from tilling tiie engagement.
OTTXUEXS
Sciatica,
Scratches,
Contracted
Lumbago,
Sprains,
Kudos,
Rheumatism,
Strains,
Eruptions,
Burnii
Stitches,
Hoof Ail,
Scalds,
Stiff Joints,
Screw
Stings,
Backache,
Worms,
Bites,
Galls,
Swinney,
Bruises,
Sorts,
Saddle Galls,
Bunions,
Corn i,
Spavin
Cracks.
Piles.
THIS GOOD OLD STAND-BY
RL'comjiUahcs for c very body exactly what la claimed
forlt. One of the reason* for the grpnt i>opuUrlty al
the Mustang Liniment U found In Its universal
applicability. Everybody neede such a medicine*
Tbe Lumberman needs It In case of accident.
The llaunewlfe needs It for general family use.
The Canaler needs It for his teams and his men
The Mechanic needs It always on his work
bench.
The Miner needs It In case of emergency.
The Pioneer needs lt-caat get along without It
The Farmer needs it in his house, his stable,
and his stock yard.
The Steamboat man or the Boatman need?
It In liberal supply afloat and ashore.
The Roree-faacler needs ft—It !« hU bee:
friend and safest reliance.
The Stack-grower needs It—It win save hli
thousands of dollars and a world of trouble.
The Railroad man needs it and win need Its
long as his life Is a round of acrid eats anil dangers.
The Backwoodsman needs ft. There is not:
Tiik struggle for political ascendan
cy between two strong parties of this
country, will be a hard and bitter one.
The flag episode wi 1 be used against
President Cleveland in tbe next cam
paign with telling effect at tbe North.
It is even possible that its result may
be that President Cleveland will de
cline a renomination.
Thk News and Advertiser is in
debted to Mr. B. F. Gottwals, tiie ar
tist, for two pictures—one of the Blue
Spring, and tiie other of Gene Barnes
while asleep on the cmk—taken on
the day of the Brass Band excursion
and picnic. Mr. Gottwals took a num
ber of pictures that day which have
!»een very much admired, and which
*how that he does good work.
portant part you have an article that
will he read with Interest.”
So what follows is all about money
and tbe well-known New Yorkers
whoge nimble Augers chase the elusive
dollar, or rather thousands of them
each year.
There are a score of men in New
York who are paid as much for their
services each year as tbe President of
the United States. Forty thousand
dollars a year is a very tidy salary.
There are hundreds of tuen who get
$25,000 a year salary, and the number
who get from $10,000 to $20,000 are
legion. Very ordinary metr get Yrora
$5,000 to $8,000 a year, as much as a
Cabinet Officer. Dr. Norvin Green,
President of the Western Union Tele
graph Company, is paid $50,000. So
is Chauncy M. Depew, President of
the New York Central railroad. R.
M. McCurdy, President of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company, gets a like
amount. John H* ey,* President of
Adatns Express Company, fares equal
ly as well. President Henry B. Hyde,
of the Equitable Insurance Company,
is also in the list. George G. Williams,
President of the Chemical National
Bank, tiie richest banking institution
in America, with nearly $5,000,000 of
surplus, $20,000,000 average deposit*,
is paid a salary of $35,000 yearly.
President Potts, of the Park Batik, and
President Tappan, of the Gallatin
National Bank, receive a like sum
every twelve months.
The best paid minister in New York
is Dr. John Ilall, a brainy man from
the north of Irelaud. who preaches to
$200,000,000 every Sunday. His is the
smallest church in towu. He owes his
rise in life to Robert Bonner, of the
Ledger, who found him prenchingto a
small congregation in Dublin and In
duced him to America. He gets a
salary of $20,000 a year, and makes
$5,000 by his newspa|>er and magazine
articles. He is given a luxuriously
furnished house as well. Dr. Morgan
Dix, the chief pastor of Trinity Church
Corporation, the wealthiest iu Ameri
ca, receives $15,000 yearly. Dr. Wil
liam M. Lavier, of the Broadway Tab
ernacle, gets the same amount. He
does literary work and lecturing that
brings his income up to $20,000.
Dr. Charles Hall of the Fffth Avenue
Presbyterian church, is paid $15,000.
He is very eloquent, and ids church is
crowded at all services. Dr. Park-
hurst, of Madison Square church, gets
$12,000. He has a large and distin
guished congregation. Cyrus W.
Field isoneof the pillarsof the church.
Dr. Paxton, who preaches to J. Gould
ami others less wealthy, Is paid $15,-
000. Tiie Rev. Robert Collier, the
blacksmith preacher, is paid $10,000.
Of the editors 3£r. Stone, of the
Journal of Commerce! is paid $20,000.
He Is President of the Associated
Press, is immensely wealthy, lives in
Brooklyn, and has a mania for choice
flowers and plants; his collection is
worth over $250,000. Charles A.Dana,
editor ot the Sun, is paid a $15,000 sal
ary. hut he is also a large stockholder
In the paper, and Sis income from this
source is quite $100,000. Before the
paper began to decline the sum was
nearly $200,000. Whitelaw Reid, chief
owner of the Tribune, pays himself
$12,000 yearly. He has been veiy for
tunate in speculating, and Is said* to be
wortii over $1,000,000. His wife, a
inug'iter ot D. €). Mills, lias a fortune
of half that sum in herown name. Dr.
George H. ffepworth, who was at one
time a great pulpit orator, now the
chief of the Herald staff, is paid $12,-
000 yearly by James Gordon Bennett;
Julius Chambers, tiie managing editor
of the pajier. receives $10,000. Charles
R. Miller, the real editor of the New
Yo k Times* gets $10,000 a year. He
lias several assistants in editorial writ
ing who get from $4,000 to $7,000.
John G. Reed, the managing editor of
the paper, gets $8,000, and Harold
Frederic, the London correspondent,
$5,000. Colonel Joan A. Cockerill,
manager of the World, gets $15,000.
He also gets a sm«ll share of .the
profits of the paper, making in all
$20,000 yearly. George W. Turner
the publisher of the same paper, makes
$20,000 voarly. George William Cur
tis is paid $10,000 yearly for editing
Harper’s Weekly. He does not do
much work, ar.d'for days at a rime lie
does not go near the office. He lives
in delightful ease, iu a great, big.
roomy house on Staten Island. Novelist
Howells is paid $10,000 for his work on
Harper's Magazine, and Charles Dud
ley Warner just half the sum for his
humorous work on the same monthly.
Richard Watson Gilder gets $12,000
for editing the Century Magazine.
Of the physicians. Dr. Fordyee Bar
ker probably makes ihe largest in
come. His reputation as a consulting
physician stands very high. He iss$id
to $50,000 to $60,000 each year. Dr.
A. L. Loomis, a specialist on throat
troubles, makes about $50,000. Dr.
J. T. Metcalf makes about the same
amount. Dr. L. A. Sayre, the great
surgeon who mended John L. Sulli
van’s broken arm, makes $40,000. Dr.
A. Jacobi, who devotes himself entire
ly to the diseases of children, makes
$30,000. Dr. C. R. Agnew, who makes
the eye a specialty, clears $25,000
! yearly. Dr. George T. Shnidy, who
attended Gen. Grant so faithrnily, lias
an income ot $35,000. Dr. Herman
Knapp, an eye specialist receives about
$25,000.
The legal profession Is very remnner-
athe. Col. Bob Ingersoll and Roscoe
Conkling are both said to be making
over $100,000 a year, Joseph H. Choate
makes considerably over that. So
does Senator EvartsI There are hun
dreds of lawyers who make from $25,-
000 to $60,000 yearly. And the num
ber who make from*$10,000 to $20,000
would fill a column.
Jockey McLaughlin, who rides for
the Dwyers, is paid $10,000. He line
the privilege of outside mounts, which
means $8,000 more. He gets in addi
tion from $5,000 to $10,000 iu gifts
from owners of horses ae has ridden
successfully. Jockey Isaac Murphy
gets $10,000 and outside mounts. His
income is fully $25,000 a year.
Five thousand dollars is not regard
ed as a very big salary. Quite a num
ber of editors and at least a dozen re
porters on the New York dailies make
that amount, not to speak of the clergy
men, bank officials and men in
raercinl houses who get as much.
But talking about money!
John P. Ritter, the assistant man
ager of the Clearing House here, lias
probably seen and handled more than
any man in the world. He has been
for several months past seems
to have been the favored field for the
operations of supernatural agencies.
The first manifestation sufficient to
cause alarm was at the humble dwel
ling of Mr. J. H. Giideweil, which
nestled among the hills of “Coon
range.” So persistent was the ghost
or spook that the uufortnnate inmates
of the little house were forced to leave
and seek other shelter, hut even In
iheir new quarters they were harrassed
weil uigh to distraction, nptil finally
the seemingly or really spiril
penings ceased as suddenly asi
begun, his gho6tship leaving no record
of its race aud no history of its coun
try. But that It had been there aud
its presence made painfully mauifest
the best men of that section will testi
fy, and that its fame extended far and
near and that on its account that whole
country side was aroused to tiie high
est pitch of excitement the whole
county would bear witness.
And uow from the southern borders,
of the county comes a tale of ghostly
visitations thrilling and gruesome be
yond conception. Not far from where
the Clarksville and Mason’s Mill roads
intersect each other there lies a strip
of low, moldy laud about a mile in
width and three miles long, tiie great
er part of which is covered with water
ro the depth of from six inches to two
feet. It Is full of dangerous quag
mires and Is known by tli • suggestive
name of “Dead Lands.” On its east
ern side some two miles from the road
leading to Springfield, Tenn., there
stands an old, odd-looking stone
structure which has the appearance of
having been built a. century. The
tradition is—and it is generally ac
cepted as true—that many years ago
when civilization in Ibis section of the
country was in its infancy, the land
which is now mostly under water and
several feet below the surrouuding
country was a beautifully wooded plain
covered with magniflceiit forest trees.
No spot was more inviting or lieauti-
fullv situated, as then it was as much
above the surrounding country as it is
«n --»v "•» extinguished and
V* tbe silence of death reigned over the
scene. Mr. Bailey says that up to this
time he had succeeded in controlling
his horse, but a* the light went
out he wheeled and dashed through the
woods at break-neck ? j**ed. He reach-
home In safety, however, and related
what had passed to his wife. At first
she refused to believe him and attri
buted It to a derangement of his nerves
but when he became so earnest she
was compelled, as all others have been
whom lie has told to accept what he
said was the solemn truth. He thought
it best not to speak of the matter at
once, however, for fear of being
laughed at, hnt it weighed so on their
minds that finaiiv they told one or
two in confidence, which of course
secured .its liberal advertisement, and
now it is ibe talk of the whole coun
try. The place which heretofore was
hardly ever thought of is now visited
daily by crowds of the ctirions and in
credulous. and the ghonldi*tnrbed dis
trict is all agog with excitement.
Others heard the tolling or the bell,
bat were not sufficienty interested to
la« like it as an antidote for tbe danger* to Ilf
limb and comfort which surround the jdoqoer.
The Merchant needs it about his store amor,
hi* employees. Accidents will happen, and win
these come the Mustang Liniment is wanu-d n t om
^ Keep a Battle In the Dense. ’Ttsthebest*
“economy.
Keep n Battle In the Factory, 1‘slmn.istfc*
ose In case of accident saves pain and lues of wa^t
a Battle Always la the £ittb!t- fs
lea wanted.
For Imperfect
DLe.tioii'
Jisordered
Stomachi
f.INDSTINCT PRINT
Col. Balungtok Booth has writ- more than twenty-two years in the in-
en a letter to the Brooklyn Eagle eui-
.haticallv denying that there is any
nniorality lu the Salvation Army.
He says that the army in tills country
iow number s300 corps, uuder the su-
icrvisioi) of 700 salaried officers, aud
Is no more English than any similar
•rganization, hnt embraces every na-
ionality under the situ.
Hkkk is a hit of information, which
we find in the Savannah News, that L<
nteresring: “Of the 25S Popes of the
Catholic church, 104 were natives of
Italy, fourteen of France, nine of
Greece, seven of Germany, five or
\sia, three of Africa, three of Spain,
five ot Dalmatia, oue of Englaud. one
of Portugal am! one of Holland.
Among the visitors at Vassar Col
lege commence incut was a graduate
who had made $10,000 in a unique
manner. Upon her graduation she
was promised by her father a dollar
for every cent she earned by working
at anything. She accepted the offer,
and, entering a factory, where she ob
tained six
working
.000 and
stitntion. All the money received ami
paid ont in balances passes through
Ids hands. The dailv balances run
from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000, and in
one instance as high $15,000,000. Mr.
Ritter has handled these vast sums da v
after day for years without making an
error of a penny. A rough estimate of
the total amount that has passed
through his hands at the clearing
would be between $30,000,000,000 and
$31,000,000,000. This amount has not
been handled In tiie form of notes,
I Minds or other negotiable securities,
hut in actual cash. The largest legal
tender issued by the government Is
lor $10,000. These bills are pleutilul
in the daring house, where they great
ly facilitate business, making It quite
easy to handle the enormous sums
necessary from bank to bank each
day. Foster Coatk.
A Prolonged War Anticipated.
Tucson, A. T., June 14.—General
Miles arrived here last night and took
personal riiarge of tlie : Indian cam
paign, as there Is every appearance of
prolonged war. Suspicion has long
pointed to ludian settlers on the San
Pedro reservation as being abettors of
the San Carlos renegades, and it seems
now to be an esLablished fact that they
have kept *
to n.<
now below it. Upon this spot a party
of emigrants from the busy and bur
dened East stopped their train and
pitched their tents, finally concluding
to reinaiu. Among them was a man
who professed to have had a divine re
velation, in which he was told that to
him and all who should believe in
him aud accept his teachings should
be given the |>ower to triumph over
death, aud that when the allotted rime
on earth should end they would be
transported, soul and hodj*, to a land
of immortal youth. He was the lead
er, as lie was’ the father confessor, of
the Hock which he had gathered
around them. By his efforts and
under his directions there was built
the rude, though substantial, stone
buildi g before referred to, Iu which
each night and morning they were
want to worship. The building i* low
aud narrow, and in oue end are still to
l»e seen the crumbling remaiiisol what
ap|M>ars to have beeu a rude altar.
Just inside the doorway in an arch c::t
out of a solid stone hangs a massive
brazen bell, which of all the ancient
pile seems to have stood best the rav
ages of rime. After a few years, pass
ed chiefly in holy duties, there sud
denly descended upon the strange
hand a calamity so dire as to leave in
its a ake a wreck to Maud lor all time
as a warning to future generations.
While tiiey were engaged one evening
at their accustomed devotional exer
cises, there commenced a iow, rum
bling sound, the stone buildings be
gan to quiver and rock from side to
side like a storm-tossed vessel. Seized
with terror, the worshi))ers fled panic-
stricken from the place. The shock
ceased after a while ouly to be suc
ceeded later on by another, and then
another, throughout the night. When
day dkwned a terrible sight met their
gaze. AH vegetable growth was dead
and parched, as if it had been visited
by a severe drouth. The trees which
yesterday had been waving in full
pride ot summer verdure weie' almost
completely stripped oi their foliage
and were wi hered and dying. Tbe
church, though severely shaken, was
siill intact, but leaned considerably
from its natural position. The primi-
tive dwellings, which had been hastily
constructed of logs, were totally de
molished, and the stricken colony,
sickened with the sight, 1 departed as
suddenly and silently as they hat!
come. The surface of the earth had
fallen so much during the shocks that
it now formed a shallow basin instead
of a raised plain as before.
Tnua much for the traditiasr;
whether or uot It is all true I do not
know, nor does any other living mdn,
but evidence of the truth of a part of
it at least remains, or which there can
be no doubt. There is the strange old
building anti the wide ‘ expanse of
marsh and mire, In which the oldest
do as ^Mr. Bailey did, or doubtless they
' 'had a similar experience.
wonM hive
The question seems to be, was it or
not the work of the supernatural?
with public opinion largely favorable
to the affirmative theory.’ If on the
other hand it was the work of hnman
hands, what was their ptir|M>se and
how did they get out to tiie church
through the quagmire? Since the
news has got abroad the rojid.s near
the swamp are shunned as’if it were n
pestilence, and the negroes in the
neighborhood can not be induced to
go out at all after dark. Nothing that
ever occurred in the country has
equaled it in point of supernatural
mysteriousness, and the “Ghosts of
the Dead Lands” are talked of in
every household.
OCR DAILY BREAD.
Wbat is Meant by tbe Petition in
tbe Lor4’» Prayer—Tbe Hand-ta-
ffloutb Existence of Ulan.
Philadelphia Record.
How many of the millions who re
peat morning and evening the Lord’s
Prayer think of the deep significance
of the first thing asked for in that re
markable appeal—“Give us this day
otir daily bread.” It is a suppliertiou
for life. Only those who have made
study of tiie subject understand how-
near the inhabitants of the earth al
ways are to the edge of scarcity. In
rids country, abounding with the
fruits of the earth, we have not an
oversurplus which .would carry us
over a year of non-productiou. It
ithin the memory of nearly even- one
how qtu-kly, when their daily supply
was shut off by beleaguering Germans,
the gay, full-fed Parisians were re
duced to a mulediet, aud really starv
ed into submission. Philadelphia had
a hint ot the constant inadequacy of
provision against emergent occasions
which is a feature of city life when tiie
railroad riots for a few days cut off her
usual supply of meat ami flour. The
people of all cities live from hand to
mouth. They are dependent upon the
surplus of the county, ami if tnut snr-
>lns fall they are in terrible extrem-
PREME COURT IN THE DICKSON
CASP.
The History, off a Fa wot
Tbe Ar^nmeni ot Counsel in tbe
Matter—Tbe Decision or tbe
Court.
Ity.
inhabitant has seen no par ride oCveg-
’ In which stand the
etation grow, and Ii
naked, dead tree-trunks, .with gleam
big arms outstretched like an army of
specters. This much
specters.
however, it may have
about.
-The nearest residence to the “Dead
Lands” is that of Mr. Gade Lee Bai
ley than whom ho man stands higher
in the county, and, whose word is
considered as good as his bond. About
two weeks ago he had been detained
in Adairviile rather late at night and
arrived at home shortly before mid
night. He had been to the barn to
put up hia horse, and was walking
slowly toward the house, and when he
was startled by the peal of a bell, dis-
rinct,clear,peal following peal in reg
ular and mournful cadence. Knowing
that the nearest church was seven
miles distant aud that tiie Jones were
too rull and deep for a farm bell, his
cariosity was aroused, aud after lis
tening & few moment he determined
to investigate the matter. Going to
the stable, he saddled a fresh horse
and started off in the. direction whence
tbe sound of the bell proceeded. After
ridiug slowly for some minutes, he
became conscious of tbe fact that he
was going in the direction of the
'Dead Lands.” Immediately it oc
curred to him that it must be the old
bell in the stone church, though he had
lived there over thirty years and had
never known it to be rang before. His
approach to the edge of the swamp lay
through a dense wood, and when he
reached the opening that gave a
view of the old church, the scene
which met his vision was one
well calculated to chill the brav
est heart. Standing near the edge of
the swamp, the church is only about
150 yards distant, the Inside'of the
building being plainly visible through
Ihe large doorway. The church was.
filled with a fierce red light which
streamed through the open windows
an J out to the back water of the
swamp. Grouped in front or the stone
altar were a dozen,- or ]>erhap§ more,
figures which Mr. Bailey was wholly
unable to describe intelligently. From
his Imperfect description, however, it
seems tliat they were dressed in long,
flowing, white''garments which clung
closely to skeleton forms. The faces
of tiie figures were concealed from
view by black hoods that reached
ilown to the shonlders. All of the
body that was visiole were the long
fleshless fingers that extended beyond
the sleeves of the robes. Lying near
tiie altar on what appeared to be a
table lay a figure dressed as the
‘ entirely in white, and
EXCHANGE OF PUODUCTS.
When*Adam was doomed to earn
his bread in the sweat of his. face, no
means of escape from the pain of con
stant labor was vouchsafed. The bulk
of food the earth brings forth is per
ishable, and the average reward, of la
bor is but a trifle iu excess df the aver
age necessity of consuuiprion. The
sujterabnndatice in one place is bal
anced by the scarcity iu anotl.er. The
surplus in the United States is nutinly
consutued by the people of Great
Britain, who are dependent for their
daily bread upon lands which they
ueither own nor till. They purchase
subsistence by toil in producing other
necessities of life than the things men
WHAT THJC MAN IN THE MOON MIGHT SEE.
If an observer might perch himself
on a mountain in the moon, and from
that point of vantage scan the whole
movement of human beings upon the
earth, he would comprehend the full
significance of the cry tor daily bread.
He would aN> seen 'what is hidden
from the narrowed visiqu of the mass
of mankind, liow the wamts of the
people on one side of the earth cor-
res|Mind to tiie surplusage of the pro
ducts of the people on the other side oi
tiie earth, and that the meaus for im
proved agriculture, for improved trans
portation and for improved commerce
between distant nations are God’s own
answer to the cry for daily bread.
THE -BOUNTY OF .GOLD.
The earth is the Lord's ami tiie full
ness thereof, and He intends for His
creatures a merciful distribution of
His good gifts. The coffee that grows
in Brazil appropriately slakes the
thirst aud cheers the heart of the man
who sows the wheat and reaps the ri
pened grain in Minnesota. Aud the
bread from the Minnesota grain satis
fies tiie hunger of the laborer who
tends and cherishes the coffee tree in
Brazil. The resources of one part of
the globe are not the special posses
sion of those who live upon it. What
they tiave;lti excess of their needs is
the bounty of pruvideode intended for
others. And so the overplus In one
place supplies the defect in another,
and the. .exchange of commodities
for millions to live
comfortably^who might hot otherwise
be able to live at all.
LIVE AND LET LIVE-
Tiie cry for daily bread is heart I and
answered. It is only the improvidence
or the greed of the bread eaters and
not the witliboliiiug band of the Bread
Giver TO'ttlWr one nation starve
while the other is filled with plently.
As we are. instructed to ask for the
forgivenesi of our own trespasses as
we havelo our turn forgiven the tres
passes of others, we may in the same
confidence ask for daily bread as we
show ourselves willing that others
shall have it. The exchange of com
modities is nothing more than an at
tempt to make up,for our own defi
ciency by supplying the deficiency of
our neighbor. Tbe mutual trade* be
tween uations is ouly an extension on
a larger scale of the simple barter be
tween individuals. It has pleased an
: "™ n * ac —**— 1 —men de
pendent upon one another. Our of .. —
this dependence grows a selfish inter- ^ia, prevent a discrimination on that
est in satisfying natural wants. Out
oi this interest grows trade and tbe
distribution of the good things tin
earth brings forth. Those who wool_
check this tendency and discourage a
benevolent interest in promoting tiie
intercourse of neighbors, of communi
ties, or of nations, attempt to inter
rupt the manifest design of tbe Creator.
The prayer “Give us this day our daily
bread” does not befit their mouths.
They should pray “Give me mv dailv
bread.”
lor Divorce.
There is a mau in Denison who hits
been bound up in wedlock only five
months who has applied for a divorce
upon the signlar charge that his wife
will not trim her toenails, which hr
avers are of mbitstrous sixe. 1 his . is a
serious charge, and if tbe divorce is
granted, it will be a lesson to young
trumen thit they will do well to heed.
This poor sun says that he is scarred
rrom the small of his back to his heels
by the deadly toenails of her, who,
live nioutlis ago premised to honor,
love and obey bitn. He lias repeat
edly asked her to have her
to all his e
Is nothin*
i Genesis to J
From the Atlanta Constitution.
The Snpreme Court of Georgia, Jus
tice Samuel Hall, presiding, rendered
ou yesterday Its decision in regard to
the bill of the late David Dickson, in
which a large property was left Am
anda A. Dickson, colored, and her
two children. The Uecisiou of the
court was that the will of the testator
should stand, then; being shown to the
court no reason why the instrument as
written by the testator should not
goreru the disposition of thepropeity.
Tiie case has beeu pending for some
rime iu the Supreme Court, and the
lecision has been anxiously awaited
because of the‘peculiar features of the
case. Though the . matter has been,
perhaps, more than once published in
the columns of the Constitution,
simple recital of the facts will prove
interesting, now that the decision of
the Supreme Court has again brought
the matter prominently before the
public.
David Dickson lived in Hancock
county, near the little town of Sparta.
He u as a farmer, and won from the
sandy soil of Hancock not only a geu-
erou- living, but managed to put by
each year a sum that aggregated at
Lite time of his death, a handsome for
tune. Mr. Dickson was more than an
ordinary country farmer; he was
man of broad views and extensive in
formation, and as he grew in experi
ence became to be regarded as an au
thority upon agricultural topics. Hi-
formulas for commercial fertilizers,his
rules for the planting and cultivation
of crops, especially of cotton, ami his
dissertations upon all farm topics were
largely followed, and greatly instru
mental in improving the condition ot
the farmers of bis State and section.
Unmarried, he lived in a comfortable
manner near Sparta, and was held in
rhe highest esteem by his neighbors.
He if as regarded as a wealthy man.
aud at his death hi* neigh lairs were
not surprised when his estate.approxi
mate $250,000. But there was sur
prise manifested, when ujmn the open
ing of the will, It was found that
Amanda A. Dickson, aud her two
cbi'drfeti, were the heirs :o the mag-
uificent projH*rty.
Amanda D efcson was a mulatto
woman of about thirty years, and was
the daughter of Julia Dickson, a col
ored woman who had l«ret» living with
Mr. Dickson for many years. When
tiie relatives and friends of 31 r. Dick
son found that the bulk of the estate
was to go by the will to the mulatto
woman ami her two children they
filed a caveat, objecting to the will on
the following grounds; First, the
will was the result of undne influence
exercised by Amanda and her mother,
Julia, upon the mind of the testator;
second, It resulted from false ami
fraudulent representations made by
Amanda and her mother to t lie effect
that Amanda was' the child of Mr.
Dickson and, that Amanda's two
children were natural sons of Mr.
Charles H. Eubanks, a deceased friend
of 31 r. Dickson; third and last, the
nature of the will was contrary to the
public policy of the State.
On the trial of the case v before the
Court of Ordinary the will was ad
mitted to probate, and the caveators
carried the matter tp the Superior
Court of 'Hancock county for trial.
After a long and stubborn contest in
the Superior Court, with able and
zealous attorneys on both sides, before
a jury of citizens, who had known the
testator In life the verdict was in favor
of the will. The caveators, through
their attorneys, moved for a new trial,
but ihe court refused to grant it,
whereupon the caveators excepted,
and carried the ease to the Supreme
Court.
The case was argned last year before
tiie Supreme Court, when the bench
was composed of Chief-Justice Jack-
son, and Associate Justices, Hall and
Blandford. Weeks and months
eias|H*d and the eonri made no de
cision. The matter was delayed so
long that public Interest grew tired,
and the case dropped from tiie minds
of the people. At the time of the
death of tiie late lamented Chief-J us-
tice Jackson, the subject of the will
again come up, in the speculation upon
a rumor that the death of the chief-
justice left tiie remaining members of
the court divided upon the matter.
How this speculation began aud upon
what it was based no one can tell, for
no hint had been dropped by any
mem>>er ol the court in regard to tiie
matter. That it was baseless was
fully shown yesterday.
Yesterday, Associate Justice Hall
delivered the decision of the court in
the matter Associate Justice Bland
ford agreed with him. The leading
IMiints iii the decision, affirming the
court below, as delivered yesterday,
are as follows:
In regsird to the question of nndue
Influence, alleged to have been exert
ed upon the mind of the testator, the
court held that flip representations
made whether fraudulent or not, were
questions for the jury. They had
been submitted under tiie charge of
the court, and the jury found again
the caveators. Also, the court held
that while it may have appeared that
Athandnaud her Hiildren were the!(le
gitim 'te ileseeinietiti «.f 'Jlr. Dickson,
yet if he left property to them as re
paration for his past indiscretions, or
as a means for providing for his own
oti&pri ng, and not with auy view to
promote immorality or with any
understanding that further illegal re
lations were to exist the coart could
not see how the will could be declared
void on that account. In rendering
the decision tiie court said: “That
whether or not, it wonld be desirable
to prohibit such legacies by law is a
matter we cau not deal with, and in
the absence of any legislative action
upon rite subject, It will be beyond
the powers of the judicial department
of the government to make such de
claration, and as to the color of the
parries interested, the constitution of
the United States, the decisions of the
United’ States supreme coart, as well
as the ^ constitution and laws of Geor-
are all around, and carry off nearly
half the income of the family.
The hole in the window-pane was
pointed ont yesterdar. There is a big
crack in the floor also, through which
many a dime ami dollar rolls awav,
never to be recovered, and singularly
enough this crack extends through the
oilcloth and the carpet. What it costs
rite farmers of the country is clearly
shown by Mr. J.S. Moore, in tiie New
York Times.
Iu 18SC the value of the oilcloth pro
duced at home was about $6,000,000.
The tax paid on this one article, In
consequence of tbe tariff, is at least
$1,500,000. What does this mean to
the tanner who lays an oilcloth on the
floor of his home? It means that, if
he buys $50 worth of oilcloth, be pays,
id that price, a tax of $14. Iu other
words, he must sell seventeen and a
half bushels of wheat at 80 cents a
bushel, or one hundred and seventy-
five pounds of cotton* at 8 cents a
pound, to pay the “extra tax” on this
one article of necessary use in tiie
household. The value of a yard of
oilcloth abroad in 1886 was 63 cents.
Pei haps, many fanners in the South
lo not buy oil cloth. There are very
few, however, who do*not buy carpets
»f some qnallty._ What of these? .A
common driigget costs abroad 3G>£
rents a square yard. Tbe duty is 15
-rents per square yard and 30 per cent.
ul valorem, or altogether 71.40 per cent.
Sh"ntd the farmer's wife buy fifty
yards of this material she will have to
pay. in the price, a tax of about $12,
not for any extra value in the carpet,
but simply for the benefit of the Amer
ican manufacturers.
If the parlor need forty sqnare yards
of tapestry Brussels, the farmer will,
in the price pay a tax of $16.34, and
will have to sell twenty bushels of
wheat or half a bale of cotton to meet
it. This kind of carpet costs 68 cents
a square yard abroad. The duty on it
iu 1886 was 59.35 per cent.
There is no way of evading these
xes, except by dispensing with the
articles on which they are laid. The
manufacturer collects them from the
farmer and his wife, when they go to
purchase their supplies. They are
none the less taxes because they are
included in the price of the goods, and
they are included in the price of the
goods because it is known that the peo
ple would not submit to such taxes if
they were attempted to be collected
separately and openly.
Of course the tariff tax is not laid on
carpets and oilclotns alone. There are
very few things that the farmer has
to buy that are not taxed in equal or
greater proportion. The practical ef
fect of the rates on oilcloths and car
pets has been explained. Here are
inly a few other tariff taxes which are
given together for purposes of com
parison aud instruction:
Duty on lumber $2 per 1,000 feet.
Duty on screws, 30 per cent.
Duty on nails, 40 per cent.
Duty on paint, S cents a pound.
Duty ou slates, 25 per cent.
Duty on common window glass,
S6.12 per cent.
Duty on plastering, 89.38 per cent.
Duty ou oilcloth, 40 per cent.
Duty on uruggets, 71.40 per cent.
Duty on tapestry carpet, 56.36 per
cent.
Duty on thread, 50 per cent.
Duty on knit stockings, 40 per cent.
Duty on plaiu white china and all
crockery ware, 55 per cent.
Duty on cotton ties, 35 per cent.
Duty on straw hats. 30 per cent.
Duty on tin plates, 35 per cent.
Duty on cutlery, 50 per cent.
Duty ou woollen clothing, 67 per
cent.
It may occur to the farmer that this
is a very long list of leak, but it is not.
Hie number of articles similarly taxed
is over 4,000, and the complete list
would fill several columns. There are
uore Protection rat-holes iu the house
i»f every farmer in South Carolina than
there are rats In all the barns for five
miles around him.
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nc, him stack on. ; Spring Opening
AT
C. M. Shackelford & Go’s.
*1*1*1 We Ilarea I'.-irolrimi Hooi
in Ceoryia—Krinm (table Drvrl.
opium t. Made in Wilkes Canal?* j
Little Tilings in IIose keeping.
Mrs. Kate Upson Clark.
All our lives long we are hearing of
die value of little things. We sing
about “little drops of water,” and we
read of “building our ladders round
by ronnd.” But it seems as thongb
we housewives fail to remember a cer
tain sense in which our housekeeping
is made up of little things. We com
plain of its petty trials, of the thous
ands of details which must enter into
even the serving of a dinner or the
perfection of a washing; yet we fail to
remember how, by taking a little
trouble, we cau often perform a trif
ling duty, which is neglected because
it is so small, and yet the doing of
which will, as we say, far more than
“pay for itself,” in saving vexation
aud muscle in a week’s rime after it is
done.
For instance, there is the one matter
of dull knives. In-how many families
sire the bread knife, the kitchen car
ver, the table carver, and even the
tittle potato knife in a state of exas-
lieratiug dullness! One can hardly
realize, without first having bad a
lieriod of dull knives followed by one
nf sharp knives, what a great thing iu
Uljnta Cons* It at ion.
lluii. F. II. Colley au«I E. T. Shnb-
riek iMMight iIm* Anthony Shoals prop
erty some inonllis ago. In looking
over an ancient deed in tlieir claim
of tide, they found thi* sentence.
“We hereby reserve the right to $
perpetual one-half interest in the oil
privileges on this land, and the sale of
this privilege does uot go with the
laud.”
Thi< sentence put them to think
ing. Tliev questioned Mr. Cade, one
|Calicos, Lawns.
on the land there were fissures from
which I lie re oozed a stream of oil.
The oil was first released by two Ne
groes, who turned over an immense
rock, aud were almost prostrated by
the gas lilierated thereby. From the
forme bed ot the rock came this slow
stream of oil It was sahl that Dr.
BwlI, a learned man or Elbert et unty.
had analyzed the oil aud proiiouuced
it not a ‘luminous, but a lubricating
oil.
M E ARE NOW RECEIVING OUR STOCK OF
SPRING GOODS,
CONSISTING OF A BEAUTIFUL LINE OF
Checks, Cotlonades,
> cersuekers. Laces
Anti everything else kept in Dry Gwn!s. Also* magnifem; line of Women
anil Men’s
Straw Hats ! Straw Hats!!
*r r- ii .. .. i ci ..Ii. i ^ Rijf lut of the CHEAPEST and BEST SHOES ever offered tor sale east of
“Sr S? 1 Ri T* a,,v thin * el3e banner wants, and will sell at rakf
situ- ,,otto ' u I ’ rkw - *'°p •»
rated the surrounding grounds. Ap-
plying a match to it. it burned read!-1
ly. They ibitn 1 that it came from
senses of gravel in the ground, work-
'ug its way slowly but perpetually to
C. M. Shackelford & Co.,
JS.I.S7 AI.lt |JV Y.
in almost evt-ry ilim-tion. Tiie stufl GEH. DRDM ON. THE FLA{? >i * 0ST,,AK, ' tB J^ A F i ,!0RBERV -
is about half mud ami half liquid. 1
Upon inquiry Dr. Bell staled tliat he
hat! examined the liquid and found it
to lie oil. Upon its beiiig placed iu a
rhoOrifinatsr «ribe I4e ♦ •( Ite-
turning ike a r«pbir*Ti-||« irhat
He Known About «be A (lair.
New Yore. June 16.—A W**his:g-
a family it is simply to get the knives
~ Idget's slices of bread
ground on the mere matter of claim
ing a legacy.”
So it appears that Amanda A. Dick
son and her two children are fully in
possession of this magnificent proper
ty, and cannot be disturbed hereafter
in the enjoyment of the same.
The counsel for and against the will
were numerous ami able. Appearing
in behalf of tbe will were C. W. Dn-
Bose, W. M. and M. P. Reese. John
T. Jordan, Reese & Little. Counsel
for tiie caveators wereXX Hammond,
Hill & Harris, Bacon •& Rutherford.
R. W. Patterson. R. D. Smith, J. A.
Harley, and T. M. Hunt. It is said
that tiie remuneration of counsel was
agreed upon before the case went into
the conns, and it was rumored yester
day that the legal fees would not ex
ceed $25,000. It is also stated upon
Dickson will not receive a sum les«
than tliat Intended for her by the tes
tator because of the large legal expen
ses. for the reason, Mr. Dickson ex
isting a legal fight over the disposi
tion of the property, left to the execn-
sharpened. Bridget 1
cease to be erratic; the beef comes to
table more neatly trimmed and far
easier to apportion; father ceases to
take his seat, hot, cross and averse to
any pleasantry after a standing wres
tle with a joint. Don't have dull
knives in your family. Learn to
sharpen them yourself if there is no
body else to do it, and see they are
sharpened every week on a good whet
stone. If your batcher Is near, be will
willingly attend to them for you,when
his own blades are “edged” every
week—usually every Friday, so as to
lie ready for the heavy work of Satur
day. Shears and scissors, too, should
not be forgotten, when the knives are
seen to.
1c how many families i3 a creaking
door or an ill-fitting latch endured for
weeks or months, causing aunoyonce
to scores of people in the course of its
existence! And all because the mat
ter is so small that nobody leels as
though there was time to attend to It.
Often a dustpan will continue in use
long after the angle of Its edge lias
ceased to correspond with tliat of the
floor. A new dustpan can be pur
chased tor seven cents. Why try tem
per and nerves with sweeping up (or
else letting lie) refuse dust which can
not be swept into the old one?
There are some ccores ot little mat
ters like these which might be named
vo show how the necessity trials of
iiousekeeping are increased by the
neglect to attend to the minor matters,
which seem so small tliat they are
either forgotten or accounted not
worth atteution. They “come to” far
more than the repairing of them
“costs,” and tbe woman who fails to
look after them does herself and her
family a grave injustice.
So Has tbe Ark.
Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.
“Alas,” mournfully exclaims a Bos
ton clergyman, “the old-fashioned
way of making love lias passed away
with our fathers.” In behalf of the
young people of this generation, we
return thanks for this blessing. The
old-fashioned way ot making love, as
we understand it, most have been a
dreary affair. A man began, if. we
excellent authority that Amanda catch the rat, by making lore to his
tors a sum of money effiecient to pay
the expenses of a legal contest.
«nm Is said to be $25,000* which would
seem to corroborate the statement that
the attorneys’fees woaUl not be be
yond that amount.
anda A. Dickson, one of the richest, if
not the richest, colored woman in
the United States.
fatiier-in-Jaw, whom he hated, and his
inother-in-law, whom he greatly fear
ed. He called his sweetheart “Re
spected miss,” and once in a while he
got a chance to touch her finger rips
icily in a dance as he teetered past her
like a stork on stilts, for iu such man
ner of jointless grace and frosty merri
ment, children, did your grai ’ *
dance, (pronounced daw nee.)
for a! 1 this—wbat Horace Greely would
call “Arctic circle of frigidity”—ray
son, your grandfather loved vour
grandmother—soft and fragra t be
bottle and subjected to heat, a very
good yellow oil rises. Without the
heat it holds the gravel in the sollu-
tiou. There is uot tiie slightest pre- j ton s|iecia! to tiie Post says: Adjuntant
dpitation. Messrs. Coiley and Sbub- General Drum is the oulv person in
»t i lit- touch of a mutch. They 0 wn|<ot*lk about Iheonier rrhiliv- in the
laud adjacent to tiie springs, and will reti m of ti e rel«el flags. He has a
leave to-ufprroW for the purpose of in- good rigid to speak, for It is quite eer-
** ** u. 1* '.in.-
drill a well. Gen. Drum has these trophies iu his
a talk wrru mb. j. w. baum. charge. What ids share in the matter
Major J. W . Baum, who bored the j u can perhaps be best learned from the
artesian well, spent twenty years In f .. , . intcrv i ew
the oil region* of Pennsylvania. The r *’
oil found on tlicAiilhoiiy Shoals (dace I 4 Geu. Drum, you are gomg to re-
was submitted to him. Me suiffed it J turn to the Squtliern States all the flags,
with such animation as a war horse standards aud color* which were c&|>-
shows when lie smell* the battle from Hired by the Union army from the
afar. He immediately asked where} Confederate* during the war?”
the property was located, aud express- “We are going to return them to all
ed a desire to go at once and examine the States, North and South. The
the locality carefully. He studied tiie President has recommended that It be
bottle with such amazing earnestness done, aud I am uow having full lists
tiiat it was remarked. made of all these trophies In possession
Talk about booms,” he said, “if a of the department, lu asho Mine we
twenty-five barrel well is discovered shall have the whole collection
in Georgia, you will see such a rush a-[so assorted and separated that
has not n*cured since Sherman’s army wc Shall lie ready to forward
marched this way. All the gold mines to every.' 2>tate in the Union
and diamoml fields piit together never whatever flags belonging to .State vol-
created such excitement as the discov- unteers fell iuto ihe hands of the Fed-
ery of oil in Pennsylvania iu 1864. era! army and into the possesion ol
Why, I saw a quarter of an acre iu the War Department. I am having n
middle of a creek sell for $84,000 cash, complete inventory of them made out,
aud iu two weeks the purchaser was with written statements to tell briefly
sitting dow n aud watching $600 worth as far as known the history ot each
or oil spout out of it crer3' twenty- trophy and tiie story of how it came to
four hours. A farmer mid three sons be captured. All this literature will
dug a well with their own hands, and be completed, and the trophies will lie
at the end of a few years soid a oue-I ready to be forwarded to thier owners,
tenth ami a one-seventh interest In the In a few weeks.”
> oflts for $550,000 aud $360,000. Coal -When :lie President expressed Ids
)il Johnny was only a dim tV|ie ol approval of this proposition, did he do
tiie sudden millionaires made f»y oil so in writing.”
finding in the petroleum region.”' The Adjutant did not give a direct
“How was theoildi-covered there?” answer to this question, but intimated
‘In just such casual manner as thi* that possibly when the lists of the flags
was found hen*. A man mimed Drake j returned aud their histories were
wa- out hunting aud discovered aj’rivcti to the public, a letter from
dark substance dripping.on the snow, JPrertdent Chvelaud on the subject
It reminded him ol how, when a boy. might also lie made public,
he dropped hot maple sugar ou tiie “When did the Prsident determine
snow to cool it. Looking up. he found tliat these flag* should lie returned?”
tliat it came from a crevice hi a rock. “During the week of the uatioual
He secured a bottle of it, and scut it to drill. This action is not due to auy
New York, it was proiiouuced oil. pressure or any suggestion from any
Then the rush began, and in six months outside source. The idea orignated
there was such tumult as Australia, j with the Administration. It had been
Kimberly or California never dreamed j iu contemplation in tbe department
of.” fdf some cbus'derab.e time.”
I* the flow of oil wells perpetual?” “You see, every now ami then we
No. An oil well appears to lead were receiving inquiries from various
to a pool iu the subterranean rocks, States about the flags Jn which the
which is filled with oil and gas. The State- were particular Interested, and
oil forees the gas to the surface. The requested them returned. These
oil is self-flowing for four or five years, requests generally came from
When it ceases to flow pumps are put the Northern States, and from
In, and it is exhat sted in four or five time to time as tiie requests were made
years more. The first oil from wells [they were gratified. At length it oc-
is mixed with gas. aud is illuminating ctirred to t e department officials that
oil. After a year or two it loses its it would lie a good thing to return
luminous powers ami becomes Inbri- them all at once. It would serve no
caring oil.” good purpose to treasure up these flags
“Is natural gas and petroleum oil and display theft) to In* a perpetual af-
itsually found together?” froi.t to men who are now good loyal
“Yes. Wherever you find au oil j American citizens.”
well .you will find natural gas, and Gen. Drum, of course, speaks only
wherever you find natural gas you of the President in regard to this
will find oil. Sometimes oue predom- action, or If lie speaks of another, it is
inates. then the other. There was j duly to say that the proposition was
some indications ot natural gas near made to the President by Secretary
Birmingham, and an attempt was Eudicott at a Cabinet meeting, wheni
made to explore, but without n suits, it was unanimously approved.
I presume, as I have heard nothing A White House official, authoriz-
furtlter. Those who have not seen the *d to speak on the subject, said this
result of finding natural gas or oil can- morning: “Gen. Drum seems to be
uot conceive of the wild excitement it tiie person to talk to about this matter,
creates or of the enormous results tliat There lias been no order, nor any
come.” paper of any kind signed by the Pres-
“Do you believe a flowing weil can went relative to it. Hie idea origi-
be had where this sample came from?”: gnated In the department, and has
“I cannot say positively, but I am l>een carried out by the department,
going ro make a very thorough explo- But the action of the department is
ration. I am satisfied oil and natural approved here, and tliat seems to be
gas will both be found in the South— about all there is to say about If.”
just where cannot be pre-1 kited. The I None of the Cabinet officers who
appearance of the ground and tiie sur- were approached desired to say anr-
rotimlitigs. as described by these gen- thing on the subject, as it was not
tlemeii. is verv favorable, but explore- under their'departiuent*. The Seen -
tiou alone will decide whether a flow- *ary of W*r was not accessible this
ing well can be had or not. If it can | morning. There is no doubt, however,
Pa»*engrra Aroukro From Their
*lumb«-rM nnu « « ui|.elled to Give
Up rheir Honey and Jewelry.
Houston, Tex., June 18.—The mast
* 11 train robbery that ever oc-
•um d in Texas «n* perpetrated at .
i :30 o dork this morning. Shortly
•iter daj light, this side of BeKulen-
•»ury, ou the Southern Pacific railway.
* Hu* train drew up at the station two
men with drawn pistols mounted the
engine, covered ihe engineer with
he r Weapon* aud compelled him to
pull the train out to an open
prairie, four hundred yards to theeast,
where a fire was burning, around
which stood eight or teu men armed
with Winchester rifles.
The two robbers on the engine,
stood guard over tiie ttinti at tiie throt
tle, while the others went through the
mail, express and passenger cars.
-Nearly all the passengers were asleep
and did not know what was going on
until they were aroused by the rob
ber*. Tiie first man tackled bv -the
thieves was XV. E. Jones, of* New
York, whom they struck on the head
with a revolver. They secured from
him $75 iu cash aud several diaiuouds
and a gold watch, valued at about.
$1,000. l.oii 3I;iyer, of Cincinnati,
was relieved of $35. R. L. Armstead,
of New York, gave up $20. He had a
larger amount of mouey with hiti., but
it was hidden in the sleeping car. A
gentleman from 3Iexico, whose name
could not be learned, lost $600. All of
the passengers lost what valuables
they had, and it is difficult to form au
estimate of the amount of tnonev and
jewelry secured. It is thought’to be
over $5,000. —
Wells, Fargo i Co.’s express car
was also gone through, hut ihe am
ount pf money taken from it cannot he
ascertained. No mail route agent was
on the train, but through mail pitches,
in the express car, were all cut open
and their contents appropriated. The
total amount secured by the robbers is
put dow n at $8,000, but when a careful
revision of the matter is made, the
figures may lie changed. There is no
• lonbt that considerable booty Was
■‘ecured. aud the gang made off’with It
successfully. The whole couutry Is
aroused aud in anus.' .‘■Several jmrties
have gone iu search of the robbers.
BRIBES AND BRiDKGUo031.S.
Carrying tbe Creel—Bride Uace*
in a Cunock iu Singapore.
The mode of procedure iu “"arrying
the creel” lu the village of Galas! tie Is
was as follows: “Early in the dav
aft« r marriage those interested iu the
proceedings assembled at the house of
'•he newly wedded couple, bringing
with them a ‘creel’ or basket, which.
they till with atones. The .voting hus
band, on lieing brought to the door,
bad tiie creel lirndy fixed on ids hack,
ind with it in this position had to nit*
me round of the town, or at least the
.•liiei port ou of it.' followed by a mtm-
? >er ot nieu to see that he did’not drop
Id* burden; tiie only condition on
(hich he was allowed to do so being
hat hi* wife should conic after him
tnd hi** him. A* relief depended al-
•ogetber on hi.* wife, it would some-
ime* happen that the husband did not
need io run more than a few .yards,
but when be was more than ordinarily
ba-lifui.or wi.-hed to have a Buie sport
it the cxim’Upc of her lord and master
—which it may be supposed would not
infreqcentljr b*» the ease—he had lo
carry the load a considerable distance.
Hie custom wa« very strictly en-
forced, and the person who was
last cro*!«*d had charge of the cere
mony, and lie was naturally anx
ious that no one should escape. The
practice, as far as Galashiels was con-
••cri e»l. .-nine ro an end about IIM)
year* ago. with rl e|*»r*on of om* ftob-
o ert N onng. who,»»,» the outside plea
■- **f *sory hack.’ lay abed nil the day : l-
you will see the greatest revolution
ever worked iu a quiet neighborhood.”
WHISKY TASTING.
Rome Nurpriking Avinneati ltlade
by Au Expert.
From the Chic«|:o Ilm'<l.
“When von hear people talk about
till* whisky or fh«t being good.** said
an agent of a Chicago wholesale liquor
house who w as just returning from a
trip to Kentucky, “you ran say to
your-elf that the whisky may lie either
good .or hail, and that the man who
drinks and smack* Iii* lips knows
nothing at all about it. Telling good
whisky from Ind i* an art which few
people acquire. I buy thousand* of
barrel* of whi«ky every year, and a* I
buy on my own judgment It is not
conceited in me to say tiiat I know
something about the business. In the
first place, no man cau l>e a judge of
whisky who drink* it. For two years
have ta*ted whisky dozens of times a
day, hut iu all that* time I have uot
drunk a* much a* a gill. A glass of
whisky a day would destroy useful
ness. Drinking the liquor blunts the
fine sense ol taste a whisky expert
most possess, ami absolute temperance
is the first essential. 3Iore than that,
a man most have a fine natural taste
to begin with, and must be tartful
what he eats or drinks. I can’t eat
onion, or cheese, or drink beer, or even
soda water, or any highly spiced food,
and retain that keen taste on widen
I'd be willing to base an order lor fifty
or one hundred barrels of whisky.
When I started in this business I spent
three months educating my taste, go
ing to the cellar three times dailv and
smelling of 150 casks of whisky of dif
ferent brands. At the end ol
period I was taken blindfolded into
that cellar, and as they rolled tiie bar
rels up to me I told them every brand
simply through my olfactories.
“Reputation is everything in the
whisky business. Tnere are in the
trade about one thousand brands, with
about forty brands in the lead as the
generally popular goods. I can tell
every oue of these by taste or smell,
just as surely as if £ were reading the
the ends of the casks. Tbe
tliat the President ami Cabinet gave
tlieir formal assent to the original sug
gestion of Adjt. Gen. Drum.
A TWO-TON METEOR
Orapa into a Hole In Indiana, and
Palls Ibe Hole in After it.
• I -V di -
3 liquor with water, and soine-
io enter the * m»1 ui^tatS° *7 -* bout "romthe
How Protection Hart* tbe Farmer. V
the
,» there can be no
irctrhol c
and daughter*, work hard
from rear’s end to Tear’s end, bat mu-
as they may, they
with the mo-t
• drove a sensi-
Ont with yon!
to show for their hard- last nijtht. I’ll brain you with some-
Not many of them
y many never so ranch
Out of my sight and hearing! By Ve
nus’ glove, if ever I hear you talk to
talk to Ii
a girl as I overheard you talk to Kittie
riling soft, if l knew where to hit you.
it
fool him. The
may be able to
... „ xmi that wh* *
L* rank and raw, but that is about
they can do. Whisky reputations
made or marred by the professional :
taster*, and it is on their judgment ■
and dictum tiiat the trade is carried
Evansville. Ind., June 13.—An
aerolite fell yesterday morning near
Joseph, about ten miles from till*
city and about three miles from tiie
nearest railroad station.
The resident* of this locality were
startled by a short quick souud simul
taneous with a severe jarring of the
••art . it was at lir*t fought to lie an
earthquake, tm* a farmer soon brought
the Intelligence that some great pro
jectile hail burst through s|iace and
imbedded i self in the ground in the
woods near by
Tiie aerolite in 'ailing came in con
tact with a huge oak. which was de
nuded of Its brandies as completely
as though it had been struck hy a hur
ricane. Passing downward in a
slightly slanting course. It buried itself
iu the earth to the uepth of at least
fifteen to eighteen feet. The-sandy
sides of the hole made by- the meteoric
stone had caved iu upon it, leaving it
buried far beyond sight. Several frag-
ter hr* marriage, and obstinately re
fused to get up and be creeled. He
had, it may be added in extenuation,
been twice married before, and K ’
on each occasion, gone through
ceremony of being cree’ed, a '
Joulit felt that lie had quite on
••reeling.
FEW OUTSTRIP THEIR LOVERS.
■/. F. McLentan'M Primitive
rioye”
The damsel in Siugaixire fs
am e and a double-headed pail
dl wed a start of some distance. The
nit or. -iitiilarly equipped, starts off
a chase. If he riiceec*-.* in overtaking
ier she become* Id* wife; tf not, the
natch is broken off. It is seldom that
■ hjeciioti is offered-at the last moment?
ind the race is generally a short one.
I'he maiden’* arms are strong, bur
*cr her heart I* roft and her tia-
urc I* warm, and she soon l»e-
.-omes a willing captive.’ If the
iiarriage take* place where no stream
is near, a round circle of a certain size
i* funned, the damsel '* stripped of all
but a waistband and given lialf the cir
cle's start, and if she succeeds iu run
ning three times around before her
suitor come* up with her she is en
tiled to remain a virgin; if not, she
must consent to the bond* of matri
mony; As iu the other cases, hut few
•mt-trip their lovers. \
► f Am?
Do You Know W
San Francisco Chronicle.
I like the fellow who is always ask-
v ^ ing. or seeming to ask, “Do you know
ments of the stone lay scattered about.- "1*° f am?” It is human nature to lx»
..nd not only these, but the wliole at- ashamed of Lcinj; lusiguiflcxot, or
inosphere about the place was iinpteg- being unknown. The occupation does
nated with the smell of sulphur. The noC deprive a man of that sense of
meteoric fragments were of a dull I of some importance in the world,
greyish and dark color, ind catinv a At the same time there is nothing a
combination of abshlian, tractile and ,,,an resents as quickly as being asked,
pumice. They will be brought to this ! ‘Don’t you know who I am?” No-
citv and sent to the Smithsonian In- body in creation can keep back the
stitute. answer, internally, if he can keep it
to himself, “No, I don’t, and 1 don’t
The depth to which the aerolite had
imbedded itself will involve a va»l« rea There was once a very
amount of labor to bring it to light, j important State official in Calufornia
bat this will no doubt be done, i,„t | "'bo thought everybody knrw bbn, or
onlv lor scientific purooie*, but to Ml- ! to know him. He was one dav
Utj the curiosity of the multitude- j through a fl,
.. „ _
who will visit the plive during the i addressed him in an undertone ami
ext lew days. From the great hoi- n»de for him with its head down, und
ade by the atone, and the depth to horn* in a position to raise him. He
which it has gone, it is estimated that ^ official, a man of dignity
it cannot weigh less than two tons, and political power and
Thee
1 great
Renew* Her Ywutta.
Mrs. Phrebe Chesley. Peterson, Clay breath and
Co., Iowa, tell* the following remark
able story, tbe truth of which i>
vouched for by the resident* of the
“1 am 73 years old, have been
ney complaint and
posity, but he ran. He ran surpris
ingly well. He ran even better than
he did for of*
first. He
>t to the fen
owner of the bull calmly contemplat
ing the operation.
“What do you ti
the irate official. “
hy having an Info
s: could not tiiat roaming ovei
Now lain “Well, I
i, and right in c
an, sir?” asked
That do you mean
like
: He
ha* some
Right! Rigl
„ — . ; ~—j .r- for I am, sir? Do
After all itraav not be thatour fathers on. As you may imagine, a man w ith j having renewed my youth, and re- The farmer *1
were not such hall-baked fools as a good mouth for whisky is likely to j moved completely all disease and “I, sir, lam <
a good mouth for w hisky is likely to t moved completely all disease and