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Newspaper Page TextVolume XLI.—No. 46. — ALBANY. GA.. SATURDAY. JULY 30. 1S87. Price $2.00 Per Year. POWDER Absolutely Pure. Tbtf runnier neve: * «ne< \ marvel ot par fly,strength amt More econ omical t.iai! i ...it tln«la. and caitnotbe ■old id coni|<et!iion rritb the ir.uitit ixl- of loir teat,ahort wuij?ni. alum or powlerF. Hold only in ruins, • ItOYAl. !5A*1NG POWDEU CO., U»- 'A ALL .Vi ilKfcT. nrttMAwlr Nr*» >»»*«. FOR SALE BY A. STERNE. ^asa. " EDITORIAL NOTES. M auce Is bad enogh in individuals, but when a newspaper gets it, oh, horrors! The Democrats of Ohio have nomi- nated Hon. Thomas E. Powell tor G ivernor. The State Agricultural Department is threatened with another invest!gar tion by the Legislature. Fakaticism has been taking to itself a good deal of rope in Georgia during the last three or four years. . lx the old countries they have crowned and titled kings and queens, but in this country we have money kings and political bosses. How. L. A exheim introduced two bills in the Legislature on Friday— one to incorporate the Albany, Cuth- bert, Birmingham and Western Bail- road Company, and the other to incor porate the Albany Street Kailway Compa'ny. Inquiries of the many farmers in the city yesterday brought out the fact Unit in some localities near, there had becu no rain to amount to auytbing w'thln the past two weeks,and the crops have suffered severely from the effects of the intense heae. BILIOUSNESS Brady's guano bill passed the .House of Representatives on Thurs day. If it passes the Seuate and he roines a law it may have the effect ol | .-topping the sale of commercial feriil- | i/..*rs on credit, and thus prove to be a blessing in disguise. ! The interview with President Al ls an affect ion of tin* Liver ami ran l»e thoroughly cored be lira; Grand RrgnlatordT the Liverand Biliary Organs, SIMMONS LIVER PECULATOR. MANUFACTURED by ; X tuder with reference to the action | ui the recent meeting of stockholders ! T the Central railroad at New York, ; published in yesterday's News and Advertiser, should have been cred- : ued to the Savannah Times. J. H.ZEII.IX &<*<)., I’lti! d. lphia, Pn. ><•". | li.nl J.„ f the I wa nllli.tol f«» • Hex dinonleM-il li- cr. •cverp attack of j mu »<f mi I aoi-i auction ■ fl’.r-N. «ii 'm «•• U» re»loif$ *ne t.i tin- v-|«» former g-ai" In-ilMi. I t hen lavorlte "f—eri timi of <• iim-l '• ii‘»w :».-■! i It -i i n- >.( ie- vi I.-. Ky. ut to no p»T|«-4-: live iiIhin I v.- is imlij.;- . o try Over net'll in I nr ] fottinl i’ll iuo' , ia:e lu-mllt fr-ui it. uw. mil i iiliim.T c y r --i'»r«-*l me to Uu* full cn- jox m. n’ or healrh A. II.M1IUI.KV. U;e!i-iimn!. Ky. The Augusta Chronicle is right : when it says that Col. Rlirett is mis- i aKen if he thinks the time has arrived, ! .!• will ever arrive in the South, when | the character and conduct of ex-Presi- : .lent Davis will lie considered a proper •object for adveise criticism. HEADA.CK U Proceeds from n Torpid Liver and im purities of the Stoniu’h. It ran be invariably cured by taking SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR Let all wln> Suffer Kcuieinlicr that SICK AND HESYODS EE-ADACflES Can be prevented by taking a dose as soon a< their symptoms indicate the coining of an attack. PRICK $1.00. Over 9,000,000 worn daring the past six ••oars. This marvelous success Is duo— Ist- To tho superiority of Condine over U1 other materials, us a stiffener for Corsets. 2nd.—To tho superior quality, shape mil workmanship of ourCorsots, combined vith their low prices. Avoid cheap imitations made of various finds of cord. Nono are genuine unless “ DR. WARNER’S CORALINE” s printed on insido of steel cover. FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING MERCHANTS. WARNER BROTHERS, *59 Broadway, New York City BEAST! Mexican Mustang Liniment Sciatica, Scratches, Lumbago, Sprains, Rheumatism, Strains, Burns, Stitches. Scalds, Stiff Joints, Stings, Backache, Bites, Galls, Bruises, Sores, Bunions; Spavin Corns, Cracks. Contracted Muscles, Eruptions, Hoof Ad, Screw Worms, Swinney, Saddle Galls, Piles. , a GOOD OLD STAND-BY ll»h<* for everybody exactly what U claimed ne of the reasons for the ureat popularity ot itanff Linliuent Is found In tta anlTerowl ibility. Everybody need* such a medicine. Lumberman needs It in case of acddenL Ion sexvllc need* It for general family use. :annlcr needs It for his team*and his men Ucchanic needs It always on his work liner needs It !n case of emergency, •ioneer ncedslt-cantget along without It nriner need* it in W* boose, his stable i took yard. it combo at man or the Boataiaa need* :rxl supply afloat and ashore. Home-fancier need. lt-lt Is hU best id safest reliance. •lock-grower needs lt-lt will mve bln Is of dollar* and a world of trouble, tall road man neods It and will need It ss ils Ilf c Is a round of accidents and dangers. Inck woodsman needs 1C There Is noth It as on antidote for the dangers to Ufa, l comfort which surround the pioneer, llrrehaat need* ft about his storeamoo, loyecs. Accidents wiU happen, and whei me the Mustang Liniment Is wanted at once a Bottle lathe Haaae. Tta the beat ol a Bottle la the Factory. Itslmmvdlat. seof accident oarearoln end loss of wage- a Bottle Always la the Stable fot IjtaHfiljntfK sum unji'y RICHMOND. VIRGINIA. , »im-*s established 1«S. The moat com- chlncry. 11 and Tramway Locomotives, it Road Locomotive* a F—*-•*- r* 0M«dc&e Solirlted Bead Cor UuqriGa. Aprilladowly. The New York World notices the fact that Governor Hill, ex-Secretary Manning, Conrad Jordan and Daniel Lamont have been spending the past few days at Long Branch together. It asks: “Does this mean peace?” May be it means a high old game of poker. To convey some idea of the force and eccentric character of the power mani fested by cyclones, it is stated that one of these storms in passing near Jamestown Dakota,on the 6th of June, shocked up the waters of a lake cover ing two acres ami left it dry enough to be plowed. Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson lias written another Hovel, which will be M«i»ed from the press soon. Mrs. Wilson lias written but little since her marriage to the rich railroader. Col. Wilson, but resides near Mobile in one of the most attractive homes to be found iti the South, where she passes a quiet, contented and happy life, writing to beguile leisure hours. TO STRENGTHEN CENTRAL. Foreign Capitol lata to Mo Invited to Invent*. Gen. E. P. Alexander got bock this morning from his trip to New York. He hod been absent since the hut m ing of the Central’s directors and bad a number of callers and was very busy all day. Nr. Uriah B. Han-old, one of the directors, returned with the president but the rest of them remain ed North and are trying to keep cool the General says. Speaking of the conference which the directors had in New York with the capitalists of that city, Gen. Alexander said that it was merely a consultation between the members of the syndicate which now controls the Central. The syndicate was formed last fall and was to last one year from January 1,1887. That limits its duration to the end of the present year. Mr. Hollins, the first vice-president, and Mi. August Bel mont, members of the syndicate are going to Europe shortly, Iliey hope to induce some strong foreign capital ists to come into the syndicate. Pre paratory to doing that, it was necessa ry to perfect certain plans and deter mine the duration of the syndicate. It was finally agreed that the syndicate Iy agreed that the syn should take a uew lease on life from January 1.1888, for five years, he foil The following dispatch from New York was si town to Gen. Alexander: This syndicate was formed this fall by its members blocking their then holdings of Central stock and buying; enough more to give them control am insure the election of General Alexan der. Of late mouths this same syndi cate h*s been engaged in perfecting tiie formation of a uew corporation or ganized under a charter obtained iu North Carolina and granted in accor dance with the laws of that State. This charter was previously obtained in Georgia for a corporation to be styled “The Georgia Investment and Bauk- ing Company.” The name of the new corporation under the North Carolina, charter w*ll be “The Georgia Com pany.” It is said the plan of opera tion* will be to put the $4,000,000 Cen tral stock owned by the syndicate into the treasury of “the Georgia compa ny” as a basis for its capitalization. For this Central stock the syndicate is to reserve a like amount of Georgia company 5 per cent, trust bonds and also four shares for one of Georgia company stock. It is claimed that these trust bonds will he a gilt edi security, and sell readily at 85 In this market. All divideds on the Cen tral stock above the 5 per cent, interest on the Georgia company trust bonds will go to the Georgia com pany stock. Tiie preseut mauagmeiit “ " ~ * ‘ if **■ of the Central feel very sure it will mak-> at least 9 per cent, dividends re gularly in the future. In that event tiie surplus of 4 per cent. in.excess of interest on trust bonds would go to tiie Georgia company stock, yielding a dividend on it of 1 per cent. The pro jectors of the enterprise claim that an annual dividend of 1 per cent, would make the stock sell certaiuiy at 20, since at that price it would be a 5 per cent, investment. They furthermore suggest that, since the Georgia com pany stock would represent a con trolling vote of the Georgia Central, it would have additional value on that account. Its speculative value would be based on the possibility of 9 per cent., and thereby securing to it more than 4 per cent. A11 cotifcingeucie t Georg! A funny incident is told by Hu* Lon don correspondent of the New York •Sun. At a distinguished occasion in London last week Miss Emma Nevada, tiie famous artiste, was present. So was Buffalo Bill. An English lady was introduced to Buffalo Bill and then to Miss Nevada. She declared herself pleased with Miss Nevada, and asked her how long she had been with Buf falo Bill’s show and what part of the frontier she was boru on. Miss Ne vada was too astonished to reply. The News and Advertiser finds it necessary, from time to time, to tie vote considerable space to the discussion of tiie tariff. We want the people of Southwest Georgia, and more especi ally the farmers, to study this import ant subject with us and fortify them selves against the fallacious arguments of the emissaries of their enemies, tiie protectionists. The policy of the pro tectionists is one that means oppres sion to the farmers of tiie South, and no farmer who understands what the effects of that policy really are, and how unjustly it operates against him and his business, can ever be a protec tionist. Sooner or later the tariff will be made the leading issue in the politics of this country. It now transpires that J. M. Tuttle, tiie St. Louis G. A. R. horn-blower, who has made such an ass ot himself, was requested to hand in his resigna tion as a Brigadier-General of the United States army, for crookedness, in seizing cotton permitted to pass through the lines by ('apt. D. X. Johnson, of the United Suites, Com mander of the Mississppi river fleet at the time. Tuttle was detected in his anticipated steal of $100,000 worth of cotton by Captain Johnson, reported to General McArthur, Tuttle's supe rior officer, Judge R. S. Hart (Tuttle’s confederate, a then customs officer), arrested, ami Tuttle asked to seud in his quit cards. That’s your man. “1 wish,” says a physician, “togive the public a sure and simple test of death which I have practiced during my forty-eight years in the profession. First expose the arin ot the body, ap ply a thick piece of paper with a hole in it an inch in diameter, ou the arm, and wet a piece and cover over it, and run a hot smoothing iron over it. The heat of tiie iron will raise a blister. If the blister contains scriuin or water it shows still a circulation going on in the system; if nothing but air, death. This is a sure test. Another test is to wind the forefinger with a piece of twine within an inch of the eiul of tiie finger. If there i* life, the end of the finger will show blood in A grave charge is preferred against the officials of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad. The press dispatches say that tiie inter state Commission has received the petition of Heck and Fetrec, coal min ers of Tennessee, against the East Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia, and »ther railway companies, charging that •ertain officers of the railroad prior to Vpril 4, 1SS7, purchased almost the entire stock of a rival coal mining com pany, and then “openly avowed their .mrpose to crush out all competitors in the business of coal mining” in a 'iven region. “Accordingly,” the !»etition continues, “orders.were is sued not. under any circumstance, to turuish cars to petitioners or to allow tcUtioners to ship any coal over said railroad ” The petitioners declare that, “by sail! iniquitous anil oppres sive action,” they have already stis- tained damages amounting to $25,000, and are sustaining “further grievous loss and damage every day.” The petitioners ask for damages and an In vestigation, and The correction of al leged abuses. considered, it is predicted that Georgia company stock will sell around 25. If it does and the bonds of 85, it will give the members of the Ceutr.il syndicate over 175 for their stock and thus show up a very handsome profit on their ori* ginal investment iu addition to the satisfaction which they ex|H*rienced in having General Alexander President.” Al'.er glancing over the above the President remarked that something of till that kind was discussed but nothing definite was settled upon. Another meeting will lie held iu the fail after Mr. Hollins returns. PRimiS THE FIRST. He is Advised to Reat on His Hon or* Already Won, Get Harried uud Nettle Down in Life. From tiie Florida Times-Union, The Hon. Primus W. Joues, of Baker county, Georgia, lias told the Atlanta Constitution the secret of the way in which he manages to get the first bale oi cotton into market every year. It tun s out that there is uot much of a secret about it after all, if he lias made a clean breast of tiie busi ness, anil that any moderately large planter in tiie southerly portion of the cotton belt can compete hopefully for tiie first bale honors if he has any am bition in that direction. The modus operandi is simply this, to quote the famous planter’s own words “In tiie first place, I guess I am the hardest worked white mail iu Georgia. For the past six months I have had less sleep, probably, than any man similarly situated. I get up at three or half-past three every morning aud from that time until night my men and 1 are hard at work. I use the in tensive system of farming and believe in it thoroughly. Iu the first place 1 plant very early, taking considerable risk iu doing so. 1 manure my land heavily aud work it rapidly. I always save the seed of my first picking and that helps. I have 300 acres or that early cotton. Everything that can be e tiie cotton—that is every- done to for e thing in the way of manuring aud working—is done.’ Then as the bolls begin to open, 1 pick the first and in that way niakfe up my bale. Of course I have to go over a large area in order »riy to get tiie cotton so early, taking a boll id them here and a boll there, as I fim matured. That’s all there is in it.” Taking tiie statement as the literal truth no reasonable cotton planter ought to begrudge the Hon. Primus W. Joues his well earned honors. He has sent in the first bale from his sec tion of the moral cottou field every year but one since the war, and it looks as if he proposes to monopolize the first bale honor tiie balance of his life aud transmit it to his heirs—no “to bis executors, administrators and as signs,” for we believe he is still a bachelor. The ouly trouble in the way is the danger that the stock of fresh makets where unripe cotton will pass muster may give out. But cut bonof What Is the use sit ting up nights and running one’s self to death even for the distinction of being tiie early bird that catches the cotton worm or buyer, as the case maybe? You are growing old, Pri mus, and beginniug to have silver threads among the raven. It’s time to quit all this vanity and overwork, and to settle down and think of posterity. Why heap up honors and cash for pos terity without taking time to provide >he posterity to enjov. them? “Fling away ambition” aud single cussedne**, paint the front fence, whitewash the gin-house, go court’.ug, get married and settle down in life. This timbale business is hardly worth halt what It costs. Fawdcr Lightning Strike* Hen**. Streater. 111., July 21.—At 2:30 o'clock this morning the entire city was aroused by a most terrific explos ion, which was immediately followed by the ringing of the fire bell. The powder house ol the Chicago, Wil- min "ton anil YermilikmCoal company *nd Industrious father thirty had been struck by lightning and be tween eight and ten thousand pounds of powder bad exploded. Every dwelling oii the sooth and west tide of the powder house was completely shattered, and in most cases entirely demolished. Not a vestige of the powder house remaines, while where it stood is an excavation aboqt sixty feet long, forty feet wide and twenty feet deep. Only one person was ft . , iy injured—, tramp sloepinz in a car near the powder boose. Six others were seriously buit, while minor cas ualties will reach nearly a hundred. There were forty-#™ dwelling almost totally destroyed, and there is not a plate glass window left In the business part of the city. It is impassible st this time to estimate, the lam, but ft 111 probably reach #75,000 or »00,000. . Ii. -. 'eL, t <r... NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE. MEN WHO MAEE PEOPLE TALK El SPITE OF THEMSELVES. An Intntlre Knowledge of Ilun Nature Necessary to keaSaeci fal Interviewer. Nxw York, July 23.—When any body in New York does anything that entitles him to publicity be very soon gains an idea of the immensity of that engine of human progress, the news paper. Mare than forty reporters wiD besiege him and his life will be made a burden until be ceases to be of pub lic interest. One of the most striking recent cases illustrating newspaper enterprise in the metropolis was witnessed at the hanging ot the murderer Peter Smith. A new York afternoon paper had ar ranged to publish an extra as soon as the doomed man had been hanged. The execution took place in the yard of tiie Tombs. In accordance with the statute only twelve reporters were admitted to witness the banging, and they were given ingress to the prisou in closure only as members of the jury inspectors. They had to remain until the execution had taken place and then sign their names to the certificate averring that the criminal bad been duly and thoroughly banged. Not until each reportar had signed this document was he permitted to leave the jail yard, and it was fully twenty minutes before the forms of the law had been complied with. The representative of an evening pa- pear, foreseeing the delay, arranged in an unique manner to send the news of the execution to bis journal. He purchased a big baseball wh 5 eh he carried in his pocket, within the high walled enclosure of the Tombs. By a proconcerted arrangement at the office a boy stood outside the enclosure, having been warned tliat as soon as he should see tiie ball come over tiie wall he should note the time and run to tiie office of the paper five blocks awa; aud carry the news, thus enabling hi paper to getout an early extra editiou announcing the •execution. The boy stood outside the high walls that sur rounded the Tombs aud never turned his eyes from the point where lie had been informed the ball would be tossed over. The instant that Smith was hanged the rt presentedve of the pa per, whose boy stood outside tiie walls, dashed awry from the gallows, hurled the ball over the Tombs wall. The boy, seeing the ball come over, noted the time, ran to the office aud gave the news. Withiu five minutes after the murderer had been hanged ail extra edition of the paper in question an nouncing his death was being sold or the street*. The boy who bad takeu the news to the office had not stopped to pick up the base ball throwu over the wall by the reporter and a dozen lads of the crowd of boys who play about the Tombs walls, darted for ward and seized the ball. There are in New York more than twenty newpaper men who are pro fessional Interviewers. It requires a special order of talent to be a good in terviewer and have a thorough knowl edge of public affairs. It demands, too, a special knowledge of human na ture. Every man except, pet liaps, Koscoe Cokling, can be interviewed. Mr. Conkiing is so stern aud frigid that a newspaper man is seldom able to get a word out of him. The professional newspaper inter viewer in New York, as elsewhere, lias certain rules which govern his con duct in approaebiug a difficult sub ject. He appeals to the vanity of a man wln-se face seems to indicate self esteem to the combatit'veness of the person who appears to be quarrelsome or to be the religious sentiment of the individual who is apparently of a se rious turn or mind. One of tiie most remarkable in stances of newspaper interviewing was that of a man now in New York who one night received a dispatch at Toledo, where he was then at work, to the effect that a lady who had gone down in the train at tiie terrible Ash tabula accident and escaped unscathed would arrive in Toledo on her way westward at 8:30 o’clock in the even ing, on a Lake Shore train. The per son who seut tiie telegram forgot to give lier name, and the interviewer liad to fiud her by natural instint. The train stopped in Toledo bat fifteen minutes. The reporter approached a young lady In a sleeping car, and by the merest chance hit upon the right person. She said that she was the woman who had gone down witn the train at Ashtabula, but when she learned that her interrogator was a newspaper man, she very curtly de clared that * " she would not talk us she had a decided objection to haviug her name aud declarations in print. The interviewer, who was a shrewd stu dent of human uature, studied tiie lady V face a moment and thought that he discovered in it markings of a strong religious sentiment. He acted upon his judgment and began to con gratulate the lady ou the miraculous deliverance that a kind Providence had given her from a fearful fate. Her soul was moved, and all forgetful tliat she was talking to a newspaper man, she related a graphic story of the ter rible accident. She told it in an art less man: ntH ner, grew earnest as she pro- . ... lktag and did not cease tall train was moving out of tiie it; Then tiie reporter rose, his hat, and said to the young lady: “I beg your pardon, but des- ' m " tfo _***=■«*=»- piteyour objections, you have been in terviewed.” The young lady tried in vain to call him back, and not until he had gone did he realize that his adroit ness Iu appealing to her religious sen timent had led her to talk in spite of herself. The average journalist is a good person to interview, but the politician is ordinarily chary of the newspaper interrogation. Col. Ingersoll kas late ly adopted a rule to the effect that be will not be interviewed. He is, how ever, very courteous to newspaper men. Recently a reporter wrote out twelve questions fork stated interview DEN OF THE RED MEN. AFictnreiqnc Hiding-place or she He*tile Apaches inCbihaahuo. In a letter dated El Paso, Tex., « special correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat sent the news that Apache signal fires had been burning on the mountain-tops in the Sabina! district, and that the miners had thrown np breastworks of silver ore roundabout tiie shafts.. Tiie writer continues: Apaches escaping to a place of safety or biding to await the subsidence ot the storm of indignation aroused by their outbreak, or in slipping through a country on a tour of inspection pre paratory to a return raid, never illum ine their line of march by signal fires. On the contrary they generally throw out the highest and most conspicuous mountain peaks, for the “guidance 1 to the white man, long lines of signal fires at the right angles to tiie course they intend to pursue, and far enough in advance of their marching column to allow any opposing force to concen trate on the signal line, and thereby withdraw from the route the hostiles desire to pursue. The fastest runners are always throwu out on the signal service and travel separately, each one by tiie moist direct practical route to his objective poiut, and then they re join the band at the appointed rendez vous, which, in this case, is undoubt edly the same hiding place where Ma guire aud his band rested iu security for more than a year, up to last Octo ber. There is not a habitation between Sabinal and Paso del Norte, on ei tiier side of a direct line, between the places named. The country is a dry, barren, burning plain, broken by low lava hills aud ridges, without water except at Lake Guzman, tweuty-five miles west of the line, and some water holes fif teen miles northwest of Laguna Santa Maria. Both the river aud so-called Lake of Santa Maria are dry more than half tiie year, except tliat water may be fotiiid iu holes along the course of the stream at odd seasons. Fifteen to twenty miles east northwest from La guna Santa Maria, about forty miles southeast from Lake Guzman, hidden away in some irregular and rugged mountains, apparently detached from the Silawayuca range, are some fine springs of water, grass r vales, with a sing* * ... ngle defile approach, luxurious aud nutritious grasses and an abundance of game. It was near here that tiie Indians surrounded General Crook’s army iu 1884 and dictated terms. This Apache paradise was first discovered by whites only last week, and it is feared the in trepid prospectors who discovered it— Tom Margraw and Van Xess Smith— have ere this lost their lives by the new influx of savages, as they (Margraw aud Smith) returned to that section only a few days in advance of the In dians. In this hiding place some ex tensive faces of cliffs are almost cov ered with hieroglyphics,rude drawings of life-size, mounted Indians, horses, deer and other auiinals and birds. In fact, there is in this stronghold more luniau “signs,” figures, charac ters, etc., than, perhaps, iu any other siugle resort ot the Apache*, not ex cepting Cochise's famous stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains of Arizona. Here Mangus aud his band remained concealed from the time that chief broke off from Gerouiiuo, soon after the d**ath of Captain Crawford, until they sallied out, stole the Corralitas Company's mules, aud started for the Navajo or San Carlos Reservation. Ike aud Al Stevens and Jake Baker, all of El Paso, were prospecting tiie country through from El Paso to this district when Mangus emerged from his hiddiug place aud started for Lake Guzinau last October. The Stevens party had a light buck-board and a span of horses. Iu the dry country between Lake Guzman and Santa Marie, their team being about exh.i list ed, they turned into a canyon ami fol lowed through to au open basin in search of water. Here their horse gave out. Al Stevcus crossed tiie basin and started up the rauge bunting deer. Off to one side of them lie no ticed some fat horses and immediately headed for them, when the Apaches opened fire on him. lie made haste in regaining ids companions, and, aban- FIFTY-ONE CATS. The Board of Health Calls Upon New York World. Mrs. Mary Hudson and her aged mother moved into the top fiat of No. 47 Jane street, a couple of years ago, bring with them a small colony of cats. The women and the cats llveihtogetber in peace and quietude until a few days ago, when woe fell upon them. They have been unhappy and warlike ever since. Yesterday Inspector Cannoji, of the board of health, visited the fiat to investigate a complaint that had been made about the abundance and odoriferousness of the cats. He re ported that be had found no less than fifty-one cats and several dozen varie ties of odors, most of which he could not classify in polite or even parlia mentary language. Mrs. Hudson was notified that she will have to dissipate the. nuisance. A World reporter who knows . thing or two about cats, rang tne bell HOW ENGAGED COUPLES ACT. e Interesting Experiences a by S and climbed up to Mrs. Hudson’s lofty >find doiiiug the buckboanl and its contents, driving tiie jaded horses before and them as long as the auioials could walk, they made a forced march tliat night to the Coral de Picdras, thirty- six miles distant. The hostiles of to-day are doubtless now concentrated iu this hiding place. BULGARIA’S CHOSEN RULER. He Seem* to Be “Waihab an Ann But a. Willing One. and handed them to Mr. Ingersoll. considerable He wrote the replies at consii length, and the article, which pertain ed entirely to the great American sys tem of interviewing, was one of the * htest productions that ever pro- led from Mr. Ingersoll’s pen. Two HloOel Faurmers. Messrs. Jack and Peter Tallis, two brothers living over in Marion county, have, by their indomitable pluck and energy, clearly demonstrated the fact that farming can be made to pay, and that there is a fortune for all hidden withiu the old re«l hills of Georgia and that “those who seek shall find.” Those sterling young men began lile almost without a dollar, but with plenty of energy and a determination to succeed they went to work and were suon in very comfortable circum stances. They own one of tiie finest plantations in Marion county, ou which they run some twelve or fifteen (down. They have never bought a K>und of meat or bushel of corn n their lives, but on the ocher hand raise an abundance for their own use and for sale as well. Recently, while tearing down an old barn, they found a stack of lodder which had been placed there by tiieir equally energetic . . . . lather thirty-four years ago, while, they have ‘many stacks of their own raising which has been accumulating for the past seven teen years. Their mules are always sleek and fat, and are the envy of all wbo see them. These young men never find it necessary to ask a loan of a bank, bat instead, do a small bank ing business their selves by loaning money every year among tiieir neigh bors, it bring said there is never a time that they do not have a thousand dollars or more about the house await ing investment. Where there is a will there a way, and what these two plucky young men have done, others can do *Uo j?they desire. —An exchange says; «*Neyer make bet with a woman.” In the case ofa winsome woman this is uo doubt good adrioe. London Cablegram N. Y. Snn The Bulgarian people are still won dering whether they are to be ruled over by the princeling whom they have elected. For tiieir sake I hope they may uot. The Prince not only >arts his hair in the middle and wears jracelets, which lie changes very fre quently, but he also goes in for jew elry to a ridiculous extent. He wears a dozen rings at a time, has searabees and other curious things set in his bracelets, is fond of diamonds and is ; walking specimen of perieet dandy ism. One quality which recommends him td poor Bulgaria is the great wealth. He is heir to the Collar! es tates, which came to him from the hands of Lulls Philippe of France, whose grandson he is. He has a splendid palace in Vienna, has lots of friends to share his dinner, n*s tin: en tree to all the courts, and just why he should thrust his youthful nose into such a hornet’s nest as the Bulgarian question, it is difficult to imagine. Yesterday a deputation of Bulgarians called on him at his chateau of Eben- thal to come and be ruler. The Prince showed judgment in replying virtually that he would be ruler if Russia agreed, but that he did not propose to quarrel over the thing with the Czar. It was comical, though, when the Priuce tried to play a fatherly part toward the deputation, of which one member at least, was old enough to be bis great-grand-father. Shaking by the hand the Turk who was on the deputation, the prince said, solemnly: “I have great regard for you relig ion.” Tills, from a devout Catholic, sound ed somewhat queerly. The prince had probably been reading an account of American electioneering maneuvers. The Saw Cooling Down. Milwaukee Sentinel, July 16. Men seem most indifferent to those matters which concern them most. It is the opinion of scientific minds that the sun is cooling down; yet people are goiug about the streets L. mere seersuckers and straw hats, aud even in shirt sleeves. It is now well estab lished that tin: sun is not a burning fire, but Is merely a fluid mass cooling, with some little accession of fresh en ergy by meteors occasionally falling in, “of very small account compared wltii the amountof heat the sun steadi ly loses.” The theory that the shriuks because it gets colder, and that tiie process oi shrinking makes it hot ter, has mislead many good people. So they eat ice cream am! drink cold lera- otiade and so-called soda water, and wear gauze underwear ami fan them selves and tliat sort ot thing. But the latest conclusions of science show tliat the sun is still cooling down, aud the scientific man can figure out that yes terday was a cold day and that during these two July weeks we should have bad the furnaces going and put on fnr mittens and ear muffs. A man has ouly to fill himself up with the con clusions of science iu otder to correct the notion tliat the weather is warm. As the snn Is growing colder—the mutual gravitation of its particles as it shrinks, giving rise to less beat than it lost by radiation—it Is manifestly im possible that the weather should be as hot as the lying thermometer declares. It is easy to prove by any faith-healer that if a man once makes np his mind that the weather is cold, liis collar will droop iu dampness about bis neck, tiie perspiration will in streams down his back, torttnta: fur cap aud apartments yesterday afternoon to ^ out why all the fuss was made about the poor, innocent cats. Mrs. Hudson showed her visitor to a chair whose cushions were plentifully sprinkled prematurely white cat hair. Then poured forth her tale of woe freely. Mrs. Hudson aud her mother moved Into the top flat of No. 47 Jane street two years ago. They hail five rooms. Also they brought with them five cats, all of which had uames. Nobody made any trouble about the cats, and they injured no one. The fifth fiat was an Adatnless Eden trom ’way back. Mrs. Green, “who rims a lanu- dry on Sixth avenue,” so Mrs. Hudson says, had long sougi.ta place where she and her black cat Nigger could board. Sirs. Hudson opened to Mrs. Green aud Nigger a haven where they could rest peacefully, with board, for several dollars a week. Nigger frater nized well with 3irs. Hudson’s cats, ami there was much joy iu the house. Sundry neighbors from time to time found their noses assailed by a weird, soul-racking bouquet ties chats, but held their peace aud felt happy for the simple reason that the cats couldn’t get down Into the yard and howl and spit on the back fences. There is no elevatar at 49 Jane street. The Adamless Eden got along swim mingly until tiie advent of the serpent brought in, Mrs. Hudson says, by Emily Johnson, lier own niece. Emi ly doesn’t, like cats. Furthermore, after a severe quarrel with Mrs. Hud son a few days ago she walked out of the filth fiat swearing vaugeance. This took the shajM* of a letter to the board of h< altii telling all about the cats. Mrs. Green had long algo moved away, hut left lier black pet in Mrs. Hudson’s e\re. To her came wicked Emily Johnson two days ago saying, “if you care anything about your Nigger you’d better move him away.” Mrs: Green moved hint away with nearness and dispatch. When Inspector Cannon called yes terday morning he fouud a great many cats in Mrs. Hudson’s rooms. What had become of them when tiie World man got there was a mystery. Only three were iu sight—Cassie or Cas- sau dm, puse white, with a bangled collar of gold about her ueck; Blue Eves, stone deaf, with a brass collar and small bell around hers, and Bessie a piebald combination of tortoiseshell and oter tints. They all looked plump hut as they frisked abont the room they lent it an air .suggestive of Ro quefort cheese and other weird things that come high. “There are no other cats; I have no more,” said Mrs. Hudson, shaking her short hair impetuously. “All the pets 1 have are these cats, and that English sparrow I took In from out doors. The cats are all right and hurt nobody. They never go down into tiie yard. But, oh! Wait till 1 see that girl Emily, that’s all.” 31 rs. Hudson weighs abont 145 pounds, and seems to be in good con dition. Emily Job i. son had better be ware of her. In tiie meantime, the board of health will look to the cats and the fumigation of the rooms. A pretty girl who has had and still has scores of admirers was the first to take the witness stand. Her testimony, says the Kansas City Star, was given with charming grace and carried con viction. It is this: “I have been engaged twice.” A surprised murmur arose from the party. “And the troth of the saying that there is no accounting for wo man’s taste was fully verified in my case, for the two gentlemen could not have been more alike. Hie first pro posal came from one some years my senior. He told his tale with difficulty, and the hesitation with which he talked imparted to me something akin to it, for 1 did not accept him as ly as I intended. However, we be came engaged and remained so for four months. And do you know that dux ing the whole time he never as much as tooebed my band?” “Never kissed you/” asked a petite brunette, in a tone of wonderiug in dignation. “Never.” “The other man was an ardent wooer and was a great stickier for what he called his ’rights.* Having been edu cated, so to speak, in the puritanical system characteristic of my first en gagement, I was- disposed to resent the seeming liberties he took; but I was told that an engaged couple were expected to be more demonstrative to each other titan ordinary acquaint ances.” “How do you mean ?” “Well, there is certainly no harm in a woman permitting a man to whom she has plighted her troth occasionally kissing her. It is very frequently done, 1 know, and when no such un derstanding exists aii exception to the rule is found.” “I don’t know abont that,” was the dreamy observation of a young fellow who was said to be .engaged. “I am disposed to think tiie puritanical tiv sjjrstem is yet very extensively prac- * “What is the conduct toward each other of engaged couples?” asked one of the party. honest, serious entanglements?” ^ “In qnerried a lady. “When a woman is truly and hon estly in love with a man she is very careful, indeed, more so than she or dinarily is in her conduct toward him. She-is afraid of doing something that will injure her in his estimation. The more ardently she loves him the more reserved, frequently, is she with her caresses and endearments. I speak of the engaged period, of course; after marriage it is different. He perhaps kisses her a few times before they are married. I am told up North, and even in parts of the South, it is differ ent. An engagement becomes a pub lic affair, is announced, and the be- HYDROPHOBIA CURED. The XnrSrron* Craze That Al A T-brtlclan Trll.Ho.V Hr Trl.4 ««=*• «*• Ha> an Experiment ton With Chlero- Osage Mission, Kan., July 13.— Quite an excitement was occasioned here a few days ago by the apj>oarance, upon the maiu street .of the place, of what is supposed to have been a mad dog. Hie town was crow led with people aud the streets were alive with teams and wagons. The dog started down tiie street, biting right and left, and before be was killed was known to have bitten several horses and dogs, but, as far as knowu, the people all escaped by rannlng into the stores ann other places of retreat. The dog was finally shot. In connection with this the foliow- ind incident related by Y. G. Miller, an old army turgeon and practicing physician of a quarter of a century’s experience may be of interest. Mr. Miller stated that he had never been called on to treat but one case ot hy drophobia when it wasbeyoud a doubt a case of rabies. “This/* be said, “was when I began the practice of medicine. I was called one night to sees mau wko.themessenger said, suffering with intense spasms, nothing, that could be done would relieve him I took with me my medi cine case and also put into ray sack bags a bottle of chloroform, contain ing about three ounces. When I came I found the patientquiet, with a rapid. AMOK! AMOK! Nude a Cu*xem, irregular pulse, but in a few minutes iz he was seized with a paroxysm which it took the combined strength of my self and the family to control. He irothed at the mouth and strapped like liet I be havior of the couple is to be that of lie. CARESSED BY A CROOK. He Kiksct a Young; Ladj- and Then Bob* Her. Portland, Me., July 19.—A young woman visiting in Congress street was awakened by a noise in her room last night, when a burglar put his hand over her mouth, kissed tier and said: “Keep still, sis; I won’t hurt you. AH I want Is tiies3 trinkets.” She managed to arouse tiie house, when, with a jiolite “Good night, sis,” he sprang from a window, having in a bundle every (Mirtable article of value iu the room ami a sum of money. He left his hat behind and it was hung ou the rack iu the front hall to be given to the police as a clew. The family then retired and the burglar returned and stole the hat. <%vullable Children. From Itiilley V Fashion Magazine. Some children have a great faculty for teaching. I have seen a wee girl teaching two or three wee darkies their golden text on the pulpit stairs at a country Sunday School with a vigor wliicinacarcely any part of the room seemed to display. 3Iy tiny sister coaxed a gill who waited on »is at our tNiarding house t<> l**t her teach her to read; ami 1 have heard tin; little tiling lamenting after the was over: “O i! 1 wish Cuariottn had six lessous a day!” Charlotte, be it understood., was as trying a pupil as ever was seen. If we could have imported into the nursery two or three harmeless street Arabs tiie child would have taught them a great deal, and we would have been spared her constant fretful ques tion : “What can I do now?” I won der whether, as mothers are more edu cated, and, therefore, more and more familiar with Adam Smith and the principles of the divirion of labor, they may not devise means by which useful teachings of the Sunday-school lessons to poor little neighbors, and useful ABC teachings, shall be given day after day through years in one way and another, by those children— ami they do seem especially ran whose talents lie in that direction. Iu old Virginia slave days it was a usual thing for the children of a house hold to leach the servants. I was not one of the natural teachers of whom I am writing, and my efforts in this line were as few'os possible, and I suppose as unsuccessful; but doubtless many others found scope for tiieir best ener gies, and did and received mnch good. I myself, in spite of my poor teach ing abilities, certainly against my very inclination, was persuaded by an old woman, in my childhood, to teach her to crochet. Of ail slow scholars, she was about the slowest, and I was sure it was no use for her to try; “just a great bother to me for nothing;” but she had endless patience and coaxed me day after day to keep on showing her the stitches; and actually, poor old soul—who Jived a good many years after that—partly earned her living all the rest of her life in that small town by crocheting. I was the child that might have been set to useful fancy work. I could have filled the house or at any rate, fair tables, with respectable tidies aud knickknacks, and would have been made much happier by being allowed to do so. It is one of my hobbies that chil- Iren often have faculties going to waste which would produce a con stant product for the world, if only their busy mothers took time to study their powers, to develop them in tiie right direction ami set them to work. an engaged couple. Here with us it has not yet reached that point. It will some day, I am confident, and I do not know that It Is not the best plau by tar. It is certainly far more attractive to tiie parties themselves, and it is a serious* drawback to flirting aud coquetry, which too often characterize young girls. With us a girl likes to be with her fiancee, but the moment the public becomes aware of the fact that he is her intend ed husband she rather avoids public appearance in his compauy. Just why it is I do not know, but it is frequent ly tiie case. I know a lady, a staid matron, who was engaged for a year before marriage, who requested her financee six months before the time to refrain from visiting her. And for six months previous to the wedding she did not see him, though they lived withiu twelve miles of each other, The following editorial from the Philadelphia Record sets forth so plainly some of the bearings and oper ations ot the tariff that it is worth pre serving: A high tariff orator, trying to bam boozle Virginia farmers, talks in this wise: “In India a ryot gets 8 cents a day and lives on rice, costing 2 cents a day. Tills is pauper labor, against which America can not be expected to compete. Wheat from India, there fore, can be delivered in LondoR at nominal figures, and would be dumi rTo - - - into New York City at ruinous prices but for our tariff. The farmers of America have good reason to dread the competition of the Indian ryot. They compete directly with him iu all markets, domestic and foreign, tor the sale of their wheat. If wheat should be imported into this country the tariff would raise the price of it to the extent of the duty. But we are wheat producers. We have a surplus to sell. This surplus is disposed of in European itition I knew a little girl ten or twelve 1 bad a • vears old, who had a great tallent for housekeeping, preserve-making and that, and her wise mother let her keep house as far as her school work allow ed, and make all the preserves she chose; and ( am quite snre that that large family got more good of their mother for tiie relief which thi3 gave her. Five minutes* study of your child’s capacities aud * * rtable only with a giving you a helper in some clepart- AKU*. \K \% meat for tliat i markets and comes In compel there with Indian wheat and sells, having reference to quality, at the same prices. The price of our whole wheat crop is therefore constantly de termined by the price which we get for our surplus. Thus the farmer is brought Into direct competition with the Russian scrls, Egyptian felahs and I mlian ryots, and for his grain must accept in his home market and in the controlling markets of the world the same price they get. Moreover, onr vicious and indefensible tariff system has forced Great Britain, in order to give herself a choice of markets, to build railroads to bring Indian wheat to market and to stimulate the culture of cottou. The farmer pays protective taxes on nearly everything he buys,and contends against the cheap labor of the world in marketing everything he has be better for tariff to sell. It would orators to steer clear of the ’ Indian ryot” argument when they are ad- * igTnt **• dressing intelligent grangers.” It Came at Last. * Detroit Free Press. “Say,” he called, as he stood on the postoffice steps and beckoned to a pe- destrain across the street. The other man came over, was con ducted to a seat ou the window sill in the corridor and the first continued: “I was looking over my diary tor 1886 to-day, and I find that on the 13th day of February I encountered you on Woodward avenue.” “Perhaps you did.” “You asked me then if I thought the backbone of winter was broken, was in a harry, and took the querry under advisement. I am very sorry that the matter slipped my mind, as I generally answer such questions in side of a month.” “And what did you want of me?” “To apologize, sir, and to say to you that I am now ready to make my re ply. Yes, sir. I think the backbone of winter is broki :en, and I shouldn’t be a bit surprised it we had an early 8 Pri?S ” . The other got up and tried to say something, bnt the effort was a sail failure, and by and by he turued and walked off and went np the street and turned a corner without ever looking back. Bleeding Hlm*elf to Sober np. New York -Time*. A well-known sporting man, under the influence of too much wine, the other day occupied a cluur in one of the most popular and fashionable of the down-town resorts of bankers, brokers and merchants, and so stupid was he that tiie best efforts ot his friends to keep him from public exhi bition were long unavailing. Even tually one of tiie bar-keepers shook him np a bit. when he aroused some what, but fell off into a deep slumber again. In half an hour another and more successful attempt was made, when lie incohereutiy inquired as ro his whereabouts. He then put his hand into his trousers pocket, took out a penknife and asked the bar-keeper to open the smaller blade. “This is all O. K. t ” sold the latter. “It’s tiie old racket. He won’t hart nobody. Yoa’II see ” And then be slipped the handle end into tho grasping fingers of the old sport, who opened bis mouib and made three or four supergeial in cisions on tiie roof. Within a minute after the flow of blood he was npon his feet, and under friendly guidance reached the door, and when lost seen he was walking up the street as straight as a bee flies. “John Moirissey was the first mau that l saw do that,” said •r. as he tossed up a cof- dextrously I*.is mouth. a dog. As soon as lie was qu gan to ask questions of the family, and soon found that a few days before he had been bitten by a strange dog that came into the cow lot oue morning aud was snapping at the cattle. He attempted to drive the animal out, but the dog turned on him and jumping up inflicted a slight wound ou his left arm. It was nothing more than a set a tch, had healed up in a day or so and nothing more was thought of it. From the description of tiie dog I was confident that it was tiie same that a few days before had been killed in the neighborhood, undoubtedly mad, and I could no longer doubt what was the matter with my patient. His cries, when he went iuto the spasms were terrible to hear. I gave him various remedies to quiet him, and they seem ingly had uo effect. At this time I happened to think of the bottle of chloroform. I bad tbeu been at work on the patient for over two hours and hadn’t been able to give him any relief, and I was pretty well assured that the man would die anyway. I was alone with him excepting members of the family, who would uot know the difference and I determined , to try an* experiment, cither to quiet the man or kill him with the chloroform. When ills next spasm came on 1 saturated a cloth witn tiie liquid and placed Jt to the patient’s nose and mouth. He strug gled for a long time, but at last the drug did its work, and he sank back insensible. He soon came to, the spasm on him, and I again treated him iu the same way. This 1 con tinued during the remainder of tiie night and until nine o’clock next morning, using up all the chloroform 1 had ami sending for a uew supply several times, ttsiug in all about three pounds. At nine o’clock tiie next morning the patient went to sleep. When he awakened up he acted like a person half dazed or half foolish. A slimy, stringy secretiou ran out of Ills moiith continually, and lie seemed to have no desire for food and for a long time would not swallow. He gradual ly grew better, aud Iu about three weeks’ time he was up and about. 1 knew the man afterward, doctored him-and his family. He never had another attack, and some eight years afterward died with consumption*” This, is undoubtedly one of the Strongest cases on record, and. iusome respects, without a parallel. The doc tor says he eau verify tiie facts os stated. The Attack on Sir. Dari*. From the Augusta Chronicle. * Col. R. Barnwell Rhctt, of South Carolina, formally years editor of the Mercury and for a time editor of the New Orleans Picayune, lias an article in the Century tliat will stir up a hor nets’ nest. In his paper on “the Con federate Governmeutof Montgomery,” he states that the failure ol the South was not due to tiie superior numbers of tiie Northern soldiers—a common belief which tiie writer says, “may be an agreeable sop to Southern pride”— but to the mismanagement of “third rate aud incompetent raeu.” Colonel Riiett says tliat Ids fattier regarded Mr. Davis as an “accomplished nrau, but egotistical, arrogant and vindic tive, without depth or statesmanship.” As illustrating tiie incoinpetency of Mr. Davis, 31 r. Rhett state*: That early in 1861 an offer wm made by a responsible shipping house of Liverpool to furnish the Confederacy with ten first-class East Indiamen, suitably armed, at$19,000,000 or 40,000 bales of cotton. They would have kept open the Southern ports, which was of vastl3’ greater importance to the Rebel Cause than destroying the commercial marine of the North, but the offer was at once rejected by Mr. Davis. Again, when early in 1861 an ~ * dl London Daily Telegrayh. Two incidents have recently appear ed in oar columns of that strange and sanguinary custom of the East called “running amuck.” “Runningamuck’ tea phrase derived from the Malay word “amok”(Wlling), and constitutes a well-marked hysterical affection of certain races inhabiting Oriental coun tries. It b rarely, If ever, manifested among the quiet-tempered Hindoos, and but seldom amoog the Indian Mnssnlmans, while, whenever it does occur in Uindoostan, the malady may generally be traced to the abuse of opium or the extiact of hemp called ... ganja or charras. The Hindoo tobacconist sells a special confection made np of bhang, opium, datura, cloves, mast, cinnamon and carda- mnms, which is mixed with milk and sugar and eaten as a sweetmeat. 'Fills diabolical cake (known as majnin) will drive a man mad about as soon as anything. With the Malays, however, who have given a .name to the terrible mental aberration of which we speak, and who are by far the most addicted to it of all Eastern peoples there is sel dom any such explanation of tiie oot- Suddenly, without rhyme or reason, wllf.sprii ip from his si board orhis couch, draw liis ring up lib shop- kris—the wave bladed dagger which they all carry—and, with a scream of “ Amok! Amok!” strike its point into the heart of the nearest wayfarer and dart down the crowded bazar like the lunatic which he is, stabbing and entting on all sides, “Amok! Amok!” echoes from a hundred mouths, aud every body hurries for a place of refuge, flee ing in all directions, except ing in all directions, except those bolder spirits, who snatch up weapons of defense and join the armed throng which pursues tiie desperado. Tii * path of the chase is soon strewn with bodies of men, women and children, dead or bleeding to death, until some lucky shot or daring thrust disables the murderer, who b pierced with a dozen blades os soon as he falls to the ground. Occasionally it turns out that the “smoker” has received some personal affront or injury, or was hopelessly in debt or disappointed In love; bnt more comnionlV there b nothing whatever to acconut for the wild fury of bb pro ceedings, and-the street sweepers dreg hb carcass away as carelessly as if a leopard had been slain in the public streets. So ordinary, Indeed, b the occurrence tliat in many towns aud cities where there lives a large Malay population an instrument b kept in readiness at every police station call ed the “amoker catcher.” It b some thing like an eel spear with a very long handle, and so contrived that two elastic-pohited spikes close around the madman’s neck and secure him help lessly when tiie iron prongs are pushed against bb nape from behind. Neither rank nor wealth keeps a Malay from his sudden access of hom icidal mania if lie has the predisposi tion or has been greatly excited. There was an instance at Salatiga, in the island ot Java, where the regent was celebrating the marriage of his two daughters, and everybody was in a joyous mood. Just, however, at the gayest moment of the ceremonies, tiie regent’s brother-in-law*, a high official, came rushing through the processlou, stabbing everybody fie conid get a: with lib ‘ krb. The regent himself, _ up to iiiquire iuto the uproar, was killed by a single thrust, and it was the brother of tiie prince who ran the “amoker” through tiie back with a spear and brought hiui down, yet not before he bad slaughtered nine of the palace people, and wounded six others more or leas severely. It might be supposed that a race subject to such ferocious fits would be naturally ex citable and nervous iu manner, but tiie contrary Is the case. The Mala is, or al! men, the most quiet, dignified and slow of speech and action in hb « rdi- nary life. He seldom speaks loudly or quickly, has the most courteous aud even gentle demeanor, and quarrels very rarely with lib fellows. Yet he is coldly and silently cruel; has no re gard for human life, aud derives from the Mohatumedau faith, which he pro fesses, its bitterest and most relentless dogmas. Once started on tiie “death run” by insult, despair or some brain trouble, hb only thought is to “kill, and kill, aud kill,” and the fierce ex ultation or hb insanity he does not feel the blow which lets out hb burniug blood and puts a stop to hb dreadful career. fthert Stories from the Chine**. From the Chinese Review. A young tiger met an old one and soid,*.“I got hold of a man to-day whose upper parts were so tasteless and hb nether parts so sour, that, hun gry as I was, 1 left him in disgust. I wonder what sort of a man this could be?” “A student who has had to buy hb degree,” was the reply. The Lord of Hades cons! .ered a certain spirit to have been a great slu- ner indeed, so be adjudged lie should re-enter tiie world to become a poor scliolar with five children. “Is uot that rather a light punishment?” re monstrated the angei. “No,” said hb Eminence. “The five hnugry children will soon drive him mad.” Chang and Chung mutually agreed to start a brewery. Said Chang to Chnng, “You supply the rice and I will furnish the water. “But,” quer ied Cbung^ “If the profits are divided THE LUSCIOUS MELON. A CHOP THAT IS PAYING GEOR GIA HANDSOMELY. Whole'J*rain Loads Handled Here. Atlanta Constitution. A million watermelons! There b a great deal of cholera mor bus In that, b there not. And yet Atlanta wijl handle over a million wat ermelons this year. Of coarse she does not eat them ail. They are ship ped by tiie hundred thousand all over the sou tii, but Atlanta, Is tiie distrib uting point, aud Atlanta merchants are the distributors. Indeed, Atlanta is the biggest melon market iu America. Mr. J. J. Ftlvejr, the commission merchant who does the largest melon business, said on yesterday: “The melon seasou has been an*immense success. Peaches hurt watermelons, and so do cheap graj es. This year we have h:u! few peaches, and the gru|>es are late, so watermelons had it their own way.” ‘The melon merchants have made money then?” ’•I shouM say so. Atlanta has al ready handled over seven hundred cars or watermelons. These have netted the farmer from $40 to $150 a ear. My best results with one car was $148 net to i lie grower. The two hundred (sirs 1 have handled have averaged about $70 net to the farmer. F ii- makes a \rry profitable cron, as tliejacre. according to the. capital embarked, I dl“ - agent was sent to England to purchase arms for the Confederate soldiers, he was authorized to purchase simply 10,000 Enfield rifles, to ann 250,000 men. As another illustration of tile unfitness of Davis, the story is told of Mr. Yancey’s trip to Europe to secure recognition for the Comederacy. If he had been allowed to negotiate com mercial treaties advantageous to Eng land and France he would have been much more likely to have secured the desired recognition. But tiie proposi tion to this effect was defeated by Mr. Davis’ influence, anil Mr. Yancey, as be afterward expressed it, weutou a fool’s errand. Col. Rhett says that within six weeks after 3Ir.’ Davis’ electiou os President of the Confederacy, tiie Provisional Congress found that they had made a mistake, and that there was danger of serious divisions, which would (Kiralyze tiie Confederate Gov ernment. “To avoid this and to con- fere all |>ower on the President, they resorted to secret session.” Col. Rhett irtimates that these mis takes of the ex-President would have been fhown np before, except for his arrest and imprisonment, which made him a martyr and silenced the voice of impartial criticbm in tiie South. Colonel Rhett b mis taken if be thinks tiie time has arrived, or will ever arrive In the South, when the character and con duct of ex-President Darb will be con sidered proper subjects for adverse criticism. Another generation than tho present may review with compla cency the mistakes of ex-President Davis, . but to the eternal honor of the Southern people Mr. Davb stands to day enshrined in their hearts as the grandest living representative of the Confederate cause. Whatever may have been hb faults, whoever may have boon the causes that produced defeat and disaster, the Southern peo ple will never accept or endorse Col. {belt’s criticbm of ex-President Davb. it it In •: - A Big Artesian Well I Slop* tiie Flow of Tbree Other Well*. Here is an interesting artesian well item from the Eufaula Times: A volautary flow of 90,000 gallons a day has been secured by the water works company In the well under the bluff. A pump will increase the quantity about three times, or at least to 250.000 gallons a day, so we are in formed. A car load of street pipe Iras already been received and active work will begin on them iu a few days. A strange thing about the last will is that it has stopped the flow ol lira other three wells below the com press. The water is said to be strongly impregnated with sulphur. - -AOdtaarM am afraidJt will be difficult to appir- tiou your share.” “Oh, I’m not afraid,” said Chang; “when tiie brew b over, give me tiie water; you can have the remainder.” A man was seized by a tiger. The victim’s son took his bow ana pursued. “Hit him In the leg,” cried tiie fattier^ u b . .. ‘else you’ll spoil the market value of Ile ^ I ^ k 1,1 die skin.” .and said: “I have made a the ski A bibulous individual, on entering a restaurant, noticed that tiie wine cu|*s were small. After seating him^plf.. he gave vent to a most demoniacal' of howls and groans. “What: is the matter?” asked the landlord. “Ah, answered the man, “my fattier, a hale, hearty mau, met hb death at a friend’s table be accidentally swallowing a small wine enp, so whenever I set similar ones, the memory of the sad eveiit overcomes me.” It Is needles* to add that the cap was replaced by a larger one. A hard drinker dreamed tliat he had become possessed of a bottle of genuine stuff, but,' determined to enjoy it thoroughly, be had begun to heat it. During the heating process he awoke. “Hoo, hoo,” he groaned, “If I had known tbb was to happen, I would have drunk it cold.” A servant did not fill a guest’s cup to the brim. The latter, bolding It up, remarked, “This cup is too deep, am! broke apiece off. “How is that?” cried the host. “If the upper part can’t hold liquor, of what use b it?” was the smart retort. OnlF»U •inan's Toe. Washington Letter iu Sew \ ork Telegram. A high official of the Government was in a communicative mood to-day. office chair discovery that b worth millions to bashful men. You know there aie some fellows who • never can go Into ladies’ company, y^lthout being embarrassed, but I have foil ini out something that will make a 'bashful man the equal of the most self- conscious woman that ever lived. • Now, let me tell you my secret. 1 started out on the broad general piat- form that a woman is more sensi tive about her feet than any thing else. Haviug seilled that - my mind I began a series From the St. tools Eepnblican. Partial investigations into tiie agri- onditiou of the cultural condition of tiie southern States make clear the interesting fact that in nearly every case of increased of a staple crop white labor 1 with it. The sugar to be credited _ crop iu Louisiana is robed almost ex clusively by negroes—and it exhibits no Increase; there b not as much sugar raised now as there was twenty-seven years ago. The rice crop In South Carolina, cultivated almost exclusive ly by degro labor, shows a falling off. coo, while tiie rice crop In Louisiana, grown mainly by whites, b increasing. Cottou b robed over a large area in the south, and the crop b now two- fifths (2,000,000) larger than it was war—and the Increase b to before the be found almost invariably in the lo calities where white labor prevalb. Some estimates place the proportion of the southern cotton crop raised by white labor at onedialf. The truck- farming, dairying and fruit growing that are coming to the frontas features in southern agriculture are exclusive ly iu the hands of white i ersons. These facts are remarkable when it I remembered that the negroes have iit- rapidly than the whites and that several years after the war they were the only farm-workers iu ~ “ States. i b« a«*v in grow a n*r load to th«*[ liwie w.-re -oiue cars of ••calls** that bro iihr Ie*-. but gi*o«! melons Imve • eraged -even cent* a piece this sea- on. : ought to average four cents pice# for i in* balance of the season;” **1I w M.u.-h net cash has Atlanta sent (•• the melon patches?” ••Not less than $35,000, and it ought to reach $50,000 by the close of the season. There are train loads daily -liip|>ed through Atlanta to the West tliat we get uo account of, and of course hundreds of ship loads from Valdosta, Quitman, and the Carolina coast are sent to the East. Georgia's melon crop is a very important one. It b made with little trouble on spate land, and brings tho farmer cash in the middle of the summer when he can get it for nothing else,” 'What are the bigge.st shipping points?” 'Mr. J. R. Forrester, near Albany, is the largest single shipper, and will reach a hundred cars this year. Lees burg is perhaps the biggest single poiut tor the Atlanta market. Albany Is a. good.one, so is WaldoiiandSmithviHe.* ' The farmers iu that section are happy and rich just now from tiieir melon money.” “How many melons does Atlanta eat a day ?” My best estimate is eight to ten cars. It takes that many cars to'sup-. ply Atlauta and her suburbs every day, with about eleven hundred melons to the car. This includes of course the towns around Atlanta.” ' What class eat the most water melons?” “The negroes are the best customers of the watermelon merchant, blit of course all classes eat them.” “Wlrat becomes of the rest of Atlan ta’s shipments?” “Haven’t you seen our melon ex change down near tiie Central depot? There are live or six tracks there, crowded every day with watermelon cars. I have seen eighty cars atone time on the track*. Last week we had seventy-five cars one day, yesterday about twenty-two cars. The buyers congregate there early In tiie morning. They come from all the cities in the South, and from the Northwest. Our city wholesale and retail buyers are there also, and it b a busy* scene until late iu the evening. You can buy at tills exchange a dozen melons lor your retail trade, or a dozen cars. There a re •peculators who buy two or three car loads, and start North with them, stopping at places along the line of tiie road, and selling in half, or quarter load lots. Tiie melon exchange is one ot the busiest places iu Atlanta iu its season.” “Why is the season so successful?” ‘•Largely because of the failure-of the peach anil grape crop, but also lie- cause the consumption of melons in creases evety year. It is a delicious fruit, healthy uud cooling. Every year adds twenty-five |>er cent, to the number of people who eat melons reg ularly. Our facilities for distribution are better than formerly, and the bus iness lias become better regulated. The growers are shipping better mel ons than formerly, and keeping the ‘culls’ at home to feed their hogs on. Altogether the business is in fine shape, and melons are the best slim mer crop our people can raise. Think of (touring twenty thousand dollars Into a little town like Leesburg in July and August for distribution among tiie farmers. The melon crop plays a very important part in Georgia’s prns- terity, and is going to play a very arge one.” ‘•Wlrat about canteloupes?” “Cantaloupe* have not found quite so good a market as watermelons. You see canteloupes are a fruit that is used principally ou the table, and by the better class of people, and there fore the sale b uot large. A Negro doe* not care for a canteloii| e, but is death ou watermelons. Db so with a 'arge cl .** of |teople.” “Where do most of the eantoloii|tcs come from ?** ‘•They come principally from 31a- • con. 1 suppose Atlanta receives about fifty crates a day, ami there are about t«vo dozen to the crate. Another dis advantage in handling eautaioiipes in tliat they will not keep long.” of experiments. The horse car is my favorite ( place. I love to see a queenly looking woman get into the car aud 4t down with the air of knowing that die b the best dressed lady present, I, apparently unconcerned, nuly attract h*r attention by looking steadily at lier feet, with an occasional glance at her fkce. Of course, I avoid a.1 a|>- pearauce of Imperiinen.e. I assume the air of a man wlio sees some thing that interests him. No mat ter how calm the victim is when she enters the car, Inside of five minutes she will be so nervous t at she will fairly ache to get to lier des tination. She may have tiie handsom est foot iu the world, and know that it b Incased in a nicely fitting shoe, but she will wilt all the same. It is a woman’s weakness. 1 have tried it on young girls of 8.xte<*i» and old women of eighty—tiie result b the same. Achilles was vulnerable only in lib iteel, bnt you can’t look steadily at a woman’s little tne for two consecutive minutes without making her feel as though she would like to murder you.* All ot which is respectfully fuibmmit- ted. the pence Q*«sU** In Terrell. The people of Terrell county have been moving for a stock law. 'Hie Dawson Journal has this about it: It b the opinion of the Journal that the movement for no fence in this county lias been defeated for the pres ent. Tiie stock law men Imve not worked with tiie vim tliat has charac terized tiieir opponents, and the result is tliat the anti-stock law men have on tiieir petitions the names of a majority of tiie white voters of the county^ li b not likely that lira Legislature will establish tiie l law under such a protest. It wTli be well enough, however, to keep the question agitated, and in a short while the Stock law men, w» ihink. will lie strong enough to carry their side to s CT PRINT |

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly news and advertiser. (Albany, Ga.) 1880-1???, July 30, 1887, Image 1