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DROPPED DEAD. lom.l ABttAUN 1»KN WHILE BK- «A«KD IK v DtllKHEI.. A Slnm^c noil NiiitHrn ll*jiCh Prim Knfilrnl I'm u-c. Lewis Abrams a Neg.-o, dropped flpail at about 10 n’olnek ■*. m. Thurs day, out at OiigerS Piioe’s brick yard, •where he was employed as a burlier, Lewis was, at the tin)'* fa Ills dentil, engaged in a quarrel with Jlni Hauon, a fellow laborer, about the ownership ■of some meal. Hauon hart niissert the nval from where he hail left It, anil by*mime means feu ml that Abrams was the agent of its disappearance. Going to Abrams where he was lying on smile boards, llannn accused lllin of linvlng taken the meal, which ■was denied. The two then began to dispute with some warmth, when sud denly Abrams broke oft In tile middlo of a sentence, and fell from the boards on which he was lying to the ground, and remained there Imniovnble and in an unconscious condition. Some of the bauds quickly picked him up and laid him back where he had been lying, but dentil came in less than a minute after he wns stricken. Coroner Grnndison Winn empanel led a jury of inquest, and n verdict to tlio ell'ect that the deceased, Lewis Abrains, came to his death liy natural causes, was returned. Dr. W. W. Bacon wns cnllcd to ex amine Abrams, but the body wift cold before he could get to it. The funeral will take plaoe at the brick yard cem etery at live o’clock this afternoon. TUB UAILROAD TAX blast Be Paid to tlannties nail Cities Within Thirty Buys. The Atlanta Qonstltution of Tuesday says that tile railroads will have to pay the county tax for two years with in the next thirty dnys. With the tax they will have to pay 7 per cent, interest from the time when the tax wns due. That for 189(1 was due the 20th of December of that year, and that for 1891 was due the 20th of last December. Some of the railroads paid the tax for 1890, ns the test case against the act had not then been made. Among those who paid the tax for 1890 is the Central, which is the Inrgest tnxpnyer of all the roads. The Central Btillowes the tax for 1891, however, with 7 per -cent, interest since the 20tli of last De cember. The Comptroller General says the railroads must pay this tax within thirty days, and he has sent out the following notice to all the roads not exempt by charter: April 22.—Dear Sir: The Supreme ■Court of this State hnvingnlllrmert the decision of the Superior Court as to the constitutionality anil validity of the act of 1879, taxing ■ railroads for county purposes, you will please pay the tax colleotor of the counties and cities through which your road runs the amounts due them, as per state ment, previously furnished, within thirty days. W. A. Wrioht, Comptroller General. It will be observed that the Comp troller general calls on the railroads for city tax also. This is in pursu ance of an understanding that the de cision of the Supreme Court in the case of county taxation will be ac cepted with reference to cities. OK A I.ABK With bloney Obtained on Another man’s Pistol, From TuOBdav’* Evening Herald. Charley Brown, a Negro train hand on the Columbus Southern, railroad, was placed behind the bars this morn ing, after leading Officer Mooney a lively chase. Yesterday, Brown abet up with Dock Hall,another railroad Negro, and dis covered that he had a pistol in his pocket. “You’d better not go up town wid dat pistol iu yo’ pocket. De cops ’ll get you sho’: let me take care of it for you,” said Brown. Hall gave up his pistol and Brown took it to a store in Sandy Bottom, sold it for $8, and proceeded to paint the town red. When found by Hall he was gloriously drunk,and could not return the pistol. Brown learned what disposition had been made of his pistol and B wore out a warrant before Magistrate Greer, charging Hall with larceny after trust. Officer Mooney was put on track of Hall and soon located him up on Mansfield alley. The Negro ran when be saw the officer approaching him and took refuge in a Negro house, Jocking the door behind him. When the officer finally managed to get into the house his man was nowhere to be -seen, but Mooney knew he was there and continued the search until the Negro was found secreted in the loft. He was promptly pulled from his hiding place and escorted to jail. Memphis Commercial: A Kansas man has a skunk farm. He is proba bly going to start a Third Party. The Sparta Ishmaelite comes nearer being red-hot, politically speaking, all the time that) any other paper in Geor gia, and no man in the State can put more pointed paragraphs in a column than Sidney Lewis can. ALBANY WEEKLY HERALD: SATURDA.Y APRIL 30, 1892. BAD FOB MBI.OK GKO tut, Freiahl Blast Be Prepaid, Ho ftnye the Central Tronic Aasocinfioa. From tliu Atlmita Constitutin'.!.* Macon, Ga., April 24.—[Special.]— Here is apiece of unexpected, infor mation for the melon growers tf Geor gia. It was understood by the South ern Railway anil Steamspip Associa tion that llie Central Traffic Associa tion, which controls thirty-six lines of railway, had or would rescind their notion recalling tile pre payment of freight by melon ami fruit growers, but they have declined to do so. Freight to seven-eighths of the markets north of the Ohio will have to he prepaid. This, of course, will cause nil of the “collect” markets to be gutted early in the season. Noth ing enn be more damaging'to the melon market than to have one-lmlf the mar kets prepay and the bnlnnce collect. The following letter speaks for itself Atlanta, April 22.—Mr.T.O.Skellle, Macon. Dear Sir: Commissioner Stnhimnn advises that the Central Traffic Association at Its meeting in Chicago, III., on the 12th, declined to authorize the handling of melons, fruits, etc,, oil tile basis of tile past several years, that is, to accept the same without prepayment or guaran tee, hence the Central Traffic Associa tion will demand prepayment or guar antee on melons this year. Tills in cludes practically all points north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi rivers. However, the Southern Dis patch (Louisville & Nashville via At lanta, Ga., to Kvansvilie and Evnns- vilie & Terre Haute and Decatur & Evansville) will take melons this sea son as last, without prepay or guaran tee to Chiongo, Vincennes, Terre Haute, Dnnville, Peoria ami interme diate points on the same line. Yours truly, J. A. Samr." WOBKIKOB1BK . Of America and Barope Compared br a Frenchman. M. Paul Desohnnel, a young member of the Frenoli Chamber of Deputies, who was sent to this country a few months ago by ills government to in vestigate the condition and develop ment of labor organizations and labor questions generally in the United States, sailed for France last Satur day. Of the results of his observations among the working classes of Amer ica, he says: “The laboring oiasses are far ahead, better fed, better clothed, better taught, and happier than those of France, and still more so than those of other countries in Europe. It is almost dis- oonrging to me to have to go back to my country and paint a picture, in my report, wliich shows such a contrast between the conditions of things ill America and France. Why, the per fection of Inbor organizations in Amer ica is years, I may say dnzenB of years, in advance of anything which has been dreamed of In France.” Tile young Frenchman further stated that he had found two classes of American workingmen to whom his laudatory remarks did not apply at all. The workers in Western mines and those engaged in certain brandies of trades, such as lh-> making of cloaks and garments, wore in a condition quite as unfavorable, if not ns positive ly wretched, as anything lie had known abroad. These two oiasses were com posed almost exclusively of ignorant foreigners, who had not arrived at a point of intelligence where they were oapable of shaking themselves free from their bondage. The great funda mental reason for the rapid advantage of the American workingman was that of his superior intelligence. SI9IFLE Icitici TO A FAITH. FBI. DEBlOfill AT. THEY NEED MONEY. TUB NBHRO PRORI.EM AT Tills NORTH. THU MAIN RE ANON FOR CAIiMNfi TIIR STATE ALLIANCE OFFI CERS TOGETHER AT BIRMING HAM h Thnt the Funds Harr Bern Cut Off •n Account of the Third Parly. ‘E. W. B.,” the Washington corres- pendent of the Atlanta Constitution, telegraphs that paper of to-day,as fo!-' lows: Tile meeting of the Alliance Presi dents which has been called together at Birmingham on the 3d of June is not so much to get the Alliance togeth er politically as it is to get some money for the men who are oonduoting tile National end of it. A member of the legislative commit tee tdld mo to-night that since Colonel Polk and little Jaok Turner had ( been trotting around the country making Third .Party speeches many of tile States had held back the money they usually send on to Washington. They are holding it baok, they (say, because they do not care to send money to Polk to pay his expenses around the oountry to make Third party speeches. As a consequence, this man says Polk is running short of money and needs to do something to make the States send on that whicli they are assessed to pay the expenses of. the national branch of the order. Of course besides this perhaps Col. Polk will attempt to oarry the entire order over into the Third party, but if all the States are represented lie will fail. A majority of the State presidents In the South will perhaps vote to with hold all money from the national offi cers until they agree to stop making Third party speeches, whether they are making them at the expense of the Alliance or not. TUB WATBBWOBKM BOKDS. THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY. Willie Capt. R. Hobbs, in his ca pacity as Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of the Second Congressional district, is being criti cised by some for the bold and un compromising stand that he has taken agalnBt Ocalalsm, Third Fartyism and every other ism that seeks to divide and destroy the Demooratlo party, it is gratifying to know that his devotion to the principles of unadulterated Democracy is appreciated by others— and those, too, whose confidence and esteem are worth having. Here is a little editorial from the Valdosta Times, which the Herald is pleased to reproduce: “E. HOBBS, OF ALBANY. “There is as much Simon-pure, un adulterated Democracy to the square inch in the gallant old one-armed vet eran, whose name heads this short article, as there is honesty and man hood in Grover Cleveland; and the American people will say that that is saying a great deal. “May the Colonel’s shadow never grow less." Shake, Brother Pendleton I And. while we ars at it, it is well enough to call attention to the fact that Capt. Hobbs’s devotion to the Democratic party is conspicuously unselfish. While he has been a hard worker and a forci ble factor in politics ever since the war, he has never sought office or political preferment of any kind. You never hear of him as a candidate for office, but when the Democratic party is on trial and there is work to do for the party, its enemies hear from him and feel him, too. Would that we had more like him in the Second district. China is not in it on American soil —at least, not for the next ten years. The Senate so decreed on Monday.* Teach the Negro to respect the law ’and a sentiment will thereby be created against lynching.—Memphis Annual Word from Auburn, Ala., says that an experiment made there of ginning cotton by electricity was a complete success. V' The bonds of the city of Albany to the amount of one hundred thousnnd dollars which the people of Albany, by an overwhelming vote, have author ized the Mayor and Council to issue for the purpose of erecting and con structing a system of waterworks and sewerage for the city, are now upon the market. By reference to official publication made in to-day’s Herald it will be seen that bids for the entire issue of the bonds, or any part thereof, will be received by the Mayor nnd Council until the first day of June next. These bonds will no doubt find ready sale at par. They arc to bear interest at the rate of six per cent, per nnnum, and securities thnt are as safe as these will be are readily taken at such rates of interest. Already inquiries are being received in the city from agents’ and brokera representing capitalists In New York and elsewhere, and When these are answered by the excellent showing that is made by the Mayor and Coun oil as the basis upon which the bonds are to be issued, bids will be promptly filed. But few oities in Georgia or elsewhere can make such a financial showing as Albany makes to-day in placing this bonded indebtedness upon the market, and if our six per cent, bonds do not find ready sale at par, or even at a little premium, we shall be disappointed. Every Third Party man 1b a leader. William Astor, the New York millionaire, died at' Fnris Monday. ' Col. Wooten, preached Democracy to the people of Worth oounty yester day. While the people of the North are very liberal with the public money when it comes to pensioning Union soldiers' and improving the grounds and perpetuating the graves of Union dead wherefer they have been found in the South, they seem to show very little patriotio appreciation of their soldier dead when they have to go down into their own poekets to give expression to it. No monument has yet been raj[sed to the memory of Gen Grant, who nas been dead now nearly seven years,'and his grave" in'New York is neglected. The “Neglected Grave” is-made the subject of a full page cartoon by Thomas Nast in last Sunday’s Chicago Inter-Ooean. If the Republican party could put its hand into the public treasury for the neces sary money with which to raise a costly monument to perpetuate the memory of Grant, thus making the South share the cost, it would doubt less have been done long ago; but it doesn’t seem probable that the North ern people will ever reara fitting mon ument to their greatest General by popular or voluntary subscription. Political fun will soon commence. Big conventions are near. Savannah is making big prepara tions for the May week festival. Sir Arthur Sullivan is seriously ill at Monte Carlo. The religious nnd Republican news papers of the North aro still perplexed with the Negro problem. If any such problem renily exists, It Is one which concerns tile people of the Nortli less than those of any other section of this country; and yet (hey insljt, if we nre to judge by what we read in their newspapers, In taking the subject ns one of vital interest to themselves. Religion and Republicanism don’t generally altlllnte to ally appreciable extent at the Nortli, and there is but one thing upon which the religious and Republican press of thnt scotlon appear ever to bo agreed, and that is up’oii worrying over the Negro prob lem at tho South,instead of concern ing themselves about the grent nnd far more dangerous sooln) problem that is presented to them nt homo by the mon grel foreign element that is pressing in upon them. The Heiiald tins never seen any cause for alarm over whnt is popularly known ns the Negro problem in tills country; but to those of us who know the Negro as he is nnd have to deal with him and the problem that lie fur nishes as n reality rather than ns a matter of religious sentiment or polit ical prejudice, it is a little strange that our Northern friends should presume to know so tnuoli more nbout it than we do and treat it ns a matter in which they are more directly Interested than we or even the Negroes themselves are. And even the college professors of tlie Nortli nre much concerned over the Negro problem and feel called upon to discuss it in leotures and in the newspapers and mngazlnes. Now comes Prof. Jenks, of Cornell Univer sity, with tile announcement of Boma doleful conclusions ns to the colored people. He indicts them for divers and sundry sins of omission and com mission; thinks they will never amount to much ns men or oitizens, anil be lieves that tlie best they can do is to migrate to Africa. Of course Prof. Jenks knows little or nothing about the Ne gro as he is in his present condition, and should not be expeoted to know anything about the Negro problem; still he seems to take the subject to his heart and insists upon worrying himself and as much of the publlo ns he lias aocess to with wlint lie Imagines to be an entirely original and sensible solution of n great problem. It Is refreshing to us to see n Negro paper published nt the North take issue with Prof. Jenks and show a keener perception nnd a great deni more oommAn sense in denting with the subject in hand than the learned Professor has displayed. The Freeman, a Negro paper pub lished at Indianapolis, in commenting upon the Professor’s solution of the great “problem,” says: Ho ohnrgOH tho Negro with running the Southern States in <loht during whnt is known ns tho “cnrpot-bng period,” wl»«n “eduemed*' whito Hdvonturora from Allmnr, Boston, Now York, Phiindelphln nnd other Northern oltie* not only took ndvnntnge of the numbers nnd inexpcrionco of n newly declared rnce of “freedmen” for solflsti, unpntriotlo purposes, but of tho holplossness of n conquered, defeated people of their own nice, to ndd titles to their names, nnd insert their nrms shoulder dcop in the public treasuries of that unfortunate w»o- tion. This is good 1 And it is made a!! the better by the fact that it comes from a Negro paper—and a Northern Negro paper at that. Nothing can be truer than that the whites of the North were responsible for the villainous “carpet-bag” era. The Negroes had nothing to do with U except to be duped and blindly led by the adventurers that came into the South from the North. They followed their professed benefactors, the carpet baggers, religiously, and were kept in a state of hopefulness for a long time by the carpet-baggers’ promise of “forty acres and a mule,” while the carpet-baggers themselves were “re constructing” the country and shame lessly robbing the Impoverished white people of the Southern States of every thing they could get their hands on, while the “God and morality” element at the North, now so much concerned about the Negro problem, stood like a Bolid phalanx in support of whatever was done in the naine / of party and Federal power. The New York Sun says of Dr. Park' hurst: “The mischief accomplished by .the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst’s acts and example, among the young men of the country, is something almost incon ceivable in its extent and truly infer nal in its quality. Can any repentance obliterate such sin as his?” The Sun must have been caught in the cyclone stirred up by Dr. Parkhurst to so em* phaticully denounce the actions of a man who sets hts . teeth hard against public oplniou in order to combat public evils. Col. Wooteh likes to meet the op ponents of Democracy in joint debate, and can hold bis own with the ablest of them. Democracy takes courage wherever Col. C. B. Wooten speaks to the peo ple on the issues of the day. Let the good work go on, Colonel. Good news from over the sea—the demi-train is to disappear.. From Paris comes the news that walking dresses are made much shorter. An Ideul Bridal Trip 8ugge»tod by Frank Stockton, tho Nuvolint. It was Frank Stockton who sug gested to a family the idea of a wed ding which, though unusual, was quite tho most sensible one I’ve ever heard of. “Why do you want to go nwayt" asked Stockton of the brido elect, a 1 he sat iiktlie family circle shortly be fore tlie wedding. “Oh, everybody must go on a wed ding journey," she answered. “And whnt good does it do every body,” he said, in his quiet, quizzical way. “You might travel around the world and come home without hav ing seen anything but each other. Send them all off, and you twA stay hero and keep house," ho concluded, with n ’ wave of his small, brown hand toward tlie rait of the family, who sat listening to tho proposition in open mouthed umnzemout. Tho idea WAis then discussed by all of them from all points, and settled upon as just the loveliest arrange ment possible. “For," said the bride, “mamma and papa haven't had a real long holiday since then- wedding tour, and mamma needs a rest sorely after all tho bother over my trousseau." The little boys were in high glee over getting out of the city so early in the summer, and the younger sis ters found some school friendB to visit. As to the father and mother of the family, they both didn’t see how it could possibly be managed, but they were overruled at last and packed up their trunks with a feeling of youth ful exuberance upon the eve of thb wedding, whiph occurred in their drawing room. A simple affair it was, with a few intimate friends for gnests. The bride wore an enobantingly pretty tea gown and corned a golden key basket filled with roses. The mem hereof the family-were all dressed in new traveling suits, and nt in o’clock they bade the wedded couple a jolly goodby and went their way rejoicing to catch their trains. Nobody cried. The mother couldn't weep over the toss of a daughter Hhe was going to leave safe and sound beneath her own vine and fig tre«. and the brothers and sisters were too gay over going to give way to tears. The Result of this wedding journey wherein the family did the journey tog was entirely satisfactory to every one. The young husband suffeied no inconvenience from had cooktotr. for his mother-in-law left a cot • tent and beautifully trained corps of servants, and the domestic machin ery moved on golden wheels. ' It wns the beginning of summer and nearly everybody had left for the country, so tho happy people were left unmolested, and I am sure that the dome of the capitol, if they noticed it at all, wus greater just then to them than all the grand buildingB of the world would have seemed at some other time; that the porks were Arcadios, and that even the many multiplied statues and pic tures of the father of our country beamed upon them with a benefi cence and brotherly love unequaled by that irradiated from tho elegaic countenances of foreign Madonnas. And I am sure, should you ask this couple's advice about a wedding trip this very day. they would answer that the beef way to take a wedding journey is to stay at home.—Atlanta Constitution. ■ Crimlui-c* t.r IZublt. Thovo are tv. o resorts down town whoro you eon moot almost aiiybody at some hour during the middle of tho day—at tho Cafe Snvarto or at the Astor Houso rotunda. A good many business men of tho tower city seem to make it a part of their tidi ness to drop in at one or both .if these places every day. It is well known thnt some are likely to meet pooplo tliero they don’t wish to see. I happened to mention this peculiar ity to a gentleman and he said: It is bocauso tho set you look for come boro, that’s all. There am plenty of other places, each having its satellites Tho business world 1ms a boaton track for tho most part. That is, most business men, being regular to their habits, do mostly tho same thing every day. They can't help it. They may studiously vary for a short time, hut thoy soon fall back into tho rut. Most of theso men lead a life os humdrum as that of a horse breaking tonbark. Men of good business habits, ns wo call it, are as regular as clockwork. Tim other fellows are equally regular in their irregularity. And this irregu larity becomes just os monotoixuu to them os if it were the exact oppo site.—Now York Herald. Y. Unreasonable Male DIpad. Husband (compelled to write a hur ried business letter at home)—Where to creation is the ink? Wife—In the front left hand corner of my workbnsket. That’s on the comer of the dressing table to the north room upstairs.” “Where’s the paper?" “I am just out, but I believe tho girl has some. I’ll see. ” "Where are the pens?” “Somebody stepped on the pen last week, and I forgot to get another, but I’ll sond over to Mn. Makeshift's and see if she has one. Sheisalways borrowing mine.” “Huh! Anyone might think no one to this house ever wrote a letter.” “Nonsense I There isn’t a more voluminous correspondent anywhere than I am. You men can never wait a minute for anything. I’ll warrant after I’ve half killed myself getting all the thf igs together you won’t write a dozen lines.”—New York Weekly. Always Slakes Presents of Pipes. Mr. James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, is a great pipe smoker, and is fond of making pro* ents of pipes to his friends. One of his novel ideas is to have a pipe case made of solid silver, lined with chamois, and costing (100. The out side of the case is richly engraved and bears the name of the recipient. Prpbably every captain ' of every steamship on which Mr. Bennett has been a passenger has received one of these pipe cases. The meerschaum pipe to the case is of the plainest pos sible description, and is worth per- haps five dollars. It is strong arid serviceable, however.—Collector. De Chappie Get* a Tip. De Chappie—Aw. sonny, hovyou a lift here? Store Boy (confidentially) — Yep. That there big feller wid red hair an freckles is de bouncer. Wat yer sellin?—Good News. A Great Collection. Romonyi, tho well known violin virtuoso, hna a great collection of rnro African ethnological specimens wliich comprises over 1,500 carefully selected articles. It has been formed duiing tho Inst forty years, and in boyond question tho most perfect of its kind. It is especially rich in tiro anciont regal symbols in use among tho Zulus, including scepters, royal brncolots, which wero used instead of crowns, nnd othor emblems of hum- inorod silver, of carved and polished ivory nnd of rhinoceros horn. Tlio royal bracelets are especially inter C8ting. Thoy are hollowed rings mado from transvorso sections of Inigo olophnnt tuskB, and until liis dentil were novor taken off after onco placed on the arm of tho king. Thoro are also several splendid spcchnonB of the exceedingly rare and beautiful royal mantles of the sovoroigns of Madagascar 300 and mbro years ago. Theso mantles aro curiously adorned with broideries of metal and of uncut precious stonra and of fenthorwork. Every speci men to tho collection iB perfect ni.d unique of its kind. -Philadelphia Ledger. Compnnlon Stenuiom nt Sen. Ocean races have become ns un avoidable evils ns Btorms and sen fogs, nnd n plurality of passengers may continue to accopt them as pref erable alternatives, bnt considering tho protest of nn influential minority it seems hard to understand why their risk bus not at least boon modi fied in tho way proposed l>y Pro fessor Marqunrd, of Hamburg, and Captain do la Gardic, of the Belgian navy, viz., the use of “companion stoamors." In nine out of tea cases tho worst consequences of shipwreck could liavo lieon averted if more offl- ciont help than that of frail lifeboats had boon near nt hand, and as tho chance against tho probability of both vessels being wrecked at tlie saino time would be a thousand 1 ono, tho popularity of tho fleet “ocean greyhound” could he eclipse by tho plan of letting paasenge steainors start pairwise and keep 11 communieations by means of si lights and fog hells.—Felix Unw in Chautauquan. Character In Portrait*. It is hard to roly on portraits, hnvo seen, in an exhibition in Pa ' a portrait of Robespierre at tho c max of his influence, and ho 1 like a placid provincial practi' whoso brow lind not broadened w' power or wrinkled with respon ty. I saw at tho same timo two temporary portraits of Louis borrowed from somo historic c teau, as littlo like each other us let and Polonius. In one Qf tho artist had idealized the king face into certain strength anil ty; tho othor might lie taken as caricature of a constitutional ' it was such a coarse, commonp countonanco as tho daguorreo sometimes unexpectedly reveals, a a clumsy figuro on which royal m linery looked quite out of place.— S C. Gavan Duffy in Contempo Review. Feslhers Heavier Tlinn <iol,l. In ono of Charles Reade’s novels Jewish tradoris mado to ask, "Whi is tho heavier, a pound of feathers a pound of gold?” After a while explains, to tho satisfaction of audience of miners, that the feat aro tho heavier. Gold, ho says, is woighed by weight, while feathers are weigh by avoirdupois; and as tho twel ounces in a pound troy contain b 5,760 grains, while tho avoirilupi pound contatos7,000 grains, the po; of fcathors is of course 1,2-10 gnv heavier than tho pound ot gold! Youth’s Companion. Discovery of m Gutta Porcha Forest It is reported that a now forest tho most valuable species of g perchtt has been discovered n Singapore. This particular q of gutta perchn was formerly in domand for submarine cables, tho ignorant natives whoro tlio f csts were located destroyed tlie tr in their eagerness to supply the in ket.—Exchnnge.