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TRY AN AD. IN THE TIMES! A Bio Ad, Will Sell Yocr Goods: It Attracts new customers and holds the eld ones. People will forget you and your goods if you don’t constantly “jog their memory.” A Little Ad. Will Bring back your stray animal, find a'purchaser for your house and lot, horse and buggy, or anything else. TRY AN AD. IN THE TIMES! F. W. POWELL & CO. -Have 18 Head ol : FINE HORSES AND MULES at McLeod <fe McKinnon’s Still, near Mr. J ordain Himes’s, which, tliey want to Sell or Swap. They are as fine lot of Stock as can be found anywhere. Are all broke. Arc used to this country, and are better than western stock. If you don’t want to buy, will give you a good swap. They must go! Come and see ns! The Soldier’s Home. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 29—The committee of the grand lodge of the Masons appoint¬ ed to consider the practicability of con¬ verting the Soldiers’ Home property .in¬ to a Masonic asylum met hero today and made a personal inspection of the prop erty. The committee is compose! of Grand Master John P. Shannon, of El berton, A. M. Walcheimer, secretary of the grand lodge, of Macon; A. U. McDon ell of Savannah, Dr. Eugene Foster of Augusta, W. B. Daniel and C. 1’. Gordon of Macon, John W. Aiken of Cartersvllle, W. F. Parkhurst of Atlanta and IV- A. Davis of Macon. A. W. Walton of Rome, representing the grand commandery, met with the committee. After the visit to the home property, Grand Commander Shannon said the committee was highly pleased with it, and disposed to take charge of it, if the trus¬ tees offer such terms as the grand lodge can meet. The grand lodge is not, how ever, in a position to undertake any con¬ siderable ex; ease, although now out of debt. Tomorrow the trustees and the com¬ mittee of the Masons will meet together and probably arrive at some definite agreement. If they do not the property will be ordered sold. While the committee favors the plan to open the home, it |is understood that there is a strong element in the grand lodge opposed to it on- the ground that the grand lodge cannot support it. In speaking on this line today, Secretary Walebeimer said the expenses of the grand lodge last year were greater than the receipts. The income, he said, is about #17,000, while the salaries 'of officers amounts to about #14,000, so that the funds to sup¬ port the home would have to be raised by assessment, aud it is held that the as¬ sessment plan would be a firebrand in the order. There are at prescut 16,200 Masons in the state. Last year there was a falling off of 400from the net rolls. Atlanta, Ga.,Jan.29.—'I’hoproposition of the Grand Lodge of Mason to take the Confederate Soldiers' home was rejected by the board of t rustees of the home to¬ day, when the committee of the Grand Ledge presented their proposition, which was substantially as follows: The Grand Lodge proposed to take the property, receiving a fee simple title thereto, and in return they agreed to furnish and open the house. They also proposed to prop¬ erly- care for an average of ten veterans a year for the period of twenty years, Half the house was to be set apart for the use of veterans and the unoccupied^space was for to be used by the board of trustees any other veterans whom the board might select and would maintain. The contract was subject to the ratification of the Grand Lodge in October next. After thoroughly discussing the proposi¬ tion the board of’trustees decided to re joetit and so informed the committee. The property is now worth, at the esti¬ mate of the trustees, #50,000. At a sub sequent meeting of the trustees, a eom mittee was appointed to sell the property on the tilock, or at private sale. The proceeds of the sale will be applied either to the purchase of small homes, about twenty acres and a cottage, averaging #400 per home, and these given to de¬ serving veterans in whatever section of the state they desire to live, or it will be distributed direct among the needy old ex-confederates. The Macon Telegraph reports the f M ing of a -meteor at 6:15 o'clock on last Thursday evening which illuminated the streets of that city brighter than they were ever lighted by the sun. . Two Lives savea. Mrs. Phosbe Thomas, o! Junction . Cfty, but two bottles of Dr. iw;” King hSpeto s New her completely cured her and she Discovepy her life- Mr. Thos. Eggers, says saved MSi"5S JSS tried without result everything sum! it* lien on, bottle of Dr. king s rise, t bought and one in two N.iw Discovery sm-hreeults 'Ff of 1 'tvhtrli n these*a- e samples, “ofthii limr- prove the won j d<t trial im-di, -me in\ougLs am Store, Vol. III. GEORGIA NEWS. Items Culled from Georgia Papers For The Times’ Readers. W. F. Dorsey, of Athens, carries around with him a nickel that he picked up in Oconee street church, during a marriage ceremony twelve years ago. He regard's it as a lucky piece and values it accord¬ ingly. # * A meeting of the fanners of Spalding •and adjoining counties was held at Griffin Saturday, and decided to use no guano unless the price is greatly reduced. The indications are that very little fertilizers will be used by the farmers of that sec¬ tion this season. * * Mr. J. M. Trammell, superintendent of the state insane asylum at Chattahoo¬ chee, "Fla., is in Columbus conferring with the merchants in regard to furnishing supplies for the asylum for the ensuing year. Between #25.000 and #30,000 worth of provisions, dry goods, iec., are consumed each year. # * * The negro building at the Cotton States Exposition will be erected by negro con¬ tractors and negro labor. J. T. King and J. W. Smith, two negro contractors of Atlanta, were awarded the contract over white competitors. The negroes of the south are organizing in response to the address recently issued by the com¬ missioners calling on the race to get up an exhibit. * * * In Savannah Sunday two colored Bap¬ tist churches celebrated their 107 anni¬ versary'. Both claim to have the right to celebrate this anniversary while each denies the right of the other. The First African Baptist Church, and the First Bryan Baptist church made this issue, and both, at their respective houses of worship celebrated the day without any unseemly disturbance. 4!- * One of the boiler tubes in the engine room of the Oglethorpe hotel at Bruns wick burst Saturday while the chief en¬ gineer, the fireman and the assistant en¬ gineer were in tile-engine room. The en gincer jumpf'd through tin* window and the fireman went through the door, thus escaping injury, but Die full force of the escaping steam struck the assistant, whose body w as terribly scalded. # * Two whit: men and a negro were ar¬ rested nea Griffin, Saturday, on the charge of s fe-blouii'g nt Milner. They gave their lames as J. L. Mathews and T. Dickson The aegro is Brewster Cop pedge. Th ■ safes cracked are those of Head & AVcodall, Rice A Hunt and Lind¬ sey & “II mi;. The arrested men loudly protested t icir innocence, but were car¬ ried back t Milner to await a prelim¬ inary trial * * *• The -con 'derate veterans of Atlanta will call iu body “upon Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, win is at the Aragon hotel. Mrs. Grant will hold a formal reception for the vetera; s in the hotel parlors. Gen. Clement A. Evans, Col. J. McIntosh Kell, first officer af old Alabama; Col. Al¬ bert Howe , Col. Lawndis Calhoun, Col. AV. A. H< uphill and pther prominent ex-eonfedentes will* head the party. Formal sp “dies will be made welcoming Gen. Gran a widow to Atlanta and to the south. • » State ool Commissoiner Glenn is be¬ ginning t receive returns from the re¬ cent exai ination of teachers. The re¬ ports sho a general weeding out of in competet it teachers wbo haveheretofore managed to retain their licenses. The question* submitted by State School j p orn)n j ss )ner Q] onn a t the examinations »' “ ""f ion “ n,ol ‘ s j the did true teachers, and as a eonse q uen ce, {large number, of them hare-been dro . POI|1 tfi c scljbfils in the different ....... HeretoJore ft hM ^ O.e , u., that trailers scoring an average lower ^ teaeli GO Lev cent, could receive no licenses ; to When Prof. Glenn came into j | office, should hjpassed l given an order license that who no avenged teacher a j less thalTo, and the questions sent entirely out for differeujfrom Use . the examinations were 1 what has been iu use. The BULLOCH TIMES. Statesboro, Bulloch County. Georgia, Thursday, Jan. BO, 1895. up-to-date teachers have answered but they proved a stumbling block back numbers. Commissioner Glenn is course, roundly scored by those who ed to pass, but the school boards ly are much gratified at the result. * * # Abe Einstein, a popular merchant of Athens, has suddenly afflicted with mental aberration. was dreamed of this until Tuesday, when he informed a number of his friends !iis life was in danger and that’ hej.'inust get out of Athens at once A He left Lis cigar store on College avenue and preparations to go to Augusta in order to save his life. To several ofjliis friends he said that lie had] overheard Tom Lumpkin, a drummer from Atlanta, say that he was going tokillhim, and thathe was not going to be killed by staying in Athens. He also said that lie knew May¬ or O’Ferrall and several other citizens had made up a conspiracy to lynch him and would carry out their plans if lie did not go away. A relative took him down to Augusta, where it is hoped his mind will become balanced. The cause of his temporary aberration is said to be the excessive use of coffee and cigars. He has been used to drinking coffee « dozenjtimes a day and to smoke ten to fifteen cigars daily. Cn Ml,; nrl A n.n.f T T „ 1 Dm 11 /in m ' • , Jacksonville, 1*la., Jan.28.—Miqsf _ Russell made an ascent in a balloon from Orange Park yesterday afternoon about 5:30 o’clock, and after raising to a bight of about 3,000 feet, both she and her air ship disappeared, She was to have made a descent with a parachute, but the crowd broke up disappointed, and alt nightlong meu and boys were out in boats on the St. Johns river, searching for some sign of the ballon and its pas¬ senger. It was learned today that both were picked up in Doctor’s lake, many, miles from tlie scene of the ascension, about 9 o'clock last night. On Doctor’s lake is a saw mill, the hands of which saw the par¬ achute and its burden sailing ahead of a stiff gale as it came toward them. Some of the negroes never saw such a thing be¬ fore and were so badly frightened that they fell upon their knees and prayed. The parachute struck the water 150yards from shore, am] Miss Russell, who was on the tender hooks of fear during the’whole ordeal, at once screamed for help. Several men ran to the shore and cried out to her to hold on, as a boat was com¬ ing. The where boat, however, was a mile a way from the parachute and aer¬ onaut had plunged into the water, and Miss Russell was compelled to hold on for fully an hour. When G. P. Hall pull¬ ed her out she was chilled to the marrow. She was hastily carried to Mr. Hall’s house and warmed up before a roaring fire. Miss Russell arrived in town this morning on the Manatee. She did not bring with her the balloon. That is still floating about the surface of Doctor's lake, at the mercy of the waves. Oui- Pension Bills. The expense of {Tensions in the United States is a burden the like of which has not been imposed on the labor of any other country for any single item of civil expense in modern times. Let those who think this statement unadvised consult the statistics. In our proud and patriot ic wav we talk a good deal of the burden of royalty on the backs of the pnfortu nate peasants and inoujiks of Europe, but the burden of royalty is not to be mentioned in the same breath with our expense for pensions. According to the ’ reliable latest and most statistics the cost of rovalty in England is #2,875,000 a year: in Austria-Hungary #3,875,000: in Italv. #2,858,000; in Prussia, #3,852, 000;”in IRiissia,^#!2,000,000: in Spain, #2 000 000' in Belgium ’ #000 ’ 000' in Denmark, #227,775; in Greece, #26,000; the Netherlands, #250,000; in Sweden and Norway,#575,000;in Portugal,#034, 000: in Roumania, #237,000; #240,00V, in Saxony, #735,000; in Servia, aud in AVurtemburg, #449,050. This list of the monarchies of Europe foots up a total annual expense ol #34,727,825. At the close of the last fiscal year we had 969,- 544 pensioner^ on our rolls, and they costus #140,7 1 2,163.78 This is siderably more than four times the entire annual cost of the monarchies of Europe. It seems incredible, does it not, that the free labor of free America has been taxed for pensions so much more heavily than the inoujiks and the bauers of Europe are taxed to support World. their military mon archies.—New York A WEEK IN WASHINGTON. A Weekly Letter from Our Regular Correspondent. Washington; Jan. 25,1895. Secretary Gresham will submit some very interesting documents to Congress in response to the resolution udopted by the House, calling for information con¬ cerning the expenses of the Behring Se? commission, appointed byPresideutUar risou, and the cost to fhe United States of carrying out the joint treaty between the Fnited States, Great Britain and Germany to maintain the government ot Samoa. These documents will show that members and supporters of the Harrison administration ate in $o position to crit¬ icise the foreign poKcy of the prosector auy other administration. Senator Jones, of Arkansas, introduced his financial bill in the innate ^lis week just as any ordinary bill is introduced, although he had hoped that it might have had the endorsement of Hi e finance committee before it was formally brought to the attention of the Senate. The bill authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue in his discretion bonds at 3 per cent up to 1500,000,000; provides that the tax on national bank currency shall be one fourth of one per cent, and that they may issue currency up to the' par value of the bonds deposited by them; al¬ so, for the unlimited coinage of silver, the government to retain as seigniorage the difference between the market value of the bullion and the face value of mpney coined. Senator Smith, of Jdrsey, also introduced a financial which merely provides for the issue bonds andtheestablishment tisas monetary commission, to gate and report to Congress r°xh ber. There is no apparent chang* in financial situation in tire House) lias lately been looking to the Senate, ivpt for guidance, at laast for a pointer, Mr, W. J. Broderick, president (|f.: St. Louis Livestock Exchangf, Washington Uniting others interested craft foreign ml uid cattle trade to tllllt ObUOXtOU erential sugar repealed. Mr. Broderick says not a dj^eaged American cattle have boeil , iear(1 from Europe, if that f rrov f j n ] duty bad not been imposed, and hf , nddod: «i f it 18 not repealed, we shall lose the entire trade of continental Eu rope, and the producers of beef will have to rely solely on their home market. That market is already suffering with a ruinous over-supply. It is a fine object lesson of what protection will do and shows up the beauties of a home market perfectly. 1’n the meantime the cattle growers of the west are wondering if this Congress has any intention of legislating in the interests of the people,” The ob¬ stacle to the repeal of the differential du¬ ty is in the Senate. A bill for its repeal has boon favorably reported to the House, and will be passed, but it will require strong pressure from the public to get it through the Senate. By a vote of 9 to 7 the Judiciary Com¬ mittee of the House adopted the resolu¬ tion censuring Judge Ricks, of Ohio, for his method of making up his official ac¬ counts when he first became judge, in¬ stead of the impeachment resolution which the committee had first authorized. There will be a minority report, standing out for impeachment, presented to the House by Representative Bailey, of Tex as. • Senator Butler, of South Carolina, is credited with the intention of trying to keep Senator-elect Tillman, who is to be his successor, out of his seat in the Sen¬ ate, and his presentation of a petition from Dr. Sampsqn Pope, late democratic candidate for governor of South Caro¬ lina, asking that the Senate investigate charges of fraud which he makes against Tillman and his associates, makes it look as though he w.ere properly credited. Sen ator Butler has always been popular with his democratic colleagues, but most of them think he is making a serious mis take in supporting the request of a con gressional investigation of a State elec tiou - Senates* Gorman, Smith and Lindsay gave notice to the Senate I nterstateCoin Committee, after tic vote* had pre vented the adoption of several amend "««•* they favored, that they wouldcon to have the railroad pooling bill fa vorobly reported to the Senate, and take their chances of getting their amend uients adopted bv vote of the Senate, Accordingly the bill has been favorably r*-ported to the Senate just as it was passed by the House. Senator Sherman’s anti trust law is no I>etter than some of the other laws with which his name has bsen connected. The Supreme Court this week decided that it did not touch the sugar trust. The income tax won easily in its first l«gal T contest. Judge ", Hagner, sitting in e *inity .. branch , of the Suj e-nJ. oui t of the District of Columbia, refused to grant an injunction asked for to prevent tie TO]lection 0 f the income tax aud de cided ...... the tax to . . be valid. ... An \ appeal a noted. No. MILLIONS WRITE TO HER. Thousands of Letters Swamp a Cross-Roads Postoffiee Several Atlantiaus have recently receiv¬ ed letter*, among them Mr. Thomas Egg¬ leston, Mr. Fred J. Pa*ton and Mr. Charles Adler, asking them to send used postage stumps to a Mrs. Edna Gorman, in Kanes villc, Ill. Kuneeville is not on the map nor on ti railroad, but every postal clerk, in the country has recently heard of it. It has juihped into universal notoriety. Mrs. Gorman was a Miss Edna Brown. Her husband’s sister is a cripple. Mrs. Gorman conceived the idea of collecting cancelled postage stamps for her sister-in law along the line of geometrical progress¬ ion. The next day after,the inception of the idea three inoffensive looking letters left the Kanesville x>ostoffice addressed to three different persons, and signed by Mrs. Gorman’s maiden name, Edna Brown. The letters went on to state that she svns a cripple and desired to collect a mill¬ ion cancelled postage stamps in order to secure treatment in a medical institute. Each of the three persons addressed was asked to send Miss Brown ten or more cancelled postage stamps and to write three letters containing similiar requests, their com spondents to send stamps and write other letters, and so on until the fif¬ tieth link in the chain should be forged Those receiving letters numbered fifty were asked not to write other letters, but to return Hr forty-ninth letter to Edna Brown, tlfCs ending the chain. To appreciate what happened it must be remembered that Kanesville is across roads town on the prairie, nine miles northwest of Aurora. The nearest rail¬ t road station is Sugar Grove, five miles south. Comprising the township there are perhaps thirty houses and twenty five letters a day would be a big mail. ThsftKanesville mail Mr jent to Sugar Grove by train, and from there is taken to the pt.stoffice by stage twice a day. A few days after the dauntless three letters went forth the postmaster began to receive a gooaHsipiy letters for Edna Brown. I t surprised litfhjf Knowing ev¬ ery man, woman, child ainteh Hi7mHi~ii yygjg in the tanyu^Jjpwas awgre of Miss ^ riage. Ylis surprise soon deepened into astonishment, his astonishment into consternation and his consternation into despair. The letters for Edna Brown kept increasing. They soon filled a bush¬ el basket daily. Then they filled several baskets. It rained letters. Instead of the usual small pouch, the Kanesville mail required several. Not only letters came, but boxes and bundles of cancelled stamps from well intending people. The stage coach be¬ came so crowded by mail bags that there was no room for passengers. The post¬ master was obliged to hire an assistant to help handle the stuff. “The chain” iH still not half completed, and an average of from 8,000 to 10,000 letters a day are received at the post office for Miss Edua Brown, to say noth¬ ing of boxes and bundles of stamps by mail and express. Wednesday the num¬ ber received was 17,000. Monday it reached 25,000. The mail clerkH on the trains are in a condition of collapse. Some of the letters even contain money orders sent ,by sympathetic persons. Often whole sheets of stamps are sent just as they came Fom the postofRce, ex* cept with an ink line drawn through. Of course one person cannot look over all this mail, so it is parceled out among the farmers’ wives, who, for the satisfaction of reading the letters, open them and trim the stamps for the little cripple. She passed the 3,000,000 mark long ago, and there seems to be no way to stop the avalanche. No medical institute wanted a million cancelled stamps, or thought of such a thing. The only one who seems to be making anything out of the scheme is Uncle Sam, who is receiving from #200 to #300 a day postage on the letters sent to Edna Brown, of Kanesville, 111. The railroad offices m the Equitaolc have been flooded with letters on the'sub- 3 ® ct ’ ‘ ‘' ' ' " ar *’ 1 ' U c U ' ° the Southern Railway ... office received . . one of the letters and wrote to the post mas ter at Kanesville if any such collection were really being made The postmaster replied that there was, but that he hoped the thing would stoj#, aa the little girl was receiving at the t.me 4,000 letters a day. Mr. Earls, m the Seuthern l assen ger Association office, figured out that if everybody wrote according to instruc tions, the yofing lady will be receiving a number of letters in a few days reaching into the sextillions. Large numbers of the letters have been received in Atlanta, especially in the rail¬ road offices.—Atlanta Journal.' Editor Morning News: Being one of the victims of the “stamp chain” scheme of the Kanesville lady, £ was very much in terestednn the article regarding it in this morniug’s News, and began to figure on the result of her correspondence. Pro vided the eh gin was unbroken from be¬ ginning to end, theresult would be 1,070,- THE TIMES JOB OFFICE Is prepared to print Letter HeatIs, Packet Heads, . Bill Heads and Also— Statements, Envelopes, Etc. Invitations, Cards, Tickets, Programs, Wedding thing Party Invitations, or any you want in thgt lino. Satisfaction guarrtfetecd at THE TIMES JOB J. G. BUTCH Mi Successor to-J. W, Olliff&Co., KEEPS EVERYTHING THAT IS NEED ED BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY, .AND SELLS TIIE YEjtY BEST GOODS AT TIIE LOW¬ EST PRICES. BUYS PRODUCE, AND B ILL APPRECIATE YOUR TRADE. ./ °/°/° o\0 373,909,081,549,193.115,472. the num ber of letters written, and us each person were requested to send ten stamps, annex a cypher and it will give the total num¬ ber of stamps received. The chain must uow be completed, though considerably broken of course, us the letters I wrote, over a’ week ago, were number 48. A Victim. Exposition Notes. Last Monday was a good day with the Cotton States and International Expo¬ sition. By the same mail .came advices of another foreign exhibit aud another state exhibit. Col, I. W. Avery wrote from Buenos Ayres that he had made ar¬ rangements with I)r. Hector Velasquez, minister of foreign relations for guay, for an exhibit from that country. The World’s Fair exhibit from Paraguay was presented to a Columbian Society in Chicago, and the minister intends to ask the loan of that material for a display at Atlanta. He will appoint one of the Paraguayan consuls commissioner to take charge of the exhibit aud in this way hopes to have a creditable representation of that country. The same day came a for from Mr. tYnelfcIfer," 'CVjfiflBitfsiPper of Mines, Manufactures and Agriculture for Arkansas, asking large space for an exhibit from that State. The lands of are among the richest in Amer¬ and the products are varied .and ex¬ Governor Fishhook, in hisrrteent message, urged the legislature to make appropriation for the advertisement the State’s resources. On Wednesday Inst, both houses of the Alabama Jegislanure passed unanimous¬ ly a resolution making an appropriation for an exhibit at the Cotton States and Internation Exposition the special, order for Friday and inviting President Collier and his committee to address them on the subject. The invitation was, of course, accepted. Mr. E. A. Felder, assistant to the Pres¬ ident, who has just made a Hying trip from the Chicago office to Atlanta, re¬ ports great interest in the Cotton States and International Exposition. Almost every line of manufactures ofeonsequcnce in Chicago will be represented at the Ex¬ position, and the character of exhibits will not be inferior to those at the World’s Fair. No exposition ever held in the United States has had more sympathy aadgood offices from the railroads than the Cot¬ ton States and International Exposition has received. Over a hundred lines and systems are advertising the great fair, and they are doing it with a hearty good will that is exceedingly gratifying to the management. With such help from the railroads and the press, the Exposition can hardly help being a great one. When these advantages are at the disposal of a wideawake and energetic management, the result must necessarily be brilliant. One of the most attractive features of the Cotton States aud International Ex¬ position ill be the reproduction* of the AVorld's Columbian Exposition in mina ture by Mr. G. \V. Ferris, tlie builder of the Ferris Wheel. The great World’s Fair will be reproduced in its entirety, complete in every detail, on a scale of l-140th. • This makes the Manufactures and Liberal Arts building about ten feet long, and the whole Exposition seventy five feet long. The material is white hol¬ ly, and the workmanship exquisite. The electrical works will be perfectly repro¬ duced, and the smallest lights ever seen will be used in decorating the various buildings. Search lights will be shown on the battle ship and on the various buildings, the intramural railroad will be seen with cars in motion, the whale-back steamer will be seen arriving and depart¬ ing, and Lake Michigan will appear in the distance. By electrical and mechan¬ ical effects, sunrise, daylight, moonrise, and the white city by moonlight, will ap¬ pear in succession. The Minature City is decorated with ajl the statuary and ornaments that appeared in the original.