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OCILLA WATCH. 0(1 MX 7 GEORGIA. __ HEIS'DEltXON & HANLON, Publishers. The Pope has told the Boimm Nobles that they must mend their morals. If the aristocracy is to have no privileges, what is the use of be¬ ing an aristocrat? It looks as though the United Stales was no longer a debtor nation. Her capitalists are now financeering many of the heavy affairs of Europe. Think of it, and we not yet one-fousth through our second century. Queen Victoria appears to have made, by proxy, a good schoolmis¬ tress, as well as a sovereign, judging from the fact that when she ascended the throne, more than fifty per cent, of the Brisish people could not write their names, while now only seven , per cent, are in that lamentable con¬ dition of illiteracy. A sympatJietic critic ot our literature has said that the people of the United States have had to act their Iliad and have not had time to sing it. They have passed through several stages of political progress culminating in the position of a colonizing power,and the intervals between their crises of growth have not been long enough for the set¬ tlement of literary canons nor promo¬ tive of general literary culture. Until recently the territorial sections in which certain economical and political doctrines were more or less powerful, represented the antagonism ot feelings and ideas which pr evented unity of national aspiration. Since the Civil War the country has been developing industrial business by means of the railroad systems which have promoted the largest domestic trade in the world; and now, for the first time in i its history, it has become politically ! one by reason of a war which has brought together North and South, as well as East and West, in an intimacy 'of national relation which did not ex¬ ist a year ago, observes the New York Commercial Advertiser, I While the dress goods industry of L this country is iu a somewhat unsatis¬ factory condition, that of France ap¬ pears to be far worse situated, ob¬ serves the Dry Goods Economist. Manufacturers in Bonbaix report a very unprofitable business, and though their confreres in Germany and Eng¬ land have also suffered from bad trade, • the latter were undoubtedly better off than the Frenchmen, Want of adaptation to modern requirements is the cause ascribed by the Economiste Francaise. While there are establish¬ ments in France as well equipped as in Alsace or Saxony, on the whole a much larger proportion of the looms in Germany are of the best and most receut construction. This is largely because the German woolen manufac¬ ture is of more recent growth than that of France. It is also claimed by the Economiste that, because of the com¬ bination of spinning and weaving in the same mills, France cannot pro¬ duce the immense variety of fabrics now required so economically as is done in Germany and England, where spinning aud weaving are to a very large extent separate industries. This is a matter which has recently begun to receive attention from American manufacturers. The multiplication of locomotive agencies goes on apace, aud is realiz¬ ing such a forecast with a rapidity never before known. Canal, steam engine, electric and cable cars, bicycle and automobile have not only com¬ bined against our four-footed friends for competition in long and short dis¬ tances, but are competing among themselves for the largest shave iu the victory. In the most highly civilized countries the beast of burden for long distances has been eliminated by the railway, and for short distances the process will be practically com¬ pleted by the street car and the automobile. * The great trunk lines across this country, the Canadian Pacific Railway across Canada, the traus Siberian line in Asia, the com¬ ing railway from Cairo to Cape Town and other great lines yet to be built in Asia and Africa, portend the final displacement of the nomad life which originally gave animals their chief value. The work of elimination is thus being sketched on broad lines by eolonizing necessities, and the filling- in process will go on with the develop¬ ment of trade and civilization. Minor details will be adjusted by local con¬ ditions, and the same principle that calls for great continental highways of steel will be operative in smaller areas wherever commerce is established. THE PRETTY AH FONG GIRLS OF HONOLHLH. A Truly Wonderful Story That is Unparalleled Even in the World of Fiction. THIRTEEN CnAUMINO SISTEKS WHOM WE ABE RAPIDLY ANNEXING. On Bo a hi) Steameb Oceanic, I Off Honolulu, Hawaii. January, 1899. WONDER if you mm ever hear of the 5 pretty Ah Fong S' ,v girls of Hono- Cs Sell 1 u 1 u—thirteen 5*101 oharming daughters of a treme ndously SI man wealthy and a China¬ Kan¬ aka woman, each with a dowry of $350,- 000 ? It is a truly wonderful story and en¬ tirely unparalleled even in the world of fiction. For no cause other than a Chinaman’s ceaseless longing for re¬ turn to his native country the father abandoned his wife and family aud his millions and lives in seclusion in Pekin. His Sandwich Island wife lives in magnificent style in the sump¬ tuous home which he built in Hono¬ lulu, and his numerous daughters are iu the swellest society the islands afford and are plainly enough deter¬ mined upon marriage alliances with the best of the white men who come their way. Recent tidings from Honolulu give currency to a report that another daughter of Wing Ah Fong is to marry in that city a young American resi¬ dent. The prospective bride’s mother already has the dowry of $350,000 in cash, real estate and securities ready for the marriage day. This time the bride will be Miss Jessie Ah Fong, and her choice is settled upon Howard G. Morton, a young newspaper editor who has lived iu Honolulu for several years, He is a distant relative of ex-Secretary of Agriculture Sterling G. Morton, of Nebraska, and a first cousin on his paternal side of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie. He was a student at Cornell Univer¬ sity, aud later at Stanford University, at Palo Alto, Cal. He inherited a small fortune when he was twenty-five, and, abandoning reportorial work in San Francisco, sailed ou a journey around the world. He never got any further than Honolulu. There, be¬ coming infatuated with the climate aud the easy life under the tropics, he decided to remain always. He bought stock in a local newspaper, in¬ vested in sugar company stock, and fell in love with Miss Jessie Ah Fong. The mairiage, it is said, will take place shortly. Story of tlie Ah Fung Girls. The Ah Fong (written Afong since the family became leaders of fashion in Honolulu) group of thirteen g;irls is very interesting from several points of view. Everybody who has been in Hawaii, no matter for how brief a time, in the last decade has heard much about the Ah Fong family, and how it has borne the brunt of hospita¬ ble entertainment of all visiting naval craft in tho harbor of Honolulu. Early in the sixties a young Chinaman named Wing Ah Eong settled in Hon¬ olulu. He was an unusually intelli¬ gent and genial Chinaman, and with a little capital he soon built up a pros¬ perous business in Chinese pottery, silks and bric-o-brac. He learned the Kanaka aud English tongues readily, aud before anyone knew it he was the leading merchant in Honolulu. He spent money freely and was well liked by whites and blacks in the quaint old town. He married ayoung girl of uncertain Portuguese and Kan¬ aka ancestry, but with a dash of Eng¬ lish blood somewhere back in her con¬ fused pedigree. She was' an attrac¬ tive, energetic and ambitious person for that land of languor and siesta, and the young couple prospered. Ah Eong invested in sugar cane planta¬ tions, and in tho old times, when sugar plantation stock paid thirty and forty per cent, dividends a year he grew very rich. In ten years Ah Fong was worth over $300,000 and was add¬ ing $35,000 a year to it annually. Mr. Ah Fong was a careful, prudent busi¬ ness man, and while his business as¬ sociates were content to drowse and take no heed of the morrow he was watching chances to buy plantation land cheap from the improvident who abounded in Hawaii. Swellest Home In Honolulu. In time the Ah Fong family num¬ bered seventeen—the parent, two boys and thirteen girls. People who used to visit Honolulu ten and fifteen years ago say that it was a memorable sight to see bowling along any of the lava-made roads in Honolulu Papa Ah Fong with his white duck Buit aud his long cue dangling down his back, driving the horses that drew his com¬ plete family circle. The girls always dressed in elaborate gowns of maroons, magentas and scarlet reds, and the wagon load of childish feminine loveli¬ ness of every hue in the rainbow made a charming spectacle. Mr. Ah Fong built the most unique residence in Hawaii. It stands in the western suburbs of Honolulu on a sightly knoll. It is an enormous pagoda, with the oddest sort of piaz¬ za's about it, There are sixteen of the piazzas, and they are all over twenty feet wide. Envious parents of other pretty Honolulu and marriageable daughters in say that the Ah Fong par¬ ents had these many separate and dis- tiuct piazzas built in this fashion pur¬ posely to let each daughter in the family have a piazza solely to herself aud her particular young men callers of an evening. Be the charge true or false, it is a fact that all the Ah Fong piazzas— so famous in Honolulu—are filled 350 evenings in the year with companies of young men callers, and there are impromptu concerts with man¬ dolins, banjos and a dozen reed instru¬ ments not known outside the tropics on the piazzas almost every evening. Mr. Ah Fong, true to the character¬ istics of his race, never abandoned his Chinese mede of life. His wife and his fast increasing family might think and do as they liked, for he was an in- dulgont father, but he never gave up his chop-Bticks and his wooden shoes aud flowing garments of gaudy silks. Occasionally when this wagon load of gayly gowned femininity drove down to the Honolulu wharf to give a wel¬ coming hand to people from the steamer or man-of-war he would please his daughters by putting his long black cue under his derby hat. He was the soul of hospitality, and he loved to give big spreads at. home. All Font; Sails Away. In the spring of 1892 Mr. Ah Fong planned a visit to China with his eldest son, about seventeen years old. The man had become very wealthy— in fact, one of the four richest men in the Hawaiian Islands. His invest¬ ments in stock in the sugar companies had paid themselves out six and seven times over. He made over $300,000 in one deal in sugar stock to Claus Spreckels, of San Francisco. Hun¬ dreds of acres of land on the Island of Maui that had cost him a few thou¬ sand dollars had become worth many times more. He was popularly rated at about $4,000,000, with an income of over $70,000 a year, and the estimate seems to have been just. In the summer of 1892 Mr. Ah Fong had so arranged his business that he and his son sailed away for Hong Kong. When six months had passed and the rich Chinaman had not re¬ turned there was some comment. But when a year went by aud he wa" (till absent all Honolulu was interested. Mrs. Ah Fong and her lovely daugh¬ ters never spoke on the subject—at least, to outsiders. Then the Chinese in Honolulu began to get news from relatives and friends in China, and the information became general in the city that Ah Fong had gone to visit in Pekin, and that by the laws of China he came very near going to prison for a long term for going to a foreign land. The gossip had it also that Mr. Ah Fong had paid a fine of many thou¬ sands of dollars and had settled down with a good-sized fortune to live all his days in Pekin, How much of this is mere gossip and how much his¬ tory no one can say confidently. At any rate the Ah Fong family in Hono¬ lulu believes the story as to the fate that befell Papa Ah Fong in Pekin. Moreover, the Honolulu and San Francisco newspapers published the gossip about Mr. Ah Fong aud no one has yet contradicted them. Mrs. Ah Fong and her children have gone right along, apparently heedless of the absence of the hus¬ band and father. The estate is well managed and-is in such shape that it earns its dividends with little personal care of the family. When the first daughter was married to Captain Whiting it was decided that each girl should have her share of the family patrimony when she married. Mrs. Whiting got $100,000 in cash and $250,000 in property and securities. So it was then settled also that the dowries were to consist of money and property or securities to the value of $350,000 each. Girls All Winsome, Some Beautiful. Eight of the thirteen girls are un¬ usually attractive and would be much observed in any general assemblage of young women the world over. All the Ah Fong girls are petite and have peculiarly graceful ways, winning voices and a certain vivacity that has no comparable counterpart in Ameri¬ can life. They range in height from five feet two to five feet seven, with the average at about five feet five. All the Ah Fong girts are good sing¬ ers, aud have the love of the Ha- waiians for string music. For years the girls have been famous for their waltzing. Many a naval officei^has sailed away from Honolulu harbor with fond remembrance of his first ap¬ preciation of the soulfulness and beauty of Strauss’ waltzes after a party at the Ah Fong house. Five of the girls are unusually handsome and would win attention for that reason alone in any society. Two or three of the girls have the Chinese almond- shaped eyes quite marked, and they feel dreadfully about it. But they are the very jolliest of the Ah Fongs, and by the graces and accomplish¬ ments that they have evidently studied to overcome any facial defect, they are particularly popular. Two more have a faint suggestion of slanting eyes, but their superb complexions and limpid dark eyes make them par¬ ticularly prepossessing. All the Ah Fong girls nave dark hair. Four have deep olive com¬ plexions, five are as dark as American brunettes and four have light com¬ plexions. They all have small hands and feet. One or two of them are what would be called fairly fat, but none of the others can weigh over 130 pounds. Stylish and Picturesque. But it is the manner of dress and the chic style of the Ah Fong girls that make them such attractions to naval officers and prominent resident Americans in Honolulu. Possessed of great wealth and a natural genius for color effects, the Ah Fong girls have from the time the eldest first went out to dancing parties till the youngest a year ago made her debut in Honolulu society at the age of fifteen worn somff of the most heart¬ crushing gowns man ever looked s family. Once every two years slie goes to San Franoisco, thence across the continent to New York, thence to Paris, where she spends some thou¬ sands of the Ah Fong fortune in great boxes and cases of the latest Parisian feminine vanities and conceits. Cultivated and Up to Dale. Unlike all other young women in Honolulu, the Ah Fong girls have cultivated the ways of the Americans and English. That is a characteristic they have inherited from their Mon- golion ancestors—the knack of know- in g what will please the Oausasian race and then setting about to accoin- plish it. The Ah Fong girls have be- British navy know what good tenuis players the Ah Fongs are, and a man- of-war no sooner touches Honolulu than the yotfng men aboard who have been there before begin plans for get- ting early to the hospitable Ah Fong home. The Ah Fongs’ social position in Honoluln has been assured for ten years, and since the father went to China never to return to Honolulu the position of the girls has been settled beyond argument. The marked at- tention the naval officers have shown the girls has given them a prestige that their money could not buy even in mercenary Honolulu. The agree- ability of Mme. Ah Fong, and her smiles of happiness upon all her daughters’ attendants have been po- tential in making the Ah Fongs the favorites they are. The pagoda man- i sion has always been kept open to the girls’ friends. railfaln w „... All” . _ Miss Henrietta J Pmo- °’ vhr mar ml vied ewain whiHn 17 q w n! ; now uadno^k t 1Z i L M charming- charming in in tli» the family. fainilv Kim She is 1 is a reade^ among the 8 girlsl 8 White all°tbe i h l "it Ta^ nevertheless^ 1 naval » offic«s fHoToSrn; - San Francisco when the announcement was to wed Miss Ah Form To be sure i she she was was veiy verv brisht blight and siid pietty m-ettv and and would adorn any home, and—and she ; had an absolutely sure dowry of $350,- 000, and may get more. But then there is the persistent thought that possibly old Papa Ah Fong and his queue and his clattering wooden shoes may come out of China one day on a visit to his daughters. Then, too, one cannot suppress the wonder whether any of Mamma Ah Fong’s Kanaka | blood will ever assert itself in future ; generations. The naval officers, even those who had repeatedly been guests at the Ah Fong mansion, shook their heads and talked in whispers among themselves. But the marriage, which took place in May, ’ 1894, has proved a perfect union. Captain Whiting and his wife have a beautiful home among the cocoanut trees of Honolulu, and their devotion to each other is only marred by their common devotion to their three-year-old girl. Mrs. Whiting is | one of the most beautifully gowned women among the naval circles any- Three Other ^Tarried Sisters. Miss Alice Ah Fong, who married Arthur M. Johnstone (formerly a re- porter in St. Louis), the Associated Press representative at Honolulu, is the tallest aud most dignified of the ' girls—that is, if one may speak of dig- nity in connection with these jolly, singing bits of femininity of the tropics, j Mrs. Johnstone owns a great block of stock in the Hawaiian Sugar Company, and the annual income from that alone is over $22,000. Besides, her dowry included a coffee plantation and busi- ness real estate in Honolulu. Mrs. J. Alfred Morgan, wife of a prosperous lawyer in Honolulu, who came from Leavenworth, Kan., was Miss Jenny Ah Fong until her marriage last Janu- ary. Her dowry consisted of cash, a block of stock in the Maul Comrner- cial Sugar Company and real estate at Waikiki, near Honolulu. Miss Helen Ah Fong married a young San Fran- cisco lawyer named George Stewart in August, 1897, and went on a tour of the world with him. They will be back in Honolulu next spring. Mean- whilo a very haudsomo home for the young couple is building in San Fran¬ cisco. But there are nine other Ah Fong girls to gladden the hearts and homes of youth and chivalry. Moreover, there is a vast amount of stock in sugar companies, interests in cocoanut groves, thousands of acres of fertile soil on the islands of Hilo and Maui, stock in Hawaiian steamboat lines and Honolulu real estate to be given in dowry to the girls as fast as they choose their husbands. And above all old Papa Ah Fong has recently sent word from Pekin that he will probably never leave there again, and Mamma Ah Fong is not at all likely to so much as sail out of Honolulu harbor. Laying; the Atlantic Cable. The Atlantic telegraph-cable was safely laid, and was put in successful operation in the month of July, I860. The work was begun on the 6th by landing the shore end at Valencia, in Ireland. On the 13th the deep-sea line was spliced to the shore end, and the Great Eastern, with the cable on board, accompanied by three consorts, set out on the voyage. Not a single misadventure occurred, aud on the 28th the vessels reached Newfound¬ land. Tho whole distance sailed by the fleet was 1686 nautical miles, and the length of cable paid out 1868 miles. The rate of sailing was singu¬ larly uniform, and the least distance was made in a single day being 105 miles, the greatest 128. AMERICANS TAKE thf, lllli city will of V/l A pasig xiwiw Desperate Fighting and Rebels Put To Flight THREE AMERICA NS KILLED Th .0 Filipinos* ... Losses Reported To Be Very Severe. A Manila special General ~ , says: Wheaton attacked and captured the ci fy 0 f p asi g, east of Manila, Monday for -"t an honr > The bllt ““T at tbe ”“ end d ; \t; ot that time was forced to retreat. At daylight General Wheaton’s di- v j s i 01 , a i brigade °. ’ consisting of the m Twentletb United States infantry, . , the ,, Twenty-second infantry, eight com- panies of the Washington volunteers, 8even companies of the Oregon volun- tbre ,, e troops . of . * . ie „ ou ? ,, } F"l ted States , cavalary and a mounted battery of the Sixth artillery, was d J aw “ up °° a ridge behind San Pedro , Maeati, a mile south of the town. Lhe advance vias sounded at (5.30 a. m., ^ ie oava * r y ' e< * ^b e column, at a smart * r0 *’ across the open to the right, eventually reaching a clump command- * n 8 * be rear Guadalupe. Supported by the Oregon volunteers ^ be a< ^ Ta,| ce force opened a heavy fire on the rebels. The response was feeble and desul- tory, apparently coming from hands- ful of men in every covert. While the right colnmn was swinging toward the town of Pa8ig > the Ieft advanced aml P°™ d ™ lle y s iuto tb « b « ab ' A small body of rebels made ado- ;ermined stand at Gandalupe church, ” nable to witbstaud the as- j At 7:3 ° a river gunboat sta L ted r* mi ,r: )e near G , ladalupe pourld . Steaming slowly, fr/rn | |he gunboat a terrific fire ber gatlmg 8 1lns mt ° the brush. For ab °^ al1 bonr tbe whirring of the rapid fire guI)8 alternated with the booming of the heavier pieces on board. The artillery moved to a ridge com- j manding Pasig and Parteros. By this time the enemy was in full flight along a line over a mile long and the tiring was discontinued temporarily in order to give the troops a rest before making an attack on Pasig. At this stage of the engagement it ... heavily, and , after ,, a short , was ralnrn £ refi attack L General. 1 asig. Wheaton resumed the on I he first shot shot from the Ameri- ^ a ^ tiM't pieces at 1,200 yards range dislodged a gun of the enemy at Pasig. After the town had been shelled,the Twentieth regiment lined up on the bluff and the Twenty-second took up a position on the left of the place, with the cavalry in ihe center, whereupon tbe enemy retreated to the town. ^ be rebels were met opposite Pate- ros . bnt tb e enemy bolted and the city ' was captured, Thirty of the rebels were killed and sixteen were taken prisoners and the Americans lost three men killed and fourteen wounded. A public demonstration was made a* Havana Monday morning in honor Gomez. When Federico Mora, ci'’il governor of Havana, learned of the preparations he directed the police ^ to prevent the parade. They tried to do so, but utterly failed. W hen near Quinta de los Molinas the demonstrators began to shove the policemen, pulling their coats and at- tempting to take away their clubs, j There were more than a hundred police within ten blocks, but they did not as “ together. Indeed, they were thoroughly scared, and one policemen ran to Central park, where the Tenth regulars were camped. The Twentieth regulars, who were sent, at double-quick with fixed bayo- j nets to protect the policemen, charged : down upon a crowd of a thousand. Everybody ran, including the police and men, women and children turn- | bled over each other in the rush. Two ! minutes later the avenue was cleared for blocks, but not a person was hurt by the regulars, EDITORS TO VISIT CUBA. ! Georgia Press Association Will Make a Trip To the Island. Mr. H. H. Cabaniss, president of \ the Georgia Press association, is ar- ranging to take that body of editors on a trip to Cuba. The trip will be a short one and at moderate cost. It is estimated that the expense will be from $60 to $75 for each person. It is the intention of President Cabaniss „ , to , cull a meeting of the Georgia Press association at Tampa for Friday morning, the 24th of March. It must be distinct y understood hat no one can enjoy the privilege of taking this trip except the editor, pro- pnetor or publisher o a Georgia newspaper. One lady will be allowed to accompany each gentleman bu she must be a member of the family of such editor, proprietor or publisher. NUNS ORDERED FROM CUBA. Papal Delegate .Expels Five Sisters of American Order. A Baltimore dispatch says: Five sisters of the American Order of Sacred Heart, have, according to a dispatch received from Pinar del Rio, been or¬ dered away from Cuba by Archbishop Chappelle, the papal delegate recently appointed to investigate the affairs of the Catholio church in that island. IN BEHALF OP^H An Appeal to the People ' States Is Issued. A Boston, Mass., dispatchf^^l An appeal to tlio people of the United States urging all “lovers of freedom” to co-operate with them in an attempt- * nduce the government to suspendJ in the,Philippines and con- view to preventing further bloodshed ^ recognizing their independence upon the guarantee of protection to property, by the natives, has beerl issued over the signature of more than a 8 f ore °( prominent men. I lie preamble describes the attitudJ of McKinley this government toward the and Filipinos of PresidenJ| f>® * s ~ °P alists in ' on and, ou tbe on the part contrary, of the anti-impj® every*® ? 80n Ramst , for a th ® continuance B P lrR of militarism of the pr^H force, eratiou and the they therefore urge co-o{® to following ends: First—That our government shall take immediate steps toward a suspen- 8 * on of ha ®^ lities .j?- tbo I ’ 1 dH Ppine8 an< ‘ conference f with the Philippine > ] leaders, with a view to preventing f„ rt her bloodshed upon the basis of recognition of their freedom and inde¬ p en dence as soon as proper guarantee can be had of order and protection to property. Second—That the government of the United States shall tender an official aR8Urance to the inhabitants of the Philippine islands that they will en-| courage and assist in the organization 0 f BUC h a government in the islands as the people thereof shall prefer, and that upon its organization in stab manner the United States in prescrl aecoJ a nce with its tradition and reel t ive policy in such cases, will Phill nize the independence of the natioi pines and its equality among and gradually withdraw all naval at military forces. - i The signers are ex-Governor Geo* ^nator GeoLge° F. Edmunds! oi’vM Louisiana! W Bourke SSSM Codn a^H New York; William Johnson,t| H. Georgia; Henry U. diana; Samuel Federation Gompers, presic the American of La Felix Adler, of New York; UniversjJ DavidV Jordan, president Stanford MassachuseJ Winslow Warren, of Herbert Welsh, of Pennsylvania; Connecticut® Ld ard Wolsey Bain, of San® p. Adams, of Massachusetts; Bowles, of Massachusetts; I. EdwaJ J. MI Gmty, of Cornell university; Atkinson, of Massachusetts; CiS Scliurz, of New York; Reverd Johnson, of Maryland; Herman t on Holst, of Chicago universitlB Moorfield Storey, of Massachusetts Patrick A. Collins, of Massachusetts L. Cuyler, of New Massac^W ’Ihomas W. Higginson, of setts; Andrew Carnegie, of New York; York; ex-Senator Charles John E. G. Norton, Carlisle, of Har«® of NmJ university; W. G. Sumner, of ^ college; ltey. Dr. C. H. Parkhurs New York, ATLANTA’S NEW DEPOT? - Railroads Ask For More Time to sider the Matter. ijq 1B new union depot for Atla Gn., is as far from realization as c railraads interested dec‘1 Tuesday afternoon before the rail commission that it was out of* guestion to figure on a depot witJ using elevated tracks, and the eleq tracks could not be a success qqg c ;ty granted permission tJl p resa Whitehall, Prycr Jfi ai streets. thnlfl And s till further WO uld not consent to erecrai unless! and expensive station would, by its lease, warral penditure of the money, and i fl y would depend'upon the stockholders of the roads, PUTNAM IS LIBRARIAN? President Gives a Snug Berth Prominent Boston flan. A Washington dispatch says: I ident McKinley has appointed Her Putnam of Boston librarian of congi Mr. Putnam was born in New City iu 1801. He is the son of P. Putnam, founder of the publi house of Geo. Putnam & Sons was qt one time librarian of the B public library. .DETAINED BY QUARANTINE Being fl _ Government Transport is Below Savannah, Ga. A Tbe detel)tion of the transport J ! bel . gan ° w Savannab the ^ G , eorg,a ___• 18 g ^«g . state , , the ,f a jl | ’ partment P some concern. The Cu* sl M } revente d from returning to JoB . . , . ^ wbioh will occur ^ the M wi „ t , hiuder the jl ‘ to this country. The troops! w is t too co!d to br i J a g the cl ’ a th landed at south ern r 0 Ms durj , .. ' pl 1 ' -- TENNESSEE LEGISLATORS Reassemble At Nashville and Agaii Take Up Their Labors. A Nashville special says: The leg* wil tare mot again Tuesday morning thirty-seven days of the session, 11 eluding Sundays, remaining for worl All the committee reports are pracB cally complete. cal® A A delegation of labor men on Governor MeMillin and urged lH to veto the bill making the garni* ment law more stringent. A