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POLITICIANS AT WORK.
To Make the Most Cut of the
Preside it’s Message.
WORK OF THE FISHERIES CONGRESS.
Washington, December 18.—[Special.]—
largo quantities of, the president's mes-ago
are be in* circulated over the country by
members of both parties, but with entirely dif
ferent purposes.
It is generally believed that unless congress
passes some legislation on the line of the uies
fago that it will seriously injure democratic
chances. The republicans are placing these
copies where they will do the most good, and
the democratic managers are filling the forests
gnd meadows ot the great northwest as far
flown as Illinois with the president's pages.
Both parties are firmly convinced now the
States of Minnesota. Wisconsin, and Michigan
are going to be doubtful ones at the next presi
dential election. The tariff reform sentiment
is said to have grown amazingly in those
places of recent years, and this fact causes the
democrats to be jubilant.
There is a growing sentiment, too,that before
the next election the union flag will have three
more stars, the present territories of Dakota.
Montana and Washington becoming mere and
more clamorous for admission. Should one or
all of these be admitted, it is within the
bounds of mathematical demonstration that
♦he vote of the now states could decide a presi
dential contest, bijt it is on the other hand held
that even if they are admitted into the union
during the pending session that they will not
be given the right to exercise their voting
franchise before 1892.
Speaker Carlisle, in addition to hie proposed
southern trip early in the now year, the pur
pose of which is well known, will also en
deavor to convert the east to his tariff views,
and it is now announced that ho will address
the democracy of New York in Tammany hall
next Thursday.
The rumor telegraphed last night about the
interview between Randall and Carlisle seems
to have been confirmed. Congressman Mills,
of Texas, chairman of the ways and means
committee, had a long interview with the
president yesterday ami it is supposed that the
Shape of the tariff bill to be reported was the
subject of discussion.
If the agreement reached by Randall and
Carlisle be true, there is no question about an
early introduction of a bill to repeal the to
bacco tax. This concession seems to have
been won by the persistency of the Virginia
♦aid North Carolina democrats.
Washington, December 19—[Special.]—
It is now evident that the republicans intend
to do all they can against the confirmation of
Mr. Lamar. In the senate today there was no
report from the judiciary committee, but be
fore the senate met the committee held its
first meeting for the purpose of discussing the
nominations. While it sat with closed doors,
this much is known, that all the members
were present except Evarts, and that the re
publicans discussed Lamar's political record,
While Pugh, of Alabama, warmly defended
It. No vote was taken, and the matter was
referred to a sub-committee composed of Ed
munds, Hoar and Pugh. This ordinarily
would lock bad ter Lamar, but there is
more to be told. Knowing the feeling in the
South about the matter, I went to a well known
democratic senator, not connected with Lamar
in any way, and was told the following:
“You can say to your people that Lamar will
be confirmed and I know it. It is true that
some republicans, who had promised to vote
fbr him, l ave backed down because of the pres
sure brought to bear upon them by their party,
but there are yet ethers who will vote for him
•nd who will not recede from their promises.
The party has determined to defeat him if it
can, and it will make a desperate fight, but I
—br -w what X talking about, and 1 tell you
Lamar will be confirmed."
THE TAX ON WHISKY AND TOBACCO.
Mr. Pugh offered the following resolution,
and proceeded to address the senate in sup
port of it:
Resolved. That the most important and pressing
duty i f the present session of congress is to revise
ana so amend the existing internal tax and tariff
laws as to reduce the annual revenues to be col
lected therefrom to the necessary wants of the
federal governmen', and no more than it needs to
pay its matured debts and discharge its obligations
under the laws of congress without crippling or de
ranging any Ante, ken industries or business inter
ests connected with the subjects of tariff tax: t on or
interfering with the just rights of the American
Working people, intended to be secured to them by
the incidental effects of revenue duties to share in
the joint product of labor and capital employed in
-American mining and manufacturing industries, to
the full measure of difference in the cost of their
labor and the labor of those engaged in similar in
dustries in Europe.
Resolved, That the senate will concur in no joint
resolution for the final adjournment of the present
Session of congress until after the passage of such
remedial laws as are specified in the foregoing reso
lution.
In the course of his argument, Mr. Pugh
asked whether congress would wipe out all
internal revenue taxes and allow the necessary
revenue to be raised on tariff imposts alone.
He had never clearer or stronger conviction
than the conviction that the whisky tax was
perfectly just and wholly unobjectionable, ex
cept on the ground that it was a direct tax.
There was nothing produced, owned and con
sumed that could supply the government with
ninety millions of revenue, with more propri
ety and less injury to any human being than
Whisky. Ho had never heard any valid reason,
•nd did not believe there was any valid reason,
Why whisky drinkers should be relieved from
the payment of this tax, and why the revenue
which it yielded should be extorted by a tariff
from the consumers of the necessaries of life.
He knew of no better use to which whisky
Could be applied than to the production
of the ninety millions of revenue nec
essary to pay pensions and interest on the
war debt, instead of extorting that amount from
the harmless consumption of imported articles.
Who insisted, he asked, that the luxury of
whisky drinking should be freed from the
burden? Was it whisky drinkers, or whisky
makers, who declared there should be no re
vision of the tariff until every internal revenue
t»x was repealed ? It was not. The cry came
loudest and fiercest from the manufacturers
fed their representatives. The most defiant
♦nd uncompromising advocates of free whisky
Xerc the manufacturers of protected articles.
s a general compromise, lie would repeal the
internal tax upon tobacco, for the sole reason
that tobacco was an agricultural product, and
let the tax on whisky stand for future consid
eration. He declared that he would vote for
no duty on any article manufactured in the
United States that would cripple any home in
dustry, or impair the ability of the home
Competition. No people, he said, had
•ver submitted so long to robbery on
the part of their own government,
•nd those who opposed a revision of the tariff
•t the risk of financial panic and industrial
Eralysis become parties to this robbery, and
jotno political criminals. Both the repub
an and democratic parties had promised to
reduce the income to the wants of the govern
ment, and it was trifling for the republicans
to charge upon the democratic party the blame
of the failure to revise the tariff. This con
gress could not adjourn until such change was
made in the revenue laws as would stop the
flow of money from the people into the na
tional treasury beyond the needs of the gov
ernment. He would put on the free list chem
icals and raw wool of all low grades, and salt,
•nd might add other articles to the free list.
He was not in fat or. however, of putting iron
on the tree list. Doing so would be regarded
by the ore landowners and orc workersof Ala
bama, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia
as an act ot unjust discrimination in favor of
foreign iron ores. As to pig iron, on which
the present duty was 88.72 per ton,
be believed that a duty of $5 per ton
Would be ample. Ho made these remarks to
♦how that there was not the least danger to
the iron ore and pig iron interests from any
reduction of the tariff. President Cleveland
had in his recent annual message shown a
Courage and patriotism never exhibited before
by any public man in his v< sition and with
Ms surroundings. There could be no mistake
•s to what the president believed to be the
paramount duty of congress. There was not a
■ingle ntei.ee in the >n< - ,age that was not the
truth and the whole truth.
THK EDUCATIONAL BILL.
The bill report: d received the unanlmons in-
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THE WEEKLY CONSTITITION, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1887
e< to >i, /V bo on education, and
Hnl i .T' 1 0110 sl 'o r|,t cl;ai ‘ ‘>'o bill as
for aV t i 0 senatc > l H I"-0 'ides
ior a total appropriation«>f ■ tube ex-
Fne'-hn Hn' ght Th ° rf T°rt accompany,
ing tno bill, among other -iv v •
of A totorr ‘■■ Ol ,"‘“'itec Ulieve that no meitsme
OI reater, if there be imv ofenual -m■ orm c wll
deauTi l e °f the -.unto, they' imvi- i/i
she mco,. 110 ®' !,er "I"" 1 'i'-;.e ; eruldto cs-
o i1n.7.11rl ’ Or t 0 t ' nilir « p a s '■ nature
meat ** . ' llty Atones m enact
ment. • • * the measure was <1 vised rnd
mid i.u-nT'* t0 I mi'' lrc , r ’’ '•'« “’"urnin.
a l, Ai n a ""B>’.litera .y, 1, Ills: an Ito <<> so ;u. u- i-s
a lit,/.,2Ji ?Ji“ •2 c “" s °‘ lm;r >usphis reven::...
1,s f 1 1 eir ex;sl ‘ n '•« n*in< Vvs all excuse h»r a
f** iUre 10 j»a>s 4. The bill was pjoja-s d befoie the
evenifmViit? • k 81101,11 become a law
additional taxation were ne.e :a v. » ♦ »
naea W,t ’l ,he cc “ l,trv . ! keeps full
pace with its increase in p •puhitton. The mere sc
of populations adds continually to the nun b r who
require aUei.uun, while the means of education are
vlthmn “ , “ i ,^erefore wiu ! >ot, be provided
fatten ‘ tl ™l'°™ r .'’asri-tunce from the funds of the
tenqiOTiiry aid proposed in the bill
i gl , vvn at onct I p-m ti e close of
J 3° tl! '. B,ow It now is but to provide a Icng
deferred obligation, the neglect of which hasalrcady
greatly enhanced toe grave perils to the nation,
no Shull estimatethe evil consequence which will
beiall us from a continuance of that tow and un
to- mo™ l ’ loll e ,h od nii'c'i, 111 d r the influence
rJi s and iipiornn c. ,s n- w bearing one-
fou.th of tie children ot the repul lie. It there can
be no sentiment of patriotism which can stir u-. to
action, the Instinct of self preservation, which con
lero a certain degree oi wisduiu upon even brutes
delay BOt longer be outraged 'by our suiei. al
ODS AND ENDS IN CONGRESS.
Bills were introduced in the senate today by
Air. Ransom, for a public building at Ashe
ville, N. C., to cost $150.0)0. and by Air.
corm C mn fOr a at Charlotte, to cost
qJ’—xA/j* AR/.
Mr. Davis, from the committee on pensions,
reported a bill to place the name of Mrs. Logan
(widow of General John A. Logan) on the pen
sion roll at the rate of $2,000 a year, and abked
for its immediate consideration.
Mr. Perry objected, and the bill was placed
on the calendar.
Mr. Davis also reported a bill to increase
pension of Mrs. Blair (widow of General Frank
P. Blair), and it was also placed on the calen
dar.
Mr. Edmunds asked that the postal tele
graph bill, introduced by him, be taken from
the table and referred to the post office com
mittee. He had intended, he said, to have
submitted some brief observations on the bill,
but trusting to the zeal and lidelity which the
postoffice committee had hitherto shown in
favor of some such measure, he thought he
could safely send it without any
preliminary observations, trusting that it
would be very speedily reported, when it could
be discussed. The bill was so referred, as
well as a bill on subject introduced
by Mr. Cullom.
THE MORMONS AND GOVERNMENT.
The resolution offered by Mr. Cali yesterday
to print in the Congressional Re.cord the me
morial of the constitutional convention of
Utah was called up by that gentleman, who
asked that it be now adopted.
Mr. Edmunds preferred that the resolution
be referred to the committee on territories,
which now had jurisdiction of the subject.
Mr. Call argued that it was duo to a com
munity of 200,000 people to have its views fair
ly presented. He understood that less than
three per cent of these people were guilty of
the practices, ou the assumption of which' tho
objection of the senator from Vermont was
based. He would now read the memorial to
insure its publication in the Record and to
show that there was nothing objectionable in
it. He thereupon read the memorial. lie
added that the senator from Vermont knew
that there was nothing in tho memorial disre
spectful to congress, and that there was no
reason, in right or justice, why tho senate
should refuse to hear a petition of 200,000
American citizens.
Mr. Edmunds thanked the senator from
Florida for his gratifying allusions to him.
They were worthy of him, (Call) and he trust
ed that he (Edmunds) could bear them. He
certainly had not questioned the sincerity of
the senator from Florida, for he (Call) had
stood behind this polygamist hierarchy every
time that jt had any interst to advance or any
wholesome legisiationTo resist; He liird done
so with a great deal of ability and considera
ble zeal. He could give the senator praise of
being absolutely sincere in standing by that
body of persons through thick and through
thin—come good, come evil—and he
expected that the senator would continue
to do so, and if, in processor time, Utah should
become a state, and the United States consti
tution should be changed so that one person
might be a senator from ‘two states, he had
no doubt that the senator from Florida would
be the first senator whom the Mormon hierachy
would select.
He (Edmunds) could produce and ask
to have printed in the Record other statements
showing the utter hypocrisy and gammon of
that performance, aud that it was a mere trick
to get out from under the hands of congress
and from under the laws of the United States.
Everybody understood that, and he (Edmunds)
did not propose to vote for spending money in
order to print in the Record that sort of thing.
Mr. Call said the senator from Vermont was
not xnore’sineere than correct in his statement
thathc (Call) had stood behind the Mormon
hierarchy. Ho had stood behind human rights
when the senator, with exquisite cruelty,
sought to punish innocent women aud children,
but which ho (Call) regarded as unconstitu
tional, unfeeling and inhuman. The senator
had never heard him advocate corrupt judicial
tribunals, or packed juries, or the prostitution
of courts of justice. He (Call) had not even
expressed an opinion as to how he should vote
on the admission of Utah. That was a
question for future consideration.
He understood by the statement of reliable
citizens —republicans and democrats—that not
more that 5 per cent of the population of Utah
favored polygamy, and that the young people
of the territory were unanimously opposed to
it and submitted conscientiously to the laws of
congress, the unreasonable details of which he
would not relate at present. Ho would hate
to see a vote given in the senate that would;
in any way, favor the admission of Utah as a
state until her people were really prepared to
establish a government where citizens of ail
denominations might reside in peace and be
protected. He did not want to see Utah ad
mitted with the weak promise that she would
abolish polygamy, without any evidence that
she would abolish the organization which gov
erned the Mormons with a rod of iron and ex
cluded other citizens living among them. He
would think it a great calamity to have these
people put in a position where they could
change their constitution at will and perpetuate
an organization hostile to liberty, and founded
on a pretended religious heirarchy.
Mr. Paddock denied that the memorial rep
resented the wishes of 200,000 people. The
whole population of Utah was only 200,000, cf
which about 140,000 were Mormons. As to tho
statement that not more than 3 per cent of the
Mormons were polygamists, he asserted that
they wore all polygamists, so far as an indorse
ment of the doctrine was concerned, aud tho
belief that it was divine revelation.
Mr. Blair moved that the senate proceed to
the consideration of the educational bill.
Mr. Riddleberger created some amusement
by holding up in a large printed pamphlet,
compiled by Mr. Blair from speeches, memo
rials, etc., on tho subject, and protesting
against the senate being called to act upon
that as a bill. He had himself voted for the
Blair bill last congress, and would vote for it
again, but he could not sustain it with such
preface and such commentaries.
Mr. Blair made an explanation on the sub
ject, and, in response to other suggestions, said
he did not propose to pass the bill beyond tho
usual courtesies of the senate, which would,
he understood, Entitle every senator who de
sired to speak upon it to be heard.
The motion to take up the bill for considera
tion was agreed to—yeas 38, nays 15, as fol
lows :
Yeas—M-ssrs. Allison. Bern’, Blackburn, Bia r,
Blodgett, Brown, Call. C landlqr, Cullom, Davis,
Dawes, Dolph, Edmunds, Evarts. Frye, George,
Hampton, Hiscock, Ingalls,Jones of Arkansas, Manj
derson. Mitchell, Moml), Paddock, Palmer, Pasco,
Payne, Platt, Pugh, Ransom, Ri'ldlebergcr, Sawyer,
Sherman, Stockbridge, Teller, Tuprle, Vance, Wil
son of lowa —38.
Nays—Messrs Bate, Beck, B’i’ler, Coekrill, Coke,
Faulkner, Gorman, Gray. Harris, Hawley, Hurst,
Morgan, Reagan, Soul.-bury, Vest -15.
By unanimous consent and without displac
ing tho educational bill as unfinished busi
ness, Mr. Butler offered a resolution for the ap
pointment of a select committee of live sena
tors to inquire into the relations of five civil
ized tribes of Indians, and w hether it is de
sirable or advisable to give citizenship to mem
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ATTACKING THE PRESIDENT.
Senator Plumb Sails In and (lets Knocked
Out.
Washington, December?!!.—When Mr. Al"
li~on called up rhe holiday reeess resolution in
the senate today, a lively debate sprung up.
Mr. I’lumb referred to Mr. Pugh’s reso
lution that congress should not adjourn un
til action was taken for the disposal of the
surplus in the treasury, and said he did
not agree with the president in any of his state
ments in his late annual message, and lie did
ii< t at all agree with him in saying that the re
sponsibility of non-action in the matter of the
surplus would rest on congress. Tho primary
responsibility for the present condition of the
treasury resided,he thought, with the president,
who totally disregarded the law which re
quired him, piaetically, to spend the
surplus in the purchase of the national debt.
The president’s excuse for not doing so
was that a provision of law was found in an
appropriation bill, anQ was, therefore, in tho
president’s opinion, a temporary expedient
merely. He (Plumb) did not know any war
rant for tho piesident distinguishing between
laws passed by congress, and saying that ono
provision of law was less mandatory on him
than another provision.
The president,in his message,had omitted to
state one important fact, which was that the
last congress passed a law requiring him affirm
atively to pay ten millions a month in discharge
of the public debt, and that tho president
had put that bill in hie pocket, thus prevents ng
it becoming a law.
Mr. Beck remarked that tho president had
paid the money out even faster than that bill
required.
Mr. Plumb regarded that as only another way
that the president had for saying that he thought
he Could do better himself than congress knew’
how to tell him. Tho president had also for
gotten to take note of tho fact that the river
and harbor bill which appropriated some
$14,000,000 had failed not because of
any lack of action by congress. The deficiency
bill, covering over $8,000,000, had also failed
last session because of the neglect of the demo
cratic majority in tho house, and these two
sums would have made a very comfortable ad
dition to the current funds of the people at this
juncture.
Mr. Beck said ho did not propose to go into
debate in regard to the president’s policy, on a
resolution for the holiday adjournment. He
assumed that the resolution would prevail.
Such a recess was usual and he did not know
any exception to it.
But there wore somethings which the
country ought to know’ in connection with llie
statement made by the senator from Kansas.
The senator had not told the country that the
policy of the republican party, by imposing and
maintaining an unnecessarily high taxation,
had produced the surplus, and that the same
party was determined to hold it there, or to
waste it in such schemes as tho republican
party might desire. Tho senator had not told
that tire republican party had so
adjusted tho debts of tho United
States that they would not be
paid with money thus brought by high taxa
tion into the treasury, unless such premiums
were paid to tho bondholders as they might
demand. Tho policy of the republican party
had postponed the [payment, of $250,000,000 of
the debt till 1891, and of $740,000,000 till 1907.
The president had paid every dollar of tliu 3
per cent bonds that were payable without pay
ing the premium, which the bondholders
might see fit to ask. The democratic party,
headed by the president, was endeavoring to
reduce the taxes so that so a large a surplus
should not come into tho treasury. All that
the president had said was that it was not tho
proper thing for him or the secretary of the
treasury to do to pay $l3O or $l5O for (every
8100 of tho public debt, and that it was the
duty of congress to reduce tho taxation of tho
people down to a point that there
would not be a surplus.
Mr. Dolph argued that if tho proper appro
priations were made for rivers and harbors;
for public buildings; for coast fortifications;
for dependent pensioners; for tho encourage
ment of American commerce and the Nicara
guan Caifai, there wuulu bu nu surplus iu the
treasury, and he thought that such a policv
was to be preferred to a reduction of the tariff.
Mr. Vest, in response to Mr. Plumb’s criti
cism of the president for vetoing the river and
harbor bill, reminded that senator that tho
most virulent attacks upon that bill had come
from himself (Plumb). He had fought
tho bill by sections and in the aggre
gate had ridiculed it, denounced
it and voted against it. The executive had
only acted in the line of the senator's argu
ments. Tho president had, in his annual
message, defined, and sharply defined, the
issue between the two great parties, and lie
(Vest) indorsed that message from beginning
to end. He was prepared to go into the canvass
upon it, and whatever the result might be, he
declared now, publicly, that if the president
had done nothing less than write that mess
age he had proven himself to be an honest,
brave, patriotic man, and worthy of tho lead
ership of any party that ever existed in the his
tory of this country.
Mr. Teller severely criticised tho president
for endeavoring to create public alarm in order
to carry out his pet scheme for reducing the
tariff. Ho argued that there was not so much
surplus in (the treasury as should necessitate
any haste, or cause any fright or alarm.
Mr. Stewart was satisfied from the discus
sion today that congress ought not to adjourn
for the holidays. As to the surplus, ho was
sure it would continue to be locked up, if tho
only remedy was that suggested by the presi
dent—a reduction of tho tariff. The issue pre
sented to the American people by the presi
dent was whether it would stop doing its own
work and hire it out. Nations, as well at indi
viduals, got rich by doing their own work. For
his part ho would regulate the matter, not by
reducing, but by raising the tariff.
Mr. Butler expressed contempt for the dis
gusting spectacle which the senate was pre
senting—for the affectation and hypocrisy ex
hibited today. There was not a senator who did
not know that all that tvas said about the sen
ate remaining in session was absolute bosh and
hypocrisy. It was the idlest, flimsiest, shal
lowest hypocrisy ho had ever witnessed.
Mr. Plumb resented the position of public
censor assumed by the senator from South
Carolina.
Mr. Sherman agreed with Mr. Bulter that it
was hardly Jworth while for the senate
to deny the house the usual
privilege of a holiday adjourn
ment, but he did not agree with him as to the
character of today’s debate. On the contrary
he was very much interested in it. It had
brought to the attention of the senate the folly
of some features of the president’s message.
The folly of tho president endeavoring to
create a scare and alarm about tho condition
of the country, because, fortunately, there was
a surplus of $55,000,000 in the treasury.
He did not believe, however,
that there was any such occasion for
alarm. He believed that the language of tho
president was entirely too strong.
A surplusof $55,000,000 was less than was in the
treasury at other periods of the present admin
istration. He thought it but reasonable end
right that the humbug by which it was
sought to frighten the country should bo
punctured, exploded, or explained away. The
question would doubtless have to be ap
proached in a temperate, fair manner.
The adjournment resolution was concurred
in.
The resolution offered [by Mr. Beck on the
12th instant,directing the postoffice committee
to inquire into tho advisability of reducing the
rate of letter postage to one cent was taken up
and referred to that committee.
Mr. Dawes called up the bill to amend the
law concerning the commission offish and
fisheries, and moved it bo passed. It provides
for the appointiueut by the president, with
the advice and consent of the senate, of a per
son of scientific and practical acquaintance
with fish and fisheries as commissioner at a
salary of $5,000. Such person not to hold any
other United States or state office.
The senate then took up tho joint resolution
Introduced by Mr. Dolph on the 12th instant,
proposing a constitutional amendment on the
subject of marriage and divorce, and prohibi
ting bigamy and polygamy. The proposed
amendment is in the following words:
Congre s stall have power to le;;I Ute on ti e
subject of marriage and divorce by general laws np
jlient'le alike to all the states ai d territories and
neither bUnmy uor polygamy ,-i all exist or l e per
mitted within loc t nited States or any place subject
to i lie:r jurlvll tion.
After half an hour’s executive session the
srnntc ad journed to January 4th,
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THROUGH DIXIE.
What the Southern People are
Saying and Doing.
A STRANGE CASE IN FANNIN COUNTY
GEORGIA.
Last week’s issue of tho Signal gives a
story of remarkable detail. It seems that
eight or ten years ago a fnan named Barnes
was murdered near the line of Fannin county,
Georgia, and i’olk county, Tennessee, tho
man’s head being split open with an axe
from which bo died in u short time. Joseph
B. Myers was suspected of committing the
murder and he fled from the county, nobody
knew where. Ho was searched for and a largo
reward was offered for his arrest. Timo
passed and the murder was forgotten, and the
murderer was not found. On Wednesday last
a lawyer of Maysville, Jackson county, ac
companied by a man calling himself
Myers, of tho same county, came hero withJa
warrant against “Devil” Jim Higgins, of this
county, for kidnapping. The warrant charged
Higgins with kidnapping a child on the 30th
of last month from Mrs. Meyers. She was the
mother of the child by a former husband named
Ray. Tho child was a relative of Higgins, aud
he wanted it; so he took it and brought it to
his home in this county. Myers requested
Marshal Townsend to accompany him to assist
in tho enforcement of the warrant or tho re
covery of tho child. Higgins lives about eight
miles from here and on arriving at the homo of
Higgins everything was in confusion. Tho
two men were mot by the whole Higgins
family, ono of tho boys having a gun,
another ono of the family an ax, and so on.
The marshal, who is also a constable, read tho
warrant, when Higgins surprised tho officer
by stating that Myers was the murderer of
Barnes and that he had fed and harbored him
many days when Myers was hiding from arrest.
The officer was surprised, but having a recol
lection of the murder, and also having been
told before that Higgins had fed and harbored
Myers, he immediately placed Myers under ar
rest, aud summoned Constable Walker, of that
district, to assist him. Ho then placed Myers
under Walker’s care and proceeded to arrest
Higgins, on tho charge of kidnapping. The
two prisoners were brought to town and, Hig
gins having agreed to give up the child, tho
warrant was dismissed against him and Myers
was committed to jail.
Myers acknowledged to Sheriff Satterfield
that ho had hit Barnes in the head with an
ax in Tonpesseo, but did it in self-defense.
Others here claim that tho murder was com
mitted in this state. There is some dis puto
and the sheriff is now investigating tho mat
ter. He wants information on tho subject and
has sent out a person to seek it. He asks that
anybody knowing anything will please inform
him. The arrest was quite a novel one, as the
marshal was not expecting affairs to turnout
that way. He had not even suspected Myers
before of being a murderer, but when Higgins
named it tho whole thing flashed intb his
mind at once. Since tho murder Myers had
settled in Jackson county and was doing well
at farming.
“How is it possible for you to have made
twenty-eight, bales of cotton per mule upon
your plantation this year?” was asked of Hon.
Frimus Jones, tho first bale man of Baker
county.
“Tho easiest thing in the world,” was the
reply. “If I live ten years longer 1 expect to
make fifty bales to every mule. Fifty acres is
the average number tended by a nnilo and it
will be a simple matter for me to bring niy
land up to a high state [of ([cultivation that
each and every acre planted will producco its
bale of cotton. As I said before, intensive
farming is going to become the salvation of this
country.”
Colonel Jones believes in heavy fertilization.
He has an immense shed 102 feet long by 02
feet wide in which ho pens up his stock at
night and in which he makes his coinpost. The
lumber in his shod alone, exclusive of nails,
shingles, etc., cost him over s‘.loo.
In Campbell county Joo Milner, "olorcd,
was passing along tho road going to his work
-When Ire- was approached by Lewis Askew,-
colored, who said: “Joo I understand you
have been talking about me.” “No I have
not,” was tho reply, whereupon Askew dis
charged both barrels of a shot gun which ho
was carrying, both loads entering tho breast
and heart of Milner, from the affects of which
ho died that night. No cause is known for
this unprovoked brutal murder, only Milner’s
flying statement given above is known.
Cartersville Courant: Considerable un
easiness has been felt for tho past sev
eral days in regard to tho condition of
Mrs. Sam P. (Jones, who arrived
homo with her husband, prostrated
with sickness in a special coach from Albany,
New York, last Friday. We are glad to
chronicle tho good news that tho lady Is out of
danger and is fast recovering.
Some prominent citizens of Douglas county,
aro not a little stirred up over what they be
lieve to be an imposition perpetrated unon the
well known firm of George W. Scott & Co.,
of this city.
It will be remembered that at the recent
contest for premiums offered by Messrs. Scott
& Co., for the best production of cotton and
corn to tho acre, where their fertilizer, gossy
pium, is used, the prize for the best crop of
cotton raised upon five acres was awarded to
Robert G. Ray, of Chapel Hill, Douglas
county. Mr. Ray furnished tho necessary
proofs of having raised 9,788 pounds of cotton
to five acres. Messrs. Scott & Co. aro very
careful in requiring undoubted proofs of the
genuineness of the claims of tho contestants,
and tho committee making tho awards always
has before it statements upon this point from
what are believed to be undoubted sources.
On Tuesday The Constitution received
from its correspondent at Douglasville a letter
in which it was stated under date of December
17th that:
Some of tlie citizens of this county were very
much surprised to see in yesterday’s constitution
in the distribution of the prizes by (I. W. Hcotl &
Ca for the best yield of cotton on live acres I lie
name of Mr. Robert G. Bay, of this county. Exe y
ono here Is Inclined to disbelieve that Mr. Huy
made the enormom yield as reported by Tun C< N
STITLTION. lie Is lot known in this county ns a
scientific or prominent farmer. The first time tho
writer ever saw or heard of him was lan week when
tlio grand jury of the county indicted l.iin for a vio
lation of the prohibition law. Before the prize Is
paid it would lie well for G. W. Scott <Si Co. to inves
tigate just a little. He Is only a rqnter and the
people here dou t belie-, e he made hull the cotton
reported.
This letter was backed! up by statements
from such men' as F. M. Winn, E. W. Max
well, J. M. Hatchit, S. N. Dorsett, T. It.
Whitten, G. W. Griffith, W. T. Poole, W. J.
Abercrombie and J. H. Alexander, the pur
port of which were that they did not believe
Mr. Ray’s statements and did Lbolieve that
the matterneeded investigation.
Colonel Seott, in reply to a question asking
him if lie bad heard of these doubts, said :
“Yes, our agent at Douglasville. Captain C. P.
Bowen, lias written us this morning that such
doubtsexist and requests an investigation.
We have already employed council to visit tho
neighborhood and investigate the matter thor
oughly. If there is any reasonable ground to
suspect fraud our attorney is instructed to at
once commence prosecution.”
“We do this” Colonel Seott said, in justice
not only to ourselves, but to tho numerous
other contestants for these premiums. This
award was made by a committee selected by
tho contestants.
“The application is in writing, and the facts
as stated in it were certified tobvA.lt. Bo
mar, T. D. Olds and 11. W. Ballard. These
gentlemen also certified under their signatures
that they measured accurately the land, saw
the crop growing, supervised its gathering and
ginning and weighed tho yield.
“Mr. Bomar is a merchant at Chapel Hill,
and a justice of tlie peace; Dr. Olds is a prac
ticing physician: and Mr. Ballard, a clerk in a
country store. Wo are informed that all are
gentlemen of character and standing in their
community. In addition to this, the ordinary
of Douglas county, Judge Cooper, certifies
under bis seal, that they are citizens of good
repute and standing. It was upon such evi
dence as this that the award was made.
Fifty-one delegates representing seventeen
counties met al Fort Valley to organize a Far
mers’ aillaiyio. About thirty visitors from dif
ferent parts of the state aro in attendance.
There aro about 125 sub-alliances in tho state,
with about 3,UX) rneinbers. Officer 1 ; of the state
organization will be elected tonight.
From the Albany News.
“It was Far-on Anth -ny," r> marked Tom
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MEXICAN MUSTANGLINIMENT, etirea LAeuma.
tim, L'tmb&au, UulfUloa, Lauu Duel, btitf Jutait.
Clayton. “who originated the rule
among tho deer hunters that whoever missed
a deer at sixty yards should lose the tail of his
shirt. lie has never fired and missed yet, but
lie says if ho does ho knows lie will lose nil
the lower part of his undergarment, from the
neckband down, as the boys swear they will
each wear a piece of it as a button-holo
bouquet.” A party of deer hunters is out in the
swamps today. Colonel J. L. Boyt, tho vet
eran fox hunter, caught two foxes yesterday,
mid also brought into tho city a long proces
sion of wagons containing fifty bales of cotton
of his this year’s crop.
Mr. Robert G. Ray, tho Douglas county
farmer to whom was awarded ono of Messrs.
Scott & Co's, first prizes, seems to have got
into a pretty tight place.
Ho is now accused of having committed
forgery.
Ono of tho three names signed to the certifi
cate which accompanied his exhibit or claim
was that of Mr. A. R. Boomer. Mr. Boemor
is one of the most prominent citizens of Doug
las county, was foreman of tho grand jury at
the last term of court, and it is the feeling in
Douglas county that if Mr. Boomer certified
to the truth of Mr. Ray’s claim it must bo
true.
But Mr. Boomer says he didn’t do that.
Ho was in the city yesterday, and called on
Messrs. Scott & Co. Hero u Constitution
reporter met him.
“I came down,” he said, "to sec if it was
true that my name was signed to that paper.
I see it is there, and I want simply tp say that
I did not sign it. The signature is a forgery.
I will also say that so far as I know I nover
saw Mr. Ray's crop, and I certainly never
looked at it with a view to judging it in any
way. There isn’t money enough in Georgia
to make me sign a certificate which I do not
know to be true, and I never signed that. I
feel that it is due myself to make this public
denial of any connection with this affair.”
“Doyon know Ray?”
“Yes; lie lives about four or five miles from
me. His reputation as a farmer is first rate.”
“Do you think he raised as much cotton as
he claimed?”
“1 have no means of knowing and my opin
ion is no bettor than that of anybody else. Ho
is a gcod farmer. Ido not pretend tp say that
lie did not do all lie claims. All I hive to say
is that I did not sign that paper.”
Ray has disappeared.
After satisfying themselves that there had
been some sort of a fraud perpetrated tho attor
neys of Messrs. Scott & Co. swore out a war
rant for Ray's arrest. This was placed in the
hands of tho sheriff of Douglas county, but
Bay could not be found.
Colonel Scott is of the opinion Mr. Ray will
soon come back, and that the truth of tho
story will soon be ascertained.
ALABAMA.
James Chastino.a white man confined in Bir
ham jail for murder, is dying staonrvaifot.
Ho was put in jail last July, and about a month
ago announced that ho was going to starve
himself to death. Forthirteen days and nights
not a particle of food or water passed his lips.
Tlie county physician then took charge of him
and forced food dow n his throat. Ho was re
moved to the hospital until ho regained a little
strength, when he was taken back to jail. Ho
immediately refused to eat, and for ten days
now ho has not swallowed nourishment of any
kind. Chastine is now a living skeleton, with
scarce enough strength to speak in a whisper.
He persists inhis intention of starving himself,
and cannot survive many days longer. He has
a wife and several children.
Tho prisoner died in tlio jail at an early
hour Wednesday. He was reduced to a skele
ton, and had been unconscious for forty-eight
hours before his death. Tho crime for which
he was imprisoned was the cold blooded mur
der of a man named Hugh Boyle. Tlie crime
was committed last July.
All cases of weak or lame back, backache
rheumatism, etc., will find relief Itv wearing
tuie of f‘aii> r'n Siiiuit Weed and tieHadonna
Backache Plasters. Price 25 cents.
STATE LEGISLATURES.
Richmond, Va., December 20—The vote for
United States senator, to succeed Mr. Riddle
berger, was taken up tn tlio general assembly
today witli the following result. Senate —
Hon. John S. Barbour 20; General William
Mahone 13. House —Barbour 01; Mnhono 85.
Only ono absentee in tlie senate and four in tho
house. The formal announcement of Bar
bour’s election will bo made tomorrow in joint
session of the two houses.
Columbia, S. C., December 20.—[Special.]
In tlio senate today, after a lengthy debate,
the joint resolution providing for tho calling of
a constitutional convention passed its third
reading by a vote of 25 to 10. It now goes to
the house, which body, however, is not so
favorably inclined toward the measure, and
where its chances of success are exceedingly
doubtful.
Columbia, S. C., December 21.—[Special.]—
Tlie legislature has just passed a law
prohibiting cockfighting in two miles
of any chartered institutions of learn
ing in tlio state. A violation of the
hiw is made a misdemeanor, punishable by line
and imprisonment. Tho bigcock pit in Colum
bia, conducted by Matt Wilson, a well known
sporting man, pays to tlio city an annual
license of S3OO. Wilson,however, claims that
tlio new state law can’t close his pit until
January Ist, when his present license expires.
It has therefore been determined by sporting
men to hold a grand interstate contest here on
tlio 27th, 28th and 29th hist., which will bo
seen by the following announcement, which is
being extensively circulated: "For the grand
vendetta. The last act. North Carolina versus
South Carolina.l A main of cocks
will lie fought at Columbia, South
Carolina, commencing tho 27th, lasting
three days, SSO a battle, SSOO on tlie odd, each
party showing twenty-one cocks, weight four
pounds eight ounces to six pounds six ounces,
to bo fought according to Turner’s rules. Como
aud see the curtain fall.” This announcement
has caused great indignation among tho
humane people of Columbia, but leading law
vers sustain Mr, Epton’s claim as tlie right to
hold the main under liis present license. A
largo number of sporting men from New York,
Washington, Georgia, Carolina and other
points will be present, and thousands of dollars
will change hands.
Tho South Carolina legislature has adjourned
sine die. Composed of earnest, honest,
sensible members, who were imbued with de
termination that tho state should suffer no
detriment at their hands. All revolutionary
measures wore discountenanced, and legisla
tion was shaped with a view to a conservative
liberality, a progress slow, yet sure.
During the session just closing, tho work has
been even better. Several measures of great
importance have been passed by overwhelming
majorities. Tho reorganization of the univer
sity, the establishing of scholarships in tho
Winthrop Training school, the transfer of the
canal to tlie city of Columbia, and the election
es a first-class board of agriculture.
The time of both houses has been
taken up today with tho final reading
of bills, ot which a large number were
disposed of. AJI o’clock tlie members re
ceived their pay certificates and Immediately
there was a general scramble for the street.
Business, however, went on without a quo
rum. Tho tax levy for next year has finally
been fixed at five mills. Both houses will re
gain in session all night, receiving and acting
on reports of conference committees, and
awaiting the enrollment of the act for ratifi
cation. Final adjourn meat will take place
about 5 o’clock tomorrow morning.
A perfect specific—Dr. Sage’s Catarrh
Remedy.
The Old Dominion Nover Tires.
Quito a deal of excitement was created to
day Gy the announcement that some one hero
had dravfn 81535X1 in the Louisiana State Lot
tery, iffi’l there was a general scrutiny of
tickets by those who had invested, it a
short time it was learned that Mr. T. M. Ben
son, tlio efficient chief clerk in the office of the
Old Domion S. 8. Co., was the lucky possessor
of fbo ticket.—Norfolk (Va.) Virginian,
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Mr. J. C. Maddox, of Greer’s Depot, S. C.J
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Our Machine Worth Three Times the Price.
Mrs. M. E. Morehead, Bascombel, Ga.,
writes:
'A! 10 .. 1 ’ 1 ® 15 arm machine I received from you is
worth three times the price you ask for it."
If every one of tlie 120,0U0 subscribers to Tm
l osNTiTUTiON could geo our sewing machine
and trF it for a day, 50,000 of them would buy
sewing machines in less than a week. It is pbc
sitively tlio best machine that is made, alia i4*
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The Best Being Read In Texas.
. s ? r ’T' ®' Williams writes from Brad*’,
ford, Tex.: (
1 T I , IE £ ogSTIlc T>pN Is tho best paper now being;
read in loxas and for all classes of people."
Wo aro getting subscribers from Toxas bw
tho thousand. It seems impossible to fill tU«t
demand for The Constitution in that greao
state. *
Here is another voice from Texas:
Mr. T. A. Neese, of Double Springs, Tox.,}
writes: |
"Tin; Constitution is the best paper I ever read,!
I cannot do without it, una it would be a lonesome:
week should it fall to come. You are duo grant
thanks from tho pbople tor giving them so good al
paper for so little money.”
All that wo ask our friends is to help us in-z
Crease our subscription list. It Mr. Neeso
Would say to a dozen of his neighbors what h 0
has said to us, ho would get ton or them as
subscribers. All that is needed is to show th«
paper and speak a good word for it. *
lie Uas Ordered Six and All Give Satisfac*
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Mr. A. Jackson, of Eastaboga, Ala., says: j
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motion."
A Welcome Voice from the North,
Mrs. C. W. Beok, of Tallulah, 111., writes!
“I do not want to miss ono number of your valua,
bio paper. \Vu take half a <o-on other weeklies nna
tfireo dallies, and we consider the dear old Conrti*
TtrriON the host in the lot. We have read it thick
years and guarantee that any one reading It one
year could not do without It,
It is pleasant to get such praise front
north. We have now ten thousand subscribe
ers in tho northern states against about two
thousand last year. Everywhere The COnstls
tution is planted a crop of subscribers comes
up, whether it is north or south. We thank
Mrs. Beck for her kind words.
Bettor than All Combined.
Sir. Joseph Peters, of Basset, Texas, writes I’
"I would rather have Tub Constitution than all
other pajiers combined."
Would Not Do Without it for Twenty Times
the Price.
Mr. T. W. Hawkins, of Robhit) Springs,
Ala., appreciates Dr. Jones. Mb says by
following his advice ho has beat his neighbors
Linking cotton, and that the paper is wqrtft
twenty times tho price to him. Read what ho
says:
"1 have been a subscriber to your paper a'yeal
this mouth. lam u farmer and farm by the advlcu
of your agricultural editor, and I feoltbat I hnvd
been benefited very much. I have beat mv nelghi
bora making cotton. I liava made fourteen balct
to the mule and on poor laud. J would not do
without the paper for twenty times tho iUbscrlptloß
price. I nena you money to renew the subscription.''
Mr. Hawkins ought to tako Th© Houthord
Farmer which is edited bv Dr. Jones, and
has a great deal of Iris work in it.
The Woman's Kingdom Has Paid Her.
Mrs. M. Burk horn, of Marshallville, Miss.,
writes:
“I have collected enough receipts from Woman's
Kingdom to more than pay the subscription price of
the paper. I scud yon three subscribers. Will do
all unit 1 can to extend your list hero.”
Every part of The Constitution will bo
found useful.
Best as Well as iJiaupso.
Mrs. Wm. Loyd, of Five Forks, N. C.,
writes:
"1 expect to be n life subscriber to Tur: Consti
tution, as 1 think it the best, ns well as tlio cheap
est, paper that I have ever read.”
What Does Ho Call » Good Club?
Mr. J. D. Dickson, of Athens, Tenn.,
writes:
"Inclosed find nine names and money for same ns
subscribers to Thb Weekly Constitution. I pro*
cured the same In one hour. 1 believe that If I had
some papers to distribute 1 could get you up a
good club.” i
Wo shall see that Mr. Dickson gets somp
papers. Wo would like to know what ho cajlg
a good club, if nine subscribers in ono hour do
not make a good club.
She Chose tlio Constitution ami Got Ten
Subscribers in u Hide.
Tho following does us good all over and
makes us proud:
"The enclosed list speaks Rr Itself; two years ago
my husband handed me u copy of your valualii©
I u|kt with Hits remark: “Hoad It carefully, my
dear, and decide between It and tho Courler-Jouf
mil." for wc weio taking tho Courier Journal then.
Weil. J soon decided In lavor of Thu Constitution,
and became a subseri’l er, "the only ono from this
section." I was so well pleased with my paper that
I sent for an outfit and began trying to get subecrtlr
ots, but owing to tiie scarcity of money
1 met with poor svomss for a long
time. Finally the neglibors began to bor
row The Constitution from me and became
interested in it insomuch that now its circulation IS
greater hero thun that of any other paper. Ido no|
Claim tlie credit for all tnc tiatnes sent from Wllsoif,
I only tried to get propio to send for it and try it.
At least some one at Wilson, (I live six miles front
tliestation) sent for un outfit and beean canvas
sing with what success Ido not know; but this
much Ido know, that 1 started from home tills
morning with one Heme and added ulne more be
fore night. Yours res, cclfolly,
Mbs. Nannie Wainiugiit.
Wilson, Alabama.
Wo appreciate Mrs. Wainwright's efforts ant]
wisli there were a thousand ladies in tlie south
liko licr.
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