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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- Mustang Liniment MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT, for Mam and mast. Greatest Curative discovery ever made. 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 tipr of t " ■ ■■ Mustang Liniment MEXICAN NOSTA’ •» I.iVTMErr rur*-* nil aliments of lloasLi. Mules and Caitl*.. Outward treattueus* 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, Mustang Liniment MEXICAN MrsTANfmNlHENTladeath to Pi;.re, Oto s.au, exact, Bnexate and all larumtaTioa. 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 Mustang Liniment 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, NOY-? 1 ' ■ Mustang Liniment MEXICAN mustang LINIMENT, applied vlkot. otulx U d«uU> k? awinuer. WlndUalUA S'.re Hwkal De Likes tho Family Physician. Mr. J. C. Maddox, of Greer’s Depot, S. C.J writes: “I have received your family physician, qn<t ao< ccpt thanks for same. 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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. 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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. FITS: All Fits stopped free by Dr. Klino’® Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits utter first day’s use. Marvelous cures. 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