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CONSOLIDATED 1872 Milledgevillk. Ga., January G, 1891.
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Washington Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
A Twenty-Second Talk.
« A LUM ” baking powders are
A cheap and dear—cheap, be
cause they are made for. about
four cents a pound and sold fo
about twenty; dear, because they
do less than half as much as a
strictly pure cream of tar ar
powder, and doubly dear,
their continued use injures
health. There is no alum, no
ammonia, no adulteration o any
kind, in Cleveland’s Superior
Baking Powder.
CUsdand Baking Foudtl !L 0o, l r .
81 <£ 83 Fulton Si., Nett lorn.
Editorial Glimpjes and Clippings.
."gasawffSiaaa:
well known
died Tues-
T B. Petersou, the
Philadelphia publisher,
day.
•‘We trust in God, butsell for cash '
is a sign in a Fourth Street store m
Macon. m
The coldest weather is now prevail
ing in England and all that section
since 1813. m
Nathan Llovd, the negro shot while
resisting*arrest by Sheriff Ennht. of
Baldwin county, died in the jail at
Eatonton.
The department of the state
school commissioner was put in the
hands of Mr. Bradwell Wednesday
afternoon. __ _
Judge Brown of Michigan lias been
continued by the Senate as associate
justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States.
It is said that Yellowstone Kit, the
traveling medicine vender will settle
down in Brunswick to live. He owns
$10,000 wortli of property there.
The Augusta Chronicle thinks
Hon. J. C. C. Black would make a
good congressman-at-large. “So
he would,” says the Columbus En
quirer-Sun, and so say we.
That was a magnificent speech in
the Senate Tuesday by Mr. Walcott
of Colorado. He is a Republican,
but dtnounces the force bill and
other disreputable schemes of his
party. ^
A fierce battle occurred with the
Indians at Porcupine in Bad Lands on
the 20th ult., Capt. Wallace and
about 59 soldiers were slain, while 250
Indians are reported killed. The In
dians were well nigh exterminated.
At the charity doll show in New
York,.a doll dressed by Mrs. Cleve
land sold at auction for $115, while
one dressed by Mrs. Harrison fetch
ed $100. This is a poiuter as showing
the estimation in which the ex-Presi
dent’s wife is held. There never was
a snore popular mistress of the White
House than Mrs. Cleveland.
George I). Sanger, a well-known
citizen of Macon, and brother in law
of the lute Bishop Beckwith and a
nephew of Gen. A. 11. Lawton of
Savannah, dropped dead in a drug
store in Macon last week. He has
been an inveterate smoker of cigar
ettes, which is supposed to have
brought on heart fuilure, which caused
his death.
Wahhinoton, D. C., Dec. 29, 1890.
Mr. Harrison is no longer confining
himself to secretly manipulating the
wires that are being laici to gecure
him a reuominatiou in 1892. He is
now openly a candidate; and no Re
publican of any prominence who
visits him leaves the White House
without being made aware of that
fact, and be is losing no opportunity
of makiug deals to secure delegates to
the next Republican national conven
tion. Ex-Senator Bruce, to whom he
gave the second best local office in the
District of Columbia; ex-Represeuta-
tive Lynch whom he made one of the
Auditors of the Treasury, and a negro
named Europe, who holds a position
in the Post office department, are
relied upon to control the negro dele
gates from the South, and his own
state lias, lie thinks, been made solid
for him by his making friends with
Treasurer HustOD, who some time ago
tendered his resignation in a huff be
cause he tliought himself aud wife had
not been treated with sufficient con.
sideration by Mr. and Mrs. Harrison.
Secrerary Rusk, who has within a
week taken occasion to publicly an-
silver men have at last had their eyes
opened, and they are threatening to
make the fur fly as soon as the holiday
absentees get back.
Commissioner Rauui has been com
pelled by Secretary Noble to write a
letter in favor of the bill now pending
to reduce the attorneys fee for obtain
ing an increase in pension to $2. The
attorney’s lobby still boldly aud con
fidently announce theirability to de
feat the bill.
Public opinion has proved too strong
for the House committee on Rules,
which lias decided to report in favor
of Representative Dockery’s resolution
authorizing an investigation of the
charge against Congressmen of specu
lating in silver bullion.
A Helper of Blacks and Indians.
A number of the rich people of this
country are making a very good use
of their wealth. A few days ago Mr.
Feyerwetber, of New York, died and
left several millions of dollars to about
a dozen of the leading oolleges of the
country. Senator Standford has
established a university in California,
which tie has endowed with $20,000,-
000, ami now it is announced that Miss
Katherine Drexel has decided to use
j the whole of her vast fortune, amount
! iug to $8,000,000, for the imp"ovemeut
of Indiaus and colored people
nounce not only that he was not a can-1 “ } n “ a ‘ e °. f the convent of
.... ,, . the bisters of Mercy in Pittsburg, aud
~ it is stated that she has determined to
found a new oner to be known as the
“Sistfers of the Most Holy Sacrement’
and endow it withal! her wealth.
The details of her plan are not yet
public, aud it u ay he a considerable
time before she will be in a position
to umkethem known, it is thought
to be probable, however, that she
will use ibe income from her fortune
in establishing and maintaining
schools for Indians and colored peo
pie.
That she will be able to do a great
deal of good therein no ooubt. The
income form $8,000,000 will support
large number of schools, and besides
the influence of her act will have
most beueficial effect. Her exaiupl
will, in all probability, be followed by
other rich people. If it should, there
will be ies- disposition to condemn the
accumulation of great fortunes.
Miss Drexel could not put her money
to better use lhau in liftiug the less
fortunate races to a higher moral and
intellectual plane. If she carries out
her alleged intentions thousands will
revere her name, and If she lives to
see her undertaking a success, she will
have reason to rejoice that she was
able to do so much lor the benefit of
mankind.—Savannah News.
About Branch Colleges.—One
of the best posted men in the state
was talking yesterday about the
brunch colleges.
“My prediction is,” said he, “that
at the summer session the usual ap
propriation for the live branch col
leges will be passed for 1892. The
branch colleges are not dead yet,bv
any means, and I don’t believe this
legislature isgoingtokill'tliem. The
summer session will set them all
right.”—Constitution.
Last night I met Bob Whitfield,
of Milledgeville, in Macon, en route
wwe P m" tatiou in Jasper county.
ffiWeld is a popular and brainy
fellow. He is an orator of much
WbitflniT’i P ° Wer and iHttKnetisui.
Whitfield is one of the leaders in
the house of the present legislature
SVher’ VmyS at - tentivel >’ listened
certain
district for congress, at the next
election He lias line reputation
as an able and successful lawyer is
well known throughout the dis
trict, and is aggressive in political
campaign.—Macon News.
Easy expectoration, increased pow
er of the lungs and the enjoyment of
res are tl.e rewards, upon taking Dr.
Bull’s Cough Syrup, to all consump-
to when he 'speakr“Whftfierd e ?8 e a
candidate from the Sixth
didate, but bis support of Mr. Harri
sun, is confident that he can secure a
solid delegation from his Stale, and
tiie other members of the cabinet are
all working to do the same thing in
their respective states. This has been
made much easier by the fact that the
result of the recent election together
witli the attitude of the Republican
leaders in Congress on the Force bill
and other matters to which be is op
posed has removed all desire on the
part of Air. Blaine for the nomination.
He doesn’t believe that there is hard
ly a possibility that any Republican
can be elected, therefore he will in
terpose no objection to Mr. Harrison’s
being vindicated by a renomination.
Senator Stockbridge, of Michigan,
feels about ft hundred per cent larger
than he did a week ago. He is credi
ted with having had Judge Brown,
of his state, nominated to the vacancy
on the bench of the Supreme Court
in the face of the active opposition of
his Senatorial colleague, General
Alger and Secretary Blaine, all of
whom supported auother Michigan
candidate.
Old man Christmas knocked the Re‘
publican leaders in the Senate out iri
the first iouud. Mr. Hoar refused to-
even entertain the idea of passing the
usual resolution for a iioiiday recess
and stated that the senate would be
in session every day until the Force
bill was passed, but lie reckoned with
out counting the strong home attrac
tions of a majority of the Senators of
his party. By. Christmas eve the
Senate was short of a quotum and ad
journed to Saturday; on Saturday the
number of Senators had dwindled to
18 and after n five minute session, de
voted to prayer by tlie chaplain, an
adjournment was taken until to-day.
To day there is not a quorum present,
but an effort will be made by the Re
publicans to continue the debate on
the election bill until a quorum gets
here. It will hardly succeed though,
as it will be opposed by the Demo
crats, who will insist that nothing be
done without a quorum. The House
is doing nothing for the same reason,
and it looks as though things would
remain in the same condition for the
rest of this week.
Attorney General Miller has made
hiscontrlbution to the Harrison boom
in the shape of an opinion which, if it
holds good, will enable Mr. Harrison
to turn the World’s Fair into a mam
moth Harrjson machine by appoint
ing- an army of political heelers to do
imaginary work towards preparing
for the exposition, while their real
work will be for Mr. Harrison aud the
Republican party.
The anti-silver Republicans, whoare
all in favor of the Force bill, do not
derive much satisfaction from the
expected arrival of two more votes for
that measure, in the persons of the
new Idaho Senators, because both of
those Senutors are understood to be
enthusiastic friends of free silver
coinage. These anti-silver Republi
cans are opposed to any financial
legislation of any kind at this session,
and they only agreed to the financial
bill recently reported for the purpose
of quieting the silver men in their
party, and fully intending to prevent
a vote ever being taken upon it. The
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889.
Pomler
ABSOLUTELY PURE
WHAT AMAH COSTS.
Diary of a HobsKHoLDKR Who
Spent $40,000 in Twknty-six
Years.
Indianapolis News.
Wbat does it cost to bring up a
family?
A gentleman whose experience will
be recognised as having points in com
mon with other householders, has
preserved an uccouut of the expanse
to which lie has been in rearing a
family of four children. To-day he
entered the following statement in his
diary. It might be a valuable statis
tical fact for the census takers:
“To-day I close my diary. Twenty-
six years ago I undertook to keep an
accurate statement of all my earnings
and expenses so that 1 might know
actually how much it costs to live in
the married state. Then all was an
ticipation, I and my young wifecount-
ed our resources and our expectations
I was receiving $
promise of more.
Death of Mr. C. T. Swift.
Mr. Charles Thomas Swift died, in
Atlanta last Tuesday. The Journal
says:
“He was a son of Judge Swift, of
Houstou county, hut was born in
Morgan county December 10th, 1836,
being 55 years old at the time of his
death. *
During liis residence in Houston
county he became 1 lie possessor of the
formula for the mauufoc lire of au
old Indian remedy for blond poison,
which he called Swift’s Sure Specific,
aud which has become famous the
world over as “S. S. S.”
After manufacturing the medicine
in a small way in Houston county,
Mr. Swift cauie-to Atlantaand entered
into a partnership wuti Mr. Henry J
Lamar, of Macon, and Dr. J. \V.
Rankin, of this city, for its more <
tensive manufacture,
The business rapidly increased,
until tlie large laboratory building
was erected at the corner of Hunter
and Butler streets, in which tiie flhu
still manufactures the medicine.
Finally the company established a
London office, and the medicine was
sold all over the British Isles, aud
many parts of Europe.
Besides being vice-president of the
S. S. S-, company, Mr. Swilt was
terested many other enterprises,
and leaves a large e- tafe.
In 1880 Mr. Swift married Miss Lena
Burckhardt of this city and 'o them
five children have been born, four lit
tle girls and one little son just six weeks
old.
I11 the death of Mr. Swift. Atlanta
loses a public spirited, honored citizen
and his sorrowing family Have the
sympathy of the entire community in
their sad bereavement.
Hon. John Temple Grave- and
Miss Annie Ootliran were married at
the residence of 1 he bride’s father in
Ease Rome on Tuesday night: last
Never was a more brilliant nuptial
ceremony witnessed in this city. A
host of friends were present. The
ceremony was performed bv Rev.
Geo. T. Goetchius of the First Presby
terian church. Tiie marriage occurred
at 8 o’clock. An elegant reception
was then tendered from 8 to 12
o’clock.
In Cheatham's Tasteless Chill Ton
ic will be found a sweet without its
bitter. Pleasant to the taste, with-
our a parallel as a remedy for chills
aud fever. It is a well known 'reme
dy for chills and fever. It is the pro
duction of the well known A. B. Rich
ards Med. Co., of Sliermau, Texas,
and guaranteed to cure. 25 4t.
week with
I owned a liodse
comfortable enough tof frugal young
people to begin life in. We were
spared house rent, therefore, and our
expenses have never iucluded this
item. Retrospectively, I see that wo
have brought up four children in
comparatively easy circumstances.
My health has been good ami my
earnings have been constantly re
ceived. I now receive $30 a week
and we still own the homestead with
out any great additions to its wealth,
except, in an increased amount of
furniture. I have little more money
than I had wheu first married. Per
haps, all told, I have $3,500 now of
assets; then I had perhups $2,500. We
have never wanted for bread. Some
times we bav» felt the need of more
money. Three of tiie children are
now making their own way. Next
week the fourth will graduate at high
school, having received tiie same
schooling that the others have had,
and Will begin to look out for himself.
“I shall not necessarily be at any
more expense on account of uiy chil
dren, and this diary properly ends
now. Would I be willing to go
through the same experience again of
rearing a family? I ask my compau
ion who has borne the greater part,
this same questioo, and I know she
spoke with a heart full of love, but
was compelled to say: “Not for all
that money could buy would I go
through again what has been neces
sary to rear our family.’ ”
“Expressed in dollars, the totals
are these: In twenty-six, years we
have received from my wages and in
cidental moneys that came through
nv wife and children, $40,900— or say
$40,000—besides the amount of in
crease in the permanent assets. Given
a plant of about $3,000, and two em
ployes, nnn and wife, it lias taken
therefore, about $10,000 to each man
produced. This, of course. Includes
all employees’ expenses. The plant
is slightly enhanced in value, but tiie
employes have seen their best days.
The quality of the goods is vet to
be demonstrated. Prospects, happily,
point to cessation of labor and an in
crease of receipts, but there is no cer-
ttinty about this. The employes ure
proud of their work, but don’t want
auother job.
Some of the items of expense have
been these: Doctors’ bills, (twenty-six
years $2,100 (aud all paid—probably
the only instance on record); grocer
ies, average per week, first five years,
$7; uext three $9; remainder of the
twenty-six years, $13 a week. For
ten years it has taken on an average
one pair of shoes per week for the
family, including myself and wife.
The most aunoying thing I have ever
kuowu is the rapidity witli which
children wear out stioes. Only one
thing approaches it—the high price of
children’s shoes. I never could un
derstand how, with all the cultivation
of the age, and the demand for cheap
er results, children’s shoes have not
been reduced in price. The imiiuau
shoes are a failure. No man not ricli
can afford to buy Gioes for a family,
and if I had to do it I would go to
Timbuetoo, where neither horses,
mules, camels nor men are shod.”
Col. I. W. Avery at Work.
Special to Atlanta Journal.
Washington, Dec. 29.—Col. I. W.
Avery lias been for two months and
is now, doing good work for the
large publishing house of James
T. White & Co., of New York, who
rank with the Appletons and Har
pers. They are engaged in a stu
pendous literary project, a national
cyclopedia of American biography.
It will cost upwards of a million
dollars and be the classical standard
work of representative Americans
gathered l>y competent associate
editors in every state. CoJ. Avery
is the editor for Georgia. This en
terprise is unquestionably the lar
gest and most important of the tie-
cade in the book field, and meets a
great want in the English speaking
world. The first writers of tli
country are assisting Mr. James R.
Gilmore, the editor-in-chief, and it
will be marked by absolute accura
cy anil the highest literary finish.
Col. Avery lias, in addition to Geor
gia, the important and critical la
bor of preparing the sketches of the
United States senators and con
gressmen, of whom he has made
some tliat*liave been pronounced
excellent characterizations. Spe
cial features of the work are the de
lineations of quality and poitraits
of men. E. P. S.
The History of Gambling.
It 1ms often been maintained that
gambling is an acquired or cultiva
ted taste or habit, and not the
result of a natural vicious inclina
tion inherent in human nature.
The facts do not bear out this the
ory, however, as history clearly
LIFE IS MISERY
To thousands of people who havethe
taint of scrofula iu their blood. The
agonies caused by the dreadful run
niug sores and other manifestations
of this disease are beyond description.
There is no other remedy equal to
Hood’s Sarsaparilla for scrofula, salt
rheum and every form, of blood dis
ease. It is reasonably sure to benefit
all who give it a fair trjul. Be sure
to get Hood’s.
proves that gambling lifts been a
prevalent passion witli’all nations
and elassses in all ages, and that
in spite of the most rigorous repres
sive laws, it lias survived with un-
diminished vigor. In old Greece,
gambling was a recognized evil,
and laws were enacted for its re
pression. Among the Goths and
Vandals, dice play was carried on
to such an extent that these barba
rous people would not only risk
their whole fortune, but their per
sonal liberty as well, on a single
throw. The gambling of the Saxons
Danes and Normans are matters of
English history, and when cards
came into fashion, which was in
tiie reign of Henry VII.. it soon be
came necessary in the eyes of the
authorities of the time to prohibit
their use. There was an exception
made in favor of the Christmas holi
days, during which even appren
tices were allowed to play witli
cards provided they did so in
their masters’ houses. Tiie laws
promulgated against gambling dur
ing the reign of Henry VIII., were
framed, not so much against gamb
ling itself, as to prevent such pas
times from tempting tiie English
yoiith to neglect manly sports.
But gambling houses were forbidden
by this monarch. James I. was not
against them, and left on record
under his own hand: “When it is
foule ami storme weather there may
be play at tiie cards or tables.” In
Charles I l.’s reign the vice appear
ed to such an extent that more re
pressive measures than ever were
taken against it, and gambling was
forbidden in all forms. Queen
Anne, too, carried on tlio crusade,
creating quite a revolution in tiie
fashions of the time by her enact
ments declaring gambling debts
void, and making playing for mon
ey unlawful in itself. The record is
much the same in subsequent
reigns; George II., George III., and
George 1V., ail in various degrees,
extended the penal statutes.—The
Young Man. .
Remarkable Hcscno.
Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfield, III.
makes the statement that she caught cold
which settled 011 her luugs; she was treat
ed for a mouth by her family physician,
she grew worse, lie told her she was a
hopeless victim of Consumption and that
no medilcine could cure her. Her druggist
suggested Dr. King's New Discovery for
Consumption; she bought a bottle and
to her delight found herself benefited from
first dose. She continued its use and af
ter taking tou bottles, found herself
sound ana Will, now does her own house
work and Is as well as she over was.—
Free trial bottles of this Great Discovery at
Culver, Case & Kidd's Drug Store, large
bottles 00c and $1.00.
THE FARMERS’ ALLIANCE.
What Hon. Allen D. Candler
Thinks ok tiik Situation
AND THK PUOSPKCT.
From the New York Morning News.
No movement having a bearing on.-
the polirlcs of the day lias ever as
sumed such proportions in so short 1*.
time as the farmers’movement iu tb*
United States.
A small cloud, no larger than a
man’s hand at the inauguration ©S
tiie last presidential, campaign M>
small indeed as not. only not to alTeer
but not even to. at tract the notice ©S
the two dominant political parties, it
lias grown and spread and darkened
till it overspreads the whole political
horizon and arouses the gravest ap
prehensions of the leaders on both,
sides.
Nor are these apprehensions ground
less. Tltis movement of the tillers ot
the soil is the legitimate outooioeol *>
pernicious system of financial legisla
tion, which lias prevailed for nearly
thirty years—a system which has iiu
posed onerous taxes, fostered monop
olies and depleted the currency until’
it has well nigh destroyed the calling:
of the farmer.
That the millions of farmers watV
farm laborers should rebel against
such a system Is not astonishing.
They will succeed in securing redress-,
provided they are governed by wis-
counsels, anil not letl into chhmertcnl -
schemes anti financial heresies
leaders whose ambition for {dace or
pelf is stronger than their pntriotht-uv
and loyalty to tli • true principles of
the reform in which they have on-
geged. But the just and proper de
mands of their order, a more abuo-
dant currency, lower tariff taxation,
free and unlimited edhiuge of silver,
the destruction of the national bank
monopoly and all other mouopclies
nuilt up and fostered by the present -
system, can never beattaiiied tliroouh
tiie republican .party, for that partv-.
Is respoti-ible for all the vicious leg
islution of which they complain: in *
through a “ihirtl party movement.’'
In that way strong as they ere, a))<
their strength would he dissipated/
and wasted, and this ngriciiitnrtdi
iSaiusoii would be shorn of his locks,.
The revolution cun only he accom
plished through Hie democratic party.
That party is the natural friend nmb
ally of the farmer. Every oardiita':.
principle of the order of the Farmers
Alliance is a democratic principle-oleX
as democracy itself. “Equal and
exact Justic e to all, special privilegei-
to none,” is a cardinal doctrine- o?<
democracy. Opposition f* monopoly..
opposition to a purely protective,
tariff, opposition to a national ba»k..
free and unlimited coinage of botl»
gold aud silver, and the imitation of
the taxing power of the government
to the actual demands of its honest,
economic administatlon are no new
dogmas in the democratic creed.
All true democrats, as well asal) true-
Allianceuieu, believe in them as they
believe iu tiie Decalogue. By
united action the democraov aud the
Alliancecan accomplish all tliateither
ought to require and enough to res
tore prosperity to the country. By
separate action the Alliance will lose
its opportunity, waste its strength*
and soon pass into oblivion,
ALLItN D. Candler:
Happy Boosier*.
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