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Washington, Oaf. 21.—The appoin.
rnenf of Gr®en ;t. Rau:n to bo com
misfcioner of per. ••.>ua A r. great sur
"prise even to (he senators from
Illinois, who know no more than
the public of tin? president's inten
tisn. It is stated that Representa
tive Cannon and Secretary Rusk
were the principal movers in the
case. Vieved from a political
standpoint the selection is as good
as might have been made. Major
Fools of New ’Vork, was unavail
able and Sen. Iliscock should have
known it. He had iitterly oppos
ed. Tanner’s friends in'March and
his appointment would have been
distasteful to them. Resides, there
was no reason for believing that
Maj. Poole wa * competent to con
duct the business.
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One of the candidates, Mr. Mer
rill of Massachusetts, killed his
chance by the too liberal use of his
mouth. It seemed necessary to
President Harrison to appoint
some man wh® would have the re
spect of the grand army and the
confidence of the tax payers. Such
•a man is Gen. Raum. He is identi
fed with the conservative wing of
the grand army and is opposed to
service pensions, as was the last
time lie spoke openly on that sub
ject. His long and honorable re
cord, as bend of the internal reven
ue system and Ids zeal in the pros
ecu!ions t of all violations of law are
t:;@ assurances that he will not
make v. brass band prize distribu
tion scheme of the pension bureau.
In an interview last night, Mr.
Hu urn expressed himself as follows:
‘•I go into the otiica untrammeled
by any preconceived notions. 1
will fin’d tiie laws there and will
try and execute them fairly and
satisfactorily alike to the people
and the soldier. The commission-
or is an executive, not a legislative
office. My recoil in the internal
revenue bureau will give ill? pub
lic some idea of my methods and
mv military record will, I hope,
give the soldiers some assurance of
my fellowship with them. As to
precise matters of policy, I prefer
to become acquainted with ihe du
ties ot the office before announcing
any plan ot procedure. In fact, I
have not had time to leek over the
field, for I had no intention of my
appointment until Thursday, when
a cabinet officer told me I might
look for it,”
Unlike his predecessor, Mr. Tan
ner, Gen. Raum’s is that of
conscientious, hard work. lie is
not a ptffibeal tramp or bugbear,
lie was horn in Gulgonda, 111., in
1820, and was admitted to the bar
in ISG3. In 185 G he removed, with
Lis ffimiiy 10 Kansas, from which
he w *s driven in less than a year by
ihe wrath of tho pro-slavery fac
tion, whose wrath ho haf. roused.
He entered the army from Illinois,
; major of the si>ih Illinois regi
ment, and was afterwards made a
brigadier general of volunteers.
In 18GG he obtained a charter for
h e Cairo and Vincennas Railroad,
<:f which he was first president. He
solved in congress from 1807 to
! 1879. ll® was appointed :emmis
jsioner of internal revenue in IS7G,
•and retained the office until ISS'3.
During this period he collected
$850,000,000 and disbursed $300,-
000,000 with loss. On his retire
ment from office Gen. Raum re
mained in the District of Columbia
ind entered upon the practice <
law, the practice being mostly be
for® the departments. He is close
ly identified with tho interests of
the District of Columbia. The great
est objection that esn be found
against Mr. Raum lias in the fact
that he has been a long time out of
practical politics, and in fact, has
been of vary li ;tle use to the party
in the last few years. In this in
stance, however, Pres. Harrison
had to look for the best man rather
tlun oiler the position to the first
politician who could show recent
services. In this respect the vp
pointment resembles many ©t Mr.
ClevePmd’s selections. It may be
well to remember that (he position
Is tiies most arduous and ungrateful
under the government.
Tiie congressmen are beginning
to sneak in town from different ui
ructions to furnish up their houses
(such of them as do not exist in
boarling houses) and prepare for
a busy session. All are agreed that
the 51st. congress will be of tre
mendous importance and will bo
essentially a working congress.
Anything else is impossible. The
republican party has the responsi
bility of all depart merits of the gov
ernment, being everywhere in p >w
er. They must be held liable for
any delay in necessary legislation,
for any excess of appropriations
and for any insufficiency,
The tariff’ must at once receive
attention. AH the leaders are
agreed as to that. The matters of
civil service law, interstate com
merce, trusts, the educatioual ques
tion, the Australian ballot or some
other election system, and the vex
ed subject of subsidies will vex the
congressional brain.
The Moving Rock.
In one of the Twin Uke3, a few
miles east of Lakesvilie, is a rock
known as “Moving Kock. 5 ’ It is
elose in shore, in about four feat
©f water, and rushes grow up all
around it. Fifteen years ago this
rock was far out in the Jake, and
in size was nearly ten times what
it is to-day. It was noticed one
spring tourteen years ago that
there was mere of the rock out of
the water than usual, and some of
the inquisitive fishermen wh© then
frequented the lake, tried to find
the cause. They looked down into
the water and they could easily see
the bottom. They also saw, much
t© their astonishment, that there
was a deep furrow in the yellow
clay, and that in length it nr ats near
ly ten ieet. The rock seemed
smaoth and hard. The next spring
it had moved nearly fifteen le-et
more toward the shore, and the
turrow was plainly outlined. Then
seme one called the great bowlder
“Moving Kock,” and the name has
been associated with the curiosties
ot the lake ever since. And each
spring since that time finds the
rock closer to the edge of the lake
than it was twelve months before.
It is quite small now, but bean all
tha evidences of fhe action of the
demmts. It is porous in places,
ind to this fact souje attribute its re
oarkablo travels. The general opin
on among tt.e native', is that the ice,
vhrn it Dealt* up each spring, is pil
'd in tons upon th's rock by the norb
wind.-’, which have a clean sweep over
the lake, and thus the rock is driven
closer and closer in toward tho bank.
[Boston Transcript.
Mechanical Omens.
“Mechanical clocks,’’ said a Deal
borologist, “ire greatly in demand *. 11
the year ronnd. They aro mostly im
ported and range in price up to seven*
t ) five dollars each. Oh, as to suloe,
there are many, representing neailv
everything in art or nature. Some
jewelers keep a large assortment ot
tbao horological curiosities. A good
deal of advertising is dono by means
of mechanical clocks. They look like
toys, bot they arc excellent time keep
ere, and placed in store windows at
tract considerable attention. 1 have
seen crowds standing in front of these
*
curious clocks, watching the move
ments. It may be a gilded maiden
swinging to and f;o, or listening to the
sw eel music of a chime of hells ring
ing as the pendulum oscillate*. Yes,
the mechanical devices are very popu
lar as advertising schemes. Iu some
of the clocks the mechanism has its
own separate spring, while in others
the same poser run* both that and
the time keeping movement.”
“Who are tus be*t customers fqt
mechanical clocks?”
“That depends on the old sty 1 o
the clock. You s r e that artistic Ik tie
b lifer all iu nice working ordtr. WIP,
a con'rsctor or builder will come along
and snap it up for is is offices sine. So
with the others. Some aesthetic wood
worker will buy that handsaw clock,
a machinist will fall in love with that
trip hammer movement, while the pret
ty little windmill will, perhaps, glad
den the heart of some western miller
ou the lookout for novelties in his
lino.” —[Boston Qlobe.
Life ou a Cuban Plantation.
Iu Dakota and Manitoba the employ
went, on single wheat estates of a bnu
dred reapers and an aggregate ot three
buudred laborers ter a season hav
oeen regarded as something unprece
dented ia agricultural industry; baton
sue sugar estate iu Cuba—“El Bal
boa”—from fifteen hundred io two
thousand bands, invariably negroes,
are employed, who work under severe
discipline, in watehos or relays, during
the grinding season, by day and night,
the same as in the large iron m lls and
turn ices of the United States and Eu
■ one. At the same tune there are tew
vil -go communities wher® a like sum
her of peop'e experience the same care
and surveilance. The male woikers
ocenpy quarters wal'ed and barricaded
fioin the women, and the women from
the men.
There are in every village an infirm
ary, a lying 'n hospital, a physician,
an apothecary, a chapel and priest
At night and morning mass is said in
chapel, and the crowds are always
large. There is ot a Sunday less re
straint, though ceaseless espionage if
never remitted. On these days an t in
parte ol ho idsys there are rede mirth,
ruder music and much dancing. 'Hits
pic nre is given somewhat in detail
because it illustrates how all pr-rvai
ing and tremendous are the fmc-s that
nre modifying society everywhere, in
civilized, partially civihzad and bat
barons countries, conjointly wit h the
new conditions of production and con
sumption —[Hon. David A. Well? iu
Popular Scicace Monthly.
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Also tine Line of Hardware, Tinware/ Crockery and ,Glas ware, I amity
Groceries, Flour, Meats, Etc.
&8T Onr stock is Complete and we are fully prepared to satisfy our Cus
tomers in respect to styles and Qualities.
Everything sold for prices far anv evr made in this or nj oilier
MARKET IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA. Bestirs to Cali and sec
as before purciiasing elsewhere. The oldest Firm ui this section. 19
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DEALERS IN
Fancy Goods, Fine Millinery, Groceries and General
Merchandise. Give us i Call when in HARMONY GROVE.
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" HARDWARE And CUTLERY,
jjajp*()nr Line of Stoves, Tinware, Agricultural, Implements, Em., can rot,
lie found in better Quality ami Duiabilny, Elsewlieie. We also have in stock
a fine tine of guns and pistole', and we ate the only house in Harmony Qruvo
tha' pay a Licknpb to Hell Pistols and Cartridges. Call and see us.
Drug's And Medicines.
Families must bi-*-e Caster Oil, Spirits Turpentine, Pills, Mustard and Com
position Powders, ifiniments, Horse and Cattle Powders, Sarsa
paiiila and other Patent Medicines. Before buying
such supplies, call ou Dr. V. D. Lockhart at the
Harmonv Grove Academy,
Male And Female*
HARMONY GROVE GA,
,). H Walker, A. B. Principal, Cbas. M. Walker, A. B , Assistant.
Miss Annie Burst, fciecoud Assistant. Mrs. L. A. McSuiith, Music Teacher.
tM.ovAo.ty \&yc, bO’clv,
And Continues Thirty -Eight Weeks: Two Weeks Vacation Christmas
RATES OF TUITION:
Fint Grade—Writing, Orthography, Reading and Arithmetic $i
S-.cond Grade. Embraces same topics as first grade, and Gram
mar, Geography and Composition 2 < •
Third Grade Languages, Higher Mathematics, Rhetoric, Chemis
try, Physics, Etc. •
Music, 3.“
Incidental Fees, rail Term 20 cents, spring Term, 30 cents.
All patrons allowed full benefit ot Common School Fund.
Board can be had in the best familes at eight to twelve dollars per mom:
Harmony Grove has, by taxation, built a large and commodious . i
building. The school will bo thoroughly equipped with patent desks, d 1
boards, comfortable tecitatioo soars, maps, globes, apparatus, and every
era improvement for successful teaching. This school, with a full cor -
good teachers, with comfortable building and modern improvements cornu.
itself to the parents of imrnony c.rove and surrounding country.
We moat respectfully solicit, the patronage of the eitizens of Banks Court'.
For further iiPoimation address J. H. WALKER, Harmony Grove, ©a.