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The Morgan Monitor
YOL. II. NO. 13. $1 PER YEAR.
A SONG OF RIGHT.
Faint fatalists will Shiver
Behind their coward creeds,
When like a mighty river
The new-born phalanx speeds,
All hearts on flro with one desire—
To win by noble deeds.
For where the earth was sodden
With many bitter tears
From those whom Might had trodden
With iron heels for years,
A spirit bright, the prince of Bight,
A tomplo fair uprears.
And in its precincts holy
None shall have hardihood
To claim above the lowly
A place for birth and bloo 1,
For nono shall rise at any price,
Except by doing good.
THE POWEli* OF LOVE,
BY ANNA SHEILDS.
')ffn M Pi ft F ever a spoiled
W bab J Brew to a
NjV spoiled child, and
60 to a spoiled
mau > tLat ljab Y.
bo - v and ra au, ar-
Clarence Parker reached his twenty-
fifth year. His father left this scene
of earthly change when Clarence was a
crowing youngster of two years, and
his mother, tho sweetest tempered lit-
tlo woman to bo found, immediately
commenced a system of indulgence ad¬
mirably calculated to make a milksop
of her only son and tho heir to his
father’s large estate.
That he did not grow up vicious was
probably idolized due to tho fact that ho fairly
his mother, and would not
have grieved her for any amount of
self gratification. Also, it must be
confessed, because he was too indolent
to care to seek pleasure that did full
directly across his path.
Ho had been educated by a private
tutor, till ho entered college, had
graduated there and traveled through
Europe wilh his mother.
Mrs. Parker was a little woman, a
mere mite beside her tall, stalwart
son, who called her by a thousand pet
diminutive names, in half a dozen
languages. She was bluo eyed, fair
haired and daintily pretty, neat to the
extreme of nicety, gentle, low voiced
and exquisitely feminine, yet withal
with a well slored mind and an intel¬
lect that made her a charming eom-
panion, even for her college fledged
son. Many a suitor had tried to win
her from her one devotion, but in vain.
All her love that was not her son’s
was buried iu his father’s grave, and
she never put off the soft grays, purples
and neutral tints of second mourning.
“When you are married, Claire, I
will buy one pink rose in honor of the
occasion,” she wonld say. But at
twenty-live, Clarenco had never given
her occasion to think of the pink rose.
I have said ho was spoiled, and in a
certain sen-c he was. Without any
vicious tendencies, he lacked tho am¬
bition and energy that arc tho attri¬
butes of a true, manly nature. Tall,
strong; iu perfect boalth, handsome as
a young Apullo, ho was content to
dawdle through life, spending his am¬
ple income upon dress, jewelry, opera
tickets, a well-appointed equipage,
aud tho means of a lazy, useless ex¬
istence. And his mother, proud of hi3
beauty, his polished courtesy of man¬
ner, his devotion to herself, asked
more.
But she was a truly loving woman,
and when Clarenco was twenty-live
was willing to concede her throne iu
his affections to a younger, stronger
loye, tho love that would brighten her
son’s life with homo happiness when
her scepter was in the coffin.
And half proudly, half regretfully,
she recognized the fact that the ideal
of womanhood he had founded upon
her example made him far too fastid¬
ious in his intercourse with the girls
of modern society. A loud voice au-
noyod him. A brusque manner dis¬
gusted him.
“When I find a young lady as gen¬
tle, refined and lovely as yourself,” he
would say, “I will move heaven and
earth to win her. Until then, let me
enjoy my liberty.”
It was in tho late spring and Mrs.
Parker was preparing for her annual
removal to her couutry seat at Chest¬
nut Hill, when a letter reached her
from her cousin and life-long friend in
Ohio, begging hor to take charge of
his only daughter for a few months,
while he was absent upon a trip to tho
far West. lie wrote:
“You havo so often .urged mo to allow
Myr i to pay you a visit that I do not hesi¬
tate now to ask your hospitality for her. I
cannot well take hor witli me, as wo nro a
party of uiuo men upon a prospecting jaunt.
I do not like to leave hor hors alone. Will
j-ou add to your kindness by using tiio en¬
closed eheelt for her dres3. We havo lived
in doubt this lonely whole seolusion so long that I do not
her attiro will be startlingly
holp primitive, her select aud she lluory.” has no friends horo to
There was much more, read aloud to
Clarence, with this explanation:
“My cousin John became a hermit
when his wifo died, ton years ago. Ho
is wealthy', and a man of learning, but
he has buried himself for years upon
a lonely farm, i havo urged him of¬
ten to send Myra to a good school, and
let hor make her homo with me, but
he said the child was his only comfort,
and I believe they liavo been insepar¬
able from her babyhood. She is—let
mo see—she most be nineteen."
Clarence mado a grimace.
“When does sho come?” ho asked.
“Thursday. Wo shall boat Chest¬
nut Hill, but you can come into the
city to meet her.”
“Certainly.”
at the appointed time, in a
faultless suit of summer gray, Mr.
Clarence Barker drove his carriago
and coal-black horscB to the depot.
The train was just in, aud ho watched
tho passengers stream by till one an¬
swered his ideas of his expected
eousin.
A girl, very tall, very straight and
very handsome, in a dark, Southern
style, dressed in ill-fitting gray linon,
with a plaid shawl on her arm, walked
past him to the dressing-room, with a
free, graceful step and poise of her
glorious head eminently suggestive of
country life in the West.
“She is a jierfect squaw,” Clarenco
thought, slowly following her to the
ladies’ room. Tho next momont,
gracefully “Have bowing, bo asked:
I the pleasure of greeting
Miss Myra Delano, my cousin?”
“Ah, yon are Clarenco!” she said,
showing two dazzling rows of teeth in
a smile of frank pleasure. “IsCousiu
Clara here?”
“My mother is at Chestnut Hill,but
I have my carriago hero to drive you
out of town. Shall I take the cheeks
for your laggage?”
“I am desperatoly hungry,” she an¬
swered, “could we get something to
eat while the trunks are being carried
out?”
“Here? I could drive you to a
quieter restaurant—”
“No, no; here! I could eat fried
whale, I am so starved. I have had
nothing but gingerbread and apples
since yesterday noon.”
There was no resisting such an ap¬
peal, and Clarence led tho way to the
depot restaurant and offered hiscou3in
tho bill of fare. It being one of his
great points in feminine perfection
that the appetito should bo delicate
and needing- coaxiDg, lie was abso¬
lutely shocked to seo Myra Delano
eat. Suoh an indiscriminate jumble
of provisions would havo mudo his
mother ill for a month; but Myra
heartily enjoyed steak, eggs, coffee,
pio, rolls, cakes, oysters, anything and
everything, as tho waiter put it before
her.
She was not rude, did not eat with
her knife or her fingers ; but she had
not one of the little dainty tricks of
manner that mado Mrs. Parker’s table
etiquette so charming; and Clarence,
trifling with his own luncheon, won¬
dered if in six meals ho could eat as
much as this “squaw” eat in one. In
his own mind ho christened her
“squaw,” though he was far too
courteous over to speak so of her, even
to his mother.
All through tho long drive homo,
she chatted, frankly ns a child, of her
journey, her home, her anticipations
of pleasure iu her visit, and, while her
voice was clear, ringing and musical,
her language was woll chosen, giving
no jar to Clarence's fastidious taste,
though he wished her tone more sub¬
dued. But her dowdy hat, her cotton
gloves, her stout leather boots, her
untidy hair were all an offense.
In his first hour alone with his
mother, he implored her to buy some
dresses for their guest that were not
two sizes to big and seven sizes too
short.
And Mrs. Pirkor, utterly over¬
whelmed by tho tail, handsome girl
thrown upon her care, found her life
suddenly burdened with unwonted re-
suonsibility. First, thcro was a daily
fight to settle between Lucille, her
own French maid, and Myra.
“But, maclame, the drosses nevaro
will fit, nevaro, if mam’selle will not
wear ze corset, or let me make ze fit,”
the maid would protest.
“I cannot breathe, all prossed up so,
Cousin Clara,” Myra would romon-
strato, “I should stifle in an hour.”
It was difficult to compromise, but
Mrs. Parker, by exercising the
patience aud gentleness natural to
her, finally presented Myra iu a well-
chosen wardrobe that gave her the
freedom of lungs aud movement she
craved, and yet set off the magnificent
figure.
The girl’s own utter ignorance of
dress amazed tho little lady of fashion.
She found that a half-yearly visit to the
nearest town, an order to the dress¬
maker to make warm dresses for win¬
ter and cool ones for summer, com¬
prised Myra’s idea of dress. Scrup¬
ulously cleanly, she was absolutely
without vanity, aud as pleased a3 a
child to note tho improvement in hor
looks produced by a becoming ar¬
rangement of her abundant raven hair,
and tho tasteful broach of bright color
in her carefully appointed dress.
The first timo Olarenoe saw her in a
dress of black silk tissue with a dash
of vivid crimson hero and there,at the
throat, in tho glossy braids of -hair,
the sash and slocvo knots, he was ab¬
solutely amazed at her beauty.
“If only she was not such a savage,”
ho thought, regretfully.
But there was not one hour of the
day that she did not jar upon his fas¬
tidious ideas. Ilo rode with her at
her request, and told his mother,
confidentially, that ho never imagined
anjthiug but an Indian or a circus
rider could so manage a horse.
He sang with her, aud found that ho
must actually exert himself to prevent
his deep baritone notes being over¬
powered by her ringing, powerful
voice, full of sweetness andhiusic, but
utterly uncultivated.
He found her in the garden, driv¬
ing the gardener distracted by hor
criticisms upon liis plants, and prov¬
ing all her theories by transferring
roots with her own hands to spots of
her own selection, where they invari¬
ably He improved.
caught her in tho woods, prac¬
ticing with a revolver, shooting at a
mark; aud she pathetically told him
she was ail out of practice, and only
hit her mark six times in nine.
“I suppose there is no shooting to
bo had hero?” sho said, dolefully, aud
then described hunts sho had taken
with her father, in the far Western
woods and plains, as if shooting deer
and squirrels wero every day affairs in
a young lady’s life.
Every day Clarence found some
prejudice rudely shocked and every
day ho found new fascination iu Myra’s
society. There was an irresistablo
charm in the very frankness of
mannner,the daring of her movements,
that wero free as a child’s but ne^jr
awkward or abrupt. She was absolute-
ly ignorant of all feminine pursuits,
knew nothing of sewing, housekeeping
POPULATIOTiT AMTD DR.AIHTAGB.
MORGAN, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL i), 1897.
or tho numberless accomplishments
that made Mrs. Parker so fascinating.
And yet she had an instinctive avoid¬
ance of any uueouth or rude speech or
act. As Clarence once told his mother,
she was thoroughly gentlemanly. She
told Mrs. Parker once, iu a sudden
fit of shamefacodness for hor ignorance
of womanly duties,that she never liuew
a lady. Her father was not willing to
have her associate with the neighbors’
wives or their daughters, and their
only servant was an old sailor, who
cooked for them. All sewing was done
in town, and sent out to thorn, and
when the garments needed mending,
they were sent to the orphan asylum.
“Am livery dreadfully” slio asked,in
perfect sincerity,
“You are not at all dreadful? But I
think it would please your father if
you learned some womanly accom¬
plishments.”
“I could make him more comfort-
able I I never knew what a dreadfully
rude home we have till I carno here.
Our piano is in the kitchen, and papa’s
books are everywhere. I don’t suppose
youngladies hero have a rifle,revolver,
riding-habit and hat, whip and fishing-
rod in their own rooms, but I have all
of these. As for work-boxes and
crochet-needles, I never owned either
one or the other. But if you will teach
mo, Cousin Clara, I will learn to sew
and eook. and make home pleasant. ”
And Cousin Clara, won from tho
first by the bright, beautiful girl, will¬
ingly taught her all she wished to
learn. It was only in brief snatches
she could learn. Sewing worried her;
cooking smothered her; housekeeping
accounts bothered her, Yet gradually
she was toning down.
sessed Only the spirit of mischief pos¬
her when Clarence was near.
Knowing all his fastidious tastes, all
his indolent, dilettante ways, she de¬
lighted to jar upon tho one, and shake
him out of the other. She roused a
new ambition in his mind by keenly
pointed sarcasms at his effeminate pur¬
suits, She challenged him to races,
shooting matches, pedestrian trips,
and fairly drove him about by the
laughing lash of her witty tongue.
It was curious to note how they
came by degrees to a level, the one
shakiug off unmanly indolence, tho
other softening masculine traits, while
the little winged god of love hid,
laughing, unsuspected by either.
Mrs. Parker found him out first.
Loving Clarence above all else on
earth, her mother instinct taught her
quickly the reason of the change in him,
the influence that was giving him an
erect carriage, a new light of energy
in his great dark eyes, an added inter¬
est iu the affairs of his own fortune,
seeking for channels where it might
flow to benefit others as well as him¬
self. And reading the secret Claronce
as yet did not himself suspect, Mr?.
Parker exulted iu hor heart to see how
Myra was just as surely bowing her
iree, frank nature to tho yoke of lo-^e,
softening her mannor, toning down
her joyous ringing voice, training her
hands to womanly work.
Autumnal winds were scattering the
crimson leaves when John Delano
came to New York for tho first time in
teu years, and was the guest of Mrs.
Parker in her city home, to which tho
family had just returned. He came
for Myra, thinking of her hiqipmess to
como back to her free life, and she
grew pale at his loving caress.
“What ails the child?" ho asked,
turning to his cousin as Myra left tho
room. “She was uevor so quiet as that
in her life before.”
“You will know soon, John. No,
you may know now!” said Mrs.
Parker, pointing, as she spoke, across
the hall to the library, where Clarence
had risen as Myra entered. Just ouo
long look into the two faoos satisfied
the father.
“It will be woll with her when I am
gone,” he said, half sadly; and when
Clarenco came to him to win his con¬
sent to wed Myra ho received him
cordially and gladly.
“It will be lonely in tho old homo,”
he said, and Myra, clinging to him,
besought him to go back no moro to
the solitary life of tho past.
“We need you here,” she pleaded;
and Mrs. Parker endorsed the petition.
After the wedding of the young
folks and their home-coming to tho
new house Mrs. Parker insisted upon
their occupying, Cousin John fell into
the habit of spending his evenings
with Clara. They were so lonely,
prived these middle-aged people, each de¬
of a companion of years. They
missed the “child” who had been the
Center of all love for each, and, talk¬
ing often of their mutual loss and
gain, drew their sore, lonely hearts
into close communion, until Myra,
walkiug_ in upon her husband one
morning, announced:
“Claire, I have been to see your
mother, and father was there, and—
guess?”
“Well, I guess that after this who-
ever goes to see my mother will bo
very likely to find your father there.”
“You knew?”
“Not a word 1 Is it settled?"
“Yes. They insist upon a quiet
wedding in church, and wo can cease
to fret any longer about either one or
the other missing you or me.”
It was quite true. The power of
love that had so softened and improved
Myra, so ennobled Clarence, had
drawn tho bitterness of their early
widowhood from the hearts of John
Delano and Clnra Parker, and shed
benign light over two happy homos.—
Now York Ledger.
Cost of New French Artillery,
The introduction of tho new quick
firing artillery in tho French army
will cost $50,000,000. The new Canet
gun delivers five ! 10-pound shells at
range of font fit, I iu one
minute.
I Iff‘-peaking?’ 'Did you ever asked feol nervous emnen l p in
an
! ol Mr. Gladstone. ‘ a
I | jeot, often,” said Mr. Gladstone, . l
reply, never. ’ '
Bill m WEEKLY LETTER.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF COTTON AND
ITS EARLY MANIPULATION.
THE FLEECY STAPLE IS STILL KINO.
Tlio Tiint Was First Picked From Seed.
Then Fame Gin and Spinning; Jenny ;
Afterward the Modern Loom,
“Cotton is king!” I don’t know who
first said that, but it is a fact. It is the
most useful and most important pro¬
duct in the world, and has tho
influence on its commerce. I was
ruminating about this because of
letters of inquiry that from time to
time I have received concerning cot-
ion. The last one from an old friend,
Colonel Saxon, says he cannot learn
from the department at Washington
when cotton cloth was first imported
to this country.
And so I will venture a few remarks
on this subject in general, for ft is full
of remarkable facts and illustrates the
kindness of providence to His creat-
urea. Providence is always kind and
whenever we need anything He unlocks
another door ol His treasury and says
here it is.
There is no doubt at all that the cot¬
ton plant was created “in the begin¬
ning,” and with a design for the use
and benefit of mankind when it should
be needed. Attention was attracted
to it away back in the centuries. Four
hundred and fifty years before the
Christian era Herodotus wrote about
it as a plant hearing fleeces moro deli¬
cate and beautiful than those of sheep
aud of the Indians using it for tho
manufacture of cloth. From’ India it
was introduced into Greece aud Rome
and Caesar used it for his army tents
and covered the forum with it. The
cotton -fabrics of the Hindoos have
been excelled only by the most perfect
machinery of modern times. We read
of a Hindoo princess who came into
a court reception and the king said,
“Go home—go homo my child—yon
are not decently clad”-—and she re¬
plied, “Father I have seven suits on,”
but they were of cotton muslin so thin
and delicate that tho king could see
through them. The famous muslins
of Decca, in Calcutta, were called
“webs of woven .wind,” and when a
piece was laid upon the dew covered
grass it was not discernible.
Iinagiii£,.the wonder-«{- Uioso-hvV.i'ics.
when there was not a spindle, but the
distaff and only a loom that tho wearer
carried about with him setting it up
under a tree and digging a hole in the
ground for his feet to work the treadle.
But the manufacture of cotton for tho
common people was smothero l dur¬
ing all ihese centuries, and only
wool and flax were used for
clothing. Tlxe ancient Egyptians
used it to some extent, spinning
it with the distaff and weaving it with
the primitive looms, but the plant was
not cultivated. It was indigenous to
that country and the fieeco was gath¬
ered from the wild stocks. It was not
until the tenth century that the culti¬
vation began, and that was by the
Moors in Biiain. The Venetians en¬
gaged in it in the fourteenth century
and the English in the ( arly part of
the eighteenth. But its use was very
limited, for the seed wore in the way.
But now comes tho evolution of cot¬
ton ; the revolution that in a few years
made it king. Nothing so wonderful
lias ever transpired iu commerce and
manufacture. There was a conjunc¬
tion -of the three things that were nec¬
essary to bring about this revolution:
The cotton gin by Whitney in 1793;
the spinning jenny by Arkwright in
1787, and the power loom by Cart¬
wright in 1789, all startled tho world
about tho same time and gave an im¬
pulse to the growth and use and man¬
ufacture of cotton that was pregnant
with great results. One of these re¬
sults was tho fixing of slavery as an
institution upon the southern states.
Up to that time it was not considered
either safe or profitable to encourage
their importation from the northern
states. But of course, it took several
years for these inventions to become
generally introduced. My mother told
me that as late as 1818 she used to
spend most of the winter evenings
picking the seed from the cotton by
hand—with half a dozen or more of
tho family servants sitting in a circle
around tho fire. She vied with them
in trying to execl in tho quantity seed-
ed. This was in Liberty county of
tliis state, and the cotton was probably
tlio long staple variety.
Whitney became involved in inter¬
minable laiv suits and his gin, which
was for only the short staple cotton,
was not in general use for many years
after-it was invented. My father put
up the first gin in Gwinnett county in
1828, and seed cotton was hauled to it
from all the adjacent country. Pre¬
vious to the use of the gin it was con¬
sidered a fair day’s work to seed
enough to make a pound of lint. But
the K ,n with two attendants picked
pounds in a day. At that timo
the old-fashioned spinning wheel was
»> general use and a day’s work for
tb< ‘- spinner was six cuts a cut being
140 rounds on the reel, but the first
spinning jenny with one attendant did
eighty times as much and did it bet¬
tor. Later on it did 2,000 times as
much. The saving in weaving by tho
power loom was in similar proportion
and hence it suddenly came about
that ten men could do tho work
9‘ ten thousand. No wonder
^ Ur f *4' ' x a v and Arkwright
l e e
spinners and th tlieir hone ;! by the
, Ile for telling the femds (.spinsters. Excuse
a spinster is the just here that
an( i use( l to mean due for spinner
n artiageable
girl who had made herself eligible and
fitten to bo married by spinning and
weaving enough cloth for her own trous¬
seau, and sheets and coverlets for tho
bed and table cloths and napkins for
the table. This was tho dowry she
brought her husband. But tlieso in¬
ventors went to Nottingham and put
up thoir mills and made a monopoly of
the business. They and their associ¬
ates grew rich so fast that they deter¬
mined to exclude all mankind from
acquiring a knowledge of their inven¬
tions. The doors were kept looked
and the operatives sworn to secrecy.
New England tried in vain to buy the
right and could not compete with Eng¬
lish yarns.
But deliverance was not far off.
Samuel and John Sinter, who had
worked for Arkwright in England for
seven side 'years, saw large money on this
of the water. They came and
brought with them a full knowledge
of all three of the inventions and how
to use them and how to build a factory.
Of course they met with a warm re¬
ception, and in 1800 they erected a
mill and planted a town and named it
Slaterville. They soon made a fortune.
When John died ho left, liis millions to
his son and when John, Jr., got ready
to die he bequeathed a million to our
Dr. Haygood in trust for tho education
of the negroes of tho south. Tt, was a
gift fit to lie made, for the fathers and
mothers of these negroes grew the cot¬
ton that made the Slaters rich. The
Slaters not only spun tlieir yarns, but
wove them, and t lie cloth was called
homespun, because it was woven at
home and not brought from England.
But, although cotton was now king
by commercially, it was ranked socially
other fabrics. It was not so
beautiful as silk nor so strong as flax
nor so it warm as wool, and hence for
years fabrics was woven only into the com¬
mon' for tho common people.
The calicos that were imported from
Calicut in Turkey were spun with a
distaff and woven in tho old-fashioned
hand loom. The' nankeen cloth that
came from Nankin in China was made
by a similar process. I remember
that my father, who was a merchant,
bought some of that nankeen when I
was a lad and my mother made me a
pair of pants and a round jacket out of
it and I was proud ami yellow. It was
not until the -ifl’H when tho finer fab¬
rics, such as muslins and lawns, were
made of cotton. In 1812 a machine
was invented of so delicate a nature
that a single pound of cotton was spun
to a length of 1.100 miles, and iu 1851
some doth ot exquisite fineness was
woven expressly for a dress for the
quesp^ of England and was exhibited
-«* +B.j-<' rystal-7'ili>rr‘ fit "! 1 in Lttndo*)
in that year. But it is still asserted
that ilo machinery has ever surpassed
the hand work of tho Hindus and that
Montezuma presented Cortez with
robes of cotton interwoven with feather
work that rivaled the delicacy of the
finest painting.
But notwithstanding the inventions
of the spinning jenny and the power
loom, our country people continued
for years to spin and to weave their
own cloth, and the female slaves were
made to do so by tlieir masters. The
spinning wheel was tho first to surren¬
der, and tlio factory yarn, or “spun
truck,” as it was called, came into
general use along in the ID’s. In a
few years more the home-made loom
bad to go. and since tlio war the wheel
and tbo loom have ceased thoir music
iu the homes of our people.
It was not until after tho close of
the war of 1812 that even tlio northern
people bought any cloth from England.
Until about 1810 England had none to
sell or export, but from that time until
1821 its exportation increased very rap¬
idly and almost paralyzed our New
England mills. But in that year and
in 1828 and 1832 congress placed a
duty English of 25 per cent ad valorem on all
tection cotton goods, and this pro¬
factures. greatly revived our own manu¬
This tariff was reduced in
1816 and the outside world given a
fairer chance to compete.
But cotton is still king—king in the
southern fields and in the factories and
in the carrying trade of the ocean and
in Liverpool and other great markets
of the world. Whether wo make largo
crops or small ones, it is still the
greatest factor in the world’s comfort
and prosperity. Long live tlio king!
—Bum Aitc. in Atlanta Constitution.
“BUTTON” GANG SWUNG UP.
AhshshIiik of Chavez Executed In n New
Mexico Jail Yard.
Francisco Gonzales Berrogo, Anto¬
nio Gonzales Berrogo, Sauriaue Alarid
and Patricio Valencia, condemned to
death for the murder of ox-Sheriff
Frank Chavez, who was killed from
ambush on the night of May 29, 1892,
were hanged together on one scaffold
at Santa Fe, New Mexico, Friday.
The convicts spent the night in
prayer and at 9:05 walked from their
cell across the jail yard without a
tremor. They made no statement.
Only Patricio Valencia’s body show¬
ed the least signs of life after tho
drop. Ho died of strangulation.
DINASTROURPO>v7>ER EXPLOSION.
All buildings of tho Shamokin Pow¬
der company, at Shamokin, I’a., were
wrecked by a terrific explosion which
occurred in the mill of the company at
an early hour Friday morning. For¬
tunately no lives were lost, all of the
workmen having gone to tlieir homes.
The dwellings of David Hann, Eman¬
uel Klinger arid Daniel Osborne, to¬
gether with out-buildings and barns,
were badly damaged.
Arbor day has spread until it has
reached the Pacific coast and in many
parts of California, Oregon artd Wash¬
ington it Is duly observed. ‘ Tho school
grounds, cemeteries and other public
places are usually selected for the tree
planting ceremony and the Bchool
children perform tho greater part ol
the work.
T. P. GREEN, MANAGER.
i ■ hi i n
FLOODS IN MISSISSIPPI GROAY IN
HORROR DAILY.
TOWN OF GREENVILLE IN DANGER.
The Whole Delta Region Threatened
With Dire Destruction—Human
Efforts of No Avail.
A special from Greenville, Miss.,
says: Within the next forty-eight
hours the entire Zazoo, Mississippi
delta, from Australia, Bolivar county,
south to Vicksburg will be under
water.
Australia is ten miles above Rose-
dale, the county site of Bolivar, The
overflowed section is the richest coun¬
try on the globo and comprises about
two-thirds of the delta of Mississippi
valley.
Three huge crevasse in the levee line
uro now pouring a devastating flood
into these fertile bottoms.
One fifty miles north,near Australia,
is now 3,000 feet and more in width.
Another thirty-five miles below that
point between Stopp’s Landing and
Mound, fifteen miles- of Greenville, is
over 700 feet wide. The third on Lake
Lee, seven miles below the city, 1,500
feet wide. All three are widening rap-
idly.
Every inland stream bears upon its
bosom a gruesome burden of death—
horses, mules, sheep, hogs and poul¬
try are being drowned by thousands,
if human life is spared it will bo a
miracle.
Several days yet must elapse before
an accurate report can be had from tho
interior of fatalities.
Greenvillo Doomed.
Greonvillo is situated right in tho
heart of the delta country, which is
bounded by the Mississippi river on
the west aud a range of bills, running
southwardly burg, Miss. from Memphis to Vicks¬
Tbo population of Greenville is 10, -
000. The territory embraces nearly
ten counties, millions of acres of the
most fertile lands in the world.
The population of the territory
about 200,000; it is 250 miles in length
and about seventy miles on an average
in breadth.
Fourtli llrciilc EoportoiL
A later special from Greenville soys:
Another break in the levee on the
" occurred at 10.30 o'clock.
Tuesday liight. This last crevasse is
at,Stokes’ plantation, iu Bolivar coun¬
ty, five miles north of tho town of
llosedale, and eight miles south of the
Perthshire break.
Gunnison, Bolivar county, just north
of Rosedale, is already overflowed.
At Rosedale the water can bo seen
slowly creeping up to tho town.
All railroad and telegraph communi¬
cation north and south is cut off
Refugees from the overflowed districts
are pouring into the towns and vil¬
lages along tlio railroads and river,
and suffering will bo intense.
It is almost opposite the mouth of
the White river. Water from this
crevasse will go into Doer creek first
and add to the disastrous situation
already impending over tho Yazoo
Mississippi delta.
A report has also been received of a
break at Luna on tho Arkansas side,
some eight miles north of the city, but
this rumor cannot be confirmed.
WAR CANNOT BE AVERTED.
Fighting Between Already Greek# u ml Turks Huh
Bogun.
Reports just received at Constanti¬
nople from the Turkish headquarters
at Elassona, state that fighting lias
already occurred on the Turkish side
of the frontier of Macedonia.
It is said that the Greek loader,
Alexis Taki, crossed the frontier into
Macedonia on Sunday last, accom¬
panied by about twenty-live of liis fol¬
lowers. Near Grevena the Greeks met
aud engaged an advanco post of tho
Turkish troops, commanded by a Ger¬
man officer.
In the fighting which followed tho
Turks lost twelve men killed and had
twenty men wounded, including the
German officer. Tho loss of tlio insur¬
gents is not known. Tlio latter subse¬
quently returned across tho border
into Greek territory.
The situation is about as critical as
can bo, and it is difficult to see how
war between Greece and Turkey can
be averted.
DANGER AT NEW ORLEANS.
Water Beaulieu Top of tho Eovcen, and 18
Hanning Over Into tlio Streets.
The river lias finally reached tho top
of the levees in New Orleans and Mon¬
day morning began running over into
Mandovillo street, directly in front of
the colobratod French market build¬
ing.
An urgent request came from
Algiers, on the right bank of tho
river for help to strengthen the levees
thero, weakened by the Irtgh water
and heavy winds. Tho river rose
seven-tenths of a foot in twenty-four
hours and reached eight-tenths of a
foot above tlio sixtoon-foot mark,
which is the danger line.
DUNCE ISSUES ORDERS.
Maine, TexHH, AmpltM rlto and Terror Go
to Hampton Bond*.
Under orders from Admiral Bunco,
tho Maine and Texas, at Port Royal,
and Charleston, the Amphitrite Hampton and Terror, at
left for Roads
Thursday morning, it being tho inten¬
tion after the rendezvous there to go
to Now York and participate in the
Grant monument celebration.
The Marblehead is ordered to leavo
Pensacola for Key West.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
New Industries Established In the Soutli
During tho Past Week.
Among the most important new
industries organized during the past
week are the following: The Brooklaud
Bridge Co., capital §40,000, Columbia,
S. C.; a §80,000 cotton compress at
Bryan, Tox., two large flouring mills
at Allentown and Duersville, Tcnn.;
galvanized iron works at Birmingham,
Ala.; the Boll Crank Locomotive Co.,
capital §36,000, at Burnett, Texas,
and railroad shops at Macon, (5a.,
to cost §30,000. The Express Re¬
frigerator Car Co., capital $50,-
000, has been chart red at Gaines-
villo, .Fla.; tho Wythe Lead and Zinc
Co. will build a $15,000 plant at
Ivanhoe, Vn.; tho Baughan Tobacco
Btomming Machine Co., capital $1,-
000,000, has been chartered at Rich¬
mond, Ya.; the North Fort Worth
Laud Co., capital §210,000, Fort
Worth, Tex.; an oil mill will bo built
at Taylor, Tex.; the Avondale Cotton .
Mill, capital §5,000, chartered at Bir¬
mingham, Ala.; the Llano Lumber Co.,
capital $25,000, Llano, Tex., and tbo
Burch and Supply Co., capital §35,-
000, to engage in tho saw milling bus¬
iness at Augusta,. (la.—Tradesman,
(Chattanooga, Tenn.)
GEORGIA EDITORS.
Old Officers of the Pross Association Are
Ke-Elected.
At the second day’s session of the
Georgia Press Association at Macon
all the old officers were re-elected as
follows;
President, II. II. Cahauiss, of The
Atlanta Journal; first vice president,
John Triplett, of Tho Thomasvillo
'Times-Enterprise; dent, 0. second vice presi¬
R. Pendleton, of The Valdos¬
ta Times; treasurer, J. W. Anderson,
of The Covington Star; recording sec-
retary, Ben F. Perry, of Tho Cherokee
Advance, Canton; corresponding soo-
rotary, W. A. Knowles, of The Rome
Tribune; executive committee, li. W.
Grubb, of Tho Darion Gazette; W. A,
Hemphill, of The Atlanta Constitu¬
tion; J. NY. Chapman, of Tho Wash¬
ington Gazette; E. B. Russell, of The
Oodartown Standard; Tyler M. Pee¬
ples, of The Lawrenoeville Herald.
DEDICATION OP GRANT’S TOMB
Will Ilo tlio Occasion of a Graml Maritime
Display.
Secretary Sherman lias sent the fol¬
lowing cablegram to our ministers
abroad who are accredited to nations
possessing navies:
“The Grant municipal inaugural
Vunt? »pi v/.-! UYvM-fc
to officially invite tlio maritime na¬
tions to Bend warships to participate
in the ceremonies on April 27th noxt,
when the Grant Monumental Associa¬
tion will formally deliver to the city
of New York the tomb of Gen. Grant,
erected by voluntary subscriptions at
Riverside park. It will bo gratifying
to this government if this ^courteous
invitation could bo accepted.”
SNOW STORM IN WYOMING.
Fierce Blizzard Itagen in tho West.
Stockmen Apprehensive.
A special from Clieyonuo of Tuesday
says: A blizzard of snow and wind has
boon ming raging throughout southern Wyo¬
from tho western to tlio eastern
boundary for the past twenty-four
hours.
Tlioro have boon severe losses of
sheep in a portion of the district.
The lossos in cattle and hokses havo
been nominal to the present time, hut
stockmen are becoming apprehensive
ns a continuation of tlio storm will be
destructive to rango stock..
Tho main line of the Union Pacific
is being kept open with snow plows
and passenger trains are making sched¬
ule time, although tlio storm extend.!
along tho road for over 000 miles.
• IN CONGRESS TUESDAY,
Senator Morgan Again AmIch for All tho
(Johnn CorreNpomlence.
In the senate Tuesday, Mr. Morgan
offered a resolution calling for further
Cuban information and especially for
letters written public officials by Gen.
Gomez. Mr. Allen made a speech on
the constitutionality of a tariff for pro¬
tection. At 2 p. m. tho executive ses¬
sion on the-arbitration treaty was re¬
sumed.
The house had a warm discussion
over tho subject of free hides, tho
Texas members, Bell (Pop.), of Colo¬
rado, and Hepburn (Bop.), of Town,
all urging a duty on hides for tbo ben¬
efit of tlio cattle raisers and attacking
the bill on this point as made up for
the bonefit of eastern manufacturers.
LUIZ SENTENCED TO JAIL.
Filibuster tloos Up for Might Mouths
Without Hall.
Dr. Joseph J. Luiz, who was found
guilty in tlio United States district
court of expedition conspiracy, against and sending friendly an
armed a
nation, was sentenced to eighteen
months in the Baltimore jail and to
pay a fine of §500.
Counsel for Luiz argued for two
hours for a re-trial, this being flatly
refused b^.fudge Morris, they devoted
tlieir attention to an effort to have tho
judge suspend sentence and admit tlio
Cuban patriot to bail pending an ap¬
peal to tlio supremo court, but all to
no purpose.
PHOSPHATE ROYALTY REDUCED.
Kontli Carolina's Special Comnilkv l-
Take* Favorable Action. \
The South Carolina state pliosphato
special commission 4 iimoiuices that it
has, using power conferred by the leg¬
islature, reduced tho royalty to 25
cents a ton.
Tho commission found the cost of
production greater than the price.
Tho royally was formerly one dollar,
then fifty cents. Tlio royalty this year
will not bo $50,009.
