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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.