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About The Morgan monitor. (Morgan, Ga.) 1896-???? | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1897)
The Morgan Monitor. VOL. II. NO. 16 $1 PER YEAR. *TIS YOU* The woft J is waiting for somebody, Waiting and watching to-day, Somebody to lift and strengthen, Somebody to shield and stay. Do you thoughtlessly question, “Who?” ’Tis you, my friend; ’tis you! The world is waiting for somebody, Somebody brave and strong, With a helping hand and a generous heart. With a gift of deed or song. Do you doubtfully question, “Who?” ’Tis you, my friend; ’tis you! The world is waiting for somebody. The sad world, bleak and cold, Where wan-faced ch.ldren are watching For hope iu the eyes of the old. Do you wond’ringly question, “Who?” ’Tis you, my friend; ’tis you! The world is waiting for somebody, And has been, years on years, Somebody to soften its sorrow, Somebody to hee 1 its tears. Then doubting question no longer, “Who?’ For, oh, my friend, ’tis you! The world is waiting for somebody, A deed of love to do, Then up and hasten, everybody, For everybody is you! For everybody is you, my friend, For everybody is you! —Ida Iddings G tie. RIGHTED, AVO years A, after my father’s death m y ij mother died. The A i \ long, wast¬ ing disease took an acute form, and after three months of painful ill¬ ness she left me to join my father. My uncle came to me at once, and took me home. We had a funeral from the large house, and then I folded my hands and prayed to die. There was nothing for me now, I said, in my wicked repining; other hands could distribute my money among the poor, and I could die and meet all I loved in heaven. No words can des¬ cribe the bitterness of those days. The old sorrow had been comforted and soothed by the tender love that I bad lost now. My mother, my lifelong companion, was gone, and I was alone in the world. Uncle Stanhope was very kind, Lizzie and May affectionato, Harry sympathizing; but they all had their own interests and duties, while 1 stood alone. Lizzie was going to be married, and had her trousseau to arrange, her lover’s visits lo receive. Harry was preparing for a tour; May was deeply interested in the study of German; uncle had his-business to attend to, and the interests of three children at heart. 1, only, was ftlone. Judge, Mrs. then, of my deep gratitude when Hall wrote to invite me to make my home with her. She was very feeble, and needed a daughter’s love; would l lake her in my dead mother’s place, and let her love aud comfort me? Uncle grumbled a little, but let me go. “Remember,” he said, “Agnes, this is only for along visit. Milford can¬ not spare you always, and this must be your home. Promise me to think of my house- ns your home. And, Aggie, when you are able to bear gayety, you will come to the New Year’s party? Lizzie will come home, them; May, loo, if she marries. Let it be a family reunion for the future. You will come?” I promised nil his kind love de¬ manded, and then went to New York. My welcomo there was a loving, cordial one, but I found a new mem¬ ber in thequitt family. « f My niece, Martha Hall,” said the old lady, after greeting me; and a tall figure rose up from a corner and said : “Good evening,” and then sat clown again. I did not get a good look at her un¬ til the next morning, when she burst into my room. Then 1 saw a blonde, tall, fair aud gloriously beautiful, dressed in an eccentric way that my experience did not recognize os “fast.” “Good morning,” she snid, ab¬ ruptly. “How do you like it?” “Like what?” was my astonished inquiry. i ( Why, this slow, stupid place. Oh, I forgot, you are in mourning, so you can bear it. I suppose I am iu mourn¬ ing, too, or ougfit to be, but I won’t wear black. AVhat’s the use? I never saw papa for eleven years. AVent oft, you know, to Russia, and left me at boarding school, and there died aud bequeathed me to aunt and GeralJ. I’ve plenty of money somewhere, they eay, and next year, being of age, I mean to use it, aud be gay. Till then I’ve got lo vegetate here. Oh, mercy, I did hope when I heard there was a young lady coming there would be some life, but you look as slow as the rost.” “I have just lost my mother,” I sni‘1. "Dear me! have yon? That is bad. Mine died when I was ushered info this world, so I can’t bo expected to feel much about it, being probably more concerned about ’here wo go up, np,’ ‘liltlo Jack Horner,’ and literature of that description for somo time afterward. By the way, what do you think of Gerald? He’s to be my husband, you know.” "fio, I had not heard.” don’t •’Bless j on, yes ; and if ho die on account of it, it’s a mercy. The old folks arranged it all. Papa wrote to auntie, au l I’m to stay here till I am , of age, and then marry Sir Prim. If he were not so awfully solemn 1 might endure it, but the one ruling desire of my life is to see him turn a romersault, vault over a chair, or do something else equally absuyd.” “I am afraid you will never be grati¬ fied.” “No, I suppose not, especially since you are here to keep him in counten¬ ance. haps I Perhaps I’ll marry him, per¬ eha’n’t. Is the blue thing be¬ coming?” she said, abruptly, walking to the glass to see the jaunty little jacket indicated. “I like red, but I can’t wear even pink without looking like a Dutch milkmaid. You could, now, with all that splendid black hair. Where on earth did you get your com¬ plexion, with black hair and eyes? You’re as fair as I am, though you have no color. Bnt what a littlo.thiug you are. I could carry you in iny arms like a baby.” “I was always small,” I said, scarce¬ ly knowing how to answer her. “Well, I didn’t suppose you had grown smaller at your age. Heigh-ho ! Shall we always stagnate this way?” and she sat down and began to nurse her own foot. 1 looked at her in perfect wonder. In my quiet life, in our owu little towu, I had never met with a speci¬ men of the fast young lady, and this beautiful, vehement creature puzzled me amazingly. All her hair was worn in a little crop of short curls, wonder¬ fully becoming; her fair complexion was tinged with glowing oolor, and her tall figure was perfect iu all its proportions; the little bands nursing the pretty foot were small,and yet full of nervous activity. “You’ll read to auntie, now, won’t you?” she said, “and I can practice more. The only comfort I have is making that piano ring.” “I will read to her,” I said. “Well, go then—it’s her hour—I say—” and then she hesitated. “Kiss me! I am not half suoh a heathen as I look, aud your faco is as pure and perfect as a Madonna’s. You must not hate me. I am not half so bad any- whero else, but I am half stiflod in this horribly dull place.” “I kissel her at once. “You can oorne here,” I said, “and talk, if it does you any good. I sup¬ pose it is rather sad for a young eirl full of life.” “Anybody would think you were eighty at the least,” was the reply; aud then she darted off, and iu a few moments the great house resounded with music. I oevor heard such a voice, even in a concert room. A pure, clear soprano, yet with the deeper notes marvelously perfect. She played brilliantly and sang ex¬ quisitely. How can I describe the life that opened for me? All the morning I spent with Mrs. Hall, readiug, and having, by her taste and desire, open to me the real treasures of literature, a complete course of the best authors. We read history, poetry, liotion; we wandered over the old authors; we dipped into newer works; wo thor¬ oughly enjoyed the hours. What was really a keen pleasure for her, was a never-ending delight for me. The afternoons were devoted to walking, readiug or driving. Martha, or Mattie, as she preferred to be called, rode splendidlj', and l attended a riding school, and soon be¬ came sulliciently accustomed to the exerciso to join her and Gerald iu their long rides. Our evenings were spent in music, or else quietly in Mrs. Hall’s room, for Mattie soon formed a circle of friends, aud plunged into the vortex of New York society. A rela¬ tion of her mother—Mrs. Mnrsfleld— one of the votaries of fashion, under¬ took to chaperone the brilliant beauty, and Gerald was often released from attendance upon her, and joined his mother aud myself in our quiet witting room. I learned to accompany him ns he played the violin, and to blend my voice with his duets, and if we could not translate melody as brilliantly as .Matti<r, we, at least, enjoyed our music ns fully. I would like to pause boro, aud leave the rest untold, and yet—well, you will guess it. I who knew that the cousins wero engaged, knew that Gerald was willing to marry Mattie, and considered himself bound to her ; f, who was there because I was con¬ sidered true to my first love; I, a double traitor to past and present- loved Gerald Hall. I did not know my own heart for many long months. It was a dear brother’s love I received, a tender sister’s affection I gave, 1 said to my heart; and so unconsciously 1 left his image grow to my soul, till I could not tear it away. Charles faded away, and a face, his—and not his—took his place. Thu merry, sunny laugh was never so dear as was now the grave, tender smile. More than a year had gone by, and December chill was in the air when Mattie came to my room one morn¬ ing, with unwonted clouds on her fair face. “Here’s a confusion” said she, taking me as usual into her confi¬ dence. “Auntie reminds me this morning that next week I shall bo of age, and you know all about Gerald and me. I think myself he’s in love with you I Gracious, don’t jump that way, Agnes. Of course, I don’t sup¬ pose yon care for him, yon quiet mouse; for you are infinitely too proper to love auother woman’s fiance, and then there was that won- derful Charles. But he is fond of you. If it wero not for auntie, now; but you see she’s set her heart on the match. Well, there’ll be ono suicide, for Guy Howard will hang himself 1” “Guy Howard?” “You don’t know him, Mrs, Mars- field’s nephew; a man after mylieart, with some spirit. AVel), never mind him!” But she did mind him I saw for she sat quiet for some moments. “We’ll have to submit,” she snid, nt last. “It is a mercy yoii don’t care for Gerald, for it’s all arranged now. You’ll come to the wedding, I pose, and please wear white, for I am superstitious about colors at a wed- ding.” And she went off, leaving mo in a POPULATION" AMD DRAIWTAOB. MORGAN, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 30. 1897. strange turmoil of pain and irresolu¬ tion. I could not stay ! I loved him ! Not with the girlish love I had given Charles, but with a woman’s whole heart. I loved him ! I could not stay to see him married, and married, too, to a woman who loved him not. Some wild scheme of warning him of Mat- tie’s feelings rushed through my brain, but I discarded it, and resolved to go away. I would go somewbero and hide myself and my new sorrow irom all eyes. Then I thought of my uncle. Only two days more and ho would wel¬ come his guests to a New Year’s party again. I had met Charles there; 1 had first seen Gerald on that anniversary; I would go, nad live one night iu memory of happier days, and then— then—well, the future would decide. So I went to Mrs. Hall and told her I was going to Milford. “You will return soon?” she said, wistfully. “You will be alone,” I said, “when Gerald takes his wife for a wedding tour. Then I will return. ” She held my hand a moment, look¬ ing into my face with a 'oving plead¬ ing gaze that nearly unnerved me. “Yes,” sho said, “I will bo alone. It was her father’s will, yon know, aud I would like to see Gerald happy.” I kissed her for answer. It was not well to talk about it, aud then I bade her farewell. I felt that-1 could not meet Gerald again. My uncle’s welcomo was cordial— nay, more, it was very loving. He was glad that I remembered his pet anniversary, and I promised to lay aside my mourning for that evening, and try to forget sorrow for the time. Lizzie was home with her handsome husband by her side; May was en¬ gaged, and had another new face to present to me; Harry was back again from his tour, and uncle was in his element. The evening was clear and cold, pleasant as a winter’s evening could be. Early hours were kept at Milford, and tho rooms were well filled by the time that Mattie would have been dressing her hair, I wore a white silk dress, aud Lizzie had twisted Some jasmin sprays in my hair. The dancers were all in motion, everybody goy and full of life, when 1 stole out into the library for a mo¬ ment’s repose. It seemed as if my heart would break. Tho rush of memory and present pain was so keen, so bitter, that I could scarcely keep from crying. So, standing by the window, press¬ ing my hot forehead on the cold glai*, 1 tried to still my anguish aud main¬ tain tho composure necessary for the evening. AVliile I stood there a step crossed the room. It was my uncle or Harry I said, and did not stir till I was drawn into a close embrace, and the voice I loved best spoke : “Agues, my darling, my love.” “Let me go!” I cried. He loosened bis hold at once. “Ob, Agnes, do you not love mo?” “Where is Mattie? How can you come here?” I said. “Mattie! Agnes, do you think 1 care for Mattie?” “But your mother?” I said. “My mother would not see me an unloving aud unloved bridegroom. Wo have had our explanations, Agne*. Alai tie is engaged to Guy Howard, and I have come to seek my wife here. Is she hern Agnes?” “I don’t know; shall I inquire?” I said, saucy for the first time, in the flood of happiness. And then I nestled into his arms, and let him tell mo his love, while he read mine, I am sure, iu my face. But this was not all. Uncle Stan¬ hope came in, Lizzie was called, a long pause followed, and in a sort of blissful dream I found myself under Lizzie’s long, lace wedding-veil,staud- iug by Gerald, the old clergyman of Milford facing us, all my old friends and neighbors surrounding us; aud Undo Stanhope’s party was trans¬ formed into my wedding breakfast. A AYntCii That lYiutN Ilself. The latest novelty in tho lino ot time-keepers will appeal to lazy and forgetful people. It consists of a watch which does not require any winding. All that is necessary for its owner to do, in order to have tho tiros with him always, is to walk half a mile a day. The wateh does the rest. These novel watches are got out in several varieties of oases, somo ex¬ tremely ornamental but the kind most commonly seen iu Chicago is made with a plain black case and an open face. The winding mechanism con- gists of an ingenious contrivance by which a small weight is raised and lowered from tho jar of walking. The motion of the weight works a small ratchet arrangement, which winds the spring to its full tension, and then is automatically held until more wini»g is needed. A course of shaking up aud down for a few minutes will an¬ swer tho same pnrposo as a stroll afoot, while all tho jolts and j irs of ordinary existence are likewise made useful as a means of winding.—Chi¬ cago Tribune. F.iimh Un lar (Hiss, A popular lecturer, in estimating the number of people who would iu- habit this globe a thousand years hence, was asked by one in the audi- euco how suoh a vast multitude could be fed. Iu reply to this question ho is quoted as saying: t < tv a know not what discoveries may be made to ren- dor the earth more fertile, or to iu- crease its productive power, but long before that time enough of the sands of Cape Cod and New Jersey may bo converted into glass to place a roof over the lands devoted to growing crops, and beneath its shelter the former, iu a climate of perpetual sum- j mer, may grow his crops in continuous j succession, and with tho waters of the | deep springs and the lakes under his coutroi, may he free from dangers of j floods and drouth ns well as from tho frosts and snows.”—San Franc isco Ex- | aiiiiuer. BILL ARP’S WEEKLY LEIIER. PHILOSOPHER TALKS OF OLD TIME POSTAL CHARGES. HE IS BESEIGED WITH QUESTIONS. v.-. Correspondence "With Old Friends a Croat Pleasure to the Sage of Bartow, There is perhaps no invention or contrivance that has brought more comfort to mankind than that of let¬ ters and their easy transmission by modern postal service. How wonder¬ fully cheap they are and how swiftly they come and go! Only 2 cents to the utmost limit of the United States, say 4,000 miles, and only 5 cents to bo carried across the ocean. It takes only 2 cents to carry a letter to the City of Mexico, but it tab.es 5 cents to bring one back. My besides wife says that it is hard on Carl, for bis weekly letter to us, he has many friends, and the girl lie left behind him, and his postage is quite a tax. She thinks I ought to write to President Diaz and Mr. McKinley and demand reciprocity, just for Carl’s sake, but I compromised with her by promising to inclose a dime in every letter I wroto to the boy. In almost every mail that comes she is on the lookout for a letter from some of the absent ones, and when she gets one she rends it two or. three times aud files it away on her side of the room. The morning and the evening mail has become as important an event in the routine of our daily life as our daily meals. It is an event that has grown on us and become indispensable. Time was when neither she nor I received a letter a month, for she I ad no lover but me, and I bad none but her and our postal system was a darkey boy. It was like that of Zeb Vance, who received n note from some fashionablo woman in Washington with the myste¬ rious letters, “R. S.V. P.” endorsed on it, and when he answered, iti he put on one corner “S. B. A. N.,” just to keep up with society, he said. When she afterwards asked for an explanation ho smiled and said; “Oh, they stood for ‘Bent by a nigger.’ ” I remember when the postage had to be paid at the last end of the line by the person who received it, and it was 23 cents if it came 500 miles. If less than that, lmt from out the state, it was 18;* cents, and if within the state, it was 12* cents. We had no decimal currency then, but we had the seven pence (12J cents) and the thrip (6} cents) and they were worn to the quick from constant use. Nothing told their value except their size. We received the great United States mail twice a week and the tootiug of the stage dri¬ ver’s horn as he rose to the brow of the distant hill aroused all the people of the little village, and most of them gathered at the postofflee to hear the news. Perhaps there were as many as twenty weekly papers taken in the town, but none of them made mention of murders or suicides or lyncliings or elopements or baseball or football or bicycle races or the fashions or re¬ wards for guessing or advertisements of celery compound or photographs of men or women or babies or the arrival of anybody less than a president or a governor. But in our stato papers there were some little pictures or cuts of hasty departures—runaways—aud all were uniformly advertised: “Ran away from the subscriber, my boy Dick, etc., and I will give $10 reward for bis apprehension.” But now the letters—all, the letters that come every day! Besides the family letters from kith and kin, there are scores from good people who are working for church or charily, or want information about Florida or Mexico. Very often am I comforted with com¬ pliments which I love to receive, and very often I get a good, long letter from somo old-time Georgian who for half a century has been living in Texas or Arkansas, or somewhere in the great west. It pleases me to rt ply to all and make the best answer that I can. But perhaps I had better say just here that I have long since ceased to write compositions for the school girls or to assist the boys in their debating societies. I wish sin¬ cerely that I bad time to help them , but I have not. I know how it is, for I used to get help myself. But some of these letters are amus¬ ing. One received a few days ago is very urgent to have my opinion upon the propriety or impropriety of r Chris¬ tian man digging a storm pit and get¬ ting in it when the cyclone gives its warning. Is it sinful or not to show such lack of faith in God? He says they are making a church question of it in his community. I have had sev- era! letters asking for assistance in guessing the missing word that The Constitution offers a thousand dollars for. These letters, of course, aro con¬ fidential, and some beg me m > to mention it even to Mrs. Arp. But the delicious humor in one of them is flic offer to give me half the reward if J will disclose to her tho word. That like the fellow _ who s very generous would furnish told the boy that if he his own hooks anil lines and bait he would give him half tho fish he caught. Since ray last letter about how to raise children was published I have had several very comforting epistles from friends and some from strangers. Bev. William II. Strickland makes mention of several families from old Gwinnett whose children are all grown and are esteemed by all who know them as good people - Honest, law- abiding and temperate. He names the three sons and five daughters of my eight old children friend Jim Dunlffy. Also the of Rev. D. if. Moncrief, one of whom now lives in Atlanta, and has five sons and five daughters, all grown up and all good men and wo¬ men. John and Mary B. Sammons, his wife, had thirteen to grow to ma¬ turity and they were all goq How rich these parents were I—richer than Vanderbilt or Astor. And so were the children of D. \Y. Spence and Wash Allen. One had eight, and the other ten. Well, now, one of ihe reasons is that all of those families came from old Gwinnett, and most of the children were from that old Sammons stock that lived on Alcovy creek when I was a boy. The first couple 1 ever saw married outside of my father’s house was Jim Dunlap and Rebecca Sam¬ mons, and Jim outmarried himself when be got her. That was an old- fashioned, country wedding, and it was a big one. They had turkeys and roast pigs and pound cake amazing, and they had thousand-dollar candle¬ sticks all about, for every likely negro boy had a torch. But my wife and I left there forty-six years ago, and did not know that these good people had had so many children. May all such be perpetuated. And I have a good letter from Buena Vista, telling of old Dr. Beese, who has raised seven boys and two girls, and they are all good, sober, industrious, Christian children, and had a gentle, kind, loving, Chris¬ tian mother, who is now among the angels. That is it, after all—the mother—the mother—the gentle,kind, loving, Christian mother. So I am encouraged to recall my ap¬ prehension concerning the black sheep being iu all large Hocks of children. — Bum Arc in Atlanta Constitution. CHARGED AVITH BRIBERY. Minneapolis Grand Jury After Municipal Officers. Results of the new grand jury’s in¬ vestigation of municipal scandals at Minneapolis were made apparent Fri¬ day when Alderman C. E. Dickinson, of the Twelfth ward, was arraigned on an indictment charging him with agreeing to accept a $500 bribe from the Penny Press company iu connec¬ tion with the city printing contract. Henry F. Brown, a well-known cit¬ izen 'and politician, was arrested on an idictment charging that he illegally secured $7,500 belonging to the city from ex-City Treasurer A. 0. Haugan, who is also under indictment. Ilaugau lot Brown have the money. TO ASSASSINATE HUMBERT. llespomlent Iron Worker Tries to Stab Italy’s Kuler. At Rome, Thursday afternoon,while King Humbert was seated in his car¬ riage on his way to the races, a man named Pietro Acciarito, an iron worker out of employment, attempted to stab hi; majesty with a dagger. The king avoided the danger by rising from his Beat. Acciarito was immediately arrested. King Humbert treated the matter lightly aud remarked: “It is only one of the little incidents of my trade.” AYATERS RECEDING SLOWLY. Ilrcalc at Hell a Has IniimlalcU 75,000 Acres of Fine Vanning laimis. A special of Friday from Memphis statos that no new crevasses have ap¬ peared in the levees, but the current of Ihe river is still beating against the southern embankments with a fury that causes the gravest apprehension. Tho break at Delta has inundated 75,000 acres of the finest plantations' in southern Louisiana, and the water continues to pour through the opening and is rapidly spreading over a greater area. BIG TRUST QUITS BUSINESS. The Sash, Door anil I'lind Combine Ceases Operations. Twenty-four members of the Na¬ tional Manufacturing company, com¬ monly known as the sash, door and blind trust, held a meeting in Oshkosh, AVis., for the purpose of disbanding and adjourning sine die. The author¬ ities have restricted the operations of the organization to such an extent that it was decided to discontinue op¬ erations. HUNTER GIVES UR. Goes Away Without- nictating an to Ills JSueocBSor. A Frankfort, Ky.,' dispatch says: Dr. Hunter finished writing his communication to tho caucus called at his request and then left with his wife on the Chesapeake ami Ohio train for AVashington. He came out boldly for Debos and ho had got all his friends at work for him, but the latter and his friends were evidently worried that tho doctor should have gone away beforo he had dictated his suc¬ cessor. Russia Will Intervene. The Paris Journal’s, correspondent at Odessa telegraphs that all tho nec¬ essary measures have been taken at Sebastopol for tho eventual interven¬ tion of Russia in tho war between Turkey and Greece. Assassin Confesses. Joseph E. Kelly, the murderer of J. A. Stickney, the aged cashier of the Great Falls National bank, at Soiners- worth, N. II., has been captured and Las made a full confession. To Break Up Intrigues. A London cable dispatch says: It is learned that the visit of a squadron of eight warships to Delagoa bay was in¬ tended to frustrate the intrigues of Germany, Portugal and Transvaal, to change the status quo to the disad¬ vantage of Great Britain. Colonel John Mushy Hurt, Colonel John S. Mosby was thrown from a buggy at the University Friday of Vir¬ ginia, at Richmond, afternoon and received a serious cut about the eye. T. P. GREEN, MANAGER. THROUGH GEORGIA. The annual examination of appli¬ cants for teachers’ license will be held in each county of the state on May 29th. The southern branch of the Na¬ tional Association of Plumbers of America met in convention at Atlanta last Monday. Delegates wore present from Macon, Augusta, Savannah, Mil- ledgeville and other southern cities. The annual session of the Georgia Teachers’ association will be held at Warm Springs this year, and will be¬ gin on June 26th, ending on June 30th. An unusually li.rge attendance is ex¬ pected. * , * The County School Commissioners’ Association of Georgia will convene nt Hawkinsvillo on May 4th for a two days’ session. In addition to the com¬ missioners, members of boards of edu¬ cation of a number of counties of the state will be in attendance. Mr. Cornelius R. Hanleiter, one of Atlanta’s oldest citizens, and well- known throughout the state as a vet¬ eran printer, publisher and writer, died last Monday morning at the mature age of 82. Mr. Hanleiter had been iu failing health for some time past, and his death was not unexpected. Judge Speer has granted an order confirming the sale of the Cuyler and AVoodburn railroad and allowing J. D. Harrell $2,000 compensation as receiv¬ er of the road; also an order allowing Barrow A Osborn $1,500 and Marion Erwin $1,000 as counsel for complain¬ ants and receiver, respectively. The jolliest men iu Goorgia, and the most genial, wU’ meet in Atlanta in animal convention Friday and Satur¬ day. They are the commercial trav¬ elers, and their annual convention will be one of the largest that Atlanta has entertained in some time. For months past the local members of the associa¬ tion have been hard at work prepar¬ ing for the entertainment of tho visi¬ tors. The exposition building and fire en¬ gine house at Fitzgerald were burned u few days ago. The loss is $5,600 with no insurance. The fire is sup¬ posed to have been of incendiary origin. The exposition building was a large structure in which the corn and cotton exhibit was held last year. The fire department building, which adjoined yie exposition building, was also burned. The engines were saved. The program lias about been oom¬ ph tod for tho fifth annual Ocmulgeo Chautauqua, villo which opens at Hawkins¬ April 29th, closing May will 8th, and contains attractions that fully re¬ pay visitors from any part of the state who may attend. The objects and aims of this gathering are certainly Commendable and should endear it to Ihe heart of every educator through¬ out the state. The eighth annual congress or con¬ vention of tho Christian Laymen AVorkers’ Association will convene in AVaycross Friday, May 7tli, and will in session until Sunday night following. This organization has an interesting history. It is about twelve years old and its memberhip has grown from a mere handful to hun¬ dreds and perhaps thousands. These people arc, as a rule, plain and unpre¬ tentious, but faithful and true follow¬ ers of the meek and lowly Nazarene. The Merchants’ bank of Atlanta, is ready to pay another 10 per cent to creditors. The first payment was paid several weeks ago and the second pay¬ ment, as per the agreement reached by the receivers, falls due on May 1st. The money lias been collected and is now in the vaults of the bank ready to be paid out upon the presentation of the receiver’s certificate for tho sec¬ ond 10 per cent. This payment which is now almost due will put into circu¬ lation between $30,000 and $49,000, aud w ill bring the indebtedness of the institution down to 30 per cent less than it was on the day that the doors were closed to business. Ground has just been broken for the new dormitory of the Georgia School of Technology. This magnificent building will bo known as the Knowles dormitory in honor of the winning fight Mr. Clarence Knowles, of Fulton, put up in the legislature to obtain an appropriation dormitory for its erection. The will be of brick and will be three stories in height. It will con tain thirty-six rooms to ho used by the students who attend tho school and besides that there will be parlors ain't reception rooms and apartments for a matron. In the basement (lie cooking apparatus will be located and here the meals will be prepared. The mess hall will also be iu the basement. Two of the most important appoint¬ ments made by President McKinley in Georgia were in tho selection of dis¬ trict attorneys for the Northern and Southern districts of the federal court. Mr. Ed. A. Angier, the Atlanta attor¬ ney, was selected by the new adminis¬ tration out of a large number of ap¬ plicants for the position. Mr. Angier will no doubt ably fill the position of attorney in the Northern district and the appointment lias given general satisfaction. The appointment of Mr. Marion Erwin, of Macon, In* met with ilie hearty indorsement of the party in his section of tho state. Mr. Erwin has been a loyal supporter of the party, and he will enter upon tho discharge of his duties under most auspicious circumstances. PRESIDENT NAMES DAY ASSIST. ANT SECRETARY OF STATE, WHILE STOVER GOES TO BELGIUM', Two Appointments That XVero Unexpected. House Proceedings—Scruggs Is Coming Home. Two genuine surprises were given out to the office seeking contingent at Washington Friday, Neither had been hinted at, though now the guess- ers are all wondering why. The first of these is the appointment of Judge AV. R. Day, of Canton, O., ns first assistant secretary of state. Judge Day is the president’s dost! friend and confidential adviser. Bellamy Storer is taken care of lw being sent as minister to Belgium; a nice berth, but not the one he wanted. These nominations were determined upon aud announced at the white house Friday morning. The announce¬ ment has created a good deal of com¬ ment. House Proceedings. The desk of the late Judge Holman Friday was covered with a black pall of mourning, upon which were strewn lilies of the valley and hyacinths. The blind chaplain in his prayer referred feelingly to the loss the house and the country had sustained in his death. Mr. Bland offered the resolution which he attempted to oiler last week relative to the suits to foreclose the first mortgage on the Union Pacific railroad, calling on the attorney gen¬ eral for information as to what stepa had been taken to protect the interests of the government so modified as to strike out the clause directing the speaker to appoint immediately the committee on Pacific railroads. The house adopted a resolution for the appointment of a committee of twenty-five members, of which the speaker is chairman, to attend the. Grant tomb exercises Tuesday. The house also agreed to take tlireo-day adjournments during the week with the understanding that no business would be transacted. Republican Caucus. The republican senators in caucus have decided to accept the proposith n made by the opposition for tho filing of the senate committees, leaving the arrangement of ihe details to Sena¬ tor McMillan’s committee on com¬ mittees. “he caucus also considered the question of tilling the relative of¬ fices of the senate, and the managing committee was authorized lo negotiate 1 with the opposition to the end of se¬ curing a division of these places, Colonel ScvtiKgs Coming Home. The state department lias been in¬ formed that Colonel AV. L. Scruggs, the agent for A r cneznela in tlto boun¬ dary negotiations, is on his way hack from Venezuela and brings with him the engrossed copy of the treaty be¬ tween Great Britain and Venezuela, which the Venezuelan congress has ratified. I)EHOE IS RUT UR. Tho Candidate fcolootod to Take Iiuntov'fl Place. As there was no quorum in the Ken¬ tucky joint legislative session Friday tho balloting was merely a formality. The first ballot proceeded and hod no significant changes (ill the name of Rev. Mr. Grider was reached. Ho changed from Bennett to Deboe. There were no other significant changes though the anti-Poboe people scatter¬ ed to a field of new men. The ballot stood: Deboe, 31; Holt, 16, F,vans,3; Lewis, 6; Bonnot, 4; scattering 9; necessary to U choice, 36. The adjourned republican joint leg¬ islative caucus met again Friday night to attempt the nomination of Dr. Hun¬ ter’s successor, and Deboe was named on the 28tli ballot. The only ab¬ sentees at the opening were Deboe and Bennett, the candidates paired. TURKISH CONSUL BEFORE COURT. Kastern AmlmssJulor at lloslon Charged With Kmbezzlinjr *135,000. Joseph Andrew Iasiagi, the Turkish consul to the port of Boston, Mass., was arraigned in the superior court in • that city Friday charged with embez¬ zling from Pierre Charles Pevieu and Charles A. A. B. Do laVilladere. He pleaded not guilty and was released on $2,000 bail TAX RATE WAS WRONG. Sections of Norlli Carol I mi’s Itovenue Act Unconstitutional. The North Carolina supreme court was filed a very important opinion in a novel ease. The constitution requires that the poll tax shall be thrice tho property tax. but by carelessness tho late legislature made tho rate of poll tax $2,29 and property tax 46 cents. The governor sought to compel tho auditor to make tho poll tax $1.38, which was the legislative intent. Tho supreme court decides that both the poll tax and general tax sections of the revenue act aro unconstitutional and void, thus leaving in effect the revenue act of 1895, which makes poll tax $1.29 and general tax 43 cents. SENSATIONAL ELECTION BET. Supremo Court Will Deem© Novel B«t Between Evans nntl Ellerbo. A Columbia, S. C., special says: The supreme court will have to sit in judgment on the Ellerbe-Evans’ elec¬ tion bet before Sallie will be returned to Governor Ellerbe’s stnbles. Evans lias appealed. He has . re¬ tained as additional counsel General LeBoy Youinans, ex-United States at¬ torney and former attorney general.
