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The Morgan Monitor.
VOL. II. NO. OO. Ov> #1 PER YEAR.
THE DREAMER.
Timo said: “In this—life's garden,
Dream you a merry day/’
And so I dreamed while morning streamed
Over the lulls away.
Over,tho Where golden hills
the land of promiso lay;
And I heard the chime of the hells of Time
Over the hills away:
“D ream s—dreams—dreams!
A little of right and wrong;
Laughter and sighs and weeping eyes,
And Silence after the song.
Silence after the song—
Silence lone and long!
Stormy skies or starry beams—
D reams —dreams—dreams!”
Ben Winslow’s House:.
i ' BELIEVE time build lias that come house,” the to
said young Mr.
=-~/ Winslow to his
m wife. if we’re “That ever go¬ is,
t ing to build it.”
If “Of course we’re
u y answered man going Winslow, sureness who to build of with knows a M it,” wo¬ r t-ho s.
whatever she de-
sires must come to her.
The Winslows had been married two
years, and from the beginning—and
time for them began when they met-
each other at school and were children
—lovers—they homo of had decided to have a
their own some day. This
decision had not been out of their
minds a day in all that time.
One of Mrs. Winslow’s favorite
maxims was: “You are nobody in a
- rente-) house. ” This she supple¬
mented l.y such bits of worldly wisdom
as: • i Everyone respects a man who
buys a good home mime b>r his family, ’’and
“No woman can a real homo out
of a rented house.”
Carrie Winslow was something of a
beauty in her way. She had been the
prettiest girl in her class at the high
school, and had been graduated in
clouds qf frothy white skirts, sunbursts
of blushes ami smites and smothered
in roses. When she arose to deliver
her essay on “What Does the Future
Hold?” more of the lnalo portion of
the audience saw than heard her. And
Ben Winslow—well, Bon Winslow,
who saw her every day aud knew every
ripple of her lovely hair—literally
worshipped the air she breathed.
After her graduation she went East
to be polished at- a young ladies’ school,
and to play scales and learn French
and things, to afterward forget them.
Ben went to work, with Carrie’s proph¬
ecy that he would become one of the
groat men of the age. She was quite
positive of this; for had he not- already
shown masterly ability in having won
her love aud promise to marry him?
But,although she gave him her promise,
she refused to wear his ring, because
it wasn’t proper tor young women
away at boarding school to bo engaged
—and, anyway, hadn’t they been en-
gaged ever since she was ten aud he
fourteen years of age?
Ben Winslow had plenty of good
stuff in him and lie went to work like
a Trojan. He had a small position in
a wholesale house, and after working
hard all day, sat up half the night
thinking of the business aud how it
could be made profitable. Now, that
sort of tiling tells, whether a man be
the president of a bank or the digger
of ditches. His employers noted—
after awhile—that young Winslow had
ideas to give away; th’at he suggested
innovations that looked queer, because
no one had ever thought of them be¬
fore. And queerer still, when some of
his ideas were put in to execution they
were found so profitable, that Win¬
slow’s forerunners almost, lost caste be¬
cause they had not thought of them.
One day Carrie came home from the
school in the “East.” She was so
lovely that Ben lost liis heart upon be¬
holding her. Her year or two away
from homo had changed her from a
pretty girl into a lovely woman. And
Ben had, to lay at her feet a promo¬
tion that was substantial .and a future
that was promising.
Carrie “came out” and society ro-
joiced in her. Men made onslaughts
upon her heart, and these she cleverly
repulsed. But she gave Ben plenty to
think about. Ho saw all about him
men of better positions aud established
incomes, pay court to her.
Their engagement had not been an-
nounced and would not until the com¬
ing winter—providing every thing went
well. This spurred Ben into business
brilliancies that won him another pro¬
motion, and old fellows who lunched
long in tho middle of tho day and
read their names on letter heads aud
sign boards, looked at him in a specu¬
lative way aud predicted great things
for him. There is nothing like u little
uncertainty in love to goad a mau to
his best efforts.
At length Carrie accepted Ben’s
ring and their betrothal was an¬
nounced. Everyone declared him a
fortunate chap, and wondered where
bis luck would laud. His friends
said, as friends will: “Who would
, have thought that Ben Winslow would
turn out so well? Why, when I knew
him at school, he was nothing but a
big, good-natured boy with plenty of
freckles, but that big, firm under lip
of liis is responsible for it—and his
of coui-He. ”
When they were married society
sltwmsrL.gifts enough upon til! them until they
had to two houses, aud
?■ they hadu’t even one holism
“This won’t do,” said Carrie, laugh-
ing. “Where is the house of onr own
I we were to have?”
E “ ’M sure I don’t know,” answered
| Ben. “I’m not prepared to build the
And dreaming in life’s garden
There Upon a couch of May,
Over came the a blight from lands of Night
hills away.
Over tho misty hills;
And Time, in a mantle gray,
With shadowed eyes, ’noath ruined skies
Passed over the hills away.
PD reams—dreams—dreams!
A little of right and wrong;
Laughter and sighs and weeping eyes,
And Silence after tho song.
Silence after the song—
Silence lone and long!
lie it storm or starry beams—•
D reams—dream s—d rea ra s! ”
F. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
Carrie, “but I am beginning to think
that we can do much better next time.”
After dinner Ben picked up his
evening paper, and, after reading the
news, turned to the real estate adver¬
tising columns to see if he eonld find
something for sale that would be
likely to suit him. He had not read
far before he looked up.
“Here’s the very thing,” he said.
“My George, this is lucky.”
“What is it?” asked Carrie, lower¬
ing the magazine she had been read¬
ing.
“Listen to this. Some fellow wants
to sell a perfect gem of a house, and if
ho doesn’t want too much for it, I be¬
lieve we ought to take it. I’ll read it
aloud: ‘A gentleman has satisfactory
reasons for desiring to sell liis home.
The house contains twelve rooms, in
the most perfect arrangement-, and
decorated in the latest and best man¬
ner. Spacious parlors, dining-room,
with butler’s pantry; large hall, that
lends itself to much artistic furnish¬
ing, and smoking room on the first
Hoor. On the second floor a beautiful
hall, with southern window recesses;
chambers connecting with bath rooms,
a most comfortable and artistic den;
sewing-room and servants’ quarters.
Hard-wood finish, perfect heat and
ventilation, and grounds not to be
surpassed on the south side.’ Well,
if that won’t suit us, nothing will,
only it sounds a trifle grand.”
“Go and see them in the morning,
the first thing,” said Carrie, “before
some one elso gets it.”
“The chap that I have told to sell
this miserable place lias it for sale,
also, and I will speak of it when I
drop in to urge him to hurry this place
off our hands.”
In tbe morning Ben hurried to liis
agent. “Say, old man, he said.
“You've got the very thing I desire,
What’s the price and when can I take
sort of gilded cage you deserve. Bat
it will come all right.”
The day before Ben married the
“firm” called him into tho private
office. There it sat in awful con-
clave. The “firm” was composed of
the “old mau” and the junior partner,
who had been cashier once upon a
time and had been ‘ taken in” several
years ago.
“Ben,” said the “old man,’’looking
him in the eye, while tlie junioi part¬
ner smiled and lighted a .cigar. Ben
felt uneasy, “Ben, you’ve proved
yourself an exceptionally good business
mau . Your growth has been rapid,
and we’ve decided to give you the re¬
ward you’re entitled to. If everything
goes well we will offer you a partner¬
ship in the concern ono year from
now. will Now, no thanks. At that time
you collect the dividends you’ve
earned since you’ve been with us.”
Then tho “old man” and junior part¬
ner shook hands with Ben, and he
walked into the front office with the
picture of tho house floating in the
air before him. That very night Car¬
rie and he sat down to plan it, after
she had patted him on the back and
said, “I told you so,” which is a
woman’s privilege among others.
“I think we should have a colonial
house, painted white, with green
blinds, like the Stebbinses,” said (Jar-
rie.
“Oh, I don’t know,” said Ben. “Of
course, it’s pretty, and all that, but 1
believe that one of these French ren-
aissance houses would lie prettier and
odder. Or, even one with Dutch
gables and gargoyles aud things on
the i oof. ”
“Colonial is much more the thing,”
said Carrie. “With wainscoats
stained green, end lots of color on tho
walls and ceilings, and a den for you
with a slielf for steins and things. ”
“Why, that’s just like Stebbinses’,”
said Ben. “Let’s try something of
our own.”
And so they struggled until they
both thought that perhaps an archi¬
tect might have some ideas on the
subject that hadn’t occurred to
them. To an architect, therefore,
they went, and ho, proving a young
man who knew his business, managed
to satisfy them both. Ben bought
tract of land and tho house building
began.
One day the architect announced
that the bouse was ready for him, so
they packed their treasures and set
forth. As they approached the house
they stopped and looked upon it with
the fulness of happiness and pride. It
had all come about as they hail planned
when they were children, and just as
if some fairy godmother had waved her
wand instead of being the work of a
businesslike young architect and a
bank account.
Of course they had a house warming.
The praise their house wrung from
their guests tilled their cup aud when
the “old man” looked about and said
to Carrie, “That jailing man of yours
is one of the best business men in town
and is destined to great things,” her
eyes filled with tears aud her lip quiv¬
ered ever so slightly.
After that they settled down to en-
joy their possessions. In a month-or
POPULATION AND DHAINAG33.
MORGAN, GA„ FRIDAY. AUGUST 21. 1897.
two Robinson built a houseless than a
block away and copied their porch and
two of their most original rooms. Jones
stole the plan for the ground floor
arrangement when he built. Brown
took the upper hall and its window
seats and tho arrangement of tho
chambers and bath room. Smith took
the den and library bodily, Ben sat
down and wished ho had waited until
all the others had built before he had
touched a stick of timber.
“I don’t see why these fellows
couldn’t have done something original. ”
he complained. “I’m sick of this place
now. As a matter of fuct I never did
like it.
“Well, I have always liked it,” sai£
Carrie. ‘It suits me down to the
ground. But I confess I am getting
tired of seeing our porch every time I
pass the Robinson’s, and beholding
our parlors and dining room every
time I visit the Joneses.”
“I’ll tell you what we’ll do,” said
Ben, springing to bis feet. “We’ll
sell it and buy another house, now
that they’ve built theirs.
“That’s a perfectly splendid idea,”
exclaimed Carrie. “What a clever
boy it is.”
The following day Ben went to a
real estate agent, who had the reputa¬
tion of being able to sell anything
that was earthen, and told him to sell
the house in double quick time.
“What! that beautiful new house?”
exclaimed the agent. “Why, you
have not been in it more than five
months.”
“I don’t care for that,” answered
Bon. “You sell it in a hurry.” That
very day the agent put au advertise¬
ment in the paper, offering Ben’s
house for sale.
“Well, I told him to sell the house,”
said Ben, when ho got home that
night.
“I shall be sorry to lose it-,” said
possession?” and lio pointed to the
advertisement he had read to liis wife.
The agent looked at him thoughtfully
u moment and then said:
“Is it- possible? Well, I can’t sell
that house to you. Any other man,
now, might get it, but not you.”
“Why, xvhat’s tho matter with me?”
ifsked Ben, flushing.
“Why, it’s yours already. Don’t
you recognize tho description of your
own house?”
Ben read the advertisement again.
“Is that how my house strikes you?
I guess you’re right. No man can
buy that house, now, I’ve brought it
myself. No, - sir,” he added fiercely, house
“if any man wants to buy that
tell him it’s sold and kick him out.
Oh, Lord, how close I came to losing
it.”
When lie got home that ntglit lie
read the advertisement once more to
liis wife, and, looking around, said:
“So that’s this houso. I v.ote to stay
here as long as we can. ” And his
wife said:
“Why, you goose, I knew it was our
houso last night, when you read the
description of it and wanted to sell it
in such a hurry.”
A woman knows more about, a house
in a minute than most men ever learn.
—Kansas City Star.
Tho .Hindu Fakirs.
What the ascetics and tho monks,
the orders of modern and ancient
churches alike, ace to us the “fakirs”
are to the Hindu population. Given
any festival or any shrine of note, and
somewhere about you aro sure to come
upon them in force, singly and by
companions. In one city, sitting round
tho sacred “popul” tree, I counted
some twenty or thirty. Naked, hut
not ashamed, with their hair and
beards long and entangled, showing
by tho dust and dirt that cover them
their intense self-forgetfulness and
humilation, they are always ready to
attract your attention and beg your
alms. Never to take the eyes off a
single object of worship for years to¬
gether on a small barrow is no mean
feat-, but- to lean upon one’s arm until
it shrivels for want of use is an exam¬
ple of endurance and insensibility that
would lie admirable enough in another
form, and that would certainly have
moved the early Christians to a fervro
of admiration. Though not equal to
them, the Mussulmans can show fan¬
atics of a considerable strain of piety
on the same lines. In the famous Ali
Musjid, through tho Khaiber l’ass, I
saw, in the midst of an admiring crowd
of soldiers and tribesmen, a holy man
of exceptional celebrity. Tbe only
thing the “mulla” had on was a high,
sugar-loaf hut, made of leopard-skin,
which would bo an insufficient cover¬
ing in our treacherous climate, and
seemed uusuited to tho frontier cold.
He was evidently in a state of religious
exaltation, for he screamed and howled
continuously for days together. To
satisfy liis spiritual cravings the by¬
standers kept plying him with tobacco,
which be put in bis long pipe.—Lon¬
don Telegraph.
Unfortunate Love of Mutton.
Love of mutton has just proved
deadly to a bear in Williamsport, Penn.
Bruin cauglit sight of a butcher’s
wagon belonging to William Delong,
of Cammal. Ho followed tbe wagon
up, and presently caught sight of aleg
of mutton hanging on tho inside. The
rear door of tho wagon, which was
covered, was open, aud bruin calmly
raised himself into the vehicle and set
to work to devour the mutton. Pres¬
ently, however, ono of his great paWs
struck the lever that closes the door
of tho wagon, and in a second he was
u prisoner. Between the seat of the
driver of the wagon and the interior of
the vehicle is heavy glass. Tho bear
set to work to demolish this, and par¬
tially succeeded, for lie made a hole
big enough to stick liis head out. He
could get no further, and Delong suc-
ceederl in driving four'miles to Cam¬
mal. When tho destination was
reached the bear was shot. Ho'weighed
300 pounds.
The University of Berlin has 370
professors and instructors.
BOUNTIFUL CROPS MAKES BUG
TOW’S SAGE REJOICE
AND PROPHECY BETTER TIMES.
Polities and Politicians Have Nothing to
Do With lUessings That a
targe Harvest Brings.
“I don’t complain
When the Lord sends rain,
When the tanks in the sky run over;
For tho ruin you know
Makes the com to grow,
And gives a lift to the clover.”
But my humble friend, Cube, says
we've had 'bout enuf and be wants it
to stop right now. “We’ve had a
’buudance,” says Cobe, “and I’m
afeerd there won’t be any liubbins to
feed tho steers on this winter and no
seed Maters to plant next spring.”
Another one horse farmer says he is
afeerd he will make more cotton than
he can get picked out.
Was there ever such a bountiful
crop year? Wheat, corn, cotton, po¬
tatoes and fruit,! Mr. Roberts, who
farms on Pumpkin Vine creek, snys ho
feels sure of 1,000 bushels of* corn
from one field of ten acres- that, ho
can select ono or two acres that will
yield 120 bushels each, and there are
several square rode that will make h
bushel to llm rod. That Would make
1G0 bushels per acre, if every rod was
as good. Mr. Roberts is no brag. Be
is a conservative, truthful man and a
good farmer, Mr. Akermsiu made
twenty-two bushels of wheat to the
aero right in the suburbs of the town,
and lie has more beautiful fruit than
was ever grown here before. Our 111111'-
kot is running over with good things
—apples, poaches, pears, grapes and
melons. Country wagons drive to tho
residences every day loaded with deli¬
cious fruit and you can buy at your
own prices, for the supply is greater
than the demand. We luxuriate
on soft peaches and cream, which
is the next best tiling to
strawberries and cream, and we
buy fine large cantaloupes at a nickel
apiece. Old folks lose their relish for
meat, lmt they never get tired of fruit.
I was ruminating about tho kind¬
ness of Providence in arranging rtte
succession to suit onr health and ll l>-
petite. Strawberri , es, rasp I icrrien,
dewberries, buckteberriea, hfnckbcr*
l'ies, June apples, cherries and then
peaches and grapes, with melons
thrown in, ami before long tho town
will bo flooded with apples. Oh, the
jelly and jam and preserves that my
folks have put up, and tho sugar that
L lmvo had to pay for. Thank good¬
ness, I bought it before tho KcKinley
trust cornered the market, A clever
republican neighbor told me that,the
Almighty was smiling on the laud be¬
cause good men wore now in power,
and he quoted scripture which said
when the righteous are in power the
people rejoice.
“Yes,” said I, “the devil can quote
scripture to suit his purpose. David
understood the situation when ho
said: ‘I have seen the wicked in great
power, spreading himself like a green
hay tree, yet ho passed away, and lo
he was not.’ ”
I don’t think the Lord is paying
much attention to congress or the ad¬
ministration, but He does seem to
have pity on the people, aud is show¬
ering blessings upon them.
There was a esmpmeeting story
that old Allen Turner told when I was
a boy that I have not forgotten. He
was preaching about the perils of
riches and said there was a good old
darkey who had a kind but un-Chris¬
tian and skeptical master, and he tried
in his humble way to convert him, but
his master only laughed at him and
one day said to him: “Now, Undo
Jack, if the Lord is so wise and so
good and loves us all so much as you say,
what makes him let Jim Austin got so
rich and keep on buying more land
and more niggers and mules, when
you know that Jim Austin is the mean¬
est man in the county. He swindles
his neighbors and oppresses the poor.
He drinks and gambles and curses,
but everything he touches makes him
richer and richer. IIow do you ex¬
plain that?”
“Master! master!” said Uncle Jack,
“dat is all jes’ so and it’s becaus’ de
Lord don’t keer nothin’ about Jim
Austin, liis name ain’t on de book.
No, sir, de Lord ain’t payin’ no Men¬
tion to him at all and de dobil is
runnin’ him. No, master! I tell you
how it is. When de Lord take a likin’
to a man and got liis name on de book
lie don’t let him get fat and slick like
Jim Austin. Whom do Lord loveth
Ho cliastisoth, and (hit’s do reason
your ginhouse git burned up and your
Imggy mare die, and maybe flat’s why
Miss Juliann take sick away off at
school and come homo in de co/lin.
She was a blessed child, she was, and
seems to me dat, sometimes away in do
night 1 hear her callin’ you, Master,
old Jack don’t like to trouble you
about dose t’ings and he wouldent if
your name wasent on de book.”
Uncle Allen used to finish up the
story with the master’s conversion
and Jim Austin being killed.
Bettor times are coining sure
enough, but politics has nothing to
do with it. Politics dident give us
a great crop of wheat and a
short crop in Europf My friend
Kirkpatrick, of Atlanta, says these re¬
vulsions in trade and prosperity go by
cycles of seven years, and that our
cycle of distress and disaster has
about expired. He almost proves it
by reference to the past and toils how
the failure of Jay Gooke precipitated
tho panic of ’73, and our trouble last-
ed Seven years, and the failure of Bin
ing Brothers brought on tho next
panic and that lasted seven years,
But wheat and cotton are tilling the
farmers’ pockets with money and by
the time tills cotton crop is marketed
a iimv el*a of prosperity will be fairly
on us. Within tho last tree mouths
the mining business has revived in
our county and labor is- in demand;
nobody, neither white or black, is
going about begging for work in this
region. 1 havent seen a tramp in six
months. Tho gardens aro teeming
with vegetables and tho flowers arc
more beautiful and more abundant
than ever before, but McKinley didont
do it, nor the tariff*, nor his party. If
they won’t undo it is all we ask. Just
let things alone. They are determined
to humiliate the .south, but as long as
the Lord smiles on us we will be eon*
tent. - - Rill Arp in Atlanta Constitu¬
tion.
EN(OBRAGING OUTLOOK.
Mercantile Agencies licpovt (Jivvt Im¬
provement til Triule Comlitioim.
Bradstreet’s summary of business
conditions the past week says:
“Special telegrams from trade con
ters throughout the country emphasize
the growing prosperity of the farmer,
due to higher prices for almost nil ag¬
ricultural products still in his hands,
and principally to a continuation of
the demand which has boon c. nspic-
nous within the past few weeks. The
volume of trade continues to iiioroiisc
and prices are hardening, No such
volume of business, largely in anfcici
pation of requirements, has been re¬
ported since 1892. Larger transact ions
have been had in dry goods, clothing
and shoes with south and west in
wagons and farm implements,
“Another very favorable bank clear
ing report is found in the total of $1,
140,000,001) for the week, which,while
it is 1 per cent loss than last week, is
40 per cent larger than in the third
week of August, 1890; 20 per cent
heavier than in 1895; 44 per cord
larger than in 1891, and fully 55 per
cent larger than in tho like week of
1893, when clearings totals were re-
dueod to very low figures, compared
with tho like period in 1892, a your of
large volume of busine s, this week’s
total shows a gain of 13 per cent.
Among 80 of the cities reporting bank
clearings only 17 show decreases this
week compared with the correspond¬
ing period last year. Bank clearings
at other cities than New York are 17
per cent larger this week than in the
like week a year ago, but at New York
the increase is 50 per cent.
“Prices of staples continue Hie lav
rritl’h- rw,jv„.»,»"ii I ,I],,, ,,- j u yvsekS
with advances for wheat flour, wheat,
now pork, butter, eggs, cheese, corn
and oats. Hides are also firmer and
higher.
“Exports of wheat (flour include 1
ns wheat) from both coasts of United
States and Montreal this week are the
largest in any week since September
1, 1894, amounting to 5,218,00 ) bush¬
els this week, as compared 4,41)0,0 10
bushels last week. 3,991,00!) bushels
three years ago, and 4,960,000 bushels
in 1893.”
TO PENSION DESERTERS,
The Question Has I Seen Submitted to the
President and Secretary l.flsH,
A Washi"gton dispatch says: It is
not improbable that official announce¬
ment will ho made in a few weeks of a
radical change in the present attitude
of the pension bureau toward pension
claimants who had a confederate war
service.
Under tho present constructions of
tho laws, any service in the confeder¬
ate cause, irrespective of later service
for the government, is a bar to pon-
siou. Commissioner of Pensions Evans
believes that if a claimant served in
any capacity in the confederate service
but later deserted or left its ranks, en¬
listed in the Union army, served there
in and was honorably discharged, it
would be an injustice to refuse him a
pension. He believes that having per¬
formed honorable service in the union
army, the past hostile services lie
overlooked.
Assistant Secretary Webster Davis,
whose decisions have been in the line
of liberal construction of tho pension
laws, is understood to have similar
views.
The question has been referred to
the president and Secretary Bliss for
their approval.
AN ADDRESS BY TILLMAN
Will lie it I’Vstfurf) of i* Mass M.-.-lliu- of
llvloovrats III llrooMyn, N, V.
A committee of the “United Demo
cratic Organization of Greater New
York” has arranged for a mass meet¬
ing at Ridgewood Park, Brooklyn, on
the evening of August ill. Senator
Tillman, of South Carolina, is sched¬
uled to make an address upon the
“Duty of Democrats.” A circular has
been sent out to labor organizations
urging attendance in order that a de¬
monstration may be made against
“tlie serious and persistent assault
now being made upon several of the
fudamental rights of labor and of all
honest American citizenship by. tho
process commonly known us govern¬
ment by injunction.”
Armenians With Bombs.
The police of Constantinople have
arrested two Armenians at whose resi¬
dences they found two bombs. The
prisoners confessed Unit they intended
to use these bombs at the Russian uml
German embassies.
A bolt of lightning descended the
air-shaft of a big apartment house in
New York and caused a tire. Tho
case illustrates how lightning tends to
follow currents of air. To sit in a
draft during a thunder storm is to in¬
vite the lightning. Ono peculiarity of
nu electric discharge is that the cur¬
rent is deflected by an air current, us
may be shown experimentally.
T. R GREEN, MANAGER.
R 0 }jj>ON I* A REUS EXPRESS THEIR
OPINION SARCASTICALLY.
"UNMERITED LUCK," SAYS ONE,
“Western riu nicTs Will See at Once That
High I'riceN Arc Coiuimtildc With 11
Uohl sfjiinlu.nl.”
A special cable dispatch from Lou¬
don says: The fact that the price of
wheat has reached $1 a bushel in the
Coifed States has produced consid¬
erable excitement among grain specu¬
lators and others in London, The sec-
rotary of tho Baltic said:
“Of course wo have boon caught
largely short. Tho rise in the price,
of wheat makes a somewhat hysterical
market. Tho rise of six pence in the
price of barley, for example, Satur¬
day, was due to no assignable cause.
There is no speculation here, as it is
known on Wall street, although there
is some speculation at Liverpool.
The secretary of the corn exchange
emarked:
“There is no speculation hero, as
Mich transactions are generally known,
riicre has boon a. disposition on the
part, of the outside public to hear the
market; hut I lie brokers have dissuaded
their clients from so doing. 'The rise
ui prices yesterday morning and today
Gas not due so much to “dollar wheat”
;m to the buying by France, where
iliroshiitgN arc proving disappoint ing.
<>ni' millers, too, are short..”
“’I lie brokers have not nut Ie much ,us
ihey held no stocks; hut it is needless
lo say that the ri; of half a crown in
the | rice of what yesterday, makes the
iveliest times on Mark l ane. 'The
\merieans have apparently got it. their
wn wn y.
I lie Westminster Gazette, referring
0 the rise in the price of wheat,
“Hollar wheal" is n-u unmerited
ti'eko of good luck fur I’residcnt- Me
Kinh y's government, which ought, to
have been overtaken by swift calamity
for shamelessly paying clceliou debts
to the trusts by tho passage of the
'dugIcy bill.”
At the same time the Westminster
Gazette finds comfort in the allegation
Unit- “the Bryanites are made to look
foolish,” and adds:
“The western farmers will see at
once that high pi ices are compatible
with 11 1. „.,,1 Gji- (11 - H !,,'■)< -
lion of Bryan and liis panacea inbound
to follow, lint if I’residcnt McKin¬
ley’s supporters aro wise, they will
not for a moment imagine that- when
the y dispose of the silver craze they
will dispose of tho revolt against- tho
enpit lists who have never used their
power so ruthlessly as since the late
presidential election.”
The Westminster Gazette then pio-
cee l.y to denounce “the extortions” of
the new United States tariff, which, it
adds, is one of tho worst and most,
fruitful sources of corruption of public
men and public servants.”
In conclusion The Westminster Ga-
zetto says:
“The degree of success which has
attended Bryan shows that Americans
are becoming alive to the rottenness of
something, and the next, time the cam¬
paign will be directed less to the gold
standard tliau to the standard of pub¬
lic life.”
FIVE CHILDREN DROWNED.
Dtiinpud Info the Water From ;i Float.
Sixt.oun Were !ieH«ue<!.
Five children were drowned in tho
harbor at Toronto Sunday afternoon
by the capsizing of a float.
The float was made of rough timber
and used for conveying workman from
the mainland to the breakwater, a dis¬
tance of about 100 yards. The float is
worked by chains attached to the bank
on one side and the breakwaters on
the other.
Sunday afternoon twenty-one oliil-
dren, boys and girls, ranging from
eight to thirteen years of age, crowded
on the ruff for the purpose of going
to bathe at the breakwater. Half wny
across tho channel, where the water in
very deep, the raft capsized ami all
flie children were thrown into the
water.
There were many boats in the neigh¬
borhood, and these were quickly at
the scone of the accident. All of tho
children were rescued except five,
A I,ASK A N BOUNDARY CORRECT.
OftW'inl of iliii CormI am! (Jcinleth! Survey
Sji.vh LincH Will Nol lie (.'huugeri.
In speaking of t-ho boundary lino
between Alaska and the Rritisii
possessions, General Duftielff, of
tbe count and geodetie survey, said:
“i do not believe that when the mat
ter of the boundary linen between the
two countries is Nettled there will be
any appreciable change from the lines
which are down on the map. Dawson
City is 100 miles or more cast of the
141st meridian, which is the boundary
line. Tbe difference between the
United Btate and Oanada surveys on
llie I tint meridian is a matter of feet
(Jill v.”
IIOSIII HEARD E HO ill.
<JMIiiIhIit AcUiimvIutli'i* (ho K(*.
«*Hpt of Sliorirmn’w Nulc,
.Secretary Sherman lias received
prompt acknowledgement from Minis¬
ter lloslii, of Japan, of the secretary’s
letter relating to tlm annexation of
Hawaii to the United States.
Mr. Hoshi’s acknowledgment is for¬
mal and does not go into the merits of
iho subject, as the answer to Secretary
Sherman’s lute note will not be made
until word conics from the Japanese
foreign office.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
An application for u charter to build
a now street railroad for Gainesville
Lias been filed with the state secretary
by a stock company. It is proposed
to build a road twenty miles in length
and to extend it as far as White Sul¬
phur Springs, seven miles east of the
city.
The Georgia Centra! Railway com¬
pany declared its first divide id at Sa¬
vannah last Saturday 2< per cent—
on the first series of $1,000,000 of in¬
come bonds. The condition of tho
property is good. There are $15,000,-
000 of income bonds in three series,
and it took $00,000 to pay the uliove
dividend.
The report of Special Master Luther
Z. Rosser in the suit, against Judge
John S. Rigby, brought by the re¬
ceivers of the Eagle and Phoenix
Manufacturing Company, has been
completed and copies of tho decision
served on counsel in the case, Tho
special master finds that Judge Bigby
is due the company $22,820.01, and
that a decree should issue in that
amount in favor of the company.
* *
Last Saturday was the date set by
Judge Speer, of the United States
court for the southern district of Geor¬
gia, on which to hoar the application
for the appointment of receivers for
eleven railroads in Georgia. The meet¬
ing was hold at Mt. Airy, where Judge
Speer is summering. After two hours
of skirmishing between the legal rep¬
resentatives present, tho battle was
called oil' by Judge Speer, and further
combat was deferred until October
L'Stli.
M he mystery surrounding the burn¬
ing of the graded school building in
(Juitmaii is about to be cleared. Tho
reward of $700 attracted detectives
who Inivc boon at- work for some time,
and as a result Ed Harrison, a well-
known negro, is now in the Thomas
comity jail charged with the crime.
Those interested claim that the evi¬
dence against him for burning the
school house is conclusive and that
there are interested with him in tho
actual commission of the crime eight
other negroes, who will lie put in jail
us soon as they are captured.
Postmaster Fox, of Atlanta, has
issued his statement for the registry
business of tho fiscal year ending June
30th. This statement shows an in-
miiso of 13,818 pieces handled over
that of last year. There wore handled
this year 3fl(),4(i(! pieces of registered
mail, while the year previous 34(1,(148
p/c tvni'D imi"li».j. Y 1 'or statement
of tho postmaster shown flint, lie fins Iri
twelve months sent to the sub-treasury
a! New York $(12,281.05. The increase
in second-class mail matter is 1,000,000
pounds more tliau any year since At¬
lanta has had a postolliee, and all
other business lias increased in pro¬
portion.
The warrant against Policeman
Bankston of Atlanta, charging him
with murder, was dismissed and lie
has been allowed to return to duty.
Justice Orr, after be had heard all of
the evidence, decided that Bankston
was acting in self-defense when ha
shot and killed Charley Welch. Over
sixty witnesses were heard during tho
progress of the case. The physicians
that examined the body of the dead
man were sworn and said they were of
tho opinion that, the shots were fired
while Welch was advancing upon
Bankston. Justice Orr said there was
no evidence against Bankston and
allowed him to go.
The motion for a now trial in the
Flanagan case was not heard in Deca¬
tur last Saturday as scheduled. At
the request’of the prosecution it was
delayed for ono week. Solicitor Kim-
soy pleaded surprise in regard to the
affidavits that have recently been
brought into tho case. Ho said that
an he had been very busy with the
grand jury and liis associate counsel,
Colonel Braswell, had been busy in
the superior court and Hon. Hal Lewis
bad been engaged in a murder triui in
Greensboro, none of the counsel on
tlu , prosecution had had time to pro¬
| pare their side of the case in answer to
j )ho n flui liv its us fully as they desired,
I
John McCullough, the Clayton
county alleged wife murderer, was
transferred from the Clayton county
jail to Fulton county last .Saturday
night for safe keeping. It was feared
that a mob was forming to lynch him
and the negro Henry Sims, who as¬
saulted Mrs. Turner. Several hun¬
dred were said to compose the party
that wanted vengeance, and they were
coining from the adjoining county of
Fayette. The one wanted most was
the negro Sims, Mrs. Turner, liis
victim, lived mar the lino between
Fiiyltc and Clayton counties, and had
a large number of friends aud rela-
fives in Fayette, aud it was thought
that these were the parties who were
organizing the mob.
* + *
*
<i. M. Sorrel, general manager of
( lie Georgia I luport and Export com¬
pany returned to Savannah a day or
two ago from Europe, where he went
to secure vessels for use in tho export¬
ing business from Sevan null's port.
Ho would give no particulars about the
business of the company, contenting
himself with saying that everything
had been arranged for starting business
thin fall, and that the company would
be ready for handling all tlie cotton it
can get. On General Sorrel's arrival
a meeting was held and the now com¬
pany organized by the election of the
following officers: President, IL M.
Coiner; vice president,John M. Egan;
treasurer, T. M. Cunningham; secre¬
tary, (J. G. Amlerson; general mana¬
ger, G. M. Sorrel.