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The Morgan % ■ Monitor s
VOL. II. NO. u $1 PER YEAR.
THE WIND BLEW IN THE WHEAT,
A sickle moon hung low and white, in the edge of a golden west.
V ith clanging bells tlio herd camo home; and mother birds on the nest
Thrilled to the song that is never sung—so soft! so wildly sweet'
The whippoorwill in the marsh-land called, and the wind blew in the wheat.
High summer had broken to hodge-row waves with a foam of eldor bloom.
Ly waste and way-side the sweetbrier stars showed faint in the tender gloom.
And nibbling hares crept out to plav, on silent velvet feet.
As waxing dewdrops timed the chant, tlio wind blew in the wheat,
“Benison to each bearded head, in the land of golden grain!
Ye shall drink of the sun, in strongth and power, nor lack the grateful rain.
In the bursting mills, in the ocean pressed with the keels of a laden licet
Yo may read the smile of tlio Lord of Hosts,” the wind blew in tho wheat.
—Martha McCulloch-Williams, in Harper’s Weekly,
A*RAILWAY*ADVENTURE,
- -*■- X. -
J3y DR. MAX NORDAU,
N this night
the windows
k J of the crowd¬
ed cafe had
been thrown
v and
IpS open,
tho fresh,
cool air of
1 night the spring
gled for strug¬
* r mas¬
•
tery with tho
WWBBL SEC’S:
Which filled the large hall, m os plie re
A glance out into the night showed
the deep-blue heaven overhead and a
brilliant full moon, whoso cold, clear
rays sparkled on the fresh foliage of
t-m budding trees ss they swayed
gently to and fro in the light breeze,
due members of tho society to which I
at, this time belonged had been accus¬
tomed for some time past, to reserve a
certain table in the cafe for them¬
selves, where they met every evening
to chat over and discuss the events of
the passing hour. They were, for the
most part, respectable citizens, who
had far more appreciation for bright
gas-light and a good dinner than for
the charms of a glorious spring night,
and nothing was further removed from
their thoughts on this particular occa¬
sion than a romantic contemplation of
the beauties of nature. On the night
I am speaking of our conversation
was of a prosaic enough character, as
was only natural in a small town, and
exhausted itself in discussions about
local matters, tho theatre, taxes, aud
similar—to au outsider—extremely un-
Through some chance remark, how¬
ever, which I cau no longer recall, the
question had sprung up if it were
really credible that a man’s hair
suddenly become grey in consequence
of a violent shock to the mind. Some
of those present were bnlyhalf inclined
to disbelieve this somewhat startling
theory, whilst others could not be
they sufficiently scathing in the ‘remarks
made concerning people who were
simple enough to place any credence
in such nursery tales.
As tho discussion grew warmer and
warmer, until every member of our
party was engaged either in champion¬
ing or combating the question in point,
a man, seated near us, rose slowly,
pushing his chair from him, and ap-
proached our table. He was a fine, tall
follow, of herculeau build, and his in¬
telligent features, which boro au ex-
pression of great determination, :v ere
rendered very striking by a pair of
keen blue eyes; but what made his
appearance still more remarkable was
tho fact that both his hair and beard
were as white as snow, although they
suiToundod a countenance which would
not permit one to reckon his age at
more than about thirty-live.
“Excuse,me, gentlemen, if lam in¬
ter l-iipting y-onr conversation,” he re¬
marked bowing politely to us. “You
were just discussing' a subject that lias
more than an ordinary interest for me.
I happen myself to be a living proof
that, under certain circumstances, a
terrible shock to the mind can pro¬
duce that self-same physical effect of
which you wore just speaking, and
which the majority of you seem to dis¬
credit. ”
Those words naturally excited the
curiosity of all present to the highest
degree. We quickly made room for
our new acquaintance at the t-nblo,
and, when ho had seated himself
comfortably, urged him to relate to
us the circumstances which had pro-
duced such a strange and sudden
change in his appearance. The
stranger feigned no groat shyness,
aud acquiesced iu tlie moat pleasant
manner possible by relating to us the
following:
“If any of you gentlemen have ever
interested yourselves more closely in
American affairs, the name of Auburn
cannot well be strange to you; it de-
notes much the same for the United
States as Spielberg does for Austria,
You must not picture Auburn to your-
selves morely as a gloomy aud oxtoti-
sive prison—as ono large, solitary
building—no! It is rather an entire
colony of criminals, a sort of town or
metropolis for the wretches that the
community has thrust out.
“Shut in by immense walls, which
rise up from the level plain to a con-
siderable height, are crowded to-
gether a large number of detached
buildings—houses that contain the
prison-cells, warders’ dwellings, hos
pital, and workshops—all sullen aud
fcrbiddjngdooking; and here andthero
dotted about may be soon a small patch
of grass, a few trees, and, very oaca-
sionally, a flower-bed, like Urn last
lingering recollections of innocent
childhood amongst the black thoughts j
of criminal. '
a
“Certain eveuts, which would have ;
but little interest for yon, had led to j
my journeying from Hamburg—my |
birthplace—to America, immediately |
after the completion of my studieSj &x\i,
after a short stay ill New York) I ac¬
cepted the post of prison-doctor at Au¬
burn, which, as you perhaps know, is
situated in the State of New York. I
was intrusted with the medical su¬
pervision over that part of the prison
which was Ret apart for the worst
class human of criminals—meq, hyenas, or I should
say, whose blood, as
Mephistopheles says, had already
ceased to be : a fluid of rare quality, ’
“Two of these wretches were des¬
tined to spend the remainder of their
days in the prison, and they, by rea¬
son of their great physical strength as
well as by the extraordinary cunning
they had evinced in several desperate
attempts to regain their freedom,
were subjected to even closer super¬
vision than the rest of their Compan¬
ions. I was ail- object of particular
hatred arid dislike to these two SCOtlU-
drels, because I had been instrumen¬
tal m the discovery of a number of
iron implements which they—God
only knows how they had obtained
possession of them I—had concealed
under their clothes; and again on
another occasion, because I had re¬
fused to receive them into the hospi¬
tal when they feigned illness, expect¬
ing doubtless when they were
once iu there that they would find
more favorable their opportunities for ac¬
complishing escape. The ruf¬
fians were separated and placed in re¬
mote parts of the prison, and were
laden with chains; but in spite of all
these precautions, one fine morning
the one, mid a few days later the
other, together with their chains, had
disappeared without leaving a trace
behind them.
“It must have been almost a fort¬
night after the flight of these two
criminals, which had caused the ut¬
most consternation amongst the
authorities at Auburn, that I ordered
my horse one afternoon, and started
off for a ride to Cayuga Bridge. It
was midday when I reached the end
of my journey, and I stood still for
some time contemplating with silent
delight the exquisite scenery which
lay stretched out for miles before me.
The Cayuga Lake, one of tkosewkicb,
together with Lake Erie, compose that
vast system of inland seas in the State
of Now York, lay in all its beauty at
my feet. The long, slender streak of
silver wound in and out of the rugged
black cliffs which hemmed it in, and
which rose sheer up out of the lake,
facing each other like grim opponents
who had for thousands of years bid
one another defiance. Far down the
lake, which is forty miles long, and
at this particular spot about one
broad, I could discern the enormous
trestle-bridge, a marvel of American
engineering skill, which carries the
Auburn division of the New York Cen¬
tral Railway across, passing on its
way through tho small station of
Cayuga Bridge.
“My business in the village was soon
finished, and towards evening I started
home again. Do you know how de¬
lightful a ride on a summer’s evening
is? Cayuga Bridge is surrounded by
extensive oak forests, through which
the greater part of my journey lay. • The
gnarled and massive trunks cast long
shadows, and the foliage rustled so
gently in the soft evening breeze, that
one seemed rather to feel than to hear
it. A‘s I rode between,these giants of
the forest, sweet recollections of my
distant home crept into my heart, and,
sunk in my thoughts, I let the reins
fall on my horse’s neck, who trotted
steadily forward. I admired the mar-
vellous variety of color that the rays
of the setting sun produced as they
shone through the mass of dark-green
leaves, and seemed to kindle their
edges into flame,
“Suddenly I was startled out of my
reverie by a slight noise which ap-
peared to come from tho undergrowth
on either side of tine road. Turning
sharply but round, I grasped my revolver,
in the same moment I received a
stunning blow on the back of my head,
which knocked me senseless from my
saddle. Once more I recolleotopeuing
my eyes, aud flunking that I could see
indistinctly one of the escaped criminals
bonding over mo, and then all became
a blank.
“It must hove been late in tho night
when consciousness again returned to
me. Slowly opening my eyes, I Saw
far above me the dark blue vault of tho
sky, and the full moon shining bright-
!y. A dull, painful sensation at tho
back of my head prompted mo to place
my baud there, and then I discovered
that I was bound hand and foot. Grad-
unlly I collected my thoughts; I ro-
numbered now tho murderous attack
in the forest, and a fearful foreboding
flash* l through my mind, which al-
most caused my heart to stand still.
I felt that I was laid across two sharp
parallel projections, the which cut into my
shoulders and back of my legs,
causing me intense hear pain, and far be-
low mo I could tho gentle plash
ing of water.
POPULATION AltfD DnAINAOB.
MORGAN, GA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 3 189 ?.
“Heavens; there could no longer bo
itriji doubt: I was lying stretched across
Cayuga moving Bridge, with behind, incapable duct of
an inch, the hideous
absolutely literally certain prospect of being
that cut to pieces by tbe next train
passed. For the second time that
night I almost swoctned as I realized
my situation; but by a powerful effort
of desperately will I recovered myself, and tuggecl
at tbe ropes that bound me
until they out almost into my muscles;
I shrieked, and wept finally like a
child, I made mad endeavors to roll
myself into another position, and then
recollected that a careless movement
might low—-bound precipitate me into the flood be¬
hand and foot, to sink like
a stone!
“A shudder ran through my frame,
and I lay motionless again; but not for
fearfully long, for the light of the great—almost
bright—lUoott overhead, the
ripple of the water deep below me, the
breeze that came in light puffs, and
then died away again, giving place to
a death-like stillness, occasionally
biioken by the scream of some distant
caused night-bird—all was unbearable, and
me the anguish of death; Aud
then the rails! the rails! My thoughts
wore torturing me, and yet'I could not
escape them. The wooden beams of
the bridge vibrated perceptibly from
the movement of the water bolchv, aud
I thought that I could already feel the
approach bristled with of the train, and my hair
the horror of it, The
breeze now blew somewhat stronger,
and I imagined that I could already
hear, far away in the distance, the
puffing and panting of the locomotive,
and my heart stood still, to beat with
redoubled force the next moment,
“There are certain things, gentle¬
men, which are absolutely incompre¬
hensible to me: ono of them is the fact
that I was able to survive that night.
One thought stood ever clear in my
ulindi I must endeavor by some means
to shift my position—if possible, to
one between .the metals—if I did not
wish, possibly even in the next mo¬
ment, to become the prey of the most
awful death one could conceive. And
I succeeded! I strained every muscle,
every sinew, till I could strain no more.
I wound and twisted myself, and
panted Until I thought my head must
burst, and after suporhmnan exertions,
which appeared to last an eternity, and
perhaps lasted but a minute, I found
myself in tho hollow between tbe rails.
“Was I saved? I bad no time to
consider that, or to rejoice over the
fresh chance of life which was now
offered to me, for my whole being con¬
centrated itself in intent listening. Far
away in the distance I could now hear
—first of all indistinctly, and then
gradually increasing as it drew nearer
and nearer—the regular, monotonous
panting which heralds the approach of
a locomotive. The fearful stillness of
the night gave way, as each minute
passed, to the more fearful noise, to
the clanking and thundering of the en¬
gine as it raced on towards me at the
headlong speed of American trains.
Now a thousand feet more—now five
hundred—all the horrors of hell pos¬
sessed me; but I lay without moving a
muscle. Once,'indeed. I tried to scream.
I could no longer hear my own
voice; how, then, could the people in
the train be expected to hear me? And
now for an immeasurably short space
of time a blazo of light heat down upon
me, and a blast of hot air rushed over
me, then everything became dark, and
I heard a thunder as if the heavens
were crashing in. Close, quito close,
at scarcely a hairbreadth’s distance,
rushed the enormous mass over me. I
was saved!
“Already half-unconscious, I was
still sensible of a deafening clattering
and roaring above me, and I saw shad¬
ow-like masses flying past; still, one
moment more of deadly anguish—one
of the coupling-hooks, hanging some-
what lower than tho rest, bad caught
and dragged me several yards, tearing
finally a large piece out of the breast
of my coat—then all objects seemed to
whirl around me, the moon, tho bridge,
and the lofty cliffs, in one mad dance,
and I became insensible.
When I next woke I found myself in
my own bed, and around me well-
known faces. And now to be brief:
I had been found on the morning after
that awful nlglit by a plate-layer who
had recognized me, and had brought
me hack to Auburn. For a fortnight
I lay delirious with brain fever, hover¬
ing between life and death; blit my
strong constitution pulled me through.
Tho first time after my recovery that
I had occasion to use a looking-glass,
I saw what traces those moments had
loft on me.”
Tho doctor ceased speaking; hut his
pale face, the look of horror, and the
great beads of sweat on his forehead
all showed how keen his recollection
was of that terrible experience. We
also had listened to his narrative with
breathless attention, aud it was some
time before we could shake off the im¬
pression it had left upon us.—From
the Gorman, in Strand Magazine;
“JLoHt at 8oa.**
Many a fishing schooner that sails
out of Gloucester with her ensign Hut-
tering gaily from the “main truck”
coiuch in by Cape Ann, on her return
from the “Banks,” with her colors at
half-mast. A dory or two lost in the
fog or run down in thick weather by
an ocean collision’than greyhound that no more felt
the if it crushed au egg-
shell—at all events, a couple of men
or more for Davy Jones’s locker—such
is only too often the tale brought
back from the fishing grounds to
Gloucester, our chief fishing port,
Tears at parting, weeks of anxious
suspense, and when the ship comes
home tears again for a lost husband,
son, or brother—that, story is common
enough on Massachusetts Bay. And
oven if neighbors say, “Don’t cry,
dearie! Perhaps some' ship has picked
him up, and lie’ll come back to you,”
the hope is short-lived. “Lost
sea” is a famHiar line in the death-
column of the Gloucester papers,_
Ht. Nicholas,
t
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COMPARATIVE FIGURES OX CRIME
NORTH AN 1 > SOUTH.
SHOWS SOME STARTLING TACTS,
•— -
William Calls Census Reports to Ills Ai,l
In Ilot'utinjr Chttvgos of T.awlessness
In Hie So Util,
I have ptst . received the third
vob
ume of “Compendium of the Census
of 1800;” Eight years have pushed
since the people made their returns
and the tithe is hearing when they will
1m called on again. It takes ft long
time and costs millions of money, but
it is a big thing aiid diffuses knowledge
among the people. It is better that
the money he spent, that way, for there
are no private schemes nor corporation
swindles in it and it gives employment
to thousands of needy people. The
eensus is the only mode of getting iff,
the true condition of the fitttlon s af-
•ft? l V ’ »<">• •»».”« <««*»*
I , have , been very much , interested . . ... in
hese comparison and feel prouder
than evor before of state ana boo
lion. For more than half a century
the partisan and sectional literature of
the north has overshadowed and hu-
miliated us with unfair, untrue and
slanderous statements, liv these «,»-
Christian , • , • methods of their press and ,
pulpits their own good people harm
been poisoned against us and immi-
giat.on influenced in northern chan-
nels Personally, I do not complain
of ns, for I esteem It, a blessing that
neither northern fanatics nor foreign
paupers have to any alarming extent
.n ested our lam lands. The natural
increase of our own people Will soon
enough occupy the smith and secure to
zssszsz sssa»si
patriotic ,,r Urn ml. „t II,«
Atlantic. Not long ago an Ohio man
had the check to publish a letter
about our lawlessness and said
it was amazing impudence for
Georgia or the south to invite
northern people to settle here. Well,
we don’t invite him nor any of hta
from kind. Nebraska An unknown and friends writes “Call me j
says: off
your dogs. Let the yankees alone
and blow your horn for Germans. I
”™' "■> >"»•
wliere both abound and 1 will take tlie
Germans or the Swedes or the Swiss
every time. The yankees have hated
you for generations. They aro born
hating yau and raised up in schools
and churches to hate you. They can’t
lielj) it. But. these foreigners have no
such prejudices. They don’t like jour
negroes, but have got nothing against
you. They are a fair-minded, indus¬
trious pCopIe’aud T have found them
honest and kind and good neighbors
whom you can depend on in time of
trouble.”
But to tbe census. Look at these
figures on crime and criminals in some
of the slates north and south in 1890:
Massachusetts, convicted criminals in
prison ...... ..... 5,277
New York, convicted criminals in
prison...... .....11,463
Ohio, convicted criminals iu prison... 2,90!)
Illinois, convicted criminals in prison. 3,936
Total .... .......23,540
Now deduct tlie negroes.......... 1,796
Leaving whites....... ..... 21,745
Now I'd us take four southern states;
Georgia, whites ..............
South Carolina, whites.......
Mississippi...................
Virginia........... ..........
Total...... ...... 866
No v Iho total white population of
th* four northern states is 15,477,000,
and the total while population of the
four Bout hern states rs 3,000,400, be¬
ing about one-fiflh,
Tho negro has been eliminated in
bo Hi statements, 'and ns the popula¬
tion of the four northern states is five
times that of ours we will multiply
ou r convicted white prisoners by five,
which would give us 4,330 against
21,745. J i aid in a recent letter that
there were 50 per cent more of felo¬
nies in New York or Massachusetts
than In Georgia. I was mistaken.
There are five times as many, which is
500 per cent, ami this is tlie ratio ac¬
cording to white population. I toll
you, my brethren, this census com¬
pendium proves an alarming condition
of things up north, and it is high
time our southern churches were or-
ganizing boards of missions and send¬
ing missionaries up there. We send
them to Mexico and China and
Brazil and to tlio Indians in
the west; why not to Massa¬
chusetts and New York and Ohio,
where crime and immorality prevail
to a greater extent than in any civil¬
ized country? That is just what Mr.
Stetson said the statistician of Mas¬
sachusetts. His language as published
was: “There is no country upon earth
where crime is so flagrant aud so fre¬
quent as in Massachusetts.” Her pop¬
ulation is about double our white pop¬
ulation, and yet she bai fifteen times
as many white criminals in her prin-
one and what is worse than all,
my brethren, 748 of them are
women. Just ponder over it and, like
the prophet, exclaim: “How are tho
mighty fallen!" Only one white wa¬
man in the jails or chaingangs of Geor¬
gia and 748 in the Puritan state of
New England. What shall wo do
about it? What fan we do?
But .
this is not all that the _.■ census
tells. In addition to this vast army
of prisoners, Massachusetts has 700
juvenile prisoners,while New York has
3,670 rind Ohio i,5'90. Then there are
over 8,000 pttupefs iff the fotff (slates,
besides (ho thofisrinds fluff fire in
pritrite hiiuevbleilt institutions. How
1,1 11,0 "’“’hi tRitse states up north
support such a vast arm* of Criminals,
paupers’, tramps aud non-proditeSvs'/
No wonder they want protection and
pensions; f't no wonder they plunder tlio
tf K- r ? b,i rV°
do it; Ninety pet cent of all the
money that goes into it Cottles out inti)
'heir pockets in some way or other, find
still they aro not happy; they want,
the other ten.
But what is the relative condition of
the Common people of the sections?
How about homes and mortgages and
debts? It is the common people who
constitute a sliffo or a nation. They
support it with their labor and defend
it with their arms. t„ numbers they
are as 500 to 1 of the aristocracy
They all deserve to have homes —
homes of their own, unencumbered,
A home means more than shelter, II
means roses and vines and shade trees
and fruit,. Ask the poor venter who is
humped about from place to place
every year. Ask his wife and daugb-
ters what they think of home. The
,. t , nK us puts down 119,890 white fami-
"'A'Tn . ......
has 97 per cent paid ' for; Mississippi J.,\
|u|l| Him|l , (lni . oli mi ocnt
Massac),has 175,001) families v'
, i, , , iL 4 ! TY? . °. H
imn ! ’ ' 01 * ltts ‘ ''T 1
'
T "V i <• Bre “
' ” (Imn''lit ,1 *,•',! , 1" r* 8 ’ ll *
eneuinomnee a ( , , ‘ '? of m- tbe ,ntV United , in' States i .....!° ih
iho llor)h AtlnnUc ftm1 ceil-
, nl| l1ivisi()lls only 4j per cent is on
Ul0 hon.es oflhe South Atlantic.states B ” Ues
’
T ,, 0 moH on Massachusetts
Uom<JB amount to ,J #102,948,196. ’ ■I nst
1hink of a it vu lillaty over
jt ()V or one hundred millions of debt
a{?ainst ,T lh „ pHoplo doLet of ono Ht .
e state having L about ie white '
latioll of eot .„ in . Ca , a ever
it? New Y „rk is but little better
In ir\ ii,;
M , ..L...,,, , lol ,J ^ Vl.T i'i r V , “"' arc
tu n “ w*. f •, iv *'L ,. " T . V! , . 'T*'
"
• ,,,e
' Jl 1 l f - / T'*' r
. 1 b. say ffUms . harder l.ter-
a a
‘ ! llH ^ . If! ^ <u "’ ' a,l y
u <’Xey use up aud
'em , . L 4 m people-the
common
, ' ! , f °nr'rl ' ' ’ H j ! n " ol " <!1 Biat L° stiff,cs T'T'"
, sate.’S*
hearts? Put yourself in their place,
if you can, and then you will feel as
they feel.
But, while we sympathize with
them, and pity them, let us be grate¬
ful that, we live in this southern land,
and are in the peaceful enjoyment of
so many rich blessings. May the
good Lord preserve us from their
crimes and their' debts is my prayer,
— Bum Aim in Atlanta Constitution.
THE LONGEST TUNNEL.
Passes Beneath Pike’s Peak, 7,000 Poe
Underground.
Two gangs of workmen have just
begun digging in Colorado the long
est tunnel which man ever attenpted
to construct. The main bore will be
twenty miles long, and connecting
with this are subsidiary miles. Ho,ill
reality, the task that lias been put
under wav is that of digging fifty
miles of tunnels, and every foot of
this vast system will be under Pike’s
Peak and the mountains that tower on
each side.
The starting point of tbe main tun¬
nel, says the Cripple Creek Times, is
at the foot of t he mountain leading up
to Pike’s Peak, near the old town of
Colorado City. This point is but a
short distance from the railroads
which span tlio country between Col¬
orado Springs and Manitou. From
here it runs almost due
The further edge of the tunnel is at
the edge of the mountains at Four
Mile Creek, over in Fremont County,
Colorado, hSx miles south of Cripple
Creek and near the little town of
Hanoi. Two gangs of men, as stated,
aro working on the tunnel, one at
each end. Just at present they are
making progress at the rate of thirty
feet a day. (t is believed that the
mammoth task they have undertaken
will he completed in seven years from
the tirpt <>f the present month.
The main tunnel will pass directly
under the cone of Pike’s Peak at a
depth of nearly 7,006 feet and 2,700
feet beneath tho town of Victor. Its
average depth from the surface will be
2,800 feel, and it is designed to test
the mineral deposits of the territory
at these great depths. Thirty miles
of laterals are contemplated, and
theso will pass underneath all the
Cripple Creek district at an average
depth of 2,800 feet. Cripple Creek,
Victor, Giliettee, the various small
towns and a thousand mines aro to he
made tributary to this vast system.
Under present circumstances the
distance the shortest way from
Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek is
fifty-four miles. By way of the tun¬
nel the two cities will only be sixteen
miles apart. It is estimated by the
contractors that the average cost per
foot of excavation will be $80. This
makes the total probable expense of
digging the tunnel and its subsidiary
branches #20,520,000.
Improved sanitation, including clean
streets, has reduced the mortality rate
in New York from 27.15 per thousand
in 1891 to 19.63 in 1897. The rate in
London has been reduced to 17,25 by
similar measures covering a longer
neriod.
T. P. GREEN, MANAGER.
i a
ACCORDING TO MEMBERS OF THE
d. A. R. ENCAMPMENT.
OFFICERS FOR THE COMING f EAR.
tlifl Cloning Session Was Fraught With
Meeting Will Ho Hold
at Ctnginftatl,
The Grand Army elected its (ifftcsrS
at Buffalo, N. Y., Friday, for the ei .
suing year and the encampment has
adjourned to meet at Cincinnati next
year. The final session lasted from
11:15 a. nr. until 3:40 p. nr., without
intermission, opening under the or¬
der of business, the encampment took
up the election of senior vice com¬
fit tin tier * in-ohief.
Alfred Lyfli, of Bidwell Wilkerson
post, of Buffalo, was placed in nomi¬
nation by Major A. K. Smith, the com
mauder of his post, and was elected
unanimously, nominations. there being no other
The election of a junior vice com-
mandiy-in-chief was not accomplished
until after noon, there being four can¬
didates and several interruptions to
the proceedings of the encampment
by speeches and tho admission of a
committee from the Woman’s Relief
Corps, E. B. Allen, of Connecticut,
the candidate of the naval veterans,
was chosen on the second ballot.
able Among the reports receiving favor¬
consideration in the executive
session in tho encampment was that of
the pension committee. It recom¬
mended a readjustment, of a widows’
pensions and presented a form of
proof and application in pension
claims substantially tho same as that
embodied in the Pickier bill, which
has passed the national house of rep¬
resentatives, but has not passed the
senate. The report stated the pres¬
ent commissioner of pensions had cou-
seated to adopt, new rules substantial¬
ly tho same as those in force during
the Harrison administration, 'The
report also recommended that con-
gross pass a service pension law to
apply to all veterans who have reach¬
ed the age of sixty-two years.
The report of the committee having
in charge the memorializing of con-
press to purchase several of the most
ricksburg, important battlefields about, Frede¬
Va., and to connect them
by government, roads was adopted.
The Invitation of the Young Men’s
Business Association, of Richmond,
Va., to hold the encampment of 189S)
in that city was received and thanks
extended. This association was in¬
formed that the question couhl only
be considered by the encampment of
1898,
Another commit!,eo reported favora¬
bly the proposition to establish mi-
tioua’l parks at, the battlefields of
Vicksburg, Stony River and Appo¬
mattox.
t ou(horn HiflloricN Coiidoiiiiird.
The report of the committee on text
books used in the public schools u ;ir
adopted. The report deals severely
with some of tho histories used in the
south, charging that they mistake the
facts as to the cause of the rebellion
and present them from a southern point
of view.
A regret is express that, after an cx-
amination of all the histories used iu
tho states that were loyal to the gov¬
ernment in the opinion,none merits the
qualified endorsement of tbe organiza¬
tion.
The report closes with the following
recommendation:
"First, That this encampment urge
the (mntinned agitation of the question
of improved text hooks in our schools
that relate to the history of the "United
Slates, especially as to the events of
the war of the rebellion.
“Second, That the national encamp¬
ment authorize the appointment of a
permanent committee <m the subject
of teaching patriotism in our schools,
which shall
“I bird, That it he urged upon each
lepnrtment of the Grand Army of the
Republic and recommended to the
Woman’s Relief Corps, the Sons of
Veterans and all allied organizations
that they give direct and persistent
attention to the selection of proper
text books for use in our schools and
tbe exclusion therefrom of such aro
improper.”
DENIAL FROM KATCIIFOKD.
Frouldoiit' of Af j no Workern
4 laroH That Miner* Favor Arbitration.
I’residout Batehford, of the United
Mine Workers, has issued a statement
replying to the operators of the Pitts¬
burg district.
He denies that the miners 111*0 op-
posed to arbitration, lie says they fa¬
vor it, luff, not on the basis proposed
by the operators. The operators’
threat about gatling guns and Pinker¬
ton men, he declares, wilt have no
weight with the strikers.
He declares that if the operators
will meet them on fair terms there can
lie no trouble in reaching a settlement.
WKY’UER ON THE MOVE.
IIujuIh a Small Force To Operate In Pro¬
vince of Havana.
Captain General Weylor left Ha¬
vana Sunday morning with a small
force for the purpose of carrying on
military operations in the province of
Havana.
It is stated that Evangeline Cassio
Cisneros is still confined in the Casa
Recojidas, occupying a well-ventilated
apartment, into which is allowed the
company of other ladies.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
Macon’s Carnival association met a
few days ago and decided to have the
carnival oil October lltli and 12tli in¬
stead of just one day. Low railroad
rates will be given.
The election in Habersham county
the past w eek for or against the re¬
moval of the county site from Clarks¬
ville to Toeooa resulted in a majority
of 800 in favor of Clarksville.
Atlanta’s anti-theater hat ordinance
is now in full effect. Mayor Collier
signed the paper and made it a law of
the city. The law makes it nnlawfnl
for any lady to wear any kind of a liat
or bonnet on her head in the theatres.
Governor Atkinson has given Gus
Families another respite, this time un¬
til November tilth, in order that bo
may testify in Mrs. Nobles’ case if tho
supreme court grants a new trial. Gus
Rambles and Mrs. Nobles were con¬
victed two years ago of the murder of
old man Nobles in Twiggs county.
At a meeting held in Atlanta a day
or taken two ago the preliminary steps were
for the organization of a Mer¬
chants’ and Manufacturers’ associa¬
tion, whose purpose is to secure trade
for Atlanta, to obtain favorable freight
rates and accomplish other like objects
usually sought by merchants’ organi¬
zations in other cities.
Major GiesMoor, immigration com¬
missioner of tho Georgia Southern and!
Florida railroad, hftri returned from
New York and reports the outlook
good for a great, increase in immigra¬
tion to Georgia this winter. Ho Buyi*
lie has a larger number of desirable*
immigrants than ever on his list and
he expects to bring a great many
northern people of tlio better class to
Georgia before the close of tlie year.
The executive committee, represent¬
ing the colored Masonic Grand Lodge
of Georgia, has decided upon Ameri¬
cas as the location of the home for the
widows and orphans of deceased Ma¬
sons. The proposition of the local
Masonic lodge was accepted, though
six cities contested for the home. The*
local lodge donated twenty acres of
land and cash. A handsome brick
building will be erected for a school
and home.
As a result of a meeting of tho
Work men’s Benevolent Association of
Savannah, sixty white longshoremen,
comprising twelve gangs, have decided
to go to Charleston and secure employ¬
ment there during the cotton season.
Their reason’ for leaving Savannah,
they say, is because the contracting
stevedores prefer negro help and re¬
fuse to pay white men living wages.
Tiffs situation of affairs was brought
about by the strike of two years ago,
in which the striking union longshore¬
men lost and have never been able to
regain their prestige.
* * #
Tlio prevailing opinion that there is
a smalt peach crop in Georgia this
year seems to be ill-founded. Official
reports show that the crop has been
very large, and that while the yield of
fine shipping fruit has been small, the
inferior varieties of seedling peaches
have produced wonderfully. The in¬
ternal revenue office is au unfailing
gague of the peach crop in Goorgia.
I his year the number of brandy dis¬
tilleries is comparatively largo. Last
year not more than sixty distilleries
were operated in the state for making
government will brandy. This year there
be over a hundred.
The district road commissioners of
Fulton county held an enthusiastic
m< jeting a few days ago at which the
following resolution was unanimously
adopted: “Resolved, That we, the
district road commissioners of Fulton
county, having express the felony ourselves in favor of
convicts of this
state, under sentence of five years or
less, turned over to the countj author¬
ities to he worked ns misdemeanor
convicts now are, on tlio public roads,
ns such a course will servo the double
reducing purpose of insuring better roads and
the amount of convict labor
now at work in competition with tlio
free labor of the slate.”
E. G. Jones, who was shot, by bis
wife several months ago, has filed suit
for total divorce in the superior court,
alleging it is impossible to live longer
with her and enjoy any peace of mind
or immunity from danger. It will he
rome inhered that J ones barely escaped
instant death on account of the wounds
inflicted by his wife with a shot gun.
The shoot ing occurred at tlie home in
Fayette county and Mrs. Jones was
arrested and carried to Atlanta, where
she remained in jail several days. She
was dismissed from custody as the re¬
sult. of a seltlement that was reached
between herself and husband.
The fixing of the state tax rate at
5.21 mills on the dollar, as has been
announced, means that tho state will
raise by taxation for all expenses of
the government during the year 1897
the following sum: For schools, $600,-
000; for pensions (approximated),
$150,000; for sinking fund, #100,000;
for all other purposes, #1,423,000.
This, of course, contemplates that all
the taxes will be paid aud that suffi¬
cient money will he received by the
state treasurer to pay all his outstand¬
ing accounts. The action of Gover¬
nor Atkinson and Comptroller General
Wright in carrying over into next
year the extra school appropriation of
$100,000 considerably simplifies mat¬
ters, and it looks now as though the
roe eipts as above indicated would bo
sufficient to pay the state’s running ex-
penses during the present year.
