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The Georgia Philosopher Says Its
“Non’Possum” for Him.
WHICH MEANS
NOT ABLE.”
He Talks oCtho Nownan Exippor and
of the Cuban and Hawaiian Quoi-
tions-'-IIia Ruminations.
“ ’Posmim” seoma to bo the slogan of
State polities. It is among the first
Latin words I ovor leavnod to deolina,
and means, “lam able.” As s iilthy
K7rsc:::tI I iuw
beor. invited tr. tiio fisast I sliDUtdr hav«-
replied non ’possuia. I caa eat crow,
Vdtirot"'i5o33um. A buzzard would be
B3 palatable, for one is a day scavenger
and the other hunts for carrion by
sight. Kot long ago Mr. Hale told ms
oi Rising Fawn that his boy caught
three on three sucoessiva nights by
«ettiu" his steal trap on a dead hog in
the woods, and ?>Ir. Young told me
yesterday that the lastouohis dog tped
'tvas in the carcass of adeadhorse. Now,
if a 'possum is kept up in a coop or pen
for a mouth and fed on decent food, his
oily ca:oas3 might be fitten for a scala
wag or a huugry darky. Col. Candler
in his letter siiigs II10 praises and the
cily jnioes of the north Georgia
’possum, but turns up hia nose at the
piny woods breed. The difi'erence is
that dead dogs and hogs and mtiles are
faw and far' between in tiie piney
woods, and the 'possums can’t get
enough carrion to get fat. But ’possum
is jufit now the political fad, and
si politician will eat anything
|ot ofiico except crow. They
don’t Hlra that. JJi-. Miller used to say
that he could eat crow, but he didn’t
hanker after it. We ooilege boys used
to hara ’possum suf.pers away in the
night, but Hansel, who furnished them,
kept tiiem up and stallfed them. Tha
chief satisfaction, howeTer, was la
breaking the rules and dodging the
tirof^ssovs and tutors. Jim AVarren
and Chess Ho%vard used to give mid-
Eight suppers and pull up the ’possum
and tators in a basket by a ropa and
take it in at a third-story window.
Well, the nation has got a slogan,
too. Cuba and .Hawaii arc still on deck
Es shuttlecocks, and the game is long
and uncertain. Cuba is a fruit that i«
about ripe, and ought to bo pulled be
fore it rots on tho ti'os; but^^ Hawaii in
as green aa a gourd. Cuba is 400 miiea
Song, and is nearby and should be viur-
chaaad, just like wa bought Florida
from Spam; birt Hawaii is 2,030 miles
from our Faeific coast, and oil the
islaad:^ r -!f togeiher bava n.nt as much
area aa a i-.lu^-ls coWty in Texas. 'Ihey
fay w3 want it for a eoaling station.
We have it now for that, and can keep
it during peace; but it would take all
our little navy to hold it durhig war.
It looks verj' like the whole plot of an
nexation is a j'er.sonal job for a few
men. They are trying to alarm us with
the threat tha; if we do not annex it
England will. I don’t reckon England
wants it verv’oad. In case of a great
war ii would taka a good part of her
navy to hokl it, and tue game is not
worth the candle. Our poor little navy
won't justify us in annexing anything,
and we can’t hurry up any more battle
ships under the'Diugley tarifi and the
pension frauds.
England has 15 battleships, SI
cruiaera, (i gunboats, ,’iG torpedo boats
end 8 v.'ar steamers—in all 118 keels.
Ths United States has 8 battleships, 18
cruisers, lo gunboats, 8 mouitors and
tori’.edo boats—in all 50 keels. How
is that for war? Japan has more war
keels afloat than the United States,
and is now the acknowledged mistress
of the Pecifio ocean. But ws can beat
them all iu brag and bluster jingoism.
Vv'e are vary like the averaga young
man who lives on his father’s reputa
tion. Wo go back a century or so and
bank on tha Constitution and tha Wasp
in the days of Paul Jones and Decatur.
'J'hose wero glorious victories, but we
were fighting on the defensive then,
and our great leaders, botli on land
and sea, were Southern men—Paul
Jones was from Virginia and Decatur
was from Maryland and old John
Adams dident like either of them.
But almost everything that concerns
Congress now is political jobbai'y—and
the pension frauds will go on. They
grow bigger and biggor as tha years roll
on. 'The fifty thousand pension laW'
yer's up North must bo kept fat, and
they are organized and know how to
control Congressmen. Ten dollars from
e.ich one will pltrr'.e half a million in
W'ashington ■ nd that will . jmrchase
fifty votes at $10,000 a vote. They de
fy ConimissioDar Evans and all his ef
forts to purga the rolls will be in vain.
Wickedness in high places still pre
vails, and the wonder is that the na
tion survives its corruption. I heard
Boma preachers discussing it on the
T.'jilroad and one said tha wickedness
•was so great it was a wonder that tha
Tjord didn’t destroy tlie capital and all
ihe great cities. But an old Irish
fireacher said; “xvosir; no sir!, the Lord
:.vouldn’t have destroyed Sodom if there
•iad been ten good men there, and I am
are that there are at least fifty iu At-,
lanta and nearly as many in Washington
and Now York.”
No, sir, the cities are safe for some
time to come, but it is well enough to
keep your eye on a place in the country,
la 1841 Thomas H. Benton made a
gieal .speeeu m the Uiiuetl ciiatea oun-
ate in which he opposed tho grant of
$35,000 to President Harrison’s widow
and said: “A new page has been
opened in tha book of our expenditures
and this new departure taken which
leads to the bottoml6.?s gulf of pensions
and gratuities,” Verily he spoke like
a prophet, for §3,000,000,000 hava ol-
readv be^ r?id and there aro now oa
the rolls nearly a million pensioner.'i
and Commissione? Evp.ns finds 303,OOJ
additional pending applicAtions. _Good
gracious, how we did fight. John C.
Calhoun said in one of his speeches:
“A power has risen up in the govern
ment that is greater than tho people.
It consists of many interests combined
in one mass and held together by tho
cohesive power of public plunder.”
80 all this stealage is no new thing
and it wonldent mnttor very much if it
concerned tho North only, but wo down
South hava to pay a big part^ of it and
get nothing back. Thg.
we he: ”
-eoEfi
chas'
prettj^
spirit:
years agi
ChristmaS:SlBP55^2--^oO^ sign.
They tell an5^w5fe3"'an(l laugh more
and have more little parties. Wo wore'
at one last night—my wife and I, and
there was no sicrn of poverty or distress;
no ’possum and tators; no politics. Six
teen of us safe around tho festive board
and commemorated the thirty-eighth
marriage anniversary of Major Calhoun
and hia wife, two ecod peoplo, a good
father and mother, a good husband and
wife, good friends and neighbors, and
wo were waited on by their ehildron—
good children who had never brought
shame or grief to their parents. This
is the biggest and best thing I know of.
And we had wifc and anecdote and
connndrnms all mixod up with oyster
soup and turke.v and “eat coteras. ” I
asked Judge Aiken what kin ho v.’as to
his sister’s husband’s mother-in-law
and he gave it up in despair. I heat
that he pondered over it all tha way
homo and away in the night eried out:
“Eureka! Eureka!” Then Mayor
Gilbert put the. Boventeen elephant
problem at me and I gottsngled up and
then I asked him how a groundsqnirroi
dug his hole in the ground without
leaving any dirt around the top and it
scared him, but his wife came to his
relief and answered it. Men baven’l
got very much of that kind of sense
ina I always depend upon my wii’o.
i don’t like to str.ain my mind.—Bill
irp ill ,iii.l!anta (Qa.) Constitution.
Some Items Copied by Rev. R- P.
Smith From an Old
BUNCOMBICO, ACCOUNT BOOK.
In tho Old Times !t Took a Week’s
Work to Buy a Bushel of Salt—How
Po You Like tiio Times Kovv?
BOOK collecting.
Prizes Occasionally Diacovcrecl by In-
defatisablo Bibliopliilcs.
The thrilling adventures of book-col-
lectors continue to bs told, and perhap l
even to be believed, but they certain!;)
have now an ancient and obsoleseeiit
air. These wonderful prizes which
book lover used to picU up on tho I'arls
quais must bo very mysteriously con
cealed in these days to escape the eye.-
of emissaries of the bookworm. Book!
priced at a shilling, and worth £100, d;
not grow any longer ’on every c.",ta-
logue. So the de-ar old stories of the ex
citement of the chase, the cunning ap
proach, the assumed ladiffereace, the
crafty closing on the quarry, and at
last the flushed and triumphant oscapc
with the rare book, will probably not
amuso our children as they did out
grandfathers.
But there still undoubtedly remains
what Miss Anna Blackwell, writing iu
Chamber’s Journal, calls the “Provi
dence of Book Hunters.” Rare coin-
lidences, lucky accidents, novr ana then
an astonishing find, do still occasion
ally occur in tho world of the book-col-
lectors. Thus, a curious reader lately
ran upon Richardson’s st.atenient that
;n his youth he wrote something la the
style of “Tommy Potts.” Leslie Ste
phen, a great authority on the eigh
teenth century, had never heard of
Tommy Potts. Just at that moment a
bookseller’s catalogue came out with
record of “The Ballad of Tommy
Potts” (about 1700-1715). In a rare
“Life of Eichard III.” In a library one
sheet was misslag. The librarian de
plored this to a chance cSiller; who in-
etantly produced his own copy with the
sheet in duplicate. These are the lat
ter-day miracles of book-collecting.
Writing on this theme, Andrew Lang
tells the following:
“The bibliophile Jacob bought Louis
XIV.'s ‘Tartutte,’ red morocco, royal
arms, and all, from a booksisUer’s wife,
for a couple of francs. He then gave
it to a friend, when, behold! the poor
husband arrives, asking for the vol
ume, or for a proper price, perhaps
£150. The new owner would not gciy,
or restore, and let; him be a ■n’arnfn.g
example. Such bargains as this are
not honest. Yet, when an English col
lector purchased, for three shillln.gs, a
set of first editions of Alfred de 5Ius
Bet from a lady bookseller, and then of
fered to raise the price, tire seller sr.id:
‘No; we like our customers to get .a bar
gain now and then.’ This wa.s the
chivalry of book selling.
An Alabama man has sued for 310,-
000 damages for libel, basing his clalin
on the woi'dlng of a -tombstone inscrip
tion. This is carrjdng a gi'ave subject
too far; a majority of tombstone epi
taphs are libelous, and evcryono
knows it.
pODS
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The Gastonia(N. 0.) Gazcita, of a reoea t
date, says; Peopla talk of the good old
days of long ago -when times were bet
ter and moiie.y v.-asn’t tighd. How
.ko to hava a do&e of old
Jiay are indicated in the prices
LW from an old aocojantJjRfi
ipP*4^go in J^ivstajiabe couiity,
Having an opportunity recently, r^ev.
E. P. Smith copied some items' from
6uch a book in kind remembrance of his
home papei'. The old book ia nov;
owned by Mr. S. W. Davidson, of
Swaiinanoa Valley, Buncombe county.
It might have been kept by a black-
eraith who ran a store or by a merchant
who also ran a smithy. Here are eome
items copied iinder date of March, 17^*8
-■nearly 100 years ago:
DEBITS.
To 16 pounds sugar 00
To 3 bushels salt S 00
To 1 gallon whiskey 75
To 1 ii’on wedge 50
To laying plow 50
To 1 i>air shoe soles 50
To one-half yard muslin 87^
To 1 pound powder 1 OO’
To 10 pounds of nails. 2 00
To 1 quire paper 87
To 15 pounds sugar and G pounds
coffeo 0 00
CBEMI3.
By 8 days’ work S7|
By 1 bushel corn .50’
By 79 pounds beef at 8 cts S 87
By 1 week’s work 8 00
Sec that 16 pounds of sugar for ^4.00?
And a bushel of salt for 01. SO? How do
you like it? The price of muslin was
but o’sig’at—none was then maQufao-
tured in this country, perhaps all im
ported. Powder at”a dollar a pound
was too high to burn at Christmas. A'
20 cents a pound people couldn’t afford
to hit many nails on the head. And
people must have had something im
portant to write and wanted to writo it
mighty bad when they paid 87 cents a
quire for paper. In other items the con
trast with today is not so mark-^
ed, but iu the old times when it
took a week’s work to buy a bushel of
salt (ho contrast is strong enough to
made a body faint. He who in those
days could earn the salt that went in his
bread ought not to have been counted a
lazy follow.
VICTOIS OF THF TORNADO.
43 People Killed at, Fort Smith—150
Houses Blo-wn Down.
The latest from Fort Smith, Ark.,
shows a total of forty-three lives lost in
the tornado which swept through that
city. Not less than seventy others are
injured, a large number of whom arc
seriously hurt, and several are esrected
to die. Tha full extent of the storm
may bo comprehended from the fact
that thirty-five miles northeast of the
oity a quantity of tin roof from Garri
son avenue building was found.
Ladies of the city are at work distri
buting food and clothing to ..the needy.
The relief committee, composed of the
prominent business men find difflcultv
in housinc- the suffersrs. One hundx-ed
and fifty buildings were demolished.
Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas, Little
Bock, and other cities have wired readi
ness to lend aid if necessary. A census
of tho dead, injured and property loss is
being taken. The number of dead will
not exceed fifty.
Organized War on Hanna.
A Columbus, O., special of tho 18th
says: Leaders on both sides are still
here, preparing for another fight. The
opposition to Hanna was defeated in his
election, but it proposes to fight now
against hia being seated for the long
term. His enemies say they have no)
the time to interfere on the short term,
but they will press the bribery charges,
as such charges were pressed on Henry
B. Payne, fourteen year* ago, to the
United States Senate. Subpoenas have
been issued for Senator Hanna, Maioi
15ick, W. D. Hollenbeck, H. H. I3o.vce
and others to appear before tho Senate
committee. Libel suits have been
brought against several Kepublican pa
pers for damages in connection with the
’uribery charges, notably one by T. C.
Campbell, for §100,000 against the Ohio
State Journal.
Jlissifsippi for Intervention in Cuba.
The Mississippi Legislature adopted
unanimously a rousing Cuban resol'u-
tion offered by Senator Hardy. After
reciting the fact that 00,000" persons
have Been starved to death in the
jirovince of Santa Clara since January
last, and that it is the policy of Spain
to exterminate the “Queen of the An-
tilles,” it demands that the United
States government shall at once inter
vene, ‘ ‘peaceably if it can, forcibly if it
must,”
Keduced tho Bill.
Tho supervisors of Queen’s county,
(N. y.) struck the items of ®8o6.1.5 for
wine, 8328.40 for cigars and $33.40 for
billiards from the hotel bill of the
Thorn jurors. The net sum of the bill
was reduced from §2,049 to
Killed His S-weetlieart and Himself.
At Hurlock, Dorchester, Md., a
negro named Coleman shot and killed
his sweetheart, a girl named Matthews,
and badly wounded her companion,
named Hughes. Coleman then went
home and killed himself. Jealousy
was the cause.
Sloro Lesislation.
The PostofSce Department will re
commend to Congie>s legislation pro
viding that postoffico clerks bo required
to give bond to the government and not
) to the postmaster.
FiFTY^FiFTH CONGRESS.
Proceedings of Buth th- Senate and
House Day By Say.
THE SENATE.
14th Dat.—In the Senate a bill was
favorably reported from the Indian
committee, prohibiting r.'si'road com
panies from Chargingmor= ihsn 3 cents
a mile for passenge?s this’.igh ]ndian
Territory. A resolution w:i? introdn'ced
looking to the Alteration of the water
used in the eily of Washinferon having
be_en oEferad and referrad to tha Dis
trict of Columbia Committee, Mr. Hale,
cf itfaine, eaid that in no part of tha
United States was there a city whose ,
citizens were so abused and imposed
upon as to the water supply as are tho ‘
citizens of Washiii.^rfcoa. “We are con
fronted with bad, ifoal water,” aaid he,
“so filthy, indeed, as to it .dan
gerous to dritife r.iid _
bo.th.“_^ ' ji into
executi/e session to consider the Ha-
annexation treaty.
_15th Day. —Except for a few minutes
given to a controversy over same minor
I'ostofijce confirmations, the entire time
of the executive session of the Senate
was consumed by Beaator Davis, of
Minnesota, in a speech iu support of
Hawaiian annexation. Mr. Davis is
chairman oi tha Senate cowmittea on
foreign relations, and hia speech was
generally accepted as the semi-official
utterance of the majority of tire com
mittee. Ho spoke for about two hours,
and when the Senate adjourned he had
not finished.
ICiH Dax.—Senator Davis completed
his speech in the executive session of
tha Senate on the Hawaiian treaty, and
was followed by Senator Allen, of Ne
braska, who spoke in opposition. Mr.
Davis’ speech was devoted largely to a
presentation of the stategio features of
ann’osation. He displs.ved a chart in
front of the presiding offioer’c platform,
showing the location of Hawaii relative
to this country and Asia. One of the
points brouglit out with considerable
elaboration was the probable effect on
the Nicaraguan canal of the oooupatiou
of the islands by some foreign power.
Chandler introduced a resolution re
questing o list of the ofBcers of tho
army be furnished the Senate.
17th Day. —In the Senate the pension
appropriation bill was placed on the
calendar. A resolution asking tho
President for information about tho
protection of Americans in Cuba, was
read by Senator Cannon. The eulogies
in memory of the late Senator Isham
G. Harris, of Tennessee, was postponed
until after the election of a Senator ’oy
the Legislature of Tennessee. No great
progress was made with the Hawaiian
annexation treaty.
18th Dat. —In the Senate Hoar, of
Massachusetts, presented the following
joint resolution, which was referred to
committee on privileges and elections:
“That the followinK srtlele be proposed to
the Legislatures pf tl)9 severfi' as an
amendment to tho eonstii.atlp.- ’(S^palted
eiate.-: "llfe'c6ra"“0r^0fiictJ0£ ■ i’.asldent
and of thoPifty-e!xthCon,i{reBBt.lii.: continue
until the 30th day ot April, in the year 1901,
at noon. The Senators whose ex%tl- g term
would otherwise expire on tha -Ith day o{
March, In the year 1890 or thereafter, fhall
continue in offleo unti! noon on the 30ih day
of April anoeeedlng eaoh expiration, and the
SOlh day of April at noon shall t^Ol-eaft^r bo
subsiitated for the 4th day cf Jlnreli, as the
eomn-encement and termination of the offl-
clfil term of the president. Vice Pre.<l lent.
Senators and nepreseatatlves In Congress.’ ”
Nineteen bills on the pensioi; calen
dar was passed. Butler, of North Caro
lina secured the passage of a ^oint reso
lution for monuments to Nash and Da
vidson, the cost of each to be So, 000.
The eulogies upon the lata Senator
Earle,of South Carolina, was postponed
on account of McLaurin’s illness, to
some later day. Senate then adjourned
until Monday.
THE HOUSE.
13th Day.—The opponents of the
civil service law had much the best 01
the debate in the House, so far as tha
number of those engaging in it were
concerned. Eight of tho ten speakenl
were of the opposition. The friends o{
the law are very anxious to shut oil
further debate, and in this will havtf
the co-operation of speaker Kaed and
the rules committee,
good children who had never brought
shame or grief to their parents. This
is the biggest and best thiug I know of.
And we had wit and anecdote and
conundrums all mixed up with oyster
soup and turkey and “eat ceteras. ” I
asked Judge Aiken what kin he was to
his sister’s husband’s mothar-ia-law
and ho gave it up iu despair. I hear
that he pondered over it all the way
hoipe and away in the night cried out:
“Eureka! Eureka!’’ Then Mayor
Gilbert put the seventeen elephant
problem at me and I gottangled up and
then I asked him how a ground squirrel
dug his hole in the ground without
leaving any dirt around tha top and it
scared him, but his wife came to hia
relief and an: ;, re-’ it. Men haven’t
got very m-a.jh oi I’uat-ki-iw-^
and I always depend upon wifer
I don’t like to strain my miiid.—Bill
Arp in Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.
17th DAY.—The civil service, debate
which was inaugurated iu the iHouse a
week ago, ended. It 'opened with a
row, but en'ded very tamely.* There
was not even a vote on tho apl’propria-
tion in the legislalive, cxeouKsve and
judicial appropriation bill for the
commission upon which the- debate
was predicated. The Republicans, -who
are seeking to modify or repeal the
law, decided to let tho debate} come to
a close, but it required the cas^iting vote
of the Speaker to accomplish this.
Thera are conflicting statements as to
the situation in which the futtoe con
duct of the war against the civiil service
law is left. All the Eepublicaji oppon
ents of the law agree that the Bght is to
be kept up, and it is positive!.!/ stated
by Mr. Pearson, (Rep.) of North Caro
lina, that assurances hava been received
from those in authority in the, House,
that ar opportunity wijl be gi'Wen in tha
future for the consideration o^ a bill to
modify the law. But fro^ other
sources the stalement canno t ba con
firmed.
ISthDay.—The House disctiased the
urgent deficiency bill carrying! $1,741,-
843. One of the items authoi-izing a
further expenditure of $520,00(5 for the
Soldiers’ Home at Danville, ;II1., for
which 3150,000 was appiopriat&d in the
last sundry civil bill, was used by Mr.
DeArmond, of Missouri, Demc.crat, as
a basis for a bitter persona', attack
upon Chairman Cannon, wlicse home
is in Danville. Ha charged the
chairman of the appropriafciou com
mittee of having used hia p6wers and
position to secure the location of the
home at Danville. Mr. Canfion ia re-
^lyJifa&ded Mx. Ds^mosdaa a com
mon sftold, WHO would liave lieen
ducked under the town pump had he
jived in the old days. He said he woflld
stand of fall on his record. Tho House,
by a vote of 123 to 74, sustained tha ap-
proiiriatiou. There was also a lively de
bate over the iirovision in the bill re
quiring the owners of bullion hereafter
to pay the cost of transporting bullion
from aseayists to mints.
19th Day.—Tho House completed the
consideration of tho agricultural appro-
liriation in committee of tho whole.
There was the annual fight over tho
question of free seed distribution to the
farmers, but the eftbrt to strike out tha
nprropriation of ®i80,000 failed as us-
Hal, tha majority against it b>'
ing I06. One of the most im
portant amendments adopted pro
vided for the inspection of Ixorse meat
for export purposes in the same way
that the meat of cattle and othei ani
mals is now inspected. There was a
other edition of the famous “Horse
Book” to cost S105,000. Chairman
Wadsworth and members of the appro
priation committee, resisted it, but it
was carried over their hea Is by a nar
row margin in committee of the whole.
Williams, of Mississippi, (Dem.) made
an extended speech iu favor of a postal
savings bank system.
20th Day. —The House spent most of
the day filibustering against the claim
of the Methodist Publishing House,
South, at Nashville, Teun., §288,000 for
the seizure and use of the property dur
ing ths war. It was agreed that 75,000
copies of the “House Book” be printed.
It was also agreed to have 40,000 copies
of ii map of Alaska printed, showing tha
most feasible routes to the gold fields.
Any debate whatever on Cuba was side
tracked altogether.
31st DAY.—The House took up the
consideration of tha army appropria
tion bill. The bill, Chairman Hall, of
the military committee, explained,
carried $28,185,900, or $1,089,751 less
than the estimates, §56,746 in excess of
the law for the current yeai’. The
increase in tho pay of the army was
due to tha fact that the army was
nearer its maximum strength thaa
heretofore. A new provision in the
bill required the payment of
troops by the paymaster in prison.
The general Cobato on tha bill was
desultory, and was not confined to
the subject matter dealt with by the
bill. Mr. Henry, Democrat, of Texas,
took occasion to denounce Secretary
Gage’s funding scheme. Mr. Terry,
Democrat, of Arkansas, made soma re
marks about the protective tarifi, and
Mr. Gaines, Democrat, of Tennessee,
some on the claim of the publishing
house of tho Methodist Episcopal
Church, South.
ROW IN AUGUSTA’S COUNCIL.
Figlit Between an Aldorman and /le
Fire Chief.
At the rs.'i.'iioa of tho Augusta, Gs.,
oity council, on the 8th for the olectiou
of city officers for the ensuing term,
the fight between the Walsh and Kerr
factions was resumed with all its
V.ugilistic features. The Kerritas have
a majority of five and proceeded to
amputate the heads of those officers
who supported ex-^^enator Walsh in the
municipal campaign.
When the fire department was reach
ed, tho presence of Chief Koulette was
necessary, and pending his arrival a re
cess was taken. During this recess.
County Jailer Collins and Councilman
Lougee became involved in a difficulty.
Loiigee attempted to strike Collins, -nho
landed a blowonLougee’s jaw. Lougee
reached for his gun, but peacemakers
inteifered and quiet was restored.-
reeling is running high among the
citizens, and the action of the Kerrites
is denounced on all sides.
Sloney to Succeed George,
The Democratic caucus of the Mississ
ippi Legislaturfe has nominated Hon.
H. D. Money as United States Senator
to succeed the late Senator George.
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TORNADO IN KKNTUCKY.
Great Damage Done in tho Town of
Jlorganfield.
A tornado struck the town ofMorgan-
field; Ky., unroofing tha old Methodist
church and parsonage, totally demol
ishing tho large two story brick hard
ware grocery store of H. L. Hart &
Bro., the city hall and J. M. Jean’A
produce store. The Crown roller mills
building was considerably damaged
and the smokestack was- blown down.
The front of A. Waren’s jewelry store
was blown in and a number of small
buildings were unroofed and chimneys
blown down. Mr. Harvey Sellers, the
city marshal, who was iu the police
oflic-e at the time, was instantly kiiled
by the falling wall. The loss to Hart
Bros, alono will exceed $20; 000, with no
Buslineli Inaugurated.
At Columbus, O., on the 10th Gover
nor Bushnell was inaugurated for his
second term. Although the city was
crowded with adherents of bothl3ush-
nell and Hanna, there was no collision
between the opposing factions. A num
ber of delegations called on tho Gover
nor during tho forenoon and expressed
confidence in him. The inaugural pa
rade was not equal to that of other
years. It took it but tv/enty minutes
to pass the grand stand. Tho ihaugural
address of Governor Bushnell W‘is
ehrivt
Notes From Washington.
It is proposed to require mates of in
land ateamera to be licensed.
The Canadian government will tax
all miuera’ supplies not purchased ia
Canada.
Tha postoilioe receipts last month
showed an increase of $301,924 over De
cember, 1869.
No warships will be sent to Havanna
at present to protect American inter
ests, as General Lee has informed tha
State Department that thera ia no cause
for apprehension.
Mrs. rre Pink—I am amazed, sir, th.it
you should propose to my daughter.
Why, she has only just left boarding
Bchoo!, .'’.nd you have not known her a
week: y’oung Man—True, madam: but
I have, known you for some time, and
evei^body says your dauguter takes
after ydu. ^
TOID m A PARAGRAPH.
Tlje South.
Mormons are making their appear
ance in North Carolina in great num
ber.').
1 here is a movement to change tha
capital of 'ilabama from Montgomery to
Birmingham. .
The orange crop of Southern Cali
fornia, now being harvested, is in prime
condition.
Tha Citizens’ Exchange Bank has
been organized in Hiohmond, Va,, with
a capital stock of $i0j,000.
Judge Dick, of North Carolina, has
gone to tha Johns Hopkins Hospital,
at Baltimore, for treatment.
Goyernor Taylor, of Tennessee, has
announced himself as a candidate for
election to the United States Senate.
“a biil must sacure
licanso to sell wines and liquors.
Mr. J. J. Newman, of Salisbury, N.
C., is making eiforts to organize a
Eowan county settlers’ association.
Tho car “CSty of Charlotte” was
slightly damaged at Marion, N. 0., by
a shifting fi’eight car on the side track.
Thieves entsred Morris’ etore, .4.1ex-
ander, N. 0., rolled tho safe out of the
building, and broke it open, stealing
S76 in cash and several checks. -
The president has named Owen L.
W. Smith, of North Carolina, to be
minister resident and consul general of i
tho United States to Liberia.
Tho Isbell Corundum Company has
been organized at Asheville, N. C.,
with f250,000 capital stock, to mine the
Clay county mineral, tvvoaty miles from
Murphy.
There is a movement on foot to em
brace in one national park tho battle
fields of Fredericksburg, Chauoellors-
viile, tho Wilderness and Spottsylvania
Court House, Va., embracing 6,500
acres.
At Huntington, W, Va., Carter
ShiSetta has been arrested for passing^
old city orders which mysteriously dis
appeared from the vaults at the city
hall. Fifteen thousand dollars worth
have been paid a second time. Shiffletto
says he came by tha orders honestly.
The aggregate amount of the missing
orders is §140,000.
Tlio North.
Fifteen persons were injured in a
rear-end collision on the Long Island
Eailroad, in New York.
The Inland and Iron Forge Company
of Chicago has started, giving employ
ment to 500 men.
By a gas explosion atDaleville, Ind.,
the tile factory of B. F. Lefter was de
stroyed and John Einker killed.
The site of a prehistoric village has
been discovered near Massillon, O.,
and evidences of cremation found.
Ad'al E. Sifeveneon, former rica-
President of tho United Statou, has
accept-od the position of Western coun
sel of the North American Trust Com
pany of New York, with a membership
in tho board of directors.
Mrs. Augusta Nack, jointly charged,
with Martin Thorn, with the murder of
Wm. Guldensuppe, a bath rubber, at
W^oodsida, L. L, 'n June cf last year,
has been sentenced to fifteen years in
the State prison at Auburn, N."Y.
Gn February 1st 114 looms in the
Manchester (N. H.,) Cotton Mills will
be stopped for an indefinite time. Tha
cause assigned ia the falling off in the
demand for irintgoods. There willalso
be a reduction of about 10 par cent, in
wages, aCfecting about 80 jier cent, of
the employes, on January 24th.
Mlscclianeous.
Corbett ofiers Fitzsimmons $85,000 for
a fight to a finish.
John Lincoln, of Bo1s!k)W, Mo., a
second cousin of Abraham fjincoln, has
asked for a pension.
Secretary Long' has asked Congress
for an increase of 1,000 enlisted men in
the navy end 700 apprentices.
The Mexican Congress hna concluded
a long teim contract with the Western
Union Telegraph Company.
The whole story of the Indian upris
ing in tha Indian Territory is a fake,
says the Associated Press.
The body of the murdered, W. H. T.
Durrant, was cremated at the crema
tory of Keynolds and Van Nuys, at Al-
dena, Cal.
A delegation called on Chairman
Diu,gley in the interest of legislation
reducing tha internal revenue tax on
distilled spirits.
The deaths from the plague at Bom
bay during tha past week numbered
430. There were 1,397 deaths during
the same period from all causes.
The estate of the late George M. Pull
man, from an inventory filed in court
a^iiioags?., 'vas estiaiatetH^^ '
, 10,000 ra E'tuOKi and ’conds and ^2,-
000,000 in real estate.
The central Cuban relief committee
of New York, recently made a large
shipment on a Ward Line steamer,
consigned to Consul-General Lee, con
sisting of 80,203 separate packages and
in addition 500,000 grains of quinine.
Eev. Dr. John S. Zahm succeeds tho
late Dr. Corby as i)rovincial of tho
Catholic Order of the Holy Cross in
this country 0
Es-Presideat Cleveland, owing to
press of business, has resigned the posi
tion of trustee of the N*ew Jersey His
torical Society, but v.’iU continue to be
a member of the society.
The Atlantic Coast Line’s New York
anjd Florida special flyer waa put in
service, for the eleventh season, on the
17th. It is the fastest train running
between New York and Florida.
Washington Jottings,
The superintendent of engraving and
printing at Washington denies that the
counterfeit silver certificates were made
from the government plate or from an
impression taken therefrom.
The PostolBce Department has decid
ed that postmasters cannot be required
to cash pension checks. ■
EobertP. Porter has declined a ten
der of the euperintendency of the next
census, and Henry Gannett, of Wash-
i iagton, D. C., may get it.
j The nomination of E. C. Duncan fcr
; collector of internal revenue of North
; Carolina, has been confirmed by tho
i United States Senate.
' The United States Senate has con-
I firmed tha nomination of Thomas C.
I Fullar, of North Carolina, to be judge
I of the Com't of Pyivate Irftnd Claimfl.
Greensboro to Winston-Salem and
Wilkesboi'o.
Schedule in Ei'-'e.t OJtober
Eastorii Time.
Lv. Groensboro
Pomona
GuiUonl CollegG
Fr’.endship
K^rnersvilio
Winston-Salem
Alsp.aui;h
S.:iihania
Eiirai E.ill
Xobaeccjvllio
n -niinha
Sboals
Sih'am
Kockford
Orntohlleld '
Ko. If5
S Kolo
ii ,',0 11 lit
8 .- y a
9 CO a m
9 13 a ra
*.i .vO a ill
JO 00 a m
10 10 a m
10 Mam
10 S± a m
10 45 a in
10 C3 a m
n 25 n m
n 42 r, m
)1 67 a ra
4, 1807.
MixecJ.
No. 357.
E:;. Sub.
3 40 p m'
1 57 p m
2 12 p in
2 3o n 111
2 5 -i p m
3 12 p m
8 36 p m
£3 p ra
4 80 p m
U v'3 p JQ
' liondft
Ilcariog Paver
Quarry
Ai*. Wilkofsboro
12 37 p m
12 0 p m
12 ^7 p m
110 p m
C 35 p in
7 02 p m
7 22 p ra
• 7 £0 p m
Eastern Time
Lv. Wilke^boro
Quarry
Koaring Ehx^r
Honda
Elkin
Burch
Crutchficld
Roekiord
SilORm
Shoals
Donnaha
TobaccoviUe
Rural Hali
Bethania
Alspaugh
Winstou-Salem
Keruersvillo
Friendship
Guilford CoJIege
Pomona
Ar. Greensboro
110.
Noto
2 05 p m
2 38 p m
2 23 p m
2 33 p m
2 5) p la
8 10 p m
8 (1 p ra
8 36 p m
8 63 p in
4 C3 p m
4 18 p m
4 31 p m
4 43 p m
4 55 p m
5 On p Ki
5 20 5) m
5 42 p m
5 fC p m
G 08 p m
6 10 p m
6 20 p m
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No. lc(>.
See Noto
8 00 a m
8 .SO a m
8 55 a m
9 24 a ra
10 (0 a ra
10 SO a in
10 5u a m
11 4 3 a ni
12 25 p m
12 50 p m
1 35 pm
2 03 p ra
2 35 p m
3 05 p ra
8 24 p m
8 45 p ra
Nos. 105 and 110—Baily between WJostou-
Salera, and daily except Sunday Ictweon
Wmston-Salem and Wilkcsboro.
Note.—No. 157 will leave Wla£ton>Bal6ra
M )ndays. Wtduss.lays ai.d rrldnys.
No. 150 will leave WitUesboro XaRSdaya,
Thursdays and Saturdays.
FAME WITH A FIDDLE,
XrinmpU of a Yonng American Girl;
in Europe^s Musicc.1 World. \
Though only 17 years old, Miss Leo-'
nora Jackson has scored a great tnusi-i
cal success In Europe and has accom-j
plished something no ^^irl hailing from;
this country has ever equaled. This Is;
thewinuingof the "Mendelsschn stipcn-
dium," a prize coveted by violinists all
over the world. Miss Jaclison's father ,
is a banker of Mud Springs, Cal. She.
is a protege of Mrs. Grover Cleveland.'
by whom she was sent to Berlin to'
study her favorite instruiuent under
Joachim, lleprcsentaiiveb ^ vom a scora
of countries annually . trlve ioi' the sti-,
pendiuni. This year artists from all
the great European cities and from va
rious sections of this country were
among the contestants. When Miss
L^m. I
f » !
If I
'Ill Ir
MTSS T.EOa-or.-V JACKSOS'.
Jackson was declared the winner Dr.
.Toachlm went Into transports of de*
light, embracing his favorite pupil in
the jjresence of a host of people. Since
then she has performed at the Royal
Opera House of the German capital in
a special performance before tire Em
press and the court. Subsequently sho
appeared at many important concerts
in Berlin and in some of the provincial
towns of Germany.
3Vhen sho played In May within or-.
chestra accompaniment at the Anlialt-
ish musical festival In Kothen, under
the court conductor, August IClughaedt,
she was then and there engaged for
two orchestra conccrts .it Dessau next
winter. A little later on she will ful
fill her successive engagements in va
rious orchestral concerts at Vienna,
Leipsic, Munich and Hamburg. Wher
ever Miss Jackson has appeared sl-o
has sustained her fast growing reputa
tion as a talented orchestral soloist.
In London Miss Jackson has lately
played for Dr. Richter with marked
success, and also at JXr. Henschel's.
That eminent artist callcd the young
American “ a genius—one not found iu
thousands.”
Coach It^iiTTs I'liror.Kli a ISriflge.
A day coach on westbound train Ko.
86, of the Western of Alabama rail
road, want_ through Cubahatchia
bridge, 21 miles east of Montgomery,
Ala. Two persons, the conductor and
flagman, wero seriously injured, and
eighteen passengers received bruises
or other injuries, nono of which are
serious.
I I
Crazed by Hi-r Son’s Crime.
Mrs. Christina Gentry, tho mother oi
James G. Gentry tho actor who two
years ago shot and killed his sweetheart,
Madge York, in Philadelphia, and is
now servin.sr a life term for his crime,
died at Eichmoml, Ya. Mrs. Gentry
waa (iO years old and enjoyed good
health up to the time of the awful crima
of her only son. This crazed her with
grief, and she had been siniiing stead
ily since. ■■ ^