THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER
VOL. IV. NO. 38.
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W. C. SMITH Charlotte NC,
Two young women named Draper
carry on a successful farm at Auburndale,
Mass., about eighteen miles from Boston.
Two or three years ago they were teach
ing school, which occupation they gave
up to see what they could do as farmers.
They owned their place, so they began
to carry out their plans as soon as decided
upon. They began by raising chickens,
and their eggs are famous the country
round. To prove that they are fresh
each egg is stamped with the date of its
birth, and for this guarantee their cus
tomers are willing to pay double the
market price. Everything they raise is
of the best, and is made to appear to the
best advantage. To attain success they
are obliged to work hard, and it is not
unusual for them to begin their day's
work at 3 o’clock in the morning.
Carroll D. Wright, Chief of the United
ffates Bureau of Labor Statistics, says
in illustration of the inaptitude of well
informed people to estimate properly,
that a railroad President and several con
servative bus'ncss men recently gave it
u their deliberate opinion that three
thousand men were out of employment
in Lawrence, Massachusetts, a city of
thirty thousand inhabitants. Careful
March by the Board of Labor could find
snly three hundred men who wanted
work. He also calls attention to the
fact that the State Board of Charities of
Massachusetts officially announced that
the.e were sixty-two thousand tramps in
the State. An accurate census discov
ered only one thousand one hundred.
The first conspiracies against the life
as Alexander 111., of Russ A were dis
covered by the police liefore they could
be carried out. Such was the Anichkov
Palace conapiracy in 1885 and the No
votcherkask con piracy in 1880. The
existence of both was denied point
blank by the official press when they were
reported abroad. But such conspiracies
did exist, nevertheless. The anniversary
conspiracy, March 13, 1887—the anni
versary of the killing of the present
Czar's father—was the first which came
near succeeding. Since that date there
have been almost uninterrupted series of
announcements of the discovery by the
police of new plots.
/ The Army and N<trj OaulU says:
“ There is a movement on foot among
the most influential posts of the Grand
Army of the Republic to petition the gov
ernment to purchase a large tract of land
on the top of Lookout Mountain for a
national park. What more appropriate,
overlooking the grounds of Chickamau
ga, Mission Ridge and Lookout Plateau,
where were fought the deciaive battlcaol
the great civil war! What could the
government do that would be more
gratifying to the present aa well as the
eoming generations than to erect aueh a
park here on the dividing line almost ol
the two great sections, as a monument to
the valor of it* own armies aa well as to
the patriotic ib jrotion and courage of its
former enemies V
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS
NORTII CARSMSA.
Owen Jones, general merchant of
Edgecombe county, has made an assign
ment, with liabilities of |4,000.
W. E. Page & Co., general merchants
of Robersonvillc, Martin county, have
made an assignment for the benefit of
their creditors; liabilities, $7,000.
The exciting libel suit of ,1. W. Hearn,
editor of the Wadesboro Intelligencer,
came to an end in Raleigh by the jury
returning with a ve-dict in twenty min
utes of not guilty.
W. H. Brooks, whof ormerly resided
at Rockingham, waa beaten on the bead
with a club by James Norton, and sus
tained fatal injuries. The difficulty oc
curred near Springfield, in Richmond
county.
The road from Monroe to Atlanta,
known as the Georgia Carolina and
Northern, has been completed from Mon
roe to the South Carolina line, nine
miles. The convicts engaged in grading
have been removed to the Cape Fear ana
Yadkin Valley road.
In Robinson county, a few nights past,
a dance was given at the house of a
negro named William Hunt. While it
was in progress a pistol shot was heard.
It was found that a negro named Martin
Campbell had suddenly disappeared.
There was a great mystery about the
whole affair. It has now been terminated
by the finding of Campbell's body in the
woods, a quarter of a mile from the
Die where the dance was held. The
y was beside a road, and in one hand
was a revolver. The coroner has held
an inquest, which revealed a remarkable
crime. While Campbell was in the yard
of Hunt’s house a white man came up
and shot him dead. The white man and
some negroes hastily took the body of
Campbell and carried it to the place
where it was found. They took a re
volver from the pockets of Campbell and
placed it in his hand, in order to create
the impression that it was a case es sui
cide. The white man concerned has
disappeared.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
rhis season Marion has shipped 11,794
bales of cotton, against 8,381 last season.
It is claimed that $62,500 is spent
every year at Marion for horses and
mules.
Last year Mr. J. A. Brooks, of Abbe
ville, made, six bales of cotton on less
than four acres of land.
The postofficcs at Yorkville and Ben
nettsvillc have been raised to the rank of
Presidential offices.
The smallest mortgage filed in the
Picken's clerk’s office so far is for $2,
with another for $2.20 pushing it close
for the prize.
A negro named Brownlee, who was
accidentally shot by another negro named
Ellison at Pelzcr, has died at Donald's,
Abbeville countv.
Mr. Henry T. Fellers, of Newberry
county, has been appointed special agent
of the law department of the Richmond
and Danville Railroad.
Prof. F. C. Woodward, of Wofford
College, has accepted an invitation to de
liver the annual address before the lit
erary societies of Newberry College.
George Evans, one of the negroes em
ployed by Contractor Deal, who is work
ing a force of hands on the Georgia,
Carolina and Northern Railroad, a few
miles from Chester, was killed while
blasting.
A negro man named Guy Rowland,
who was in the employ of Tanner & Co.,
and at work on the Carolina, Knoxville
and Western Railroad, near Greenville,
dropped dead while going to his work.
He was examined by a physician, who
pronounced death from heart disease.
A few days ago the wife of William
Sparks, of York county, was bitten on
the foot by a small black spider. Very
soon the foot began to swell, and there
were very alarming symptoms, com|ieU
ing the lady to take to bed and call in a
physician. At last accounts her condi
tion was serious, hut hopes are enter
tained that she will not die.
Young Goodlet, who disappeared from
the Reedy River neighborhood, has re
turned in a half insane condition. He is
unable to give any account of himself or
his wanderings, and appears to lie suffer
ing from serious alicrration of mind.
Mr. R. G. Patrick, son of Capt. John
B. Patrick, of the Anderson Military
Academy, and at present a student of
the Baptist Theological Seminary at
Louisville, has accepted a call to the
pastorate of the Baptist church of York
villc.
The trial of the suit of David S. Foth
eringliam against the Adams Express
Company and Robert A. Pinkerton, for
$60,000 damages for false imprisonment
and securing his indictment on false
charges, has begun in Bt. [amis. Foth
eringham was the’ messenger of the
Adams Express Company who was robbed’
on the St. Louis and San Francisco
Railroad, not far from St. I-ouis, on the
night of October 25, 1886, and was in
dicted for robbery and tried and ac
quitted.
Hnlisy Middleton, a colored boy, aged
10 year*, living in Beaufort county,
(Miisoned himself by drinking t vial of
medicine prepared for a grown person.
Death ensued a few hours after the
draught. The medicine was harmless in
proper doses, and hence no precaution
had been taken to prevent its improper
use. The boy drank ihe whole vial,
whereas a half teaipdonfdl was the projier
doss for an adult,
CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1888.
Dr. Bcnj. Mclnnes, Jr., veterinary
surgeon, after a careful investigation of
the disease among the horses about Rock
Hill, comes to the conclusion that it is
not the pinkeye but a catarrhal fever.
The disease is not necessarily dangerous,
and he recommends good ventilation,
plenty of sunlight, clean stables, good
nursing and plenty of food, and thinks
there need then be but little apprehen
sion about recovery. Quinine in doses
of five grains given twice a day is
recommended as an excellent tonic.
Merely place the quinine on the horse's
tongue and he will swallow it.
Newberry is startled by the announce
ment of the robbery of the Newberry
postoffice by Mr. John Hawkins, assistant
postmaster. Mr. Hawkins left on the
28th of March to viait, as he said, his
mother in Orangeburg, but it was dis
covered in a few days that he had robbed
the postoffice to the amount of about
SSOO, as far as has yet developed.
Capt. J. W. Brunson, of Spartanburg,
has been appointed deputy collector for
the State at large. The duties of Capt.
Brunson will he to look after the illicit
distillers and wagon peddlers. This ap
point has been authorized within the
past few days by the internal revenue de
partment. The recent troubles in the
Glassy Mountain section of Greenville
county caused the department to deter
mine upon having a larger force in this
State. Mr. Brunson will have the power
to summon possees when it may be
necessary to capture illicit distillers or to
make raids.
There is a remarkable outbreak o
measles at the town of Manchester, in
Cumberland county. The population
consists almost entirely of factory opera
tives, as some large cotton manufactur
cated there. Nearly every operative is
sick, some dangerously so, and all the
mills have been forced to shut down. In
many cases the sick people have con
tracted colds, and this makes their con
dition very dangerous. Aid is being
given by the kind people of that section.
Much an outbreak of this disease was
never before known in this State.
GEORGIA.
Algernon Lovejoy, a young man in the
employ of Barnes & Co., was killed near
Humphreys, Clinch county, by a falling
tree.
Mr. O. P. Ritch, of Silver Creek, while
digging around for iron ore n few days
ago, excavated ani blasted out a ledge
of ore that weighed 65 tons.
A year old negro child died in Calhoun
from being drenched with coal oil by
some other negro children, while the
mother was away from home.
Mrs. Michael Dougherty, living near
Rocky Ford, committed suicide by tak
ing strychnine.
NORTH, EAST AND WEST
A. L. Benjamin, book-keeper of the
crockery house of E. B. Taylor & Co., of
Richmond, Va-, has gone to Canada with
$15,000 of the firm's money.
One hundred head of stock were burn
ed in a barn near Paris, Ky. The build
ing was fired by lightning.
Forty persons were killed and about
five hundred injured by a tornado at
Dacca, India.
The Builington Road has restored
rates on freight. This means an end to
the freight rate war.
At Terre Haute, Ind., the State Nor
mal School building was burned to the
ground. Loss, $189,000.
G. D. Alien* Bros., large land and
cattle owners of Hartland, Kansas, have
failed. Liabilities, SIOO,OOO.
At Bristol, Tenn., the large planing
and manufacturing mills owned by Buf
fum * Co. have been burned. Loss,
$25,000; insurance, $5,000.
Thomas Slides, who with his brothers
owns a number of grocery stores through
out New York City, and is reputed to
be wealthy, wss sentenced to the peni
tentiary for three months for selling
oleomargarine.
Two negroes, whose names could not
be learned, fought a duel with pocket
knives near Birmingham, Ala., at a rail
road camp. One of them was fatally
stabbed and the other escaped.
Sam Jones Attacked.
A decided sensation was created in re
ligious circles st Wilkcsborre, Pa. Sam
Jones, the evangelist, lectured there,
and as usual was profuse in his broad
soyings. The morning paper makes a
bitter attack on Jones. It says: “After
running the gauntlet between semi
sobriety and delirium tremens, he braced
up and exhibited himself as a bright ex
ample. Jones now wallows in coarse
language ami wit of a low tone. His
sayings leave a bad taste in the month
and seem sncrcligious. He makes a bur
lesque of religion. Brother Gardner, of
the Lime Kiln Club, should get hold of
Jones and exhibit him.”
Attacking the Cara.
A special from Chicago, 111., «ays: A
“Q” engine, manned by new men, was
approaching the city over the Western
Indiana tracks from the southwest. At
47th street a crowd threw stones through
the cid) window, when Charles Sommers,
one of the crew, drew a revolver, and
firing it at the crowd, struck James Boy
lan, a foundryman, in the knee. At 40th
street the engine met the same repulsion
from another crowd, and Sommers again
brought his pistol into use. He shot
Miko Welch, a Wabash engineer, in the
groin, wounding him fatally. An alarm
having been given to the police, the en
gine was intercept** and fitjlntiert
’ M«d under arrest.
HOME AGAIN.
CROSS AMD WHITE IM RALEIGH
JAIL.
■*t Declare That Their Hearts Are la the
Rlsht Place—Aa latereetlaa Chapter.
Charles E. Cross and Samuel C. White,
the absconding president and cashier of
the State National Bank, of Raleigh,
have arrived home in custody of Chief of
Police Heartt and Deputy Rogers. The
party were driven quietly to the jail.
Very few people were on the lookout, as
it rad been announced that Cross and
White would not arrive until later in
the day.
On their arrival at the jail the prisoners
were locked up. They were permitted
to see a few relatives. Three brothers
in-law of White and two of his church
friends called. To one of the latter
White said that amidst all hi» troubles
he had not lost his religion. He was told
that a week ago his Sunday school class
of young ladies had prayed for him.
White remarked that the plundered bank
ought, with proper management in
closing it up, pay from seventy to ninety
cents on the dollar.
Cross declares that the bank was broke
all to pieces wher he went in as presi
dent two years ago, and that the people
in th* bank knew it to be so. He said
further that when the trial came off, and
he went on the stand as a witness, all
this would be revealed, and a great deal
more. He asserted that some people here
are sorry to see him and White back in
Raleigh. He declared that he and White
would prove their assertions by the books
of the bank.
There was no trouble whatever in
bringing the prisoners back. They did
not require handcuffs. There was talk
of a compromise by which they agreed
to return. This was all wrongly stated.
They returned just as if extradited, to
be tried upon the three indictments of
forgery found against them by the grand
jury of Wake county, which were filed
with the Department of State at Wash
ington. They merely saved the trouble
of extradition. That was all.
The bond of each was fixed by Judge
Shipp, of Wake Superior Court, at fif
teen thousand dollars. Efforts were
made to secure the requisite hail, but
were unavailing.
Some persons express a belief that they
can’t be convicted of forgery, but the
majority say the evidence is direct and
overwhelming, and their conviction a
certainty. No reporters were admitted
to see the prisoners. Counsel for the
latter said that they had ao statements
to make, and would make none until the
trial was held.
ASSESSING BANK STOCK.
The Attevsev-General es Noell Carolina
Glvee an Important Decision.
A question as to the proper manner of
assessing bank stock and banking capi
tal for taxing having arisen in South
Carolina, the matter was referred by the
Comptroller-General to Attorney-General
Earle, who rendered the following im
portant decision, which, from the fact
that it declares United States bonds not
exempt from State taxation, causes con
siderable consternation among banking
people generally. The Attorney-Gen
eral says:
“My opinion is that the shares of the
shareholders in any hank or hanking
association should be listed against them
individually at their true value in money,
and this value should include all surplus
or extra money, capital and every species
of personal property of value owned or
in the possession of any such hank. It
matters not that such surplus or capital
may have been invested in United States
bonds, or other non-taxahle securities.
Under section 5219 of the revised statutes
it is declared that nothing in statutes
shall prevent all the shares in any asso
ciation from being included in the per
sonal property, or the holder of such
shares in assessing taxes imposed by the
authority of the State within which the
association is located, etc. My opinion
is that under this section, when con
strued with the other United States
hanking laws, the State has the authority
to impose a tax upon the actual value in
money upon the shares of the share
holders without any reference to the
character of the securities in which the
capital or surplus of any bank may he
invested. Van Allen vs. the Assessors.
3 vol., 695.”
Comptroller - General Veroer has
instructed all the county auditors to ex
tend the information above given to the
banks and banking institutions, and re
quire all such corporations to revise re
turns made by them, taking care to as
certain, as nearly ns they possibly can,
the true money value of Inc shares in
such institutions, including their surplus,
without reference to the character of the
securities in which the capital or surplus
may be invested.
A Close Share for His Life.
The barbers’assistants of Naples, Italy,
were out on a strike. A rich English
man arriving nt n hotel »sk<d for a bar
ber. Being informed of the strike, hut
bent upon making his visits without de
lay, he offered SIOO for a shsve. That
is more than a barber can make by shav
ing all day long for twelve months at
Nsple*. It is aot astonishing, therefore,
that a man wns found willing to break
the rule* of th# union and pocket one
year's salary by one share. The fact be
came known to his c dlcagues, however,
who proceeded to attsck the apostate
with stilettos. He was taken to the
hospital with twenty seven serious
wounds. More than twenty arrests were
made.
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SELECT SIFTINGS.
A barrel of rice weighs 000 pounds.
The first steel pen was made in 1830.
A span is ten and seven-eights incheo.
Italy signifies a country of pitch, from
its yielding great quantities of black
pitch.
A handsome Maltese cat, taken from
Norfolk, Va., to Staunton, traveled back
home, 276 miles, by itself, in a few
weeks.
A Texas paper says that a somnam
bulist went out and hitched up his team
and plowed nearly half on acre before
he woke up.
A hugh black fish over thirty-five feet
in length was seen in the waters of the
bay near Whatcom, Washington Terri
tory, recently.
Paris is the city of cats. They live in
colonies near the market* and war on
the rats. Lately they have become very
numerous and ferocious.
The present national bank system of
the United States was organized February
25, 1863, to give uniformity to the paper
currency and the banking laws of the
country.
In 1526 Wales was incorporated with
England, and the Engl'sh laws and liber
ties were granted to its inhabitants. Ire
land was raised to the dignity of a king
dom in 1542.
Illinois has a law prohibiting the sale
of tobacco in any shape to children
under eighteen years of age, and the
Mayor of Chicago has set about rigidly
enforcing it.
The relative distances of the sun and
the muon were first calculated, geo
metrically, by'Aristarchus, who also
maintained the stability of the sun,,
about 280, B. C.
The fruit of the cherry laurel increases
at the rate of nicety per cent, at night
and cnly ten per cent: by day; while ap
ples increases eighty per cent, at night
and twenty per cent, in the daytime.
Had not the wife of an English paper
maker accidently let a blue bag fall into
a vat of pulp, blue la:d paper, the inven
tion which brought a fortune to the paper
maker, might have still to be invented.
Arthur Schleman, of Sanford, Fla.,
killed a rattlesnake the other day, and
found in it a large rabbit. The animal
had evidently been swallowed only a
short time before, for it was still warm.
A colored man in Anderson county, S.
C., found a live bat in the middle of the
trunk of a huge pine tree which he felled.
There was a sir all cavity in the center of
the tree made there by chipping the pine
when small.
A farmer of Sumpter county. Ark.,
swapped his homestead of 160 acres for
five acres of land, twenty bushels of po
tatoes, one sow, four pigs, five gallons of
lyrup, four hens, two eggs, and a J ”*y
chew of tobacco.
Samuel Mrrrison, who died in Indian
apolis recently at the age of ninety, was
the oldest-born Indianian. His father
was a Revolutionary soldier who settled
on the present site of Aurora, Indiana, in
1798, the year of Samuel Morrison’s
birth.
A Buffalo man hung his watch at night
over a pan of dough in the kitchen, and
the next morning it was missing. He of
com se thought it bad been stolen, and
was considerably surprised at supper time
to seethe lost timepiece roll out of a loaf
of bread his wife was cutting.
A peculiar feature of Long Lake, in
Wexford County, Michigan, is that it
gradually rises and subsides once every
few years. It has been rising for the past
four or five years, and the Grand Rapids
& Indiana Railway has been obliged to
abandon its old railway along the shore.
Jim Roberts, of Hartwell, Georgia,
nwns a rooster which swelled up to an
unnatural size the other day. Out of
curiosity Jim punctured the fowl's skin
with ajpenknife to find out if its great
bulk were due to sir beneath the skin.
The rooter at once collapsed to its nor
mal sue and is now all right.
Secret of the Sphinx.
An undertaking has been begun which
ought to yield results of special interest.
This is the removal of sand from round
the sphinx. TlfPsphinx occupies apo
sit ion where the encroachment of the
desert is most conspicuous. At the
present day nothing is to be seen of the
animal except its head and neck; but the
old Egyptian monuments on which it is
figured show not only the entire body
down to the pairs, but also a large
square plinth beneath,covered with orna
menls. .Since the time of the Greeks,
pei haps, even since the re'gn of George
IV., this plinth has disappeared beneath
the sand and its very existence had been
forgotten.
It is generally supposed that the sphi: x
is hewn out of a large, isolated rock
which overlooked the p'ain; but M.
Maspero's researches suggest that it is a
work still more stupendous. He baa
proved that the sphinx occupies the cen
ter of an amphitheatre, forming a kind
of rocky basin, the upper rim of which is
about on a level with the head of the ani
mal. The walls of this amphitheatre,
whenever visible, are cut by toe hand of
man. It seems probable, therefore, that
in the beginning there was a uniform
surface of rock in which an artificial val
ley has been excavated, ao as to leave in
the middle a block out of which the
sphinx was finally hewa. The excava
tions now being carried on will doubtless
verify the existence of the plinth shown
on the old paintings, and also furnish
evidence, by the ornamentation of the
plinth, of the true age of the monument
M. Maspcro is inclined to assign it to a
very great antiquity—possibly higher
than the early dynasties—that is. than
the first period of Egypt an history. As
the result of last winter’s work, tbs sand
round tbs sphinx has already bees
lowered by alreut thirty matawi— Lrerfwt
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CLAIMING AIKEN
A Georgia Lawyer Claims ilia Sta aa
Hia Property.
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Here's a big and genuine sensation for
South Carolina.
A young Georgian, and an editor at
that, passed through Augusta on Us
way to Aiken, 8. C., to begin a lawsuit
for the recovery of the entire town.
Think of Aiken, the greatest resort in
the South, and the richest of the smaller
cities in Carolina, all claimed by one
man!
The young man is Julien B. Rodgers, g
one of the editors and the business man
ager of the Macon Evening News. He
was born in Waynesboro, near Augusta,
and since leaving college in Macon aome
years ago he has been enraged in journal
ism in that city. He was married about
two years ago to a lovely Georgia girl,
and they have a bright little boy. whom
they will rechristen Lord of Aiken, if
they recover that beautiful town.
A reporter interviewed Mr. Rodgers as
he was waiting for the Aiken train, and
he feels confident of establishing his
claim, nis attorneys in Aiken are Col.
A. G. Hammond and John Gary Evans,
and they have examined the records of
Aiken and adjoining counties of Bara
well and Edgefield, and inform him that
they have ample evidence to begin his
suit. They have urged his presence in
Aiken before Wednesday, and they hope
thereby to recover a laage part of the
property without contest, as on that day
certain leases expire, which. If Mr.
Rodgers puts in objections, it will ba
legally impossible to renew. He is now
in Aiken consulting Messrs. Hammond A
Evans, and they will begin the suit at
once.
It seems that many years ago Rodgers’
grandfather. Beverly M. Rodgers, of Au
gusts, purchased about 700 acres of laud
in and around the elevation upon which
is now built the town of Aiken. He
bought it as a speculation and deeded
certain lots to the South Carolina Road,
provided the company would establish a
station and town. Mr. Rodgers died
very suddenly, and his affairs were con
siderably mixed. His children were all
small, and when the father of the present
Julien Rogers took charge of affaire the
deeds were lost, and the bare fact that
his father held some land in Carolina
was all that he knew of the purchase.
Meanwhile settlers took possession of
Aiken and it grew to be a towo. Fic
titious sales seem to hare been effected,
and while the deed of the elder Rodgers
was recorded, there seemed to be no
record of deeds from him to purchasers
of much of the land that is now inno
cently held by real buyers. The Rodgers
family slept over their rights until re
cently, when an aunt in Texas wrote to
Julien advising him to look up the old
records. He took hold of the matter,
and the lawyers have discovered a pretty
warm trail in the way of evidence, show
ing that at least two hundred acres in
and around Aiken have never properly
passed out of the possession of the
Rodgers family. Mr. Barney Dunbar, a
prominent and wealthy citizen of Au
gusta, who is related to the Rodgers
family, seems to have called the matter
to mind, and as he is an old resident and
familiar with- Carolina, he wrote to his
rclatiue in Texas advising that the mat
ter he looked into, with what effect may
be seen and with what results the Caro
lina courts wilt show.
Mr. Rodgers does not know as yet
what part of Aiken is affected by his
claim, but his information is that the
whole town is included, and if ao, the
little city will be considereblv shaken
up. It is an important and serious mat
ter to Aiken, and it is also quite impor
tant to Mr. Rodgers. He says that three
of hia family will share with him what
ever he can recover, and he will push the
suit for all it is worth. This means that
hundreds and hundreds of thousands of
dollars of property in Aiken are at
stake.
Tke Southern Press.
The Southern Press Association, in
aDnual session at New Orleans,- elected
the following officers: President, C. H.
Joces. Jacksonville Timca-l'nion; vice
president, W. W. Screws, Montgomery
Advertiser; secretary and treasurer,
Adolph 8. Ochs, Chattanooga Times.
Directors, J. H. Estell. Savannah News;
H. C. Hanson. Columbus Enquirer-Bun;
E. P. Howell, Atlanta Constitution;
Patrick Walsh. Augusts Chronicle; J.
W. Lambert, Natchez Democrat; George
M. Nicholson, New Orleans Picayune.
11. K. Ellison. RichmoDd Dispatch; P.
W. Dawson. Charleston News and
Courier, and Page M. Baker, New Or
leans Times- Democrat.
The association is to meet next year at
Chattanooga.
The members left the city on a special
train on the Louisville snd Nashville
Railroad. After railing on Mr. Davis at
Rrauvoir they will proceed to Past
Christian, where the visitors will be en
tertained at a dinner given by the mem
bers of tin New Orleans Press.
Net Worth Mentioning.
Young Mr. Sissy (who has just hod s
hair-cut and a shave l —“Aw, how meet
Is itr „
I'arber—“Twenty-five cents, sir.”
Young Mr. Sissy— “Aw, does that in
clude both''
Barber—“ Twenty-five cents tor the
hair-cat, sir. I wouldn't f«l right MI
anything fw dll