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THE WEEKLY NEWS AND ADVERT
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The ALBANY NEWS established 1845,
The ALBAN Y ADVERTISER, established 1877,
< Consolidated Sept. 9,
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McIntosh & Evans.
A Family and Political .Journal Devoted to the Interests of Southwest Geoi»;l
a Year.
Volume 1.
ALBANY. GA.. SATURDAY, APRIL 1C, 1881.
gvofcssional (gavds.
William JS. Smith,
Attorney at Law,
ALBANY, OA.
O FFICE: In front of the Court Houjw, up
aiain, over Telegraph Office. jahl-Ijr
O J. WRIGHT. !>.»• WPE
WRIGHT & POPE,
j Attorneys at Law,
ALBANY, OA.
A dispatch to the Evening Eews
J of the 9th announces the death of
j General Martin W. Gary at Edgefield,
j S. 0., last night of congestion. He was
■ about fifty-two years old, aud one of
he leading politicians in that State.
The Alabama Railroad Commission-
I ers are in Atlanta on a visit to the
| Georgia Commissioners. The object of
I the visit, as we learn from the Post-
Appeal, is to consult with our Com-
I mission regarding thtf working of such
bodies.
The opponents of Senator Brown
urged as one objection to his election
that he would turn Republican if the
Republicans were in power—lie would
| desert the. Democratic parly for Spoils
of the victors. It now turns out that
Attorneys at Law, ; he is on the side of right, lighting
1 Mahonism with all the ardor he pos-
] senses. In fact he is a true-blue Detno-
I crat.
OFFICE:—Ov^r 8. Mayer A Glauber’* flure, cor
ner Broad and Washington SU.
Dec. 2d, JSSO-dlWwly
W. T. JONES, JESSE W. WALTERS.
JONES & WALTERS,
ALBANY, GA.
Office over Centra* Railroad Bank.
fanl6-ly
D . A. VAfiON A. ILALFRIEND
VASoy it- a L,Finnyi)
I Attorneys at Law,
ALBANY, GA.
I Active and prompt attention given to col-
I leotioiiH .tml nil general business, Practice
1 in all the courts.
oillco over Southe n Express office, oi»i»o-
ait(_• Court House. janG-utf
James Callaway,
Attorney at L aw.
CAMILLA, GA.
lebii?.
./ OSlJPji AC It ONK,
| A-TTOrilTET a-t laATJV
Ill BAY STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Practices in all the State Courts.
Refers to lion. T. M. Norwood. apSIlzm
POWER.
Its Delights and Discomforts.
AMNOYANGES CSTOLB ASD
THREATENED TO GAR
FIELD
Arrogance, Insolence ami Spoils to
United States Senators. -
AND GENERAL . COBHIPTIOS
AND BOTTESNESS ,N THE
TUB BODY POLITIC
Revolt of the Better Element**
Agaluftt the Bale of the Bon*,
ee and Bummer*.
The Stalwart Seratortal Revolt lu Be
half of a Virginia ,R*pu<liator
and a California Kearney
Bolter.
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I Albany,
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KFIFE—OVER l’OST OFFICE, WASHING
TON STREET. . J«n8wlydl
ITrowbridgc & Hollinslicd
DENTISTS,
IWAYCROSS, - - - - GEORGIA.
_cotli extracted without pain. All work
■ warranted. Terms moderate. Will go *ny-
I where on It. A A. anti S. F. & W. Railroads.
apl8-12m
A. A. STROTHER, li.D.
ALBANY, GEORGIA.
JffiBS over Gilljert’s Drug Store
I K.\ orders left at tbo Drug Storo will receive
[prompt tti ntton. jan 7-1 y
[Dr. i,. W. AL.FRIEJN'D,
■ ESI*EG f FUELY tenders his scrricos, in Hie
various branches ol bis profession, to the
tlssn* Mbany andsurroundingcountry. Of-
:e opposite ;.mrt House, on.rinchlreet.
HOTELS.
[“HE JOHNSON HOUSE'
SJIITHVILLE. GA.,
11 io plnceto stop and get. a GOOD
QUA UK MEAL.
’HEALBANY HOUSE!
■lev ricle Barnes, Proprietor
Albany, Georgia.
phis lloiise is well furnished and in ev-
[_ , i \ way prepared for the accommo-
ition ot the traveling public. Entire sat-
laction gnjianteed. The table Ls sup-
ied with the best the country affords,
ul the servants are unsurpassed in po
ll- ness and attention to the wants of
lests. Omnibuses convey passengers to
ul from the different railroads prompt*
•, free ol charge. Charges to snit the
es. sep29 if
mmi\ BLINDS!
lement,
Plaster,
High living in London has-brought
! Lord Beaconfielcl to death’s door with
j the gout. He should come to Georgia
! and run a country newspaper for a
I season, and if that don’t knock the high*
I Iifed disease out of him ho will at least
i have the sweet consolation of dying
with a firmly-fixed consciousness that
; his ailment was something worse than
gout.
The Democrats elected ('ni ter Har
rison Mayor of Chicago by a handsome
I majority. They also were successful
in the city election at Columbus, and
I secured control of the municipal gov-
| eminent of Omaha. In St. Louis the
i greater part of the Republican ticket
I was elected by nearly 15,000 majority.
This result was brought about through
dissatisfaction with Overstdllz, the
Democratic candidate for Mayor, and
in the manner of the nomination and
j consequent divisions of the Democracy.
Georgia is just now enjoying the
quint and rest of an off-year in politics.
The press and the people are at peace
with each other,"the politicians are
mum, the office-seekers have taken
back seats, and business is the order of
the day. This is a convenient time for
reflection, a time for reasoning togeth
er, a time to blot out and to prepare
forfuture action. We do not believe
the internal strife of 1880 wiU be re
peated in 1882, but that harmony will
exist between the belter class of our
people, regardless of race, color or
previous conditions and persuasions.
So mote it be.
( They are discussing the liQuor ques
tion in Canada. In order to tost the
effect and workings of the prohibitory
law in Maine and Vermont, the Toron
to Globe sent two reporters to these
States to interview and to investigate.
One of these reporters was a Bohemian
with a strong liking for his toddy; the
other, a strict temperance man. The
Globe has just received news from
both these messengers. The Bohemian
telegraphs from Portland, Me., that, in
pursuance of instructions, lie is glori
ously drunk and will remain so as long
as he is in the State, while the unfor
tunate prohibitionist sorrowfully ad
mits that he has encountered a good
many toddies and punches amid the
mountains ol Vermont.
The dead-lock in the United States
Senate continues, with no prospect that
it will be broken. The debate is stale,
and very much resembles that of the
average country debating society.
Nearly three hundred nominations
have been sent to the Senate since the
present executive session began, and
of this number only about twenty-five
have been acted upon. These were
disposed of before the dc-ad-lock arose,
and now about all the members do is
to quarrel over State debts and quib
ble over matters of no consequence to
the country. Up to the present time
the Democrats have made somewhere
in the neighborhood of forty attempts
to proceed to the consideration -of ex
ecutive session business, but all such
motions have been promptly voted
down by Mat one and the Republicans.
The war of races in Peru, South
JED. S. SREENWOOS. America, resulted in the death of over
two thousand Chinamen. These wero
barbarously murdered by negroes and
Cholos. On one plantation six hun
dred inoffensive men were murdered
in cold blood/ All tbc cano Holds,
sugar houses, machinery, etc., have
* been burned and destroyed, and prop-
i ertv to the value of millions have been
wrecked by these miscreants. All the
j foreigners have fled the valley, which
is one of the most fertile and produc
tive in Peru. Some of them have been
FOR SALE BY
3tfcp
Thifti£ren^5£2J£-2» i
£ in either Liquid or Dry Form nets n*
the same time on the diseases of the
Live?
nr, - —
I This combined cction circs U wonderful
jOKvr to cure ad diseases.
WHY ARE WE SICK?
_ Jicctrtse ire allow these great organs to be-
cfoggt dor torpid, amt poisonous hit mors
Irt/y thct\iureforced into the blood that should
~c cxjKl.’td n'uturalhj.
IBILIOUSNESS, PILES, CONSTIPATION,
KIDNEY COMPLAINTS, URINARY
DISEASES, FEMALE WEAKNESS*
ry JVXD NERVOUS DISORDERS,
| tj causing free action qf these organs Grid
j restoring their power to throw qf disease-
ITliy Suffer Bilious pains and aches*
K Why tormented with Piles, Constipation?
I Why frightened over disordered Kidneys?
Whj endure nerroas or sick headaches!
IVhjr hare sleepless nights!
i Use KIDNEY-WORT and rvoice ir. he
I E7*of medicine.
I f^RorYlie^conTenltfuceotthesetfiat^SSt
j t3fUj*UjieTfcrn^
JQET IT OF YOUR DRUGGIST. PRICE. £1.00.
WELLS, RICHARDSON A CO., Prop’s,
BtmiSCTOS, TV.
| (WUl tend the dry post-paid.)
killed. Full j articulars are not yet at
; hand, as the work of murder and plnn-
: der is still going on. It is feared the
adjacent valley of Chir.cha will suffer
next The Chillians refuse to send troops
to quiet tho disturbances. Mr. Henry
Swayne is a heavy loser. A number
of women and children sought refuge
on board a couple of vessels, which
were at anchor at Corro Azul, and Mr.
Swayno has chartered the steamer Ilo
and sent her to that port to bring the
refugee* to Callao. It is feared similar
scenes will be enacted throughout Peru.
Even if the Chillians leave Lima,
foreigners will certainly have to fitht
for their lives and pot down the
canallc, who arc already boasting of
what they intend doing as soon as the
Cbillian troops leave Lima. AH plun
derers caught are soundly flogged, and
under this system the streets are safer
than they were a few weeks ago.’’
I was talking with a New York
State Congressman yesterday, who
had just yetnrned from Washing
ton, about (lie situation there. He
said : “I saw General Garfield once,
but had not the check to go again.
The man is being killed by office-
seekers, and it would always look
as if there was an intention to kill
him by the persistency with which
ilioy crowd him down on thor
oughly selfish errands. It is a mon
strous* thing that tho President of
the United States, whe is looked to
for wisdom and decision, in the
great questions of the time, should
he made a mere door mat and dish
washer often thousand people, be
sieging him for office. It would
be unnatural if he did not look sick,
and he does—and wc don't want
'.hi.-- country to fall into the hands
‘.ho next in succession just now.”
1 asked if Hoberston would be
confirmed.
“Yes, he will, unless they keep tip
this dead-lock, which I suspect to
be only intended to stavo .off the
confirmation of Judge Itobertstou
and a few others. Tho party whip
is cracked, and the tbe party called
to rally to Mahonc’s support,
while in reality it is one of Conk-
ling’s devices to keep au aide man
nut of the New York custom House.
Public opinion is calling loudly on
the Senate; but I question whether
tho Senate has any sensibility to
public opinion. In fact, that body
is becoming a dangerous influence
on our country, It has made its
own laws and comity for the pur
pose ofjstrcngthening every Senator
in his power over the patronage.
The Senators hardly consult the
Congressmen at all, and effect all
die appointments they can, and
what they don’t iiko they stave off,
and worry down or reject. You
take Mr. Platt, for instance, who
was selected yesterday for six years
—not from any public call, but by
the direction of Mr. Conkling. He
is to sit in the Senate for six years.
You can’t get him out hut by some
revolution. Now. six years iu a
rapid country like ours, where
everything is forgotten in a week or
two, it is equal to a whole genera
tion or a lifetime Senatorship in
any other country; yet for two
years beyond the term of Garfield’s
office Mr. Platt has one-half the
power over everything effecting
‘.he five millions of people in New
York State; and before he goes out
of office there will probably bo sev
en millions in that State. He never
came before the public, like a Con
gressman, to bo elected to the Sen
ate, but it wns done in a little cau
cus held in the government’s honse,
or a hotel at Albany.
“The Senate is .not only an ag-
gressivo body,” continued this gen
tleman, “but", being small and so
powerful, it is a purchasable body,
possibly, and, from what we know,
a large portion of its members get
their scats by the use of money, or
by corrupt bargains in which cor
porations exert themselves. Yet,
really, the whole power resides
there. We have just had an elec
tion that has shaken the country
from one end to the other to make a
President; and what is he now that
we have got him ? A man of the
best intentions and good under
standing, but it is not a month since
his inauguration, and there sits
the Senate, indifferent to everything
in the whole country except two or
three little offices around the Senate
—the pen-wipers and common ste
wards. It is all the President can
do to get sleep enough with the
thousands of office-holders rushing
at his gates impelled by thoso same
Senators.”
I asked this gentleman if he saw
any prospects of divisions in the Re
publican party.
“I don’t know that I do,” ho re
plied. “I don’t suppose that wo
sbalisec a (^Independent Convention
called: hut if things don’t get bet
ter here, there will be a silent glid
ing off from our State tickets—eith
er by men who will stay at home,
or slip their ballots in for the Demo
crats. The whole thing lies iu a
nutshell. If the Democratic partv
coulil make honest nominations,
abovejthe rangeof its|managing poli
ticians, there are very many thous
and Republican votes that might
get to it You see, the Liberal bolt
of 1872 has been outrageously used
against every body who went into
it by the Stalwarts. They let the
Liberals come and vote with the
partv, but if one of them is nomi
nated to any office, the cry is at once
raised, 'Ho wasaGreeieyitoinlS72.’
Now, some of the strongest men wc
had, and much of the original cle
ment that made the Republican par
ty, went off in that movement, but
finding no comfort with the Demo
cracy, they came back again. These
jneu perceive that, as soon as the
Liberal is put forward, he is howled
down by tbe Stalwarts. On the
other hand, these Stalwarts are ju»t
as much incensed against Judge
Robertson as against Fenton or
Greeley. Robertson never left the
party. He voted foi Grant, and
supported hin in 1872. They say he
is not a regular because lie would
not support Grant at Chicago. So
the selfishness of our organization
is felt all through it, and wo wiu
our victories ch'cfly through tho
ever aggressiveness of the Demo
cratic party. If Randall had show
ed them how to make a moderate,
prndent Congress, we would have
had hard work to have _carried the
country last fall.
“Do vou know,” said n.y infor
mant, “that these Stalwarts arc now
using against Frank Hiscock the
point that he was a Liberal in 1872,
notwithstanding he lias come back
and worked in the regular harness,
and Jjas the full confidence of all
honest men in the State. They are
pressing him on the point that he
was a Liberal. If lie is beaten on
that ground it will be understood,
and have its effect. On the other
hand, here is Conkling pressing
George Gorham for Secretary of
tne Senate—a man who abandoned
our ticket in California, and went
in the SooialistB. and played second
liildie In Dennis Kearney. The
whole United States Senate is stand
ing still—not to support Mr. Mahone
though they are made to think so—
hut to put in Mr. Graham. Now,
where .is the ‘regularity’ about
that?”
1 asked if Hiscock would prob
ably be elected Speaker.
“Yes, 1 think ho will, lie is a
man of honesty, address, ability and
popularity. The New York delega
tion is going in for him. lie has
supporters in all States, I think.
Not much known in Congress now
of Mr. Ivasson, who is said to be a
candidate. The only other names
talked much of are Reed, of Maine,
and Kiefer, ot Ohio. It looks as if
Hiscock had the best-prospect. He
thinks lie is sure of his election, if
Pyre hud not gone into the Semite
he would have unquestionably been
the Speaker of the House, and in
most respects had superior qualifi
cations for the place. Wo lost onr
very best men by the late Senatorial
election—Garfield, Conger, Frye and
Hale.”
Making a turn into Wall street
yesterday, I called at one of the
"largest banking-houses, where there
were several magnates in the pri
vate office, and one of them gave me
sonic fiscal and political informa
tion which you will not find in the
newspaper files.
“What is the outlook financially?”.
I asked.
“Very good. Speculative prices
are a little ragged, but the general
market stays up well, and the ten
dency to be a ball is irresistable.
The people work up their confi
dence as they work up their fears,
aud when they have got it bad you
cannot shak^fkem. Yon see, there
are no signs or weakness anywhere.
There has been no big failure of any
financial house. The business of
the country how extends farther
over the world than could ever
have been supposed. American
capital and American laboraud pro
duction, working together, drive
our products into the farthest known
countries. You will see Western
pork for sale in Egypt, and Ameri
can flour for sale iu Asia Minor and
on the Caspian • Sea. The fiscal
force to drive this trade has grown
up side by side with tho power of
our entire country and industrious
people to make tho crops. Euro
pean capital is coming here to get
into the channels by which to di
vide some of the profits with us.
New York is the starting point.
Capita] from all the old fiscal cen
tres is getting into the habit of com
ing to New York in the bullion,
and startinghcnce around the world
and make interest and profit. That
is why everything is held high in the
way of railroad shares. Money is
up "again, and C per cent is tho gen
eral rate of interest of time loans
with gilt-edged security.”
GATH ON GEOBGIA STATESMEN."
What Ha Saya or Tbe Present Tri
bune—Hill, Brown and Col
quitt.
Correspondent Cincinnati Enquirer.
The general opinion in. Atlanta of
Ben Hill is that ho is a smart man,
but without any affection for any
body but Ben Hill. Henry Grady,
probably the cleverest newspaper
writer in the South, who goes in
for anybody he likes with ull his
might, ’ took a prominent part in
electing Hiil over Norwood. It is
said tlut, after the election, he, in a
way, remarked to Hill that he’ had
done all he could tor him. “Yes
you did,” replied Hiil; “you did a
"great, deal of work, and tho people
ought to thank you for it, Grady.
You have done a great deal of good
work in accomplishing this work,
Grady.” Ben Hill, however, did
not give Grady a particle of thanks
for liim6elf.
The debate between Hill and Ma
hone has strengthened Hill in Geor
gia, and it was the general belief
that Hill would be re-elected,
although I have learned that Gov
ernor Colquitt is coming out against
him. In Georgia everybody must
belong to some church to figure in
politics at all. The Baptist and
the Methodist churches appropriate
all the politicians. Ilill, Brown and
Colquitt arc said to be exhortists
in their several churches.
Joe Browu is regarded as at the
head of Georgia .public men. He
was a judge originally, aud it is
said a most inflexible one, giving
severe sentences. He adopted a
homely address and style, and has
some points of character resembling
tbc East Tennesseeans. For some
time there were rumors that be had
gone to the Seuatc on a bargain,
but I find the prevailing belief now
to be that he and Colquitt had put
their heads together to rule the
Bourbons out and have Liberal De
mocracy. Indeed, the reputation
of Henry Clay was hardly higher
during his lifetime than it is now in
many parts of the South, where the
struggle to establish manufactories
and have home economy going on.
A prominent man said to me in
the State House of Georgia: “If we
had only had the sense to follow
Henry Clay, instead of Calhoun, we
would have been ready for the war,
with mills in operation all through
the South and we would have man
ufactured everything we wanted,
instead of p&yiug enomous prices
in gold to England.”^
Another man said to me that he
believed the futnre alliance would
not be between the South and the
West, but between tho South and
East, on account of the desire for
manufactories in tbe Southern
States, which had to look to New
England for machinery, superinten
dence, etc.
AN INTEBESTINC INTERVIEW
WITH A WVO.HIXC CAT-
TI.B-GBOH-ER.
Great Lmot Sleek on ttje Plalne
In Coneeqnence ol tbe Hard Win-
lee—Some lit! nsT About Sheep Rale-
Ins la the 11>»I—Taltle-Rreedlna
la Texas, etc.
St. Louis fi.'inblican.
A prominent cattle-grower in
Wyoming territory was met by a
Itepvbfcjcrn reporter yesterday "af
ternoon, and in a conversation the
former denietr that the cattle on the
plains were getting along all right,
aud said that on tho contrary the
cittle were dying by thousands
from cold and starvation. He said:
“Statements appear in all the papers
j to the effect that the loss among
| ealtle in the west is not very large.
; These statement* aie made by men
u ho evidently have not been out
on the plains and seen the cattle
dying hy the hundreds on every
side. I have sustained losses, and
so have the growers iu my vicinity.
This is one of the hardest winters
the stock men in the west have ever
known.”
‘‘Could yon give me some infor
mation in relation to the mortality
of ealtle in the west,”
“With regard to the loss of cattle
lids year, it will amount, on the
whole, at a low estimate, to about
twenty-five per cent, with the ex
ception of winter beeves. Last year
the loss did not exceed 8 per cent.
Some.districts of the plains will
come off much better while others
will fare worse. There are reports
from the Yellowstone and Powder
river and Niobrara and Wood riv
ers in Nebraska, saying that the
loss was from 50 to GO per cent, np
to the 1st of March. The dealers
on Laramie plains and South Platte
river'and South Colorado and deal
ers in Montana and Oregon report
heavy losses also.
“The winter beeves and the cattle
in general are in a very thin condi
tion, owing to the severi'y of tho
winter. Between Jule'sburg, Neb.,
and North Platte City, a distance of
about sixty miles, there were on tbe
1st of March about 5,000 or 7,000
dead cattle, und more were dying.
A great many cattle will die be
tween now and new grass time in
May.”
“How about the calf crop this
year?”
“The loss on calves will be pretty
heavy, on accounlkof the death of
so much stock. Tbe yield in calves
will not bo over 40 per cent. thU
year, while last year it was abont
50 per cent The winter beeves
will be very late this year, as they
too, are coming ont in a very thin
condition.”
“How abont the profits of the
cattle trade this year?”
•‘There have been many errone
ous reports circulated as to the
profits. These reports have been
made by dealers who live in the
cities, and who never visited tbe
ranges, and who receive flowery
reports from well-paid superintend
ents, whose interest it is to show
themselves off in a good light
Dealers who understand their busi
ness, and carry on thoir business
with their own capita), estimate
their profits at tbo present time
from three to fifteen per cent. It
requires a thorough business man,
with thorough business men work
ing for him, to make fifteen percent
profit.’’
“Which is the best place for cattle
raising in the west?”
“In raising calves thcre'is mnch
in favor of Texas. On the plains
last year the calf crop did not aver
age over 50 per cent, to the hundred
cows whilo in Texas the calf crop
averages from 80 to 85 per cent I
have raised cattle in both places. It
is nothing uncommon' for the calf
crop to average 90 or 85 per cent, in
Texas. In ten years in the Lone
Star State I saw the calf crop aver
age 83 per cent, to the hundred cows.
On the plains in six years the high
est average of the crop was 60 per
cent., and tho lowest was 40 per
cent. It required more labor aud
work to raise 60 per cent, on the
plains than it did to raise 83 per
cent, in Texas. The loss on Dur
ham bulls from the States is tremen
dous. It is estimated that abont
three-fourths of them have died.
The principal canse of this is that
besides the severity of this winter,
there is a shortness of feed, and the
plains are overstocked with cittle.
All tho grass was eaten off before
the winter in some places and the
ground is so bare that you can’t
find enough grass in an acre to fill a
good-sized boot.”
“These facts may appear strange
as I have told them to you, but I
tell the plain truth. Ii is to the in
terest of some companies of stock-
growers to make reports of a flow
ery nature—say that they are mak
ing a good profit, etc. Theso are
all falsehoods. There has been only
one company that has paid a divi
dend, and after paying a dividend
of 25 per cent, they make an assess
ment of 50 per cent, in order to
make up for it.”
“How about the sheep crop on
the plains ?”
“Well, as to the sheep crop, as
near as can be estimated, from 40 to
50 per cent, have died np to the
present time, and they are still dy
ing rapidly. The sheep which
have been saved havo been fed in
the ranges for abont five or six
months with hay at a cost of from
$5 to $20 per ton.”
j “Is sheep-raising a profitable bus
iness?”
“Taking it on the whole sheep
raising on the plains is not, as has
been reported, a profitable business.
Sheep seem to thrive and do well as
a geueral thing, but the .treachery
of tbe climate causes a disaster
every three or four years. Those
disasters come with striking regu
larity and kill whole herds at a time.
There have been a few exceptions to
this rule, but the dealers who gen
erally escape theso disasters are
small dealers, and their sheep
droves being small, they are kept in
close proximity to the house and in
barns and shed, and can be given
more attention titan large herds.
Two young men in my neighbor
hood started in 1874 with 3,000 head
of sheep.- They ran them until
March, 1877, increasing the herd to
9,000. A storm came upon them on
March 7,1877, after a spell of fine
weather, aud swept-the whole herd
away. Not a single sheep was sav
ed. A New England compsuy
were in the same vicinity with good
sheds,- water and range, and plenty
ofhay. They ran ‘the herds with
excellent success for about three
years and iiad a herd of 5,500 first-
tlass sheep. On May 22,18n, after
shearing time, (the weather having
been fine and grass abundant) there
came a hail storm and destroyed all
but a few. All sheep dealers have
experienced these disasters, and say
that, although fora short time the
sheep business is profitable, in the
end the profits are generally noth
ing.”
“flow abont sheep raising in
Texas ?”
“Texas is a good sheep raising
country. Ten men in that State
have made money on sheep, where
ono man on the plains has made
anything like a reasonable profit.
On the whole, you may say that
never was there such a hard winter
in the West, and you may say that
generally the cattle men are not
very hopeful, although they may
pay that they will pull through all
right.”
Number 32.
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niUl.'RNINC PATRIARCHS.
Fanny Death Scones.
Nr in Crinkle 1 *.
It seems to me the most ludicrous
accidents and situations on the stage
occur in death scenes, and this is
probably owing to the fact that the
great contrast makes the humor
more perceptible.
Two instances illustrating this
comes to my mind. The first oc
curred many years ago, when most
of our sterling actors were only
aspirants to fame.
The Forest Amateur Dramatic
Association of Philadelphia was
playing Venice Preserved. J. Z.
Little and a young man named, I
think, White, assumed the parts of
“Pierre” and “Jnffier.” In the last
scene, where both conspirators die,
Little had to give up the ghost first,
which he did to the great satisfac
tion of the groundlings, staggering
all over the place, and giving con
vulsive gasps, taking eare,
however, to give his last expiring
kick in the exact center of the stage.
Ihe other tragedian then commenc
ed his go-as-you-please walk around
preparatory to shuffling offi It
seems that he also had made calcu
lations to die on this desirable spot,
and, finding himself balked in this,
he determined to fall as near the
center as possible. As the circle of
White’s staggering became smaller
Little became visibly uneasy. He
bore it manfully, however, until
White began to totter as if ready to
drop. Then hip courage left him,
and casting aside every regard for
appearances, he electrified the audi
ence by sitting up suddenly and
crawling nearer to the wings, when
he again lays himself out. This-
was too mnch for audience, and it
is safe to say that never was a heavy
tragedy ended amid such shouts of
laughter as was Venice Pieserred
that night.
The other incident occurred at
McVicker’s theatre, Chicago, in those
onrished, and the hill was chang
ed weekly. This necessitated a great
deal of studying and hastily got up
costumes. I don’t remember mnch
abont the plot of the play, except
that a young girl, in love with the
hero, disguised herself as a page in
order to follow him in a battle,
whore she is slain. On the first
night, Manager McVicker, who was
and is very particular about matters
of dress, discovered that the young
woman who took the part of the
page had slippers on. “Don’t you
know any better than to wear slip
pers on a field of battle ?” he de
manded. She timidly replied that
“she bad had neither time nor mon
ey to got boots on such short notice.”
“Well,” said McVicker, “yon must
borrow a pair or do something, for
I certainly shall not allow you to
go on in those slippers.” Tho poor
girl was in despair, nntil the good-
natured leading man, seeing'her
distress, tendered her the loan of a
pair of top-boots, an offer which she
gladly accepted, in lien of nothing
better. They were rather large, to
be sure, br.t she managed to navi
gate in them pretty well, and things
went smoothly until the scene of
her death. While she she is lying
dead on the battle-field the hero
and his servant meander in, and
discovering who she is, the former
deliverers a touching eulogy over
her remains, and then orders his
servant to take her off, while he
indulges in an effective soliloqny a
la the melancholy Dane.
As the man dragged her off by
the armpits, the poor page found
that in spite of her frantic efforts to
keep them on, she was slowly and
surely keingpulled out of her hoots!
The man kept on .palling, however,
antil he had her in the-wings, and
the big boots were left on the stago
with the disconsolate hero. Imagine
her fe'clings! especially when a small
voice from the gallery piped out,
“She left them fn i^rememberances.”
Tlie Jem In Oar School*.
Springfield, (Hue,) Ecpabll&n.
One-half of the boys picked from
the New York grammar schools, to
whom medals were given at the
raising of the obelisk, were of Ger
man extraction and one-third were
of Jewish birth. One-third of the
prize-takers in the New York Nor
mal school are also Jews^ and yet
neither in the normal school nor the
grammar school are the Jewish chil
dren over one-fiftieth of the whole.
It would be interesting to know,
however, before basing too much
on these facts, whether Jewish
families of training do not patron
ize public schools more than like
families who are not Jews. In
other words, whether tbe children
from families with an intellectual
past which in other cases are sent
to private schools are nit in the
case of Jews sent to school at the
public expense. Jewish boy* and
girls are scarcely so common at onr
colleges and preparatory schools
as one would expect from the well-
to-do circumstances of Jewish fam
ilies. In after life Jews do certain
ly not make the headway hore they
do abroad. The Congress at "Wash
ington, for instance,'is the only
great national Legislature which ha*9
in it no conspicuon3 Jew.
It i* said that a dimond worth
$27,000 has been found in Webster
county, Ga.
A 'Vourliln- scene at tbe Faaeral ;
ot Mr. 3. a. DeVoile—A Stricken !
Father an* HI* Aged Sjmpatlxer.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
At ilic funeral of Mr. DeVotie, <m
Monday evening, on the front pew,
next the bier, sat Mr. DeVotie, the
revered father and only relative
of the deceased who was present.
A short distance to the rear, and
in the midst of the large audience
sat his long tried friend and broth
er. Rev. T. B. Slade his head white
with the four snows of fonr score
winters. Just as the notes of the
closing hymn died away tbe vener
able form of Mr. Slade arose from
the sea‘, and siooping with the in
firmities of age, tottered along the
aisle toward the space in front of the
pulpit. Rev. Mr. Campbell, the
officiating minister, who was ad
vancing to sigual tho pall bearers to
resume the procession to the ceme
tery, instantly paused midway tbc
spacious pulpit, and (with bowing
iicad awaited the movements of
the veuerable patriarch. The latter
advanced towards the solitary
mourner, their arms were affection
ately twined around each other’s
neck, and while they mingled their
tears in silence, the weeping audi
tors gazed uyon the spectacle with
the solcm stillness of judgment
day. The holy spell of heartmeit-
ing sympathy was not disturbed by
a sound or a motion till the aged
men calmly released each other and
took their seats side by side-. The
pall bearers followed by the audi
ence, then proceeded noiselessly
from the house to bear this precious
harden to its final resting place,
doubtless every heart musihg upon
the exalted natnre of a religion that
binds man to hi3 brother in strong
er and tenderer bonds as afflictions
felt more heavily and earthly hopes
recede farther and farther from the
failing vision.
Tbe filacon and Brunswick Exten
sion and tbe Railroad Com*
Savannah Newt.
In its Thursday’s issue the. Macon
Telegraph and Messenger publishes
quite a lengthy interview with Mr.
T. R. Wilson, one of the purchasers
of the Macon and Brunswick rail
road, regarding the extension of
that tine from Macon to Atlanta.
That gentleman sajrs in effect that
nothing has been decided on regard
ing such extension, and that a con
ference is yet to be held between his
co-purchaser. Col. McGhee, and
himself to consider the matter be
fore a final determination is arrived
. Indeed, he admits that no ronte
for the proposed extension has yet
been settled upon, for he says closer
surveys will have to he made, and
then the subject will be again dis
cussed.
Mr. Wilson gives various reasons
for the delay in commencing work
on this extension, bnt the prime and
real reason is tersely expressed in ft
reply made by him to a question
propounded by his interviewer as
follows:
“Wo shall probably go ahead and
bnild, trusting to the Legislature to
protect us. I do not believe the
people ever intended to place in the
hands of three men twenty million
dollars worth of railroad property
to control. It has the effect of re
tarding the development of the
State. Capital, as yon know, is sen
sitive, and capitalists hesitate to in
vest beyond their control. We may
have good men to-day and bad to
morrow.”
This clearly means nothing more
nor less than that so long as the
£ resent Railroad Commission law
i in force the extension of the Ma
con and Brunswick Railroad from
Macon to Atlanta will not be batik
Mr. Wilson ntters (imply an axiom
when he says that capital is sensi
tive and capitalists do not lay out
their money for sentiment, or when
it is, after being expended, to pass
beyond their control. - He might
have gone farther, and said, what
he and every one knows to be
strictly true, that capitalists do not
invest their money on contingen
cies, unless they have very positive
and unmistakable reasons—amount
ing almost to certainties—for be
lieving that such contingencies are
in their favor. When he says,
therefore, “that we shall probably
go ahead and build, trusting to the
Legislature to protect us,” he mere
ly means to say that the work will
he prosecuted provided his co-pnr-
chaser and himself have positive
guarantees that the Legislature will
protect them from the Railroad
Commission, and as such guaran
tees are well nigh impossible to be
given, it may, at once, be conclnded
that the proposed extension will
remain in abeyance nntil the Legis
lature meets. If then the Commis
sion Jaw is repealed or greatly mod
ified the road will he completed.
If not it will be abandoned, for
any one can readily understand
how the purchasers would infinite
ly prefer to pay over their forfeit
money of a few thousands rather
than expend tens ot thousands in
prosecuting a work, which, when
finished and their money is expend
ed, will quietly pass from beyond
their control into the hands of three
disinterested gentlemen.
This is bnt a practical illustration
of the trnth of the position we have
always taken regarding tbe Rail
road Commission law of Georgia,
viz., that while it remains in force it
must crash ont all future railway
enterprises in this State, and conse
quently prevent her future develop
ment. The historjr of this Macon
and Brunswick Railroad extension
is undeniable proof of the justice of
this conclusion. No State which
has snch an arbitrary and nDjast
law upon its statute books can make
progress. Only when a State re
gards the charters which it granU to
railways as solemn covenants be
tween herself and the corporations,
and—so far from seeking in every
way to violate those" charters in
spirit, if not in reality—determine
to protect the corporations in all
their rights under their charters,
will railroads be built and such
Stato developed. And the differ
ence between the prosperity of a
Stale which thus cnconrages railway
constructian in her limits, and on*e
which crushes out ail iailway enter
prise, will very speedily be mani
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