The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 08, 1894, Image 1
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VOI J* IX.
THE OZAR OF RUSSIA DEAD.
A SKIiTCH OF HIS LIKK.
The Career of (ho Dead Autocrat?1I<
Was ti Mun ot'Oouru^c and Htronmli
t-Tlio New Sovereign of All the KiisHi
US.
Alexander III, tho Czar of Russia,
died at the palace of Livadla on tho
1st inst., after a lingering illness. He
was tho son of the assassinated AloX
under 11, who was the sou of Nicolas I,
who was tho brother of his predecessor
Alexandor I and son of Crazy Paul,
who was tho son of licontious Catharine,
whoso husband was tho stupid and
brutal Peter 111. Beyond this tho gen
ealogy is subject to question, hut of tho
( sovon imperial personages here noted
Peter 111 wijf 41 J^neu and imprisoned
and linalfyli ''utfored by order of hit
wife. CutherinMlieHl in a lit broughl
on by excesses, Crazy Paul was murdered
by u cabal of his nobles, Nicolas
I died of chagrin, and Alexander II
was blown into etornity by a nihilist
bomb. Tho family has always been ec
centric.
Nominally tho imporlal lino begim
with Miohael Feodorovtch Romanoff,
/whom tho Russian nobles mado Czai
in 1013 in ulioor desperation over the
prolonged oivil wars. Ho was only the
eon of an archbishop, but the noble*
uianag< d to traco some connection b}
marriage with Rurik, founder of the
empire. At any rato, tho horrible
wars and murders of tho preceding
century had loft con dieting claims in
?uch confusion that there was nothing
for it but start anew, and so the Roman
off was mao\> oinporor. Tho Uomanoll
blood is dij|it>Hl to a very tino strain b.\
frequent PojCerinurriago with Gormai
princes9esj/ind Alexander 11 marriet
Maria, daughter of tho lute Grant
Duke of Hesse Darmstadt. Their sec
onu son, Alexander, was born March
10, 1845. There is a story, noither ofli
cially contirmod nor strenuously denied
that ho gave tho blow to his oldei
brother, Nicolas, which caused the lat
tor's donth. It was accidental in some
rough " horse play," but it injured tin
chest of Nicolas, and he died April 24
180;"), at the ago of 22, and straightway
everything was changed with Alex"
ander.
Nicolas was on gaged to bo marricc
to the Princess Dagmar, daughter o
tho King of Denmark and sister of th<
Princess Alexandra, who married th<
Prince of Wales. Nicolas was a mai
of kindly disposition, and for a mem
her of the imperial Romanoffs of Uus
sia possessed of much culture. Alex
andor seems to have been a young mai
of unusually morose and obstinato dis
position. Ho was in love with tin
Princess Metchereki, who was one o
his mother's maids of honor. She win
u beautiful girl and Alexander had tol<
hor of his passion. Alexander II wa
not pleased with this and sent his soi
away. During his absence his sweet
heart was forced to accept an offer o
marriage from Paul Donidoff, prlnci
of Ban Donate, and so, when tho oldei
brother died and it was decided tha
ior reasons of State Alexander shouh
marry the Princeso Dagmar, ho mad<
no determined opposition.
Tho marriage took place Novembe:
9, I860, and there is no doubt that tin
married lifo of tho eouple was almos
an idoal one, notwithstanding tho un
usual circumstances which led to thoii
union. Czar Alexander JI was killec
by a nihilist bomb March 13, 1881, ant
his son succeeded, him immediately a
Czar Alexander III.
During the years that ho had hoei
heir apparent he seems to have nog
lected no opportunity to lit himself foi
v tho exalted and arduous duties tha
were before him. Whether his desigi
was to so rulo Russia as to make it
people happy and prosperous or sirnpl;
to strengthen the Russian throne is!
question upon which thoro are vita
and radical differences of opinion
Certain it is that he changed this policy
of his father, who had freed tho serf
and hud in many ways indicated a do
sire to prepare his country for a mor<
liberal administration of tho govern
meut.
Tho cause of popular education
) which had received somo encourage
ment under tho father, was crushed b;
| fcho rule of tho son ; iho press, which
though restricted had a faint semblance
jW of freedom u Apr tho old, was fettoret
by?,.ivea| absolutely ufcor tho new regime
I,' | 1 Liberia, bad Aiough always, bocann
L ' '^iho horror of the century, tho Jews
f^a'1^/whose lot was never a pleasant one ii
jr" ' v Russia, became the subjects of tin
Ihe Of m0at malevolent persecution.
L very quiff Ho was most fortunate in his mar
I slow ?!></ rlage. Indeed tho whole history o
I of th* w tho D?nish royal family is tho ploasan
. | tost in tho rocont annals of Europe
rUJ a.nd is delightfully colored witl
Mr hi# romance. King Christian IX. an<
lioii Queen Louise began life in a humbh
jrt(I rank comparatively, for ho was morel;
tho fourth son of Duke William o
Sleswick-Holstein,. but when; the ol<
log royal lino became extinct the grea
powers combined to extinguish jealous;
va by making this younger son king o
Denmark and ho took the throno No
si Tomber 15, 18(>3. His oldest daughte
[IB is now Princess of Wales, and hi
w second tb?AVwidowed czarina. Hi
second son ^King George I, of Greece
and the otif of daughter and two son
are most royally connected. So littl
Denmark, largely because it is littl
and noi dangerous, is prolific of royalty
Maria Dagmar bocamo Maria Feodo
rouna when sho married tho czarowiti
gave up her German Protestantise
and became a mombcr or the Dree
W. , Catholic church, and by all account
has introduced a much needed olemen
of mildness within the blood of th
imperial family, for among a thousam
contradictions it is at least agreed tha
her eon, the successor of Aloxande
III, ispuroly German-Danish and quit
unliko his father in form and disposi
tion. Five children wore born to tb
czar and carina?Nicolas Aloxanelre
witch,'borBit St. Petersburg, May It
1808; Gertie Alexandrowiteh, bor
May 9, 1871; Xenia Aloxandrownt
born April 6, 1875; Michael Alexandre
witch, born Docoinber 5, 1878, an
Olga Alexandrowna, born Juno 13, 188;
Oi his children the czar, as a mode
family man, was very fond, and man
etorios are told of the methods he use
to adopt to give them pleasuro. H
was very fond of amateur theatrical;
and was never happier than when go
ting up pUjre in which his childre
wore to figure a# actors. LikeCharle
Dickens, he got an amazing amount <
enjoyment out of tho details of imprev
ising play, wardrobe, curtain and ever
gasman. o-^iLstt'W JTf?*
Constitution of a new Baptist Church.
I he Maple Baptist Church was orI
arid in the faeo of serious difficulties.
Besides Iris own children tho actors
almost invariably included tho
older children, at tho court, young
, lads who some day might rule
i provinces?possibly kingdoms?and
. young girls destined perhaps to bo tho
, mothers of long linos of princos and
princesses. In religion Alexander III
WflU II hSmrf I In tiiifnu <\nnr>
J ?t MO (? VltVI VU^U * ? v IIV > \ I V/m<v;
i doubted that bo was tho Lord's anoint.
od, ruling all Russia and her subject
provinces by divine right, and that
1 Jews, Stundists, Mennonites and others
who did not linpliolty oboy his direcI
tions were in rebellion against God and
[ dosorvi ng of littlo consideration. The
. Romanoffs have always boon given to
, a sort of brutal devotion, and the ua[
tural bent of Alexander's mind was in.
tonsliled by the teacliingsof his tutor,
, M. Pobiodonotsoff, in later years the
; much feared ehiof of the holy synod of
the Russian church.
, Alexander III was a man of remarkable
physical force, lie stood
<> foot 4 inches in his stocking, and it is
. told of him that he could take a silvor
coin the size of a dollar and double it
, between his thumbs and forefinger.
When in 1888 his train was wrocked
. and a number of persons wore killed,
, it is said he saved those who were in
, the same compartment with him from
, injury and perhaps death by supporting
r a portion of the fallen roof with his
> shoulders till assistance came.
) He was also an untiring workor, got
r down to his desk as a rule by 8 a. m.
[ and went resolutely through olliciul
miners till Ij p. m. Then ho had a
. liglit lunch and took recreation and
' read till a 0 o'clock dinner, lie often
r wroto severo comments on the mar,
gins of papors presented to him, and
[ these were glazed over to preserve
I them in the royal archives, llisfavor.
ite expressions were : "What a beast
, ho is 1" " They are a set of hogs'' ami
. the like. Tho Russian word ' nozooth
ltumo, which may oo translated " illscouraging."
was a frequent comment
. with him. Unco he was prevailed
5 upon to allow a very severe comment
3 tube erased, "The council thought to
trick me," ho said, " but they shan't,
r but may strike the words out."
Ho was a man of unllinching courage,
lie proved this in the last war between
1 Russia and Tnrkoy, and though during
f his entire reign he was in constant ox3
pcctation of being murdered ho nevor
3 hesitated to show himself to his people
j when ho thought the occasion demand*
. ccl it, and he oftentimes was accounted
. oven rash in his manner of doing
. this. For instance, on several oecas>
sions when members of his household
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. uiuu ivnu uuuiuiy wuon ins ruiguan
3 nurse passed away, he attended tho fuuf
oral services like any common person,
H following the hearse on foot.
1 Now all Europo is asking about
s Alexander's sueeoasor. There is even
, more contradiction in tho reports
. about him than in those about his
f father. It is alleged that ho is opon3
hearted, liberal and progrossivo, and
,. with equal foreo that ho is too stupid
t to have any inarkod characteristics
I and will be ruled by his counsellors
3 and priosts. It is agreed, howovor,
that he is very dovoted to his mother,
temperate and chasto and studious.
3 and so it is taken for granted that, so
t, far as ho is influenced at all, it will be
_ chielly by his mother and wife. A
r melancholy interest attaches to tho
\ second son of Alexand r 111, tho Grand
j Duke George. In his youth ho wus
H delicate, but under tho active regime
to which tho princes were subjected
3 to grow vigorous and completed tho
. | proscribed course of studies and mili
] tary exorcises,
t, An accident, a fall while on a war
t ship, injured his chest and he became
s consumptive. Nevertheless ho served
y as colonel of an infantry regimont and
t held command of an ironclad, and as a
1 naval olllcor started to accompany his
brother around the world. While in
y Indian waters he fell from a mast and
injured his spine. lie was ordorod
. home, stoppod a while at Athens on
3 account of his heuith, and not im.
proving there, made a voyago to Algiers,
but in vain. He was sent to a
region in the Caucasus, supposed to bo
i'. favorable to consumptives, and it was
y soon admitted that his caso wus hopeloss.
His father, disgusted at the lib0
oral tendencies of the czarovitz, had
1 dosigned to alter tho succession in
j favor of his second son, but instead the
3 soeond renounced his rights in favor
i of the third, Grand Duke Michael, who
,J now stands next to tho czar.
Hold Back the Cotton.?The
- Augusta Chronicle givoH tho following
f advice to farmers :
44 If tho farmers of tho South are
3 wise they will hold back their cotton,
a We do not- moan by this to instruct their
\ factors not to sell. We mean hold tho
0 cotton on tho farm, and not allow its
y existence to be known. It does no
f good to sond tho cotton to market and
1 hold it back from sale. If it is in sight
t it does just as much damage as if it
V was offered for sale. What is needed
f is for tho cotton to bo kopt out of ovi>
donco, and though dealers may claim
r that this will do no good, because tho
s cotton crop is known to tho world
s whether it is hold back or not, those
>, claims will not hold. As soon ns cotton
h is sent to tho factor or the country
o storo-keepor, or oven to the railroad
o for shipment it lain sight and helps
to hammer down tho market; but as
long as it remains on tho farm it is an
unknown quantity,
n "If the farmers of tho South will
k stop sending cotton to market, and let
s thero be an appearance of a falling off
t in the crop tho prico will respond at
e once. Truo tho trade may believe that
[1 it is being hold back, but there will at
^t once enter tho factor of uncertainty
r and this will help tho prico. Holding
? it back may not bring about as much
increase as is hopod for, but it will
o certainly improve prices soinowhat,
> and tho farmors havo everything to
gain and nothing to lose, It certainly
n will not lower the price."
>d
?No man can tell the farmer what
I, is best for him to do in tho prosont
3i stringency, but ho must do somothing;
y he must tcoop a-hooking, thero is no
d doubt about that. Suppose, for u
o change, that wo advise him to sow
a, oats largely this fall, and after oats,
t- pease. Hopeat this for throe joars,
n and by thfct time cotton will be highet
s or lower than it is now and his land
jf will be 5D por cent, bettor than now
v- and a hundred por cent, bettor than il
y ho had been planting it in cottton dur'ft.
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CONWAY, S. (
POUNDINQ THE PREACHER,
now rKoriiii ah 10 diviDion.
Hill Arp Discourses on Humility and
Poverty?A Donation l'arty to the
Haclielor Pastor.
In every community thathas popula
tion largo enough to divide there are
eireles of society, circles of politics,
circles of secret associations and circles
of tho church. Tho first and last
named especially embrace the wives
and daughters of tho community. Women
make up society and are more
particular than men ubout who they
admit into their circle. These circles
arc graded like tho pupils of a public
school?graded according to wealth or
education or occupation. The dividing
lines aro not ilxod nor well defined,
for sometimes a poor woman who is
smart and well mannered and of good
family is admitted into a higher circle.
1 know u very bright and beautiful lady
who onco was rich, hut is now a mil1
linor, and yet she is never omitted,
! never slighted by tho charmed circle,
as it is called. She mingles freely
with those above her and those below
her. This is the tribute that all classos
pay to refinement and good breeding.
A good woman who has been weil
raised and has a good education cun
live in a placo that is higher than the
aristocracy of wealth. She has more
Hocial inllucnco in tho church or oat of
it than all the swells whoso diaiilonds
are their chief passport, and when she
dies she has more mourners at her
funeral.
But 1 was ruminating about the
church society?the good will and
charity that prevails in church circles
among all its members. If they don't
mingle together on week days they do
on Sundays, for tho charity tho church
teaches brings all its members on a
level. Among Christians (1 don't mean
pretenders or hypocrites) there is no
aristocracy. A soul is a soul and tho
humblest on earth will take the highest
placo in heaven. I am not going
to preach a sermon. These thoughts
were provoked by a little episode that
happened in our church last week.
Our preacher and his sister went to
keeplug house. They didn't have
much to start on and we were behind
with his salary. Our country churches
arc always behind. For forty years I
have boon hunting for a church that
was not behind. So it was whispered
around that our preacher had to borrow
money to buy a cooking stove and
lie didont have no more furniture than
lOlisha had in his little room that the
Shunamito woman fixed up for him by
the wall. Ho is a sort of half Yankee
?born North and educated South, and
his sister lias been touching school up
there. Ho is smart and handsome and
humble und the most devoted man in
his calling 1 ever saw. Tho poorest
people in tho town and vicinity know
i.:?- / - i- t *
uiiii, ior no nan neon to sou tnom, and
everybody Iovoh him just because ho
lovos everybody. Ho owes a balance
on his education and has trono in debt
for some books but wo didont know it.
All of a sudden wo found out that ho
was distressed financially. Wo told
him when ho came that if the Lord
would keep him humble wo would keep
him poor. But at last our church people
became aroused. The ladies improvised
a donation party and the men
hustled around and raised bis buck pay
and so last Friday evening the good
things began to roll in to the preacher's
house. The ladies of the town
Hent Hour and eolYoo and tea and rice
and oatmeal and sugar and syrup and
canned goods and somo furniture and
everything else nearly and tho country
members sent chickens and turkeys
and lots of potatoes and piekles and
jellies and all sorts of good things
even down to popcorn and persimmons
from the children. I never saw tho
like for two people. Wo arc afraid he
will quit preaching and open a family
grocery. When the first load came he
told tho drayman it was a mistako?he
hadent ordered any such things and ho
must tuko them back. But tho drayman
smiled a smile and said: "I is
gwino to leave em hero anyhow- dat's
what doy tolo mo," and leave them ho
! did. Soon linnt.hAf lniul mimr. ? rwl
another and there was nobody's name
on anything. The poor man was bewildered.
He had just bought a twentylivc-pound
sack of Hour and hero wore
2o0 oounds more. " What did he say ?"
I aslced of a drayman. " Ho nevor said
nothin,' but ho looked sorter imposed
on." That night our pooplo began to
drop in on the parsonage unawares
and by 8 o'clock the house was full of
men, women and children. They found
a hoarty wolcomo, though they word
not asked to tako a soat, for seats were
scarce. Everybody was happy, for
thoy had done a good deed, and deeds
always make us happy. Tho ladies
slipped a purse of $20 in the sister's
hand and tho men another purso of $80
in tho preacher's hand, which was
enough to pay his back salary, and
then we bado them good-night with
good wishes, and all wont homo, whoro
thoro wore chairs enough to go round.
. That's the way to do the preachers.
It lifts him up and renews his zeal and
incroasos his faith. I'll bet there isn't
another preacher in tho Stato who
dares to bo 41ko ours in one roBpoot.
Ho dares to play baseball with tho
boys and is by far tho host player in
tho town, for ho was captain of a team
in collogo and likes tho sport. "Now
boys," said ho, " I will be glad to play
with you, but you must nromiso not to
use an oath nor an unkind or ungentlemanly
expression during the game."
And they promised. After tho game
was over he thanked them and invited
them so cordially to como out to prayer
mnnlinir ()>ut niirl.t 1
VMMV Uift WW) WUMIW WUUJf TVUUl,
liia pontic influence over our town
boya ia alwaya for thoir good. They
roapoot him and admiro him and go to
preaching moro than haa beeri thoir
ouatom. And Paulaahl unto Timothy ?
{ " My aon magnify thino ofllco." Our
preacher magniiiea hia office and dignilloa
the pulpit and inapiroa roverenco
for tho sacred place.
Our proachor can beat anybody mar
rying anybodv except himself that I
. over heard. Hut ho is young yet and
I %will find a holp-mato in tho sweet by
' and by if not before. Preachers and
? doctors have to bo marriod to bo a
grand succuss. Saving lifo and saving
, souls are the highest callings in the
, world, and if peoplodiaontget married
there wouldont be any lit to be saved.
I Kvory unmarried man who has passed
, the meridian of lifo is a comparative
t failure. Ho is incomplete. He is a
suspect and has to be watoticd. David
Bonnet Hill may get to be Prosident,
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THURSDAY, NOVK
but ho is incomplete. So wtw Buohan
uii and Filmoi'o. Tho first ludy of the I
land should bo n President's wfte not
his nioco. But a preacher should bo |
vory careful in ills choice for the poor
woman will be criticised as much us |
her hushnud, and won't have any
chance to iltfht back in the pulpit, i
She shouldent bo a leader of society !
that is of its fashions and frivolities. 1
But she should bo sociul and cheerful ,
and bright. Nobody likes a meek and j
sad-eyed woman, i know a mini Mini* I
in a distant city who married a very
fashionable woman and it hurt iiis iniluonco
in the church.
Hut still a minister's wife tuny smile
OlIOO or twice in a while.
And Htill bo a woman without guile.
Bill Aup.
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PUBLIC SCHOOL STATISTICS.
A Marked Improvement Curing tin*
Past Year?Fuels ami Figures of Interest.
The annual report of Superintendent
of Kducution Maytield, which has just
boon finished, shows that for the year
ending October .'list, a grand total of
l!llt?f7titi pupils were enrolled in the public
schools of this State. Of these
II.'1,081 wore mule and 113,085 females.
The number of colored children enrolled
was 100,170, of which 55,278 were
males aud 00,898 females.
From these figures it will bo seen
that the number of colored children in
the schools was 11,111 more than
whites. Another feature is that of the
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iority is of feinulcs, while the whlto
l)oys have a majority of their ruco.
For the year ending October 31st,
1893, the total enrollment was 223,150,
of which 120,579 were colored, aud 102.571
white. That year there were
111,003 males and 111,187 females.
The increase this year, compared with
tho previous year, has been something
over 3,000.
Spartanburg is tho banner county in
the number of students. She had 14,011,
of which 5,320 are colored and
0,011 white, (ireenville is next. She
bad 12,1-15, of which 1,101 wore colored
and 7,081 white. Chesterfield has the
smallest number, 3,130?1,070 colored
2,000 white. Georgetown is next, with *
a total of 3,302?2,478 colored and 884
white.
Tho total average attendance In the
State was 105,115, as follows: Total
number of females, 83,455; males, 81,000.
Total colored, 87,128; females,
45,344; males, 41,784. Total whites,
77,1)87 ; females, 38,111 ; males, .30,870.
The number of children studying the
various branches is as follows . Alphabet,
19,727 ; ^polling, 170,305; reading,
105,071 ; writing, 132,020; mental arithmetic,
80,000; written arithmetic, 93,723;
geography, 73,533; English grammar,
5,204 ; history of South Carolina,
15,240; history of tho United States,
30,840; physiology and hygoino, 12,088;
higher brunches. 8,205.
The average number of school
months during the past year was 4.3, as
against 3.7 for the previous year. This
win uu Klttb|iyniK 10 an advocates 01
common school education. It shows
that tho people aro determined to increase
the length of the school terms.
The average number of school months
in each county was as follows :
Abbeville, 5 ; Aiken, 4.(1; Anderson,
4.4 ; Barnwell, II; Beaufort, 4.5 ; Berkeley,
4; Charleston, 0; Chester. 3.1);
Chesterfield, 3; Clarendon, 3; Colleton,
5; Darlington, 3.5 ; Kdgoliold, 1 ; Fairfield,
3.5 ; Florence, 2.8; Georgetown,
4; Greenville, 4; Hampton, 3.1; Horry,
2; Kershaw, 3.2; Lancaster, 3.8; Laurens,
3; Lexington, 2.7: Marion 3;
Marlboro, 3 ; Newberry, 3.8; Oconee,
3; Orangeburg, 3.7; Dickons, 1.8; ltichland,
4.5; Spartanburg, 3.7; Sumter,
6; Union, 3.(1; Williamsburg, 2.8;
York, 5.
Tho total number of public school
houses in tho State is 3,088, and they
are valued at $557,250.54. The number
of frame buildings is 2,27(1; log, 767 ;
brick, 30; stone, 0. Tho school districts
own 1,310 and individuals tho remainder.
During tho past year 140 now school
houses were built and they aro valued
at $45,431. Tho number of now frame
buildings is 144 ; brick, 3; log, 2; and
144 of them aro owned by tho school
districts.
The total number of teachers employed
in tho schools of the State was
4,504. Thero were 2,636 whitoteachers,
1,083 of them male and 1,553 females.
There wore 1,058 colorod teachers, |
1,058 males and 000 females. It will 1
thus bo soon that the colored malo |
teachers outnumber tho females while
the whito females far outnumber tho '
males.
a iiu u\/vni n i*^un j*?vm tu l/UilUllUI H {
was $440,785.11. Tho avorago monthly j
wages paid was $23.15 to inalos and I
10,00 to females.
The Lunatic Asylum. -Tho board i
of rogonts of the State lunatic asylum j
hold their annual mooting last week at I
tho ofliee of tho superintendent, and j
tho annual reports read showed a good j
many statistics, which will bo of great :
intorost to the peoplo generally.
Tho rpports show that tho number!
of admission during tho year will bo ;
only about 307, afJcompared to 311 during
tho year previous. Tho average
j daily population will bo a llttlo hjghor.
Last year it was 705, while this year it j
was 778. Tho reports will show that ;
tho total number of pationts under j
treatment during tho year was 1,108, as 1
against 1,115 last year. Dr. Baboook 1
says that these figures show that there
has boon no roal increase of insanity
in tho .State during theyear, in projjortion
to tho population of South Carolina.
Ho says also that they show that
it is tho duty of tho State to provide
quarters for at least 800 patients, as
during mo year inis Dumber has boon
in tho asylum atone time on sovoral
occasions.
Dr. DalKiook Hays that tho cost of
running tho institution por capita will
bo about $2 loss than it wasluHt year.
Last year tho per capita cost wits
$132..la. This roduction is duo, ho
thinks, to tho close economy practiced,
to tho general roduction in tho cost of
all food stuffs. save meat, and the increased
yiold from tho asylum farm.
Again tho hoard has managed to make
many internal hygienic and other improvements.
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?Gon. Johnson Ilagood has gathered
fifteen hundred bushels of corn from
twenty-five acros of his farm on Saluda
rivor in Edgefiold County.
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Kx-Governor Norfltcnnt tJi(> llt<u(l of
ii Movement 10 lit'lng Settlers to tho
Soul Ii.
Augusta I'Uroiilole. .
Ex-Governor W. J. Nor thou Is already
comfortable settled in his no\t?
ofiloes, 405 ami 107 Kquitablo building,
in Atlanta, and is ndw ono of tho
busiest of buslnosa tnon. Governor
Northou holds tlio peculiar position of
having stoppod out of the executive
chair, but not out of tho service of the
good old State of Georgia, and ho is
now in a Hold of lubor that will, perchance,
ofTor quite as many direct opportunities
of rendering benefits to tho
State as wore open to himo while he
was tht' chief executive.
Nothing today is more important in
tho great unbuilding of Goorgiu than j
tho bringing of capital and population j
to tho Statu. And that is tho mission I
ex-Governor Northen holds now.
Governor Northen many months
ago conceived tho idea that Georgia,
as a State, needed an immigration
bureau, or something that would bring
into successful operation a movement
to induce people to come to this State
to find homes and to join in tho great
work of building up tho industrial interests
of tho State. It may bo justly
said in this connection that Governor
Northen was tho llrst man to over hit
upon anything like a practical and
promising plan. Ho has shaped his
ideas into plans that have mot tho approval
of every eye and mind.
Tho railroads are with him and will
ho tho great force behind tho movement.
'i'his was necessary. The railroads
are the tirst to he consul toil in
any plan for immigration, for to tlicm
tho people of a auction must look for
tho success of such undertakings. The
railroads of tho South are in thorough
sympathy with Governor Northen in
tho movement ho has undertaken for
tho good of Georgia and the people of
tho State are with him too.
In tho scheme that haH been thus
put into operation for the good of the
State of Georgia it is particularly
gratifying to notice one special tendency
of the times that has for a long
time been a consumption devoutly to
bo wished. It is tho coming together
of tho people and the railroads. It
has for many duys been a matter t?oyond
dispute that the interests of the
railroads lie directly in the same path j
and close together. But for some unaccountable
reason, there has been a
sort of antagonism on tbo part of the
people of the South towards the railroads.
Tho consequence was tho
clashing climax that threw all of the
greatest roads of tho section into the
dangerous ditches of bankruptcy a
year or two ago. Then tho people
began to realize that It were not well
to frown so withoringly upon tho enterprises
upon which they were really |
more dependent than upon any others.
There is now apparent evidences of a
reaction in this respect and the people
of the South realize that the railroads
are the backbones of the country's
prosperity and that their interests and
those of the roads lie much in the same
line.
The movement of Governor Northon
has started is doing much towards
bringing the people and the railroads
together in more friendly intercourse
of business. The railroads are to be
credited for the rcadinoss they have
shown to grant willing concessions to
help in the work of developing the
State of Georgia and the South. The
people of the State are showing the
same willingness to meet on the halfway
ground and with all of the local
forces thus moving along together it
is easy to see that the bureau which
Governor Northon as a piivato citizen
and pluin business man has established
will bo great success and a power
in the material upbuilding of the territory
around.
THANKSGIVING 1?AY.%
The AmeticAn People Should Give
Thanks lor Their ('reservation as a
Nation, for Immunity from Disease
and Pestilence and for the Harvests
That Have lie warded the Husbandry.
President Cleveland has issued the
following proclamation :
The American people should gratefully
render thanksgiving and praise
to the Supreme Ruler of the universe,
who has watched over them with kindness
and fostering care during the
year that has passed ; they should also
with humility and faith supplicate the
Father of all mercies for continued
blessings, according to their neods, and
they should, by deeds of charity, seek
the favor of the giver of every good
and perfect gift.
Therefore I, Grovor Cloveland, President
of tho United States, do hereby
appoint and set apart Thursday, tho
2!>th day of November inst., as a day
of thanksgiving and prayer, to ho kept
and observed by all tho people of the
land. On that day lot our ordinary
work and business be suspended, and
let us meet at our accustomed plaoes
of worship and give thanks to Almighty
God for our preservation as a
nut.ion for Mill1 limnnnilu '!!? ??......
and pestilence, for the harvests that
have rewarded our husbandry, for a
renewal of national prosperity, und for
every advance in virtue and intollicence
that have marked our growth
as a people.
And with our thanksgiving, lot us
pray that these blessings may be multiplied
unto us, that our national conscience
may be quickened to a better
recognition of the power and goodness
of God, and that In our national life
wo may clearer see and closer follow
the path of righteousness.
And in our places of worship and
praise, as well as in tho happy reunions
of kindred and friends on that
day, let us invoke Divine approval
by generously remomboring the poor
and needy. Suroly Me who has given
us comfort and plenty will look upon
our relief of tho destitute and our ministrations
of charity as tho work of
hearts truly grateful, and as proofs of
tho sincerity of our thanksgiving.
Witness my hand and seal of tho
United Stato, which I havo caused to
bo horeto affixed. Done In tho city of
Washington on the first day of November,
in tho year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and ninety-four, and of
tho independence of tho United States
tho ono hundred and nineteenth.
(Signed) OitovEit Cleveland.
By the President:
W. Q. ORKBHAM, Secrotary of Stato.
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Tlio I<!x<iliiuit(<>M Arc Kieltoil ami Ifi-okora
\ro Alarmed?A Movrmcni i??
Iloltl Hack < 'niton.
The New York World says: "Members
of the Cotton Exchango ho re and
In other eltios are somewhat excited
over tho proposition to form a gigantic
trust of all the cotton minors of tho
South, which Is being advocated by
John T. Itoddoy, a prominent broker
of this city. 'I ho exchanges aro opposed
to the scheme. If such a trust
is formed tho brokers say that their
business will be ruined, so far as exorcising
any control of the market is
concerned. The trust would bo able
to practically dictate tho price of cotton
in tho open market.
"Mr. ltoddey's plan is for every cotton
farmer, \ matter how small, to become
a shareholder. When tho crop
is gathered each member shall turn
Into the trust one bale out of every
live or six bales raised by him, or I
the crop is a small ono, then oho halo
out of every seven or eight shall go to
tho trust. The amount of cotton thus
placed in tho bands of the trust shall
bo hold by tho latter as a sort of balance
wheel to the market. Tho farmer
will market bis crop, less tho amount
turned over to the trust, as best suits
him. The trust supply will bo hob.'*
until the market prfco shall bo lii!*|
enough to warrants its sale, and y. 1
return of a good profit. Mr. Kodd. I
feels that the adoption of bis plan, agj
the formation of a trust as proposed.,
will at once put the price of cotton up
to about eight cftnts from 'the present
price which is about five cents. This
would he an immediate and material
benefit to tho farmer, w ifo
would also hcnellt by tbo dividends
which ii is expected will accrue to hiin
on bis trust shares.
" Mr. Koddey suggests a mooting in
New York at an early duwo of reproHontatives
of all farmers' organizations
in the South, to consider the matter.
He has received a number of letters
from prominent cotton planters and
leading citizens of South Carolina, who
heartily indorse the plan. When seen
at his office, No. 80 Hroadway, Mr.
Koddey said be expeeted active steps
towards organization would bo taken
this week."
Several of the loading Southern
dally papers criticise Mr. Koddey's
sehemo as visionary and impracticable.
It may he so, but the opposition of the
cotton brokers is n favorable sign. An
organization of Southern land owners
pledged to the curtailment of cotton
cultivation to not more than eight or
ten acres to the horse might accomplish
the Hiimu end with less expense
and risk, but it is doubtful if this could
he made practicable. Organizations,
intended to accomplish such a purpose,
have gone down in the South without
any good effects being seen, on account
of the reign of the political demagogue,
and it might and perhaps
would bo so were the planters to combine
to limit and control the cotton pro- '
duction.
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mr, luiuuuy SHCIlOinO HUH JllStlCO Otl its
side and if it can bo inado practicublo it
ought to and no doubt will recolvo tho
endorsement of tiio planters of tho
South.
An enthusiastic meeting of representative
farmers from every section of
Georgia was hold on tho 31st ult. at tho
Macon fairgrounds to discuss the ruinous
prlco of cotton. The following
paper olTored by Colonel Tom Lyon, of
liurtow, was unanimously adopted :
44 The present ruinous price of cotton
affects injuriously not only the farmers
who produce it, hut stagnates husinoss
of every kind and paralizes efforts in
all legitimate industries. Hence the
duty is imperative upon us to uso all
honorable means to avert impending
disaster.-). Without attempting to discuss
the various political reusous assigned
as tho source for tho present
fearful depression, we desire to resist
the results as we tind them.
44 In the multitude of remedies suggested,
wo have seen none that so
strongly recommends itself as tho paper
submitted by tho president of the
Georgia State Agricultural Society,
Colonel John O. Waddell, in his call
for this meeting. Wo adopt tho salient
points in that call and commend them
to tho farmers of the cotton growing
States, and request the delegates
appointed from Georgia to attent the
Cotton Growers' Convention at Montgomery,
Ala., on November 13, to urge
tho suggestion as tho proper and just
solution of this vital question."
The following resolution was offered
by Dr. J. B. Hunnicutt, of tho State
agricultural college :
44 That tho delegates to Montgomery
bo requested to do all that they can to
stop the shipments of cotton from the
farms, thus reducing the heavy roceipts
which have a tendency to create u
wrong impression about tho amount of
the present crop."
Uncle Sam's Rewards.?In view
of the great number of nostoffico bur
glarioa and highway mail robberies,
the Postmaster Genorul has issued
offers of reward as follows: "One
thousand dollars for the conviction of
any person, in any Uniced States court,
on the charge of robbing the mails
while being convoyed in a mail car attached
to any railway train.
" Five hundred dollars for tho conviction
of any person, in any United
States court, on the charge o( robbing
the mails while being conveyed over
any jpost route, other than a railway.
"Two hundred and fifty dollars for
tho convletion|of| any person, in any
United States court, on the charge of
at tempting to rob the mails, being conveyed
over any post route.
" One hundred and fifty dollars for
tho arrest and conviction of any person,
in any United States court, on the
charge of breaking into a postoffico and
stealing therefrom or of robbing a postoffice,
or of larceny from a postoffico,
of an amount not exceeding one hundred
dollars, and two hundred dollars
where tho amount exceeds $500."
?A survey has been made for a new
railroad, (which is to be built from
Ilendersonville to Brevard N. C. It
Is said that tho construction of the
new road is to begin right at once, and
its projectors claim that thoy will
have it operating within two or throe
months. Sixty-pound rails, oak ties
and iron bridges aro to bo used. Transylvania
County, through which the
road is to run, has voted a subscription
of $?0,000 to it. Whon completed
itho road will be about twenty-five
milos losg.
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Latest Items and furious No(ch (Yom
Our Kxchaii|<?M. *
, Tho statement Is made that during
tho last 100 years Franco has lost 0,000,000
soldiers In tho war.
Tho total production of whiskey
in tho State of Kentucky for tho past
yonr was 20,133,803 gallons.
?An autograph letter of (ion. Wash
. Kuril mi vui. iittiniium Drought ft- 'J
recently ut a sale in London. '
It is semi-otlloialfy unnounced that
the winter schedules on tho Southern
1 tail way system arc to i?o put on about &
November IS. t.
During tiio civil war tho Confodorato
soldiers captured or destroyed
80 ships, 0-i brigs. 81 barques, 07 v
schooners, and oight other vessels
dying tho American dug.
?.(ames 1\ VVillot has been appointed
| yst master of Washington oity by
i'resident Cleveland. Kle Is a member
of a well-known Usui of hatters
and a life-long residonv^f Washington.
? Charles Beattlo, a .brother of
Admiral licattlo of tho English Navy,
died at Mobile, Ala., from heart
disease. Tho deceased has lived in
aiestituto eireumstances for tho past
J-vera I years. ?
; fcl'he answer of Mrs. James ColoflTin
Drayton, in tho suit for divorce
lately Instituted by her husband, has
[.been tiled by her counsel at Trenton,
N. J. She denies every charge of
marital infidelity made,
r ? The statement is made at police
.headquarters in New York that tho
'grand jury bad found indictments
ugjMiist Col ice Captain Stephenson
qnd Ward men trlennpn, Burns and
Smith, upon evidence brought before
tho Li)XOW committee. Tho specific g
charge, it is said, is blackmail.
? ill his annual rnnnrt. in t !>.. <J..
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tury Ot the Navy, Judge Advocate
Gouerul Lemly says that the use of
steel in ship building bus inude unneoessury
tiie continuance of the live
oak reservations in Florida, Alabama
and Mississippi, and he suggests tl^vl
thcBe be roHtorod to the public domain.
?The I'resldont appointed William
M. Camnboll of St. I'aul to bo United
StutoN Marshal for the District of f '
Minnesota to BUccced J. Adam Liede,
resigned. Mr. Campbell had the
olllce during Mr. Cleveland's llr?t administration,
liede is the man who
resigned beouuso ho was unable to
keep out of active politics.
- In a wroek of empty coal cars last
week on the Lieooh Creek rallroud in
Pennsylvania, live 'nen were instuntly
killed. They ure all unknown. At
tirst it was supposed that the victims
of the wreck were tramps. An invesI
tliri.ll/w. .!< tl.,.1. . i._
..6??uu *>1 VIIUII unuuts, nuwuvcr, U1Scloscd
that they wore all armed with
revolver#, and in a satchel was found a
complete Hot of burglar tool#.
? Secretary Herbert ha# ordered the
cruiser Montgomery to report at
Mobile, Ala., November 8th. The hocretary
will represent the government
at Mobile when thoeity of Montgomery
present# a silver service to the vessel.
After the ceremony at Mobile, the
Montgomery will Hpcnd a month in the
gulf testing the coul from Southern
initios.
?It was rumored novcral days ago
that the young empress of China was
dead, but that the fact would not be
announced nor mourning be worn by
tho court until after the birthday of *
dowager empress. Tho Now York
Herald's Shanghai spuclul says that
the young empress committed suicide.
She was rohukod bv the emnnrnp. who
slapped her fueo, whoreupo'n she took
poison.
-The prohibition against the landing
of Amerioun eattlo and American
dressed hoof haw been extended to
every port of Germany. Tlio olllcial
say that the importation of cattle from
America suffering from Texas fever
has boon clarly proved and that the
measures taken are purely of a preventive
nature, such as each German "*1
state is entitled to exercise through
its police authority within its own territory.
?A motion to take up a resolution
in the Itouso of liopresontativos of tho
Georgia Legislature declaring it to bo
tho sense of tho Legislature that Congress
shall enact a law for tho free and
unlimited coinage of silver, urul condemning
tho ltopresontatives in Congress
who voted for tho repeal of tho
Sherman Act, was defeated last week
by a vote of 94 to Oil, only twentythree
Democrats voting to take up the
resolution. Tho balance were Foou
lists,
?William Loonard Davis of Now
York and Miss Mattio Thompson,
daughter of ex-Congressman i'hil.
Thompson of Kentucky, wore married
lust weok at tho residence of Secretary
Carlisle. Members of the Cabinet
with their wivos, a large number of
people prominent in otlleial circles,
and many from Now York ana Kentucky
witnessed tho ceremony. Mr.
and Mrs. Duvis left for Tuxedo to
spend the honeymoon, und after they
will go to Colorado Springs for the
winter. Mr. Davis has largo mining
interests in Colorado.
iTho oro hundred and twentyeighth
anniveroity of Methodism in
America was cofebratod on Sunday
last at the John Street M. E. Church,
New York. Tho first Methodist Church
in America was founded ono hundred
and twenty-eight years ago to-day in
the sail loft at 120 William street.
Tho congregation grow slowly until in
1810 the present church in John street
was erected and dedicated. Among
the relics in possession of the congregation
are tho altar railing of the
church in William street, tho original
pulpit chair, tho two candlesticks ilrst
usod in tho pulpit of the John street
edifice, tho subscription book, with tho
amounts givon entered in the handwriting
or tho original members of
tho Methodist Church in America,
donors, and the old class book, in
which tho members of tho congregation
woro kept. In 1818 there wero 4'X)
members of the Methodist Chid *?
America. The number now is gYeo . >
than 5,000,000. * ?
?November 19th thoro will be a
hearing before tho United States Court
of Appeals upon another move in tho
now famous Agricultural Hall case.
What tho move is has not yet boon