The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-24
BISHOPS WITH WHISPERS.
Eight Of The Ten Of the Methodist
Bishops Wear Them.

lando's First National Bank-Orange
Trees Now Promise Well-A Lively
Contest for the Grand Army of the
Republic Encampment-Othe Mat
ters of Interest.
Maitland. Fla, May 23.-Our people
are delighted to know that one of Matt
lands most enterprising business men,
W. B. Jackson, Esq, has captured the
presidency of the reorganized First Ma
tional Bank of Orlando. and feel sure
that he will prove to be the right man in
the rignt place. He is a New Jerseyrpan,
the son of wealthy parents, and was
partly educated in Germany. lie came to
Florida some years ago fully prepared for
| active business. He became a partner of
Postmaster George 7. Stith, and was his
assistant postmaster, as well as his asso-
ciate in editing and publishing the Adver-
tiser of this city, weekly devoted to
their real estate business.
Since dissolving partnership with
| Alderman Stith he has had real estate
and notary publics office here, giving
much Of his time to closing up estates
and other legal matters. His father and
/
| like himself, largely interested in orange
| grove property in this county, and were
concerned in the National Bank of Or
| lando when it closed its doors. Percy Jack
son was formerly a law partner of ex-
| State Senator Edward NJ Hammond, at
| Orlando, out is now in practice on Wall
street, New York. w. B. Jackson
has a lovely home at the head
of Lake Maitland, where his wife and
| little daughter enjoy all the delights of a
truly rural retreat. 1t is pleasant drive
from his home to Orlando, and he will be
able to give daily attention to the affairs
of the bank. Maitland had many deposi-
| tors in the old bank.
THE DROUGHT BROKEN.
At last, after long and weary waiti ng
we see the drought broken by the heav.
| lest rain for years. The orange trees re-
| vived at once, and now everything grow
| ing shows a wonderful change for the
better. The lakes and streams have
risen rapidly, and after q few more big
| showers will be back nearly
| to the old mark. Very cold
| weather followed the rain, and fires and
| overcoats have been in good demand.
| The peach trees have improved remarka-
bly, and our fruit growers are shipping
| fine peaches daily. Capt. George w.
| Farnham, in charge of the Travellers In
! surance Company groves, brought in the
earliest fully ripe Peento peaches, which
| were beauties.
| GREAT MAN DEAD.
In the recent death of Rev. William
Brown. D. D., at his home in Clearwater,
Fla, there passed from earth one of
| the most active and useful men that the
| Southern Presbyterian church has ever
| claimed. During his last years. spent in
| Florida. he was aged, infirm and blind,
| but his previous record for active and
| Jealous labor as preacher, editor, and
friend of higher education kept his mem
| DRY fragrant in his old home. In his old
age and blindness he was still great.
| LIVELY CONTEST.
| Atlanta will not have a walkover in
| her efforts to secure the national encamp-
| ment of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie for 1895, as new competitor has en-.
| tered the field backed by unlimited cash,
and that is what talks best in a matter
of this kind.
The Commercial Club of St. Paul, is
now sending out some very elegant Grand
| Army literature, in which st. Pauls
claims are glowingly set forth.
| The national epcampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic is a big institution.
| Wherever it meets, the railroads, hotels,
| etc, are overwhelmed with the rush
| The usual amount raised for the inciden-
tai expenses alone is from 500, 900 to
$4,000, the latter being the amount San
| Francisco raised.
THE BEwHIsKERED BISHOPS.
| The MORNING NEWS is quite right in
its comments on the Southern Methodist
conference, in session at Memphis, when
| it claims that Naturally, as the church
| grows in wealth and numbers the pres
| Snrn for rhauCyps ia,OT1 tho T.,
no one thing has there been such a won
derful change as in the facial appearance
| of the distinguished bishops a
dozen years ago group picture
of the seven bishops then comprising the
college of bishops, had in it but one face
with whiskers and mustache-that Of
| Bishop K. M. Marvin. All the others
were clean shaved, as had been all their
godly predecessors. When Marvin was
elected the question of shaving
off his whiskers and mustache
came up, but he vigorously protested
that the conference had elected him.
whiskers and all, and he should not
shave. IN appearance he was tall, raw
boned and plain-looking strikingly like
Abraham Lincoln in his personal appear
ance and manners, but a man of great
ability If he kept his whiskers and
mustache for health they failed of their
purpose, for he was the first OF
Un6 seven TO ole, Death went
around the picture until it reached
all but Bishop j. c. Keener. smooth.
faced and feeble in health at times, who
is to-day the only survivor of that col
lege of bishops The picture of the pres
ent college of ten bishops shows only one
clean-shaven tace, except that of Bishop
| Keener, and it is the face of Bishop
w w. Duncan, a genuine old-time
Methodist, although not old in years.
Bishops Wilson and CRANBERRY have full
boards and mustaches; Bishops Hendrix.
Fitzgerald and Galloway have close-cut
whiskers and mustaches, while Bishops
Haygood, Key and Hargrove have long
chin wniskers and mustaches 1t goes
without saying that if the early bishops
of the Methodist church were to visit
this earth and look in upon the present
conference, nothing in the way of
change would strike them with greater
horror than the presence of eight out OF
ten bishops wearing whiskers and mus
taches. But the world moves on and old
traditions have TO give way to "a broader
culture.
PAN-AMERICAN BI-METALLIsTS.
A Synopsis Of the Report of Their
Committee on RAaOlntiOus