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NOTES ON AGRICULTURE 1893.
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(DemerarG .Ar9osy.l
The year about to close has been one IF
many vioissitudes for agriculture in British
Guiana. In passing it may be stated that re-
EerenCe to agriculture is made chiefly in DON.
nection with sugar, as there are unfortunate
ly no other agricultural industries Of any
importance in the colony. The year opened
with a satisfactory stand of young canes on
the ground, and the rainfall during January
was not excessive. Heavy rains, however.
fell during the succeeding five months,
and the total fall during the 6rst six
months of the year averaged 10 inches. Els.
tates in the river districts got a larger share
of the rainfall than those situated along the
coast. The incessant rainfall and absence Of
, bright warm forcing weather checked the
development of young canes, and yields OBJ
tanned during the recent busy reaping season
have, on the whole been disappointing. The
rainfall for the year will approximate on the
average 125 inches, and the bulk of sugar
estates in the colony give best results with 8
we'll distributed annual rainfall of about IS
inches. On loose, porous soils, end on new
land whore there was q good covering of ve-
getable mould. canes grew we'll notwithstand-
ing the heavy rains, but in the heavy clay
soils which form a large proportion of the
area under cane cultivation, growth was slow
and unsatisfactory. The Danes generally have
contained a larger percentage of fibre than
usual, and the juice has been poor in quality,
containing less than the average quantity of
sugar. This is now the fourth year that alb
normally heavy rains have been experienced
in the colony. The total shipment Of &
FOR the year will be approximately II $1,000
tons. The shipments FOR the previous three
: years were:-
1890 :. 1O5, 4S3 tons.
1891 .. 10. e. lI6,978
1892 i. :. =. ll4,O75 "
These figures are taken from the fortnight.
ly report issued by the Chamber of Com.
merge, Georgetown. In 1887, l34, 876 tons
sugar were shipped and shipments during re-
Gent years compare unfavOurablys with this.
The variation in prices ruling for produce
during this year has been phenomenal. The
highest price obtained in London for average
Demerara yellow crystal was Eli, and the
closing price for the year for the same quail
ty is III, a difference of $19 per ton Of sugar.
The highest price obtained ip the local mar
ket for refining crystals p6larising So Q was
S4.16, and the closing price for the year for
ference of $32 per ton of sugar. The aver
Gge price obtained ip London for rum during
che year may be stated at 1f2 per proof
ga4son.s
The acreage tax returns give the acreage
under Q ane cultivation during the undernotedi
years as being
1890 -. =. 79,24S' acres.
1891 :. -. !. 1871
1892 =. T.. :. rs. iOI
1898 :. =. 1925
The acreage given for 1893 40 under eAAs
cultivation is for the first six months OF the
year, but che average FOR the whole year will
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of the geographer. who is suspected of sup,
plying money and chemicals. and WHO is
undoubtedly of Anarchist opinions, has
hitherto failed.
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The acreage given for 1898 40 under eAAs
cultivation is for the first six months OF the
year, bat che averags Cor The whole year will
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
United States Commissioner.

A bill OF considerable importance, in
volving radical changes in the manner OF
selecting and compensating United States
commissioners, has been passed by the
House. Owing probably to the excite
ment occasiOued by the tariff situation,
the bin attracted very little attention,
and was passed with hardly any debate.
United States commissioners, the com
hitting magistrates for the federal
courts, are now selected by the courts.
The bill provides that the power Of ap-
pOintment shall be vested in the President,
upon nomination by the Attorney Gen
eral. The Attorney General is to divide
the country into as many commissioners
Districts as he deems necessary; and he
is to be vested with the power to remove
commissioners when, in his Judgment,
the proper administration Of justice re-
quires their removal
The bill also provides that in cases
where the prisoner may not give bail, a
commissioner may extradlte him to an
other commissioners district.
The method of compensation is changed,
so that the Attorney General, and not the
treasury oaieials, approves accounts, and
no fees are to be received by the commits
sioners unless they are taxed and col
lected from the defendant, except where
the prosecution has been begun upon the
sworn complaint of United States attor-
ney, collector, deputy collector of in
ternal revenue. or revenue agent, setting
forth the facts, upon information and be-
lief, which afidavits must be approved
either before or after the arrest, by dis
trict judge or attorney of the United
States for the district where the offense
is alleged to have been committed.
The bill further provides that not more
than two witnesses shall be examined on
the part Of the prosecution before com
missioner In any case, unless before the
hearing the district attorney after, inves-
tigation, shall, in writing, authorize more
than two. Besides the two witnesses
authorized under the bill, and the addi-
tional witness examined by order of the
district attorney, no witnesses snail re.
ceive fees.
The bill, as will be noted, confers I'M
usual powers upon'the Attorney General
and his agents, the district attorneys.
If it should become a law the Attorney
General-the representative of the prose
cutting office of the government-would
nominate the petty judges, aud would
have the power to remove them. Never
theless, this putting of the commissioners
under the prosecutors thumb seems not to
have been Objectionable TO anybody in the
House, for the bill was not even accom-.
panied, from the judiciary committee, by
minority report. More viii prob
ably be heard of the bill before the
Senate gets through with it,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
Tricks on the Stump.

Row much sometimes depends upon little
things in congressional campaign " said a
member Of one OF the western delegations in
the House, who has elected as a republican,
TO the Washington star. AS an object lesson
on the tarin was wearing at every MEETING
an American made suit OF clothes that cost
me SI.O5. ! carried the receipt in my pocket.
and used 10 make a great hit in showing nv
audience how well the clothes Il me and tell.
ing them OF my wife regarding II as the hand
soonest suit OF clothes ! had worn in a Ion +,
time. wore il during the entire campaign
although. as the fail was well advanced /
must confess ] was secretly hoping the cam
palgn would soon close to enable me to nut on
heavier suit to keep out the cold.
Il was assigned to addressed an audience
In democratic stronghold. where hau some
friends who might be induced to vote for me
ana as had large audience. / concluded to
use the suit as an object lesson in defense Of
the tarih. l showed the aud ence my receipt,
ana lett there with every assurance OF carry
ing several hundred votes out OF the town.
The democrats heard Of my invasion. and
Immediately sent speaker down to address
a meeting composed Of substantially the
same people, the following night This
speaker and l were personal friends but in
politics that does not count
After warming up to his subject he turned
loose on my tarln arguments.
Jones has been telling you ] am told
mat the SUIT he wore here last night cost
him 500, he said you don believe IL, 1
hope. Why 1 was with him at-naminr my
home town dozen miles away-this morn
ing ana saw him pay $3.50 for ueCktie
The result Of that little statement lost me
an cut setenteen republican votes in that
town, SAID the narrator. in conclusion
since then IN always on the alert for the
euect OF small things in a campaign
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
PERSONAL.

The late Franz Xaver Riedl Of Vienna
found time during his journalistic activity of
forty-six years to write more than sixty
movers, besides translatlng twenty books
from the English.
Washington longs for tennis player who
can make the game interesting for Attorney
General Olney. He still IS devoted to the
sport and takes satisfaction in daily beating
whoever plays against him.
Rev. Moses G. Scott. pastor of the Youngs-
town Methodist church, has been notified by
portion Of his congregation that unless his
son, VINO Is employed in the power house,
quits work until the street railway strike is
over they will withdraw their support from
the church, -
Senator Ransom Of North Carolina, has
made but one speech during his fifteen years
Of service in the Senate. Beforehe was sent
TO Washington he had the reputation in his
own state of beng tine orator. He gave up
being eloquent on account of d tendency to
heart disease.
The car of Russia has shown hfs good will
toward the Church of Rome by contributions
toward the erection Of San Gioachchtno
church, begun In Rome in honor of the pope S
1ubilees. He has sent number OF chests Of
valuable stone, including malachite and
lapis lazuli for the interior decoration Of the
building.
Mrs. Kitty French celebrated the hundredth
n, N
j., on Aug. /. 4The old lady Shows great
vitality and still enjoys good health. On her
birthday she IhoOk hands with hundreds of
people, who filed her house all day, and en-
tered into active conversation with many Of
them.
John Ebbert who ran the first locomotive
out Of Chicago on the old Galena and Chicago
Union railroad in 1s47 is still living in
Chicago, at the age of 70. The road began
business WIN an old engine, two Passenger
cars and forty two miles of strap rail- bought
OF the Rochester and Attica division of the
New York Central. Mr.. Gilbert afterwards
became master mechanic and assistant super
lntendent of the Galena and Chicago Union
The NestOr Of the Texas bar is Gen
Thomas Neville Waui OF Galveston, a rative Of
North Carolina For many years he has been
president of the Texas Bar Association. bis
practice is chiefly in commercial and ad
miralty matters, although he is an authority
in every branch of the law. Gen. Waul
served in the confederate army from the be
ginning to the end of the war, and no com
mand had higher reputation in the south
west for stuDJ Orn fighting than Waul's bri-
gade The general is 81 years old
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
Compulsory Voting.

d An amendment 10 bring about compul.
sorry voting has been presented in the
New York constitutional convention. If
the amendment should be adopted, and
ratified BY the people, all qualified cleo
tors would, theoretically, be compelled 70
turn out and take part in all elections,
whether they wanted to or not. There
would be no more sulking at home in the
tents by disgruntled voters. II they felt
disposed TO sulk they would have to get
out Of the state, beyond the reach Of the
constables. And the chronic stay-at-
home electors, who contend that the bal
lot is a right TO be exercised or not, as one
pleases, might have their opinions of
the kind of a right it is rudely shaken.
IL is the argument advanced bS the
friends of compulsory voting that the
ballot is not an inherent right, but
franchise privilege. II is, they say,
right which the state may bestow, sub
ject 10 certain restrictions under the
fundamental law, upon whomsoever it
chooses. The right (or privilege, or
franchisel is bestowed by the state for
the states good, therefore the state has
an inherent right TO compel every citizen
whose qualifications are otherwise sound,
TO perform for the states advantage
the duty that the right carries with it. A
parallel is drawn between the duty of the
citizen to vote at the states command and
his duty to serve on the jury or the posse
comitatus at the states command. The
argument that the suffrage is a conferred
right and not natural right, and
may be conferred at the states
pleasure is one that is applied against
the right of woman to suffrage.
II is said that the agitation in favor OF
compulsory suffrage was begun by SEN
ator Hill When he was governor of New
York he advocated legislation to that eff
feet at least three times. The inherent
right of the state to require, for the
states good, that its voters exercise the
suffrage, is said to be one of the abstract
principles of republican government that
he delights to discuss.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
Senator voorhses' Generosity.

Uncle Dan said an old friend of Senator
Voorhees, to the Washington Post, lis the
most Unsophisticated person in the use OF
money you ever saw. He will lend or give
away pOcketful OF money in day and at
night he will not have the least idea what
he has done with II. / have been with him
VIII 3r'he would feel in his pocket and suddenly
discover that he had not enough change to
pay his restaurant bill or GUY a newspaper
His big heart and impUlsive llberality are re-
sponsible for occasional embarrassment.
remember on one occasion when we
were leaving the Arlington an old beggar
woman intercepted him. Uncle Dan reached
for his pocket az once, and l noticed that he
was about 10 hand her $40 gold piece.
Hold on. senator, said l. You don't mean
TO give the woman SO do vou?"
Il held his arm, and he looked up in an alb
sent minded way, saying: that's all l have
with me, Harry. Lend me- half dollar
L gave him the silver, which he handed the
woman; and he would have forgotten the
whole proceeding in two minutes if had not
demonstrated with him on his muniticent
carelessness and ofteatimes useless gener-
oSlty '.-t.s
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
Love Found a WAY.

The Detroit. Free Press says that bust
ness man of that city has very pretty daugh-
ter, with whom one of his once STAFF is hope
lessly inlove- AS the young man is not in
ylted to the paternal mansion. and the
young woman has been notified to keep away
from the paternal office. the course OF their
love does not flow very smoothly They have
mt upon the following eXpediert: When
papa enters the office in the morning he
hangs his hat Oh a certain nail among the
row OF other hats and proceeds to business.
Then the intere sted clerk, while the head OF
the firm is reading his morning mail takes
that hat from the nail. looks inside slips his
hand inside the lining and takes out q tiny
missive, which he at once CONVEYS to his
pocket and the contents OF which delight and
amuse him all day AT night, when papa re-
turns home his pretty daughter slips into the
hall and makes raid on that hat always
finding there an answer TO her missive Of the
morning.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
No Label Needed.

certain good looking but cranky sort of a
fellow in an ONCE where there are great
many visitors to take in the curiosities and
see the wheels so round. says the Detroit
Free Press, was bothered by questioners, and
as gentle hint he labelled the things about
him, for instance, This is a chair" This is
paste pot" This is pair OF scissors :"
This is desk, and so on. until every article
was its own catalogue. Then about his neck
he hung placard bearing the words: This
is man; plain man, as if to emphasize
people away from him. The plan worked
nicely. and as curious visitors would
pass his place, they would, read a sign
or two, laugh approximately, and say moth
ing. one day, though, he was knocked out
and all of his lale.s were taken down A yer
dant couple from the extremely rural dis
trlcts were doing the sights as usual and
when they came 10 him the woman was very
much interested, and went along reading each
sign, and trying to see where the curiosity
was. He paid not the slightest attention,
and when she came to him she read the card
attached and then took good, long look at
him.
Well she said to her escort as she moved
away, Il guess it wa MT hardly necessary for
him 20 put sign on himself sayin' that he
was PLAIN man: anybody could see that by
jest lOOkin al him"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
Sad Fate of a would-be Messiah.

If there were not so many people will
ing to be humbugged there would be
fewer humbugs. Delaware seems to have
a fair share of people wishing to be hum
plugged. Notwithstanding that the
statute books of that st ate are laden with
blue laws designed and adopted years and
years ago 10 enforce pr oper religious OBJ
servances, and that the good Offices Of
the stocks and whipping post are from
time to time invoked in behalf of correct
morals, yet a religious fraud of the first
water has been leading some of the Della
wareans astray, in defiance of the blue
laws and the whipping post, by the most
shallow devices.
The aquatic figures of speech are used
advisedly, for it was through his alleged
mastery Of the water that "Bishop"
Lynch gained the confidence of the peo-
pie, and it was in the water that he got
his downfall. He went to Delaware from
one of the Virginia islands, and pro-
fessed to be messiah. To prove his di-
vinity he proposed to show the people
miracle; he would walk upon the water
as Christ had done. AS far as outward
appearances went, he performed his mir
acle successfully several times. The peo-
saw him and were convinced. So they
built him church, and the bishop"
was having great time when his down.
fall came.
1t was part of the bishops" queer
religion that a man and woman should
preach sanctifcation together, and that
- 8, IA j
to -you-prease swapping and trad
ing; in which, by the way, the bishop
always came out ahead. 1t was, further
more, a part of the church ritual that
holy dance should be held in the church
on Sundays; and on these occasions the
bishop lied the german"
The wife-trading and the dancing, how
ever, were the causes of certain jeal-
ousies that proved the bishops undoing
1t was ascertained that his water-walk-
ing miracle depended entirely upon a
platform of boards placed about four
inches under the surface of the water.
And when he went to walk the other day
he found all Of the platform removed ex.
cept the starting plank. The drop that
he took was something sensational. When
his water" trick had been exposed great
part of the male portion of the congrega-
tion dropped onto' his other peculiari-
ties. They saw an opportunity to get
even for the way the bishop" had beaten
them IN the swapping, and they took ad-
vantage OF it. They burned the church
and made the bishop" skip.
Besides raising statesmen and peaches
as staple crops, Delaware sometimes
produces some choice specimens of sap
heads.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
Merited Indorsements.

From the Macon (Ga) Telegraph lDem).
The cordial indorse ment that was given
10y the state convention TO President Cleve-
land uy the Democratic convention was cred
table to Georgia democracy. He is a leader
20 whom the party can point with pride, and
when his admuistrat ion shall have ended we
believe he win be as strong with the people
as when he began Another fitting act Of the
convention was the Endorsement OF Hon. Hoke
smith. Secretary OF the Interior and the
statement OF the appreciation Of the demo
Gratis OF Georgia Of the compliment paid the
state In calling him 10 the cabinet. The ad-
ministration Of his responsible ONCE has been
such as 10 reject credit not only upon Secre-
tary smith, but the state.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06

The ships of the United States navy
have lately been engaged in target prac-
tice, which practice developed the fact
that there are some first-class marksmen
with the big guns aboard the ships. Some
of the shooting is described as having
been remarkably accurate. 1t is a little
to be regretted, however, that the names
OF some of the best marksmen have a de-
cidedly un-American sound. Messrs.
S. Jornam, A. Abkiar, A. V. Christopher
son, T. Genschke, A. Petersen, Ii. G.
Smidt, f. Muller, H. F. Jaquith, ]. G.
Len, B. Lipman. G. e. Mino, H. PETER
son, V. Belleisle, Il. Shratling and H
Olsen may be good men, and thoroughly
reliable in case of war. But it does seem
that if a few Joneses, Smiths, Browns
and Robinsons were among the gunners it
would be more acceptable to the Ameri-
can public mind.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
The Democracy stiil Militant.
. From tho baltimore Sun (Deml.

rom the baltimore sun (Dem.).
Whatever may happen in regard to the
pending tariff bill, IL Is well understood
throughout the country by the masses OF the
people that the Democratic party still stands
for well tried and just principles o, govern
ment. People who groan under existing
Mckinley taxes can feel no interest IN the
planks of republican platforms adopted in
various recent state conventions, reiteraung
lection included Not till protection is
dropped from the republican creed and not
TIL the populist creed becomes more practical
pie Will the mission Of the Democratic party
be ended.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-06
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

MEETNGs-Georgia Historical Society; De
Kalb Lodge No 9, I. O. o. F.
SPECIAL NOTICE-Diamond Dust Soap Pow
der.
LEGAL NoTICE-Citation from the Clerk OF
the Court of Ordinary Of Chatham County.
THE DEMAND FOR THOSE SUITs-Appel &
Schaul
AUCTION SALEs-Large Lot OF Household
Furniture, by c. II. Dorset; Tobacco, Mack
erel Etc. by J. H. Oppenheim s. Son.
STEAMSHIP SCHEDULEs-Ocean Steamship
Company; Baltimore Steamship Company.
SOME JAY" WILL SAY-B. H. Levy & Bro.
CHEAP COLUMN ADvERTIsEMENTs-H Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
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