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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.


1t is somewhat uncertain whether
or not the people will have an oppor-
tunity to vote upon the question of
constitutional convention. AS shown
in our news columns the bills pro
viding for the submission of the
question to the people and for the
election of the delegates, which
passed the House before the recess,
came up in the Senate last Friday
and were amended in some impor-
tant particulars. The bills,as amend
ed by the Senate, provide for the
submission of the question to the
people on the first Thursday in Au-
gust next and for the election of
delegates on the first Thursday in
October thereafter. The amend
ments also limited the convention
to seventy-five days and provided
that the compensation of the dele
gates should be 81 per day during
the continuance of the convention
and actual travelling expenses for
one trip, going and coming, from
their homes. The House refused to
concur in these amendments and a
conference committee was appoint
ed to consider the differences be-
tween the House and Senate. This
committee recommended that the
House concur in certain amend
ments and that the Senate recede
| from certain amendments, Tut both
the Senate and House refused to
concur in the action of the confer.
ence committee, and another con-
ference committee will probably be
appointed. This is the status of
the constitutional convention ques-
/ ton before the General Assembly,
and whether or not the House and
Senate will be able to get together
we can not say. If the people lose
the chance of voting upon this ques-
ton they will likely visit their dis
pleasure upon the responsible heads.
In our opinion Governor Taylor fail
ed to do his duty when he refused
to call the election under the act of
the last Legislature, and to this the
present middle may be, in a great
measure, attributed.
The Senate stands in an attitude
of covert hostility to the mea sures,
and some of its amendments were
inspired by a spirit of opposition.
We still have hopes, however, that
the sullen obstinacy of the Senate
will yield to the demands of the
times and that the bills will yet be-
come laws.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19

WE publish this week very able
and interesting article from the pen
of DR.. o. ]. Porter, of FriersOn, on
the telephone question. DR.. Porter
was the first to raise the standard of
revolt against the Bell monopoly
and it was owing to his zeal and
public spirit that the Frierson and
Lipscomb Telephone Co. was or
ganized and the first independ =
ent line in Maury County estab-
lished. Its success stimulated the
citizens of Columbia with the re-
suit heretofore pointed out by the
HERALD. DR.. Porter has devoted
a great deal of his time and energy
20 the practical study Of this ques-
ton and his discussion of the
methods of the Bell monopoly, its
eXtortion and Indifference to the
wants and convenience of the peo
pie, and the great advantages and
economy of the Citizens Telephone
Company, we hope, will arouse al
active interest in this matter among
the citizens of every community il
Maury County, until every village
in the county will be on speaking
terms with every other village.
The HERALD has taken some pains
to present this subject to the people
and we are glad to know that many
communities are bestirring them
selves and are determined to have
the advantages of free and indie
pendent telephone line.
What has been done demonstrate:
what can be done, and with com
paratively small outlay and some
public spirit Maury County cal
have the finest system of free loca
telephones in the State.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

The various stages occupied by
woman in the process of her devel-
Opment and her present aggressive
ness is IA subjec of profound interest,
and excites in the philosophic mind
very wonderful and very startling
speculations.
In savage life and even during the
dawn of civilization she was the
slave and mental drudge of man,
hideous and forbidding in personal
appearance and ignorant and de-
based in mind. But civilization
raised her from this ignoble station
until she became the equal compan-
ion of man, his soft aud gentle cOun-
selOr and friend, having for his
gayer hours voice of gladness and
smile and eloquence Of beauty,
and gliding into his darker musings
with a mild and healing sympathy
which steals away their sharpness
ere he is aware, in fact an angel on
earth and thing Of beauty and a
JOY forever. Civilized man was con =
graduating himself upon Parad Use
Regained; but we fear his possession
will be of short duration. The devil
has been at work in this second
Paradise and woman shows signs of
yielding to temptation. She is
about to fall from that high estate
wherein civilization has placed her.
The following clipping from the
st. Louis Republic will open the
eyes of some of us to the sad wreck
of mans sublimest hopes:
"Some little time ago a stock ex-
change, or bucket shop, was opened
in st. Louis for the especial accom-
mediation of st. Louis women. The
reasons given for its opening were
that MANY st. Louis women, both
married and single, were given to
the delights of taking an occasional
speculative flyer in stocks or grain
or cotton or anything of that kind
| heretofore sacred to the business
haunts of man in this locality, and
| that offices where women could con-
gregate and speculate were impera-
tive needs of the time. Such offices
were opened, and the conservative
element of st. Louis held its breath
and wondered what was to come
next.
1t had not long to wait. The
alleged fact that st. Louis women
were given to stock aud grain
gambling and the like had barely
had time to sink into the public
mind when there came another
revelation, which is now in progress:
of being materialized into actually
This is TO the effect that the
femtninity of st. Louis is in need OF
a billiard-room and public club
house where it may assemble o.
evenings, after the excitement Of d
day of speculation is needed, there
to while away the hours until bed
time, just like little men, so tC
speak. 1t is proposed to expend
some $4,000 upon this establish.
ment, which is to be located in the
West End, and a. heavy patronage
of the luxurious resort is confident
ly expected" .
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

Sheriff Love Webb sold a fine
horse at auction on the square last
Friday for $S5. The horse was the
property of Mr.. P. j. Tillman, and
was sold to Mr.. A. w. Mckay.
The entries to the Tennessee Sale
Agency closed last Monday, and the
books show that about $50 horses
have been catalOgued. The sale
will take place the second week in
April at South Side Park; the ami
mails entered are all first-class stock,
and Messrs. Shelton & Dale are con-
fident this years sale will be great
success, as all the others have here
tOfore been.
The demand for horses at this
place is a great deal better at pres
ent than usual, but the mule trade,
except for feeders, has about closed
out.
Joe Rainier bought a load of horses
Monday and shipped to Troy, Ala.
Maxwell, Crouch & Co., received
four loads of feeders from st. Louis
this week, and sold one load to Col.
j. w. S. Ridley.
Jno. Barrow received one load of
feeders from Charlottesville, Ind,
yesterday.
Harlan Bros. u Parks bought a
nice harness mare from j. l.. Hut
ton this week.
H. A. Wright shipped a car load
of hogs from Hurricane last Satur-
day.
Bolts & Mathis shipped cars of
cattle from Culleoka and one from
Columbia this week.
Alexander & Vaughan have made
the following shipments from the
stock yards this week: Two loads
of sheep, one load of hogs, and two
loads of cattle. They also shipped
two loads of cattle and two loads of
hogs from Goodwin.
Foster & Church shipped , cars OF
hogs from Carriers Creek this week
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19

promoters have labored without COM
pensation other than that which comes
to those who have done a citizens duty.
They will feel amply rewarded if their
endeavors are crowned by the triumph
of the people over the monopoly.
We must not grow impatient because
we do not at once get all that we feel we
need. Remember that the Citizens
Telephone Company has been in opera
ton but nine months and that it has in
so brief time built up a far more de-
sirable exchange than did the monopo-
ly concern in twenty years. We now
have besides the subscribers within the
city limits, Frierson, LipscOmb, Ash
wood, Mt. Pleasant, Bigbyville, Goodwin
and numerous private residences in the
country and are in fair way to be talk
ing to Williamsport, Santa Fe, Tim
mons, Spring Hill and other county
towns, within the next few months.
Let US give ourselves no uneasiness
about long distance service. That will
take care of itself. Having established
ourselves at home, as numerous other
home companies are now doing, no
difficulty will be experienced in finding
means to connect with remote points.
One word in regard to the terms which
the monopoly company is nor Offering.
In fact, since its supremacy is threat
ened it is proposing almost any terms.
To patrOnize it is to invest in most I'M
certain futures, to indirectly injure the
Citizens Telephone Company, which is
the cause of the Bells suddenly
assumed gracious attitude, and to delay,
possibly defeat, the success of a home
enterprise whose underlying principles
are to do the greatest good to the great
est number, the development of an
attitude of resistance toward the eXac-
tons of unbridled avarice, and the cul-
tivation of an Independent spirit, of
which, if we but sufficiently possess
ourselves, the beginning of the end OF
monopolies will be at hand.
OTEY j. PORTER.
Frierson, March Is, 1897.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19
STATE NEWS.

Suits aggregating $225,OOO have
been filed by the administrators of
the Howard family, who were killed
near Chattanooga some time ago,
against the Southern Railway Com
pany.
The Masonic lodge of Jonesboro
was incorporated in 1923, and the
original charter, signed by Andrew
Jackson, who was at that time grand
master of the state, hangs on the
wall of the lodge room.
Gov. Taylor pardoned twenty-four
penitentiary convicts at the same
time last Friday, and five more were
made free Saturday.
Hon. E. w. Carmack has selected
Richard B. Baptist, of Covington, as
his private Secretary. They left
Thursday for Washington.
The Stewart county Jail, at Dover,
Tenn, was destroyed by fire last
Monday morning, and three negro
prisoners were cremated. The
cause of the fire is not known; the
loss is several thousand dollars.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19
RG-ODGling Of Buildings.
Elvira Matthews ct al. VS.. John Voor-
HES ct al

Elvira Matthews ct al. VS.. John Voor-
HES ct al.
Pursuant to a decree of the Chancerv
Court at Columbia, Tenn, entered in
above styled cause at the January
special term, 1897, at page 81, directing
me to reopen the biddings on the fol-
lowing described real estate, to-wit:
Situated in the 9th civil district of
Maury County, Tenn, md Ward Of
the City OF Columbia, bounded North
by Sth street, East by Embargo street,
South by lot of Matilda Smith and West
by the Amelia Wilkes place now owned
by Eugene Pillow, fronting on sth
street 50 feet. | will receive advanced
bids on same property until Il M on
Monday, the 9Th day of April, 1897.
Said sale will be made on a credit of 8,
Il and IS months, except the sum of
fifty dollars which will be required IN
cash on day of sale, and in bar of the
equity of redemption. Note dated the
26th Dec, 1896 bearing interest from
date with good personal security will
be required of the purchaser and lien
retained on the property as further
security. This March 18th, 1897.
A. n. AKIN, C. Il NJ.
VOORHEES, IL Fowler, Solicitors.
mrl2-4t.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19
HARRIS WINS.
Democratic Caucus Meets and NOmi.
mates State Off GERS.
James A. Harris Has "A Close Shave.
Morgan and Craig Win in a jog.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Thursday
evening. Especial to the HERALD
The Democratic membe RS of the
legislature held caucus this even
ing and nominated James A. Har-
ris for Comptroller, w. S. Morgan
for Secretary of State. and E. B.
Craig for Treasurer.
Harris won by close shave, the
vote standing, Harris 10, King A.
Morgan won by vote of two to one.
Craig was nominated by acclama-
No action was taken by the legisla-
ture to-day on the constitutional
convention bills.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19
GENERAL NEWS.

A bill has been introduced in the
New York Legislature to authorize
an appropriation of 100000 by the
city of New York to establish a
colony for habitual drunkards.
Banker Mcknight of Louisville is
confronted with an indi ctment COW
ering 240 pages of closely typewrit-
ten paper and containing ninety-one
counts.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19
CARMACK-PATTERSON.
Josiah's Hopes Vanish Like the BaseIest
Fabric of "A Dean.

Josiah's Hopes Vanish Like the Baseless
Fabric of "a Dean.
The Fifty-Fift Congress will not
listen to the whining complaints of
Josiah during its extra session. A
Washington correspondent writing
of the situation and referring to Jo-
siah's returning to Congress, has this
to say:
Col. Josiah Patterson, late a
member of Congress from the Tenth
Tennessee District, has said that he
would return home to Memphis
March -, return to Washington to
prosecute his contest before the Com
mittee on Elections April |, and re-
turn to his seat in the new Fifty
Fifth Congress before May |. Since
the announcement of this return
ingn process the Hon. Tom Reed has
caused your Uncle Josiah to recon-
slider the above programme. Patter-
son will hardly be back here as early
as April l, and he certainly will not
return to a seat in Congress May l
should he ever return" The imme-
diate obstacle in the path of Patter-
sons participation in any of the de-
alterations of the coming extra ses-
sion is the embargo which Reed aud
his followers have announced as
their policy,ltO limit the formation
of committees to the very minimum
number-that is to say, to the actual
number requisite to transact only
the business for which the new Con-
gress is to be convened extraOrdi-
narily, namely, to the Committees
on Rules, Ways and Means, Mileage
and Accounts, and committees made
necessary by failure of four ApprO-
priation bills in the late Congress.
There being no Election Commit
tees appointed prior to the Deem
Der meeting of Congress, of course
Josiah's fond hopes have faded like
the baseless fabric of a vision
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19

THE legislature of South Carolina
has passed law providing that no
educational institution receiving
state aid shall permit Greek Letter
Societies. The opposition is based
upon the charge that such societies
encourage class and caste feeling
and that society and the young
women boycott students who are
not members of the favorite fra
ternities.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19

THAT great coiner of "iridescent"
phrases, Mr.. John J. ingalls,, entered
the pugilistic ring last Wednesday
against the eX-world champion, the
Hon. John L. Sullivan. ingalls, re-
ported the Corbett- Fitzsimmons
fight at Carson City, Nevada, for
the New York Journal and Sullivan
performed the same service for the
New York World. Oh, what a fall
is here, my countrymenl The proud
Ingalls,, who once the applause OF
listening Senates did command, has
become prize fight reporter.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19
Nonresident Notice.
CLERK AND MASTERS OFFICE,

OOluHOla, lenn., L go. -, 1877.
A. c. Riddle, ct. al, Complainant, VS..
Ethel Richey, ct. al, Defendant
happening from affidavit filed in his
cause, that the defendant, Ethel Rich
ey, Harvey Richey and Lucy Farley
are rOn-residents of the State of Ten
nessee,
1t is therefore ordered that they enter
their appearance herein, before or with
in the first three days of the next term
of the Chancery Court, to be held at Co
lum bia on the lst Monday in April next,
1897, and plead, answer or demu; to
compliments bill, or the same will be
taken for confessed as to them and set
for hearing eX parte; and that copy Of
this order be published for four cOnsecu-
tive weeks in the Columbia HERALD.
A Copy-ATTEsT:
A. n. AKIN, Clerk q Master
feb % 1t
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19
M1Ke37o3, P7dQTso3 { Foster.
As Fresh as the Morning Liqht

are these charmngy pretty printed French Organ
dies and penny dear shall a Of them be Sold
for the line is large 25c the yara with of finer quail
tiles up to 4oc.
CRISIS CROSS BEAUTIES in wool dress goods for
early spring The minging of coors in small
checks squares These pretty Paris Pattern Suits in
sure eXcusveness in your spring dressing of these e
ORIy brI00 one of q Kind.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19

MCKINLEY says that new tariff
bill is the imperative demand of the
hour. We rather think that is the
imperative demand of the tariff
barOnS.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19

The Nashville Sun says that Mr..
Bryan has but one formidable rival
General Prosperity, and that he
seems to have left the country for
an indefinite stay.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19

The HERALD returns its thanks
to Mr.. A. Sidney Page for an invita-
tion to attend the commencement
exercises of the Medical and Dental
Departments of the University of
Tennessee, which will take place at
Nashville on the 10Th of this month.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19

THE great evangelist, Dwight L.
Moody, will begin a series of meet
ings at Louisville March 81.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY will have
the distinguished honor of steering
the ship of State into the uncharted
waters of the Twentieth Century
and he should see to it that the
grand entree is made on the tOpmost
crest of his own guaranteed wave of
prosperity.-St. Louis Republic.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19
For Next Monday.

of all wool checks and mingled dress goods "a inches WIDE
Monday, 25c tile yard.
BLEACHED TABLE DAMASK.-Two styles of 70
inch beached table damask usual dollar quality Monday Csc
the yard.
IRISH LINEN REMNANTS-Mo of those short
lengths of Irish linen, full yard wde beached in pieces OF
from to yards
At 2c yard Irish linen worth Soc SIC yard Irish linen worth
Remnants of Plain White India Linon.-5oo yards of
plain shear, white India non, lengths of from yards,
good I5c quality, Monday, &c the yard.
Printed Ducks, and talor-made sutngs usually good
value at I29c yard, Monday, &c the yard.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19

CAL BRICE's term as Senator from
Ohio expired March 4th and he was
succeeded by Senator Foraker,
commonly known as "Fire-Alarm
Foraker" Ohio now has two Re-
publican Senators, the first time in
many years that both of her senators
have been of the same political
party.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19

TAXATION is the Republican
patent nostrum which cures all ills.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-03-19

have been of the same political
party.
PURSUANT to President Nc
Kinley's proclamation the Fifty
fifth Congress convened in extra
ordinary session last Monday. Nc
Kinley had but one thing to tell
them in his short message, and that
was to increase the taxes. Henever
once suggests the propriety ofreduc-
ing expenses, his only object is to
increase the revenues. He says:
Ample revenues must be supplied,
not only for the ordinary expenses
of the Government, but for the
prompt payment of liberal pensions
and the liquidation of the principal
and interest of the public debt" and
they must do this before any other
business is transacted.
Mckinley seems to have alto
gether overlooked the fact that the
revenues of the people have also
fallen off and that the vast majority
of the individuals of this great
country are face to face with an
individual deficit, and have been
compelled to cut down expenses.
Common sense and ordinary pru =
dence have taught the people that
this is the way to meet such emer-
gencies. But McKinley's fanatical
devotion to the idea of tariff protec-
ton does not permit him to see the
wisdom Of applying to government
this wise and simple business rule.
The people have already found it
difficult to raise revenue sufficient
to meet the eXactions of misgOvern-
ment and this prospect of increas-
ing the burden is not very pleasing.
THERE are many changes in
the new senate, some of the more
notable ones are as follows: Ala
bama-SenatOr Pugh succeeded by
Senator PettuS; Georgia-Senator
Gordon succeeded by Senator Clay;
Idaho-Senator Dubois succeeded
by Senator Heitfeld; lllinois-Sena-
tor Palmer succeeded by Senator
Mason; NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. VOORHEES,
succeeded by Senator Fairbanks
ADMINISTRATION PETER succeeded
by Senator Harris; Louisiana Sena.
tor Blanchard succeeded by Senator
McEnery; Maryland-Senator Glib
son succeeded by Senator Yelling
ton; New YOrk-Senator Hill sue.
ceeded by Senator Plat; OhiO--Sen
ator Brice succeeded by Senator
Foraker, and Senator Sherman sue
ceeded by Senator Hanna; Pennsyl-
vania-Senator Cameron succeeded
by Senator Penrose; South Carolina
Senator Irby succeeded by Senator
Earle; Utah-Senator Brown sue
ceeded by Senator Rawlings; Wash
ington-Senator Squire succeeded by
Senator Turner; Wisconsin-Sena
tor Villas succeeded by Senate
Spooner. In addition to these, Sena
ator Kenney takes the place from
Delaware which has been vacant 70
some time, succeeding Anthem,
Higgins. Many prominent senator
were reelected and will be swor
in for another term of six years
Among these are Senator Jones, c
Arkansas; Senator Perkins, of Cali
fornia; Senator Teller, of Colorado
Senator Vest, of Missouri; Senate
Jones, of Nevada; Senator Calm
ger, of New Hampshire; Senate
Pritchard, of North Carolina; Sena
tor Hansbrough, of North Dakota
Senator Kyle, of South Dakota
Senator Morrill,, Of Vermont,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-01-28
The Church the Working Power.

While the personality of Christ and
the life He lived contain the real work
ing power of Christian truth, yet the
church is the instrument through which
this truth is to be held up for the guild
ance of men. The church may be wrong
in its Interpretation of theological dog
mas, but there is no earthly organiza-
ton SO likely to be right in teaching the
essential truths of life. The church is
the working harness of true religion,
and while it asks loyalty to the organi-
cation for the purpose of advancing the
fundamentals of religion it should per-
NIT wide margin for individual growth
and Interpretation. Be strong in the
advocacy of the fundamentals, but lib
eraI in the matter of individual opinions
on matters Of dogma -Universalist.