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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-10-06
EXECUTORS SALE.

Agreeably to an order of tlfe Court of
Ordinary, of Cobb county, Ca, will be
sold before the court house door of Cobb
county on the first Tuesday in Novem-
Der next, within the legal hours of
sale the following property to-wit
One town lot, with store house there
on, in the town of Roswell, Cobb
county, Ca, No. 2, according to the
survey and map of the SIS property in
said town, fronting los feet on Broad
street, running back east 21S feet, con-
tanning about one-half acre, more or
less, being part of land lot No. 3S5, LIST
district and second section, Cobb coun-
ty, Ca, and known as the Kelpin store
property. Terms of sale one-half cash,
balance in II months, with interest
from date at per cent.
j. G. KELPIS, Executor
of Vim. Kelpin, deceased.
Sept, 30th, 1893.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-10-06
CUTTING ARRAY,

On Saturday night fight and cut
ting scrape took place on Cherokee
street, on the bridge below Gresham's
store, between some whites and negro
named Anderson Brown. The result
was Brown had knife cut from the
back of his head to his throat. DR..
Cortelyou had to take seven stitches
to close up the cash. Mr.. Lon Latta.
white, was cut on the left shoulder, a
cash two and half inches in length.
DIR. Nolan dressed his wound Mr.. J.
W, McCullar, white, was struck on the
arm with rock Mr.. Bud Sherman
and two other white fellows. Each
side claims that the other was the at
hacking party
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-10-06
We are Large Handlers of Grass Seeds.
Where Will
You Take IT,?


After having consulted your ply
sician, the question often arises,
where shall take my prescription?
You should go to the best druggist
that you know-one that will use on
ly the best drugs, and will not fill it
if he hasn't the right kind. Go where
you will always find experienced
Pharmacists in charge, who will over
see each prescription and exercise
the greatest care in dispensing. Our
prescription department is conducted
in this careful manner.
GrOsby's Drug Store.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-10-06
GEORGIA-CoBB COUNTY.

To whom it may concern: Willie Kel-
pin, administrator of j. G. Tribble, de-
ceased, has in due form applied to the
undersigned for leave to sell the lands
belonging to the estate of said deceased,
and said application will be heard at my
office on the first Monday in November
next. October 4th, 1898.
j. NJ. STONE, Ordinary.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-10-06

When the education of the parents
has been neglected, it is very apt to be
drawback to the educational adj
vancement Of their children. Our city
public schools can't educate the pa
rents and the children at the same
time.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-10-06
GEORGIA-CoBB COUNTY.

To whom it may concern: Laura j.
.Wigley, Administrative of Jacob o.
Durham, has in due form applied to the
undersigned for leave to sell the lands
belonging to the estate of the said de-
ceased, and said application will be
heard at my office on the first Monday
In November next. October 4th, 1898.
j. NJ. STONE, Ordinary.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-10-06

Mr.. T w. Glover received another
load of cattle from the mountains of
North Georgia on Thursday night.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-10-06
JOURNAL Telephone. No. SIS.
Subscribe for the Journal. 500.

Mosher baked 1850 loaves of bread
for the barbecue. 1t was mountain
of bread.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-10-06

DR.. Waddell and family are in their
new home, the Hirsch place, on Church
street.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-08
Stick

Il ls superfiuous to advise Brother HANNA
to stick. He In not a qultter.
The Ohioans who need q stiffening Of the
backbone and general %admonition to be
straight and straightforward on the pres
emit occasion are the wabbling, wavering,
easily beguiled souls In the Legislature
tina see no disloyalty in DESERVING the party
standard and following the selfish factions
now seeking to destroy HANNA as q Repub-
lican leader in that State.
The Republican Convention Of last Juno
nominated HANNA for Senator and BUSH
NELL for Governor. The party elected BUsH-
NELL in November. The party 10 equally
bound to elect HANNA in January.
Sticki That is to say, be honorable Re-
publicans, faithful to the deliberately as
sumed obligations of the Republican party
Of Ohio.
The leader who gives to Republican legis-
lators at Columbus advice different from
this is a traitor.
Stick to the pledge Of Junel
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Russia Moving in Central Asia.

Amid the preparations that are being
made by the European powers to extend
their territory and influence in different
of the Russian Government in Central
Asia. According to information from st.
Petersburg, a considerable sum of money
is to be expended during the present year
in improving the navigation of the ANU
Darya in its upper reaches from Charjui,
where the rans-Caspian Railway crosses
that river on one Of the longest pieces of
trestle-bridge work in the world, to Khoja-
Saleh and Khilif on the Afghan frontier {;
and from the last named onward to Faiza-
bad in Badakshan. The improvements
contemplated, it is anticipated, will enable
navigation to be extended over nearly the
whole year instead of only during the Pc
RODS of high water as now.
An increase is also to be made to the flo
tilla at present navigating the ANU Darya,
which consists of three steamers of consid-
cradle size ant four smaller craft, with
steel barges for towing by the larger
steamers. This flotilla is stated as having
been ordered TO be held in readiness for the
conveyance of troops and war material to
the Afghan frontier nd Faizabad. From
Charjui, at which place the troops and
stores would arrive by rail and be EN-.
barked on the steamers and barges to Xiii
lif, the distance may be reckoned at about
$50 miles, and, navigation being carried
on only in the daytime, would take about
three or four full days TO cover. In
addition there is an ordinary road
from Charjui to Khilif. This last named
place, with Khoja-Saieh, would probably
be the principal points of concentration of
Russian troops on that part of the Afghan
frontier. From Khoja-Saleh there is q road
by Andk0i and Shibergan to Balkh, one Of
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-08

the principal cities Of Afghanistan, from
where there Is a road to Cabul by way Of
Bamian, which town stands about $500
feet above sea level. Another road runs
south to Cabul from n point about midway
on the road between Balkh and Faizabad ;
and this last place lies about 100 miles,
more or less, northwest of Chitral, the occu-
patton and retention Of which by the Brit
ish ave been the cause of the present from
tier troubles. Some Of these roads men,
TONED cross mountain passes at various ele-
v%ations, some as high rs $4,000 feet. The
Dorah Pass, between Chitral and Faizabad,
is 1900 feet above sea level.
The object Of these movements on the
part of the Russians Is said to be to pre-.
pare against any eventualities on the
Russo.Afghan frontier arising out Of the re-
lations between the British Government
and the Ameer of A~fghanistan. The passes
between Faizabad and Chitral, over
the main range of the Hindu Kush, can
only be traversed in snfety for about three
months of the year, and are therefore risky
for an invading slrmy unless secure in tho
adhesion Of the, natives Of the country.
There are, however, other passes to the
southwest Of flower altitude and easier &C.
cess by which, in case Of an alliance be-
tween Russia and Afghanistan. Russian
troops might descend into the Cabul coun-
try. It is the possibility of this that makes
it somewhat difficult to understand the
policy of the British Government in turn
ing the frontier tribes into bitter foes, just
at n moment when their friendship would
have been of inestimable value.
The probability of a Russian invasion of
India, through Afghanistan by way of
Herat and Candahar, or from the line of
the Amu-Earya by way Of Balkh and the
two roads from there to Cabul, with a
diversion across some part of the Hindu
Kush into the Chitral country, is not i'm
mediate; but the preparations themselves
are a rehl danger. That danger consists in
the effect that will be produced on the
minds and imaginations of the people of
India by the knowledge that a Russian
army, the numbers of which will be magnE-
fed tenfold in the gossip of the bazaars, is
lying waiting OIL the Afghan frontier.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-08

aging committee in Havana played no
part In colonial affairs.
1t Is upon this ghost Of q party that Sefor
SAeAsTA and Senor MoRET mainly have
staked their hopes. It is true thai they have
also received promises Of support from the
Reformists, who constitute a small party
recruited from the least reactionary persons
among the resident Spaniards. Tit Con.
stitutional Union, on the other hand, which
comprises not only the greater part Of the
Spanlards who have settled in the West In
dies, but also the remnant of the old Planter
party, and, indeed, many Representatives. OF
the landed mi moneyed classes, is vehe-
mently opposed to the scheme Of autonomy,
except 30 far as 1t empowers the inhabi-
tants Of Cuba to exercise some influence on
the framing Of the insular tariff. Their
interests are 40 bound up in the improve
ment Of trade relations with the United
States, which they recognize as not only
the best, but, probably, the only, customer
for Cuban sugars, that even the Unionists
probably would have become gradually
reconciled to home rule had 1t been granted
in 1893 or 1894, when tho whole native
population of the island would have ac-
cepted it. AS 1t Ia, the offer of home rule
comes too late, and, doubtless, would never
have been made had SAeAsTA and MoRET
comprehended how little is left Of the once
strong Autonomist party.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-08

sanship In q common maliRnity against
the Republican party. Moreover, the
habit Of attacking Republication and
the long experience in 1t acquired by the
Manhattan contingent would make them
especially valuable to the Union League
Mugwumps, most Of whom have had no
equal drilling In that warfare, and can con-
duct 1t only "a an awkward squad of un-
disciplined guerrillas armed exclusively
with the bitterness OF their spite.
There is no room In New York for more
thar one great and important Democratic
club. Standing alone as representative
Of the Democracy here, 1t will have the
more consequence and the more influ-
ence In the party rs q whole. 1t can
gather into its membership all New York
Democrats of distinction, thus concen.
trating their power for the benefit of
the party, and by It's tone 1t can express
the ruling Democratic sentiment OF the
community. Any attempt of the s~puriously
Democratic Manhattan Club to compete
with the genuine Democratic Club could
only result in a division of feeling which
would cause it to be frowned upon by
Democratic leaders here and throughout
the Union. Nor is there any opportunity
for more han one Mugwump club in New
York; there are not enough Mugwumps
for more. The Union League, having al
ready occupied the Mugwump field,
should be allowed to hold 1t by un-
disputed squatter sovereignty. So far
from poaching on its preserves, the Man.
haitian Mugwumps, IL they are wise, will
recognize openly its right of prior pos
session and discountenance all devices to
withdraw the Mugwumps from their nat
ural allegiance to 1t.
This involves. Of course, the extinction
of the Manhattan Club, but Of what use is
it7 There Is a real Democratic club, and
the town contains a superfluity Of purely
social and ~non-political clubs. In losing
Its Democratic character the Manhattan
Club has lost its reason for existence.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-08
The New Brooklyn Dry Dock.

Naval Constructor BowLEs has done a
public service in exposing the character of
the We rk originally done on Dry Dock No. 3
at the Brooklyn yard. Indeed, some sort
of statement became necessary to show how
it was that the structure began to leak soon
after it was completed, and why the enor-
nous sum of 100000 and much more is
necessary to repair the leak.
The report of grave defects made by Mr..
BowLEs, who has charge Of the repairs
now going on, is confirmed by the Board of
Civil Engineers of the Navy, which exam
ined the dock last week. Sheet piling that
should have been driven very deep into the
ground was found to ave been sunk not
one-third or even one-fourth the distance
required, and the quantity of concrete used
was also considered to be meagre
A court of inquiry ought to be appointed
to consider these revelations. Yet it
should not be held before the return of Civil
Engineer MENocAL from Nicaragua, where
he is now accompanying the new Canal
Commission and explaining to it's members
the route which he laid out there for the
Maritime Canal Company. Mr.. MENoCAL
supervised for the Government the build
ing of the Brooklyn dock, and. as the
structure has been accepted and the con-
tractors have been paid, the chief inquiry
left to the Government seems to be as to
why any inadequacy in the work was not
discovered and reported during the official
inspections.
On this point, however, it is simple JUS
tice to urge that public judgment should
be suspended until Mr.. MENoCAL can make
his W explanation. His eminent services
and the Importance of his relations to the
great Nicaragua undertaking fully entitle
him to the presumption that he can throw
satisfactory light or his connection with
the dock inspection intrusted to him.
Still, the disclosures of Mr.. BowLEs and
of Mr.. MENoCAL's fellow officers of the
corps of civil engineers are properly made
at this time, because Congress is asked to
give more money for the repairs, and also
has before it a very extensive scheme of
new dry dock construction.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-08
Again the Sacred Goldfish in the Boston

Again the Sacred Goldfish in the Boston
State House is Hopping about in agony, his Rills
purple with wrath and his scales sliding.
Somebody wants to cover with copper the once
Gilded Dome and consequently the ichthyomor-
phic tutelary god thereof. And what says the
Boston 4dcertfser in this solemn houri Does it
throw its whole soul and wind into a trumpet
blast against the contemplated enormltyf No;
1t says that the proposal has some things to
commend 1t. Copper is durable. malleable.
sufficiently expensive to possess on that account
q certain dignity, and looks well. II kept thor
oughly secured; for which purpose buttermilk
is said to be the very best thing known" But
terrnilk on the once Gilded Dome; Cream of
Sacred Goldfish Why not send the latter to
Gloucester. where Boston's fish trade seems to
have gonei Why not take off tho Dome and
nse 1t for a hencoopi There are some malleable
heads in Boston. and they need hammering.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-08
Tho Mugwump Idea OF Currency
Reform.

At the bottom of all the plans Of so-called
currency reform, which have thus far been
presented, lies the Mugwump idea that the
people, acting through their constitutions
ally appointed representatives, are not fit to
be trusted with the control of the country's
paper money, but hat the duty ought to be
turned over to the officers Of a few thousands
of incorporated banks. The Mugwumps
contend that the banks can be relied upon
to maintain their notes at par with gold,
while the Government notes are in constant
peril of being ~dishonored. This, too, is in
face of the fact that now, for nineteen
years, the Government has not once failed
to pay gold on demand for all its obliga-
tions, while during the same period the
strongest banks in the country nave four
times, for months at a time, failed to pay
even paper money to their depositors.
Conspicuous among the eulogists of bank
currency and slanderers of that issued by
the Government is Mr.. CHARLES S. FAIR.
CHILD, who was Secretary Of the Treasury
under GROVER CLEVELAND from 1887 to
1889. In a speech to the Chamber of Com
merce on Thursday afternoon, Mr.. FAIR
CHILD, on behalf of the currency scheme
which he has just prepared at the request Of
the Indianapolis Monetary Convention Of
January, 1897, made these remarks:
! iookins over n,sso.y. IN 1oninso over = wo =.
oven di,apneared, and vet in mo.t Of the countries Of
the world the bulk of the business of those countries
had remained insolveut. We had before us suoh a
Government as that Of Turkey with a private bust
ness mostly so'.eht, ye, u government. .'seh UauA.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-08
One Democratic Club; One Mugwump
Club.

1t seems that in the Manhattan Club
there is alarm because of the sudden and
rapid rise of the Democratic Club, and the
consequent displacement of the other as the
representative Democratic club Of New
York. Such alarm Is reasonable and natu-
raj, for the distinction which gave to the
Manhattan such strength as it had, the
stamp of genuine Democracy, now belongs
to the other.
At present, there are many members of
the Democratic Club who belong to the
Manhattan also; but since, generally, their
desire Is simply to be enrolled in a dis.
tinctively Democratic club, they are likely
to retire speedily from the spurious con-
Germ and retain their membership In the
genuine association only. Such an exodu
from the Manhattan has begun already,
and its continuance on a large scale
would prove destructive to that institu-
tion, already heavily burdened by debt
and the great cost of conducting its
clubhouse, the imposing building, at the
corner of Fifth avenue nj Thirty-fourth
street, erected by the late A. T. STEWART
as his private residence. It's character as
a Democratic club specifically having de-
parted, there now remains to 1t no reason
for existence except as a strictly social and
non-political club. or as a Mugwump club
pure and simple.
In neither character, however, does there
appear to be any reasonable prospect of
prosperity for the Manhattan Club. The
field for the purely social and non-political
club seems to be filled to repletion already,
and there Is no sufficient body of men able
to pay the costs of membership in the Man:
haitian who would be likely to join it from
other motives han a desire for congenial
political companionship. AS to the Mug
wump field, 1t is p~re-empted by the Union
League Club, only five blocks above in the
Fifth avenue, and the Manhattan Club can
notexpect to rival it successfully as a hospi-
tai for those afflicted with tina strange
political disorder.
In this situation, the sensible course for
any Democrats remaining in the Manhattan
Club who wish to indicate their PARTISAN
ship by their club membership, is to leave
1t and join in building up the Democratic
Club and increasing Its financial resources,
80 that in the exterior magnificence and in
terror elegance of It's establishment 1t may
represent fifty the power and prosperity
of the Democracy of New York. The
Manhattan Mugwumps would be welcomed.
of course, by the Union League Club, and
tenderly treated as their case required;
for Mugwumps, whether of Republl-
can or of Democratic a~ntecedents, lose
all the political luminosity generated
by their originally conflicting pArti-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-08
The Education or an American BOY.

FTom the 81. AIbGHs (Tt.) Messenger.
"What can ! do TO interest my boy In current
political affairs r. asks a mother in one OF the
Messengers exchanges. II this paper received a
similar inquiry it would have no hesitation In
replying: Subscribe for the New York daily and
Sunday sam and induce your boy TO read its
columns. especially the editorials, carefully.
Possibly, as he is not presently interested in cur
rent political affairs. he might require some per-
suasion ut the outset, but he would soon learn
to appreciate the remarkable ability with which
that journal is conducted. the great variety OF
topics 1t Eliminates. and the wide range of in
formation 1t daily dispenses. A daily porusal OF
TEE Son IL q liberal educaticR.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-08
Postal Revenues and Postal Privi-
leges in New York.


Within the territory now included in the
city of New York there are fifty-eight
Post Offices. Their gross receipts, amount
ing to $9.1S9,OOO for the postal year
ending on the 1st of July last, nave since
increased and are still increasing, like the
receipts of Post Offices everywhere through
out the Union, the public revenue from
this source being a certain barometer Of
the condition of business, now substan-
TALLY improved.
The postal business of the United States
is run at a loss. The revenue of the de-
partment rose from $15,000,0 900 in 1867,
to $s2, 600, 900 in 1897, but they ave not
more than kept pace with the increase in
the expenditures, which has been from
$40, 900 in 1867, to $94,OOO,0OO in
1897. The Government loses on an average
from $1,000 600 to $10,oOO,o0O a year
on its postal service, the estimate for
last years loss being $4,000, 900, the
deficit being made up by appropriations of
Congress. There are now more than twice
as many Post Offices in the United States
as there were twenty years ago; and there
has been a large increase in the number Of
oAS ohu NLo III VIZ ihSS
carrier system, first established in 1858,
adding enormously to the public con-
venience, but also to the cost.
The total expenditures of all the Post
Offices included within the present city of
New York amounted last year to $4,137.-
900, including the pay of Posrmasters and
their clerks, and of letter carriers, and the
cost of light, fuel, and other necessaries.
The receipts of these offices amounting
to $9,1S9,O0O, as we have said, a net
profit of more than So. 1000, 900 is
made by the United States Government
on the New York Post Office, while the
Post Offices of the rest of the country, as a
whole, entail a loss of $15, 900, 900, one
third of which is paid by the profits made
hereabouts. In some of the smaller towns,
particularly in the West and South. the car.
rier system, recently introduced, causes a
loss, II to make up for it, or in orderto keep
the expenditures of the department for this
particular item within the sum appropri.
ated for it, it is now proposed to reduce the
expenditures here by curtailing the num-
her of postal deliveries in what arc called
"the residential districts" of the city.
Against this extraordinary innovation
Congressman QUIGG, who represents what
Is, perhaps, the largest Presidential dis.
trict' in town, has protested vigorously,
and in this protest the other Congressman
from New York unite. A reduction
in the number of postal deliveries in
this city, upon the business of which
the Federal Government makes SO great a
profit, would be both unreasonable and un.
just. Nor is there any justification in
fact for the classification of Presidential
districts" Actually there are no purely
residential districts" in New York bust,
ness extends to all districts of the town.
Increase rather than reduction in the mum.
Der of letter deliveries is requisite here,
and probably would be better business pol.
Icy for the Post Office Department.