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With our Spring lin CLOTHING. Everything New, Send us your orders call to see us. MACON, GEORGIA ■■■■■■ Tmm J?aiOS, al.oOA YE All, m ADVANCE. The State Campaign. PuMlohed Every Thursday Morning. Jno.H. ilODQ-SS, Editor and Publisher Perry, Thursday, April 10. Georgia Chautauqua at Albany from April 20 to 27, inclusive. Spe-. daily low round-trip rateB over the Central. Confederate Veterans’ Re-Union at Dallas, Texas, from April 22 to 28. The Central of Georgia will provide speqial accommodations at very low round-trip rates. The Georgia Fruit Growers’ As sociation will be in sessipn Thurs' day, April 10th, to oonsider business questions concerning the shipment and sale of peaches and other fruit. It is accepted as a faet that a fair crop is assured. The Macon Tele graph says flying ants appeared sev eral days ago, and that according to other judgment there is no further danger of damaging cold this season. —* Whatever the alleged errors of which Mr Dupont Guerry may have been gqilty in oonduoting his campaign as a candidate for gov ernor of Georgia, he cannot be charged with any effort to deceive the people in any degree. He has advocated continually such methods of government as would, in his judgment, best serve the material and moral interests of the state, and in all his declarations he has displayed the courage of his oonvio lions. A Veterans' Re-Union. Special. 'The Macon Camp Confederate Vet erans have arranged with the Central of Georgia Railway Company for a special train to the Confederate Vet erans’ reunion at Dallas, Texas. This train will leave Macon at 4:16 o’clock Saturday afternoon, April 19, reach ing New Orleans at. 8 o’clock next morning. The party will Bpend Sun day in that city, leaving that night, roachiug Dallas Monday afternoon. Arrangements are being made for short stops at Shreveport, Beauvoir, the home of Jefferson Davis, and Montgomery. All who desire to go on this train, which will afford all first-class con veniences and oomforts, can got full information by addressing J. M. Mallory, T. P. A., Macon, Ga. In formation concerning official plans of the veterans cau be obtained of the Secretary of R. A. Smith Camp Confederate Veterans, Macon, Ga. ■ 1 — » V — Mr. John Bennett Dead. Mr. John W. Bennett, a deputy sheriff of Bibb oounty, was shot in Macon last Saturday night by Mr. Richard 0. Rioe. Several hours la ter Mr. Bennet died. Mr. Bennett is a brother of Mr. W. F. Bennett of near Perry and was reared in Houston county. Here he was held in the highest eeteem as a youth and young man, and as an officer in Bibb oounty he had performed ex cellent service. The incident of his death was most deplorable, and the -bereaved wife ahd relatives have the . tenderest sympathy of mauy friends. The shooting was in a saloon, and there is some discrepenoy in the statements made. It appears that prior to the shoot ing, there had been some unpleas ant words between Messrs. Bennett and Rioe. It is said that only a "few moments before the shooting, after some declaration not reported, Mr. Rice said to Bennett, “if I had a pistol, I would shoot you,” where upon, Mr. Bennett sftid,| “you haven’t got nerve enough to shoot me, I’ll give you my pistol,” and handed the pistol to Rice. Then the pistol shot wfts fired. Rice says he had seen Mr. Bennet take the cartridges from the pistol that afternoon, and he supposed the .weapon was still empty. There will be a legal investigation. AEr. Rice is in jail. —The railroad authorities are to be commended for advancing the morning train so as to arrive in Perry at 8 o’clock, and hold ing back the last afternoon train nntil 5 o’clock, so as to accom modate jurors and others attend ing court this week from Fort Valley and along the line of the Perry road. The action of the state democratic executive committee in Atlanta’for mally opened the state oampaign The order fixing the primary vote for June 5 th is by authority, and objection thereto is without value, and serves no good purpose whatev er. The official ballot requires that the names of all candidates be print ed thereon, and that each voter scratch all except those for whom he desires to vote. Other regulations aB to the methods of management are as heretofore. Voters must have registered to entitle them to vote. All white persons of legal age enti tled to suffrage under the law can vote, provided they agree to support in the election the nominees of the primary. For governor, three candidates, J. H. Estill of Savannah, DuPont Guerry of Macon and J. M.Terrellof Greenville, The first named is ed itor and proprietor of the Savannah Morning News, and the other two are lawyers. The Home Journal es pouses £be cause of neither, but will say that all are competent and wor thy to fill the exalted position they seek. It rests with the candidates and their partisan friends to per suade the voters. For secretary of state Hon. Phil Oook is the only candidate. For comptroller general Hon. W. A. Wright is without opposition. There is only one candidate for attorney general, Judge Hart. For state treasurer Oapt. R. E. Park may have opposition. For commissioner of agriculture O. B. Stevens, the present incum bent, is opposed by R. T. Nesbitt, a former commissioner. State School Commissioner R. G. Gleen is opposed by Mr. Mersitt of Valdosta, Dr. Mark Johnson of Mill ed geville, and Rev. A. J. Beck of Decatur. There are two Supreme court jus tices and one prison commissioner to be voted for. Wherever terms of Superior court judges and solicitors expire, they must be nominated. In this circuit the term of the judge does not ex pire, but we must select to fill the unexpired term of the Into Hope Polhill, deceased. For this office'Solicitor Wm. Brunson, Rob’t. Hodges and Walter Grace, all of Maoon, are candidates. The committee makes request that a candidate for U. S. senator be vo ted for; There is no opposition to Senator A. S. Clay. The state committee made no ef fort to control the time or method of holding county primaries. Candidates for oongress may be voted for in the state primary. In this district there is not any an nounced opposition to Hon. E. B. Lewis. Joe Hall in Perry. The first political speech listened to in Perry this year was delivered at the court house last Monday dur ing the noon reoess of court, by Mr. Joe H. Hall of Macon. The speak er was introduced by Mr. L. L. Brown of Fort Valley. For more than an hour he held the close attention of the large au dience, about 200, devoting himself to the issues involved in the present campaign for the governorship of Georgia. It is impossible for ub to give in the limited space at our command even a synopsis of the campaign. He contended in behalf of the best interests of Georgia that Hon. DuPont Guerry should be nomina ted and elected governor because he positively represents the best material and moral influences of the state, contending that a mistake is made when Mr. Guerry iB viewed in his candidacy only as a prohibi tionist. He presented briefly Mr. Guerry’s platform, contending that the men bthind Mr. Terrell are ex erting themselves in behalf of the baneful influences which Mr. Guer ry insists should be overpowered. The speech was well received, and the opinion is that votes for Mr. Guerry were made, Following Col. Hall; Mr. B. M. Davis of Macon, delivered a short and forceful speech in favor of Mr Guerry’s candidacy. "Minetree Nows.’’ ■ By Sundrop. Owing to the rain the farmers were late planting oorn, but are now about through and are thinking of planting cotton. Messrs. Tom Pitts of Heard, and Tom Wellons of Perry, visited friends here Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. Story of Kathleen, spent Sunday with his mother at Minetree. Miss Etta Jackson of Crawford, spent a fdw days last week with Misses Mary and Pearl Oorder. Plie grandest event of the season was an oyster supper and dance at a^sobcitor tjl0 residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gurney Monday night, March 31st, given in honor of the bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Johnson, The oysters were plentiful and other refreshments were served. The ta ble was beautifully decorated with brie a’, wreath and sweet violets. The dancing was carried on in the rooms and those who did not care to dance were entertained with other amusement by our fair hostess. The hours seemed to fly, and ere any one dreamed it was so late the clock struck twelve; then the guests departed, declaring they had spent a most enjoyable evening.” A Questionable Incident. One day last week, the first day of April, we believe, a tdlogram was sent from Zebulon to the effect that the Guerry olub of that town had requested Mr. Guerry to withdraw from the raoe for governor, in order that further embarrassment of his friends might be avoided. This telegram was prominently published in at least three daily papers of Georgia. Later it has been publicly assort ed that there never has been a Guerry club at Zebulon, and that the author of the telegram has been throughout the ^campaign a parti san political friend of Mr. Terrell, u candidate for governor. Over his own signature Mr. Guer ry declared several days later that he had not reoeived the telegram alleged to have been sent him. Even if this telegram was intend ed to be an “April fool” affair, it was, to put it mildly, of questiona ble propriety, and calculated to do an honorable and most worthy gen tleman much political injury. Of course Mr. Terrell cannot be held responsible for this incident, even though one of his close friends did it. However, the papers that were “taken in,” owe their readers an ex planation, if they were willing to be just. The Plant System of railroads, traversing south Georgia and the state of Florida, has been absorbed by the Atlantic Ooast Line Railway Go. The combined systems cover 3,000 miles of railroad. Under the new arrangement the Southern Rail way secures the transportation of its trains from Savannah to Jackson ville and from Jesup to Jacksonville. —Through the Home Journal Mr. Walter J. Grace of Macon announces to the people of Hous ton his candidacy for the office of Solicitor General of this judicial circuit. He is a cousin of Mr. J. H. Grade of near Elko, and is de servedly held in high esteem. —-— ■ — Georgia Day, Charleston Exposition, April 15th. Tickets on sale from all ticket sta tions April 14th, and for trains scheduled to arrive Charleston fore noon April 15th, final return limit April 17th, 1902. For further information ask your ticket agent. Good for Rheumatism. Last fall I was taken with a very severe attack of mscular rheumatism which caused me great pain and an noyance. After trying several pre scriptions and rheumatic cures, I de cided to use Chamberlain’s Pain Balm, which I had seen advertised in the South Jerseymen. After two applications of this Remedy I was much better, and after using one bottle, was completely cured.—Sal- lie Harris, Salem, N. J. For sale by all dealers in Perry, Warren & Lowe, Byron. —You’ll get a 50 cents meai for 25 cents at Isaac’s Cafe,Third, street, Macon, Ga. l GEORGIA—Houston County. 0.0. Duncan, Executor estate of Mrs. A. A. Havis, deceased, has applied for dismission from said trust. This is therefore to cvfce all persons con cerned to appear at the May term, 1902, of the court of Ordinary of said county and show cause, if any they have, why said application should not be granted. Witness my official signature thin April 7,1902. SAM. T. HURST, Ordinary. WHEN RIPE FOR THE HARVEST, TOUR GRAIN SEEDS THIS MACHINE. The best on the market. I also sell Reapers, Binders, Mowers, Rakes; in fact all of D. M. Osborne’s Harvesting Machinery, and Harrows of every description. I make the best Flour and Meal on the market. If want anything I sell, write me and I’ll come to ■VTTX. G-A-ZtsT PLOW The best Steel Plow on the market. Sold by M* BALKCOM, Acfhjt Macon, Ga. Pianos At Greatly Reduced Prices. Fifty new Upright Pianos will ciose out at greatly reduced prices withiu the next few weeks. Among them such celebrated makes as Steinway, Sohmer & Co., Kranicli & Bach, Stultz & Bauer, Bush & Gests, Lester and Royal. Oall at once and secure one of these bargains F. A. GUTTENGERGER & CO., 452 Second st., Macon, Ga. The Ga. Poultry Herald. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE STATE ASSOCIATION. Subscription Price 50c. a Yet -address- GA. POULTRY HERALD, PERRY GEORGIA. year ‘° 6 ™ y subBoribor who',