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LEGISLATURE AT SEA ON CONVICT QUESTION ———————< - —— W-- « Today It Is the Special Order io the Hoose and Will Be Discussed By Members. EXTRA SESSION IS SAID TO BE POSSIBLE Doubtful if Amended Hall Bill Can Pass—Lessees Jollying the Visit ing Committees. * Does the legislature dread to tackle the convict question? It seems so. Today the convict question is the spec ial order in the' house. There seems to be no doubt that the lease plan must be adopted again. But no one can tell what the end will be. Apropos of this subject Mr. John Young Garlington writes to the Macon Telegraph as follows: The biggest and I may add the gravest •• subject matter before the existing legis lature is the convict question and its pro i per 'settlement, but as yet no well shaped, definite plan or scheme to care for the convicts better than they have been cared for in the past has been promulgated; nor do the plans already offered, sub mitted and discussed in committee and •out of committee, seem to meet with .approval or favor. We have all read the reports of the governor’s special agent sent out weeks ago to examine the misdemea nor campt. We have likewise read the newspaper comments thereon, the governor's messages thereon and re cently we have had sorqe actions by the penitentiary committee in reference to both the misdemeanor and the reg ular convict systems, but as yet, as has been stated, the legislature is so 8 q unable to see its way clear to the end of it, that tire members seem to dread to have the subject come up for consideration. This is the situation today. Os that there is no question, and now nearly one third of the time of the session has slipped away. It is singular, very singular, that some one man in this very intelligent body has not come forward with a solution of this vexed problem. During the course of a sermon de livered before a vast audience last Sunday one of the most distinguished divines in the city bitterly character ized our convict system and declared it was a crime against civilization and a disgrace to Georgia. He went further and denounced in equally bitter lan guage the proposition that convicts should be made to be self-sustaining with no thought of their moral re form. God and humanity cried out T he smallest lUain of aniline I T 1 - 1 ’? w ’ l ’ color a ton _] °f wine. A _jjg,grain of per manganate of < potash will red- A den seven thou- 'iahH I LeaßHftl'l Band times its IW 1 ! '' i 1 weight of water. The — fling disorder will disarrange I every organ of / / ”’ c body and 1 cause eventual disease and z NM death. It is the SW little ailments neglected that make the big 'Sp- v., diseases. Most S' serious diseases ” have their in- ception in a disordered digestion and faulty nutrition. This is true of that most deadly of diseases—consumption. It is also true of nervous prostration and exhaustion and also of all forms of wasting disease. Ail ments of this description may not only be prevented but cured by a resort to the right remedy. An unfailing cure for all diseases that have their origin in disorders of the diges tion and faulty nutrition is found in Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It cures digestive disorders, restores the appe tite, invigorates the liver, purifies and en riches the blood, builds healthy flesh and muscle and drives out disease-germs. It cures q 8 per cent, of all cases of consump tion. Thousands have testified to these facts. Druggists who suggest substitutes are dishonest. Mrs. Ursula Dunham, of Sistersville, Tyler Co., W. Va„ writes: “ I should have been dead had it not been for your medicine. I was nearly dead when.l began taking Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medi • cal Discovery. I had a pain in my side all the time, had but little appetite, and grew very thin. The * Golden Medical Discovery * promptly cured the pain, restored my appetite, and increased «ny weight” Dr.*Pierce’s wonderful free book, “The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser,” will be sent paper-bound for twenty-one cents in one-cent stamps to pay the cost •of mailing only. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. For handsome, -durable cloth covers, beautifully stamped, send ten cents more (thirty-one cents in all), to pay extra cost for this style of binding. against such an idea, ann yet no proposition has been offered, no plan suggested or devised whose salient feature is not in conflict with this preacher’s opininion. It is quite patent to everyone that the lease plan must again be resorted to and it is patent also to a great many that the present lessees are anxious to retain their hold on their unhappy wards. The existing lease expires in the spring of 1899, on the Ist day of April, if I am not in error, and it is clearly incumbent on thia legislature, not their successors in office, to settle this matter in some deflnate and more humane manner. The system has been existing twenty years. The bill how before the house, with the sanction of the joint penitentiary committee, may pass the house, though that is doubt ful. If it passes the house it will meet with certain death in the senate, for majority of that body have ex pressed themselves as opposed to it. Os course, the leasees want this bill, but the senate does not want it, and it is doubtful if it would have the ap proval of the governor if the legisla ture should accept it. The chairman of the senate commit tee on penitentiary, Hon. Phillip Cook, in a conversation with the writer ex pressed himself emphatically against the committee measure now in the house; and from him I also learn, that the bill cannot weather the senate. Mr. Cook has a bill, prepared with great care, by and may be offered as a substitute for the committee bill, if that should pass the house, and sent over to the senate. This provides for the leasing of the convicts for a periods of years—five or ten—not longer than ten. It further provides that they be hired in lots of fifty, to the highest bidder, the successful bidders being al lowed to hire more than fifty at their option, and at the price offered for the fifty lot. The contracts and these suc cessful bidders shall have the approval of the attorney-general and the gov ernor, and shall be valid without such approval. Another feature of this bill is that it proposes no orison commissioner, but enlarges to some degree to powers of the principal keeper of the penitentiary. This especial feature, the senator thinks, will commend his bill as he feels quite satis fied that the people of the state do not want any more offices created. Still an other and the most important provision is that the money arising from the hire of the convicts shall go into what is known as a prison fund, and after a suf ficent sum shall have been accumulated a modern penitentiary, and reformatory, surrounded by extensive farm lands, shall be built. This, briefly, is the substitute measure that is now in the desk of Senatoi Cook, and that he now intends to offer when the occasion arises. He thinks the senate will accept the bill and that it will meet with the governor's sanction. But will the house accept it ? No one knows. No one can foretell now. The presump tion is that the house wont accept it, and if not. there will be a bind of course, and the convict question will be like a wad in a gun—won’t move up or down. There is lots of quiet work going on about this convict business, and it is thought that no pains or expense will be spared by the lessees to have the sub committees now out an inspection tours have a jolly good time. Another view. In the event that the convict matter is not disposed of by the present legislature, the succeeding legislature to be chosen next fall can not possibly provide ways and means to take care of so large a body of pris oners before Jthis time of the present lease expires, and consequently the state will be at the mercy of the les sees who can dictate their terms, in case the state has to apply to them to retain them. These are serious, very serious mat ters, and in the event this general as sembly fails to agree on some plan during the short time the, have left, THE HOME TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER J 6, 1897. If the present session does not ap pear on a plan an extra sitting seems unavoidable. There can be no ques tion about the governor’s anxiety to speedily remedy the ills the oonviats are'at present subjected to. .You can t cure consumption, but you can avoid it and cure every other form ot threat or lung trouble by the use of One Minute Cough Cure. For sale by Curry- Arrington Co., Rome, Ga. DIVORCE CASc. DISMISSED'. Salt Hrnnglit bv Lorntia Small. Ford Agal.t Her Ha-b.,id -etile,l. Norfolk, Va., Nov. 15—-The noted divorce case of .Loretta Small- Ford, the daughter of Evangelist Sam Small, against her husband, Stuart Ford, which has exited national attention, has been dismissed from the law and equity court of Richmond, a mutual agreement hav ing been signed by the parties inter ested, which oodstitute, in this state, a limited divorce. The terms of the agree ment are in substance as follows: The parties agree to the withdrawal of the suit. There is a private agree ment between the parties adjusting all claims on account of alimony and dower, and all the interests which Mrs. Ford has as the wife of Stuart Ford might have in the contingent interest of the Stuart Ford estate upon a fair basis. Mrs. Ford will eventually benefit by this agreement. The plaintiff. Stuart Ford, agrees to pay all the costs attached to the suit. Mrs.- Ford reserves the right to apply for divorce whenever she chooses in any state of the Union but Virginia. The Coming Woman Who goes to the club while her husband tends the baby, as well as the good old fashioned woman who looks after her home, will both at times get run down in health. They will be troubled with lose of appetite, headaches, sleeplessness, fainting or dizzy spells. The most won derful remedy for these women is Elec tric Bitters. Thousands of sufferers from Lame Back and weak Kidneys rise up and call it blessed. It is the medicine for women. Female complaints and Nervous troubles of all kinds are soon relieved by the use of Electric bitters. Delicate women should keep this remedy on hand to build up the system. Only 50e per bottle. For sale by Curry-Ar rington. C-A-STOXII-A.. She fas- „ •lulls XTJr , Jl® of wijpm. WHISKY HOUSE A WINNER. Decision Rendered In Atlanta That Will Hurt the Dispensary. Atlanta, Nov. 15. —Judges Pardee and Newman of the United States court have handed down a decision in the faihous dispensary case, enjoiuiug the Southern from refusing to haul liquor into South Carolina in future. The decision is an important one, in that the original package law is in volved. The judges damdod that liq uors and wines in bottles packed in boxes and shipped in carload lots were, under the law of South Carolina, clearly admissable, and should be handled by any railway. The-case has attracted great atten tion. The whisky company has never had any trouble with the Southern in this respect until a few weeks ago, when the latter refused positively to haul any more goods into South Caro lina. ‘ Everybody Says So. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won derful medicai discovery of the age, pleas ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel colds, cure headache, fever, habitual constipation and biliousness. Pltease buy and try a box of C. C. C. to-day, 10, 25, 50 cents. Sold and guaranteed to cure by all druggists. Colonel Boyd >• n Candidate. Washington, Nov. 15.—A concerted movement is to be made by southern politicians, led by Senator Pritchard and southern national committeemen, to have Colonel James E. Boyd, as sistant attorney general, promoted to the cabinetj should Attorney General McKenna be appointed to the supreme bench. Mr. Boyd is the national com mitteeman from North Carolina, and hie friends urge his competence and fit ness as unexcelled. There is no need of little children being tortued by scald head, eczema and skin eruptions. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve gives instant relief and cures permanently. For sale by Cur] ry-Arrington Co. Thirty Stores Barit In One Town. Columbia, S. 0., Nov. 15.—The town of Kershaw has been almost wiped out by fire. Twenty-eight stores were de stroyed, eight of which were empty. Loss over SIOO,OOO, insurance one-third. The dispensary and original package stores are a total loss. Compromitted a Damage Case. Raleigh, Nov. 15. —Engineer Pleas ants, who lost a hand in a collision on the Seaboard Air Line, got a verdict for SII,OOO damages. The company ap pealed, but now compromises the case, paying him $4,100. Just try a 10c. box of Cascarets, the finest liver and bowel regulator ever made. You ' l] cthß Fi i? d Wr Good. Regulates disordered stomachs, starts in active livers, removes Constipation. It cures Sick Headache, aids Digestion, keeps the body in health and is the best and most pleasant remedy for all disorders of the digestive tract Sold by Druggists for 50 years. - " ' : " ■■ WILL HOKE SMITH SEEL? Gossip About the Atlanta Journal Which is Interesting Reading? The Atlanta Commercial publishes the following: It is reported that changes are con templated in the management of the Evening Journal. It is said that Mr. Hoke Smith is thinking of going to New York to enter the practice of law there, and there is ground for the report. It is known that a few days ago Mr. Smith had a confer ence with the representatives of a wealthy Northern syndicate who had been negotiating with him for the pur chase of his controlling interest in the Journal. Two or three meetings were held and it is said that a cash offer of $25,000 was made, Mr. Smith reserving his answer for holding his stock at a higher price. It is said that he manifested his willing ness to dispose of his stock at a sum designated by himself. This sum is not known. Letters have been received in Atlanta by local newspaper men indicating that the deal is off, and that the same com pany whose representatives conferred with Mr. Smith now contemplates the establishment of another evening paper here about the first of January. If this is done it will involve no ma terial change im the political com plexion of the Atlanta newspaper, as tfie men who have been negotiating with Mr. Smith are ardent advocates of the gold standard. The rumor is again revived that Mr. Smith thinks he has a wider field for the practice of bis profession in New York than in Atlanta, and that he can go there to better advantage now than later. An acclimated Georgian, whose bus iness requires him to be in Washing ton during the session of congress, in speaking of the matter last night said: * ‘Mr. Smith told me several months before he left the cabinet—in fact, really before he contemplated leaving the cabinet—that he had an offer to go to New York and be at the head of a firm of young lawyer, and he was as sured that he would get $25,000 per year.” Mr. Smith owns $51,000 of the stock of the Journal, and was only offered fifty cents on the.dollar, whereas one of the stockholders recently bought from another at seventy-five cents on the dollar, and the deal was doubtless declared off because Mr. Smith want ed more for his stock. Bow’s This! We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co. Props. Toledo O. We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be lieve him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Walding, Kinnan& Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Drug gists. Testimonials free. * Women Want Hillier Wages. New York, Nov. 15.—A thousand meu and women engaged in the second hand clothing trade have bande.i them selves together into an organization to be known as. the Pressers’, Cleaners’ and Bushelers’ union. The members contemplate a strike before the end of the week looking to the betterment of their condition, and especially in the matter of wages It is stated that 1,900 employes in the cloak making in dustry are still out. Small pill, safe pill, best pill. De Witt’s Little Early Risers cure bil iousness, constipation, sick headache. For sale by Curry-Arrington Co. Miniate-r After i*iidian liurderert Denver. Nov. Io. —Rev. Myron W. Reed, pastor of Broadway temple, has created something of a sensation while discussing the killing of the Ute In dians by deputy game wardens in Colo rado by declaring tnat he intends to see that Warden Wilcox and his deputies are tried for murder. He also de nounced the preachers who have re mained silent in the matter. WARNING:—Persons rho suffer from coughs and colds should heed the warnings of danger and save themselves suffering and fatal results by using One Minute Cough Cure, It is an infallible remedy for coughs, colds, croup and all throat and lung troubles. For sale by Curry-Arring ton Co. After a Si'xve Kahihig Hrince. Laggs, West Coast Africa, Nov. 15. Acting under instructions from the Brit ish Niger country. Major Arnold, in command of 180 men belonging to the Niger constabulary, with fie.d guns and Maxim rapid fire guns, has gone to Arku to restore order in that territory. Thu slave raiding Prince Idau, who is en trenched in a place four days march from the river Arka. for a month past, has been raiding the Akpoto tribes for 60 miles around his headquarters. • Nonce I want every man and woman in the United States interested in the opium and whisky habits to have one of my books of these diseases. Address B. M. Woolly, Atlanta, Ga , Box 362, and one will be sent you free. IGNORANCE in regard to paint materials or painting would seem in this age to be in excusable, when full information can be had free. If interested, it ©will pay to get pamphlet and i color cards, also twelve pictures of houses painted in different shades or combinations of colors, free. Send your address. NATIONAL LEAD CO., CINCINNATI BRANCH, Cor. 7th St. and Freeman Ave., Cincinnati, O. 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If you prefer to come here we will W contract to pay railroad fare and no charge if we fail to cure. pL, LOST MANHOOD. ff\ Night Emissions, Impotency, the * dreaded effects of early vice, which brings organic weakness. On examining the urinary deposits a ropy sediment will often be found, and sometimes small particles of albumen will appear. There are many men who die of this difficulty ignorant of the cause, which is Seminal Weakness. The Doctor will guarantee a permanent cure in all cases. WRITE for symptom blank. You can be cured at home by correspondence. WHITS’ f° r Symptom Blank, correspond- II Ul lEI ence private. All letters an swered in plain envelope. VIM?VIGOR, VITALITY RESTORED SO DAYS. Good Effects at Once. CATON’S VITALIZER Cures general special debility, wakefulness, spermatorrhoea, emissions, impotenty, pare sis,etc. Coirects functional disorders, caused by errors or excesses, quickly restoring Lost Manhood in old or yonng, giving vigor and strength where former weakness prevailed Convenient package, simple, effectual, and legitimate. The Cure is Quick and Thorough. Don’t be deceived by imitations: insist on CATON’S Vitalizers. Sent sealed if your druggist does not have it. Price $1 per pkge, 6 for $5, with written guarantee of complete cure. Information, references, etc., free and confidential. Send us statement of case and 26cts. for a week’s trial treatment. One only sent to each person. CATON MED. CO., Boston, Mass. CHANGEv 3UT V X POZZONI’S v POWDER X •je HUMAWS ALWAYS ni£ SAME, V The finest, puresland Host beaut]- V tying toile * powder ever made. It is soothing healing, healthful and /V harmless, and when rightly used is FA Invisible. If you have never <xied A POZZONI’S A vou do not know what an IDEAL. complexion powdlh is. A IT IS SOLD EVERYWHERE, £ A £ DELICIOUS CASTOR OIL STRANGE BUT TRUE. “Castorean Honey,” Manufactured by the Atlanta Chemica Co., Atlanta, Ga., is pure Caster Oil, with all of its medicinal virtues, but actually agreeable to the taste. Think of it, a child will drink a whole bottle if allowed Sold only by agents and the Atlanta Chemical Co. Agents wanted. Address as kbove. fIAGG ARD’S Sold IF HOT OH SALE AT YOUR PLACE ORDER FRWS ONE BOX’ THREE BOXES $ I 00. ' $2-50 For nervous women that suffer from menstrual derangement they have no equal on the market. Sold by Curry - Arrington Co., and Taylor & Norton. Stop When in Chattanooga, either on business or pleasure, at the most comfortable and convenvient hotel in the city. Stanton House, Near the Central Station and convenient to business center Rates, $2 a pay. M. M. Kline & Co. Proprietors. Ostrich Feathers- Boas, Plumes and Tips Cleaned, Curled and Dyed. Kid Gloves cleaned, 15c to 50c per pair. I. PHILLIPS Whitehall St,, JAtlan a Ga Kill to Live. That living germs oy millions infest the human system and produce dis eases of blood and nerves is no longer a theory but a proven fact. That King's Royal Geimeteur Cures these diseases in a speedy and pleasant way, is equally proven. SPRING Is here. Look to your health at the beginning of the hot season. Keep Germeteur on hand. Use it as a tonic preventive and cure. Sold every where. SI.OO per bottle. Atlanta Chemical Co., Atlanta, Ga. MANUFACTURERS. Petition to Foreclose Mortgage GEORGIA, Floyd County. K. W. Berryhill \ PETITION / to Foreclose Mortgage vs. > In Floyd Superior \ Court. No. 11. Mrs. A. T. Chambers. J July Term, 1897. To the Defendana-- By Special Order, the defendant is hereby re quired, personally or by attorney, to be and ap pear at the next term of said court, on the Third • Monday in January next, then and thereto answer plaintiff's petition to foreclosure mort gage. as in default thereof the court will pro ceed as to justice shall appertain. Witnese, the Hon. W.M. Henry judge of said court, this the 19th day of August, 1897. Wm. E. BEYSIEGE L, Cterk Superior Court, Floyd Co., Ga Year’s Support. GEORGIA. Fleyd County. To all whom It may concern: Notice is hereby given that the appraisers appointed to set apart and assign a year’s support to Ella. John J., Marion and May Belle Black, minor children of John S. Black, deceased, have filed their award, and unless good and eofficlant cause is shown, the same will be made the judgment ot the court at the December term, 1897, > of the Court of Ordinary. This November Sth, 1897. JOHN P DAVIB, Ordinary Floyd Connty Citation—Leave to SelL GEORGIA--Floyd County: To all whom it may concern; J. P, McConnell administrator of (Mrs. Nancy Winn deceaaed, has in due foim applied to the urder-signed for leave to sell the lands belonging to the estate of said deceased, and said application will be heard on the first Monday in December, next. This let day of November, 1897, M.**-JOHN P. DAVIs, Ordinary.