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THOSE BIG BILLS
DON’T6O NOW,
Banks of Macon are Turning
Down the Hundred Dol
lar Certficates,
ONLY FOR COLLECTIONS
Will They be Received at Any Bank
—They Will be Taken Only on
Deposits for Collection.
There are several people in town who
do not know whether they are worth SIOO
less than they thought they w’ere or not.
Their present doubt grows out of the fact
that SIOO silver certificates sent in with
their deposits have been turned down by
their banks, and they will have to send
the bills on to Washington in order to
have it determined whether they have
good money or bad.
A recent press dispatch announced that
a most dangerous counterfeit of the SIOO
silver certificate, series 1891, check letter
1), face plate No. 1, back plate No. 2. J.
Fount Tillman, register, D. N. Morgan,
treasurer, portrait of James Monroe, small
scalloped carmen seal, had been discover
ed, and everybody was warned to look out
for them.
It seems that the counterfeit was first
discovered by the superintendent of the
mint in Philadelphia, and he carried it to
Washington, where it passed the muster
of experts, until it reached Chief Hazen,
of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
who pronounced it a counterfeit and then
put it through a test which demonstrated
that he was correct. He found that the
numbering and lettering on the counter
feit differed in some slight particulars
from those on the genuine, that the oar
mine seal on the counterfeit was lighter,
but the most satisfactory test was 'the
steaming of the bill, which showed that it
consisted of two sheets of paper pasted to- I
gether with the silk fibres between, where- I
as the genuine bill is one solid sheet of ■
paper.
When the discovery was made in Wash- !
Ington Senator Bacon sent a telegram to ]
Savannah asking that all the banks be
put on notice with regard to the counter
feit, which is .said to be such an excellent
piece of work that some of the ablest ex
perts failed to detect it. The Macon banks !
were notified of Senator Bacon’s telegram I
Thursday afternoon after banking hours, '
but yesterday all of them were on the
alert.
On account of the reporter excellence of
this counterfeit the banks are now refus
ing all SIOO silver certificates of this se
ries and issue for deposit. And when they
come in they are returned to their de
positors. Genuine or not genuine, they are
afraid to handle them, for when govern
ment experts fail there is no telling where
bank experts may slip up.
The only conditions on which any of the
banks will now take one of them from a 1
customer, is for collection. The certificate :
would then be sent on to Washington, and
if genuine good money would be returned |
for it. but if not it would be returned and
punctured and otherwise cancelled.
There has been a suggestion that on ac- 1
count of this dangerous counterfeit the 1
government call dll of this issue of SIOO
certificates in. and substitute another, and
it may be that this course will be adopted.
The merchants who have got hold of these
certificates, and from all accounts there is i
quite a number of them here, will have to .
send them to Washington before they can ■
make use of their money. If they are |
found genuine they will have no trouble in
getting other money for them, but if not,
they will fiml themselves just SIOO out.
Free of Charge to Sufferers.
Cut this out and take it to your druggist
and get a sample bottle free of Dr. King’s
New Discovery, for consumption, coughs
and colds. They do not ask you to buy
before trying. This will show you the ’
great merits of this truly wonderful rem
edy, and show you what can be accom
plished by the regular size bottle. This is
no experiment, and would be disastrous to
the proprietors, did they not know it would
Invariably cure. Many of the best physi
cians are now using it in their practice
with great results, and are relying on it
in most severe cases. It is guaranteed. I
Trial bottles free at H. J. Lamar & Son’s i
drug store. Regular size 50 cents and sl. .
The half a cent a word column of The
News is the cheapest advertising medium
in Georgia.
INDIANA’S GAS FIELDS.
Report Will Be Encouraging and Con
sumers Are Interested.
Peru. Ind., Jan. S. —The forthcoming an
nual report of State Gas Inspector Leach
on January 15 will settle the grave ques
tion that has been agitating the people of I
Indiana for some time past regarding nat- '
ural gas. It will show a condition far bet
ter than lias generally been beloved and i
correct many erroneous impressions that ;
have gone broadcast.
The report will also be one of marked
benefit to consumers in this city. Fort
Wayne, Wabash. Huntington. Logansport.
Lafayette and other cities where the plants
arc owned and controlled by the Deiterich
syndicate—especially in this city, as it is j
the first to try and have the prices reduced j
one-third, the case now being in the
United States court, and to be heard this
month. The franchise expired on Novem
ber 10 and the ease was taken to the court
mentioned by the company.
The other cities mentioned are interested
in the fact that their franchises expire
shortly.
Mr. Leach will say that in the entire In
diana field a decline only is shown of from
218 to 235 pounds to 210 to 225 pounds pres
sure, which is vastly better than th 1 ; pre
vious year. He will also say that the out
look is encouraging and that there will be
gas far many years for all.
In approximating the inspector states
that there have been drilled 5,300 wells,
and of this number 2.250 are now being
drawn upon. Also, that a large portion
of the territory abandoned is being re
drilled with excellent results. This is rad
ically opposite to the reports made by the
gas syndicate of gas failure.
The half a cent a word column of The
News is the cheapest advertising medium
in Georgia.
GLOBE TROTTER.
J Frank Phelps is Expected to Arrive In Ma
con in a Few Days.
Frank Phelps, who calls himself the ad
‘ rance agent of prosperity, who is walking
■ around the world for a wager, is on his
way to Macon. He will be here in a day
■ or two.
To Phelps prosperity has come swim
i mingly. He had to get over the globe and
I return to New York in a certain time to
1 win his wager. Just now he is running
i ahead of time and will have no trouble in
reaching home on the date fixed. He will
be full of experience and money and as the
; years pass on the trotter will tell his child
} ren and grandchildren of his wonderful
I journey and how he braved the plagues
and wars to become rich on a small scale.
I It will be a fairy tale for the little ones.
Phelps 13 a unique character. When
only 7 years of age he was left an orphan
I and from that time he has been keeping
lup the struggle for bread. When he
j reached his teens he went to New York,
j and after wandering over the great city
for days and nights he drifted one day into
1 a chemical labratory and got a position as
bottle washer. The fumes and mysteries
j of the shop permeated the young chap’s
I brain and he determined to master the
I profession. It seemed an easy task and
after a while the boy grew into a man and
a chemist.
One night two years ago a lot of young
men were seated around a club fire in New
York talking of long trips and how much
nerve and endurance it took for a man to
become a globe trotter. Phelps was in the
crowd. He said he would undertake the
trip on a w'ager and after some little dis
cussion the terms and conditions were
agreed upon. Phelps was to start without
any clothes and with only 3 cents. He was
not to beg. borrow or steal, and all the
money coming to him had to be by his
own work or unsolicited. He agreed to
return to New York with $3,000 cash and
was to receive s>>,ooo should he succeed.
When everything was arranged Phelps
prepared to start, and after a brief stay
in New York he pulled out for Liverpool
on one of the fast ships. Last February
he touched his native soil at San Francisco
and then began diving through America.
After a little trotting in South America
he will return and take in the few remain
ing points to be visited before getting back
to New York.
The Coming W-»n>an.
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 at times get run down in
health. They will be troubled with loss of
appetite, heaeaches, sleeplessness, fainting
or dizzy spells. The most wonderful rem
edy for these women is Electric 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 Elec
tric Bitters. Delicate women should keep
this remedy on hand to build up the sys
tem. Only 50c. per bottle. For sale by H.
J. Lamar & Son.
JAMES O’NEILL
Played "The Dead Heart’’ in Macon For
the Second Time.
James O’Neill, who is perhaps better
known than any of the romantic actors of
the day, played "The Dead Heart’’ to a
fair audience at the Academy of Music
last night.
It was the second time within the last
four years that 'Mr. O'Neill has appeared
in the role of Robert Landry in Macon.
Last night the actor was received with
considerable enthusiam, and he presented
his audience with a good performance in
return, but whether it was that a number
of the audience had seen the play before,
or that the support was somewhat weak,
or that after all O’Neill in Monte Cristo
so far outlives all his other characters
that the play "The Dead Heart” pulls
somewhat upon an audience.
Bucklin’s Arnica Salve
The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and positive
ly cures piles, or no pay required. It is j
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per box.
For sale by H. J. Lamar <fc Sons’ drug
•tore.
TRIBUTE
Exacted by Patriots of the Cuban Tobacco ,
Planters.
|
Havana, Jan. B.—The revolution is
stronger than ever in the province of Pi
nar del Rio. and tobacco planters pay
heavy taxes to the patriots. A few who
thought they might get out sugar cane j
without paying the tax have had their |
farms destroyed. General Gomez continues I
to forbid the grinding of sugar cane.
It is nevertheless said today that is
some parts of the provinces of Matanzas
and Havana wherever the patriots most
need resources he has allowed certain su
gar estate owners to grind upon paying 40
cents for each bag of sugar they make.
INTERESTED IN A FORTUNE.
Two Well Known Savanniahians May Fall
Heir to a Poortion of It.
Savannah. Jan. B—lt’8 —It’ appears that two
well known Savannahians are interested
in a fortune, the title to which has been
dragging through the Scotch courts for
some time, but which has at last been
settled. The following statement from the
Atlanta Constitution gives an account of
it: "A law suit which has been dragging
its weary length for many years through
the Edinburgh. Scotland, courts and has
at last been settled, interests directly a
well known Georgia family—the Daven
ports. The estate which has just emerged
from the grasp of the law is that of Lord
Donald Mac Gill Oswald and the direct
heirs in this country are Mrs. John M.
Bryan and Mrs. William Harden, of Sa
vannah, Ga.: Mrs. Ellen Howard and B.
R. Davenport, of New York.
O ufk. 375. X A .
The fa;- zT _ .
simile xTy z x "J" 1 12 32
•Igkit'iFj/gyZ -A—
STILL STARVING.
Key- West. Fla., Jan. 8. —El Diario de la
Marina states that over 500.000 people have
died in Cuba of hunger, most of them be
ing women and children. The concentra
dos are still starving. At La Esperanza,
in Santa Clara province, there are 1.000
persons starving or dying of smallpox.
Advices from Havana say that the pa
triots under Sayato Alvarez have attacked
the town of La Esperanza, sacking several
stores. The Spaniards made no resistance.
The forces of the Murcia battalion, near
Sancti Espiritu, were attacked by the pa
triots under Leader Gonzales. The fight
lasted four hours. The Spaniards retreat
ed. leaving twelve dead, among them two
officers, and carrying away seventeen
wounded. The Cubans lost fourteen dead.
MACON NEWS SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8 1898.
Home Confidence.
If you want to know exactly what any person is, ask his neighbors.
The home test is the severest test. The proprietors of Bradfield’s Fe
male Regulator, the most scientific and successful remedy for the weak
nesses and irregularities peculiar to women,
point with pardonable pride to their local
standing. Leading physicians, druggists and
the public generally endorse the Bradfield Regu
lator Company and their remedies in the highest
T terms. They have deserved and enjoyed public
y confidence for over a quarter of a century.
/ CPPO IITJC* Some fifteen years ago I ex
! > —/ Or L.Vz«I Ivz aruined the recipe of Bradfield’s
/ IL> F- AT F- !A V Female Regulator, and care-
’ />* « i\ i-l'll-. L* I • fuify studie.i authorities in re-
'C’-Xs gard to its components, and then, as well as now,
» i 'Sz'z'' pronounce it to te the most scientific and skillful
/T cQcombin ;t:on of the really reliable remedial vegetable
<4; s. ” agents known to science, to act directly on the womb
f’. ) /j'*- ; ar *d uterine organs, and the organs and parts
If Z K&fe sympathising directly with these; and therefore
r '4 providing a specific remedy for alldiseesesof the
rv 'A t jESSE Bokring « m d -> d - d -
STRONGEST
--AX G! IAMANTFF Femaleßegulator over
rz 1 M vjVJ/AtX/Alx 1 .wL.. my counter as any man
• 4 t --f*. r, * isa the State, while conducting my ret: il business,
VV*' • *£.4 and it affords me great pleasure to state that Ido
■’v'l Tl?'- not remember one single instance when lor any
jo 1 n, y clerks ever heard of a complaint of it; but
many and many a tine as being highly efficacious.
.".4^« I V Myexperience justifiesmeinsayiiigthat you would
/ l be safe in extending the strongestpossibleguar-
1 ’ antee for its ben-ficial medicinal effects in aU the
xF- A ' VnAdiseases for which it is recommended.
, 'X,'‘Vjv&ka W. A Taylor, Atlanta, Ga.
UNIVERSAL Bradfield's Female Begin
SATISFACTION. “S r
that we have never handled any proprietary preparation
V_>that has given better or more universe’ Satisfacti >n The
frule has been that wh rre a person has bought one boLtle.
F'X*' *such person has been its friend and advocate. We would
a i ’ feel that our stock was inconiulete wi'.hout it.
Hvwhxn-sO.x Bro.. Pharmacists, Atlanta. Ga.
Bradfield’s Female Regulator is sold by
y ■ druggists at one dollar a bottle. If you
cannot obtain it of your dealer, the proprietors will send it by express
cn receipt of price. Interesting books for women mailed free on
nvnlicatiou.
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta, Ga.
IP I THESE ARE FACTS! ]
And apply to our SUITS at
I an d SIO.OO.
I NO BETTER iIADE.
I LOWER THAN ANYBODY.
I Overcoats at $lO. |
I Underwear at si. I
No discount about it, but just better goods for less I
money than any house in Macon.
I BENSON & TODD, I
I The Up-to-Date Clothers. |
DOCTORS AGREE.
Recent investigations by the authorities of several States have at
tracted attention to proprietary medicines, and there is a marked dispo
sition to draw a sharp line of distinction between mysterious nostrums
and worthy articles of scientific compound and known character.
“Many proprietary medicines,” says a leading
physician, “are the best possible prescriptions for the
diseases which they are made to cure. It is certainly
only reasonable to expect that chemists
worid-wide reputation and unlimited re= I
sources ought to make compounds with excep= '! I
tional skill, and it is manifestly to their in- /
terest e to have their ingredients fresh and jn i
pure. Take, for example, Lippman’s great 1 j, /
remedy, popularly known as P. P. P. I
The formula is on every bottle. Every '
physician knows that the ingredients are j
the best possible remedies for purify- 1
ing the blood, and the compound is jO;y /
a scientific one, which increases the
efficiency of the whole. I some
times prescribe special mixtures f '
for Blood Poisoning, Scrofulous H
Affections, Catarrh, Eczema and other
complaints arising from impure and weak «
blood, but I always feei safest in prescribing P. P. P., especially where
lam not personally acquainted with the druggist. In prescribing
P. P. P. (Lippman’s Great Remedy), I know I am taking no chances.”
When doctors feel such confidence in a standard remedy, it is
no wonder that the general public insist upon having it. ■>
P. P. P. is sold by all druggists. $1 a bottle; six bottles, $5.
LIPPMAN BROTHERS, LI p P ?.S E K§k-. Savannah, Ga.
LOOK, LOOK:
The Best and Purest.
M. O HARA,
COTTON AVENUE.
We Have Moved!
Our office and sales room to two doors from the express
office on Fourth street, wheie we are better prepared than
ever to serve those needing
Building flaterial of Every Kind.
1 Macon Sash, Door Lumber Co
F. A GUTTENBERGER & CO
Pianos and organs—Celebrated Sohmer
& Co., Matchless Ivers & Pond. Reliable
Bush & Gerts, the Famous Burdette Organ,
, JU j jjfgr -i—~
>. the Waterloo Organ, all strictly first-class.
Artistic piano tuning.
1 have secured the services of Mr. Wm.
MU Hinspeter, so favorably known in Macon
-e a t uner an( i salesman. All orders left
*t^WbL. -W j.-.-. at store will have prompt attention and
satisfaction guaranteed.
The Callaway
Coal Company
Phone 334-
Prepare for Winter.
Window Glass, Mantels and Grates.
Can furnish any size or parts broken.
Call before cold weather comes.
T. C. BURKE.
One Minute, Please,
Did you ever think of the fine season we are having for planting
FIELD SEED, such as BARLEY, RYE, CRIMSON CLOVER,
WHEAT and all kind of GRAIN, also HYACINTH BULBS.
Don’t wait until it is too late. We keep Canary Bird Cages and
Earthenware.
STREYER SEED CO.
466 Poplar Street, Gunn’s Block.
Phone 617.
S. G. BOUIS &. CO.
Practical Plumbers.
Sanitary Plumbing, Gas Fitting, Steam, Hot
* Water and Hot Air Heating.
Special Attention to Repair work.
617 Poplar Street, Macon, Ga.
We Entered this Clothing War.
Determined that our competitors
should not sell for Less than we
did—and our cut of
50 Per Cent Off
CLOTHNG and OVERCOATS will be hard for
them to meet. Oar salesmen have positive in
structions to sell any Suit or Overcoat in the
house for half the marked price.
The Dixie Shoe and Clothing Co.
Corner’Cherry and Third Streets.
Novelties
for
Holidays
Wedding Presents, Birthday Gifts and Beau
tiful things in Jewelry.
J. 11. & W. W, WILLIAMS.
Don’t be Selfish
While buying a coat, blow yourself and put
one on the HOUSE. It needs it. I will
take pleasure in coating your house inside or
outside with up-to-date schemes of coloring at
moderate prices.
G. W. LINGO, ™ cwry st. (
’ MACON, GA.