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ESTABLISHED 1884.
WANT REPORTS
ABOUT CUBA,
Quigg Offered an Important Resolu
tion in the House This
Morning.
WHAT IS SPAIN DOING.
Since the New Administration Under Gen.
Blanco Went into Power on
the Island.
W uhlngton, Feb. 14.—Imcmdiately after
the reading of the Journal in the house to
day a unanimous report was sent in from
the report of the committee on elections
No. 2. in favor of Vandebury vs. Tongue
from the second district in favor of the
sitting ■member and was adopted without
debate.
Quigg, of New York, a member of the
foreign affairs committee, was recognized.
He first called up the resolution reported
from the foreign affaire committee, call
ing upon the secretary of state, iff not in
compatible with public interest, to trans
mit to the house correspondence relating to
the discrimination of the German govern
ment against the importation American
beef, fruit or horses. It was adopted with
out division.
Quigg followed this with the Cuban res
olution offered by Mr. Williams slightly
modified as follows: ~
“Resolved, by the house of representa
tives, that the secretary of state, and ho
hereby is directed to inform the house
what Information, if any, he has receiv
ed at t'he state repartment concerning the
reconcentradoes in Cuba, whether or not
they have been permitted to return to
their estatees; whether or not they or any
considerable number of them are now on
their estates, whether or not any zones,
or considerable parts of zones, are now be
ing cultivated by them according to the
reports received at the department of state
from the American consular agents. What
atepß, if any, are shown by the said consu
lar reports to have been taken by the
Hpanish government for the feeding of said
reconcenlradoes of for otherwise prevent
ing them from starving and suffering.
Whether or not the Spanish government
has given the necessary military protec
tion to enable the mills to grind cane and
what progress has been made in Spain’s
efforts to induce the Cubans to accept au
tonomy.
“Second. That the secretory of state be
directed, if in his opinion It is not incom
patible with public interest, to sent to
the house copies of all such reports from
the consuls, vice-consuls and commercial
agents of the United States in Cuba as
may shed light upon the subject above re
ferred to and shall give information to the
house and to th«> country concerning the
condition in Cuba since the advent of the
new regime under General Blanco. ~
WILL NOT RESIGN.
The Rumor About General Fitzhugh Lee is
Denied.
Washington, Feb. 14. —The state depart
ment today officially denied that General
Lee, consul general to Cuba, has tendered
his resignation, it can be stated also that
while details not obtainable, matters re
gaardlng the De Lome incident have as
sumed such shape that an early ami en
tirely satisfactory adjustment of the af
fair between the United States and Spain
is confidently expected by the state de
partment.
PRIVATE LETTER
And Therefore Cannot te Acted Upon Of
ficially.
Madrid. Feb. 14—“ El Liberal'' comment
ing on the DeLome letter says it was a
private document of which the govern
ment misunderstood the 'text.
it is semi-offieially stated that official
claims cannot be founded on a private
letter and that Spain acted rightly in ac
cepting the resignation of Seuor Dupuy
De Lome, and that <wy claims whatever
are inadmissible.
INTERFERENCE
With the Mails Said to be the Rea
son for Cushing’s Commission.
New York, Feb. 14—It Is now learned
on the highest authority that the real
reason for sending the United States tor
pedo boat Cushing to Havana, was that
the Spanish authorities had been tamper
ing with the mail sent to battleship
Maine in Havana harbor, says the Wash
ington correspondent of the Herald.
This resulted in Captain Sigsbee, of the
Maine sending a protest to Washington
with the suggestion that a regular service
be established between Key West and Ha
vana by means of a torpedo boat.
On the strength of the protest the
Cushing was dispatched to Havana.
Although it has been frequently report
ed that official mail has been tampered
with in the past, Secretary Long said last
night that he had received no reports
from Captain Sigsbee saying that the
Spanish authorities had iuterferred with
his letters in any way.
’’The dispatch of the Cushing to Ha
vana.*’ he continued, “was in line with
the department's action in sending the
'Maine on a friendly visit to that port and
<he Montgomery to Santiago de Cuba, and
Mazillo. 1 expect she is now or will be
Boon on her way back to Key West.”
DAUNTLESS AGAIN.
"(he Plucky Little Vessel is off For
Cuba Once More.
Savannah. Feb. 14—The tug Dauntless,
left Savannah yesterday morning loaded
up with sixty tons of coal. It is rumored
that she will meet her mate and an expe
dition off Tampa. They left Tampa last
Hignt.
The Spanish authorities here have just
learned of this new expedition.
A Straight Line.
*'A straight line 1b the shortest distance
tiptween two points. (Geometrical Defini
tion.) A telephone line is the quickest
and most satisfactory means of communi
cation between two points. (Commercial
fact.) First point—The toll system of the
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company affords the means of holding pri
vate conversation with your correspon
dents in Atlanta, Rome, Newnan, Griffin
Columbus, Opelika, Americus, Albany
Athens and intermediate towns, and gives
•11 the advantages of personal interviews
without the expense, fatigue and incon
venience of traveling.
Second point—A night rate has beer
established and connections between the
hours of 6 p. m. and 8 a. m. can be bad at
tae-half Ot the day rates.
NEGRO WOMAN SHOT.
She was Notorious in and Arornd Cleveland,
Ohio.
Cleveland, Feb. 14 —Minnie Ridgely,
bettor known aa Minnie Chew, a notorious
colored woman entered the saloon at the
corner of Noble and Bright streets with a
drawn revolver late test night and fired a
fi silade of shots at George Leach, a color
ed gambler, who was in the palace. The
fcbets all went wild and Leach quickly
pulled bls revolver and fired one shot, the
bullet lodging just below the woman’s
heart. She will probably die. The shoot
ing was the result of a quarrel. Leach is
in Jail. The Chew woman Is well known
to the police. She Is one of the two
Amazons who years ago made it a prac
tice of holding men up in alleys in the
Tenderloin district. For one of her crimes
she served three years in the penitentiary.
RUMORS REVIVED
About the Mental Condition of Sherman —
He was Quietly Ignored.
Washington, Feb. 14—One of the fea
tures of the IteLorne case is causing near
ly as much comment as the episode itself.
It is the manner in wheh Secretary of
State Sherman was kept in ignorance of
the steps taken by the administration and
from official knowkdge of the affair.
The venerable secretary has sat In his
private office while the important work of
the department was transacted by Judge
Day without even consulting his chief.
All of the presidential conferences were
with Judge Day, and it was started by
an attache of the state department that
more information was imparted to the
newspapers than to Sherman.
This action has started the old gossip
about the secretary’s mental condition,
but his friends declare it i.-. jot such as to
Justify the methods now used.
REINFORCED.
Paris, Feb. 14.- —The garrison of Paris
has b. n reinforced by the troops from
BELLIGERENCY
01 Cuba is Favored by the Senate,
According to the
Report.
HOUSE ASKED TO CO-OPERATE
On Securing This End—Report of the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations on Al
len's Resolution.
Washington, Feb. 14.—Senator Morgan
today reported from the committee on for
eign relations the amendment offered by
Senator Allen of Nebraska, recognizing
the belligerency of Cuba.
The report was against making it a part
of the diplomatic and consular appropri
ation bill, but the report which was quite
long, stated that the senate had already
acted on this matter and is still of the
same opinion and would be glad to have
the bouse co-operate in securing the recog
nition of belligerency.
superioTcourt.
The Civil Docket was Taken up This Morn*
ing.
The superior court opened this morning
with the civil docket. After the grand
jury had been charged and had retired the
first case called was that of Charles But
ler against Alfred Butler, which was dis
posed of in short order and for the rest
ot the morning the judge was occupied in
chambers.
This week will about close out the civil
docket for the term and in fact there is
not enough business to occupy the atten
tion of the court for more than a few days
of the week.
If the grand jury finishes its work this
week it is expected the criminal docket
will be taken up next week,
CHICKEN POX.
A Suspicious Case Reported from Vinevllle
and Two in th.' City.
A suspicious ease thought to be smallpox
was reported this morning from a negro
house in the alley back of Mrs. Virgin’s
residence in Vinevllle.
Drs. C. H. Hall and Worsham visited the
house and diagnosed the case.
At 2 o clock Dr. Hall told a News report
er that he was nable as yet to say posi
tively that the case was or was not small
pox. It looked to him, he said, like a bad
ease of chicken pox. but he could not
make up his mind definitely until he had
seen the ease again tomorrow.
He advises no one to go to the house,
however, as he says that such cases of
chicken pox are very nearly as bad as the
smallpox itself.
Two suspicious cases were reported to
the Board of Health from Monroe street in
a negro house this morning. An investi
gation proved to the satisfaction of the
board that the cases were nothing more
than the chicken pox.
A suspicion grows upon a large number
of people that the supposed smallpox is
all the cases is nothing more than aggra
vated chicken pox. but every precaution
is being taken by the Board of Health.
EXCITI NGSCENES
During the Zola Trial—Expert is on
the Stand.
__ Paris, Feb. 14.—When the trial of M.
Zola and M. Perrieux was resumed today
M. Juares. a socialist membar of the
Chamber of Deputies, was recalled. He
recalled his belief in the culpability of
Major Esterhazy. The examination of M.
Bertillon, the writing expert, was then
resumed. He said he thought itimpcssi
ble to ask the minister of war for in
criminating documents seized at the resi
dence of Dreyfus in 1804. which, according
to the testimony of the witness on Satur
day last, would enable him to prove that
Dreyfus wrote to Bordeaux. M. laborie.
counsel for M. Zola, thereupon protested
and twited M. Bertitlonwith being unwill
ing to testify in court while giving inter
views to newspapers. M. said the inter
views were false. Being pressed by M.
Laborie to explain how unless he had seen
the secret documents he was able to prove
at the court martial that Dreyfus wr«
to Bordeaux. M. Bertillon answered t,
he could not explain without the docu
ments which were no longer in his pos
session. This statement caused a sensa
tion in court and M. Laborie demanded
that the advocate general compel the wit
ness to reply. The advocate general
made no answer.
Finally M. Bertillon, who persisted in
not answering the question left the wit
ness stand amidst considerable uproar, M.
Laborie remarking: “And that is the man
upon whose evidence Dreyfus was con
victed.”
You can talk to 10,000 every day through
the columns of Ths News,
THE MACON NEWS.
GRAND JURY
IS SWORN IN
Will Not Sit for More Than Three
or Four Days This Term
of Court.
JUDGE URGES EXPEDITION.
He Says That the Grand Jury is Not an In
dependent Body and That it Should
do a Day’s Work.
The grand jury met this morning and
was .-worn in and charged by Judge Fel
ton.
Twenty-three men make up the jury for
this term or rather for the extra work
before the grand jury empanneled for a
special purpose for the November term.
The jury is made up as follows:
A. Gibian, L. S. Worsham, M. C. Balk
com, George W. Duncan, W. L. Douglass,
C. C. Wilder, J. T. Dozier, C. D. Findlay,
W. T. Shinholser, S. H. Shepperd, T. Skel
ton Jones, R. Lee Long, R. W. Jemison,
Edgar A. Ross, W. F. Elder, Joseph N.
Neel, W. W. DeHaven, W. C. Turpin,
Alex Blair, A. L. Wood, A. B. Small,
Thomas R. Ayer, H. J. Thomas, Enoch
Rainey, baliff.
Mr. T. Skelton Jones was selected as the
foreman of the jury.
Judge Felton in charging the jury said
that they had been called together for the
express purpose of investigating some fifty
cases that were teiniandlng indictment by
the grand jury of alleged criminals who
had been brought before the city court
and also about 'twenty-five cases now in
jail.
1.1 was for this purpose particularly that
the jury had been Impannelied and the
solicitor general had so mapped out the
work of the jury so as to enable them to
get through with the work in about three
days.
The judge asked the jury to get through
in this time if they possibly could. He
pointed out that they 'had not the right
in his opinion 'to meet for a few hours in
the morning and then to adjourn over for
a day. The solicitor general had drawn
up work that would for each day make a
good day’s work and he thought that they
s hould be able to finish in the three days.
Judge Felton pointed out that a grand
jury being allowed a certain amount of
independence had come to look upon itself
as an entirely independent body but it was
not, and it was the duty of the grand jury
to be as expeditious as possible in the
performance of the duties laid it before
it.
He said that the grand jury empannelled
at this time was not precluded from ex
amining into such criminal matters as they
might think fit to look into but that the
last, grand jury having examined into the
civil affairs of the county be did not think
it. necessary for the jury to go into those
matters at this time.
IN THE JAW?
A Negro Vaccinated Himself and he is in a
Dangerous Condition.
This is one instance in which it would
nov have been folly to be wise.
An unfortunate cocn is the victim of
ignorance and indeed it is surprising that
more accidents of a similar nature do not
occur beeauseof the ignorance of all classes
o. people concerning vaccination.
A negro in South Macon the other day
found what looked like a very handy
toothpick lying around the house and pro
ceeded to use it.
In picking ’his tooth until it bled he
most successfully vaccinated himself and
now his head is about as big as a flour
barrel.
The vaccination was thoroughly suc
cessful and the negro is not likely to have
smallpox, but it is very probable he will
die cf the vaccination as the jaw is a
bad place for the operation.
The best time to advertise is all the
time.
RECORDER’S COURT.
Mayor Price Disposed of a Big Docket This
Morning.
Mayor Price had a big docket before him
this morning when he opened the record
er’s court.
About twenty-five or thirty cases were
on the docket. None of them were of a
serious nature, however, all of them being
result of tee much hilarity caused by too
much red liquor on Saturday night or vio
lation of the minor ordinances of the city.
The most important case on the docket
was that of Jasper McWhorter, who was
charged with carrying concealed weapons
and pointing a pistol at another. He was
sent to the city court under a bond of
SIOO.
The other eases involved fines that
to the individual did not mean very
much, but which in the aggregate swelled
the receipts very considerably.
Have your magazines rebaund by The
nititierj.
CONFERENCE
Os Leading Negro Baptists will Meet Here
on Wednesday.
An educational conference of more than
usual significance will be held here next
Wednesday. It will be composed of dele
gates from all the principal negro Baptist
churches of the state, assembled to meet
General T. J. Morgan, corresponding sec
retary of the American Baptist Home Mis
sion Society, and Rev. M. Mac Vicar, LL.D.,
superintendent of the society’s educational
work.
The immediate purpose of the convention
is to consider the propriety of organizing
ing a permanent educational board repre
senting all of the negro Baptist churches
to work in co-operation with the Home
Mission Society in promoting the educa
tional interests of the negro Baptists of
the state. The general plan is to appoint
a financial secretary, who shall be appoint
ed jointly by the educational conference
and the Home Mission Society, who shall
give his entire strength and time to sup
porting the interests of education, hunting
up young men and young women and en
couraging them to enter some of the many
“hqols already established, and soliciting
"'for Spelman seminary, the Atlanta
-Ist college and secondary schools in
affiliation with them.
It is believed that such a union of the
forces at the present time •will entirely do
away with whatever friction or misunder
standing has existed heretofore, and -will
awaken a new interest in the cause of ed
ucation. There is a very large number of
negro Baptists in the state, and if they can
be united heartily and enthusiastically,
they can greatly increase the number of
students in the schools, and add largely to
the financial resources of these institutions
which have already done so much for their
■uplifting.
MACON NEWS MONDAY FEBRUARY 14 1898.
OFFICIALS ARRESTED.
They Were Supposed to Intercept the Sus
pected Expedition,
New London, Feb. 14—Two custom of
ficials from Bridgeport were arrested in
this city aj 3:46 o’clock this morning and
boarded one of Captain Scott’s tugs. Im
mediately afterw’ards the tug steamed
down the harbor and out into the sound.
It is stated that these officials had been
instructed to patrol and search the east
ern and end of the Long Island sound for
the purpose of intercepting the suspected
filibustering expedition.
ICE KING
Sealed the Doom of Five Gold Seekers on
the Terrible Pass.
Seattle, M ash., Feb. 14. —The steamship
City of Topeka arriver here from Alaska
last night. She brought the news that five
men had frozen to death on the Ghilkoot
Pass. No names or details were brought
down.
Lawlessness continues to reign at Skaga
way and Dyea. and the situation at these
places is considered serious. Governor
Brady sent down an appeal to President
•McKinley for protection, as the lawleess
element outnumbers the orderly citizens.
Dr. Rufus Smith, who came down with
Brady’s appeal, said: “You cannot imag
ine a worse collection of toughs, “sure
thing’ men and thieves of every descrip
tion, than is now in Dyea and Skagaway.
Probably Skagaway is worse than Dyea.
I knew a packer who started over the trail
with several men. and they were held up
and two or three of them were almost
killed.
“Men are coming in over the passes
every week fresh from Klondike with
sacks of gold. Great fear is (felt lest the
temptation of such a rich 'booty will soon
be responsible for aterrible crime. It Is
a wonder that the rich Dawson parties
have not been attacked before this.
“Citizens of Skagaway 'are, in my opin
ion, outnumbered, and would get the
worst of it in a conflict between the two
elements.”
FOR WfiAL,
An Appeal Made to the Catholics of
Georgia to Contribute to
the Fund.
GRAND OLD STRUCTURE.
Should be Replaced and it is Thought that
the Necessary Amount will be Ob
tained in the State.
A circular has been received in Macon
in which an appeal is made for friends
for the. rebuilding of the Catholic cathedral
i? Savannah.
The appeal is signed by Bichop Becker,
several clergymen connected with the ca
thedral parish, and by leading Catholics
identified with its material and financial
welfare.
The circular tells of the great calamity
that has befallen the cathedral which for
over a quarter of a century was not only
a monument to the faith and zeal of its
attendants but an example of architec
urai beauty. It reviews the losses inci '
dent to the fire, which .practically de
stroyed the stately church edifice and se
riously interfered with religious worship.
It dwells on the sacred' associations of
the lives and religion of the parishioners
with the place of worship and the un
swerving and unalterable fidelity of its
people to its tenets and their great desire
to perpetuate the cardinal doctrines of the
church for whose interest the petitioners
are now seeking moral and financial aid.
The circular states that notwithstanding
the serious condition that confronts the
friends of the cathedral that church must
be rebuilt and restored and that despite
the loss of between $175,000 and $200,000
it has uch faith in the people of the city
and the country that strong hopes are en
tertained that financial aid will be gener
ously ously given so that the debt may be
extinguished and an incubus raised from
the parish.
The friends of the movement are anx
ious, that no time may be lost in the re
habilitation of the cathedral and urgently
appeal to all friends and sympathizers to
aid them in this cause so that a place of
worship may be had as expeditiously and
consistently as possible. They ask that
contributions be given to the committee
so that the names of the donors with
amount of offerings can be publicly ac
knowledged and, in addition, be placed in
the curbstone of the new edifice.
It is estimated that the cost of rebuild
ing the cathedral will be somehing like
$75,000 in addition to the insurance of
$60,000, making the sum necessary to re
store the damaged property $135,000. A
financial statement appended to the circu
lar letter discloses the fact that the old
debt of SIB,OOO will have to be carried over
and thecost of the memorial windows,
statuary, interior furnishings and altars
will approximate $40,000. To put these
back where they were originally and to
practically make them the same as they
were before the fire is the earnest wish of
the committee and they feel that the gen
erous impulses of the" people of Georgia,
which always responds to deserving ap
peals, will not fail them in this trying
hour when the most laudable purpose of
the people interested in this work is to
have the gospel taught, and lessens of
morality inculcated. Those who desire to
contribute to the rebuilding of the cathe
dral can leave their offerings with any of
the following members of the committee:
Bisbop Thomas A. Becker, Father Ben
jamin J. Keiley, Dr. J. B. Read, Captain
John Flannery, Mr. John Lyons, Mr. Jas-
E. Grady, Mr. Daniel Hogan, Captain
Henry Blun, Mr. William Kehoe, Mr. P.
F. Gleason. Mr. M. A. O’Byrne, Mr. Pat
Brennan, Mr. John W. Golden.
againsFtrusts.
Pipe Works Enjoyned from Keeping
Up a Combination.
Cincinnati, Feb. 14.—The United States
circuit court of appeals for the Sixth cir
cuit. toaay decided the cast iron pipe trust
case. Justice Harland and circuit Judges
Taft and Lurton composed the court. Judge
Taft delivered an opinion on the suit
■which was begun at Chattanooga by a bill
in equity filed by the attorney general of
the United States against six cast iron pipe
companies to enjoin them from continuing
to do business under the contract of the
association, which the bill charged was a
violation of the anti-trust act of 1890, be
cause it was in restraint of inter-state
trade in cast iron pipe, and an attempted
monopoly of the same. The judgment of
the court of appeals reversed the decision
of the circuit court and instructed that the
court enter a decree enjoining the six de
fendants from continuing to do business
under contract of the association or from
in any way maintaining the same.
SENTENCE SUSTAINED.
Springfield, 111., Feb. 14 —The supreme
court today sustained the sentence of ex-
Bank President George W. Spalding to the
penitentiary. He was convicted of embez
zling bonds of the University of Illinois.
You can talk to 10,000 every day through
the columns of The News.
CITY OF MACON
IN PORT AGAIN
She Came Up in the Lowest Pos
sible Water in the River
This Season
WITH A HEAVY LOAD
The Navigation Company is Justly Jubilant
—A Great Victory for Those who
Predict Success.
The City of Macon arrived in port this
morning and is unloading a miscellaneous
cargo of merchandise for the wholesale
merchants of Macon.
Some uneasiness has been felt at the of
fices of the Macon Navigation Company for
the last twenty-four hours on account of
the non-appearance of the craft on whom
so mucr of Macon future depends. It was,
therefore a great relief this morning when
Captain Miller walked into the office this
morning an reported himself ashore.
The City of Macon left Hawkinsville on
Friday last, and has taken it easy on the
way up. On Friday night or Saturday
morning she sighted the government boat
Satilla, and the weather being calm the
captains of the crafts exchanged greetings
and it is said that they consisted of much
the same remarks as those made by the
hospital governor of North Carolina to h'is
Southern brother.
This caused none of the delay, however,
The City of Macon might have reached
port yesterday morning, but as it was
Sunday she lay to at the quarantine sta
tion oposite Mansfield’s and did a little
cleaning up so as to make a presentable
appearance.
About eleven this morning her whistle
roused the slumbering lions at the park
and made the elephant pick up his trunk.
Harbor Master George A. Smith, heard
the whistle. He met her as she came up
and docked her with as much ease as the
best of them.
The arrival of the City of Macon with a.
load just at this time forever sets at rest
the critics and the calamity howlers who
have been telling everyone that she could
not make the trip at low tide. Macon has
ample water on her bar even at the low
est tide. Never will the water be any
lower than it is now and in making Ma
con the City of -Macon has fooled even
Captain Miller, who on Friday last in
Hawkinsville expressed himself as doubt
ful whether he could make the trip or
not.
If she had come in “light” it would have
been different, but the fact that she came
in with a full load just at this time is full
cause for gratification on the part of those
who have predicted for Macon all the ad
vantages of a river point and who have
persevered hard in the work they volunta
rily cut out for themselves.
Captain Miller is receiving congratula
tions on every side on account of the suc
cess of his trip. He says that he had fair
weather all the way and that at every
point at which he touched the City of Ma
con was received with enthusiasm.
The possibility of navigation on the Oc
mulgee is now an established fact, and the
navigation company will go to work at
once to increase their fleet and to improve
the docks, in which latter work the city
Council will be asked to take a hand.
In the manifest of cargo brought up by
Captain Miller may be mentioned 674 sacks
of salt consigned to the Jaques & Tinsley
Co., hardware for the iDunlay Hardware Co
and Culver & Corbin, general groceries for
Adams Bros, and a quantity of freight
for Winn Johnson & Co. ,
The boat with her present cargo draws
twenty-four inches of water and Captain
Miller says that he experienced little diffi
culty in making the trip.,
It is probable that the 'Chamber of Com
merce will now take the matter up in
earnest and a banquet may be given to
celebrate the arrival of the first boat from
the sea to Macon since the times when
river navigation on the Ocmulgee from
Macon to Brunswick was in full swing
about thirty years ago.
The statistics of freight from Macon
over the different lines of railroad show
that Macon spends something like a quar
ter of a million dolars a year for freight.
It may be estimated that 10 per cent of
this can be saved by the reduction of the
rates on account of the river navigation.
Mr. George Smith, the president of the
river navigation company, who has been
the chief worker in the movement for the
last year, and to whom a large -part of the
success of the movement to establish a line
of boats is due, is naturally very proud of
the safe arival of the boat and feels confi
dent that now that scepticism and doubt
as to the feasibility of the underbaking
have been set at rest there will be no dif
ficulty in carrying out the rest of the plans
proposed.
An effort will be made to load the boat
up so as to allow her to make the return
trip starting on Wednesday. ,
FOR THE NEGRO.
A Strong Sermon was Preached Yes
terday at First Presbyterian.
Rev. O. B. ’Williams, formerly of Virgi
nia, but now of Tuscaloosa, Ala., occupied
the pulpit of the First Presbyterian
church yesterday morning, and spoke from
the pulpit of the Tattnall Square Presbyte
rian church last night.
The subject of his discourse was the edu
cation of the negro. Rev. Mr. W’ilson is
the authorized agent sent out by the gen
eral assembly of the Southern Presbyterian
Church on a tour of the South for the pur
pose of raising SIO,OOO to establish alarm
in conection with the Stilman school, a
colored theological institution located at
Tuscaloosa, and under the control, patron
age and support of the Southern general
assembly.
It is proposed to establish the farm and
thereby make the college self-suporting by
supplying all the necessary products for
the consummation of the students and sell
the overplus. Mr. Wilson is meeting with
much success in his work. 'After his ad
dresses yesterday and last night a colee
tion by card was taken up with satisfacto
results. Mr. Wilson will be in Columbus
tonight.
NO SPECIAL MESSAGE.
Howe Intends to Call up the Williams Reso
lution,
Washington, Feb. 14.—Every Republican
member of the house received special no
tification w te In his seat at the hour of
noon today. The reason for the special
notififieation to the members is that Chair
man Hitt, of the foreign affairs committee,
intended to call up the Williams resolu
tion, calling on the president for informa
tion regarding the situation in Cuba. The
resolution was unanimously reported by
the foreign affairs committee, but it is
feared that an attempt might be made in
the house to amend it. There will be no
message from the president on Cuba.,
KAYLER’S CAMPAIGN.
Negroes are Stirred up and Feeling Against
Him is Aroused.
The negro Kaigler continues to hold
largely attended meetings of negroes in
this city and county, at which he tells all
the ex-slaves he is engaged in the great
work of getting up a memorial to congress
to pass a bill to pension all ex-slav< s. The
majority of the more intelligent class of
negroes denounce Kaigler. As an evidence
of the feeling against him, the foil airing
extract from an editorial in The Macon
Appeal, a negro newspaper, is published
the heading of the editorial being “That
Pension Craze:’’
“To see hundreds, nay thousands of poor
ignorant colored people flock ng to the al
most nightly meetings held by one Kaig
ler and 'two or three Baptist preachers
who claim to be in position to get pension
money for 'the ex-slaves, is a spectacle
calling for both pity and condemnation
from every intelligent citizen in Macon,
the Central City of the Empire State of
the South. The story may seem incredible,
considering the fact that the negroes have
made vast intellectual advancement since
the war. but it is nevertheless true. This
man Kaigler has by the sanction of one
or two Baptist preachers, succeeded in
deceiving some five or six thousand color
ed people into the foolish belief that it is
highly probable that they can get a pen
sion for services rendered before the war.
Rarely a day passes but what your may
stand along Bridge Row or any of the
main roads leading into Macon from the
country and count hundreds coming into
the city, traveling all the way from five to
forty miles to attend the ‘pension meet
ing,’ as they call it.
“If wc rst mistake the signs the
salvation of tie colored people of
■and vicinity now rests wholly upon our
good and intelligent ministers, such as
Revs. E. W. Lee, J. R. McLean, P. W.
Gratehant and a number of others whom
we don’t mention and who don’t take part
with Kaigler.”
WAR ISWAGED
By the Interstate Commerce Com
mission on the Distribut
ing Centres.
MAKE HO CONCEALMENT
Os Their Intention to Make it Hot for Both
the Railroads and the Cities on
Long and Short Haul.
A war is being waged on the railroads
‘and the large cities of the South by the
interstate commerce commission. It is ian
■aggressive, relentless fight on the part of
the commission while the roads and the
■cities have been so far acting purely on
the defensive.
There is no concealment by the commis
sion of its 'purpose to take away from the
commercial centers the lower rates which
they have, and had there been, Mr. Sha
ver’s statements last week would have
made it clear. T'he chief hope of the
roads and cities lies in the courts giving
true and strict constructions to the laws
on the books. 'Sometimes courts read
meanings into statutes which the law
makers never intended. If the existing
statutes are construed to mean what they
say and what their framers said, the coin
mission will fail in its efforts.
The interstate commerce commission
wants power to prescribe rates and at the
same time it asks congress to tie the
hands qf the railroads so that they can
not continue in force the rates which the
commission judges to be unreasonable.
If, after appeal, the courts should hold
that the commission had erred, then the
roads would be permitted to resume their
tariffs, but there would be no redress. A
parallel to this proceeding would be the
execution of a sentence on a prisoner
■pending his appeal for a new trial. The
sentence might be death, and What good
would it do him, if after he had been exe
cuted, it should be discovered that the
court below or the jury had erred?
There are now pending in the courts five
olf these long and short haul cases from
the South. The Summerville hay case,
the Griffin, Chattanooga and Marietta.
Two have been decided in favor of the com
mission by circuit court judges, one has
been 'decided in favor of the commercial
centers, and one has not yet been decided.
If a majority of these cases go against the
cities and the roads, it will be a bad day
for Macon and every other distributing
.point in the South.
Fains in the Chest.
Until I began the use of Cheney’s Ex
pectorant I suffered frequentlj' at night
with difficult breathing and pains in the
chest. I am now entirely well, and a stout
believer in your medicine. Rev. Goodman
(Huges, Dahlonega, Ga.
VALENTINE’S DAY
Has Called Around Again ana Cupid Dis
» ports Himself,
Every 14th of February since St. Val
entinus’ day, it has been the custom of
youths and maidens and birds to choose
mates for the year, or at least to indite
sweet and poetic love-letters and songs to
one another.
Some of these missives are as dainty as
if the fabled love-god himself had devised
them, using one of his wing feathers for
a quill and dip in the morning azure for
ink.
There are others sent forth from an
equal superabundance of love, not over
idolized with sensibilities. Rubicund and
healthy young cupids disport themselves
about the page, as a suggestive border.
In the center generally appears a pensive
maiden dressed in pink skirt, white flounc
ed apron, with one hand in the pocket
thereof, low-cut bodice of too airy mate
rial for February, and satin-shod feet that
run to points. The maiden has violet eyes
'and golden locks, her brow is like ala
baster, and a smile, gentle, but almost sad,
plays upon her ruby lips. Her other hand
attempts to still the beating of Her timid
heart, as She awaits the coming of a mon
strous dove cleaving the sky, bearing in its
bill a love letter, which, in comparison
with the size of the maiden would serve
as ‘a commodious tent when the shades of
evening begin falling fast. On the inside
of the little paper-lace booklet several
stanzas redolent of “eyes of blue,” “heart
so true,” “Valentine,” “sweetheart mine,”
convey to the recipient the eloquent emo
tions of the sender.
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by the regular size bottle. This is no ex
periment, and would be disastrous to the
proprietors did they not know it would
invariably cure. Many of the best physi
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with great results, and are relying on it
in most severe cases. It is guaranteed.
Trial bottles free at H. J. Lamar & Sons’
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ONLY THIRTY-
SEVEN DAYS
Are Left to Mrs. Nobles Who has
Been Given the Death
Sentence Again.
LIST FRIDAY 111 MARCH
Will be ter Doomsday Unless the Governor
Shall Commute Her Sentence
to Life Imprisonment.
Mrs. Elizabeth Nobles, the old woman
confines in Bibb county jail for the mur
der of her husband, William Nobles in
Twiggs county in June, 1895, has only
tihirty-'even days more to live.
Unless Governor Atkinson interferes
and commutes the death sentence to im
prisonment for life.
In which case he will probably also com
mute tte sentence of Gus Rambles, .the
woman's accomplice.
Mrs. Nobles was taken to Jeffersonville
on Saturday afternoon and in the old court
house tt this quiet country town, the
county seat of Twiggs, where Mrs. Nobles
ana her murdered husband lived for so
many years, the solemn sentence of death
wa.s passed upon the o’d woman by Judge
C. C. Smith, of the Oconee circuit.
The train on the Macon and Dublin road
with Mrs. Nobles, her escort, her counsel,
Mr. Marion (Harris reached Jeffersonville
at 4:30 o’< lock. The news 'that the sen
tence would be passed had spread through
the town and the court, house was crowd
ed.
Judge Smith went through the formality
of the sentence and in doing so he asked
Mrs. Nobles to prepare herself for the
impending dooih. He took occasion to
state that she had been magnificently de
fended.
Mr. Marion Harris thanked the court in
behalf of himself and his associate, Col.
W. C. Glenn, of Atlanta, for the uniform
courtesy extended to them.
Under the sentence of the court the ex
ecution will take place in the jail yard at
Jeffersonville on Friday, March 25.
There was no demonstration of any kind
either before or after the passing of the
sentence. It is a fact, however, that had
Gus Fambles accompanied Mrs. Noblc-s to
Twiggs county neither life would have
been worth a minute’s purchase. The peo
ple of Twiggs would lynch the two to
gether but not separately.
Mrs. Nobles slept on Saturday night in
the Jeffersonville jail and yesterday morn
ing was brought back to Macon.
The eld woman evidently feels the effect
of her trip. She was downcast yesterday
and did not give evidence of her usual
goad spirits.
She does not like Jeffersonville or the
people, and the fact of the matter is that
she Is afraid of them.
■Messrs. Marion Harris and W. C. Glenn,
her attorneys, will at once begin the
movement looking to a commutation of the
sentence. They will first appeal direct to
the governor, who will probably send the
matter to the beard of pardons.
Mr. Harris firmly believes that he will
save his client.
wellsgoTngTry.
There is Much Complaint Among Those Who
Live in the Suburbs.
The long dry spell is playing bavock
with the wells in this section. The resi
dents in the suburbs of Maeon are having
•a hard time of it getting water. In South
Macon and Vineville there is especial cause
for complaint, every other weil nearly be
ing dry.
The report of the weather bureau shows
that less rain has fallen in Georgia in the
past six months than has been known in
twenty-five years. The Ocmulgoe river is
lower than any of the old residents have
ever known it to be for this season of the
year.
POPULAR PRICES.
A Firs* Class Company at the Academy for
Three Performances.
Laughter is what the world wants and
that is what it always gets when in see
ing and hearing distance of “The Private
Secretar,” which will be presented at the
c-pena house tonight by Mr. Edwin Trav
ers and his famous company of comedians.
The engagement is for two nights and “A
Jolly Night” will be the second night's
bill. Popular prices will prevail. Seats
are now on sale. Matinee tomorrow.
Prices 25, 35 and 50 cents tonight.
Plies. Viles, flies:
Dr. Williams’ Indian Pile Ointment will
cure Blind, Bleeding, and Itching Piles
when all other Ointments have failed. It
absorb? thp tumors, allays the Itching at
once, acts 2? a poultice, gives instant re
lief. Dr. Williams’ Indian File Ointment
Is prepared only for Piles and Itching of
the private, parts, and nothing else. Every
box is warranted. Sold by druggists, or
sent by mall on receipt of price, 50c. and
11.00 per box
WILLIAMS M’F’G. CO., Prop’s.,
Cleveland. O.
Clothing
Worth Wearing.
The Clothing you’ll want costs amazingly little
all through the store We are fast turning stock
into dollars. In a word, to do it we are squarely
headed for lowering prices. It’s simple enough;
We’re facing actual conditions; foregoing profits
must remedy top heavy stocks.
More Real Values Here Than it Is
Possible for you to Find Elsewhere.
OHEAP MONEY.
per cent, and 7 per eent .oney now
ready for loans on Macon residence and
business property. 8 per cem. money for
farm loans. Over 15,000,000 successfully
negotiated in Georgia alone. Loans made
can be paid off at any time. V.’e are head
quarters. O. A. Coleman, Gen. Man.,
356 Second street, Macon, Ga.
PRICE TWO CENTS
MENTAL SCIENCE
Has Found an Absolute Cure for Dread Ap
pendicitis.
New York, Feb. 14 —Mental science, it
is called, the means that was employed to
bring relief when Mrs. Lorillard Ronalds
was attacked by ai peudicitis. As is the
way with this serious disease, it developed
very rapidly after the first symptoms were
noted.
Mrs, Ronalds bet ante so critically ill
that the necessity or operation to reach
the seat of the disease was imminent. A
suggestion was mace that the services of
a celebrated surgeon who operated last,
year on a millionai.’e in a New Jersey
town for the same disease, be obtained.
His charge for that operation was said to
be SIB,OOO.
Mrs. Ronalds would have none of the
surgeons, and trust.d her fate to mental
science. The result was satisfactory.
Within a month after the inflammation
began she was able to be out, and is now
a well woman.
Several drawing-room meetings have
been held to devote to the study of this
science of healing without medicine. The
report is that a society or club has been
organized as a development from these
meetings. This men al science, by the way,
is to be confounded with Christian Science,
faith cure, thought cures and other cures
of other names, though 'there is resem
blance to them in hat material remedies
are not employed and that the mind di
rects the subordinate body .to fulfill its
duties without permitting lesions r nd pain
to interfere.
Mrs. Perry is foremost among those who
are devoting attention to this scheme "oT ""
outwitting or controlling disease.
The formulate by which mental science
is brought to direction upon a di; ordered
organ of the body are not discovered to
the public. The m< etings are said to be
under the direction of a doctor, who lec
tures upen the interesting subject under
consideration, and also directs the treat
ment.
generallee; too,
It is Charged that he Wrote a Letter
That Stirs Up a Sensation
inSpain.
HE MAY HAVE TO GO,
Spaniards say They are in Possession of a
Letter Wrhten by Him to
Washington.
New York, Feb. 14.—A dispatch from
Havana to the World says: “It is rumored
that the palace authorities have a letter
written by Consul General Lee the con
tents of which are as interesting and ex
citing for Spain ar the DeLome, letter io
Caneljas was for the United States. It is
said that Gen. Lee’s frankness in-conver
sation insured the existence of such a mis
sive and the opinion is openly expressed
that Gen. Lee will have to go too.
PRISONER OF ZENDA.
A Big Attraction at the Academy on Mon
day Night.
Wednesday night the popular drama,
“The Prisoner of %enda,” will be at the
Academy of IMusic. This is one of the
most brilliantly colored dramas of romance
and chivalry on the stage, and in the class
of what is called the romantic
“The Prisoner of Zenda” stands without
an equal.
It is scarcely necessary to outline the
story of “The Prisoner of Zenda.”
who are not familiar with it will oompre
hend the fertile field it offers for rare
dramatic effects when informed that the
here is a young Englishman, who, by
reason to his perfect resemblance to the
rightful heir to the throne of Ruritania, is
crowned in his stead in order to protect the
kingdom from falling into the hands of a
dangerous enemy.
The real king is drugged by the conspir
ator and is thereby unable 'to be present
at the coronation. He is afterwards thrown
into a dungeon to die, but is finally rescued
by the pseudo king and restored to hi>
rights.
The interest would be comparatively
mild if this were all. But it is not, for
Rassendyll, during his temporary occu
pation of the throne, has fallen in love
with the Princess Flavia, who returns Lis
affection. In surrendering his throne Ras
scndyll surrenders the woman whose heart
lives in his heart. The parting of the two
lovers is deeply affecting.
The company that will present this play
is said to be an excellent one, and they
have received much praise from the press
generally. Howard Gould, who takes the
dual role of the young Englishman, Ru
dolph Rassendyl, and King Rudolph, has
been seen here in the same part last year
and at that time he filled his difficult rolo
very acceptably. The rest of the company
are said to be good in their parts.
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