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GENEROSITY IS
ALIJVASTED.
Something About Siboney as
It Improves Under Amer
ican Rule.
CUBANS ARE NOT HONEST.
Malarial Fever is Very Common
Among the Men —Cuban Ser
vants Rob Correspondent.
Hlboney, July 13—(By Mail.)—This town
In an example of what Americans can do
In a few days Like most obscure Cuban
places, it had two or three separate
names. The British chart put it dow'n aa
Cumberland, The Spanish and Cubans ca.il
it Altares, and tin tiueiican Iron Company
that lire began d. vetoping the rich or.
in the hill which surround this little
stretch of beach,called it Siboney.
It bad a railroad to the iron works, and
that was ali <xc.pt the remains of a battle
mented fort which, no doubt, was put up
by some bueeam ei lot) years ago.
AVhen the \m. rican army arrived it got
out the locomotives, which had long lain
idle, put th. tea ks in ord. r, set the engi
ne. r cm ps to work, and today Siboney has
a line land ng dock, a big commissary
store, i postolfiee, and, no doubt, ere tile
Hoops depart there will be a hotel with a
gentlemanly clerk in diamonds, saying,
■'lou will find the bar just to the left."
in addition to the new dock and railway
which now runs out to tiie end of tne
wharf, mi tliat the wounded and supplies
<au lie mov.d quickly and easily to and
from tiie shore, there is a system of water
works, •and unfailing supply of good water.
Outside of Havana t'uf.n never saw such
an animated i . ni, for with the bustle and
tin harbor full of transports and warships,
it looks more like Staten Island than Sibo
ney.
But when you leave the city an 1 start up
the trail to Santiago and the front, tht
set ne changes. The narrow road through
the jungle Is cut out here and there, and
Hie new made mounds stand out from the
grass and undergrowth. Here and there
the vultures soar up along the path, and
you may be sure that somewhere near in
the thickets a Spaniard, usburied and rot
ting. lies in the sun..
Tiie scenes along the path after the Ist
of .Inly, when the fiercest fighting was
done, can never be forgotten with the
wagon loads of wounded being taken to
Silioney, and Spanish sharpshooters, dress
ed in uniform, and skulking after wagon
trains, picking off the surgeons while they
guarded and ministered to the wounded.
Generosity toward such a foe seems all
wasted. One negro renagade Cuban, who
joined the Spanish forces, ami who shot
Hr Major in the door of his hospital tent
at Siboney. is known to have killed or
wounded one hundred of our men.
die was Winged at last ami dropped from
a tree with a bullet in his ankle and an
other in tiie groin, and today is being ten
derly cared for in the hospital he fired on.
Not everywhere along the trail did the
mounds mark the resting place of the
dead. Ihe Spanish for their dead soaped
up a few' handfuls of dirt to cover the
corpses and let the vultures do the rest on
at ms and legs 1. ft exposed.
Not the Spanish alone, but the Cubans
seem to have in their ranks a few who are
indifferent alike to friend or foe.
A prostrating malarial fever, the result
of fatigue and lying unprotected on the
ground, has attacked some of our troops
and som. l correspondents.
One of the correspondents. who got it
at the front, was brought to the hospital
at Siboney in a litter by his friends. His
two t üban servants helped to carry him.
Then they made up their minds that he
would die and began to shake dice for his
effects. One got his hoots, the other his
revolver, and so went his hat, stocking*
ami some money and extra clothing,
bit by bit.
Phen, in a day or two, the correspondent
was w. 11, only to find the servants and all
his clothing gone. The other newspaper
boys helped him out of their scanty store
and loaned him a large Colt's revolver. He
is now on the trail of his Cuban servants.
While this instance shows that all the
< üban* are not honest, it does not prove
\|iat there is not as good men in the army
a A anywhere in the world.
It is a fact that many of them have given
their fortunes, as well as their lives, for
the cause. A strong feeling for annexa
tion to the I nited States is growing among
the common people in this part of the is
land. They say our corn beef, beans and
fresh meat beat plantains, mangoes and
bread fruit all hollow. Some of our sol
diers have assured the Cubans that these
canned goods grow on treees already la
beled. and that the common, garden variety
of baked beans ami canned beef will be in
troduced into Cuba as soon as the war is
over.
O A. S T O 2FV X A..
Bears tbe 1 l>« Kind You Haw Al ways Bought
Signature _// t
of <<*
NOT THIS MORGAN.
Soldiers of Company H Clear Con Trades of
Anv Connection With Crime.
Camp Price, July 24.
Editor News In your column of “Notes
Taken on tbe Run" in The News of the
.3rd instant appeared the following:
The soldier under arrest for stealing
shoes is not Private W. F. Morgan, of
company “I." but Private Morgan, of com
pany H. Private W. F. Morgan has
many friends in Macon and the report of
the arrest without giving the initials or
the company, might cause him some em
barrassment.
Among tbe private soldiers in company
H are only two whose names are Mor
gan. Neither of these men are, nor have
been, under arrest for any crime whatso
ever. Since their enlistment neither of
them has been charged with even the
White Shoes
To wind up the season without any
White Shoes in stock is our aim
•’
Almost half price. B, C and D
widths.
Come while we have your size.
Phone 29 CLISBY & HcKAY. PHone 29
sUgblsit vloiatton of n>i*« or mih
tary discipline, not to mention so grave
j an offense as is charged in above excerpt.
Both Privates Morgan of company "H”
J have numerous friends in Macon, heucy
‘ the above intended correction has caused
■ much more embarrassment than existed
I prior to its (publication. Would it not bo
; well to make a more careful investigation
i before publishing statements that not only
, damage the reputation, but reflect upon
the characters of parties innocent? While
you cannot repair the damage done these
men you can at least publish this in order
that it may reach the eyes of some of the
many who read the note quoted above.
Respectfully, Company “H,”
Third U. S. Vol. Inf.
Notes Taken
On the Run.
The benefit performance which was given
by the Crumps Park Stock Company Fri
day night for the Relief Association netted
the Association S2O.
Dr. W. J. Cox, a prominent physician of
Barnesville, is a guest of the Park Hotel.
Mr. Gordon Holmes, editor of the Cullo
den Herald, is in the city today.
Drs. W. K. Holmes and Mason, dentists,
Mulberry, opposite Hold Laurier. Try
a bottle of Holmes' MoulU Wash lor pre
.ertlag teeth, purify mg the breath, bleed
ug gums, ulcers, sure mouth, sore uiioat,
tc. ir or sale all diuggists.
Hon. Fleming G. dußignon, of Savannah,
passed through the city last night.
Mr. C. S. Anderson, a prominent citizen
of Fort Valley, is a guest of the Brown
House.
Mr. ißen 'M. Webb, of Cleveland, Tenn.,
passed through the city today.
Mr. G. A. Nunnally, of La Grange, was
in the city yesterday.
i)r. W. L. Smith, Ur.ntist. 353 Second
Ueet, over Beelaud's jewelry store, othee
telephone 452.
Dr. W. W. Landrum, of Atlanta, is in
the city today.
Mr. T. L. Purse, a prominent citizen of
Savannah, is a guest es the Brown House.
' Lieutenant F. S. Armstrong, of the Ninth
Cavalry, has returned from a recruiting
tour. He spent several weeks in Columbus
and Americus and has secured enough men
for his regiment.
Dr. Charles looie, dentist. Ot
ic# corner Second and Poplar streets.
1 have rented the Benner barber shop
and will run same in first class style. G.
A. Ries.
Mr. A. L. Shreve, manager of the South
ern Asphalt Paving Co., is in the city to
day io: the purpose of, <if possible, closing
a contract witii the city for asphalt paving
on some of the streets of Macon.
Mr. G. C. Fletcher, of Atlanta, is at the
Brown House.
Music Lessons —-Piano and vioiin in
struction al reasonable prices. Miss Nellie
Reynolds, 252 Washington avenue.
Mrs. T. E. Murphey and family will
leave for Warm Springs in a few days.
Mrs. G. W. Bagley, of De Soto, is visit
ing Mrs. Johnson on Second street.
Mr. Clarence Morgan has returned from
New York.
One of the features of the barbecue to
be given Thursday evening at the Log
Cabin Club will be a cake walk by the
waiters who serve the barbecue. The prize
will be a mammoth cake.
Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Jones and family re
turned yesterday from a pleasant visit of
three weeks to St. Simons.
Mr. J. Clay Murphey returned this
morning from Indian Spring.
Mr. Cahrlie TidwxJl and Miss Lizzie
f Hamlin were quietly married yesterday at
tho residence of Mr. Charlie Strozier, on
Calhoun street. It was a case of love
laughs at locksmiths, and uhe many friend
of the happy couple wish them a long Life
of happiness.
Mrs. S. A. Hemphill and her daughter,
Miss Mamie, of Augusta, are the guests of
Mrs. J. R. Lee, on Oak street.
Mrs. E. A. Emmermann, of Dawson,
and Miss 'Marie Cheatham, of Savannah,
are tho guests of Dr. T. A. Cheatham to
day.
The firm of AVaxelbaum Sims & Co. has
been dissolved. Mr. C. C. Sims retiring.
His place in the firm wil be taken by Mr.
S. Pepper.
Sergeant Louis Juhan. who is here re
cruiting tor the First regiment, received
notice from his captain of his detail to
nold himself in readiness to return to his
regiment on short notice.
Patrolman Mack has received a reward
of $lO for the capture of the deserter
Zeigler some weeks ago.
Dr. M. H. O'Daniel, of Bullards, is in
the city today. He is a guest of the Hotel
Lanier.
Mrs. S. P. Smith, of Hartwell, is visit
ing Miss Minnie Blackshear.
Mr. J. M. Matthews, a prominent citizen
of Quitman, is at the Hotel Lanier.
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Johnson, of Tampa,
are at the Hotel Lanier.
Dan Thomas was arrested this morning
on three warrants, peace, assault and bat
tery and assault. It seems that Thomas’
boy had a fight with another boy by the
name of Moore and that the Thomas bo?
got whipped. This enraged Thomas and he
wanted to whip Moore and it is said that
he attempted to strike him but was pre
vented from doing s» by Moore's parents.
Both the old gentlemen then hitched up
and scrapped for some time and each one
carries a bruised face and a black eye.
Moore had warrants sworn out for Thomas.
CA.STOHTA.
Bears the The *' n(l You Ha<B Alwars Bought
BIG HEADED ME..
Get straw hats at cut rates. Phillips.
VOLCANO BOILS
BENEAIH THEM
Social Entertainments and
Bull Fights Go Merrily on
In Spain.
ON VERGE Os REVOLUTION,
Emperor of Austria Bringing Great
Pressure to Bear on the Queen
Regent to Seek Peace.
New York, July 2fl.—A dispatch to the
Tubune from Paris says: A cast iron
Spanish censorship prevents the exact sit
uation at Madrid from being disclosed ex
cept through private charm.-is. Any news
paper correspondents suspected of even
muting at the true state of affairs will be
imprisoned or exp<_iled. Grave importance
atiacues to a Madrid letter of Satuiday's
dace received here today by a French dip
lomatist well known on both sides of trie
Atlantic. lue following is a summary ot
the contents: “The situation is fir more
critical than at any previous time since
the war began. On the surface the hab
itual indifference of all classes of people
to the national disasters continues. So
cial entertainments, amusements and bull
fights go merrily on, but this is merely
superficial. The slightest incident may at
any moment precipitate a crisis and
plunge tne country into a revolution. The
news which reached here Thursday of tine
postponement of the departure of Watson's
squadron is regarded as a definite aban
donment of that expedition. The work of
dcicnumg the seaports nevertheless ac
tively continues. Two transports with
the troops and heavy guns have arrived at
the Canaries. Sagas ta is powerless either
to carry on the .war effectively or to con
clude peace. The spectre of the revolution
luomeu'tai ily restrained the Carlists in tihe
nort'hern provinceis, but forced Sagasta to
put his whole trust in the leaders of the
army. The general is now the absolute
master of Madrid and is likely to cast
aside Sagas ta, as they have no further use
for him. The artillery are the most Demo
cratic as well as the most efficient branch
of the military service. Today the entire
artillery force of the garrison at Madrid is
openly hostile to 'line government and if
ordered to fire on the people would cer
tainly retuse 'to do so. ‘Several infantry
regiments when the emergency arises are
also ready to follow their example.
“Lay by day the officers of every grade
accuse the ministry of incapacity in con
ducting the war and charge them above all
with criminal neglect in tailing to supply
the Santiago force with food and ammuni
tion. Not a day passes without the em
peror of Austria extending strong personal
influence on the. queen regent, urging her
to make peace no matter at what sacrifice,
for in his opinion the only salvation of the
dynasty depends upon her ability to do so.
in spite of an explicit denial discontent
is spreading at an alarming rate at Cor
dova, Valencia, Murcia and Huelva. The
Socialist populace of Cartagena is kept
in check only by the soldiers and sailors
of the arsenal and Camara’s fleet.”
South Macon Dots
Your correspondent attended quite a
pleasant and happy reunion of the survi
ving children of the deceased Ransom T.
Avant, late of Bibb county, during the
Confederate States Association of Veterans’
Reunion last week in Atlanta.
According to a previous arrangement the
following named brothers, sisters and
grand children of the deceased, gathered
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Avant,
279 Form wall street, Atlanta:
D. F. Avant and daughter, David Post
office, Coosa county, Alabama.
John A. Avant, Clyde postoffice, Macon
county, Alabama.
'Mrs. Martha Landcaster and grandson,
Walden postoffice, Bibb county.
Dr. J. A. Landcaster and wife, Forsyth,
Monroe county.
Lewis M. Avant and daughter, Macon
postoffice, Bibb county.
James R. Avant and daughter,, Walden
postoffice, Bibb county.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Avant and two
daughters, 279 Forwalt street, Atlanta
postoffice, Fulton county.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rycraft and three chil
dren, Madisonville postoffice, Hopkins
county, Ky.
W. B. Avant, Walnut Grove postoffice,
Louisiana.
J. Smith Avant, South Macon, Bibb coun
ty.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Young, who resides
opposite the residence where the reunion
took place, kindly tendered rooms and
lodging to half dozen gentlemen of the
Avant family. This generous compliment
was gladly accepted.
The following children adorn the lovely
home of 'Mr. and Mrs. Young: Masters
Donnie, Willie, Homer and Freddie
Young. Visitors: Misses Hattie Green,
Alice Fielder, Messrs Charlie Jackson,
Carrol C. Matthews and J. L. Young.
The reunion was greatly enjoyed by each
and every participant, some of whom had
never met before and may never meet
again. Others who had not seen each oth
ers face in thirty years, they having been
scattered, ns it were, throughout the
country, in Georgia, Alabama. Kentuc* w ,
Louisiana and Texas, for the greater por
tion of their lives.
The time was pleasantly spent in visit
ing the various places of attraction in and
around Atlanta during the day and in
evening in social discourse with each other
yi the family circle.
On Saturday the time for separation
having come, good by's were said amid
sighs and tears, each and all wended their
way to the respective train which was to
convey them baek home again from this
family reunion, which will ever be fresh
in the memories of all. though we may
never again meet until afer crossing over
the river and nesting under the shade of
the trees.
“Smith.”
Bears the Yw * Ha,e Wa ' ,S
TWO YELLS ARE
BLENDED NOW.
Something About the Human
Voice in Battle and How
It Is Not Heard.
The human voice in battle has a pecu
liar, a precise value, says the Hartford
Courant. That value does not lie in the
giving of orders. It requires no great men
tal strain to understand that in the heat of
an engagement the guns do ajl the talk
ing that is audible. The youthful author
of “The Red Badge of Courage” represent
ed a corporal conversing freely with a
comrade at least thirty feet away in a liqe
that was compelling a fierce Confederate
onslaught. Anyone who has spent a Fourth
of July in an American city can appreciate
the absudity of that, and every one who
has stood in a line of soldiers firing, knows
that after the first shock to the tympanum
he seems to hear nothing whatever —the
individual discharges are wholly indistin
guishable to him, and his captain close be
hind might screach his throat out and yet
make no impression.
Then as the smoke settles back there
is an almost overpowering sense of isola
tion. You don’t realize your inability to
, MACON NEWS TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 26 189 b.
distinguish sound*; if you give It a
thought you simply find a vague idea that
the atmosphere is most dense and oppres
sive, that you are sort of shut in by some
impenetrable substance which you can
neither see nor feel. National Guardsmen
who have been in firing drills will remem
ber that sensation.
M ith the modern rapid firing guns there’s
little firing by men in mass, except when
the company rallies to repel an attack.
Then a circle or semi-circle is formed
around the officers and the bullets are sent
in every direction as fast as they can
travel. In the “extended order” on the
skirmish line it is possible for a man to
"hear himself think,” but with a line ex
tending rods away to the right and left,
and with a strong wind blowing, to say
nothing of the musketry, the officer's voice
cannot be equal to the emergency. So he
resorts to signals—visual, with his sword,
when smoke and landscape wall allow; oth
erwise with the bugle, or with a hoarse
whistle in the hilt of his sword.
Properly drilled soldiers of 1898 readily
interpret the signals. Those with the
sword are simple; those by the bugle or
whistle are combinations of long and short
blasts, as. for example, one long one,
"Halt!” Two long ones, “Forward!” Two
short ones and one long one, “To the
rear!” Two long ones and two short ones,
“Commence firing!” One long one and two
short ones, “Cease firing!” The noncom
missioned officer along the line, hearing
those signals, repeat the commands to the
men.
Aboard ship there also is a great econ
omy of vocal power. If the steel sides of
the vessel are not being pounded by shot
and shell, the officers can make themselves
heard between shots, but their words are
few. As for the men the experience ot
an observer aboard one of our vessels at
the destruction of Cervera’s fleet is to the
point. He said he expected to hear the men
rush to quarters with a yell and then cheer
as they saw the enemies discomforture. On
the contrarj' the only sound was the boom
of the guns, the men going on with their
work like silent machines.
Yet the human voice has its value. Who
shall say that it is any less than those
from metal throats? It comes when there
is a lull in the firing, when the bayonets
are fixed, when the men nerve themselves
and start forward at a run over the short
but shot-swept space between them and the
enemy—then the voice will make itself
heard —no rules or regulations ever could
prevent it if they tried. Seemingly it is
the shout that carries the men onward, up
ward over the breast works.
We heard considerable about that differ
entiation between the Southern cry and
the Northen cheer during the civil war.
The former was a high-keyed piercing yell,
the latter a deeper chested “Hurrah,” leav
ing out the word all but the vowel sound.
How do they sound now, blended? Ameri
ca’s foemen will never stop to tell.
ANDERSON-JORDAN.
Ex-City Attorney of Atlanta, Will be Mar
ried Here this Afternoon.
Miss Jennie Jordan and Judge James A.
Anderson, of Atlanta, will be married this
afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the residence
of Mr. J. G. Daughtry on High street.
The marriage will be very quiet, only
immediate members of the family bdng
present.
Miss Jordan is one of Atlanta’s most
beautiful young ladies and has many
friends who wish her joy. Miss Jordan is
a sister of Mrs. J. G. .Daughtry and was
much admired by her friends in the city.
Judge Anderson is the senior member cf
the law firm of Anderson, Felder & Davis,
of At.anta, and was for a number of years
| the city attorney.
Judge and Mrs. Anderson will leave over
the Central for Old Point Virginia Beach,
where they will, remain for some time.
UGLY CRIMINAL
Is Wanted by the Police, and Descriptions
Reach Macon.
Among the descriptions of “arrest and
hold for murfier” cases in the archives of
the police department is that of Frank
William Funk, notorious for the murder he
committed in Washington, D. C., June 23,
after which he robbed his aged victim of
$1,500, the savings of years.
Funk fled from the district, apparently
having escaped the penalty of the previous
charges of robbery, bigamy, and finally of
deserting from the United tSates army.
The police understood that the crime
that Funk committed was not a revolting
one. The man he killed was 73 years old,
and lived at No. 914, Twenty-second street,
Washington. His wife, 65 years of age,
was chopped in the head and robbed of
$1,500, though she was not killed.
Suspicion fell on Funk for committing
the crime, and after a search of the room,
he left the morning after the murder, the
<Mfleers found clothing belonging to him
covered with blood. This, coupled with his
sudden departure, made the case look bad.
Th Washington police got a wire from
the Mayor of'-Collinsville, 111., the other
day stating that Funk w r as in custody there.
A detective, together with a relative of the
murdered man, were sent, the relative go
ing for the purpose of identifying the pris
oner. The officers were congratulated on
the excellent Bertillion descriptions sent
out and the way the case was worked
while the whole district felt relieved that
one of the wmrst criminals for years had
been caught. The newspaper men sharp
ened their pencils for a continued story,
expecting the prisoner would soon be
brought baek. But when the detective and
relative reached Collinsville, they found
the man was not Funk. How such a mis
take could have been made In view of the
fine description of the man wanted, is
something officers seem not to understand.
Every mole, scar, their size, and a host of
unimaginable details, it is said render
such mistakes inexplicable.
The result is the Macon department still
have Funk's pedigree in the gallery and
are ready for him to steer this way.
CHEAPERWATER.
Chamber of Commerce Ap
points a Special Com
mittee to Adjust Rates,
As predicted in The News yesterday, the
Chamber of Commerce met yesterday af
ternoon and the report of the special com
mittee appointed to report on the water
rates charged in Macon was read to the
effect that the rate was too high and should
be reduced.
On motion of Mr. W. A. Doody the fol
lowing special committee was appointed
to co-operate with the city council of Ma
con and the Macon Gas Light and Water
Company with a view to securing a reduc
tion in the rates:
Calder B. Willingham, J. D. Stetson,
George A. Smith, S. S. Dunlap, Ben L.
Jones. N. M. Block and L B. Small.
The motion was passed and the commit
tee appointed.
During the meeting Mr. T. D. Tinsley,
the receiver of the company said that he
thought that the water rates as charged at
present are too high.
Mr. J. F. Hanson movtd for an Investiga
tion of the gas rate, which he said were
entirely too high, and the meeting took fa
vorable action on the suggestion.
No date has as yet been set for a meet
ing of the committees.
The Sure L:« <iripp<- Cure.
There is no use suffering from this
dreadful malady if you will only get the
right cure. You are having pain all through
your body, your liver is. out of'order, have
ao appetite, no life or ambbition. have a
bad cold —in fact, are used up. Electric
bitters is the only remedy that will give
you prompt and sure relief. They act di
rectly on your liver, stomach and kid
neys, tone up the whole system and make
you feel like a new being. They are guar
anteed to eure or prive refunded. For sale
at H. J I>amar & Sons’ drug store. Only
50c per bottle.
NO WISH TO
LYNCH TAYLOR.
People of the Warrior District
Defend Themselves Against
Williamson’s Statement.
Lizella, Ga.. July 25, 1898.
To the Editor Macon News— We the un
dersigned citizens of the Warrior district
that helped to capture Ab Taylor, ask per
mission to enter our protest against the
statement made by Mr. Ben Williamson
in the issue of your paper the loth and
16th instant.
First, we think you treated us very un
fairly when you call us a mob. We desire
to repudiate such an appellation. We were
not a mob, but a number of citizens of
Bibb county, desirous of upholding the
good name of our community. William?on
claims that the people around Lizella are
treating him unfairly about the matter
and that they are saying things about him
■which are untrue. We charge that Mr.
Williamson did harbor Ab Taylor. We
charge that M illiamson did do everything
in his power to prevent the posse from
catching Ab Taylor. Now as to the lifst
charge. Mr. AV illiamson admits that he
did harbor Taylor until Monday night,
giving as his reason for so doing that he
■wanted to protect Taylor from,a “mob.”
We deny absolutely that V illiamson ever
at any time nad reasonable grounds to be
lieve that anyone was trying to get up a
mob to lynch Ab Taylor. On the contrary,
as soon as we learned that Williamson was
making "the fear of lynching” as the ex
cuse for concealing Taylor we gave Wil
liamson and 'EH Taylor every assurance
that no one in the posse or in the com
munity around Lizella would take any
part in lynching or would allow anyone
else to do so.
Mr. Riley, deputy sheriff of Bibb county,
told Mr. Williamson on Tuesday that if he
would give bint (Riley) the necessary in
formation as to Taylor’s whereabouts that
he would pledge to Williamson his word
as a sworn officer of Bibb county to pro
tect Taylor's life‘with his own life if nec
essary, and also assured Williamson that
not a man in the community desired to
lynch Taylor. But Williamson positively
refused 'to give any information. And,
again, why does Mr. Williamson make
such desperate efforts to exculpate himself
after admitting the very offense we
charge him with.
Now, Mr. Editor, we think as citizens of
Bibb county we simply endeavored to do
our duty. We believed that awful crime
had been perpetrated. We believed that
every good citizen had a duty to perform.
After investigation we decided that Mr.
Williamson and Eli Taylor were harboring
Ab Taylor. We continued to look for Ab
Taylor on Williamson’s farm. On Tues
day morning, July 14th, 1898, we caught
Ab Taylor under a peach tree in William
son’s orchard. Therefore we believe that
we have proved our faith by our works.
Now as to the truth. We believe Mr. Wil
liamson was working for the reward that
he hoped 'to get. Taylor says that Wil
liamson was working to get a reward and
we believe that the hope of getting a re
ward was the actuating cause. Now, Mr.
Editor, we close by saying that We do not
blame Eli Taylor for helping his brother
We just ask to be set right and are willing
to refer the entire matter to the grand
jury.
W. S. Holley,
Wm. T. Bartlett,
G. W. Burnett,
J. F. Hamlin,
W. A. Hamlin,
J. W .Hamlin,
E. F. Newberry,
M. M. Newberry.
PATRIOTIcI) AY.
Celebration Will Be Big Fea
ture in the Carnival.
The latest feature of the big carnival and
diamond jubilee celebration, planned by
President Waxelbaum, is a “Patriotic”
day in which it is expected that all organ
izations in the city will take part in the
monster parade.
President Waxelbaum has appointed the
following committee:
Bridges Smith, chairman, Clem Phillips,
E. L. Martm, L. J. Kilburn, J »hn Nopn,
A. N. Kendrick, D. B. ’Woodruff, T. A.
Cheatham, John Hartz, Wm. J. Hopper.
COTTON FUTURES.
New York, July 26.—Futures opened
quiet. August 76, September 76, October
82, November 86, December 89, January 92,
February 96, March 6, April 604, May 608.
Last week of the Fire Sale
Rochester Shoe stock. Great
est bargains yet offered.
PRIVATE DANDY DEAD.
Atlanta, July 26—Jesse Fandy, private
of the Second Kentucky volunteer, died
at McPherson today of typhoid fever.
iRAPID FIRE GUNS.
Something About the Most Terrible Machine
of Destruction.
The new weapon about which one hears
the most during the present war is the so
called “rapid” or “quick-firing” gun. This
is especially the gun of today, since its
chief development has taken place within
the last ten years.
Os course, all guns which throw projec
tiles in rapid succession are quick-firing;
but a distinction is mafife between the ma
chine guns and the rapid-firing guns, the
former being literally machines having
many moving parts, which eo-opera'e to
throw a great many small shells in a very
brief period of time, and the latter being
simply single-shot guns, which use what
is termed “fixed” ammunition, that is to
say, instead of their being loaded at the
breach successively with a shell, and then
one or more cartridges, and finally pro
vided with a primer, whicn is ignited
when struck by the hamme r of the ’oek,
they have their projectile, charge and
primer all combined, just as in the ordi
nary revolver or sporting small arm. and
hence but one operation is necessary in
loading.
But as compared with the little metallic
cartridge of one’s pistol, the load of a t.ig
quick-fire gun is rather gigantic For a
gun of a caliber of five inches the com
bined projectile and case measure nearly
four feet in length and weighs about 95
pounds, while for the six-inch guns the
total weight of the complete cartridge is
about 135 pounds.
Fixed ammunition saves time in loading,
and still more time is saved in arranging
the door in the breach of the gun, which
is closed after the charge Is put in, so that
it can be very rapidly opened and shut by
means of hand levers; and. lastly, the gun
itself is so supported that it cag be trained
quickly upon its target. So that the
“quickness" depends first, upon the fact
that you put in the whole charge at once,
instead of in separate parts; second, upon
the celerity with which the breach can be
opened and closed, and, third, upon the
ease in pointing.
On board ship the quick-fire guns form
the principal part of what is known as the
secondary battery. Thus the lowa in her
main battery carries four 12-inch, eight
8-inch and six 4-inch guns, and in her
secondary battery one 26-pounder and four
1-pounder quick-fires. They are used to
destroy the ends of vessels, which are pro
tected only over their boilers and engines,
to disable unshielded guns and gun ma
chinery, and with the machine guns they
are the great safeguard against attacks of
torpedo-boats; for it is well demonstrated
that these light craft are powerless when
confronted with a concentrated hall of
quick-fire projectiles.
Last week of the Fire Sale
Rochester Shoe stock. Great’
est bargains yet offered.
Color I’hnloCTMpny,
Artists In photegrnpliv-wlli he interred
in a statornont made tn The Engineer,
London, Hint Arthur W. Clayden, fellow
of the Royal Meteorological “oeiety and
head of the college at Exc-t-t, exhibited in
a reoent lecture <_n nographing meteor
ological phenomena asoine lantern slide
views of clouds taken by him after a proc
ess recently invented by him —photo
graphs showing beautiful* bl ties in all their
clouds, from ultra marine down to i>erfeet
whit.', various grays and some iron red
and greenish tints. The revolutionizing
feature of the Clayden procetss consists in
the fact that these colored photographs
are positives—that is according to the
statement given out ho has succeeded in
obtaining colored prints by a purely chain
ical way of developing the same on a spe
cially prepared plate. The process at pres
ent is restricted to lantern slides, but
these are not colored by painting, but by
development, while colored paper prints
loom up distinctly in the near future.
Bright red rays, the inventor says, have
so far escaiH'd him, hut he believes that
further ex[>erlmentsand probably a longer
development will realize the mastery of
that defect. As an intermediary stage be
tween plate prints and paper printing,
ivory or thin celluloid plates have been
suggested.
Wang Unbuttoned.
Mr. Wang, who has charge of the Tien
tsin telegraph office, was so unfortunate
recently as to delay transmitting an im
perial decree destined for a southern vice
roy. This misdemenor having been re
ported to Viceroy Wang, the unlucky man
ager was hauled over the coals in his
senior officer’s presence, who also sternly
asked whether he (Mr. Wang) were not
ashamed to still retain the button on his
official hat after having been guilty of
such a serious misdemeanor. Upon this
Mr. Wang humbly took oil his official hat
—all this time, be it remembered, being
in a kneeling positi<m—and penitently
unscrewed his buttoCTrom the pinnacle
of his conical hat, having done which both
hat and button were gently placed on the
floor, the wearer not daring yet to place
his shorn hat upon the shot usually re
served for it by its owner. As soon as the
viceroy considered Mr Wang had received
sufficient kneeling punishment he told
him to clear out, promising at the same
time that the ease would be at once re
ported to the throne and the delinquent
denounced. —North China Herald.
India’s Supply of Men May Be Depleted.
We are again compelled to protest
against the nonchalant manner in which
many home newspapers persist in assum
ing that the Punjab contains an inex
haustible supply of fighting men, able and
Willing to undertake the defense of any
portion of the British empire. The offend
er in the present instance is The Spectator,
which airily assumes that “we can garri
son Wci-llai-Wei with 10,000 picked Sikhs
qiid, Afridis on special pay.” This is not
the first occasion on which The Spectator
has helped—of course through Jack of pre
cise information--to mislead the British
public into the belief that the Punjab is
Capable of producing army after army, not
only for Indian service, but. for permanent
duty beyond the seas. It is time that it
was clearly Understood that there are lim
itations to the possibilities of recruiting
in. the Punjab, as w<4l as in England, and
that those iimirations preclude any pros
pect of raising an indefinite number of e
regiments for service in the far east and
in Africa.- Times of India.
HALF GENT fl WORD.
Miscellaneous.
MR, g. \V. CASON, of Augusta, will open
his dancing school tonight at Ocmul
gee park where the pupils will have a
delightful time, being several degrees
cooler than in the city Mr. Cason
takes this method rff teaching at Oc
mulgee park for its cool and pleasant
location during the month of August.
NOTICE—-Attend executor’s sale of house
hold effects, kitchen furniture, car
pets, rugs, etc., at Col. H. J. Lamar’s
late residence, July 28th.
W® will sell at auction July 28th at CoT
H. J. Lamar’s late residence, Vine
vine, all the household effects, kitchen
furniture, live stock, vehicles, etc. H.
J. Lamar and W. D. Lamar, executors.
SALE of furniture, carpets, rugs, bric-a
brac, pictures, crockery, silverware
tableware, etc., will begin July 28th
and continue until all are sold.
WANTED—By a man wh« knows the city
well, ! a position as drummer for a
first class grocery house. Best of ref
erences. Address P. K., Evening
News,
WE. will sell Saturday, July 30th, at*Col
H. J. Lamar’s 'late residence in Vine
ville live stock, vehicles, corn, oats,
fodder and hay, harness, etc. H. J.
Lamar, W. D. Lamar, executors.
DON’T forget to atend sale of live stock
at Col. Lamar’s residence, July 30th.
at 9 a. m.
SALE of property belonging to estate" of
H. J. 'Lamar will (begin July 28th 9
a. m.
FOR SALE —3 small farms, close in, of
25, 50 and 100 acres respectively, at
S2O per acre. High and level, fine land
for truck and fruit farming. L. W.
Hol I'ings worth.
W. A. GOODYEAR, carriage, buggy and
wagon shop. Horse shoeing, fine paint
ing. Repairing of scales a specialty
45J, 455 Poplar street.
LOST —Monday evening between the Em
pi re and Fair stores two shirt waist
sets, black. The finder will be liber
ally rewarded by returning the same
to Mrs. M. A. Walter, No. 2345 Second
street.
GET our prices on iron or steel fence. The
latest and most up-to-date patterns.
A postal card will get our illustrated
catalogue.. Central City Marble and
Granite Works.
FOR RENT —Three large rooms with bath
room and pantry. Good’ location and
will rent cheap. Apply J. H., care
News.
I WILL give music lessons for one year
free to the first two girls who will
get me six music pupils each. A grad
uate with honor and medal from the
most conservatory south. Charges rea
sonable. Address or come to 229 Tatt
nall street, Macon.
NOW is the time to have your iace cur
tains laundered. Mrs. Ryder, near
Crump’s park, does the very best work.
All curtains laundered at only 25 cents
per window.
WANTED—For a family of four, board
with a private family, or three fur
nished rooms close in, suitable for
light housekeeping. Address A. 464
Plum street.
Hurdah for Dewey. Have his or any other
picture you want framed or enlarged
first class, but mighty cheap. Do you
want a beautiful hall, dining room or
parlor picture? I have ’em. Also breast,
scarf or hair pins, rings, cuff and col
lar buttons. If so remember Migrath’s,
558 Mulberry street, opposite Hotel
Lanier.
AGENTS WANTED—For war in Cuba bj
Senor Quesada, Cuban representativi
at Washington. Endorsed by Cuban
patriots. In tremendous demand Z
bonanza for agents. Only $1.50 BL
book ,big commissions. Everybody
wants the only endorsed, reliable book
Outfits sent free. Credit given. Freigh'
paid. Drop all rtash and make $3Ol
* rnontfi with War in Cuba. Address
today, THE NATIONAL BOCK CON
CERN. 152-856 Dearbora «ti -at. Obi
W. IIL
The only
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HUYLER’S.
Sc Id by
H. J.Lamars Sons
City Baggage Transfer Co
Prompt celiveiy of buggape to and from all depots.
OfH<e next door Southern Express Co.
W. H. ARNOLO, Manager.
518 Fourth St. Phone 20.
25 Per Cent Oil
s i z We Can’t Make
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We Can’t Emphasize
The Fact Too Much... z i s
That we will turn our splendid stock of
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Will do it. We offer for your inspection a fine stock. If
you contemplate •anything in the Clothing liue you can’t
afford to ignore this.
BENSON & HOUSER,
The Up=to=Date Clothiers, Macon, Cia
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