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THE MACON NEWS
ESTABLISHED 1834.
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Oh what* a dnfference in the morning!
Tonight the king will die. Long live the
king. , . .
The carnival will go out in a blaze of
glory.
Mutual are strictly In
order.
Macon has wk>n the aprobation of the
whole state.
Bridges Smith and Nat Winship handled
the revel to perfection.
Every day has been Macon’s day, but
this one more particularly.
The Trades .Display yesterday surprised
the croakers and Siileniced the ravens.
The chairman of the finance committee
of the Macon Carnival Association is all
amities tonight, and you know what that
means.
Governor Tanner, of Illinois, is a flannel
mcuthed Republican, a freedom shrieker
sitting high in the amen corner of the Re
, publican temple.
If this fight bet vetn the sugar trust and
the independent interests keeps on any
length of time, the people will probably
get back some of the money they paid the
trust.
Atlanta has sent a host of visitors to the
great Macon Carnival. Atlanta congratu-
Ites her sister city on her seventy-fifth
birthday and the splendid style in which
she is celebrating it. —Atlanta Journal.
Hiram P. Bell, who was once a member
of congress from the Ninth district of
Georgia, has just been elected to the legis
lature from Forsyth county. He was the
opponent of Hon. Emory Speer in the
mountains and <twice ran for congress
against the young independent. The last
race found Speer 4,000 votes winner.
The Adula remains uhsold. The evi
dences go to show that the honorable court
is not so good a judge of the value of mer
chant vessels as it is of points of law'.
Meantime it remains to be shown that New’
York is a better market for ships than
Savannah. Had the Adula been offered for
sale at that port to the highest bidder, she
would have been sold for a good round
figure, and she would not be “eating her
head off" in expenses.
Mr. W. T). Bynum, recently manager of
the gold faction of the Democratic party,
has taken the stump for the Republican
party In lowa. Mr. Bynum declares that
the attitude of the Democratic party in
respect tb silver has driven him into the
Republican party. It will not be forgotten
meanwhile, that Mr. Bynum did not change
his political affiliation until his salary as
manager of the “gold Democracy” had
been discontinued. —Savannah News.
Millions of feet of lumber go to waste
every year in the form of sawdust. There
are thousands of saw mills in the country,
and each of them produces daily from ten
to 500 or more tons of the waste product.
Many mills burn all of the sawdust they
can under their boilers, but with most of
them getting rid of the accumulation is a
matter of annoyance and expense. Mr.
Victor L. Emerson, a Baltimore inventor,
claims to have perfected an apparatus and
a process by which sawdust is given a
' value of about S3O a ton—about the value
of high grade gold quartz.
The gratifying information comes from
Washington 'that the administration will
recommend to congress the revival of the
grade of admiral and the promotion to that
rank of Rear Admiral Dewey. Secretary
Long makes this positive announcement
and the dual proposition is said to be in
dorsed by President McKinley. As, under
existing laws. Dewey will reach the re
tiring age in December of next year, there
is a strong probability that Secretary Long
will also ask and urge congress to pass a
law permitting his retention upon the ac
tive list for an additional ten years.
There is certainly too much manana in
the Spanish evacuation of Cuba. It has
been two months since peace was declared
ind Spain formally agreed to “abandon
Porto Rico and Cuba immediately," yet it
has to this day large armies on both is
lands. especially so in Cuba. It also still
has possession of the eagital cities of both
islands and controls their commerce and
trade. President McKinley stated long ago
that he would permit no temporizing, and
still the Dens seem to act about as they
please. The probability is that such ac
tio:;—or inaction —by our government is
fostering a spirit in the Spaniards which
may cause us additional trouble.
If Chaplain Nave, of Fort McPherson.
Atlanta, continues to hold his job it will
be a wonder. His appeal to the public for
clothing for convalescent soldiers at the
fort is simply preposterous. It is beyond
belief that this government, rich and Dem
ocratic as it is, would turn its soldiers out
of the hospital naked. It would be difficult
for him or anybody else to convince the
public that the army affairs are so tied up
with red tape that well soldiers are com
pelled to lie abed because the government
is tardy about giving them something with
which to hide their nakedness. The chap
lain’s appeal is calculated to bring the de
partment into disrepute.—Savannah News.
Gigantic Inoustrv.
The government treasury bureau of sta
tistics issued compiled figures, the first of
the present month, showing the extent of
the tin plate industry in this country,
figures fell under the eyes *of almost all
newspaper readers in the country. To the
average reader, however, they had but lit
tle interest. The column or two devoted to
the statistical statements taken from the
report were pot intelligent to the mass of
readers—not nearly so much so as the very
brief statement that prior to 1891 tin plate
was not manufactured 'in this country, and
America drew her supply from Wales; to
day there are seventy tin plate concerns in
the United States, representing in buildings
and equipments. •$25,100,000 ( sumat d) a-d
employing 21,000 men, who, from the
American billet turn oift bright, shining
tin plate valued at $21,500,000 (estimated)
this year, and that w'hile this ‘industry is
the child of a tariff which free traders in
sisted on calling a tax, ithe price has stead
ily declined until to day tin plate is selling
at 2.2 cents per pound, against 3.5 cents a
pound in 1891, a decline of 1,3 cents in the
seven years and this under a tariff.
Few Americans realize the extent of lth«=
tin plate industry of the nation. Figtires
submitted in the government report do not
iglve the uninitiated an intelligent idea.
There ‘is no industry today in the United
States that has experienced so wonderful a
growth an tin plate. More m°n are em
ployed today in turning out tin plate than
are employed in the window’ glass plants
of the nation. More w'ages are paid out to
day to tin plate workmen in this country
than are paid oult by the tin plate manu
facturers of Wales. Wales has been build
ing her industry for decades, and she has
480 mills—about 125 plants; the United
Spates has b c en bnildinz her industry sev n
years, and today has 305 mills —.forty-five
plants—and an auxiliary of twenty-five
It inninc plants, making the output equal to
450 mills. The figures ‘given for this na
tion include a half dozen plants which are
now* under contsruction and will be in op
eration before the present year expires.
The information concerning the number
of mills in Wales cames through William
Williams & Sons, of Swansea, Wales, a
concern which has for years been the
greatest tin producer in the world.
A Qr|o> ri.r P"hl>'”?tion t
“The Southland” is the title of one of she
handsomest and most meritorious railway
publications ever published in this country.
It ‘ls dedicated “to the people of the Souta
by the Southern Railway Company, whose
interests 'are identical -with those of the
states traversed by its lines.” The pur
pose of the volume, which is indeed an
“edition de luxe,” is to portray the ad
vancement of the empire of the South,
which “'has been one of the grandest and
most noteworthy movemenlts in the indus
trial and commercial history of the
world.” It is quite evident that expense
cut no figure in the publication of the
work. The binding is artistic, while the
letter-ipress 'is em'belished with several
hundred half-tone illustrations, many of
them gems in their way. The written mat
ter is far above the average in merit. Most
of the industrial sketches are dry read
ing, consisting chiefly of musty facts and
'tiresome statistics. In this instance, how
ever, tie ground .has been covered with dis
tinct literary ability. No essential facts
or statistics have been omitted, but they
have all been so skilfully interwoven that
the complete narrative makes an attrac
, tive, readable, instructive story. The state
of Georgia is liberally trealted in the book;
being given some twenty-two pages and
nearly a hundred 'illustrations. The publi
cation was edited and compiled by Mr.
Frank Presbrey.
More War Clouds.
It was Bismarck (a peacemaker who al
ways attached a String to bis- coinages)
who dubed Premier Salisbury: “A lath
painted to resemble steel.” While it is
true that at one period it would seem as
though the Bismarckian designation was
not inapt, it is ‘clearly apparent that of
late Salisbury has displayed exceptional
1 firmness 'in his diplomatic utterances.
In the Fashoda Blue Book, just out, he
plainly tells France that 'at the risk of war
she must not claim color of right to occupy
any part of the Nile Valley. The premier
declares that the operations of General
Kitchener placed all the territories of
Khalifa Abdullah, 'by right of conquest, in
the hands of the British and Egyptian
governments.
The situation, w'hile not critical, is grave.
Salisbury cannot recede. France will not
admit his contentions. The “Thunderer,”
: in its 'leading editorial, seems to regard the
. situation as alarming.
Two facts ’conspire to make ‘a declara
tion of hostilities not improbable: The
French army wants war—war of any kind,
• and with any* nation, excluding Russia.
I And Salisbury, (hoping that the United
States and Japan will be back of him,) has
become more combative than at any stage
of his official career.
in G 'rmanv.
The present would seem to be a good
time for the United States to press for a
readmission of American swine in Ger
many.
Meetings are being held all over Germa
ny to complain of the scarcity and dear
ness of meat. From April 1 to August 31
of the current year 27,700 fewer hogs were
slaughtered in Berlin than in correspond
ing months of last year. At Hamburg the
decrease is from 2,000 to 3,000 per week.
At Spandau, where the population is 90
I per cent artisan, the supply of schwiene
fleiech has fallen off 30 per cent.
Nor is 'the decrease in pork made up by
l an added supply of bee/. On the contrary,
Hamburg’ reports from 200 to 500 fewer
cattle per week; and at Stettin the supply
has fallen off 25 per cent.
The lack of meat is causing serious dis
content throughout Germany, and the oc
casion apears opportune for reopening
with the German government the ques
, tion of the American hog.
The carnival shows what can be done by
United effort on the part of the people of a
‘ community.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
MACON NEWS FRIDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 14 iftob
| Only a Few More Left j
Those odd sizes of $6.00 Patent Leather Shoes that we offered at $2.00 yesterday 3
went like hot cakes among hungry soldiers. We have a few more left, however, which 2
we will part with at the same price. If you wear a6, 6%, 7,7%, or 8, you can strike a 5
bargain with us today. But be sure you come today, as they might be gone. 2
| There Are More Great Values. |
Remember we are selling out our entire stock at a sacrifice on account of our recent
fire. a n ci there are hundreds of different kinds of shoes which you can buy of us at a reduc
tion of more than and <SO per cent. zzrj
| Ladies’ Men’s and Children’s Shoes, |
both in fine and medium grades, go at these prices. None of them were hurt by the fire, 3
XT an a as go »d as those fresh from the factories. We had some goods slightly injured,
ZZ. but the prices we are selling them at make them rare values.
g Don’t Put Off Buying. 1
You’ll never have such an opportunity again in a lifetime. If you, your wife or :3
vour chi dren need shoes, it would be economy and good judgment to buy while they aie 3
so cheap.
g REMEMBER THE PLACE ft
H Third Street and Bargain Lane. Phone Biq
The South is Prosperous.
To inquiries sent by the New York Jour
nal of Commerce to leading bankers
throughout “the cotton belt’’ of the United
Slates that paper prints a number of re
plies:
“1. Does the present low price of cotton
seriously threaten the prosperity of the
Sotfth ?
“2. Has there been generally, or in spe
cial sections, any reduction in the cost of
raising cotton? If so, to whac extent?
“3. Are there any other offsets to low
prices tor cotton?
“4. Can any profit be made by the plant
er on 5-cent cotton?
“5. Are general business conditions in
the South sound and promising?”
The concurrent testimony is (1) that the
South is prosperous notwithstanding 5-cent
cotton: (2) that the cost of raising cotton
has been reduced greatly in the last two
decades; (3) that farming has been diver
sified so that cotton largelj’ is becoming a
“surplus crop”; (4) that there is still some
slight profit, to the farmer even on 5-cent
cotton, and 15) that general business con
ditions in the South are encouraging.
The invariable report is that the South
never was in better condition, with debts
smaller and fewer, and money less scarce.
Frank Hawkins, president of the Atlanta
Clearing House Association, makes the
following striking statement:
“If the South could have got 7 cents for
this crop, it would have been •like the West
getting a dollar a bushel for wheat. Had
this crop brought 7 cents, New York could
not have loaned the South a dollar next
year.”
This is good news from the South and
’hows that that section of the United
States, like all the others, is succeeding in
its training for the great struggle for pos
session of the world’s markets, which
struggle the new century must be expected
to usher in.
Our Sins Find Us Out.
The Canton tragedy is exceptionally to
be deplored, for the reason that it indi
rectly invaded the house in the land.
Analagously, the lesson should be excep
tionally significant and impressive. The
Post of Cincinnati says: All through the
centuries comes the warning: “The wages
of sin is death.” To George D. Sa.xton there
came a literal death. For Mrs. George the
remnant of her life holds naught but
anguish. Like Hardy’s unfortunate Tess,
the Fates have had their sport wfith her.
She will learn that while society may pity
it also punishes. The people of Canton are
not stocked by the assassination, as are
thoes who dwell without that city. • The
Cantonians were prepared for it. They
knew the must come. Those who
by their daily deeds affront -the social or
der and the moral symmetry must beware
the ax. It may be slow in falling, but it
falls at last.”
The work of the Mhcon fire department
on the fire on Wednesday night deserves
greateh praiise than was possible to accord
it during the rush of the carnival report
yesterday. The public is not generally
aware of the fact that the whole of the
lower portion of the city was threatened
and that the magnificent judgment dis
played in handling the fire is due an im
mense amount of property values. Macon’s
fire department is equal to any in the coun
try.
Reports of dead and wounded from the
battlefield of the gridiron have begun to
t come in.
8188 'COUNTY SHERIFF SALE. ,
Will be sold before the court house door
during the legal hours of sale, on the first
Tuesday in November next, the following
property, to-wit:
All that tract or parcel of land situated
and lying in the city of Macon, said Coun
ty, known as pant of lot four, square sev
enty-six; said tract commencing at a
point on Second street at the line between
the lot herewith conveyed and the lot of
Charles J. Toole, said point being fifty-two
feet, five inches from the alley”; extending
through said square seventy-six feet from
Second to Third street, in a southwesterly
direction fifty-two and five inches; thence
extending back at right angles to Second
street with even width of fifty-two feet
and five inches, a distance of one hundred
and twenty-five (125) feet. Said property
levied on as the property of James A.
Toole to satisfy a fi fa. issued from city
court of Macon in favor The Appleton
Church Home vs James A. Toole.
Auso at the same time and place, all
that tract or parcel of land situated, ly
ing and being in the city of Macon, said
county and state, and known in the plan
of said city as partes of lots numbers one
and two (land 2), in square ninety-one,
according to Boardman’s map of said city,
•being on the corner of Third and Arch
streets, metes and bounds as follows: Be
ginning at the corner of Third and Arch
streets, running thence along the line of
Arch street, 94 feet, 'thence at right angles
in a northwest direction 85 feet and 3
inches to the line of the Harbum 10-t-;
thence at right angles 4 feet and six inches
to the line of Knowles lot: thence at right
angles along the line of Knowles lot in a
southwest direction 45 feet, 6 inches to
Third street; thence along the line of
Third street 39 feet 9 inches to corner of
Third and Arch streets, the beginning
point. Said property levied on as the
property of J. L. Anderson, administrator
of the estate of Uriah L. Williams, to sa
tisfy a fi fa. issued frotn the city court of
Macon in favor of Southern Home Build
ing and Loan Association vs. J. L. An
derson, admistrator of the estate of Uriah
L. Williams.
Also -at the same time and place, all
that lot or tract of land situated in the
Godfrey district of said county, and being
part of sub-division nine( 9) of lot No.
34, Macon reserve, west of the Ocmulgee
river, and being one hundred and five feet
square, adjoining lands of Elijah Hender
son, Nat Stanford and Jerry Jordan, and
fronting an alley. Said land situated in
i the rear of the Gray property, and being
same land as recorded in Record of Deeds
A. J., folio 331. Said property levied on
as the property of Willis Sandford to sat
isfy a fi fa. issued from city court of Ma
con in favor of Mrs. D. Q. Abbott vs Wil
lis Sandford.
Also, at the same time and place, that
'tract or parcel of land in the Vineville
district of Bibb county, Georgia, known as
a portion of the Sherman lands on .the
Central railroad, west and near city of
Macon, being part of lot No. 12, and
bounded north by said railroad, east by
lands of Missouri Hawkins, south and west
| by lands of Henry Pratt, being same land
l deeded to Maggie Pratt by Americus Per
i kins, recorded in Record of Deeds No. 65.
folio 360, and containing one-fourth of an
acre. Said property levied on as the
property of Maggie L. Pratt to satisfy a
fi fa. issued from city court of Macon in
favor Merchants’ and Mechanics Building
and Loan Association vs. Maggie L. Pratt.
Also, at the same time and place, one
undivided half interest in that tract or
parcel of land with improvements there
on. known as lot number four (4), square
twenty-two (22), according to the original
plan of the city of Macon, in the county
of Bibb, and state of Georgia, being the
lot upon which is located the one-story
frame building known as Taylor’s dntg
store, corner of Second and- Cherry
streets, and being the property which
Asher Ayers conveyed to Mrs. Louisa G.
Ayers on the 10»th day of Nevember. 1896,
in a deed recorded in the clerk’s office
of Bibb superior court, in book 88, page
209, on 'Nevember llbh, 1896. Levied on as
the property of Mrs. Louisa G. Ayers, .ad
ministratrix of Asher Ayers, to satisfy a
fi fa. issued from city court of Macon in
favor of L. P. Hillyer, cashier, vs. Mrs.
■Louisa G. Ayers, administratrix Asher
Ayers.
Also aX the same time and place, one
farm lying in a body, in Rutland district
of Bibb county, Ga., consisting of all of
land . lot number two hundred and ten
(210), except forty-five acres in the north
east corner owned by Mrs. Cook, twenty
acres in the southwest corner of lot num
ber two hundred and twenty-seven (227)
and seventy-seven (77) acres in the nor
thern part of lo<t number two hundred and
twenty-eight (228), except two acres with
house thereon, now occupied by stat'on
agent of the Georgia, Southern an.l Flori
da railroad in the northwest corner of
said twenty acre tract; said farm contain
ing .two hundred and twenty-two '222)
acres, and being the same as bought by
said Joseph H. Hall <at public sale of Ma
con 'Construction Company. Sai 1 p-operty
levied on as the property of Joseph H.
Hall to satisfy a fi fa. issued from city
court of Maeci in favor of Scottisn-Am< r
ican Mortgage Company, limited, etc., vs.
Joseph H. Hall.
Also, at the same time 'and place, one
farm lying in the fourth or Rutland dis
trict of Bibb county, Ga., consisting of 98
acres of east part of lot No. 200; said farm
bounded on the north by other lands of
said Carloss,east by lands of James White
sides, south by lands of Mrs. Martha Lan
caster, and west by Southwestern rall.e id.
Levied on as the property of J. E. Car
loss to satisfy a fi fa. issued from the uty
court of Macon in favor Scottish-American
Mortgage Company, limited, vs. J. E. Car
loss.
Alsa, at the same time and place. on°
laundry wagon, made by the National
Wagon Company, Marion, Ohio, and let
tered Crescent Steam Laundry. 'Said wa
gon levied on as the property of R. E.
Urquhart to satisfy a fi fa. issued from
city court of Macon in favor of National
Wagon Company vs. R. E. Urquhart-.
Also, at the same time and place, one
single buggy, ball bearing, one bay horse,
about ten years old; two roller top desks,
tw’o common desks, one iron safe, made
by Cany Safe Company; one .Remington
typewriter, one double seated tran, two
single and one double sets harness, one
pair Howe cotton scales. Levied on as the
property of B. H. Ray to satisfy a dis
tress warrant in favor of Mrs. F. E. Con
ner vs. B. H. Ray.
Also, at the same time and place, one
black house, about 12 years old, named
Charley; one bay mare, about 6 years old.
named 'Beaut: one black mule, about 8
years old, named Ella. Said property
levied on as the property of M. L. Baze
more to satisfy a fifa. issued from city
court of Macon in favor of F. O. Scho
field vs. W. P. Bracken, principal, and W.
L. Bazemore, surety.
L. B. HERRINGTON,
Deputy Sheriff Bibb County.
8188 COUNTY SHERIFF SALES.
Will be sold before the court house door,
in the city of Macon, during the legal
hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in
November next, the following property:
Two shares of the capital stock of the
Bibb Real Estate and Improvement Com
pany, a corporation having its principal
and only place of business in the county
of Bibb. The said stock standing on the
books ofsaid company In the name or
Harr.v Burns. Have mailed notice of
‘levy to Harry Burns at Jacksonvile. Fla.,
and banded in person notices to H. T.
Rowell, president, and R S. Collins, sec
retary and treasurer of said company.
Levied on as the property of Harry Burns
to satisfy a fi fa. issued from city court
of Macon in favor of W. A. Dewberry,
trustee, etc., vs. Harry Burns.
Also, at rhe same time and place, all
that tract and parcel of land situated in
’ Bibb county, and known according to plat
and survey of record in book of plats 83,
! folio 2, known as lot No. 3, in block 50.
favor of W. H. Ashworth vs. L. N.
' Chailie.
• to satisfy a fi fa. issued from justice court
: 596 district G. M., of Monroe county, in
■ favor of W. . Ashworth vs. L. N. Chailie.
Also, at the same time and place, an
I undivided interest in half acre of land in
i 'Bibb county, on the corner of Jenkins and
i Hill streets, in the Godfrey district, with
i houses thereon; bounded as follows: On
j two sides by Jenkins and Hill streets, and
|on two other sides by lot formerly
owned by W. E. Jenkins, and one
j owned by J. B. Mathews. Levied on as i
i the property of Miss Mattie R. Couse, en- |
dorser, to satisfy a fi fa. issued from I
Bibb superior court in favor of Mrs.
Knight vs. Mrs. E. A. 'Couse, maker, and
• Mattie R. Couse, endorser.
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Ateo at the same time and place, that
; lot situated in the city of Macon, Bibb
j county, which was formerly occu ; ied by
I Robert Findlay, and known in plan of said
i city as lot 'No. 7, block 81. House No. 759
I on the street on which said property fronts
and bounded as fellows: On the east by
Spring street, west by a ten-foot alley,
north by property of Merkel and south by
property of 'Cornell. Levied on as the
property of W. A. McNeil to satisfy a fi
fa. issued from Bibb superior court in fa
vor of Lull? Lockett vs. W. A. McNeil.
Also at the same time and place, t o
parcels of land in Bibb county, one par
cel being part of lo.t one, in square twen
ty-four, in rhe plan of the city of Macon,
fronting on Cherry street 95 feet and run
ning back equal width 106 feet, on Fifth
| street; the other tract being in Vineville
l district, said county, and being part of
. old Bone place, and commencing on east
| side of lot conveyed to Thomas R. Ayers
iby Magistrate Flynn, then along Vine
! ville avenue 30 feet, or a sufficient dis
tance to take in the west half of wall of
said Ayer’s storehouse, and running back
same width 100 feet, and being property
conveyed by Thomas R. Ayers to W. N.
Fleetwood by deed recorded in book A.
J., folio 656, clerk’s office, Bibb superior
court. Levied on as the property of W.
N. Fleetwood to satisfy a fi fa. issued
from Pulaski superior court in favor of
P. K. Dedrick vs. W. N. Fleetwood.
G. S. WESTCOTT, Sheriff.
PULLMAN CAR LINE '
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BETWEEN
Cincinnati, Indianapolis, or
Louisville and Chicago and
THE NORTHWEST.
Pulman Buffet Sleepers on night trains.
Parlor chairs and dining cars on day
trains. The Monon trains make the fast
est time between the Southern winter re
sorts and the summer resort* cf the
Northwest.
W. H. McDOEL, V. P. & G. M.
FRANK J. REED, G. P. A.,
Chicago, 111.
For further particulars address
R. W. GLADING, Gen. Agt
Thomasville. Ga.
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