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in $m What is Going on in Our So cial World. PARTIES ANO PASTIMES. Receptions, Teas, Cards and All Manner of. Pleasant Doings- Marriages and Debutantes. .On November 30th at the residence of the bride at Coleman, South Carolina, Mr. William Milton Rodgers, of Macon, Ga., was married to Miss Eleanor Wallace Coleman, daughter of the late Col. Andrew J. Coleman, Rev. W. J. Winn, of the Methodist church officiating. The bride, is a member of a wealthy and prominent S’outh Carolina family, and Mr. Rogers was a resident of this city for years, and has many friends to congratulate him. •Ir. and Mrs. Rodgers will make their homo in Macon after February Ist, where tie will again engage in business here. • • • The reception given Mrs. Roland Ellis in 'Atlanta is described in the Atlanta Journal as : t “One of the pleasant events of the past Week was the card party given Tuesday afternoon by Mrs. T. B. Felder in honor of Mrs. Roland Ellis, of Macon. The house itself added a charming wel come to that of the hostess, in the deco rations of palms and chry-sthansernums it wore in honor of the occasion; also in the many candelabra with their pink ta pers and in 'the glowing Japanese lanterns pendant at the folding doo re. The pleasant game ended in the follow ing distribution of the prizes: A cut-glass cream pitcher and sugar bowl, Mrs. John Clarke; a Rosewood vase, Mrs. Clark Howell, Sr,. and a lovely traveling case for a sartchel—celluloid tipped with silver Mrs. Roland Ellis. In the elegant refreshments served at he close of the game there was noticeable the unique ices frozen in rhe shapes of hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades.’’ • ♦ • The lAtlanta Journal has the following about Miss Caroline Lewis Gordon, the daughter of General John B. Gordon, who was the admired guest of Mrs. William McEwen Johnston last winter: Miss Caroline Gordon will spend the winter north, studying voice culture. Gifted by nature with a voice of unusually sweet tone. Miss Gordon has determined to study seriously with a view to filling a position in a. church choir. lHer friends {feel sure that she will be one of those sweet singers who make church music such a pleasure. Besides this particular branch of study ’Miss Gordon will enter into, a field here tofore altogether neglected. She has the wonderful gift of imitating the negro dia lei : and mannerisms, and while with her di.-i inguished father in Washington on several occasions entertained guests at. a genuine “Southern evening,’’ during which she would sing the old-time darky melo dies and tunes, dancing and patting 'time in the peculiar darky manner, and all with a distinctive modesty and grace. Those evenings added to Miss Gordon’s reputation as one of the entertaining hos tesses in the corterie of Southern women at the capital. ’ll goes without saying that Miss Gor don’s success is already .assured, and her friends are deeply interested. • • • The charming Miss lEtra Wallace Miller, of Atlanta, is visiting the family of her uncle, Mr. J. LeGrand Guerry. • • • Mrs. John B. Cobb has returned from \tlania, where shu visited her daughter. Mrs. William B. Lowe. Jr. Miss 'Mary 'Cobb is spending several weeks in Atlanta and will remain until after the Peace Jubilee. 'Mrs. Lowe will also entertain during that time Miss Nannie Dudley Pilcher, of Nashville. Tenn. Miss Pilcher is now in Atlanta, the guest of .Mrs. L. D. T. Quinby, and two weeks ago was one of an admired coterie of Nashville girls vis iting Mis. Neal at the Aragon. .Miss Pil cher will probably visit Macon before her return home. The following invitations hafe been re ceived by Macon friends of the contract ing parties: Mrs. Fannie Jones ( requests the honor of your presence at the marriage of her daughter, Mary Lizzie, to J. Norwood Davis. On Thursday afternoon. December the 15th eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, at one o'clock. t at her home, Twiggs County. Georgia. Mr. Davis is a nephew of Mr. W. A. Davis, one of Macon’s most esteemed citi zens. * Judge and Mrs. Emory Speer. Miss Ma rion Speer. Miss Sallie iSpeer and Mies Lulie Speer, have returned to Macon for the winter and arc at their Vineville home. The Cedars. * • ♦ Miss Martha Johnston and Miss Cleve land Smith leave tomorrow for Atlanta, where they will visit Mrs. T. B. Neal at the Aragon. Mrs. Neal is a noted hostess and both Miss Smith and Miss Johnston are already popular in Atlanta. • ♦ * The History Club met yesterday after noon at the residence of Mrs. Mallory Taylor and the meeting was interesting as usual. The topics for study was Henry I. of England and the questions were well prepared by Mrs. Robert Mumford. Mrs. Pollock was not present so that her paper ’’Simon de Montford and the Barons” was not read. The History Club’s study for this year is io be in English history a prettily arranged program for the year has been distributed to the members. The officers of the club are. Mrs. T. O. -Chestney. pres ident; Mrs. Mallory H. Taylor, vice presi dent; Mrs. E. J. Willingham, correspond ing and recording secretary; Mrs. F. F. Reese, treasurer. The next meeting will be January 2. 1899. The Progressive Euchre Club has been reorganized and the first entertainment to its members will be given by Mrs. J. Mar shal Johnston at her home. Hill Crest, next Thursday night. The club has thirty two members and is composed of married people exclusively. The reorganization means much in a society way, for this club was noted a few years ago for the lavish magnificence with which its mem bers occasion of a series of delightful card par ties. *, _ The news comes to us that a “kitched is the newest fad for an ante nup tia levent. It is another name for a dona tion party and was inspired by the cooking schools and cooking clubs so popular with society girls. The gifts to the bride elect are as the name indicates, all intended for kitchen use, and the idea is eminently more practical and less monotonous than the fashion of presenting the engaged girl with a cup and saucer or a souvenir spoon as has been the prevailing custom, and I have always thought that a kitchen should be well furnished first and the money that is left over be used for parlor chains in stead of the opposite plan as is often the case. The Cooking Club organized here a few years ago by Miss Mary Cobb, was one of the most enjoyable of the clubs that sea son, and is now none the less delightful for having changed its name to the Tues day Afternoon Club. Some of its members have already become brides and fine house keepers. but they have married before the “kitchen rush” came into notice and for them is left naught but regret and the I questionable pleasure of furnishing their . own kettles and pans. But for the others 1 who have not yet made fortunate men ■ happy for life, there may be something in I the new idea. It might be worth consider- ’ ing to reorganize the Cooking Club, having 1 an eye for business as well as fun, for as a bright woman who is justly prominent in literary and philanthropic club work, says After all the most appreciated art of the hour is culinary.” . No one can dispute the truth of this, and »t is proof that women’s club work and study have not injured their interest in housewefely matters. Indeed, if men would only believe it, the most prominent club women are as a rule the ones who preside over the best ordered establish ments. and more than that make the hap piest homes. FOR TAXPAYERS TO ANSWER The List of Searching Questions to be Submitted by Assessor. The house has adapted the following schedule of questions known as the Free man substitute, for the Georgia taxpayers to answer: Be it further enacted by the. authority ■aforesaid, That in returning property for taxes all property shall be relumed at its value; promissory notes, accounts, judgments, mortgages, liens cf all kinds, and all choses in action shall be given in at their value, whether solvent or partial ly insolvent. Every person shall return for taxes all jewelry and other property of every kind owned by 'his wife or minor children, unless the members of his family or her family return their property for taxation. In addition to the questions now propounded to taxpayers by the tax receivers questions shall be framed by the comptroller general to reach all poroperty upon which a tax is imposed by this act, and especially the following questions: 1. The number of horses, mules, oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats 'and all other ‘animals upon which a tax is imposed bj the law and state their value. 2. The kind and value of property owned by the wife and minor children of the. taxpayer aud not returned for taxes by the owner thereof. 3. flow many improved city or town lots did you own on the day fixed for the re turn of property for taxation? 4. In what city or town are thev locat ed? o. AVhat was the fair market value of each, stated separately? 6. How many unimproved city or town lots did you own on the day fixed for the return of property for taxation? 7. In what city or town are they lo cated? 8. What was the fair market value of each, stated separately? 9. How much money did you have on hand deposited in bank in this state on the day fixed for the return of property for taxation? 10. How much money did you have de posited -in banks out side of this state at said time? 11. How much money did you have de posited with merchants or other persons? 12. How much money did you have at said 'time not. deposited in bank or with ethers whether within or without this state? 13. How many notes, whether secured or ! insecured, solvent or insolvent, did you i own on the day fixed for 'the return of j property for taxation, including those within and those without this state, and I including those on persons, firms or cor porations within and without this state whether in the hands of yourself or agent or pledged as collateral? 14. What was the gross nominal value . thereof? What was the fair market value ' thereof? 15. Hew many accounts, whether > cured I or insecured, solvent or insolvent, did you ■ I own cn the day fixed for the return of property for taxation, including those. I within and those without this state, and ' including those on persons, firms pr cor porations within and without this state. ■ whether in the hands of yourself or agent , or pledged as collateral? 16. What was the gross nominal value thereof? 17. What was the fair market valued thereof? IS.How many judgments, fi. fas and exe- | cutions did you own on the day fixed for” the return of property for taxation. I whether within cr without this state, or whether against persons, firms or corpor ations within or without this state, and 1 whether within tfie bands of yourself cr agent cr attorney or pledged as collateral? 19. AVhat was the gross nominal value thereof? 20. What was the fair market value therof? , 21. How many bonds, including debent ures. issued by corporations in -this state did you own on the day fixed for the re turn of property for taxation? 22. What was the par or nominal value , thereof? 23. What was the fair market value thereof? , 24. How many bonds. Including debent- t tires, did you own issued by corporations without this slate on rtt- day fixed for ' the return of property for taxation? 25. What was the gro s nominal alue ' thereof? i 21. What was the hvr mark t valoe thereof? 2". How many count.- or municipal bonds, issued by counties and municipal ities of other states and of this state and MACON NEWS TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6 1898. bonds of other statue did you own on the day fixed for the return of property for taxation ? 28. What was the par or gross nominal | value thereof? 29. What was the fair market value thereof? 30. How many shares of stock did you own on the day fixed for the return of property for taxation issued by corpor ation* located within this state? 31. What was the gross nominal value thereof? 32. What was the fair market value thereof ? 33. How many shares of the stock did you own on the day fixed for rhe return of property for taxation, issued by cor porations within this state, the capital stock of which or the property of which is not returned by such for taxation? 34.. What was the gross par value there of? 35. What was the fair market value thereof? 36. What was the gross invoice cost, with freights added, of your stock of goods, wares and merchandise, including com mercial fixtures, on. the day fixed for the return of the property for taxation’ 37. What was the liar market value of same? Simply Gorgeous. My display of ladies' neckwear, hand kerchiefs and umbrellas for holiday pres ents. Clem Phillips. NOT CONVICTED. Miss Trial in the Case of Fayne Moore and Husband—Another Indictment. A New York special says: The jury in the Moore robbery trial be ing unable to agree were discharged at 12:50 a. m. by Recorder Goff on the grounds of a mistrial. They stood seven for conviction and five for acquittal. Attorney George Simpson, representing Abraham Levy, said that It was impossible for Mr. Levy to appear for the defendant before Monday next, owing to the number of cases that he had on hand. Recorder Goff agreed to this and the trial was set for 10:30 a. xn. on December 12th. Moore was very much dissatisfied at the verdict, as he confidently expected to be acquitted. Foreman Henry Cohen said that some of the members of the jury did not believe the testimony offered by some of the witnesses. W. A. E. Moore and Fayne Moore, his wife, were indicted on the charge of grand larceny in the second degree by the grand jury this afternoon on complaint of Man ager Boldt,,of the 'Waldorf-Astoria. De tective West, of the hotel, and a butler appeared as witnesses. They testified about the loss of a vase, silver tongs and a sil ver plate from the hotel about six weeks ago, while the Moores were staying there. The police say that the articles were found in Mrs. Moor’s trunk. It is understood that the district attorney will move the prose cution of these indictements promptly in case of a failure to seceure a conviction of Moore at the end of the next trial. Benjamin H. Hill, of Atlanta, Ga., who came to this city to represent Mrs. Fayne Moore, sail today at the Imperial hotel: i “I was surpr’sed to see die Jistrict at torney’s office take any steps regarding the report that the Moores had stolen sil ver from the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. To me it looks like wholesale persecution to ■order an indictment by the grand jury on such a report, especially when the hotel people have been satisfied that the silver found in the Moores’ trunk was not taken from the hotel by them. “It looks to me as if the prosecution can see that the present case against the Moores is falling through, owing to the very uncertain and contradictory evidence given b>- Martin Mahon on the witness stand, and -wants to g£t hold of something that w’ll keep them in prison. Mr. and Mrs. Moore lived at the Waldorf-Astoria about one month before moving to the Grenoble. After they had been at the Grenoble a few days one of the clerks of the Waldorf-Astoria sent Mrs. Moore a bouquet of roses aud a vase, with a note saying that she was to keep the vase. It had the Waldorf-Astoria stamp on it. and I suppose Mrs. Moore believed that the clerk knew what he was doing when he sent it. It is unfair on the part of the dis trict attorney's office to make public such a statement, as it cannot but help to in fluence the jurymen, who are allowed to separate and read the papers. If this case were being tried in Georgia the defense could appeal for dismissal and get it on . such grounds. i “If Moore is convicted on the present | charge a strong appeal will be made to the district attorney to withdraw the charges against Mrs. Moore. If he is acquitted, I ' believe that no effort will be made to try her. I want to get her free as soon as possible and take her home to her moth-, er.” Mrs. Moore has told her several lawyers i that her only wish is to go back to her i home in Atlanta,-and that as soon as she i does she will sue her husband for divorce. This is said to be the wish of her guardian ; Chief Justice Simmons, of Georgia. Since ; their meeting, which occurred about two I years ago at a ball, given in Dublin, Ire land, by the lord mayor, her life has been ; a wild one. and it has terminated in such i away as to make her long for the seclu sion of home life. She told Mr. Hill on I Saturday that she was suffering intensely from her life in the Tombs. “I have been charged with being brazen and bold in my conduct in court,” she said, “and certain papers have remarked | that I was tco cold-blooded to cry when I the testimony relating to my character ; was given. The fact was I was too mort 5 - fied and chagrined to cry and I heard so many lies told and saw so much curiosity on the part of people that I was dumfound i ed.” FOR RENT.— Nice cot tage, close in, good neighbor hood, four rooms and twe room kitchen, with all con veniences. Address Cottage, care News. Elegant neckwear for Xmas. Phillips. FOR RENT. Nice cottage, close in. good neighbor hood. four rooms and two room kitchen, with, ail conveniences. Address Cottage, care News. ' e ’ Beautiful Silk ’Suspenders. | For Xmas presents. Clen? Phillips. The BiKVeRt Silver Mine. The biggest silver producer in the world at present is the Broken Hill Proprietary company, in New South Wales. The out put of that company’s mines for the fiscal yea* ending on May 31, 1896, was 6.129,• 270 fine ounces of silver. The Anaconda Copper Mining company, in Montana, came second, with a?production of 5,074,- 036 ounces of silver. It is worth noting that in both cf these mines the silver is produced in connection with other inetals —at Broken Hill with lend and at Ana conda with copper. The latter is princi pally a copper mine, since the metal forms the greater part of the value cf its ores. Tbo Compania Huanchaca de Bolivia baa had the operation of its mines serious ly interfered with for the last two years by water and other mishaps. Its produc tion in 1897 was 151,995 kilograms, or 4,886,673 ounces, of silver. This is not much more than one-balf of the maximum output, which was reached in 1893 and was 281,007 kilograms, or 9,034,385 ounces.—Engineering autl Mining Jour nal. Kitchener’s Discipline. For 15 years General Kitchener has worked his officers and men mercilessly. The regulations of the Egyptian army al low no married men on the staff or in places of responsibility. Marriage inter feres with tropical work. Sick leave is given to any officer who breaks down once. A second illness severs the connec tion between any officer in Kitchener’s force and the Egyptian army. The men who have fought under Kitchener and who are now returning by twos and threes to London say that when one goes forth to battle under their iron general victory is assured, and when mon trust their lead er it is equivalent to the addition of many battalions to the army. Kitchener was cold as ice when there was work to do, but he broke down and wept bitterly at the burial service of Gordon, which was held in the ruins of the palace at Khartuip on Sunday, Sept. 4. He is a Liberal, and his stern character is strengthened by profound religious conviction. Star Clothing Co. TlltYlll Ila’s Fail Does not turn to I Ithoughts’of love in the fall.g J When frost .sets in he | g thinks of warmer under- i I wear. We have underwear that will outwear Any underwear sold otherwhere. A new necktie will begin to engage his thoughts. The summer wash rags will not do. And then he will want A New Collar to wear on a Shirt. We’ve got ’em all, right up to date in style, and at squeezing prices. And everything else in furn ishings. Cold Enough For Y~ou? If it aint we’ll have old Boreas turn on a lit tle more of his icy breath so you’ll appreciate Those Overcoats We’re making spe cial offer of $7.50 value for $5. $lO value for $7.50. $12.50 value for $lO. sls value for $12.50. I $lB value for sls. S2O value for $lB. Gloves. Neckwear Xmas shoppers will be interested here Harry L. Jones Company 366 Second - Smoking Bath: Jackets. Robes Lesser’s Bee Hive 559 Cherry St. Grand Slaughter Sale! Dress Goods and Wraps. Commences Monday Morning. We take stock Jan. i, and in order to reduce our large stock shall offer the greatest bargains ever known in the history of our store. All’goods must be just as represented, or your money back—this rule we rigidly enforce. 1 dress pattern wool novelty suiting worth s‘2. for 98 1 dress pattern solid stripe Henriettas, worth $2.25 . , for $1.29 1 dress pattern all-wool tweed and cheviot mixtures, for 1.73 1 dress pattern novelty crepons and jacquards, worth M for 2.98 1 dress pattern black figured jacquard, worth $3.50, for 2.10 1 dress pattern all-wool storm cloth, worth $3, for... * 1.98 1 dress pattern all-wool henrietta, worth $4.50, for... 2.94 1 skirt pattern black crepon, worth $4.75, for 3.19 1 skirt pattern black or navy cheviot, -worth $2.75, for : 1.95 All $6.50 novelty dress patterns 4.49 All sl2 novelty dress patterns 7.98 All 75c fancy figured taffeta waist silks .59 24-inch black satin duchess 39 1 lot changeable surah silks... 49 Ladies’ black cloth capes, worth 89c, for *49 Ladies’ black cloth capes, fur trimmed.. ; Ladies’ black beaver capes, worth $2.25, for 1.69 20 handsome military capes, satin trimmed, worth $6.50, for 3,95 15 silk plush capes, lined with silk, handsomely em- broidered, worth $7.50, for 4.95 10 plush capes, silk-lined, satin ruffles, beautifully embroidered, worth $12.50, for 6.95 All $lO and sl2 Ladies Melton jackets, lined with satin 7.49 10c dark and light outings 5M 50c all-wool eiderdown 29 /5c all-wool white embroidered flannel 49 10c quality cotton flannel 7% 15c quality cotton flannel IO 8c quality cotton flannel Best unbleached drilling 10 yards cotton diaper 39 10 yds yd-wide sea island 39 10 yds good check homespun 39 22-inch German bleach damask 43 Attention Soldiers! Plenty of good warm under wear at greatly reduced prices. Ex. heavy fleece-lined shirts and drawers 49 Ex heavy Derby-ribbed shirts and drawers .39 Heavy tan knit shirts and drawers .25 Heavy red flannel shirts and drawers 39 Gent’s white unlaundered shirts, 50c quality 33 Gent s and boy’s heavy sweaters 25 Gent's heavy home-knit hose 40 Gent’s large white and eol’d bordered handkerchiefs.. .05 Lesser's Bee Hive 559 Cherry St. 5