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THE MACON NEWS.
ESTABLISHED I 884-.
NEWS PRINTING COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS.
R. L. McKENNEY. Business Mngr.
TOM W. LOYLESS. Editor.
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Offices: 412 Cherry Street.
Temperance Vs. Teetotalism.
The Augusta Chronicle has a little ad
vice to offer the people of Macon anent the
recent election in this city:
the result of the election on Thurs
' dayhas demonstrated to the people of this
city that prohibition is not desired by a
majority of her people, the Chronicle sug
gests that, we compromise upon temper
ance instead of teeetotalic.m. In the North
American lieview for December Max
O’Rell. the French phllospher, has an ar
ticle entitled “Studies in Cheerfulness,”
in which he makes some observations jhat
.are pertinent to the present situation in
•Macon. Max O’Rtll is 1 of the opinion that
the Frenchman is thC happiest man in the
world in spite cf his faults and short com
ings. He says that the wealthy classes in
■all countries have found the way to enjoy
ment, more or less, but the observer of
national characteristics wants to study
life among the masess, and among the
masses in France the greatest happiness
is to be found among all the nations of
the earth. He says:
••The Frenchman is a cheerful philoso
pht r. He knows best of all how to live
and enjoy life. Moderate in all his habits
he partakes of all the good things that na
ture has placed at his disposal, without
ever making a fool of himself. He under
stands temperance in the true accepta
tion of the word, which means, not total
abstinence, but moderation. When you
say that a country has a temperate cli
mate. you do not mean that it has no cli
mate at all; you mean that it has a cli
mate which is neither too hot nor too
cold. We have no eeetotalers because we
have practically no drunkards. A French
man would be as astonished to find that
the law prevented him from enjoying a
glass of wine, because a few imbeciles use
wine to get drunk with, as he would to
find that the law forbade him to use
knives in his quiet, peaceful heme because
there are a few lunatics who use knives to
comit suicide with or to kill their fel- .
low creatures. ’ . j
The News is constantly in receipt of let
ters from distant points written by per
mits who have been attracted to Macon '
by the facts set forth in the carnival edi
tion of The News. Today it received one ,
from a gentleman in Detroit who says
that he expect* to locate in Macon very
shortly, having been attracted by the
facts and figures presented in the issue.
• President Coming.
Secretary 'Porter, of the cabinet, this
morning notified the chairman, of the
Chamber of Commerce that President Mc-
Kinley had decided to acept its invitation
•nd would visit 'Macon Monday, reaching
here from Savannah at 8:30 o’clock and
leaving at 12 o’clock neon for Washington,
in the meantime reviewing the troops en
camped here.
This is the good result of the enterprise
of the 'Chamber of Commerce and the ef
forts of the citizens' committee which
went to Washington to present the invita
tion. They are entitled to the thaks of
the community.
A meeting of the special committee
has been called for tomorrow morning and
The News has no doubt that everything
will be' done to make th? reception and
entertainment of the President worthy cf
head of the nation and of the city itself.
General Miles recommends an increase
of thearmy to 100,000 men. This is one of
tthe fruits of the war which will prove the
x'OstTiest on the tables of the taxpayers.
Don’t Change the License.
The Newg had something to say a few
days ago about the city license on saloons
and liquor dealers, it being then under
stood that a movement would be started
to have council reduce the present license
of SSOO.
It has since developed that a petition is
in circulation to this end. We again raise
our voice in protest, and would, at the
same time, warn the liquor dealers of
•Macon that th<y are working against
their own interest when they attempt to
have the present license reduced. In fact,
they are simply playing into the hands o'
the prohibitionists. It is strange that even
the dullest cf their number cannot see
this.
But if some of the' liquor dealers have
no better sense than to want the license
• lowered, we believe that we can still rely
on council to make no such mistake. For
it would be a most serious mistake.
The 'News, in common with many others
who opposed prohibition cn principle, be
lieves in high license and strict regula
tions as the best solution of the liquor
problem and any attempt upon the part of
the liquor men themselves to break down
these safeguards * would call forth the
condemnation and opposition of a great
many good people who etood by them and
voted with them in the recent contest.
In the interest of right and justice
and for the sake of harmony it is to be
hoped that any effort to have the license
.reduced wil be abandoned at once.
Secretary Gage favors a “properly con
stituted ban-k currency” as a substitute
for government notes. “If it be con
ceded.” he says, “that the legal tender
1 money issued by the government does not
[ possess the qualifications to make it a
proper factor in the country’s exchanges
1 of products and manufactures; if the fact
: also be admitted that it is a deranging and
.'•disturbing factor in its relation to indus-
I -try and commerce, then the time has come
to substitute for it a currency which will
•adequately, economically, and safely meet
•the ever-growing needs of the country,
'rapidly developing, as it is. in the power
of production, in the number of its people,
and the importance of its domestic and
foreign trade.” But this deliverance will
merely bring on more talk.
The News publishes the first news with
I a regularity gratifying to its readers.
Macon continues to hold her place in the
public eye.
It will be Macon's first presidential re
ception.
STATE NEWS AND VIEWS
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And now the Legislature to
postpone action on tax reform for a year.
And yet the people groan under their bur
den.—Oglethorpe Echo.
Bringing soldiers from the North in con
tact with negro troops will do lots towards
enlightening the minds of the people of
that section as to the true condition of
some affairs in the South. It is a rather
forced enlightenment though.—Oglethorpe
Echo.
Mr. Anthony Olive, an old citizen of
Oglethorpe county, died a few days ago.
Emory college will close in a few diys
for the Christmas holidays. The present
year has been one of the most successful
in the history of the college.
Thomas, Colquitt and Brooks county
have gone “dry.”
The Cincinnati baseball team will hold
its Spring practice in Columbus next ye.ar.
Private Judson Baker, of the 160th In
diana. died at the hospital in Columbus
Sunday. i
Hon. O. B. Stevens, the state commis
sioner of agriculture, has purchased a res
idence in Griffin.
Tom Babbitt will be hanged in Coluim
bus on January 27th for the murder of J.
H. 'Germany some time ago.
Homer Reed, a well konwn newspaper
man. is now living in Thomasville.
The Macon Evening News, one of the
brightest papers in the state, has ex
panded into an .eight-page paper. We like
that sort of expansion.—Thomasville
Times-Enterprise.
Miss Florence Thomas and Mr. O. W.
Grover were married in Thomasville sev
eral days ago. •
A grand review of the Seventh army
corps was held in Savannah yesterday af
ternoon.
George Jackson, a negro, was instantly
killed in Savannah yesterday by falling to
the ground with a large block in his arms.
Mrs. Martha Meadows died in Johnson
county a few days ago at the age of 87.
The gin house of Mr. George AV. 'Council
was burned to the ground Saturday night.
The origin of the fire is thought to be in
cendiary.
The United States court is in session at
Columbus this week. Judge W. T. New
man is presideing.
Will Anderson, a young negro boy who
was run over by a train in Columbus Sun
day night died yesterday without receiving
the slightest medical attention. He suf
fered over twenty-four hours without
having a doctor.
There are now thirteen dispensaries now
in operation in Georgia which are located
at the following places: Athens, Clarke
county; Barnesville. Pike county; Camila.
Mitecell county; Fort Gaines. ‘Clay coun
ty; Blakely. Early county; Morgan, Cal
houn county: Pelham. Mitchell county:
Meigs. Thomas county; Whigham. Deca
tur county; Dawson. Sasser and Bronwood,
Terrell county.—’Union Recorder.
General Lee was tendered a dinner Mon
day by the citizens of Savannah.
The Milledgeville Cadets w-• hold a
public debate in that city on the 23d.
John W. Nash, of the Third Georgia
regiment, died Monday in Savannah. His
remains were shipped to McArthur. Ga.,
his home, for burial.
Sam Jones, who has not yet recovered
from his Macon defeat, wants the legesla
ture to pass a general prohibition bill.
The “open door” policy of America
doesn’t apply to the back door cn Sunday.
—Savannah Press.
Unless the pruning knife is out to the
Georgia pension roll it will soon be as big
a scandal, comparatively, as is the nat
ional ectopus. —Americus Times-Recorder.
Lee and his staff are booked tq leave
Savannah for Havana on Wednesday next.
Blanco jus: get out in time to miss him. —
Waycross Herald.
Sneaking of the recent prohibition elec
tion held here the Albany Herald says:
The prohibition campaign through which
Macon has just passed seems to have di
vided the people of the town into two fac
tions. and the war between them is to be
continued. The newspapers of the town
are trying to bridge the chasm and pull
the people back together, but the task is
a hard and thankless one for them. The
importation of Sam Jones and Dr. Lee.
two very intemperate evangelists, by theh
prohibitionists, was perhaps the greatest
MACON NEWS WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7 1398.
mistake of the campaign. Their reckless
and intemperate speeches developed all the
fanatics in ■ the community on both sides,
and the town has been torn up as it never
was before. The blight of fanaticism fol
lows in the wake of these prohibition cam
paigns, just as surely as effect follows
natural causes, whenever the methods em
ployed bv such men as Sam Jones are lih
jected into them.
GRAN ADJOURNS.
Until January g—Over 400 True Bil
Found.
The superior court grand jury adjourned
today until January 9th.
The present grand jury has been in ses
sion already thirty days, and has been one
of the most diligent that ever served the
county. It is understood that over 400
true bills have been found, which include
over 100 for illegal registration and as
many for gambling.
The jurors today presented Forman T.
U. Conner with a silk hat as a token of
their esteem. He is said to be a very able
and efficient foreman and has won the ad
miration of every grand juror.
BUTLER FAVORS EXPANSISN
The General Declares that the United
States Should Keep Cuba.
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Augusta, Dec. 7. —Major General M. C.
Butler, who was in Augusta today, ex
pected to assist General Young in review
ing the First division of the Second army
corps in the Sand Hills, but found that he
would to leave the city before the hour of
the review, in order -to reach his home in
Edgefield and get to Savannah in time to
take the transport for Cuba tomorrow af
ternoon.
General Buller is heartily in favor of
America taking all the territory that she
can lay her bands on. He says Anglo-
Saxon. countries are not in the habit of
giving up what they win and he thinks
nothing can but good can come from the
United States keeping Cuba and the Phil
lipines. He says that there is no doubt,
that we have a rich prize in Cuba, and
that the talk of any serious trouble with
the insurgents is all made up, and that
Americans are gladly welcomed.
• FOR MISS LOUGHRAN
Jury I Awards Plaintiff full Amount for
Which She Sues.
Savannah. Ga.. Dec. 7—ln this city yes
terday the trial of the case of Miss Mary .
•E. Loughran, of Brooklyn, N. Y.» who sued
Watson & Powers for $3,315, value of her
diamonds and jewelry which were stolen
from her truk while she was a £uest of the
DeSeto hotel several years ago, was con
cluded. *
The jury was out but a short while be
fore it agreed and returned with a verdict
in favor of Miss Loughran for the full
amount sued for.
W. R. iLeaken, who represented the ho
tel. gave notice that he would file a 'mo
tion for a new trial. This ends the third
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trial of the case.
RAILWAY TRACKMEN. _
National Brotherhood now in Session in
This City.
The Brotherhood cf Railway Trackmen
is now in secret session at the Brown
House. Following tire the office rs pre
siding:
J. T. Wilson, grand chief foreman. St.
Louis, Mo.
J. F. Crainglow, vice grand chief fore
man, Wynne, Ark.
W. C. Cain, first vice grand chief fore
man,.
J. W. Davenport. t second vice grand
chief.
Executive committee—J. F. Crainglow,
chairman: W. F. McAber, S. E. Hawes, J.
A. Bouger.
The Silver Mino.
The biggest silver producer in the world
at present is the Broken Hill Proprietary
company, in New South Wales. The out- i
put of that company’s mines for the fiscal
year ending on May 31, IS9B, was G, 122,’
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 metals
—at Broken Hill with lead and at Ana
conda with copper. The latter is princi
pally a copper mine, since the metal forms
the greater part of the value of its orcs.
The Compania Huanchaca de Bolivia
has had the operation cf 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 I
4,886,673 ounces, cf silver. This is not ■
much more than one-half of the maximum
output, which w:vs reached in 1593 and j
was 281,0117 kilograms, or 9,034,385 I
ounces.—Engineering and Mining Jour- I
nal.
Kitchener's Discipline.
For 15 years "General Kitchener hos j
worked his officers and men mercilessly.
The regulations of the Egyptian army al
low no married men on the staff or in i
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 I
to London say that when one goes forth i
to battle under their iron general victory I
is assured, and when men trust their lead
er it is equivalent to the addition of many I
battalions to the array. Kitchener was I
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 cf the palace at Khartum
on Sunday, Sept. 4. He is a Liberal, and
his stern character is strengthened ’o/
profound religious conviction.
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STORY OF A SLAVE.
To be bound hand and foot for years by
the chains of disease is the worst foi'm of
slavery. George D. Williams, of Manches
ter. Mich., tells how such a slave was
made free. He says: “My wife has been
so helpless for five years that she could
not turn over in bed alone. After using
two bottles of Electric Bitters, she is won
derfully improved and able to do her
work.” This supreme remedy for female
diseases quickly cures nervousness, sleep
lessness, melancholy, headache, backache,
fainting and dizzy spells. This miracle
working medicine is a godsend to weak,
sickly, run-down people. Every bottle
guaranteed. Only 50 cents. Sold by H. J.
Lamar & Sons’, Druggists.
RoVal
Baking Powder
Made from pure
cream of tartar.
Safeguards the food
against alum.
AJum baking powders are the greatest
menacers to health of the present day.
AOYAI SAKIWO AOWOER COl. N€W YORK.
Before the Rapid Fire Gan*.
A lieutenant who was among the
wounded before Santiago thus describes
the sensation of being a target for a rapid
fire gun:
“We were going forward under a scat
tering fire from the front, and all at once,
off at the right, a rapid firing gun opened
on us. There was no smoke, so we could
not locate the battery exactly, but we
could see the bullets playing over the long
grass like spray from a hose. They didn’t
have the range at first, and the shower of
bullets went swinging back and forth,
clipping off the tops of the grass and com
ing nearer us with evo*y sweep. You can t
imagine the sensations it gave us to watch
that death spray, driven by some invisi
. blc, relentless force, creeping on and on,
reaching out and feeling for us.
“There was something unnatural about
it, and wo watched as though we were
fascinated by it. I didn’t feel as if men
had anything to do with it. It was an im
personal deadly enemy that I couldn't
fight and couldn’t escape. There wasn’t a
living enemy within sight. At last, with
one big sweep, the shower reached us. Men
all around roe dropi>ed, and then I felt a
sting in roy side, and down I went. I be
lieve we were all thankful when that gun
found us. It relieved the tension-—but if
ended my fighting.
OA.OTOH.TA.
Bears Ae Kind You Have Always Bought
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Notice Os Election.
Notice is hereby given that on Tues
day, December 13, 1898, an election will
be held in the city of Macon for four ai
dermen, one from each ward, at precincts
and with 'the managers named below. The
polls will be opened at 8 o’clock and closed
at oo’clock.
PRECINGTS.
First Ward—Courthouse.
Second Ward—Findlay’s foundry.
Third Ward —City Hall.
'Fourth Ward —Dumas’ store.
MANAGERS.
First Ward—C. A. Ells, F. A. Schone
man, G. L. Reeves.
Second Ward —N. L. 'Brunner, L. W.
Hollingsworth, W. L. Johnson.
Third Ward —E. O’Connell, George R.
Barker, W. B. Chapman.
Fourth Ward —John Hartz, S. J. Kent,
George A. Dure.
S. B. Price, Mayor.
CITY TAX NOTICE.
Tax payers are notified that the fourth
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installment of the city tax is now due.
Pay and save tax execution.
A. R. TINSLEY, Treasurer.
Dec. 1, 1898.
For Alderman.
Election December 13, 1898.
First Ward —John C. Van Syckel.
Second Ward —Thos. F. Sheridan.
Third Ward —Mallory H. Taylor.
Fourth Ward —John T. Moore,
AMUSEMENTS.
Academy of Music.
Wednesday, Dec. 7.
The Smith & Bice Comedians,
Presenting the Great, Gigantic. Maston
dic Margartherian Comedy Hit.
“IHy Friend from India.”
It will laugh your troubles away.
By H. A. DuSouchet.
Two hundred nights in New York to
packed houses and has since tickled the
visibles of multitudes of people in every
large city in the world. It. is a great side
cracking, jaw-tiring laugh.
Positively no free list. Regular Prices.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
December Sth, 1898.
Benet performance for Macon Hospital
Association. *
MILLER-STRATON COMBINATION.
An evening of laughter and delight.
POLK MILLER.
JOHN ROACH STRATON.
Admittance —Orchestra circle 75c. bal
cony 50c. Seats reserved at Harrv Jones
Co.
Notice.
All accounts for News subscription are '
due in advance and are payable upon pre- «
mentation, otherwise the carrier will be i
instructed to collect each week. No de- ,
viation from this rule for any one, and no .
paper will be continued upon any other 1
condition. , I
FINANCIAL.
You Don’t Have to
TV alt for your money when you get loan*
from U 3. We have it always on hand.
GEO. A. SMITH, Gen. Man.
Equitabl* Building’ and lain Anociation,
■neoa, Gn„ 441 Third Street.
H Y. MALL ARY, E. N. JELKS,
Preaident. Vice-President.
J. J. COBB, Cashier.
Commercial and Savings Sank,
MACON, GA.
General Banking Business Transacted.
$5.00 wil rent a box in our safety de
posit vault, an absolutely safe plan in
which to deposit jewelry, silverware and
tecurittee of all kinds.
UNION SAVINGS BANK
AND TRUST COMPANY
MACON, GEORGIA.
Safety Deposit Boxes For Rent
J. W. Cabaniss, President; S. S. Dunlay,
Vice-President; C. M. Orr, ’Cashier.
Capital, $200,000. Surplus, $30,000.
Interest paid on deposits. Deposit your
savings and they will be increased by in
terest compounded seml-annnaliy.
THE EXCHANGE BANK
of Macon, Gn.
Capital $500,000
Surplus 150,000
J. W. Cabaniss, President.
S. S. Dunlap, Vice-President.
C. M. Orr, Cashier.
Libetal to its customers, accommodating
to the public, and prudent in its manage
ment, this bank solicits deposits and other
business in its line.
DIRECTORS.
J. W. Cabaniss, W. R. Rogers, R. E.
Park, H. J. Lamar, N. B. Corbin, S. S.
Dunlap, L. W. Hunt, Sam Meyer, W. A.
Doody, J. H. Williams, A. D, Schofield.
KSTABLISELEO 1868.
R. ML PLANT. CHA*. D. HURT
I. C. PLANT’S SON,
BANKER,
MACON, GA.
A ganeral banking buslnev* traniaet«i
and all consistent cortesles cheerfully ex
tended to patrons. Certificates es depasii
Issued bearing Interest.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
of MACON, GA.
The accounts of banks, corporatism
firms and Individuals received upon th«
most favorable terms consistent with eoa
aervativs banking. A share »f yoxr has-
Ines* rsspectfuliy wUclto*.
R. H. PLANT.
President
George H. Plant, Vice-President.
W. W. Wrigley, Cashier.
We will have at o'ir disposal during
November $75,000 to loan on Georgia farms
or city property. We are offering money at
low' rates.
THE GEORGIA LOAN AND TRUST CO.,
O. A. Coleman, General Manager,
356 Second Street.
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HEADQUARTERS
FOR
Beal Estate Loans
We have large quantities of money sub
ject to sight draft for loans on city, farm
or suburban property.
Straight interest loans.
Annual payment loans.
Monthly payment loans.
Security Loan and abstract Go.
. 370 Second St., Phone 82.
T. 3. WEST, |
Secretary and Attorney, :
Money.
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Loans negotiated on Improved city prop
erty, on farms, at lowest market rates,
business of fifteen years standing. Facili
ties unsurpassed.
HOWARD M. SMITH I
Second St., Macon, Ga.
MILCELLANEOUS.
WH' Mr
Men’s Top Coats.
The road to style leads right through
our shop. From here a man can start out
correctly appareled. Our methods of meas
uring, fitting and furnishing are pains
. taking and the goods are of extra good
, value.
Look at the line of Covert Cloths, Black
Cheviots, Black Unfinished Worsteds and
Oxford Vecuaas. We make up very hand
-1 some top coats from these at very mod er
-1 ate prices.
GEO. P. BURDICK & CO.,
Importing Tailors.
flacon’s Only
Picture Frame store.
That is what we are. We guarantee you
that we can show you four times the as
sortment and four times the amount of
i stock shown by any other firm in Macon.
And Our
Frames Are Made
• Not thrown together. Call and. see us.
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W. Lamar Williams,
' I 422 Second St.
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JWe have received
the
English Lawn
Grass Seed
for winter lawns.
H. J. Lamar & Sons
416 Second Street, next
to Old Curiosity Shop.
C. A. Harris. W. J. Hopper.
meclianics’CoalCo
i Phone 122.
1 Red Ash, Jellico
Always on hand.
i We meet all competition and
take Periodical Tickets.
D. A, KEATING.
V I NCki/ V7|VJ
Genoral Undertaker and Embalmer.
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
Caskets, cases, coffins and burial robes;
hearse and carriages furnished to all
i funerals in and out of the city.
telephone 468. 322 Mulberry street, Macon,
Ga.
jnacon screen co.
Manufacturers of the best adjustable
wire window screens and screen doors.
Your patronage respectfully solicited. Es
timates furnished free of charge. J. D.
Newbanks, manager, 215 Cotton avenue,
Macon. Ga.
Henry Stevens, Sons &
Company.
H. STEVENS’ SONS CO., Macon, Ga.,
I Manufacturers of sewer and railroad cul
vert pipe, fittings, fire brick, clay, etc.
. Wall tubing that will last forever.
Macon Refrigerators.
• MVCKE’S Improved Dry Air Refriger
I ators. he best refrigerators made. Manti
; factored right here in Macon, any size and
i of any material desired. It has qualities
; which no other refrigerator on the market
j possesses. Come and see them at the sac
-1 tory on New street.
For Whooping Cough
use CHENEY’S EX
PECTORANT.