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Staple and Fancy GROCERIES. Middlebrooks. Armory Building. Phone 323. ONE CENT fl WORIT ADVERTISEMENTS of Wantß, for Sa e For Rent, I.ont, Found. Ktc., are inserted tn THIS COLUMN at One Cent a Word each Insertion. No Advertisement taken for less than Ift cents. Miscellaneous. O i SIERS AND FlSH—<al! varieties, stock every morning and afternoon. Clarke & Daniel, 055 I’oular street. STRAYED—-two’ black mules. Liberal re ward will be paid on return to O. G. Da«h Mfe Co., .'{l9 Oak street. ‘ 'll ELIZ), 316.” “All rigtit.’’ “Is tuai Hicks & WarfleM?” “Yes.” “Who is tha't at the phone?” “Warfield.” “I hoard you were going to raffle off Nel lie Duncan Dec. 24.” “I am and Nel lie is a living beauty; black as a crow', star in forehead and a perfect pet at all times. You all know her. Take a Chance for your wife. Chances are now for sale—sl.oo each. FOR RENT —'Nicely furnished room, with bath in private family, with or with out board, close in. Address C. R. W., care News. GOOD farming lands for rent.or sale, Ito JO horse farms. 4y 2 miles Macon on Georgia Southern railroad. J. T. Gantt, Macon. •iuvv ih cue ume to nave your lace cur tains laundered. Mrs. Ryder, near Crump’s park, does the very best work. All curtains laundered at only 25 cents per window. TAKE notice of 558 Mulnerry street, Mlgrath’s portrait copying and picture framing house. First class work; also dealer in pictures, picture frames, easles, etc., etc. Jewelry, breast and scarf pins, ear and finger rings, studs, cuff and collar buttons, etc. Writing paper, tablets, envelopes, ink, etc., etc. Office and store 558 Mulberry opposite Hotel Lanier. Dr. J. W Migrath, proprietor W. A. GOODYEAR, carriage, buggy and wagon shop. Horsecboeing, fine paint ing. repairing of scales a specialty. 453-455 Polar street. LOST—Small young Newfoundland dog; black with small white spot on breast. ' reward if returned to Alexander Blair. 673 Cherry street. Academy of Music. Monday Dec 12. First and only Engagement in Macon of .David Belasco’s Great International Suc cess, THE HEART OF MARYLAND, A play of great merit. A marvel in stage craft. Under the personal direction of the au thor, presented by David Belasco’s Com pany. With the original scenery and ac cessories. The novel and realistic Belfry seene. Strong situations. Exciting cli maxes. 300 nights in New York, 80 nights in Chicago, 72 nights in Boston, 50 nights in Philadelphia, 100 nights in Adelphi Theatre, London, England. Prices sl, 75, 50 and 25 cents. Seat sale. Academy of Music. THURSDAY, DEC. 15. DIRECTION OF JACOB BLITT Marie Wainwright. In the Big New York and London Success. SHALL WE FORGIVE HER. Two Years at the Adelphi Theatre. Lon don, England. Regular Prices* HINDIPO W RES It" ES VITALITY V ’ *fl Made a Well Wan THE jaloa. of Me. GREAT TTRENCH REMEDY produces the above revult -*• in 30 uays. Cutes Netious Debility, rry, / \tricocele, Daiting Memoty. Stops all drains and losses caused by errors of youth. It wards off In sanity and Consumption. Young Men regain Man -1 oxi and Old Men recover Youthful Vigor. It j::ves vigor and size to shrunken organs, and fits a man tor business or marriage. Easily carried in the vest pocket. Price Fff PTC 6 Boxes $2.5< by mail, in plain pack- L I 0. age. with written guarantee. DR. JEAN O’HARRA. Pari* Ladies’ Desk fi- at $4.50 in Oak. AND FINE ONE BESIDES S > ‘ FOR CHRISTMAS. Payne & Willingham. Largest Furniture and Carpet Store in South THE PUNS COMPLETED ■ For the Reception and Enter- • tainment of President McKinlev. "110 public'reception'" ’Will Be Attempted, on lAccount of Lack of Time—Review and Ride About the City. SCHOOL CHILDREN AND FLAGS. ■ [ The committee composed of Judge Em ory Speer, chairman, Major W. H. Rosts, Messrs. S. R. Jaques, I. TL English, W. R. Rogers, N. B. Corbin, Tom W. Loyless and George Ketchum, appointed to make arrangements for the reception and enter tainment of President McKinley and party met this morning with Generals Wilson and Bates and afterward in Judge Speer's office, and completed their plans. The president and party will arrive on a special train from Savannah at 8:30 o’clock. They will be met at the train by the reception committee and Generals Wilson and Bates and their staffs, "who with a portion of the Seventh cavalry, will act as an escort. The presidential party will be driven in carriages to the reviewing stand, which will be erected at the intersection of Sec ond and iCherry streets. The review of troops wp'l take place at once, consuming about an hour. At 10 o’clock the presi dent and party, 'accompanied by the recep tion committee and military escort, will be driven about the city, the line of march being over the pricipal residence streets and probably through Vineville. Retum- I ing, the presidential party will be ten i dered a buffet lunch at the residence of i Judge William H. Felton, where a sort of informal reception will be held, after which the party 'will be driven to the de pot and take the train for Washington. The committee especially desires to im press upon the people the necessity for decorating their stores and residences. Especially should this be done along the route of the president’s drive be decor j a ted. It is also hoped that the public school I .children will be given a holiday; that they ■ will meet at their schools at the usual hour and, accompanied by their teachers, march either to the reviewing stand or to the hll'l in front of Judge Felton’s resi dence. The happy suggestion has also been made that each child carry a small United States flag. • A special committee from the Chamber of Commerce will be appointed to raise the necessary fund for the president’s re ; ception ‘and entertainment. Mayor Price ' was met by the .committee this morning I and very kindly consented to have the re l viewing stand built by the city. NO FRANCHISE EXTENSION Chicago Cit'zens Inclined to Municipal Own ership. Chicago, Dec. 12 —Central Music hall was yesterday afternoon filled with citizens of Chicago who had gathered in mass con vention in order to iproteet against the ex tension of the franchise of Chicago street car lines to fifty years. Early in the meeting the speakers dwelt upon the ques tion of compensation for extension of street car grants, but before its close the propo sition of municipal ownership was exten sively touched on, add received generous applause. The resolutions, which were prepared in advance, were found inade- I quate to the sentiment of the meeting, and ■ a resolution was included favoring muni cipal ownership of the street car lines, if not this year then when the present grants expire in 1903. WOULD HONOR WASHINGTON. ■ Wales has Spoken Favorably of a Monu ment to the American, London, Dec. 12. —Il is understood that the Prince of Wales has spoken approv ingly of the proposed monument to George Washington in 'Westminister Abbey. Several members of the Anglo-American League recently approached Dean Bradley of Westminster Abbey suggesting that a national monument to Washington should be erected in the abbey. The memorialists urge that ings which had in the past existed in England against Washington had long since disap peared, and that the movement for the I monument at the present juncture would be. a groat influence for good as tending to cement the friendly relations rapidly growing between the two nations. The dean was also reminded of the I memorials to the two American poets, i Longfellow and Low’d!, which are already ■ in The abbey. The dean thereupon agreed I to consult with others and to consider the ' matter fully, ; It is said the dean had the matter brought to the attention of the Prince of Wales, who regarded the project favora bly. In reply to. the Journal correspondent. Dean Bradley said he had not entertained any definite proposition as yet, but had I listened to many suggestions regarding ; the matter from members of the league and others. He said he did not care to ! discuss the project until the- league had > taken further action. MACON NEWS MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER n 1898. 'PICTURES TAKEN I j The Macon Invitation Com mittee Honored. A GREAT COMPLIMENT ! ’ I What the President Actually Said to M iss Wilson—Touched by her Appearance. I , J The members of the Macon committee who went to Washington were honored in more ways than one. There is published in the city a handsomely printed and il lustrated society (paper called “After thought.” This journal not only gave an account of the visit of the committee to the president, but printed a full page pho tograph of the committee grouped, the per sons appearing being Hon. Charles L. 1 Bartlett, Edgar S. Wilson, George A. , Macdonald, George A. Smith, T. E. Ar- ■ tope and David W. Hill. The president’s i words on receiving the engrossed copy of ' the resolutions of the Chamber of Com merce from the fair hands of Miss Mary Wilson are given as follows: “It gives me infinite pleasure to know that there is so much interest displayed in my visit to Macon, as to induce the ladies of the South, to be represented per sonally. It gives me great pleasure, I as sure you to receive it from your fair hands.” In addition the paper says: “President McKinley will be the first President of the United States to have visited the beautiful city of Macon, and while its citizens feel proud of the distinction conferred upon them, they are also proud to introduce this fair Southern city to the nation’s chief executive, “To Col. L. S. Brown, of the Southern railroad, and Mr. George A. Macdonald, of the Georgia Southern and Florida, must be accredited the lelightful arrangements which have been provided for the con venience of the presidential party on their Southern trip.” ENORMOUS REPORT. Extraordinary Amount of Money Held by New York Banks. M hile new records are being made in ' connection with ’the volume of bank clear- ! 1 ings at New York and throughout the I ■ country at large, it is no less important to : i notice that the deposits and loans of the : banks are assuming unparalleled dimen sions. The circumstances in this connec- I tion seems to be general, and from many widely-separated interior points the inti- I 'matrons are that the banks are unable to i , profitably employ their accumulating de- | I posits, so that in some cases a reduction ! 1 of the interest usually allowed to certain 1 classes of large 'depositors is 'being dis i cussed a a necejsity of the situation. i The New York banks, as will be seen by the suhimary of the weekly Clearing House averages published on last Saturday j for the week ending on that day, now have an altogether unprecedented amount of de posits and loans. The.former item at the end of last week was $789,000,000, compar ed with $666,000,000 The year before and ' $502,000,000 in the first week of December | 1896. The loans have also kept pace with . the expansion cf deposits, the average of the former item being $697,000,000, which is an increase of some $100,000,000 over the figures a year ago, while it composes only $472,441,000 of outstanding loans in 1896. Meantime the total cash reserves are now $214,479,000, or 27.2 per cent., as against the legal reserve requirement of 25 per cen., and the surplus reserve, standing at ; $17,097,000, is sufficient for all practical purposes of assuring the financial commu j nity as to the probability of comparatively easy money-market conditions for a long time to come. There are a number of very interesting points in regard to' the present position of i the New York banks. It may be noted I that the rise of their deposits has been at- 1 I tended by a large gain in the reserve bal- j j ances which interior banks are maintain- I ing with their metropolitan ■correspon i dents. The plethoric condition of The banks at so many local centers has already been referred <o and would explain in part the gravitation of funds toward New York, . even though the interest allowed on such : balances is limited, and the banks find lit- * tie prifit 111 them when call loans are quo- j ted (as is now .the case) at 2y 2 per cent for a miximum. It may be remembered, however, that after January 1 a very large further influx oi outside money is looked for, with the probability that all previous I records in respect to New York’s deposits ' will be broken. This expectation is based I on the belief that, the January Ist pay- ' ments and settlements once finished, the ' pressure of idle and superabundant money ' in various cities will become more intense ! and cause possibly an exaggeration of the , customary midwinter flow of funds from ■ the interior to New York. The item of loans is entitled to examina tion at this time, not only on account o’ I its large amount, but of the general char acter of current borrowings. It seems to ( be admitted, that a very large, probably ' the largest, proportion of the whole $697-, ; i 000,000 represents call loans. The stock market. seems to have practically ceased to ! borrow in any other way, and week after 1 ' week the descriptions of the money market ' published in these columns have dwelt on I the limited inquiry for time loans and the 1 poor supply of commercial paper. Yet I there has been one ieattfre of an acitve kind in regard to loans. The fact that since October 1 the average bank loans at New York have increased from $635,000,000 I to the present level is principally due to the borrowing cf large amounts of money lon foreign exchange collateral. The in | creased activity of the stock and bond I markets has, of course, contributed to , some extent to this result, but the $60,000.- i 000 gain in two months in the loans of the New York institutions could hardly have been seen had the relative plenty and ease of the money markets here, as compared with London and Berlin, afforded bankers here au opportunity to find profitable em ployment for their reserves by discounting Europe's time obligations incurred through its purchases of broatstuffs and other pro ducts. ANOTHER CUT! ONLY 75° Baby’s Sterling Silver Lock Bracelets. at Lazarus’ Jewelry Palace. 520 CHERRY STREET: Forward! March! Left Foot, 'DriT’TJ 17171 T Right Foot, bu in f JIH 1. Head Straight For I THE SHOE MAN WHO LIVES # On Bargain Lane Bring both your feet with you, of course, and there at the low priced, well stocked and best shoe house in Macon, you will find what you want in FOOT COVERING. „ „ c , , . RUBBER BOOTS , Our Stock of RUBBER SHOES ls Blg ' - p Just RUBBER £_ —NECK a little at These Prices: Men’s patent calf hand sewed, regular price 6.00, now $ 4.75 Men s patent calf hand sewed, regular price 5.00, now 3.50 Men s patent calf hand sewed, regular price 4.00, now 3.00 Few odd sizes, regular price 6.00, now 2.00* Men’s vici hand sewed shoes, regular price 6.00, now ...” Men s box calf hand sewed shoes, regular price 6.00, now 4.00 Men’s tan hand sewed shoes, regular price 6.00, now 4.00 Men’s vici hand sewed shoes, regular price 4.50, now 3.50 Men’s box calf hand sewed shoes, regular price 4.50, now 3.00 Men’s box calf hand sewed shoes, regular price 3.50, now 2.50 Men s French calf hand sewed shoes, regular price 4.00, now 3.00 Men’s French calf hand sewed shoes, regular price 3.50, now 2 50 _ Men’s satin calf bals and congress, regular price 2.00, now 1.40 Ladies’ French Kid shoes, regular price 5.00, now ’ 3.50 Ladies' French Kid shoes, regular price 4.00, now 2.50 Ladies' French Kid shoes, regular price 3.00, now I*so Ladies’ Party Slippers, in kid and patent leather, all at fire prices. Men’s Xmas Slippers for 1.25, 1.50 and 1.80, wortn double the price. Ladies' Felt and Satin Slippers, fur trimmed, regular price 1.75, now 1.25 regular price 1.50, n0w...,- 1.00 RoffSims & Co Corner Third Street and Bargvin Lane, 5