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GEORGIA.
It is rumored that Gainesville is soon
to have an electric railway.
Betts & Cos. had two mules killed at Ash
burn Friday by a tree falling on them.
Dr. John H. Asher, a young physician
well known in Atlanta, died there Friday
after an illness of two months.
Neal Hawkins, a young man well known
about Americus, was adjudged insane Fri
day and will be eent to the asylum.
The board of directors of the Bank of
Madison held a meeting Friday and de
clared a semi-annual dividend of 7 per
cent.
Dr. R. W. Willis died at Madison Fri
day. He was 60 years old and one of the
most prominent and wealthy physicians
in that section of the state.
The 176 shares of stock of the Green
wood, Anderson and Western railway, for
which a receiver was appointed at Au
gusta, a few days ago, has been sold for
101 per share.
The following have been elected at Mtl
len: Mayor, Dr. J. L. Farmer; councllmen,
H. Parker, J. C. Parker, S. B. A. Wal
lace, H. Q. Bell, A. O. McDonald; record
er, 8. F. Wood.
At L&vonla Thursday the following mu
nicipal ticket was elected: Mayor, W. W.
Cornog; recorder, W. H. Addington;
council, G. W. Weldon, T. F. Alison, Joe
W. Cannon, C. A. Addington.
Alfred Melvin, a negro, in attempting to
go between the dry*k!ln platform and the
log truck at Ashburn Friday while the
train was in motion, was caught by the
bolster of the truck and crushed to death.
Cordele is to have another bank. It is
reported that Wight, Wessolowsky &
Brown of Albany, and John F. Lewis of
Valdosta, and others, contemplate estab
lishing a bank with a capital stock of
SIOO,OOO.
The T. A. & S. E. Berry Hardware Com
pany of Dalton has made an assignment
to Solicitor General Sam I’. Maddox as as
signee. The liabilities are somewhere in
the neighborhood of $33,000, while the as
sets will amount to about $15,000.
A negro child was burned to death at
Americus Friday. The child’s mother tied
it in a chair and placed it near the Are.
while she went out to work. The child
tumbled in the fire and its head was near
ly burned oft when the mother returned.
Judge Lumpkin has granted an order at
Atlanta in the Dixie Lumber and Manu
facturing Company ease, appointing Judge
S. B. Rosser permanent receiver, with au
thority to collect the assets and hold them
subject to an order of the superior court.
The elegant home of P. W. Walton at
Madison was destroyed by fire at an early
hour Friday, the occupants barely having
time to escape with their lives from the
burning building. The loss is between
SIO,OOO and $15,000, with only $3,500 insur
ance.
The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Payne of Americus was painfully
burned Friday, her dress catching fire
from an open grate, though the Injuries
are not serious. Mrs. Payne burned her
own hands badly In extinguishing the
fames.
At Harmony Grove Thursday night
Mayor John I>. Barnett was unanimously
nominated to succeed himself as mayor
for the present year. C. J. lfood, W. A.
Quillan, T. A. Little and W. T. Thur
mond were nominated for aldermen from
their respective wards.
Something that has never been put in
force before will be required of the police
©f Macon for the year 1897. They will be
placed under a personal bond of s,'oo for
the faithful performance of their duty.
All the officers have been furnished with
blanks and the bonds will be required at
once.
At Ashburn Friday John L. Evans, su
perintendent of the large saw-mill of J.
S. Betts & Cos., fell from a ladder that ex
tended from the ground to the floor of the
mill, striking on his head and shoulder,
and Inflicting dangerous Injuries. He was
carried home on a mattress and is now
resting easy.
At Cuthbert Friday R. L. Moye was re
elected mayor and J. E. Douglass. D. M.
Jacobs, Ab Jones, J. K. Sealy and R. E.
Toombs were re-elected counoilmen with
out opposition. This makes the ninth con
secutive term of tho mayor, while the
councllmen are serving from three to
eight consecutive terms.
The case of John Alien against the
Southern road for damages, which
was continued from Wednesday, was con
cluded in the United Stutcs court at At
lanta Friday. A sealed verdict was ren
dered in favor cf the plaintiff for $:oo.
Allen sued for $15,000 for damages for In-
Juries received while lri the employ of the
road.
A company has been organized at At
lanta to handle excursions from the Uni
ted States to the Paris exposition. Tho
idea Is to sell round-trip tickets from any
point in the United States to Pari3 and
return, good for fix months, with all trav
eling expenses paid, and admission for ten
days to the exposition forSiyo. These tick
ets can be paid for in monthly Install
ments at about $5 a month.
Mclntosh correspondence Morning
News: The lost grand jury of Liberty
county adopted again the new road law.
Instead of appointing one general super
intendent for th<’ county, they appointed
one for each road district, thereby secur
ing a more thorough supervision.—The
county taxes ure light and there are few
er mortgages than any county in the
State.—Prof. F. O. Brinson of Hlnesville
will take Charge of the Baptist Institute
at Gainesville, (Is.-Jim Molver, a young
colored man, was arrested here, to-day
lor shooting toward a passenger train on
the Savannah, Florida and Western rail
way some time since. Solicitor General
Fraser was a passenger and witnessed
the occurrence, and had a warrant for his
arrest.
The Chiokamauga commission for Geot
gia appointed to accept bids for the monu
ment to he erected at Chiokamauga, lias
adjourned, and without accepting a bid
or making any final arrangements. The
commission threw out all the bids it did
not wish to consider, and only a few are
left. These are to be considered at a
meeting to be held some time in the near
future. This meeting will be held when
all of the members of the commission can
bo present, and the matter of accepting
bids will be finally decided.
An order in the case of Norman W.
Dodge vs. Lucius L. Williams and others
was taken in the United States court at
Macon Friday relative to the taking of
testimony. The order provided that com
plainant have thirty days in which to file
his documentary and oral evidence with
Examiner J. N. Talley and the defendant
to have forty-five days in which to accom
plish the same purpose. The suit involves
one of the largest land suits ever brought
in the United States court at Macon. The
titles to lands in Telfair, Dodge, Laurens
and Montgomery counties are involved.
Detective Bill Jones, better known as
“Swamp Fox,” has arrested the two ne
groes who burned the barn and stables of
Robert Bradley at Washington a month
ago. One of the negroes confessed the
crime and Implicated the othfcr. It was
done through a spirit of revenge. One had
been whipped for using insulting language
oefore Mr. Bradley’s wife and the other
had been discharged. They resolved to
ire the barn and stables out of revenge.
The negro who made the confession was
taken before a magistrate, where he swore
to the truth of his statement. Both are in
jail.
In the case of the heirs of B. F. Walker,
deceased, against Capt. James Liddell, a
suit for $25,000, a mistrial was declared at
Atlanta Friday. This is the second mis
trial in the case, the first having occurred
in November last. Several years before
the death of B. F. Walker he sold a tract
of twenty acres of land near the city lim
its to Capt. Liddell. Mr. Walker only had
a life estate in the land, the remainder
going to the children. In order that he
could make a valid deed to the property it
was necessary to get a quit-claim deed
from the children, conveying their inter
est in the property to their father. Out of
this thing the suit grew. The heirs, who
are the plaintiffs, claim that Capt, Lid
dell, In order to get them to sign the deed
to their father, made them an express
promise to pay the interest, computed at 6
per cent., to Mr. Walker during his life
time, and at hils death to pay them the
principal of $25,060. They say that no
agreement to that effect was made in
writing, but it was fully understood by
Capt. Liddell. As soon, they claim, as the
deed was executed and delivered to Mr.
Walker, Capt. Liddell violated his agree
ment with them by paying the entire prin
cipal to their father instead of only the
interest, as he had' agreed. Capt. Liddell
doesn't deny that the children executed
the deed conveying their interest to their
father, but denies any agreement to pay
him only the interest and to hold the prin
cipal for the children.
FLORIDA.
Patents have been granted to citizens of
Florida for the week ending Jan. 5 as fol
lows: John R. Bliven, Daytona, balance
attachment for pedals; Hiram F. Ham
mond. Palm Beach, wheel for vehicles.
, The trial of Walter R. Dingee, cArged
with embezzling a letter containmg SB,
which had been deposited in the Jackson
ville postoffice for transmission through
the mails, took place in the United States
court at Jacksonville Friday and resulted
in a verdict of guilty.
A stock company has lately been organ
ized for planting fifty acres of tobacco in
Gulf hammock, in Levy county. The first
crop will be grown with great expense. Cu
ban families are (o be imported to cul
tivate the crop. Tho farmers continue to
organize, and it is now reasonably assured
that tobacco will be the principal crop In
Levy county next year.
The people of Levy county have awak
ened to the fact that unless they do some
thing to prevent so many outsiders from
hunting in the hammocks of that county
for deer, it will not be long before all
this game has been killed. Hundreds of
people from all over the country hunt deer
and turkey in Gulf hammock, and there
Is no doubt but that deer are rapidly be
coming exterminated.
The recent cold has affected lettuce and
strawberries In Alachua county, though
not to any noticeable extent. Lettuce was
scorched a little, and the exposed blooms
on the strawberry plants were killed. A
few strawberries have gone forward, and
in a few days, with conditions favorable,
shipments will commence in earnest. The
lettuce market Is now so iow that it does
not pay to ship. The farmers have been
advised ttFshlp as little lettuce as possi
ble during the next few days, and until
the market recuperates.
Tho Immense saw-mil! now in course
of construction by the Bradford Lumber
Company, near Monteaoha, In Alachua
county, will soon be ready for operation.
It will be the most extensive saw-mill
plant In that part of the state, and will
employ seventy-five hands. The company
has purchased ten sections of land In the
northeastern part of Alachua county and
in Bradford county, which is heavily tim
bered. The mill is connected with the
Florida Central and Peninsular railroad by
u spur seven miles long, which connects
with the railroad near Fairbanks.
An attempt was made Thursday night
to blow up the dam of the Consumers'
Electric street railway of Tampa by an
armed body of horsemen, who used dyn
amite, doing considerable damage, but not
succeeding entirely in their work of de
struction. This company has recently
constructed .i new darn and power house,
live miles north of Tampa, at a cost of
$200,000. The country people threatened to
blow it up, and one night rumors sent an
THE MORNING NEWS; SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1807.
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armed posse of sixty men out to protect
the dam. That was a month ago, and
since then four armed men have guarded
the property night and day. Thursday
night at a late hour horsemen reached the
old d)am. three miles from the new struc
ture. While they were preparing for their
work the men employed at tho old works
secured all the available guns and for half
an hour a fusilade of shots were exchang
ed. No one of the defensive party was
hurt, but from the bullet holes In the
house it can be seen that they had a nar
row escape. The besiegers were driven ott
and the sheriff soon had a posse there.
Chief of Police Burke thinks the men will
be captured. Tho trouble Is due to the ris
ing water, which has Hooded the farmers'
lauds.
Gainesville correspondence Jacksonville
Citizen: H. F. Dutton & Cos. have enough
cotton at the gins to keep the force busy
for at least one week. The bulk of the
crop is now In, and no heavy receipts
are anticipated from now on. Many
small buyers of cotton have failed this
winter as a result of tho sudden fall In
price a few weeks ago. Judge J. O.
Arnow is making an effort to unite the
cotton growers in making r demand upon
congress for a duty on Egyptian cotton.
The judge is a prominent republican, and
his protective scheme is not taking well
with the democrats, who Uo not seem to
take kindly to the republican protective
theory, even though it affects their im
mediate Interests in a pecuniary way. A
FOR IRREGULARITY.
This community would be shocked to
know the alarming prevalence of disease among
women, resulting from ignorance and neglect of
derangements of their natural functions. i Every
woman ought to realize the importance of
prompt treatment of any variation from the
usual menstrual habit. When the time or dura
tion of menstruation varies there is derange
ment. If not properly treated the disorder will
increase and lead to chronic disease.
Women ought to know that
WiwSrdHl
regulates the menstrual functions with perfect precision. It acts directly upon the
afflicted organs and corrects the trouble there. That stops the aches and pains in the
head, sides, back and limbs. Wine of Cardui does not force a result. It assists nature
to bring about regular healthy conditions. It is
entirety harmless to any lady in any condition. LADIES’ ADVISORY DEPARTMENT.
Women who take a few doses of Wine of Cardui . , ~ , ,
every month do not have any sort of menstrual dis- rections, address, giving symptoms, ladies*
order. All dealers in medicine sell it. SI.OO per advisory department, the chatta-
NOOGA MEDICINE CO., Chattanooga, Tenn.
Somerset, Ky.
Hot Springs. Ark. j have een troubled with irregular
T have suffered for years with irregular menses for about six years, and grew
menses, headache, pains in the back, worse every year. I had cramping
hips — in fact all over —no appetite, no spells every three weeks, sometimes so
energy. By the use of two bottles of J* bad I thought I could not live. Eight
McElree’s Wine of Cardui and some JT months ago I commenced using McEl-
Black-Draught powders lam cured % ree’s Wine of Cardui, and have had no
Mrs. Laura Bell. pains since. Louise Tartar.
meeting of cotton growers of Alachua,
Marion, Brevard, Columbia, Levy and
Bradford counties will be called. The
promoters will make an effort to have the
convention relieved of all partisanship,
but in this it is generally believed that
they will fail. Judge Arnow has already
been corresponding with the ways and
means committee at Washington, and has
been asked by the committee to call a
meeting and secure an indorsement of his
plan from cotton growers.
Tallahassee correspondence Morning
News: Hon. Francis B. Carter, the new
justice of the supreme court, was born in
Jackson county, Florida, during the civil
war, and is now about 36 years old. He
was always industrious and frugal, stud
ied law and was admitted to the bar at
about the age of 21, and has always been
a successful lawyer. He married Miss
Dickson of Marianna. Mr. Carter has
served several terms as mayor of Mari
anna, was a delegate to the Chicago con
vention last year, and at the November
election was chosen a democratic presi
dential elector.
An awful fire is raging in a part of fhe
storm-swept district of Alachua county,
and is carrying everything before it. The
tire broke out late Friday afternoon, near
Wade, a small station on the South Flor
ida division of the Plant system, and in a
few moments was beyond the control of
all human effort. The country for sev
eral miles around is a solid blaze, and the
smoke is so dense that an object cannot
be seen two rods ahead. All of the farm
ers have been hard at work protecting
their homes. Many miles of fencing nave
been destroyed, but no dwelling. The
fallen trees are still green, and will lot
burn, but those who have seen this (Ire
say that death and destruction await the
residents of the storm-swept country if the
woods are not burned before spring, as by
that time the timber will have become
dry. The fire has proceeded south from.
Wade, and at last accounts was raging
in the direction of Newberry. Near Wade
a school was in session, and the pupils
had a narrow escape from suffocation.
The fire came within ten feet of the build
ing, and the smoke was so dense that the
pupils could scarcely see each other.
Farmers ahead and in the path of the
fire have been warned, and are on their
guard.
MARKETING A NEW GEM.
Found In Mexico and First Exhibited
in Chicago.
From the Chicago Times-Herald.
At one of the Chicago jewelry stores
anew stone has been placed on sale which
has never been shown anywhere else in
the world. The stone is called the '‘Cy
clops” and Is practically the discovery of
Edward J. Smith, diamond expert. The
cyclops is peculiar and original in every
respect. It was first found a number of
months ago by an opal miner in an ex
tensive mine near the City of Mexico. The
miner, in order to ascertain whether he
had discovered anything of practical
value, sent It to Chicago to Mr. Smith
to have it examined. A large number of
the stones, varying in size and character,
were forwarded in order that there might
be a perfect Inspection, and the value of
the stones accurately gauged. The stones
were cut, and it was found that they
made very beautiful ornaments for Jew
elry.
In the rough, the stones have much the
appearance of a rose on the upper side,
and vary in size from a large pea to a
penny. In the center on the under side
of each one is a single little nodule of
quartz of a reddish color. When the stone
has been smoothly cut this little red spot
plainly shines through the clear sub
stance of the stone, and from this the
stone is given Its name—the cyclops. The
clear quartz substance, which Is chalce
dony, has apparently accumulated on the
red colored nodule in strata. nd In gen
eral shape resembles a hemisphere with
the red ball in the middle of the flat side.
gome of the stones do not possess this
single spot very well defined, but have in
stead a rather clouded interior resembling
the agate to some extent. These are not
so valuable as the more perfect ones, but
are nevertheless precious enough to be set
In pieces of Jeworly and offered at a good
price. The stone is entirely new and has
been so pronounced by all experts who
have seen it. Last summer the same spec
imens, which are now in Chicago, were
taken to Europe and were there exhibited
to some of the best known specialists, who
pronounced them beautiful and well worth
developing.
The popularity of the stone is yet to be
tested. The stones are now being set in
various ways, in rings, scarfpins, etc. The
present value placed upon the stones is
about the same as that of the opal, vary
ing according to the beauty and quality
of each individual specimen. The lapida
ry gives the "cyclops" the same cutting
as he gives the opal, called en cabochon.
In this cutting, as Is well known, no facets
are cut, but, instead, a smooth rounding
surface. In its native state it Is found
imbedded In the rock and is only extracted
by shattering the stone which surrounds
It into a thousand pieces. In some instan
ces each stone Is found Isolated, and again
they are found two or three Inseparably
connected, evidently having been joined
when the quartz was in a liquid state. In
breaking them apart, instead of separat
ing them where they are joined together,
the connection is sometimes so solid and
perfect that a blow breaks one of the no
dules in two instead.
The finding of anew stone is of consid
erable importance in the mineralogicai
world. It happens so seldom that a dis
covery always attracts much wide at
tention and considerable comment. In our
own country only three semi-precious
stones have been found which are not in
other parts of the world.
America's first discovery, peculiar to its
own soil, was found about forty years
ago on Isle Royal in Lake Superior. This
stone was called the chlorastrolite. The
little island is inhabited only by the light
house keeper and is visited only occa
sionally by curiosity seekers and mineral
ogists. This stone is opaque and of a
greenish color, with white stariike spots
scattered through it. It attracted a great
deal of attention when it was first discov
ered and gave no little fame to Isle Royal.
On a visit to Europe Mr. Smith was once
visited by a brother told him
that he had at last found anew stone for
him. When the stones were brought in
for inspection Mr. Smith smiled and said:
“Oh, yes. I used to play with those when
I was a little boy.”
The second stone, which was a native
of America only, was found about fifteen
years ago in North Carolina. It was
found by a man named Hidden and after
him was called the “Hiddentte.” The
hiddenite is a lithian emerald and is some
what similar in appearance to the ordinary
emerald, being translucent, but scarcely
transparent. Next in discovery to the hul
denite comes the cyclops. Asa gem of
value and in all probability In popularity
the cyclops will outrank either of its pre
decessors. But as its popularity and
quantity are both problematical the fu
ture of the cyclops is somewhat uncertain.
CAT Ihi BRITAIN'S NAVV.
American Conrt-Mnrtlnl Mny Hang
a Sailor, Rat Cannot Flog Him.
From the New York Press.
Sing hey the cat o' nine tails,
The Jolly cat o’ nine tails.
The merry cat o' nine tails and a tar.
A boy on board the British man-of-war
Blenheim recently was sentenced by a
court martial to be flogged twenty-four
strokes, suffer twelve months’ imprison
ment and be dismissed from the service
for striking an officer. The British papers
are howling over what they call the "In
humanity of the sentence,” and naval of
ficers are replying in letters to service
journals to the effect that Henry Labou
chere et al., "Ignore the surely obvious
necessity of maintaining strict discipline
on board her majesty's ships.”
It seems that after all the ancient sys
tem of disciplining by flogging 1b still a n
institution in the British navy, though it
has fallen into more or less abeyance. It
may interest Americans to know that this
brutal sort of discipline was abolished in
the United States navy as late as 1872,
and was done then by act of congress.
When this act was passed I heard an
old naval officer, retired, and of the old
school say: "The service Is going to the
dogs, sir. In my time the crew was piped
to prayers as regularly as to meals evty
Sunday, and the cat o' rune tails ly
alongside of the Bible on the capstei,
sir!” v
As Minerva sprang full armed "from
head of Jove,” so the American na A
sprang from the British navy, and, units#
the cautious Athena, turned around aaj
"licked the stuffin’ ” out of her progenUf
or. Nevertheless the United Stale.- nav
preserved for a long time the tradition:
of the British navy, and as late as ISIS
"pike drill” was carried out religiously
aboard American men-of-war according v
the formula that made it effective for i
repelling of hoarders in the days of Roe
ney. The steel-pointed pikes were K- 1
in racks on the berth deck and given
the care that was given to the rifles of tli
marines by the ship's armorer and his
sistants.
But a change came one day. The *<
less pike drill had been abandons ! in
British navy long befpre, and it so i . i
out of the American navy upon tt h’.n:<
ing of the new ships. Grog was abolish*
in the United States navy while the d<
war was In progress and flogging in IS.
but both of these diversions, the oaut
and the effect, are still maintained in tl
British navy. Both are remnants of t
days when “press gangs” used to rod
about the English seaport towns ki t ►
ping all able-bodied youths to gen
majesty on the high seas. In those
flogging was a necessity, and tricna t
an everyday occurrence.
Those were the days of the genth <
Joyous system of ‘'keelhauling” wh-
refractory sailor was lowered over '
bows of a ship with three ropes atta 1
to him. One led aft under the keel i. 1
two served as guys to keep the ma '•
his proper place. He was then haulei 1
and fished up from the stern, the b \
acles on the ship's bottom having cut <
cruelly in transit. He was generally c
when he appeared over the taffrail. I
was not he was sent forward to his 1 '
In the American navy keelhauling
never much In favor, but substitutes v
found for it. Midshipman Spencer
an officer on the American man-of-
Somers in 1542, and was tried and •
victed on board that ship for Inciting !
crew to mutiny. His father was S( <i ■
tary of War, but Capt. Mackenzie hai
him at the yardarm, his officers stand;
with drawn swords alongside the men
off to pull on the rope which strung ' i
young man up ready to cut down the ’ ■ <
that refused to pull. A boatswain's c
and a sailor were hanged along with S *
cer.
When the Somers arrived back in > •'
York harbor a brother of Secretary S
ccr challenged Capt. Mackenzie to a •
which was fought and resulted in !'•
kenzie killing his man. Nowadays tl) '
are different.
It takes a good man to be even ar
listed man in the United States navy
and an officer who cannot maintain
strictest kind of discipline without re:
ing to cruel punishments generally has
felicity of facing a court of inquiry. w !
is the stepping Btone to a court-marti
Bowman H. McCalla in his meteoric >-
reer as captain of the Enterprise h '
this out when he came back from his
ropean cruise to face a storm of publi in
dignation and the sentence of a court-i *
tlal. In some branches of the naval
vice, such as the coast survey, the <
disciplining method in general practlc *
a threat of dismissal from the service, |u' •
as an employer would dismiss an incom
petent or refractory employe.
tinder the present law a comman m -
offleer can inflict upon a sailor the foimw
ing punishments: Solitary conflnen"'
not to exceed seven days, solitary confin -
ment on bread and water not to ex
seven days, extra duty, discharge, re
tion of rating, loss of pay or conflnen'
In irons. But he cannot put ama i >
solitary confinement on bread and
and in irons, also.
A summary court-martial can put a m
In solitary confinement for thirty day
give him any of the penalties which t:
captain is competent to lnnlct.
To the power of a general court-mar!
there Is no limit, except that ft man <
not be sentenced to be flogged, branded
tattooed. A general court-martial
hang a sailor, but can't flog him.
—Hostess (entertaining two lady frier<l
to herself) —Oh, dear, I do wish one wo
go—l have so much to tell either of th
about the other!-Tt-Blta