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'Meetings —Landrum Lodge No. 48, F. &
A. M.
Special Notices—Ship Notice. J. F. Minis
& Cos.; Sportsmen's Headquarters, R. D. *
Wm. Lattimore; Don’t Lose Your Ten Fer
Cent., B. H. Levy & Bro.; Notice to City
Gourt Jurors; Ship Notice, Dahl & Ander
sen.
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Regiment Cavalry, Georgia Volunteers.
Amusements—Oliver Byron and Kate
Byron at the Theater, Ja.n. 15-16.
Always on the Alert for Business—Falk
Clothing Company.
Our Glorious Neckwear Department—B.
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Buck's White Enamel Stoves and
Ranges—Lindsay & Morgan.
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Auction Salt^—Executor's Sale, by I. D.
LaHoche, Auctioneer.
Cottolene—N. K. Fairbanks Company.
Washing Powder—Gold Dust 'Washing
Powder.
Medical—Hood's Pills; Scott's Emulsion;
Duffy's Malt Whiskey; S. S. S.; Cutlcura
Remedies; Munyon’s Liver Cure.
Cheap Column Advertisements—Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The Idaho Angel who has been flying for
the Senate seems to have had Ills wings
clipped.
Anew adjective has gone into the lan
guage—seeley Is the word. It comes from
the name of the gentleman who gave that
now famous dinner In Now York, and Is
used altogether to describe dances given
before “stag” parlies. A Cincinnati dis
patch says the police of that city raided
"a seeley dance” a night or two ago.
The Hannas are right up at the head of
the procession. It seems. Mr. Hanna of
Cleveland was the guiding spirit of the
republican national convention, and Mr.
Hanna of Indianapolis occupied the same
position with regard to the Indianapolis
sound money convention. There seems
to be nothing the matter with lianna.
If the alien-tongued nations of Europe
•were able to see a very good thing In the
Anglo-American arbitration treaty, the
principals to the compact would be justi
fied in holding back to see If there were
mot some dangerous defect In It. The re
mainder of Europe does not desire to see
England In too close friendship with
America.
Four pupils of the public schools at Col
orado Springs, Col., are victims of a queer
malady, which causes them to write back
ward and upside down. The school offi
cials and the doctors are baffled. The
probabilities are that the poor children
have been trying to adapt themselves to
the Colorado style of reasoning upon eco
nomic problems.
Somebody lias been trying to engage the
Princess Chimay and her gipsy lover J&nc
gl to come to tho United States on a the
atrical tour. It Is understood that they
have declined the overtures. The pair
■were asked to name their own price, and
replied that they would come under no
terms or circumstances whatsoever. This
development encourages the hope that
they are rot absolutely depraved.
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It is thought considerable damage will
result from the heavy snow storms In the
northwest; which brings to mind the fact
that snow is one of the beautiful things
that Is not a Joy forever, but is often a
nuisance, despite the poet's ecatacy. Be
sides damaging or destroying lives and
property, the snow Is a heavy tax upon
many of the northern cities. Two snow
storms this winter have cost the city of
New York over *130.000.
The New York Tribune* notes with a con
siderable degree of satisfaction that the
Alabama Iron furnaces are selling more
of their products In England than in
America, and can hardly fill their orders.
"To meet the English producers In their
own field and beat them in prices Is a gen
uine Industrial triumph full of significance
to them and to our own producers,” says
the Tribune. "It is not our first Invasion
of the British Iron market, but so far It is
the most important In magnitude, and
points to the future course of trade with
much distinctness.” And yet the Tribune
Is a very strong advocate of protection for
the Iron Industry. Under present circum
stances we are able to compete with the
"pauper labor” of Europe, noiwithstand-
In* wages are a gp at deal higher here,
than in Europe, and are probably not low
er tlyn they were under tire McKinley
Jaw. \
Georgia and Florida Tobacco.
It has been made quite clear by the tes
timony of tobacco growers given at the
tobacco growers’ convention at Ocala that
tobacco can he grown in Florida which
is quite as good as any grown in Cuba.
There has,been a groat deal of disappoint
ment at the result of efforts to produce
the best qualities of tobacco In Florida,
but there are satisfactory reasons for
thinki-g that the disappointment was due
to a lack of knowledge of the proper meth
ods for cultivating and curing tobacco. It
was stated at the convention that tobac
co as good as the best produced in the
most favored districts of Cuba had been
grown near Oeila. Those who produced
this tobacco know the kind of soil that is
required; also the fertilizers that give the
best results, and are familiar with the
processes for curing tobacco of the high
est grade.
It seems to us that there is a splendid
future for tobacco culture in Florida and
Southern Georgia. There is a section of
Southern Georgia in which the soil and
climate are admirably adapted to tobacco,
and when the right men take up the cul
tivation of tobacco in that section the re
sults will surpass expectations.
As for Florida, there is no doubt that
there are vast areas of that state that will
produce tobacco In quantities and of a
grade that would make this country prac
tically independent of Cuba,
The cultivation and curing of tobacco in
Florida are as yet hut imperfectly under
stood by those who are engaged in grow
ing tobacco there. We do not mean to say
they are not enterprising or that they
have not sought diligently for Information
in respect to the cultivation of tobacco.
We simply mean that the knowledge that
will bring success will have to come large
ly from experience, and will be obtained
only after numerous failures. The condi
tions in Florida may tie a little different
from those in other tobacco growing local
ities. Hence, these conditions must be un
derstood before complete success can be
obtained. They will be understood event
ually, however, and then the tobacco crop
of Florida will be a groat source of wealth
to that state.
The Milk Question.
The attention of the public is again di
rected to the milk question. In his An
nual report the health officer says: “If
ever a city needed legislation on any sub
ject, Savannah needs it on the milk ques
tion. The Infant mortality is increased by
the sale of impure milk. The diarrhoeal
troubles of the spring and summer can
be obviated to a considerable extent by
protective legislation. The milk from cpws
kept in filthy yards and fed on slops and
other waste matter cannot bo wholesome
food for either adults or infants. These
cows are housed In narrow, dirty yards,
with offensive privy vaults in close proxim
ity. With few exceptions tlie persons
milking these cows are dirty, the vessels
In which the milk is placed are unclean,
and if there is any redeeming feature to
the milk business, so far as the. milk from
cows kept InGkc city is concerned, it has
never been revealed during four years in
spection. There arc a few isolated cases
where the above conditions do not exist.”
We have no doubt that what the health
officer says is correct, but what are wo
going to do about it? Are we going to let
the peddling of impure milk go on, bring
ing, as it does, disease and death into our
homes? It looks so. For many years this
milk question has been periodically agi
tated, and yet nothing has been done to
wards providing a remedy for this evil
of which the health officer again com
plains. ’’
What can be done to arouse the people to
the Importance of this matter? Will any
thing less than an epidemic of someone
of the diseases which are due to impure
milk arouse them?
Perhaps they don't think the impure
milk evil is as great as the health officer
thinks It is? Are they qualified to have
an opinion in regard to the matter? It
(hey are doubters wouldn’t it be bettor to
be on the safe side. The safe side is to
slop the sale of Impure milk.
All the dirty stables in the city are
not equal in value to the life of one child.
The health officer gives the public to un
derstand that the milk sold from the cows
kept in these close, dirty stables, and fed
upon slops gathered bore and there, is a
fruitful cause of diseases from which chil
dren suffer during certain seasons of the
year. If the health officer is right, and
we have no reason to doubt that he is,
the health commissioners have a splendid
opportunity to render the city a great ser
vice.
It seems to be the general opinion that
President-elect McKinley will “recdgnlze”
the south by appointing one southern man
to a secretaryship in his cabinet. That
manner of stating the case is offensive.
Tho President-elect should know no north,
and no south, In making up his cabinet as
well as in his other official acts. If he
should discover that the men he weeds
in his official family live in tho southern
section of the country, he should select
them, without regard to geographical di
visions. The south does not care three
straws about “recognition” In the cabi
net. Asa matter of fact, If she were pro
perly “recognized” she would have at
least one-third of the cabinet; and any
thing short of full and proper ‘'recogni
tion.” especially when It Is advertised,
is an affront.
Miss Yaw’s press agent recontly made a
good hit. Miss Yaw will be remembered
here as the young woman who is alleged
to be able to sing half a dozen or so notes
higher than PatU or anybody else cun
reach. The other day a dispatch told
how, when she was singing at Bingham
ton, N. Y., and was reaching for the high
notes, her Jugular vein burst and eho
bled to death In full sight of the audience.
A later report, however, tells that Miss
Yaw Is reaching the high notes nightly,
with Jugular vein unimpaired, and In good
order for future advertising purposes.
Dr. Jenkens made a good point before the
Florida tobacco growers' convention when
he Insisted that quality should be set
above quantity. Tift-re is always a wait
ing market for the'best; and this holds
good In the case of nearly every other
product, as well as of tobacco.
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The Deadly niisumptlon.
In all parts of the country health officers
devote a large part of their annual reports
to pulmonary tuberculosis. It is a disease
that is present everywhere and at all sea
sons of the year. The health officer of this
city, in his report published yesterday,
showed there were many more deaths
from consumption in this city last year
than from any other disease. The report
of the health officer of New York, pub
lished on Wednesday, showed that there
were six thousand deaths from pulmona
ry tuberculosis in that city last year. The
report also contained the statement that
in New York there are now more than
twenty thousand well developed cases of
the disease.
Avery large percentage of the deaths
nearly everywhere being from consump
tion, health authorities are constantly
urging the adoption of means to prevent
the spread of the disease. There is no
doubt that it is Infectious. Therefore
those afflicted with it ought to be treat
ed in separate hospitals, when sent to hos
pitals for treatment, and when treated In
their homes should be isolated to as
great an extent as possible. The New
York health officer, In speaking of the ne
cessity for different methods of dealing
with it, says: “It may be safely assumed
that from the failure to safely dispose of
the sputum of consumptives, from thirty
to fifty inhabitants of this city daily be
come infected by tuberculosis, and of
these about one-half later die from the
disease. All this suffering and death, in
view of modern scientific knowledge, we
know to he largely preventable by the effi
cient enforcement of simple, well un
derstood and easily applied methods of
cleanliness, disinfeotion and isolation.
“The knowledge now at command re
garding the methods of extension of pul
monary tuberculosis entirely justifies the
belief that its ravages can as certainly be
limited by proper sanitary control and ap
propriate treatment as can other infec
tious diseases, more acute, more dramatic,
and more readily communicated, but at
the same time far less prevalent, less fatal
and incomparably loss important to the
welfare of the community.”
Notwithstanding the fact that the dis
ease is infectious, scarcely any effort is
made in any part of the country to limit
its ravages by the methods which sani
tary science points out. or by any other
methods. Persons suffering frojn it, even
in its advanced stages, are permitted in
public conveyances, in sleeping ears, in
places of amusement, and, in fact, any
where anti everywhere. The number of
deaths from yellow fever, small-pox
scarlet fever or dipththeria Is very small
compared with the number from con
sumption, and yet a person suffering from
any one of those diseases is kept isolated,
and the greatest care is taken to prevent
the spread of the disease. Why is it that
there is so much indifference in respect to
pulmonary tuberculosis? It is only a little
less deadly. Probably the fact that, as a
rule, it docs not claim its victims until
long after it attacks them, robs it of its
terrors.
A Monetary ('omiulsaton.
There is to be a commission to study
the currency question and report a bill to
congress providing for a reform of the
currency. The Indianapolis convention
has made that certain. But it will be
sometime before it will be known whether
the commission will be authorized by con
gress and appointed by the President or
appointed by an executive committee of
fifteen members of the convention select
ed by its chairman.
The convention's executive committee
has considerable work to do and a great
deal of responsibility. In the estimation
of its friends it is an important com
mittee. What it docs may have a very
great influence upon the welfare of the
country.
It is understood that there will be an
extra session of congress next spring to
pass a tariff bill. The business of that
session should bo the passage of a re
form currency bill. The republicans,
however, think it is of much more im
portance to change the tariff than to re
form the currency, notwithstanding the
fact that the currency was the chief, if
not the only, issue in the presidential
campaign.
Having passed a tariff bill they may
think they are able to settle the currency
question without the help of a commission.
If they should adopt that view the In
dianapolis commission would be appoint
ed, and would no doubt prepare a bill
that would be helpful in solving the cur
rency problem. We are inclined to think
the Indianapolis committee would select
a more satisfactory commission than the
President would, because the committee
would not be influenced in the least by
political considerations. The President
might be.
A commission, whether appointed by the
President or the Indianapolis committee.
Insures a careful study of the money
problem by men qualified for work of that
kind. The opponents of the Indianapolis
convention therefore have no excuse for
belittling the convention.
Ex-Senator Ingalls is booked to begin a
lecture tour at Atlanta to-night. It is
said negotiations are pending for lecture#
by Stephen Crane, the first of the series
to be given at Atlanta. The league of
American Showmen have resolved to
make a test of the constitutionality of the
heavy license imposed upon circuses; and
the test case Is to be brought at Atlanta.
The late Bryan tour was begun at Atlanta.
Formerly when it was desired to "try it
on the dog" It was the custom to select a
New Jersey town.
It. will be Interesting to note if a Ken
tucky Jury will hold that Intense devotion
to the cause of free silver Is a symptom
of Insanity. A Cynthlana man, as toid in
our dispatches, left a will in which he di
rected that his tombstone should have a
silver base w-ith the legend; "Free silver,
at the ratio of 16 to 1." His family will
contest the will, alleging Insanity. The
executors under the will ought to employ
Senator Blackburn to fight against the
claim of the family.
An irreverent South Georgia contempor
ary refers to one of the cases under Invcs.
tlgatlon by Representative Felder's com
mittee as “a Sweat box.” ,
MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1897.
According to a Chicago dispatch, the
"society” of that city Is composed of
three hundred people, upon the authority
of Robert Todd Lincoln, son of the war
President. The Assembly ball is to be
held on Feb. 19. It is the great select so
cial function of Chicago. The list of in
vited guests has been made out, and ap
proved by Mr. Lincoln, "the newly chosen
society leader," and it contains 300 names.
Mr. Lincoln has been Secretary of War
and minister to the court of St. James.
A New York man named Woods, who
was in Cuba at the time of the visit of
Congressman Money, and who has been
going to Cuba every year for a number of
years, says the congressman did not bring
back correct Information with regard to
affairs in the island. He makes specific
denial of certain of Mr. Money’s facts.
All of which goes to show how very diffi
cult it is to get news from Cuba which may
be relied upon implicitly.
I PERSONAL,.
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—John ti. (Brice, brother of Senator
Brice, has been offered the command of the
Ohio Naval Reserve, which Is being organ
ized at Cleveland, Toledo and other Ohio
cities on the lake.
—The much-traveled Duchess of Cleve
land, mother of Lord Rosebery, is antici
pating a voyage to South Africa this
month. No other duchess living has ex
plored the world so thoroughly.
iProf. Haddon of Dublin still believes the
old story that Parnell is yet alive, and is
on some western ranch in this country,
lie has, therefore, refused to write the
life of the Irish statesman.
—The statement that the queen intends
to visit Ireland next year is repeated. It
ts believed that the idea of such a visit
has been entertained, but that no final
decision on the subject has been taken.
The queen has paid three visits to Ire
land—in 1849. 1853 and 1861.
—Russia's Asarina. a worthy grand
daughter of Queen Victoria, is fighting the
practice of sucking tobacco, prevalent
among the women at the court. She is
said also to have shut down on her hus
band's allowance of cigarettes. She is
also said to be not so well liked as she
was.
—Said George du Matirier once in a pri
vate chat; “I think that the best years in
a man's lifo are after he is forty. A man
at forty has ceased to hunt the moon. I
would add that, in order to enjoy life
after forty, it is perhaps necessary to
have achieved, before reaching that age,
at least some success.”
ItRIGHT RITS.
—Shopkeeper: What can I show you, sir?
Absent-minded Professor: I want—let
me see. what do I want? Dear me! I
can’t for the life of me remember what it
is. • • • Well, Well, It doesn't matter;
give me the nearest thing you have ot it.
-Tit-Bits.
—"We aeem to be thrown together a good
deal,” observed the youth, as he picked
himself up, and assisted the young wo
man to her seat on the front of the tan
dem after their third fall.
And she never suspected that beneath
his cheerful demeanor and his sweater he
concealed a pair of skinned elbows.—Chi
cago Tribune.
—The late lord chief Justice of England
used to tell his friends this anecdote' at
his own expense: Driving in his coupe
toward his court one morning an accident
happened to it at Grosvenot- square. Fear
ing iie would be belated he called a cab
from the street rank and bade the Jehu
drive him as rapidly as possible to the
courts of justice. "And where are they?”
"What, a London cabby and don't know
where the law courts are ai old Temple
Bar?” "Oh, the law courts, is it? But you
said courts of justice.”—Tit-Bits.
—An Unconscious Irony.—"l never see
that good old motto, 'honesty is the best
policy,’ ” remarked Senator Sorghum,
“without being carried back to my boy
hood days.”
"It is a grand old motto,” replied his
friend; “one that it is wuR to impress
early in life.”
"Yes. I’ll never forget the time I had
to pay the smart boy of the school 7 cents
and a jackknife to write that line in my
copybook, so as to keep me from getting
marked below the average in pen
manship.”—Washington Star.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Statesinensliip vs. Jingoism.
From the Macon Telegraph (Dem.).
The fieed of these times Is that broader
and greater statesmanship which would
lead the people away from entangling
alliances and sanguinary conflicts, to the
ways of peace and prosperity.
The Consumer “Not In It.”
■Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.).
The appearance of a man before the
ways and means committee as a repre
sentative of the consumers In the matter
of tariff changes was an unusual specta
cle, and seemed to strike the republican
members as an intolerable intrusion.
They seemed to regard tariff changes as
the concern solely of the Interested few.
Money nud Lee.
From the Baltimore Sun (Dem.).
Gen. Lee says, in a dispatch to the New
York Herald: “I gave Mr. Money no mes
sage of any nature to Mr. OlneyJ’ That
ought to dispose of the question at once,
except for the mortifying predicament in
which It leaves Mr. Money. The senator
elect from Mississippi and Consul General
Lee are now In the position of saying, one
to the other, “You did" and “I didn't,”
All of this come* of the “new journal
ism,” and if Mr. Money can extricate
himself from the tangle with credit to
himself he ought at once to abandon
newspaper work as long as he is a mem
txr of congress. .
Money's find Ilrenk.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.).
When Congressman and Senator-elect
Money went to Cuba, during the Christ
mas vacation. It was supposed that he
was going In search of trustworthy In
formation for Ijls own use in the con
gressional debates, and his expedition was
considered rather commendable than
otherwise; but since It has lw>en found
that he went •• a newspaper correspond
ent and used his pfilclal position to secure
not only confidential Information from
the ofllclals In (Juba, hut also state se
crets from Consul General Lee, his action
appears not merely discourteous to Spain,
but little short of treacherous to hts own
government, and tt may Involve this
country in serious trouble. It will proba
bly lie Impossible to make the nations be
lieve that it was the personal act of a
notorlety-seeltlng politician and not the
official action of a member of the United
States government. It probably will not
hurt Money, hut It detracts from the
dignity of the United'States. ,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—An importer who has just retired from
business, says the New York Sun, found
last week, in settling up his affairs, that
he was paying storage fees on thirty big
boxes of correspondence, Account books
and business papers accumulated during
the last twenty-five years, and now of no
value to him. These papers were of such
a character that if they fell into the hands
of an unscrupulous person he might make
them the source of much annoyance to the
importer's friends. The importer found
that he had no suitable place where he
might burn tiiem. and he knew of no otiier
safe method of destroying them. In his
quandary he applied to a banker for ad
vice, and to his surprise he found that
there was a firm in this town that dis
posed of this kind of papers, and guaran
teed that the job would be complete.
Then the importer turned his thirty boxes
of papers over to the firm, and he learned
tliat the banks and big business corpora
tions applied to this firm every year to
destroy a lot of paper that was of no use
to them, but might be used against them
if it fell into the wrong hands.
—Representative Charles R. Crisp,
youthful looking enough to be easily mis
taken for a schoolboy, is, says the Wash
ington Post, the last person to take a fall
out of one of the dignified doorkeepers
who watch over the peace and freedom
from intrusion of the United States Sen
ate. It occurred to Mr. Crisp the other day
that it would be a good idea to see what
the Senate looked like from a nearer point
of view than the gallery. As he tried to
enter the Senate chamber at the main en
trance he was gravely stopped by the
doorkeeper and directed toward the gal
lery stairs. "But and am a member of the
House,” said Mr. Crisp, and then as the
Senate guardian looked incredulous, he
added his name. This wrought a woii
rous change. The veteran doorkeeper had
long cherished the valued friendship of the
late Judge Crisp, and well knew that his
son had succeeded to his seat in congress.
"I ought to have known you, sir,” he be
gan, apologetically, and then he told of the
friendship that had existed between the
young man's father and himself, and wnen
the two parted, it was with a hearty hand
shake, and each with his arm over the
other’s shoulder, as a loving father and
son might have embraced.
—The New York Academy of Science
and Arts is now in possession of what Is
said to be the most powerful X ray outfit
in the world, in the form of a portable
cabinet weighing 175 pounds. This appa
ratus was constructed in conformity with
the designs of Prof. Reginald A. Fessen
den of the Western University of Pennsyl
vania, at Allegheny City. The induction
coil, which forms the most important
part of the apparatus, is designed to give
a spark 20 inches in length, and is com
posed of 17 coils, with a total of 50 miles
of wire. The current for the apparatus is
supplied by two portable storage cells, the
current being interrupted at the rate of
200 breaks a second by means of a small
motor, arranged to form a revolving con
tact breaker. This interrupter is immers
ed in paraffin oil, with a magnetic blow
out to prevent sparking. The character
and period of the sparks are regulated by
means of an adjustable condenser. The
tubes are made in accordance with Prof.
Fessenden’s discovery that the positive
electrode must not be nearer any part of
the fluorescent glass than the length of
spark the coil will give. The positive ter
minal is, therefore, inclosed in a long tube,
projecting from one side of the main bulb.
Fastened <o the side of the cabinet is an
adjustable arm for holding the Roentgen
ray tube. This is so constructed, with sev
eral elbows, that it can be placed in any
position. If necessary, it can be placed
beneath the bed upon which the patient
lies, and the photograph taken without
moving or disturbing the sick one. The
coil is the most powerful ever successfully
made. A photograph can be taken
through the thickest part of the body in
fifteen minutes, and the surgeon can easi
ly see through every part of the body with
the fluoroscope.
—A correspondent of the London Times,in
speaking of the financial condition of
China, quotes some instructive figures to
give an idea of the shameless peculation
and robbery prevailing in all her public
departments. According to this authority
the land tax levied from the cultivators of
the soil amounts to about two-thirds of a
tael per acre, and at a moderate computa
tion there are 300,000,000 acres under cul
tivation in China. On this basis, and al
lowing 50 per cent, for iosts of collection
and leakage, the land tax ought to yield
at least 100,000,000 taels, which is roughly
the figure attained in India on a lower rate
of taxation with a smaller area of culti
vation, a generally less fertile soil, and a
numerically inferior population. Yet the
amount which is actually supposed to
reach the treasury in China is barely 30,-
(XX),000 taels, and probably does not in real
ity exceed 25,000,000 taels. As for the taxes
levied and sent in kind to Pekin under the
name of tribute rice, it is generally ad
mitted that the central government might
economize at least 1,000,000 taels a year by
merely intrusting the transportation to
some respectable firm of foreign shippers,
instead of leaving it in the hands of an
army of needy and greedy officials. The
tax on foreign opium collected under the
imperial maritime customs still amounts
to about 5,000,000 taels per annum, notwith
standing the rapid displacement of the
imported by the native grown drug. Yet,
although twice as much opium is now
grown in China as is imported from
abroad, the revenue returned by the na
tive administration amounts to little more
than 2,000,000 taels, instead of a possible
10,000,000. In the same way the sale of
salt, which is a state monopoly and which
in India yields 35,(K),00n taels, only produces
13,800,000 taels in China, while nearly twice
that amount is known to go into the pock
ets of officials and middlemen connected
with the monopoly.
—From Austria comes a curious ac
count of a man suffering from a nervous
disease that manifested itself In parox
ysms of laughter. The patient, whose
ease was described before the Psychia
trlo and Neurological Society of Vienna,
was 30 years of age, and had been sub
ject for three years to llts of laughter,
which occurred at first every two or three
months, graudally increasing in frequency
to sixteen a day. The attacks occurred
especially between 9 in the evening and
6:30 in the morning, and in greater fre
quency between 5 and 5:30. Some occurred
also during the day, however the patient
happened to be occupied. In the inter
vals between the attacks and immediately
before and afterwards, the man was per
fectly well. The attacks set in with a
tickling sensation, arising from the toes
of the loft foot, and the patient would
fall to the ground unless he could reach
some place to lie down. When this feel
ing reached the level of the left nipple,
the patient lost consciousness briefly, for
two seconds, he estimated. Then follow
ed tonic spasms, less pronounced on the
right side than on the left; often the pa
tient lay on Ills face. The mouth and
eyes were closed spasmodically, the eye
balls turned upward, the pupils were di
lated and irresponsive to light. At the
hight of the attack the patient at first
smiled and then laughed aloud, without
any other sign of merriment. The entire
attack occupied about two minutes. On
two occasions there was a loss of con
sciousness. The patient had suffered nu
merous injuries from falls, and hts tongue
presented several scars. At the age of
15 years the patient had suffered Injury
of several fingers, of the right thigh and
of the right side of the faoe. He had
for a year or more, several years before
ills attacks began. Indulged in alcoholic
excess, and had been much depressed by
the death of his father.
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LEGAL NOTICES.
tattnall
COUNTY.—AII persons are hereby for
warned not to trade for thirteen promis
sory notes as follows to-wit: Twelve of
said notes for the sum of $500.00 each, dated
Oct. 20, 1896, due as follows: One note
due Feb. 20, 1897; one note due March 20,
1897; one note due April 20, 1897; one note
due May 20, 1897; one note due June 20, 1897,
one due July 20, 1897; one due Aug. 20, 1897;
one due Sept. 20, 1897; one due Oct. 20, 1897;
one Nov. 20, 1897; one due Dec. 20, 1897, and
one due Jan. 20, 1898, and also one other
note of the same date for $160.00 due 20th
day of February, 1898, each, and all of said
notes made payable to D. M. Bradley or
bearer with 7 per cent, interest from date.
The consideration of said notes having
failed 1 will not pay them.
Dated Jan. 7, 1897.
MRS. M. F. CUMMINGS.
. Manassas, Ga.
GEORGIA. CHATHAM COUNTY.—
Whereas, Alonzo M. West, Jr„ lias ap
plied to court of ordinary for letters of
administration, on the estate of Kate M.
Thomas, deceased. These are, therefore, to
cite and admonish all whom it may con
cern to be and appear before said court
to make objection (if any they have) on
or before the first Monday in February,
next, otherwise said letters will be
granted.
Witness, the Honorable Hampton D.
Ferrill, ordinary for Chatham county, this
the 31st day of December, 1896.
FRANK E. KEILBACH,
Clerk C. 0., C. C.
GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY.—
Whereas, Jordan F. Brooks has applied
to court of ordinary for letters dismissory
as guardian of the property of Annie D.
Dudley, minor.
These are, therefore, to cite and admon
ish all whom it may concern to be and
appear before said court to make objec
tion (if any they have) on or before the
first Monday in February next, otherwise
said letters will be granted.
Witness, the Honorable Hampton L. Fer-
Till, ordinary for Chatham county, this the
31st day of December, 1896.
FRANK E. KEILBACH,
Clerk C. 0.. C. C,
THOMAS WELLS JUDSON VERSUS
Rebecca Judson—ln Superior Court of
Chatham County, Georgia, March Term,
1897—Libel for Total Divorce.
To the Defendant, Rebecca Judson; You
are hereby required, personally or by at
torney, to be and appear at the next Su
perior Court of said County of Chatham,
to-wlt, the March Term, 1897, to be held
on the first Monday, being the first day
of March, 1897, then and there to answer
the plaintiff on the merits of the petition
filed by- him in the above mentioned
cause; as in default of such appearance
the said court will proceed as to justice
shall appertain.
Witness, the Honorable Robert Falll
gant. Judge of said Superior Court, this
first day of January, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-seven.
JAMES K. P. CARR,
Clerk Superior Court, Chatham County,
Georgia.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CRED
ITORS.
GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY—No
tice is hereby given to all persons having
demands against Mary Ann Roach, late of
said county, deceased, to present them to
me, properly made out, within the time
prescribed by law, so as to show their
character and amount; and all persons in
debted to said deceased are required to
make immediate payment to me.
August 3. 1896.
JORDAN F. BROOKS,
Administrator Estate of Mary Ann Roach,
deceased.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CRED
ITORS.
GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY.—No
tice is hereby given to all persons having
demands against West Patrick, late of
said county, deceased, to present them to
me, properly made out, within the time
prescribed by law, so as to show their
character and amount; and all persons in
debted to said deceased are required to
make immediate payment to me.
JORDAN F. BROOKS,
Administrator Estate of West Patrick,
deceased.
CITY AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY.
WINTER SCHEDULE.
Commencing Thursday, Sept. 24, 1896.
Isle of Hope Schedule—Week Days.
City Time.
j Leave i
Leave | From j Isle of j Into
City | _ _ | Hope.|
600 amjßolton St. | 600 am;Bolton St.
700 ami Bolton St. | 710 am (Bolton St.
900 am|Second Ave. 810 am|Second Ave
10 37 amjßolton St. 9 45 amjßolton St.
2 30pm;Second Ave. 100pm|Seeond Ave
4 00pm(Bolton St. 4 00 pm Bolton St.
6 00 pm Bolton St. | 6 00 pmjßolton St.
730 pm|Bolton St. | 7 30pm|Bolton St.
830 pm,Bolton St. |9 30 pmjßolton St.
Saturday night only, 11:00 p. m., from
Bolton street depot.
Cars leaving from and arriving Into Bol
ton street, passengers change at Thunder
bolt.
for Montgomery—9:oo a. m. and 2:30 and
6p. m. Leave Montgomery—7:3o a. rf,.,
12:20 and 5:20 p. m.
For Thunderbolt—Cars leave Bolton
street depot on every hour and half hour
during the day and evening.
Crimson Clover Seed,
GEORGIA RUST PROOF OATS,
SEED RYE,
ALL VARIETIES OF FIELD SEEDS.
HAY, GRAIN, BRAN,
COTTON SEED MEAL, ETC.
T. J. DAVIS,
Grain Dealer and Seedsman,
'Phone 223. US Bay street
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W. F. REID and SAMUEL 80LOMONS,
Druggist, Savannah.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY
—FOR-
New York, Ooston
—AND—
PHILADELPHIA.
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STEERAGE, $i5.00 -
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM Car.z m,
SATURDAY, J an . 16. at H
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TO BOSTON.
STEERAGE $11.75. ••• A.ij
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ABIN SI7.SOjEXCURSION z
Intermediate 12.50|EXCURS10N';;^
STEERAGE $9.00. ' "
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Through bills of lading given
eastern and northwestern point, IV"
the principal ports of Eurone' I”*' 1 ”*' and ,a
lor freight and passage apply to
C. G. ANDERSON, Agen*
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TRANSPORTATION CO.
RATES OF PASSACE.
~T . ° NEW YORK-Steamer and Ran
u 2d ,n, *!mft te<i p ays ' cabin, un im- 1
class, $14,751 EXCUrBIOn - * 32 ' o °i
TO BOSTON—Steamer and Rail— Cabin
dSl™sf7 00.* 1 SW '° nd ClaS9 Htnited s
Tt> BOSTON—Steamer— Cabin. limited
10 days, $20.00; excursion. $36.00 ; 6econl
class, limited 10 days, $15.00. 0 a
TO WASHINGTON— Steamer and Rail-
Cabin, $16.20; second class, SIV2O.
TO PHILADELPHIA—Steamer ant
Rail—Cabin, $17.80; second class, $12.50
T 5 PHILADELPHIA—Steamer—Cabin,
$lo.00; second class, $11.50.
TO BALTIMORE—Cabin, $15.00; excur
sion, $2o.00; second class, SIO.OO.
The steamships of this company are ap
pointed to sail from Savannah for Balti
more as follows (Standard time):
D. H. MILLER, Capt. Billups, SATUR
DAY, Jan. 16, at 5 p. m.
BERKSHIRE, Capt. Kirwan, WED
NESDAY, Jan. 20, at 7:30 p. m.
WM. LAWRENCE, Capt. Peters, SAT
URDAY, Jan. 23, at 10 p. m.
And from Baltimore every TUESDAY
and FRIDAY.
J. J. CAROLAN, Agent
Savannah, Ga.
W. F. TURNER, G. P. A„
A. D. STEVENS, A. T. M.
J. C. WHITNEY, Traffic Manager.
General Offices, Baltimore, Md.
FOR BEAUFORT AND BLUFFTON
Steamer GOV. SAFFORD will leave Sa
vannah for Beaufort, Port Royal Naval
Station and way landings at 10 a. m. Sun
days, Tuesdays and Thursdays, returning
next day.
Steamer STAR will leave Bluffton daily
(except Sunday) at 7 a. m.; returning,
leave Savannah at 3 p. m. Telephone lit.
Southern Railway
PIEDMONT AIR LINE.
THE GREAT SOUTHERN SYSTEM.
The only line in the South operating
every day In the year solid Pullman ves
tibuled limited trains between Jackson
ville, Charlotte and Washington and New
York.
Schedules effective Nov. 16, 1596.
F7“c7& P. R. iC j |No 36
All Trains Run Daily | No. 3S j Fast.
By 90 Meridian. | | Mail
Lv Savannah 12 26pm(11 20pm
Ar Columbia 418pm|3 55am
Lv Columbia -|- | 6 28pm| 5 OOara
Ar Charlotte | 8 20pm| S 50am
Ar Greensboro |lO 48pm jl2 06pm
Ar Danville |l2 00n't | 1 30pm
Ar Lynchburg 158am| 3 35 pm
Ar Charlottesville 3 35ani| 5 45pm
Ar Washington 6 42am|9 40pm
Ar Baltimore $ 00am,11 35pm
Ar Philadelphia 1015 am! 3 Warn
Ar New York 12 43pm| 6 23ata
Lv Danville 112 30am \ 1 50 pm
Ar Richmond | 6 00am| 6 40pm
Lv Savannah* „...|ll 30P m
Lv Columbia -|- | 7 65am
Ar Spartanburg 11l 45am
Ar Hendersonville 1 * 5 P m
Ar Asheville -L I 2 40pm
Lv Savannah 1120 pm
Lv Columbia U l *" im
Ar Anderson 336 pm
Ar Pendleton * * ipm
Ar Seneca 5 sopm
Ar Walhalla *J?P®
Ar Greenville i •■T |a
Note—‘Central Time.
-|-Eastern Time.
PULLMAN SERVICE.
Pullman vestlbuled Bleepers from sa
vannah to New York, Savannah to Cincin
nati via Asheville, Columbia to Richmond.
For detailed Information, resen dlona.
etc,, apply to any agent of the Southern
railway or connections.
W. 11. GREEN. General Superintendent.
J. M. CULP, Traffic Manager. -
W. A. Turk. G. P. A., Washington, P- L -
S. H. HARDWICK,A.O.P.A..AtIanta, ua.
R. W. HUNT. T. P. A., Augusta, Ga-
JOHN 0. BUTIK
DEALER is—
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and Builders’ Supplies, Plain and I- et ■ "
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Cements, Line, Plaster and Hair.
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