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H at General Interest to
PH' s m Georgia Readers.
- the past few years there has been
« great increase in the amount of sor
jghum raised in Bartow county. Much
of the land is well adapted to this im¬
portant crop and every year there is
inereaeal acreage planted. Tbe
Afane hi fast approaching when the
HI will buy very little syrup from
nerohants, for the Georgia splendid home- “sop”
> sorghum makes a
it is so much cheaper than to
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Hr. J. N. Warren, of Tharp, one of
4fce beet farmers in Houston county,
Impt strict account of tbe expenses and
ie.of his cotton crop on a four
, farm this year, tbe product foots be
f sixty bales. The income tip
,680, including tbe excess of pork
iaed over last year. Tbe expenses
scant to $1,906.35, a loss of $226.35.
he, or My other farmer, is satisfied
» is fair sample result of raising
m at 5 cents a pound, then it ia
■> to raise cotton with the present
to Cotton Growers* Con¬
vention.
Governor Atkinson has appointed
fee following delegates to the conven-
1 of tiie Cotton Growers’ Protec
. - i association to be held in Jackson,
is., January 9, 1895:
m Hate at Large—Hon. B. T. Nesbitt,
rietta; Hon. J. M. Smith, Smith
ia; Hon. Felix Corpnt, Cave
ing; Hon. W. A. Broughton, Mad-
1 ; Hon. W. T. McArthur, Lumber
vi Hon. John O. Waddell, Cedar
: First District—M. M. Moody, Long
‘fouieh; James H. Pinbolstor, Smi
»r |r: Beniamin E. Tnrner, Statesboro;
: lames H. Daniel, Millen.
Second District—B. F. Crittenden,
'.y'' loleman; J. P. Lane, Sowatchee; J.
U Hand, Pelham: Hon. J. B. Nor
nan, Moultrie. I
Thir d Diatriet-B. W. Anderson,
Bawkinsville; T. J. Bay, Drayton; W.
ST Sears, Biohland; Troy Holder,
Fourth District—W. F. Gay, Gay;
faorge W. Truitt, LaGrange; Hon.
B. H. Williams, Hamilton; M. B. Hoi
Fifth District—J. M. B. Goode,
Benyers; Bush Irwin, Fairborn; W.
J. Whiubv, Stone Mountain; J. M.
Shresham, Social Circle.
Sixth District—Alexander Atkinson,
Makson; J. G. Phinisy, Forsyth; Al
Hander McKay, Clinton; Hon. Paul
B. Favor, Fayetteville. District—Hon. G. W. M.
Seventh H. Lamp
Return, Trenton; Hon. W.
da, Oartersville; Hon. 0. W. Gray,
Ipiysvllle; Hon. B. T. Poole, Cedar
Eighth Distriot—G. D. Perry, Mad¬
ge#; J. a Reid, Eetontoo; Hon. D.
If. Meadow, Danielsville; L. M. Lat
He.
Distriot—George H. Jones,
; W. 8. Peyton, Woodstock;
ilien, Woolley’s Ford; John
L Blue Ridge. ,
District—•?. F. Seago, Au
, B, Walker, Warre#ton; M.
SendemiUe; Thomas Har*
District — Hon. Beldy
in; Hon.W. J. Harrison,
i T. Fletcher, Ocala;
rat Must P*J 1
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“We have to acknowledge that also
va Jo not know much of that land,
only what we once and awhile glean
from a newspaper. For instance, we
notiee that the alligators in Florida
have recently been placed nnder the
protection of laws similar to those pro
teeting oar own game species, and
they say the alligators shed tears of
pleasure when they heard of it.
“We are very much surprised to
hear of the noted traveler, Herr Otto
Bobkramer, that he says that for the
last ten years Florida is much more
visited than any other-point, and that
the pleasure-seeking people find it a
more interesting locality than Italy or
other pleasure and health resorts.
St^Vr gyasaaaga f
Sill ^
ddir« to w o»e «. wUhlDg
gratis, and those who iw fortunate
enough to have the means should not
(ail to secure one, as it is impossible
to imagine a more interesting trip.
Ladies and gentlemen, with plenty of
money, should not fail to join this
p«*y- . all
“It is not impossible to mention
so we will only state a few of the most
interesting points. First, a visit to
St. Augustine, the oldest European No
settlement in the United States.
one can have a conception of the mag¬
nificent hotels throughout Florida,
they are fairy like. There is the haunt
of the American aristocrat—him who
thinks he has a title to Ward McAllis¬
ter’s little troop of “Four Hundred”—
there tbe place to get acquainted with
the American nobility. water
“At St. Augustine there are
parties on tbe Matanzas river, fishing,
game shooting, picnics bn the beach
and lawn tennis and cricket with the
American ladies, bathing in the beau¬
tiful bath basin, theatre, opera, balls,
concerts and all this while our home is
wrapped in snow and ice.
“Then the parties on the beautiful
lakes and rivers. On the Halifax,
Hillsborongh and Indian rivers, on
Lake Worth and Biaoayne bay, at Or¬
mond, New Smyrna, Daytona, Book
ledge, Palm Beaoh and other charm¬
ing points too numerous to mention.
Orange, pineapple, banana, oitron and
guava groves, coooannt and many more
not to be seen anywhere on earth bat
in beautiful Florida.
“And to think how many things one
oan take back home to his conn try 1
Such beautiful souvenirs 1 To think
what sport a party could have to go
camping and fishing with the Semi*
nole Indiana, and have a chance to
learn their ways <M living. And a
trip to Tampa and the Golf of Mexioo.
And a trip over to Havana. And a
trip to that grandest of rivers, the
beautiful St. Johns, and on the Ookla
waha. And a visit to that famona
spring where the disooverer of Flor¬
ida, Don Juan Ponoede Leon, thought
he oould get his yonth end beauty
back. And to see one of those “sinks”
where a river disappears in the
gronad. And e two davs’ trip on a
mail-ooaoh, pulled by mules, camping around
a Wild West life and sleeping
a camp fire.
“This will be the first sad most sur
prising trip to Florida, and all those
fortunate to have tbs means
should join tbs party.”-Times- Union.
AM EXPLANATION.
Officials of Brooks County Give Facte
of tho Recent Trouble.
At the regular meeting of the board
of county commissioners of Brooks
connty, held at the oonrthonse at
Quitman, the following resolutions
were adooted t
“Whereas, Several murders have re¬
cently been perpetrated ia our county,
and three negroes shot down without
provocation, as far aa we oan ascer¬
tain, and other innooent negro men
abused and submitted
to nameless indignities; therefore be it
“Beeolved by us. 1. That we de
fafiV-"* that to
county. that these crimes
“2. Tha we feel
have left a Wot on the fair name of
and pMm «> anneal to the eon
a*. to trial
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The assets and deVito are small.
One of the most diaaatrous Area that
hu Tinted Toledo, O., for many
months occurred Saturday morning
and resulted in the loss of one life and
did damage to the amount of over
$500,000.
The dry-goods and millinery firm of
J. Lichtenstein & Sons, at New York,
has failed. The liabilities will proba
bly amount to $450,000, while the as
sets are not expectedto realize more
than half that sum.
pi re broke out Friday morning in
Lawler’s Hotel, at Waterbary, Conn.,
w hich was totally destroyed. The
p^tt block, the finest in the city, ad
joining the hotel, was completely gut
t ed. Loss, $75,000.
Brecon fabe " 7
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d,«o»od A pbretabolding ot loto, moot- «t
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lng '
Z*muel H to and ^TpZthnrVto „ __ . ,
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wanted in Chicago . and Pittebnrg to
ftEBWer tbe charges of swindling mer
chants by soliciting advertisements for
* 8t. Louis directory, have been ar
retied.<*. Jerse ;j City, N. J., and held
w $7,600 bail.
Saturday near Middlesboro, Ivy.,
two children of John and Sarah Tim
mons were burned to death. The par
ents had gone to a neighborhood gro
eery, leaving the children at home,
Both were bnrned to a crisp when their
parents returned.
Saturday night twenty-five employes
of the G.' H. Hammond Packing com
pany’s canning works at Hammond,
Ind., were laid off. The remaining
employes were notified that eight
hours would constitute a day’s work.
Men who were receiving $1.35 a day
will now earn $1.08. Young girls, who
formerly earned 45 cents per day can
earn but 36 cents,
At Nftehv ille, Tenn., Friday, United
g totefl Circuit Judge H. H. Lnrton
appoin ted Captain John W. Childress
apec i a i commissioner to sell the seenr
itieB behind the Cincinnati extension
gold Mortgage bonds, default recently fore
closed because of in interest
b tbe East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia ra il way . This is tbe appoint
ment which was declined by General
Turney because he opposed mixing
0 tber duties with that of governor,
The Memphis Commercial-Appeal
I the Woman’s Christian Ss-nSs Temperance
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d ^ February 14th. Ladies will con
department from editor-in
ohief ^ offloe boy.
BAN'KS IN TROUBLE.
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EXCITEMENT IN NEW FOUND
, awn over THE SITUATION.
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The r>.>. f 8 Locked Up and the People
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Ad ^ from gt j 0 h D s, N. F., state
Aat there ^ a gtrong feeling in certain
quarters that the arrests of the direc
j* org and manager Q f the Commercial ail
Y>«ik are largely due to personal lend
mosity> * n d the surroundings
^jo,. this. Sir William Whiteway
an( j ex-Speaker Emerson, of the assem
w are p roBecu ting counsel on behalf
of the CXOWVf an( f the men arrested
M a]]| ^i tboat exception, personal
tSdSnSS *whiS
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arrested mon were Admitted
. .. . gecI1 rities for $18,000 eaeh
being J furnished for each accused. The
uiea were obtained without diffl
thongh tbe bonds were the
| ever given in St Johns.
he Union bank shareholders are
agitating for a meeting now, and
threaten some proceedings* against
their directors, so intensely interest- crim
ing events are anticipated in the
inal court next term.
Scarcely less sensational was the
night session of the legislature when
the joint select committee presented
its report on the banks. Several
thousand good men crowded the
grounds, in addition to those unable
to gain admission. The report was
signed by all six of the committee,
It professed to be merely an interim
report, and stated briefly that the
Union bank was safe; its stability was
affected by overdrawn accounts, but it
was solvent, and all its,Uepositors,
note holders and creditors wpuld be
paid in full. They urged its speedy
extrication from its difficulties, either
by liquidation or resumption of busi- i
ness, and recommended the prevention
of legal proceedings on the part of
note holders for payment of claims in
specie. Commercial they report
The bank,
ed, was hopelessly insolvent, even if
the reserve liability of shareholders
was fully exacted. Its books were fal
rifled, its clerks had defaulted, suffi
oient care was not exercised with over¬
drafts, nor limits on exchanges aecept
dl
n a , . ., * .. ti
arteeing Union bank notes at 1 ce ts .
on the dollar,redeemable »n registration two yeara
provision being made by
of the original holders.
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that they be guaranteed at face value,
the colony bearing the lo s, »
No decision ... was arrived arrived at at. An nex ex
ha^* olrL fi J ^Enfflish°‘banks Jni a^eSSSS^ terested
Thl TTWinda al^fVronffht 8 b t *6 ' 000 in
specie which, however, is i a fM for orivate pnv te
firms and but little improves tbe on
gestionof circulation. ItuavenU
ble gold faming which will take months
^kSSn^ is increasing driir™* daily.
A COPPER DEAL.
A Scheme to Form a Combine Between
the Mines of the World.
The Chicago Times says: An in¬
ternational deal in oo pper is likely the to
be perfected soon, Ever since
smash-up of tha great corner in cop¬
per, which was created by a French
English syndicate three years bow ago,
•peculators have been figuring This to
pat through such a scheme.
time it is a oojpbination of English
capital which is engineering the deal
Representatives of the combine from
England have been in Chicago for
several days and were joined by John
Dem pter, of Glasgow, and Arthur
Turn ibull, of New York, who is inter
the deal
The party left for the i •i. ijTheir
on, it is said, is to
of
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JACKSONT1LLE—STATISTICS.
j Btepett i„ a Figures Regarding Traflle,
Marriages, Births and Deaths.
jKAe. 5 -- srs
special interest. There were
. thet port daring the twelve
months ended Monday pint night
335 feet of Florida lumber,
which about 64,000 feet went to do
meetic and 8 , 000.000 to foreign ports,
weTe a i so 1,808,000 cypress, ex
f orOM ^ tj e8 , shipped to lumber ooast
This out put of
Lfog by y alM^ water the l«T railroad shipments
Daring the
period 907,277 boxes of orangei
were shipped from the port to do¬
mestic points. The fire department
was called oat 143 times daring the
year, 112 of the fires being inside the
fix« limits and thirty-one ouUide. The
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llTh.ir«Tpir. th.ro B d 807 to birth.,
to tho oitj wore
St which m wore while, end 800 colored.
dretta i.tb. city w«o ®07,
nine short of the number of births,
the division being 234 whites and 859
redorrf. Thirty^htotteredreth.
threD°’wMo of non rod
',000 thi. innke. tho dentil ret. only
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TESTING AN ^INSURANCE LAW.
The State Of Florida Proceeds Against
Agents of the Lloyds.
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was begun before
1 court at Palatka, Fla.,
, It is that of G. Toper
eaux & Garrison, who
d held for soliciting
r as agents and doing
for
t. This agency
the Lloyds and
a, not only in
tent large
few York.
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FREEZE IN FLORIDA.
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THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE
STATE FROZEN STIFF.
Jacksonville Reports tbe Coldest
Weather on Record Since 1835.
Florida has been hit hard again.
Tbe cold of Friday night was general
all over the state, with the exception
of Key West, where the temperature
dropped to 44 degress. But the aver¬
age readings of the thermometer for
the period from midnight to snnrise
Saturday morning and for tbe whole
area of the state were below 19 degrees
above zero. The lowest record re¬
ported was in Jacksonville where at 6
o’clock a. m. the merenry registered
14 degraes above zero. This is one
degree colder than during the freeze
of Janaary 10 to 13, 1886, and the
coldest on record since 1835.
In exposed places in the city ice
formed to a thickness of fonr inches.
In houses all water was covered with a
thin coating of ice, where not pro¬
tected by fire. Water pipes burst,
clocks stopped and oranges on the
trees were frozen solid. It is the pre¬
vailing opinion that they have been
damaged ; seriously thronghout tbe
state, though the old trees are thought,
except in extremely exposed sections,
to be nninjnred.
About 2,500,000 boxes are estimated
by the Florida fruit exchange to have
been on the trees. This is a heavy
loss to the growers and naturally
causes much misgivings, long facee
and low spirits. Possibly 600,000
boxes of this fruit may be saved and
marketed, and if so it will probably
bring prices which will net the grow¬
ers in the neighborhood of $5 per box,
where they are now contented with an
average of $ 1 .
Hundreds of yonng orange groves,
from one to five years old, are doubt¬
less ruined completely, frozen down to
the ground, while the winter crops of
tomatoes, beans, peas, cabbages and
other vegetables are utterly destroyed.
Altogether, a conservative estimate
places the total loss to Florida agri -
culturists at fully $2,500,000.
FORTY-ONE KILLED.
Awful Fate of a Christmas Party In
Oregon.
At Silver Lake, Lake connty, Ore¬
gon, Christmas eve, while a large party
children who, with their parents and
them, little dreaming that many of
them would never leave the building
alive. The Lakeview Examiner says:
“Some one attempted to get where
J.'l£U.ij£ hall. head struok
In doing so his a
lamp hanging from the ceiling, oaus
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“People were compelled order to reach go
through the flames in to
the door and frantically rnahed to
their doom. Five of tbe injured will
likely die. The building wasatwo
story structure, including the post¬
office, and the entire stock of goods of
Christman Bros, was consumed.”
Silver Lake is over a hundred mile,
from Klamath Falls, and a theTews stage with
Lskcriew papers brought to
the Utter place.
A labor demonstration.
Shoe Workers Determined to Break
Up the Contract System.
Haverhill, Mass., witnessed a, big
l.bor demonstration Hood., forenoon.
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SJS, 2”“,*, h „ fwtoriw ^At Chick A
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i^k n red
,nt Aboot one hundred men
“i So^rtrf P 0 Swett’s employes factory. quit Upon work
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meeting waa-held in the city i hall. The
shoe workers say they are de terained
to break up the eon tract system and
also to secure the adoption of new
prioe lists.
GEN. 0*FEERALL IS WRATHY.
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Newspaper for Libel.
The Norfolk, Va., PUot in a recent
ieaae printed a long statement about
tbe Am mean Book Company and the
Virginia state board of education, ia
which it charges a corrupt deal be¬
tween the book company and the state
board, by which the books iff the com¬
pany were put cm the state list It is
at of
John E. Massey, was bribed and that
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ft TRADE TOPICS.
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B* B* Dan A Co.’s Review of tJ
the Past Week. fouJ
K. G. Dnn & Co.’s review of
for the past week says:
“Commercial failures in 18 9*. &
ready reported to us, number 14 .292, j
against 15,242 last againeTS . ^ ]
ties of $163,248,404, fiSf 7
889 last year. Next week the 2^ 1
port for 1894 will probably show I
400 more failures. From these
counts and transportation banks and bankers, companies fl nai JJ 7 1
eluded. Manufacturing are 2
ready number 2,756, failures 1
but liabilities against 3,452 W I
year, are onlv 864 4 £ qi J
297, against $176,982,091 last year
314, trading against failures 11,512 already last number 11 thi 1 I
liabilities only $86,899,057, year, but agaiS I
are I
$130,062,333 laet year. The stZ 1
ment by sections shows a decrease 0 { 1
about two-thirds in defaulted liabili
ties ern in states, the middle one-half and in central the north. ami ] ]
southwest and third west J
a in other sections, cottoj
“The revision of prices for
goods since has the been great the auction, controlling feature! wide!
and I
sheetings have been marked down I
about ten per cent, while changes all
along longer the disputed line are that expected. the It is n 0 j j
demand has fallen below expectations, consuming 1
and below the production which the
mills kept up in the hope of increased
consumption. Very little has been
done in woolen goods, all waiting for
developments alter January 1 st, when
new duties take effect ]
“The market for iron and steel is
waiting, but the reduction in wages at j
the Edgar Thompson works, averaging i
15 per cent, plainly indicates the same
difficulty which is seen in other quar¬
ters, that the demand in consumption
does not answer to the increase in the
production of pig iron.
“Money is still flowing into Nev
York City in a steady stream, and ex¬
ports of gold for the week are expect¬
ed to be about $2,500,000. The dis¬
solution of the bond syndicate, owing
to the pending currency bill, has de¬
stroyed the market for bonds, is the
most important event in financial cir¬
cles,, and it is liable to have results of
some consequence. ' For commercial
loans, the demsnn has slightly increas¬
ed, though only as might be expected
at this season.
“Failures in three weeks of Decem¬
ber show liabilities of $10,651,937, of
which $3,569,760 were manufacturing,
and $6,751,419 of trading concerne.
Failures for the week have been 350 in
the United States, against 511 last
year, and 41 in Canada, I against 41 last
year.”, .
A DISASTROUS COLLISION.
Seventeen People Injured and Many
Cars Smashed.
As a result of a collision between two
passenger trains, near Waxahachie,
Texas, seventeen persons were badly
injured. The westbound Texas Cen¬
tral passenger train was slowly passing
over the Missouri, Kansas and Texas 1
railway crossing, when the southbound
passenger train on tbe latter road
crashed into the rear coach, striking
it squarely in the middle and over¬
turning it. Passengers and seats were' |
piled in a mass in the forward part of
tiie car. An instant latex the cat
caught fire from an overturned stove,
but was extinguished before any per¬
son was badly burned.
After a half hour's hard work the
wounded passengers were gotten oni
Two persons were found fatally: and
fifteen seriously injured. It deems
almost miraculous that no one was
killed outright as the coach was crush¬
ed like an egg shell.
Ex-BCUator Fair Dead.
Ex-Senator James F. Fair, the bo¬
nanza millionaire, died at San Fran¬
cisco Friday night The cause of his
death was diabetes and Bright’s dis¬
ease. He leaves a|fortane estimated at
$40,000,000 and by the terms Of his
telegraphic this will, made some two
months ago, vast sum, it is stated,
will be equally divided between his
three Odrieha, surviving children, New York; Mrs. Ber¬ Vir¬
man of Mias
ginia, now studying with her mater in
New York, and Charles L. Fair, .7*1 of SaR 7*
Francisco. ■
ATLANTA MARKETS.
COERBCTXD WKBKUf. '
Groceries.
Boasted coffee 81.80 W 100 fe
20e; fair 19s; prime 18c. t
Standard granulated while 4%c;off do. granulate rallow 8
Orleans 4*;
B^ftf ^N ew Ori ee es tpmjpSSkt fc;
diOioeft^c. do. bbi..
S3.25; Pull les Hi 100
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gtagw mam, 8 l 4e. Candy
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2ay,«25c; Brgsia^R!- fancy
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