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company. The band will he sent to
Washington to be approved by the
RII I'*1 iBXTpftLtalked andtlau^hed wIth hls.compan-
HILL rllM J L wl 1 Ll\ ion the tobacco smoke encircled her f f
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^Btesentleman would smoke In the- —— ■ -y—- - ~ —*•—TT’#* Holm his commission
presence of a lady." “Well, madam,”
Bartow Man A'nnounoes Ttiat’Se
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HIS. FRIENDS CALI AND BUOY HUB UP
-Railroad Man Regales Him • With
Story of a Dutchman and His
Pipe Versus Irate Woman
And Her Poodle Dog,
We have at last had a glorious rain.
After nine long sweltering weeks with
out a drop to lay the dust or purify the
atmosphere It came with a downpour
and everybody is happy. The gardens
will revive and the flowers will bloom
again and the farmers wUl rejoice,
for It has come In time to save their
^languishing crops. The dear, little sick
child whom we have been nursing so
tenderly and watching for many days
will now get well. My wife or one of
the girls Is there day and night, but
the dust and the heat had almost over
come him when the rain came. We
are all air plants and must have It
pure.
Then again, I tried to take comfort
by readlnfg the tribute that Charles
Francis Adams has recently paid to
General Robert E. Lee. It seems to be
getting quite fashionable to praise Lee
up there, but really I don’t see why
they should single him out and damn
Mr. Davis and all the rest of us and
* the cause for which Lee fought. I
don’t like Any man who praises Lee
and stabs Mr. Davis. Lee and Davis
were like brothers all their mature
lives. They were classmates at West
Point and during our civil war they
were bosom friends and never disa
greed about anything. It is a gross In
sult to the memory of Lee to slander
his closest and dearest friend. No
gentleman would do It. I have not
heard of Charles Francis Adams slan
■ dering Mr. Davis, but we have good
reasons to suspect that he belongs to
the Goldwln Smith and Roosevelt
crowd,for be voluntarily took command
of a negro regiment during the war,
and that is a bad sign. No gentleman
amt
he said, kindly, “dls Is de smokin’ car.
It is not de ladles’ car. I Is very sor
ry to trouble you wld mine pipe and
tobacco, but you bad better go back
to the ladles’ car. “They won't let
my dog go In there," said she. “Dot
Is very bad,” he, said and kept on
smoking. By and by a voluminous
cloud like that which came from the
crater of Mont Pelee roljed oyer her,
and in her rage she seized his pipe,
jerked It from his mouth and threw it
out of the window. Everybody'laugh
ed'and roared, and he Joined in the
merriment. "Madam, dot la all de pipe
I hav got It was give to me In Shar-
many, but vun good turn deserves an
other, and Jie seized her little sleeping
dog and threw him out of the window.
The woman screamed with anger; she
mauled him over the head with he/
umbrella. She screamed and yelled
for the traln to stop. He stood it all
heroically. '“‘Madam. I sent your dog
to find mine pipe," he said; The alarm
was so great that the conductor came
running In and some passengers filled
the door, while the woman did the
talking. “My husband will meet me at
Orlando," she said, “and he will maul
the Juice out of you, you bald-headed
rascal.” "Veil, I will give him a
chance,” said he. The train soon roll
ed up to Orlando, and sure enough the
woman’s husband was there. She be
came violent and hysterical as she told
her wrongs and pointed out the man.
Let him come out here," said the
husband, “I dare him to come out
here." "Veil, I suppose I must see
about de fight,” said the Dutchman,
"and take de medicine, l\ut I shore
don’t vant no little guns In It nor
butcher knives; I can fight some mid
mine fists." He took off his coat and
handed it to a bystander. The crowd
increased. The conductor said he
would stop the train for ten minutes.
A ring was made tor the men to fight
in and everybody was In a state of
high expectation. Here my friend
stopped his narrative find lit a fresh
cigar and commenced talking about
something else. “But the fight," said
I, "what about the fight?" Oh! there
wasn’t any fight," he said. "Just as
they were about to clutch somebody
Brief Summary of Doings
Thiyyghoijp the State.
Syndicate Buys Macon Lines.
The street railway company that con
trols the plants In Portsmouth, Nor
folk, Richmond and Nashville has pur
chased the property of the two street
railway companies at Macon. Parties
Interested in the company will not talk
about the deal, but It Is learned from
another source that the purchase has
been made.
• * •
Borrowed Money for Teachers.
Governor Candler announces that he
has borrowed $160,000 with which to
pdy the teachers. The rate of Interest
to be paid, which fs the most Interest
ing part of . the. loan, was not made
known. It Is said, however, that three
per cent was nil th a L was.paid. - Treas
urer Park says that he had absolutely
nothing to do with making the loan, as
the matter was entirely In the hands of
the. governor.
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Congressman Arouses Judge.
In the Congressional Record of June
19 appears & speech by Hon. Charles L.
Bartlett, In which the bankrunt law Is
attacked, and In which a number of
severe reflections were directed to
ward the United States bankruptcy
court of the southern district of Geor
gia, and Judge Emory Speer and other
officials. This has caused much com
ment and has elicited a red-hot rejoin
der from Judge Speer.
Railroad Men Indicted.
Indictments were returned by the
United States grand Jury at Atlanta,
the past week against twelve promi
nent railroad men and five railroads as
a result of the Investigation of the
freight pool which It Is allegedjthe rail
roads are conducting in Atlanta. The
only largo railroads running Into At-
: Cream of News.
Brief Summary of Most
of £a§h.;,pay.
—A white mWtandJ; negro - were ar
rested In Albany, ’Ga., Sunday, charged
with having cqnpealed the body of a
drowned boy IntheMjpe of obtaining a
reward for It.
<■* • - V 'J9
—Judge Emory Speer makes reply
i 1 ~; , ...... ~ .. I —juubo JCdUiuiy aycer uianct)
lanta that are not indicted are the to tbe attack o£ ; congressman C. L.
Central of Georgia and the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis.
The railroads are Indlcted’for violat
ing the anti-trust law and five of the
railroad men are Indicted on three
different counts, all of them relating to
the pooling of cotfon rates in Atlanta
and conspiracy In Injuring commerce.
Two of the officials .Indicted promptly
gave, bond for their appearance at
the fall term of the United States
court in the sum of $1,000. They are
R. .1. Cheatham, assistant general
frelghfagent of the Seaboard Air Line,
and S. F. Parrott, chairman of the
Southeastern Freight Association.
George W. Parrott qualified as bonds
man tor 8. F. Parrott and D. O. Dough
erty went on Mr. Cheatham’s bond.
The bond In each case has been fixed
Bartlett on the bankruptcy court of the
southern circuit,
—At-the end of the administration
of Mayor Bridges Smith, of Macon,
Ga., It will be shown that he kept hts
promise and saved the city $30,000 In
one year.
—A musician and lawyer in Knox
ville, Tenn., both In love wltn a pretty
girl there, had stripped to fight a duel
with pistols when the police broke
It up. !
—As a result of a soldier resenting
an Insult to the army In the Philip
pines, one man was killed and three
mortally wounded In a fight in Knox
ville, Tenn.
—President Mitchell, of the United
Mine Workers; Is out In an appeal to
at $1,000 by Clerk W. C. Carter, of the I the public, giving the condition of af-
would have done It. It was an evidence
that he believed niggers would make ' cried out, ’Look yondep! look yonder!
war hell to uc and they would kill and , look down the railroad track." And
rob and rape and burn out of revenge, j sure enough there came.the little dog
No, 1 have no respect for this Adams running with all his might and he had
nor Lew Wallace nor any other man j the Dutchman's pipe lu his mouth. Of
who commanded negroes during the course there was no fight, for the
war. It was not humane nor legltl- Dutchman seized his pipe and the wo-
mate warfare. It showed venom and man her dog and that settled It. Now.
brutality and malignity. What did let the preacher tell one.” And he
General Lee do before the war or dur- There are no better story tellers
lug the war or after the war that did than our Cartersville preachers. They
not have the hearty co-operation of revive me whenever they come, for
Mf. Davis? What did Mr. Davis do j 1 am sick at heart and can’t get breath
that General Lee did not approve? enough. Good letters from friends and
Both were good soldiers and won their kindred come every day and my ever
spurs. Both were devout Christian I thoughtful friend, Joe Brown, sent me
members of the Episcopal church and j the most beautiful spoon I ever saw—
Senator Reagan said of Mr. Davis:
"He was the most devout Christian I
ever knew and the most lovable man."
He was a conscientious believer in the.
doctrine of state’s Tights as expounded
by Mr. Calhoun and while a lieutenant
In the United States army declared he
would resign his command before he
would assist In the coercion of a sov
ereign state. The International Cy
clopedia says of him: “He was a great
statesman and, a true patriot, and his
history will grow brighter as the years
roll on." But this presidential acci
dent says he was an arch traitor and
arch repudiator and he hasn't the man
liness to take It back and apologize.
But here come some genial friends „ .. .
to call and sec how I am getting on. for The P a « a «® of thls mea * ur ® at the
I am still suffering and need sympathy. «*•••«“ «.sloa was scared by Incor
Georgia silver and Georgia etchings
and engravings. Blessings on blm and
hts house.—BUI Arp, In Atlanta ConBtl.
tutlon.
KOBE MOSEY FOR FLORIDA.
Passage of Indian War Claim BUI
Feather In Cap of Gov. Jennings.
, A Tallahassee, Fla., dispatch s'ays:
Whatever else may be said of Gover
nor Jennings’ administration, It has, at
least, succeeded la materially Increas
ing the revenues of the state. The
last achievement In this direction was
the passage of the old Indian war
claim bill with which one congress af
ter another has struggled In vain.
Postponed For One "Day.
On aco^ggt of the democratic con
vention, whichis to be held on July 2,
the Georgia Bar Association, Instead
of holding It smeetlng at Warm Springs
o nthat date, has postponed it until the
followngday. The change was .made
by the executive committee at the re
quest of many members of the associa
tion. who are desirous of attending tbe
state convention. The meeting of the
association will be called Jo order at
10 o’clock on the mornlug’ofVuly 3.
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"Crooked" Marriage 8ervice Alleged.
On the charge of lnvetgllng a young
girl into a mook marriage, H. B. Free
man was arrested la Atlanta last Sat
urday. A few minutes prior to his
arrest,.John H. Burns, a friend of Free
man’s, was arrested on the charge of
personating the clergyman who per
formed the mock marriage ceremony.
The charges were made by W. H.
Jones jot Athens, who claims that bis
daughter, Nettle Jones, was made a
victim of a plot In which Freeman and
Burns played the role of husband and
preacher, respectively.
Burns denies that be bad anything
whatever to do with the affair. Free
man admits a great deal, but says
there was no mock marriage.
district court. All of those indicted
are expected to furnish bonds within
the week.
• • •
High Praise for Peabody.
The announcement of Georgia F.
Peabody’s magnificent gift to the State
Normal at Athens the past week was
read with great Interest by the people
of the Classic City. Mr. Peabody takes
a great deal of Interest In the Unlver-
fairs at the mines which caused the
men to strike. He says all attempts to
get the operators Into arbitration have
failed.
—Fire at Portland, Oregon, de
stroyed six blocks of buildings. Loss
Is reported at $600,000.
—A misplaced switch caused a pas
senger train to Jump the track near
Ashtown, Iowa. Two persons were
and Its branch Institu- M ft others seriously Injured.
tlonac, and he Is especially Impressed
by the work that Is being done at the t
State Normal school.
A year ago he 4pre this Institution
$10,000 as a neucleus for a building
fund and also gave over $3,000 *o es
tablish therein the School of Domestic I persons on board only two
Arts and Sciences. deaths
Since then he has outfitted the psy- —Ninety-nine American soldiers
chologlcal laboratory at a cost of $1,-. have died of cholera at. Manila since
600. Now comes his gift of $10,000 for the disease first broke out.
a new building and $3,000 for its equip-1 _ Lord Milner took the oath as gov-
—Coronation week opene'd In Lon-'
don wltb : the city crowded with visi
tors and the streets gaily decorated for
the great event of Thursday.
—A Chinese cruiser blows up while
lying In Yang-tse river and out of 150
escape
ment
ernor of the Transvaal at Pretoria
Monday.
—The two Rome, Ga., mall carriers
| who were dropped on account of patty
State Will Not Build Depot.
The latest Indications are that At
janta’s new passenger station wUl not, ■ flght for JuiUc6 ; are
be erected on the state’s property, the " * . . ’ .. .
site of the present ca^ajied. This ***** Ia tbelr porous,
statement Is t>**qd*tfpon*-the position —A tanner at Lo ul * a - Va -» 18
taken by President Samuel Spencer, of charged, after fatally wounding bis son
the Southern, as well as the members I ln law - reloaded his gun and emptied,
of the general council of Atlanta,
vast majority of whom are strongly
opposed to the city ceding any prop
erty to the state or allowing the other
requirements of Mr. Gilbert’s plans to
be carried out
The difficulties ln the way of an ade.
its content Into the dying mhn.
—William J. Bryan scathingly re
views the “harmony” speech of Grover
Cleveland. Mr. Bryan says that har
mony Is not possible with Cleveland
posing as a leader. ' &
—Miss Jane Toppah, on trial at
When they come they bring good cheer
and wit and anecdote and that Is bet
ter than ruminating about politics and
niggers. We were talking about dogs
and one of these friends, who is a rail
road man, told us about a woman try
ing to board a train down In Florida
and she bad a little poodle dog In her
arms, and tbe conductor said: “No,
madam, yon can’t take that dog with
you in the passenger car. It Is against
the rules.” She was a northern wo
man with sharp features. Our south
ern women don’t carry poodle dogs
around with them; they prefer a baby.
Well, she was very Indignant and
scanted to know what she mast do
poratlng It la the opnlbus bill—a step
which will add something like $700,060
to the state’s resources. Already the
newspaper fraternity throughout Flor
ida Is bnslly engaged In spending the
money In advance.
It Is, however, much to be regretted
that so much misapprehension should
prevail as to tbe manner In which tbe
proceeds of this claim are to be dis
posed of. As a matter of fact, the
money will go into the general fund of
the state, subject to tbe action of th-
legislature, and as for the old Indian
war warrants, upon which so mapy In
dlviduals are now pinning hopes that
can never be realized. It Is a well-
with her dog. "Put him In the b«- , ’?*' ** ** ^ ^
Ax" .nM malnxln, km .ho ’ Jul,a " ca -
gage car,” said the conductor. As she
1 anded up the canine to the baggage
Florida’s Indian war claim Is based
.Vo -Won 1 rooiron i ...» U P°» the money expended by
who™ Toi’ridJ^Tnd ^ho tbe state In the suppression of hosUll-
ride wheremy dog rides, and she ^ during the Seminole outbreak,
went into the MggWe car. The man th , warranf , ln queitl0B wera
Ha Med * e „ dos " lth not Issued until lttl.
a little cord and sbe squatted on a box
near by. After they passed Sanford
abe got tired, and untieing tbe dog,
took him in her arms and went back Teaeher* Fr« m Many Males Gather In
to the smoker. That car was fnll of; Knoxville, Tennevi.ee.
Jolly good fellows, but she demanded a j T |, e gummer school of the south
NUMBER SCHOOL OBEYED.
New Paper For Atlanta.
Formal announcement has been
made of the appearance of The Atlan
ta Dally News, a new evening paper,
to be edited by John Temple Graves
and Charles Daniel, on Monday, Au
gust 4. The News will be printed on
a three-deck Goss straight-line print
ing press, which has a capacity of 25,-
000 papers an hour, and will print up
to twenty-four pages. Tbe press also
has a color attachment The type will
be set by a battery of new Mergentbo-
ler linotype machines. Tbe paper will
be one of the first la the south to adopt
the "penny" Idea ln price. The tele-
graph news will be furnished tbe new
paper by the Publishers’ Press Asso
ciation and tbe Scrtppa-McRae League.,
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Waycrots to Have Car Factory.
A movement Is on toot In Waycrors
to organize a company to manufacture
box cars. The movement was first be
gun a week or so ago by tbe officials
of the Atlantic and Birmingham Rail
way Company, who are In need of 200
box cars and a hundred or more flats.
Other citizens have taken up the mat
ter, and in all probability a company,
with a capital of stock not less than
$60,000 will be organized within the
next few weeks. *
Should the factory be started, not
less than 250 men will be employed.
All of tbe work on tbe cars except tbe
manufacture of tbe wheels and axles
will be done in Waycross. *
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' Rome’s New Postmaster.
Captain T. J. Heim, Rome's new
postmaster, appointed Jobn Barclay to
be bis assistant. Mr. Barclay Is a well
known young business man of Rome,
and has been connected with leading
dry good stpres for a number of years.
Mr. Helm will probably take charge of
the postofflee some time during July.
The personal bond of $16,000, which
quate passenger station on the present Barnstable, Mass., for poisoning many
site are so ninpy and great as to be In- persons whom she attended as q nurse,
surmountable. This position Is not hag been declared Insane and will be
only taken by Mr. Spencer, but is the | conflned f or life,
voice of tbe people of Atlanta Echoed
through Its representatives ln council.
Even Governor Candler admits that
the Idea of tbe state building a depot
Is now out of tbe question since tbe
stand taken by tbe Southern. In speak
ing of tbe matter he said:
"When the clause was Inserted Id
-Vast crows greeted the entry of
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
Into London Monday. The king walk
ed heavily, but showed few symptoms
of Illness.
—Lord Kitchener has sailed for Eng
land after having been given an ova-
the depot bill making It Inoperative tl «P b ? tho P® 0 ® 1 * of Ca P® Town -
unless all tbe roads should agree to 1 —Governor Candler has borrowed
come ln, tbe effect of tbe bill was then $150,090 with which to flnlsh paying
and there killed. Tbe Southern had
no intention of coming it at that time;
It has still less Idea of doing so at the
present time. The Southern will, ln
my opinion, build on tbe land recently
purchased near tbe Mitchell street via
duct. 1
If for no ether reason than the attl
tude of council in the matter tho state
could not build according to the Gil
bert plans on the present site. Mr. Gil
bert proposes that Wall street shall be
cut in half and that the depot shall
run up to practically- the center of the
street. He also proposes that the
Whitehall street viaduct and the Broad
street bridge shall be raised. This, ac
cording to the opinion'of council,
would entail endless damage suits to
the city, while Atlanta Is receiving no
return In taxes from the amount of
money expended on tbe state’s proper-
seat and they gave her one. She took - opened at theUnirerslty of Tennessee, lielm I. required toX has .1-
one-h.lt and laid her poodle on the tn Knoxville, the put week with over! Sdf bL n^e ^ L d 0 f *30oX>
htad'hm 1 LdVu'LStaiXoldpl’u 1,400 teaChe ” Pre * e f \ TW * ntJr * Ute * Ia mnlred, but 1*14.000 Is la a surety
hind her and wu smoking an old pipe are represented. Including every state 1 4
that gave an unearthly odor, and as he ( Q the south. ' I
salaries of Georgia teachers.
—The Atlantic Coast Line* has filed
mortgage for $80,000,000 to cover 60- .
year first consolidated 4 per cent bonds
la consummation of Plant system deal.
—Grover Cleveland and David B.
Hill spoke for democratic, unity at th»
opening of tbe TUden Club In New
York. Mr. Cleveland announced bis
absolute retirement from politics.
-The senate bu rejected tbe Nica
ragua canal bill and voted In favor of
tbe Spooner substitute, which gives
preference to the Panama route.
•In West Virginia strikers hurled a
quantity of dynamite Into a mine
worked by non-union men, killing five
of them.
—Another eruption of Mont Pelee
bu occurred. Over fifty houses at
Basse Polnte were destroyed, but no
ty. On the other hand, the advantage lives lost.
Is plainly brought out that If the _King Albert of Saxony is dead af-
Southern builds a depot cosUng $500,- ter a long m neia> marked by dramatic
000 tbe city will derive good revenue
In tazep and that the property ln that |
vicinity Will be vastly benefited.
COLLI GE DEGREE FUtt NEGRO
Incidents. He wJU be succeeded by
bis brother George.
—-The Venezuela rebels are gaining
victories and the annihilation of Cas
tro's government Is progressing very
rapidly.
priuMion j!"iv.u. Aru
forgotten how to read. Before his Ill
ness he wu a scholarly man.
ton, N. J., Friday that among the de-
greet conferred during Princeton’s I
commencement wu tbe degree of mu
ter of aits upon George S. Stark, a ne
gro, and the first of bis race to receive
a degree from the university. He
graduated from Princeton Theological
seminary lut month.
—Editor Henry Wattenon scathing
ly arraigu Grover Cleveland for the
latter’s speech on democratic harmony.
Watterson says all the discord la due
to Cleveland. -