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The Pndigality if the Present Generation. The present generation is without a parallel or . a pret ideace in the con sumption of its capital. It is exist ing, apparently, without any hope of a posterity. The people ot the pres ent day are working far more to the disadvantage of future generations than if they were pilling up a moun tain of mere pecuniary indebtedness to be paid by those who shall come after us. Money can be earned with com parative ease when material is abun dant and the forces of another can be harnessed up like docile beasts to do oar bidding; but when new material is absent productive labor is dificult BOOKS FOR TEACHERS. .Dove riail liyar.1 mat i j regular at-saiou Pratcnt Hon. A. P. Wright, chairman, Bullock, Maliette and Lilly. Minutes of last meeting read and approved. Capt. Ilatnmon 1 and Mr. Merrill appeared for furniture in court hou-o, referred Com missioner Mallclto .iih power to act. Treasarer’s renort read and approved. Beport of Judge Alexander received and ordered epread on the minute. vip: ’ To the county commissioner?, report for 1 December, 1892. i Because o- the adjnuromed term ol the superior court, there tr-a not as much bust* Atlahta, Ga., Jm." 5 —Within the next month or so there will have been eetnbtuhet in Georgia 137 lioraries for the uee of the public school teachers of the state. Toe establishment of these libraries is a most important more in the educa tional interests ol the state, as in ad dition to aiding in raising the stan dard of the teachers through their influence the manes of children who attend the common schools will be the beneficiaries. State School Com- ( missioncr Brad well is the originator of the plan for_the organization of these librariea and hoi just eent out to each of the Tariona county school oommissionera a circular letter giving the preliminary instructions in rela tion to the organisation of a teachers’ library in each county oi the state. ' Under the law piovided for county teachers’ institutes it wss compulsory en teschan to attend these institutes or submit to a fine for each day ot absence. This money collected as fines, under the direction of the state school commissioner, wss set aside tor the purpose ot establing teachers’ li braries. Commissioner Brad well has just received the reports lrom the county school* commissioners teaching the teachers' institutes of the past year, which was the first year under the new law, and in reference to the fines collected for non atiendauce. In some counties the amount runs up as high as 1100 and in others as low as 110. This money is to be spent at once tor the purchase of book-, which will form a nucleus ror a msgniiiceut library in every coUDty of the state. Next year the amount collected iu fines for non-attendance upon the institutes will in all probability be larger than it was this year because the law will bo more rigidly enforced. if not impossible. The prodigal of . our supplies of natural ga?,ail, coal and iron may well suggest the question. Are we not wickedly dissi paring what should of right be en joyed by future generations, and what Would be our conditions to-day if the people of a century or two ago-had boss as wasteful of these resources as wejsre now? It is stated that in some parte of Western Pennsylvania the street lamps Ire allowed to burn all day because the supply ot natural gas is cheaper then the labor needed to light and extinguish them each twen ty-tour hours. In Indiana many of the natural gas wells are wantonly set ou fire fur the sake of the display of huge volumes ut flame, involving the consumption of an enormous amount of tael that ought to be uiiiiz-d or aaved up for yeens to come. Some of thd Russian wells in Beau are allowed to burn out in the same manner. The coal and iron mines oi Great Britain have been drawn upon eo lavishly iu the last tew year* that the coat ot producing the latter is in creat ing rapidly, and the former if made the subject of computations which p dot to the exhaustion at toe supply within a brief period of time, and in Ryan Out of Jail. Atla>iTa, Jitn- 7.—Judge Richard H. Clarke to-day granted Ryan a trial by jury, fixing hia boud at $100,- 000 Ryan gave the bond and was released trutn jail to day. This will probably make all the creditors a party to the suit, which will consume much time in the trial of the case. life are rapidly runniug out. Disass ter, death and defeat appear to have marked the history of Harrison’s ad ministration, including a .number of his original cabinet. The Savannah Press calls attention to the number of yonng men on the bench in Georgia Guerry, Gamble, Roney, Gober. Henry Falligant. Bart lett and Sweat are still on the sunny That Du'ws about a bloody fight in North Carolina was a fake, pure and sample. Ii was worked up end sent by an impecunious fellow at Johnson City, who succeeded io fooling the as sociated press. And, more, be sent on a bill and collected bis fee from the association before the fraud was dis covered. The .Augusta Chronicle was the only Georgia daily which did not swallow the North Carolina fake-' Mr. Walsh thought the story sounded ‘fishy ” Well, upon second Thought, it did have a fishy aroma about it Great preparations are being made in Washington for the second inaugu ration of Grover Cleveland. The clans will be there. They are already mak ing arrangements for the trip. Georgia will be well represented. ISAAC GRIFFIN; Washington County Redeemed. Sandebsville, Ga., Jan. 5*— Washington ounty ia redeemed. The full democratic ticket was elected for county offictrs. Not through counting yet, but the majorities range from 100 to 500 / 113 Broad Street, Thomasvilie, Ga. UANUFACTTRER AND DEALER IN The senate and boose were both dull and anintemring yesterdsy. The boose passed twenty-five private pen sion bills, while Bock Kilgore was ’- Whereupon your petitioners pray the granting of an order by yonr honor appoint ing three road commissioners, residing as near when said r ad is intended to go as possible to make a. e iow of said con templated ro^d and if then determine that such new road will be of public utility to make it ont and make th ir report in accord ance with law. K. T. McLean, O. L. Ward, John Cox and 10 ethers. . Web the undersigned road commissioners, tor the Thomas rill© district, recommend the above road oi dtsenbed in above petition. near the city. The questiou bubs up how and then*. Will Georgia get a cabinet position ? Well, hardly; though she has some fine cabinet timber within her bord- At Watson’s Homo. B00r P°t°° the brm«- 1HOMB305, Ga., Jan 5.—The elec The people oLTbomu county are rioo for county officer, passed off to be congratulated. At the election quietly, the third party electing all «o Wednesday s fall set ot efficient their candidates, but the majority* ol and competent county officers were the November election waSredaced elected. Every min elected is compe- by .210 . tent, and will perform his duly faith- Blaine Doing Well. l-Htandfear^y., . Washington,'Jaa. 5—The re. Judge Meadows defeated'A. P. Per- port from ex Secretary. Blaine this bam for ordinary of Brooks county at jnornlng tvaa encouraging. j the election on Wednesday. -LADIES A SD UENTLEMIISS Croker, Tammany’s ■ chief, says Ur. Morphy will not antagonize Cleveland when elected to the senate. There is no doubt, so it is said, abont Murphy’s election! It is down on the bills. p RIDNG OUTFITS. -THE ONLY PLACE TO GET THE CELEBRATED— Cut down the cotton acreage. This ts old advice, but tt » good. It has improved with age, New York ■ democrats should get closer together. Ur. Cleveland is being offered piles and piles of advice. A great deal of it, however, will never reach him. This is the sad feature of the business. AN ASSORTMENT OF Fine Whips Always on Hand, O. L. Wau>, W. B. Haubleton, W. T. Odosi, OommiBsioaerJ. Uniform Text Books, si? Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 6—In all probability one of the leading issues, if not in i;ict tho leading issue before the fegislgtnro at its next session, will be the adoption ot a uniform system of text books for the common schools of the state. Tim issue has been sprung time and again, but always without practical result. With the beginning •»£ his second term of <.ffic*-, however, Bute School Commissioner Brad well, ' who raised the issue - im mediately on ts king bold of the reins of the educational department of the state government, by bringing it be fore the legislature,, has determined to make ibis the fight of his life. In discussing the situation as regarding the naoney expended by the citizens oi the state for school books to day Commissioner Brad well said that he could give figures to the legislature 'Showing that he could save to the state $200,000 a year by the establish ment of a uniform system of tekt books for the common schools. If he can do this he certainly has the argu« ment of the question on his side, and when the issue is made, as he stated he intended to make dt, before the peo ple the importance of the movement at once becomes apparent. Drill Cards for Volunteers. Lieutenant Sattcrlce, of the state department oi military, has hit upon a very admirable scheme for encourag ing and making more perfect the de~ tail work of dnlis for the Georgia vo:» umters. He has had printed a lot of drill cards suggesting regular schedules lor the commanders of the companies and will send them out to the captains within ihe next frw days. Thus, ai each meet!) g of the company tor drill, it can be given ou> just what line of drill they wi.l undergo at the next meeting and the memberaof the com panies a*ii! of necessity become more interested iu their work and do it with much more zeal than heretofore. Gener.il Kcil has issued an order to the volunteer forces of the state that these dr 11 cards must be adopted. The idea was suggested by thelieuicn am in his report to the adjutant in spector genera!.—Constitution. The District Stewards- The Dibinc* S e*aids. oi the l'hom- asv:)le d.strict, held a meeting last Thursday in A biny. By resolution the i.a'ary of the pre siding elder remains the same as last year, $1,700. and tru- following amounts have been aa^s.-cd each charge ior this purpose during the ensuing year. I'hum isMtic, 250; \ibany, 175; Bainbrioge, 15.'; Boston, 150; Camil la. *75; Aiupu gu., too; W tug bam, 75; P erce, too; Pelham, 100; Bakely, 140; Leary, 5c; Cokjuitr, 30; Decatur, 75; Ca ro, 130 Total, §1,700. By respiu ion it was decided that the apprrtio m;n for conference col lections b : ]> accd in the hands of ihe presiding e-dcr wnh full power to act. —Cam.l a G ano.i. The recent ( out the stat.; t tbe third par<5 Georgia. Aft election, Peck, their followers nominate foi This advice w; is a crush- r, counties, h-.n yoke and c:tct democratic c: the democrats Is it not ume 1 lowers 0/ thesj quirting the r: promises no g- Busted ;uui.:y elections through- ho»; unnLStakably, that •s .10. longer a power 10 cr the last gubernatorial Wasoii & Co, told 10 rally again, and to r eviry county office, io lol owed. The result Even strong third party tol -T--, threw off the cd juli sets of straight Ticurs Nowhere did ta*te a backward s.ep. hat the oft deluded fob • cal uui-.y bowlers were nka of a party which >od to the country? Weed ’Em Out. The following s £.1! ex.ract from message by Andrew Jackson to the congress t.f tnc U-u?eu States: “I recommend *hat an actual in- spect'On should be made m each stale ioto the circumstances and claims of every person now drawing a pension. The honest veteran has nothing to fear from such scru iny, while the fraudulent claimant wt 1 be detec ed and the publ.c treasury relieved to an amount I have reason to believe greater than has heretofore been sus pected.” Respectfully refetred, just now, to Benjamin Harrison; and, later,to Gro ver Cleveland. Commissioner Rradwell says, and in time inch donations as will be made by those whoso interest is enlisted in the cause of education to these Ii brariea will have a powerful influence iu disseminating education through out the state. In speaking ol the preliminary work of organization ou which he is now engaged Commis sioner Bradwell to day said that he bad found that the teachers in the common schools of the state did but little reading, and this fact, with its apparent detriment to the cause ol education, led him to hit upon tbe plan of establishing libraries in every county with the county school com missioners as librarians, the librariea to be located at the county site, where the teachers of the county are re quired to meet together at least one day ont of each month, their privi lege under this plan being to take whatever books they may fancy and keep them until the meeting a month later. It is now practically assured that Hon. Stephen M. White, one of the ablest and truest democrats on the Pacific coast, will be the next senator from California Mr. White is no millionaire as bis predecessors have been. The eenatorehip, while in the control of the republicans, has been let to the highest bidder. Under democratic role, it goes to the ablest and best. See the difference ? Lelaml Stanford’s millions couldn’t bay the democrats in the legislature of Cali tornia. The Houston Home Jour »al give- 1 his good advice to the farmers of Georgia: ‘'Raising cot.on to buy corn, meat and other farm snpplie • that can be raised at home will never be profira ble, and ail prosperous farmers know it. The Home Journal does not pire to become general director agricultural affairs, but we warn our farmers against planting such an acre age of cotton as will in any degree dis place the necessary crops of farm sup' plies.” Atlanta, Ga, Jan. 5.—H. C Pee pies, auditor in the famous Ryan case this morning filed a claim for $10,000 as his fee as auditor. Mr. Peepies was engaged on the work about three months, and $t 0.000 is regarded as rather heavy. By the tune tho lawyers get their fees, there will not be much left of the Ryan assets. tew decades, from this will render its mining" unprofitable, because of the great depth from which it will have to be brought to the surface. The process has not been carried so Ifr in the Uuited States. As yet wo have sot exhausted the bulk of the immense deposits of both coal and iron, arnica it 100k nature so Jong to deposit near the sur ace lor onr use We have, however, exhaused tho larger part of Our limber supply, and perhaps worked an injurious change ol climate thereby, acting in small degree on the ruinous policy, or abacence of one, which has made mere treeless wasas areas which were once the seat of mighty empires m Western Asia; and ii ia to this last mentioned condition ot things that I desire to call the attention of Southernors. respectively and col lectively, aud especially Georgiana; and should I succeed in arotiaiog to a proper sense the duty devolving upon us in the reservation of the timber that is being so. illegitimately destroy ed, I shall have accomplished my most sanguine expectations. It 1 tail in this, however, it will be no lees a trutn that it needs.attention and that speedily. I speak thus of Georgia because her pine torest Constitutes about one third of all the jellow or pitch pine ot the United States, and it is her production for which the ravage!* Seem to have such a thirst. At the preseut rate ot legitimate cousump lion aud illegitimate destruction the forest of Georgia will become practi cally exhausted 10 fifteen years- Georgia pine lands are in greater demand than her best agricultural lands, aud day by day the eagerness with which these lauds are sought increases. Only a few years ego tueae lands were a drudge on the market at fifty cents an acre, while now they are eaguny sought at eight and ten times as much. For illustra tion, we will take ten counties devo ted to each interest, and aee what a startling contrast the facts concern ing the <and taxed draw. We will first take ten counties devoted mainly 10 agriculture (Elbert, Harris, Joi.cs, Alerewether, Monroe, Morgan, Put uam, Sumter, Troup and 'Whitfield,) these have retnrned for taxation, lor the year 1890, an average deficit ot about thirty thousand acres pet coun ty less than there are acres in the county. Tea counties whoas princi pal iuterest is timber (Appling, Ber rien, Coffee, Colquitt, Decatur, Irwin. Montgomery,- Fierce, Wilcox and Laurens,) have returned for lor the same year, an avenge excess of about seventy thousand acres per county more than there are acres in the county, so eager are tax payers to own these What has brought about this con dition -of things, this, uncalled for eagernees to own Geor gia’s pine forest ? I shall offer yon some facts and figures and ask yon to answer this interogatoiy for yonrself. The state of Georgia had in 1880 about thirty three billion feet of lumber in her standing trees ; her expense account for that year was a little lees than one billion. It is estimated .that the yel low pine, under fair conditions, will reproduce it&lfin thirty-three years* We, therefore, see that Georgia, by her operations, in that yeair, was not using her capital, but was just abopt spending her income. 60 .in 1880 conditions were normal and hopeful. ten years later, when the last census was taken. Georgia had at the b* ginning of year 1890 about thirty billion feet of lumber, with a grow ing, or dividend earning, capacity equal to about three per cent, per aunum. Her expense account for the same year amounts to over two billion sixty-fcur million feet. We readily see that with no increase in'our exper.se account, Georgia’s forest will be exhausted within twenty years, and if this account increased for the next ten years with a ratio equal to that of tbe lasl ten. by tho expiration of that time wo shall have compara tivsly no pine timber, and a poorer climate. The most cun ervative esti mate we can place on the amount of limber destroyed annually by fire on lands that have been tapped for lur pentine purposes and abandoned, and those now in use it three hundred aud thicty-niue thousand acrej. No truer or wiser wordSHvere ever uttered than of thp^Hbn. S. G. McLendon, who, (as attorney for the railroads ot Georgia, in a petition to the railroad commission of the state for an in crease in rates on lumber and naval ■tores,) while discussing this- point ot the destruction and amount of destruction said “when I say that turpentining injures the lumber and the land, 1 have gone ho further than the first letter ofxae alphabet. When I say that fire follows the turpentine man almost as the night fellows the day. and that fire destroys <md puts a •top to the reproductive capacity ot onr forest, I present a fact which is ippalling to all. who will stop to con- rider consequences. 'Suppose Georgia were visited by cyclones which would destroy the timber at this rate. tbe. whole world wou’d look on with bated breath. The rid of state and national govern ment would be invoked. The science of the earth would be pleaded with to Mugged a means ot. relief from such visitation and the prayers of thi- righteous throughout chri-tendorn would be abknd tor to stay the hand ol an invisible destroyer.” Mr McLendon is a percipieut oi the true situation and his patriotic h'rart teams for a'lutl iu the destruc tion of Southern sylva. We see that the two principal items of expense are brought about by the operation of the saw mill and the turpentine still that these two in dustries have sprung iuto such gigan tic proportions that they employ hundreds of thousands of men and millions of dollsra oi capital and art sweeping away with inconsiderate haste our pine forest; and what should be an eye-sore to ah Georgians is that Georgia is not reaping the profit that is rightfully hen from this encroach ment upon her limber. Nearly all of the lumber shipped goes to points outside of Georgia. By reference 1 the New Y irk Lumber Trade Jon nal we find that ab >ut one half of ah the yellow piue received at New York is shipped from Georgia ports and thus it is that Northern and Eastern capitalist are permitted tu come in and strip onr lands of th< crop that it has been centuries grow, ing aod manipulate it to their own interests, leaving it in a nude and impoverishing cmditi-m for the niti ful sum of four and five dollars pc acre. It is estimated that tho pi value ot the pine tree prndt every acre ot pine land is $37.50 this is true what will its value be when the world fully realizes that this matchless tree and its valuable products are about to be annihilated aud lost to the commerse of civihza ton. Civilized man is wasting, reckless'y and wickedly, the good deeds of provi dence. and at a rate which threatens to bring round in another quarter of a century conditions widely different from those of to day, unless tbe waste be checked. The world is an estate io which its occnpants, at anv time, have but a life interest and huve no right to use it so carelessly as to needlessly lesson its value to their Nuccessors. The old story that we owe nothing to posteri ty, because it has never done anything for ns, is a mere sophistry not worthy of a rational being, since it is only to posterity that we can hope to pay the debt we owe our ancestors. J: J. Lunsford. presrui l respectfully suggest to the county cam missioDcrs the piypriety of requiring the sheriff to gstaer op all the supreme cour*. reports a*.a hare' than deposited in the county coart room for the ase of the ordina ry, superior conrt and county court officials 1 have bad shelved pa. up'in tne county court rooms where the books .can be taken ca e ol, and accessible to any one of the courts which will need them, • Respectfully submitted, , J.R.AUSUDIB, J.O.O.T.O. Petition for militia district ordered pub l»hed To Board County Conmunontrt, Thomas County Georgia: We ihe uuuersigned citizens residing within the limits of the proposed tnct, do hereby pray your honorable body W make a new Riiitia District in the county of Tnomad to be laid otfaud bouuded lows: nmencing at the Mitchell and Thomas county line, where it intersects with the east pr ng of Barnetts creek running e< along line of Mitchell ana Thom*B couuti to tue uortheus- cornet of Thomas co-ot embracing lot of land No. ZO, iu the 10 district, which is now annexed an » a part Tuom»i county Thence south aloug land lot lines to Southeast corner of lot . f land No. 121 in the' I7tn district. Thence West atoug laud lot line to wnere it intersects wrin the run of east Barnetts Creek. Tueucoia a northerly directiou ulong the rau of said Barm U s creek to the Muchcil county line, at starting poin- And your petition rs further pra that you cate the voting prtciact or' oaid new dutr ct at Meig-, Ga. O. hiocitouce and Spei which arc the present voting precincts, at an inconvenient distance from a great many of the Voter* residing iu the proposed n-.w district, and. are luconveuient tending justice courts, etc. D. G. Johu-o j, J. L. Johnson, J. D, Wil son and fifty>two others. Road .etitiou signed by D. D Peacock ao-l other-- orde.ed published. State of Georgia Thomat County : We, the undersigned citizens, petition the honorable courts of Thomas county, to gruut us a public road as follows : Begin ning at McUonai t, Thomas county, going eouih ulong ihe county ime, and known as the Mcrionald and Boston road, first passing over tne lands o W. H. Gibson, ii, cock, G orge Broom, Bob Grayh-.m, Baits Hoilis, W. H. -Redfearn Simon Ivey, leav tu ir the county line at Bose Baker s, thence a southwest course tbrough the la -ds of Dr II. A. Vann’s, u T. Hopper, Arthur Battle, and iutersectiug the Greenfield road about (2) two miles north ol Boston. We agree to opcu said road, if graote.. without cose to the county, as to right of way and bridges and cutting out. D. 1). Peacock, J Frank Harris. P. A. Adams and hi others. Road petition signed by James FerriU and others or-ered published. GEORGIA —Thomas CoCKTy: To the Honorable Commissioners: The an lersigaed citizeus and free holders of Duncanville district peti ion your Honor- aole Bo.rd o grant tnem * public .odd follows, to- wit: Commencing at the south west corner of lot No. 307, in th* 18th dis trict, it being the present terminus of the Metcalfe road, and run in a wcsleraly direc tion. and in as straight a line as practical to New Trinity church cn the Dekle road. Tnere will bo required no bridge road. Tne road will traverse lands belong- iug to W. R and D. I. MacIntyre, C. Copeland and J. F. Howard. T^he length'of the road is about two miles. James Ferrell. C. E. Lott, J. M. Ferrell and^ten others. We, th- undersigned Road Commissioners forfilCtb District, G. M, respectftl ly reeom mend that the request of the above petition, ers be granted, and said ro.d be made a public road. . Jno. A Hahvin, W. 8, Howard, Commissioners. Road petition signed by K. T. McLean and uthe ' ordered published. GEORGIA -Thomas Coontt. The petition ot the undersigned dtisens of said ’county,, shows that it will be of public utility to the citizens of a id connty to establish a new road, commencing at the tower leit hand corner of P. L. Craignules’ lence near the 5 ml hi post on the Tallahas see road via Duncanville in said connty, and running in a southwesterly dir ctioa and by the residences and through the lands of Henry Browning, John Cox and Sidney Howard, and through the lands of P. L. Craigmiles, William Blair, Nelson James, Henry Browfcing, K. T. McLean, Robt. G. Micthell, Sidney Howard, 0. O. Cleveland. Rem or McIntyre, C. L. Ward, G. A. Cox, S. A. Cox and James ferrell, and intersect ing the Hprng HU1 rood near ihe 10-mife pust In said connty, Commissioners, i {S8&3 Itiftd petition previoiulv published ■« road lrom Meigs to William Willis granted on condition, that no bridges would have to ba built by tho county. Read petition for road commencing at lower edge of land lo» No. 53 in the 17th district of Thomas connty, intersecting Pel ham road at A. J. Writes, granted. GEORGIA—^Qomas County. We, the nadersigned petitioners of Thom- and Mitchril counties, pray that the Houoiab.e Board of mmmissioners of Thom as county, giant ns a public road, leaving the Thomasvil;c and Camilla road near J. Rs Brown’tpUceon lot' of land No.. S3. Thence >brougb No. 23 Thence - oo~ the In olNo 12 ahd 13 to intersect with the Pslham and Thomasvilio road at Connty Line S 'bool house. We the undersigned do coveacnt together to grant a bed for -said nud through oar lards. A. J. Wilkes, M. A. Pilcher. T. J. Davis and fire others. r To Honorable Board County Commissioners Thomas County Georgia: 1 beg leave to rrport that there are 8 paupers at the poor house, the; ate all well nd seem to be v-jry wel. contented. " ' , W. D. Davis, Keept Monthly report ot county physiciai board commissioners. Gentlemen: lam pleased to report jail and poor boose in a good sanitary condition. ' have made weekly vis is to each place. “ ’Respectfully s bmitted, L. B BoUchblle, M. D. On motion it was ordered that a fire place be pot in the jail Proposition 0 f Burch to erect an iron fence around court home square; style No. 92, post No. 2, spear top, for $1,085.00 ac cepted. Chairman Mallette to sign the con- tract fur the board. f ollowing accounts passed for payment: Judge R. Alexander 83 33 Levi Frtilr eta 5 40 J F Lilly imeS-Eot rpride 52 4>. Jm Nate rhoumsA Diemns .n B O iUlfuar 5 57 25 tO To Piano Buyers! Elegant Piano Lamp Given Ml VALUE $15.00. It is of solid brass, very ornamental, five feet high from flopf to burner, with beauti ful umbrella silk fringe shade Bay a Piano and get the lamp tree. Offer good only until January 15th. Steinway Pianos. Mason & Hamlin Pianos and Organ Ma’hush«k Pianos. Sterling Pianos and Organs. Sold on easy payments or for cash. Call at Furniture VVarero mas >iml soo the Pianos and Lamps. GEO. W^PORBKs GENr FoE hidden & sates Concern Mask’ i , Bl LINE OF CHRI TM&3 GuODr, Board adjourned. A P. Wricht. Chian Riddxn Smith, Clerk. NO LYNCHING AT^BAKERSVILLE Ihe Report of a Wholesale Slauqht er Pronounced a Canard- Raleigh. N C , Jan. 5.—A special dUpaicH just received from a pioia inent citizen living in Mitchell coun ty to the Daily Chronicle pronounces the report of the riet and lynching at Bakersville a gnss canard. “It a lynching occurred, the report been greatly exaggerated. Many of the names reported among the killed are unknown in that section.” The dispatch has b*en read in the house of representatives by speaker. Specials to the News and Observer and Chronicle eay that there is absolutely no foundation for the tragic stories from Baki-rsville, that no person has been lynched and nobody killed. The eaact situation of the geograph ical centre of tbe United States is a surprise to any one who has not given the subject careful attention. Tbe most eastern point <f tho United States is Quoddy Head. Me.; tbe west< era Attoo Island, Al.iska; the most northern. Point Barnw, Alaska; most s- utbern. Key West. Fla. The centre of the qua i rang alar figure formed by uniting these lour points is located at tbe crossing of fifty-five degrees north latitude, and 110 west longitude, 420 miles north of the northern lino of Montana. It is also true of tho United States, as of Great Britain that the pun never sets on onr territory, for when it is 3 p m. on At tiolslaud Alaska, it is 9:36 a m on the following d ip at Eastpnrt, Me “If I gave you a pound of metal a id-ordered you to make the m -st oui of it. what kind of metal would y<>u select?” ask ad a well known jewe “Gold of course.” was the prompt ply. “I’d prefer -«t pound if sie* said the jeweler,* -ud I’d have it made into hair springs for watches. A pound of such springs would sell fer an even $140000” Mrs- Lease, if she goes to tbe sen ate will, we presume, wear stockings. This would be a set off to Simpson’s sockleaa shins Kansas is noted for freaks, among whom Jerry 8. and Sister Lease stand in the front rank Rockers, Ejs. \nirs, I'esks, P.ctures <u.l £a& Iron Wagons. FORBES’ FURNITURE HO 175 BROAD STREET, MASURY 8U LDI.T3. L l HOIK UNDE liT A 14.13, Thomasville. Gra We now have in stock a full line of fine cloth-covered Wood and Metalic Caskets, also a full line of cheap grades, all of which we propose to sell at cut prices. Our prices will be lower than was ever heard of before. Give Uj a call, inspect our line and hear the Cut Prices. L. F. THOMPSON & 00. Broad Sh, between Citizens’ Bank and Tlio.nas & !) rkin-o ctS, OC2