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IVE t interest R r laiuad bjr : the > la aid 6! tha rallw*y ia a Ilea upon th» railway. All of-them war* exchanged tor twantjr years ago at oa the dollar, i compromise and sot- i who still beta the i of Sbaefer Bros, made airanil r a compromlae, want' too legal figures. It Is did not: sell i 80 to 40 cents on tbo ir never made any.prop- i price be would take Three years ago thero the legislature for compromise, tyit It I In Raleigh that the mth Dakota brought i engineered by ex-Gover- 1 ex-Unlted States Sen- Butler. Sbaefer giving i and that state : without having asked . to pay for the bonds, the state' had s - Is plenty of feeling about , thla being against Rusaell Governor Aycock aaya t of the private stockholders i Carolina railway will tie ully guaranteed. Tbs ; of this road bear g per cent in- 1 are worth 170. May be Affected, a Constitution's Washing- 1 wires' the following r southern senators jSSSIHM WHHWWWW; GEORGIA NEWS! iiiiiMtiHtimm mil Epitomized Items of Interest Gathered it Random* Grand Jury Indorses Dispensary. The Floyd county grand fury In thg Brief Summery of Most Important Events of Each “Day. t ■.- . Hill Tarry, on trial at Wllmlng 1. C-, charged with the mure of hla son-in-law, commits snlcide his cell by slashing his throat with an old ewe knife. ■i-tirasy negro woman near Whiter- koto, N C., chokes her 17-year-old 1 railroad has been completed from Pel- daughter to death, claiming that the Um to T( clinor , , lUOon on o, e oar- Uid commanded her to put the girl to No rthero, near Doerun. Only a ; freight Schedule will be operated over New Railroad Completed. Tha Flint River and Northeastern death. —The dead bodies of Fireman W. J. j the new road at present Madey and ex-Flrbmah , J, J. Dnnn * • • were found Wednesday In the ruins j park and Moblty Reappointed. ' by a conflagration at Knoxvlle, J. B. Park, Jr., of Greene county, and Tann. ' J. H. Mobley, of Harris county, have W. Hodgea, a farmer of Cull- j been reappointed ae directors of the mad county, Alabama, brains hla wife , Hate experimental farm, located at with some blunt Instrument and then ' Griffin,, Oa. The appointment wi» made Saturday by Governor -TerrelL The terms are for fire year*. « • . « Cotton Bale field for $121.10. All local records since the days fol lowing the civil war were broken at Columbus obe day the past week, when O. 8. Barnes, of Hamilton, sold a bala of cotton weighing 787 pounds for 8131.10 net The cotton wae stained and classed low, but nevertheless brought 15 1-3 cents per pound. May Borrow for Legislature. Coreraor Terrell atated a few days ago that It waa too early to state defin itely, yet he thought that It wonld be necessary to borrow money with which to pay tha legislators during the com ing session. Last yaar It was neces sary to borrow $50,000 to help defray the expenies of the Drat summer she- slon. e e e -. Pscolet Mllle close Down. The Pscolet Manufacturing Company, whoat plant at New Holland consumes annually 80,000 biles of cotton and em ploys about 1,000 hands, closed down fistnrday for an Indefinite period. The company manufactures goods and tha high price of cotton la the reason for closing down. The Idle forces will suffer, and the community will be hurt' Blaek’e Tribute to Gordon. Commander In Chief John C. Black, of the Grand Army of the Republic, has written a letter to Colonel James P. Averill, of O. M. Mitchell poet, O. A. R., of Atlanta, In wulch he express es warm approbation of the roolu- hanga himself. —In the postal trial at Washington Wednesday, the defense Introduced n .note dated July 1, 1803, for 125,000, klrawn by George Lorens, In favor of August. Machen. The note waa In- troduced to explain the remittances forwarded by Lorens to Machen. —There waa a warm debate In the senate Wednesday'over the proposed .loan of $4,500,000 to tha fit Louis ex position. Mr. Tillman, of South Caro lina, charactoristd the appropriation! In aid of expositions as "stosls.” —At the trial of Colonel F)d Butler, the St. Louie millionaire politician, on tha charge of bribery, J. X. Morrell, ex-member of council, and agent of the alleged boodle combine, told how the fund,of 147,875 waa divided among couacllmen. —Blghty-nlno ' of tha ninety damn- cratlc members of tha Maryland legis lature mat In caucus Wedoeidey nipht and aeiectad latdor Raynrr lor the United States aanatorahlp, thus break ing tha deadlock that haaexlsted for weeks. —Miners and operator! who have bean In conference at Indianapolis, havt failed to roach an agreement on a wage scale. A strike of 117,005 min ers may follow. —Bishop Thomas F. Oallor, of Ton- nesses, will pronoh the baccalaureate sermon at the University o! Georgia at the next commencement —In Buncombe eounty, North Caro lina, n suit for divorce has been filed by Mja. Elisabeth Oudger against Dr. D. M. Oudger, In which eensatlonal Moot relating to tha death of General chargee are mads. j John B. Gordon, recently adopted by —One hundred and fifty thousand l the post, and hla admiration of General Gordon as a soldier and a statesman. Toomsr la Greatly Interastsd. A Washington dispatch aaya: When the Sibley bill to prohibit the purchaae- by tha government of convict made goods was tha subject of a hairing be fore the house committee on labor, W. M. Toomer, of Georgia, who eald that he hold's contract for the labor of 500 convicts for five years In that state. Buuuiem Tfxu yote „ hlre j 0it theIr franchise filed requisitions nn j er the new law, having failed pey i the clerk of the supreme poll tax. I coplea of the full da- ] —Every building except two In Hoi- court In the oaae of landale, Miss., was burned by a fire t against North Carolina, I Saturday, which Indicted a loss of tonday, which may hare, 3350,000. : effect upon tha Obllgs-1 —Former cashier of the Franklin nt southern statsa.mads bank. Cincinnati, hts given a -power tlon governments - end of attorney to-eell hts securities, *••- amouuntlng to 13,000,000, In order to »entertained oi thepoiai- pay Mi ahortage of 1341.000. There supreme court granting ■ win Da no proaecutlon. - lh ” ,Ul * ,rom ,M4 to ,Jt# i Skalnat Georgia sad alt the | _ Bll more arr(lta of ,x-aldermen at which, Milwaukee, Wie., on Indictment! re- id obligations, Mtrongb b the „ rud ^ 1 Into the hands of atiitei! _ # i governments which may ac-1 lhrwt of 0r *“ d , Armjr men t0 m either as glRs or hy^pur, noo, “* e °* ner » 1 BUck ,or the P r< ”' 1 ' _d that tha total liability-thus 1 d,ac * aalaM * *» rTlce P“* lon *• «*•*• I will run M,h up into thi mU!, * d *•* *P™l d «t Rooae- valt and hts friends. h atudy of the original taxt —Fire men are Intently killed by an Brower's opinion which explosion of powder la Maple Hill col- poaltlon of the court as I | *«W. of the Philadelphia and Reading > make in the office of the Coal Company, at Mahony City. Pa. i supreme court, the moat ’ —Personal Injury aulta amounting to atema to be the 338,188,3(3 are pending agalnat the 1 one atato can ana another city of Chicago, on account of Injuries of a debt represented by, caused by bad aldewalka. r other obligations of the; -Mrs. Maybrlck has been released, , which the creditor eUto but there Is a mystery surrounding the ‘ice Brewer itatea the affair, as the government seems to be . case In thla way: | hiding bar out. Conditions of her re- with an unquestionable lease said to be that ahe mnat not ap- la laaoed by another atate, paar on the atage or write a book mortgage of railroad about her trial and Imprisonment. -ww^XSd inrokes'us'jurli* j “ ^ W“» at 8f ■ llo **'mo.t authentlc.. Ja^riI getting Into ;d aubJecUon of the mortgaged to the .«U.faeU.ff el the * ,U not > thla'court ANNA CLUB DRAWS LINK Barred from Banquet by R» ana at Cleveland, Ohio, eh from Cleveland; -Ohio 1 Tippecanoe Club, thlif W llcan organisation In Ohio, color line, and proml- republicans in tha ,city na against Senator Hanna, ntroillng figure |n the Tippecanoe Club gave-a Me- nquet last Friday night t, the well known republt , bet snubbed the color BPIOBMIC. Oklahoma . la itlon of Law. I at the tote s'. Me ns from violation bo caught napping by the caar. Rev. H. M. Morrison, pastor of the Methodist church. at Quitman, haa bean appointed presiding elder of the Valdosta district of the South Georgia Conference, succeeding Dr. J. Branch. —At Wilmington, N. O., Friday, In tha eaaa of S. Hill Terry, chargsd with the murder of hla sou-to-law, George T. Bland, only seven Jurors were accepted though a special venire of 355 men were exhausted. —Representatives of tha Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, the Slqas-BhaBeld Steel and Iron Com pany. and the Republic Iron and Steel Company, mat'In Btrmlngnam Monday to dismiss tha advisability of a merger —Hereafter all washerwomen doing bneiaew In Macon, Oa., mutt provide themselvee with tags which can be procured only from the board of health.- *• —D. B. Leonard, of Vienna, Oa., haa Juat sold three hales of cotton ginned In 1831 which ha ha. held since then, toy II cents. —The plant of the Towalagn Elec tric Power Company at High Shoals, aad by nut n yur for Its convict labor, and that thla money went into the public echool fuund. * .e * Hive Money to Loan. Farmers of Carroll and Heard coun ties, Georgia, and Cleburne and Ran dolph countlei, Alabama, who market heavy crops from tbelr wagons in tha streets of Carrollton, are realli- log handsomely from their crops of cotton which have been held. Since cotton reached the approximate price o 15 cento per pound, nnheard of re serves of cotton have been hauled to for the put week, and an .Immense fund of caeh for the section la being deposited. «>.••• No Former Jeopardy. The plea of former Jeopardy entered In the case of J. B. Ollveroa, former cashier of the Atlantic Cout Line In Savannah, and charged with larceny after trust of about 15,000, was over ruled by Judge George T. Cann. He said that the late Judge Pope Barrow had (sen moved by a legal necessity to declare a mistrial. Judge Barrow had declared a mtatrlal be cause he had expressed an opinion u to certain evidence The next day he found ho wu wrong In having done so. Union the supremo court reverses Judge Cann, the cut must go to trial. State to Sue Railroads. Attorney General John C. Hart nt the request of the railroad commission of Georgia will file suite in a few days against the Southern railway and the Sosboard Air Line railway for failure on part of hose companies to comply with the orders of tho railroad cora- mlulon. Some time ago the roads were order ed by the commlulon to construct de pots at certain etatlons on their lines, but so far the railroads have ignored the orders of the commission and have taken no itepi toward the erection ot the building! which they were ordered to construct • • • Fire Bugs Caused Elberton Blaze. The debrla of Elberton’s big fire is being rapidly removed, preparatory >o rebuilding tha burned district. Colonel T. M. Swift hit already placed an or der for material to repair tho injured fronts of hla Mock, and W. O. Jones, who owned tha Mock burned, Is pro- to haul material to rebuild. ?ht 1 r ■- firms who were burned ont have made arrangements to open up again to new buildings. It le generally thought at present that the fire wu ot Incendiary origin, u when It wu discovered it appeared to be to the rear of three stores de stroyed at the same time. Some be lieve It wu csused by burglars to cov er tbelr tracks. • * • State's Cotton Is Sold. Chairman J. 8. Turner, of the state prison commlulon, le very much gratl fled over the high price at which the ■tate’e cotton sold a few dtya ago. Thero were 806 bala raised on the state prison farm thle year, and they were sold to George Smith, a Mllledge- vlUe buyer, at an average price of 15 1-3 cbnts per pound. This le a total of more than 383,<50. The foregoing figures are in striking contrast to thou received by the state lut year for the cotton raised on the firm. There were 450 bala raised lut year, and It wu sold at an aver age price ot a little more than 8 cents, the total amount received for tbe 450 bala being about 518,000. Tbe money received from tbe sale ot this cotton It turned Into tbe state treunry. By tbe raising of tble cotton annually the priion farm mors than pays the ex pense of operating it • a • Agents Named for Gordon Fund. More than 31,000 hu already ban subscribed toward the memorial monu ment to be built In Atlanta to the memory of Genera] John B. Gordon, and that too, before the committee in named to solicit aubacrlptlons hare gone ectlrely Into the field. President W. L. Calhoun hu com pleted the Bet of agents named to represent the John B. Gordon Monu ment Association In the various south ern statu, as well ts the committees which will be requested and authorised to canvass tor subscriptions In tbe va rious citlu of Georgia. The agenta named to represent tbe ueoclatlon <n other southern statu are authorised to usodato with them ouch commit- teemen as they may see fit to canvass their rupectlve fields, and they will be tsked to report to the central com mittee lp Atlanta at such timu u may be most convenient and suitable to them. Held Cotton for Twenty-Two Yean. Homer Williams; a cotton buyer at Vienna for E. L. Harper, of Cordele, purchued there a few days ago three bales of cotton from D. B. Leonard which were ginned In the fall of 1881. The three bala were Just twenty-two yeare 'Old, and were probably the old est in.America. This renerable lot of fleecy staple graded u good middling and sold at 15 cents. Cotton Mi 1381 wu selling at a low figure, ’aid' Mr. Leonard stored three' bala away In a little houte In Vienna, declaring ho would hold It until It brought 15 cents. Though It seemed a hopeless tuk, he hold out in hie de termination. • • • 1 College Arranges Agricultural Course The Agricultural School of the Uni versity hu arranged a two weeks’ course In Agriculture, February 8-20, for the special benoflt of farmers. The lectures and experiments will be held In the Agricultural Hall, free from any Interruption from the regular clausa of the Unlrerilty, and at houri con venient for many fanners who come from home each day. The loctura are absolutely free. It will be a two weeks' Institute In Agriculture, open to all tha citisena of the state interested in that subject. The most expert lec turers on agricultural aubjects will be In atendance. Ample opportunity will bo given for questions for practi cal atndy of the cotton plant, the. corn plant For examination and comparison of the boat types ot cattle and hogs. Every afternoon from 2 to 4 the dairy will be running where farmers and their wtvu may see and study the bat procasa of testing the milk, separating the cream, making the-but ter and preparing the same for market. Those who can stay the two weeks' can gat board and lodging for the en tire time for $10. Below will be found the different subjects to be studied, tbe lecturers end the date of each lec ture. Monday, February 8th—10:30. Mak ing a cotton crop. Prof. J. M. John son. 11:30. Fertilisers for cotton and tbelr application. Dr. H. C. White. Tuesday, February 9th—10:30. Grow ing a corn crop from preparation of all to harvest time. Prof. J. M. John son. 11:80. Insects Injuring tbe grow ing crops and mature ear, and tbelr control. Dr. J. P. Campbell. Wednesday, February, 10th—10:30. Cotton lmprorement by seed selection and plant breeding. Prof. J. M. John son. 11:30. Typa and varieties ot cotton, which havo given the bat re- sults. Director R. J. Redding. Thursday, February llth—10:30. Types of corn beat suited for Georgia. Director' R. J. Redding. 11:30 Seed •election and plant breeding as a means ot corn Improvement Prof. J. M. Johnson. Friday, February 12th—10:30. Mar keting the cotton crop. Institute Di rector Hereto Jordan. 11:30. Corn Judging—laboratory work. Prof. J. M. Johnson. Saturday, February 13th—10:80 to 13. Farmers’ question box, conducted by Senator Hereto Jordan. Monday, February 15th—10:30. Typa of beef cattle. Prof. J. M. John- aon. 11:30. Common ailments of farm animals and their treatment Dr. T. E. Jago. Tuesday, February 14th—10:30. Method of improving cattle. Prof. C. L. Willoughby. li:30. Food crops tor hogs and cattle and their production. Prof. J. M. Johnson. Wednesday, February 17th—10:80. Economy in meat production. Prof. C. L. Willoughby, of the Experiment Station. 11:30. Principles aad prac- tlees ot stock breeding. Prof J. M. Thursday, February 18th—10:30 to 11:30. Stock Judging—practical dem onstrations from the animals. Prof. X H. Johnson. Friday, February 18th—10:|0 and 11:30. Slaughter tests end carcass demonstration. Prof. J. M. Johnson. Any cltlsen Interested In there sub jects la eordtsUrl invited to attend. Farmer* from a distance will be given every aid In eecurlng boarding places. NO ILLS INCURABLE. Patients of "Mental Selena" Healer, Helen Wllmena-Poet Produce Mirth-Provoking Testimony. Tbe trial at Jacksonville, Fla., of the mental science haler, Mr*. Helen WUmans-Poet who le charged with de vising a scheme 1b defraud divers per rons and using the malls to further thla scheme, brought out very Uttle new evidence Wednesday. A letter from an Indiana woman wu read and placed in evidence. In which she wanted to know if Mrs. WU- mans-Poet would undertake to get her ■on out of priion by uelng her mental treatment to persons who requated It by Mrs. Post's Direction to the effect that nothing wu impossible, and that ■he would take the cue tor $4 per month. It Wu brought out that she answer- ed letters and promised to give her treatment to perrons wh orequeeted It for every Imaginable dlteue, and also for trouble* of all klhds. She had agreed to give treatment for making a new rot of teeth grow; to make a leg grow on a stump from which the lower limb had ban amputated; to make hair grow on bald heads; to re store tha affections for each other of persons who had becqme estranged to transfer tha affections ot perrons, and. In toct, to do uytblng ahe wu uked to do. FOR STEALING MILEAGE. BOOKS. Atlanta Negro Brought Back from 8t. Louts and todgad In Jail. In charge of a detoctlre William Edwards, a negro, who le wonted for stealing mileage hook* from the Atlan ta and Wat -Point railway, arrived in Atlanta from St Louis Wednesday morning. When ean by a reporter Edwards •aid that he etole tbe mileage hooka at tbe request of 8am McClurkln, ud that ha wu promised a part of the pro ceeds of the sale, bnt herar received anything. Edwards said he commenced to steal the ticket! lut year. aad does not know bow many be took. He uya Mc Clurkln told him where end how to get them. He did not knew the vmlnq ot them, so he uys, ud all he era re ceived wu about $1.50. McClurkln having given him 50 cuts on two or thru occasions. FLEECED BY BOGUS SCRIBES. Alleged Newepeper Representatives Rap Harvest In Florida. Society folks In Palm Buck, Fla, ud all along the cut cout hare been flaced out of many thonsnnds of dol- lara by three unscrupulous newspaper men. Among the victims are Josepa Jefferson, W. K. Vanderbilt. Jr., W. Gould Browak, of New York; Freder ick Townsend Martin, of New York; Julian T. Davis, a New Yor attorney, ud Tangaman, president of tbe bak ing powder trait. The three men claimed that tbey were getting up a book about promi nent people containing tbelr photo graphs ud a sketch for tbe benefit of club tor newapaper men In New York. FOR CARRYING THE MAIL8. Poetoffice Deportment Makes Contracts for Star and Steamboat Routu. Tbe pootofBee department bu awarded contract* for carrying mails on 3,698 star ud steamboat routes In the statu of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala bama, Mlsslulppl, Tennessee, Ken tucky ud the lelud of Porto Rico for a term ot four years, beginning July 1 next. Tbe total annual compensa tion to the contractors for the service under thae contracts amounts to |1,. 316,576. These contracts will provide not only for carrying the mall In closed poneha, between postoffices as hereto fore, but also for the delivery and col lation of malls Into ud from boxes along the Una ot the star routes for all parsons'who provide proper boxes. Fifteen Cents for Run of Grades. At Laurens, S. C., Friday, Smith Bros, of Klnarda, Newberry connty, ■old to Wiliam L. Gray, 635 bala ot cotton at 15 ants pa pound. Thla price wu for tha ran of the cotton, racardiew of grads*. Tho total aunt LOOKING A FREE HORSE IN THE MOUTH. Chu-oa of legislators loth# amoklng compartment—Conductor, thto MS*”. 1 * frightfully late; tho scrota le limply hideous. _ . Conductor—Oh, weU, gentlemen, I haven't time to listen to your kicks now; just let me have your pmwA please.—Cleveland Leader. - A TRAGEDIAN’S QUEBT. “I Just hard a mu aay^he wonld give ten dollars to see yon.*’ -Indeed,'’ aid Mr. Stormiegton Barnes. “Did he look like am ordi nary auditor or a mu with u attach- mentr—Washington Star. “Pa, what la a model muf" , “A model man, my sou, la generally n very small sample ropy, oittc •>»- ila, of a real man, ud Is usually made of putty.''—Smart Bat FIWli*nnuatoesred.»oSto«BereoM- Sfg?ttoS.LMrwiA«hSt.,Phll«-P*. An ounce of levs io worth a tarn of sym- Sailor's ffarUost Caao. “J ^ wuTliJtmn* rapidity. Next to SaWe Teoaintt it will make mof? green /odder than say thing else, cheap u dirt ana grows "cT^Wsar’i Renovator Gram Milt ore, s^tsm oa soil 'so poor two men .could not rafce a fine on it, and in fori sowing I had ti to tho county. Sejm fiends ci aeLzsm's nxw na' ioxax. OATS. Here is a whiner, a enormously pruinc, «tr on, producing in thir to 905 bn. per aero. X lot of it, Mr. Fsrmar, . — - — . - JVBT »Vn> 10C. X ETAXTS „ to tho John A. Salter t ed Co., La Gratis, Wia., and recthrt to rt “ * ‘ “ log and lots of farm tee Hn. Winslow’s Soothli teething, soften ths gum i tlop.aliaya psin.curta wl 1 It takes a smart maofto writs an unim* portent letter. . Plao’s Cure cannot bs t o highly apoken of ss a cough cure.—J. W. t’Baisu, 822 Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis Ulan., Jan.6.1900. It is tailor to wia s rife with flattery tan it ia to maintain r on it. T retablee# Millions of When ths Editor real 10,000 Planti for 16c. he could hardly b eve it, but upon second reading finds at the John A. Balscr Seed Cs., La one, Wii., than whom there are no mor eliable and exten ts greet o Salzcr’a send you t ir big plant and together i -h enough wed to jgj&ggsT 1,000 rareJ^H 1,000 glonoiuly^l | ALL 70S BUT 1C providing you will retu M you wiUMiWiH^ U you will tend them 24 in postage, they will add to tha abova a ackage of tha fa mousBerliner CsuLflow 7[A.C.L.J A married min says fag Ms wiib spending i mey because she invariably Spada it Ml.lat.r Bu] A minister named fits,, Kansas, baa clcufl a year with a local ■ufflolent advertising to print hla weekly •too Bine The readme Of this pax team that there la at la aw that selenoo has boa ttaatagse, and that Is Oil Can Is ths oaly positive the BMdloal fraternity. ' itltutlonuldlacus. treatment. Halt's cHB Hally, anting dlreotlyu] eessiartaooi of shared tag th. foundation Ml the patlot strength by ■tttiHoa and uSstlag datarr Jure Bad for list of ti F. J. Cunt BoMbyDruflrtsu, 7ic.J Tbe lalud of -Cypi tterranean, will soon from cout to cast 8,600,000 francs haa for Its construction. often finds ft too . Byrnp for children seduces Inflamma- ooue.tse.abotde 'Wr. Flower*, POSTAGE, this notice, end objects to giv» Space. ook, of Concor- a contract for •paper to take space la which ioni. * •100. wlUbepfMMdtv pne dreedvd din* able to cure in aU rrh. HaU'i CetarrJi are now known ti ( took being e oon- afis a constitution U 3uxeli takes inter- the blood and m :- thereby destroy- ' “ datvlax r thecoa- doing Us •6 much faithlo icy offer Onp Hon* hat it (rile to ours, to Address (to, Toledo, O. PI i for constipation, to the Med- have a railroad Tbe amount of appropriated b en No man moves this wo Id until hs Is pr foundly moved himself. Back aches all the tlio. Spoils j appetite, wearies the bd^y. worries mind. Kidneys cause ft all and Doa Kidney Pills relieve and care it H. B. McCareer. of 201 Cherry 8t, Portland, Ore., In- spector of freight for the Trans-Con tinental Co, uya: “I need Dun's Kid ney Pills for back ache and other symptoms of kid ney trouble which bad annoytdme for months. I think a Mid was responsi ble for the whole trouble. It seemed to settle In my neyj. Dun's Kidney Pills roote ont It la several months since 11 them, and np to date there baa beei recurrence of tha trouble." DOan's Kidney Pills for sale by dealers. Price 60 cant* per box. j — N. 1,