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ESTABLISHED 1882.
CARRIAGEFOR SALE.
A good well-built phaeton, extension
t ip with pole, cheap for cash or on time.
A. L. HULL, Athens,Ga.
SKIFF’S ONCeXwEEK TALK.
ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1898.
$1.00 A YEAR
finishing touches
TO THE PAVEMENT.
The
Big Roller Goes Over
Vitrified Brick.
the
THE GROUT FILLER
Now IScinc Poured Over the Bitek and the
pavement Will Soon be Complete—
Numbers ot Citizens Watch the
Work as it Progresses.
SECOND CEORCIk OPTS
WANTTflCOME OML
Privates of That Regiment flsh to
be Mustered Out.
-—
A PRIVATE LETTER
Received by a Citizen of Athens From One of
The Boys—Says Over Eight Hundred of
The Regiment Want to Quit
The Army.
Tin' College avenue vitrified bnck
pavement will be finished within the
in s i days.
Yesterday morning the big five-ton
roller was rolled over the brick to bring
them all to a proper level.
The roller crushed but few of the
bricks. These were replaced by sound
brick, and all the soft brick were taken
out and replaced by bard ones.
Yesterday afternoon at three o’clock
the first grout filler was prepared and
poured over the brick near the intersec
tion of College avenue and Clayton
street. This work will be carried on
steadily until the entire surface of the
street is grouted. Then the street will
be ready for traffic.
Quite a number of citizens stodcl by
yesterday afternoon and watched the
workmen as they prepared the grout
filler and put it between the bricks on
tlie stieet.
When tin* filler is in and the street is
ready for use, it will appear quite
different- from wliat it now appears to
lie. - .
t tiie change in appearance is that the
new pavement causes the street to
look much wider than formerly,
alt hough in fact the street proper is now
a little narrower, ou account of the side
walks being widened.
All agree that it is a beautiful pave
ment. although it is feared that, it will
h>' an oppressively hot one.
There are i large number of privates
iu the Second Georgia Regiment who
wish that regiment to be mustered out
of service, if a private letter received
yesterday in Athens by a citizen of this
place counts for anything.
Very little on this subject has been
heard from the Second Georgia, bat it is
evident that some of the boys are get
ting home-sick.
Tlie letter received here was not signed
for reasons that appear in the letter. It
was as follows:
“The non-commissioned officers got
up a petition yesterday to send to our
congressman to get us • mustered out,
aud there were about 800 out of about
1 ,ii00 that signed, and the rest would have
signed it if they hadn’t been afaid they
would be courtmartialed for it.
“The Second Georgia is tired of this
lying around, and want, to go home to
their w ives and children and business.
They enlisted to fight aud not to lay
around like they are doing now. The
officers don’t want to get out of this
thine, because they are making more
money now than they ever made in
their lives, as some of them are regular
farmers Some of the men tore up their
petitions after they had got them signed,
for they were scared they would be pun
ished for it.”
Invest your money wisely m fancy
and staple, groceries kept, by Manon M.
Arnold, 101 Hancock avenue. Nnmsen’s
Old Orchard Vinegar ou tap. Guaran
teed absolutely for pickling.
EXPERIENCING TROUBLE
A HIGH COMPLIMENT -
TO AN ATHENS UDY,
Miss Ruby Mandeville Elected to
Chair of Voice Culture
IN A TENNESSEE COLLEGE.
ftiss Handeville Will Leave Next Week for
Jackson, Tenn., Where She Takes Charge
of Her Department in the Hemphis
Conference Female Institute.
Miss Ruby Mandeville, of this city,
has been elected to fill the chair of voice
culture in the Memphis Conference Fe
male Institute, at Jackson, Tenn.
Accompanied by her mother, Mrs. A.
S. Mandeville, she will leave Athens
next week for Jackson, Tenn., where
she will in the future reside.
This is quite a liigh compliment to
this rarely talented young lady of Ath
ens, but is also highly merited. Miss
Mandeville is gifted by nature with a
voice of great sweetness and purity, and
added to the natural gift is the best culv
ture that could be afforded by the finest
schools of voice training in the country.
HerTriends here are certain thnt in her
new position slie will sustain herself ad
mirably and all- her pupils will be
charmed with the instruction given
them.
The Memphis Conference Female In
stitute is oue of the largest colleges in
Tennessee aud opportunity will be given
Miss Mandeville for a full display of her
splendid vocal talents.
A SPANISH FIGHT
VITRIFIED BRICK
ON CEAVT0R STREET.
Property Owners Will Ask Council
to Pave There.
MOVEMENT IS STARTED.
It Will be Opposed by tbe Street Railway Com
pany, Who Declare They Are Being
Hit Too Heavy by the
Paving Tax.
A TEXAS WONDER.
In Which Five Hundred Insurgents Were
Killed.
Madrid, Spain, Aug. 25.—The govern
ment has received a dispatch from Gen.
Rios, governor of the Vizcaya islands,
and the successor of Gen. Jaudens in
the governor generalship of tlie Philip
pines, saying that there was bloody
fighting between the Spaniards and the
insurgents with an estimated loss to the
latter of 500 men. The Spanish losses
was "unimportant.” ,
The dispatch says that a number of
the insurgent chiefs were captured aud
Washington, Aug. 25.—The president shot. A sergeant cf gendarmes, who
continues to have trouble iu selecting a j attempted to incite a rising against the
democrat for the peace commission. It authorities, barely escaped lynching at
The paving of College avenue with
vitrified brick has caused other streets to
wish the same kind of pavement.
A movement was started yesterday to
get the council to pave that portion of
Clayton street between College avenue
and Lumpkin street, and a majority of-
the property owners expressed them
selves as being desirous of the work be
ing done.
The Street Railway Company will
protest against the pavement of that
portion of Cloy ton street ou the ground
that it would be a burden to them to
meet the requirements of the law. They
have already been hit heavy by the
pavement on College avenue, and de
clare that the pavement of that portion
of Clayton street would be oppressive to
them.
Should council decide to pave on
Clayton street, it will hardly be started
before next year, as the funds are not
available to tbe street account for that
purpose this year. •
Fortify the body to resist malarial
germs by putting the system in perfect
order. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS is a
wonderfull system regulator. Sold by
H. R. Palmer & Sons.
True economy dictates that you buy
groceries of T. P. Oliver, 615 Prince ave
nue. Numseu’s Old Orchard Vinegar a
specialty. Guaranteed absolutely for
pickling.
GOING TO HUNTSVILLE.
In the ..
Local Field.
Doing Beautiful Work.
Last night Glenn Lodge of Odd Fel
lows conferred a number of degrees on
applicants. The work was of the most
beautiful and impressive character.
Another Early Bale.
Mr. George Booth brought in a bale of
new cotton yesterday and it was carried
to the Phinizy warehouse. The fleecy
staple will begin to roll in next week.
Normal School Still Increases.
The enrollment at the State Normal
School has reached 472 and inside the
next two weeks will pass the 500 mark.
This year’s attendance upon the State
Normal School will pass all previous
records.
Horse Breaks His Leg.
Yesterday afternoon on Thomas street
a horse belonging to Robt. Cole, colored,
ran away. The negro boy who was in
the carriage swung to the lines and was
not thrown out or hurt. The horse fell
during his mad run and broke his leg.
Cap Wynn Whipped.
Yesterday morning Cap Wynn, the
negro prisoner who threw a cup at Mr.
Pridgeon and tried to escape from the
calaboose, was given a good whipping
by Officer Bradberry, who was appoint
ed whipping boss during the absence of
Mr. John Cain from the city.
In City Court Yesterday.
The jury in the case of Weaver vs.
Smith, maker, and Hunt, endorser, ren
dered a verdict for the plaintiff for the
full amount asked, fid Holt, colored,
was convicted of larceny. - The charge
was stealing fruit from the canning fac
tory. He was quite a small boy, and
Judge Cobb turned him loose on his
good behavior. The case of Talmadge
vs. Roberts is now on trial.
PORTUGUESE CUSTOMS.
In the Selection of a Democrat on Peace Com
mission.
Hall's (jreat Discovery,
i )ue small bottle of Hall’s Great Dis
covery cures all kidney and bladder
troubles, removes gravel, cures diabetes,
seminal emissions, weak aud lame back,
rheumatism and all irregularities of the
kidneys and bladder iu both men and
women, regulates bladder trouble in
children. If not sold by your druggist,
will be sent- by mail on receipt of §1.
One small bottle is two mouths’ treat
ment. and will cure any case above
mentioned. E. W. HALL,
Sol • Manufacturer, P. O. Box 218, Waco,
Texas. Sold by H. R. Palmer &
Sons., Athens. Ga.
Read This.
Covington, Ga., July 28, 1898.
Dr. E. W. Hall, Waco, Texas:
E have used your “Hall’s Great Dis
covery" for Kidney aiid Bladder troubles,
and can cheerfully recommend it to per
sons suffering from Kidney and Bladder
troubles. Yours truly,
JUDGE J. P. HARRIS.
lalarion is devoid of bitter taste.
Cures Chills aud Fever; acts ou the
liver and regulates the system generally.
All Druggists.
is definitely announced iu some quarters
that Justice White, of Louisiaua, has
been chosen and that he has accepted.
This is denied again.
Tlie supreme bench does not want one
of its members selected, as it materially
cripples the work before the court. For
several years past the court’s work has
been interferred with for one reason or
another, and for the first time now since
the income tax case, practically, the
bench is complete.
Senator Lindsay, of Kentucky, is be
ing considered, but the legal argument
he made for the recognition of the Cu
ban republic and the claim he made that
this country would be responsible for
the Cuban debt if we did not recognize
the insurgents will probably bar him
from the commission. Ex-Minister to
China Denby is also under considera
tion.
“One of the finest,” that means Nnm-
sen’s Old Orchard Vinegar. Sold by M.
A. Angland, 601-613 Prince avenue.
Guaranteed absolutely for pickling.
the hands of the populace. He was
turned over to the courts and shot.
SPANIARDS AT HOME.
General Ccppinger’s Entire Command Ordered
There.
Washington, Aug. 25.—The following
has been posted at the war department:
“Washington, Aug. 24.—General Cop-
pinger, Huntsville, Ala.: You will
order removal of all your corps now at
Feruandina to Huntsville at once.'- This
movement shonld be expedited in every
possible way.
“By order of tlie secretary of war.
(Signed) “H. C. CORBIN,
“Adjutant General.”
First Shipload From Santiago Reaches Its
Destination, Corunna, Spain.
Corunna, Spain, Aug. 25.—The Span
ish steamer Alicante, with the first of
Spain’s soldiers who arrived from San
tiago de Cuba, reached here yesterday.
Enormous crowds gathered ou the
quays but were not allowed to get near
the vessel for fear of yellow fever con
tagion.
All the military and civil authorities
were present. All the officers were
sent to the Osa Lazaretto, where they
will he quarantined. Others will be
kept five days in hospital ships before
they are dispatched to their homes.
Those who are in good health will be
promptly disembarked.
Malarion With Malarion Tablets
Guaranteed Cure for Chills, Fever and
Ague, or money refunded. 50 cents.
All Druggists.
SENATOR DAVIS CONFERS.
Talks With the President of the Works of
Peace Commission.
Washington, Aug. 25.—Senator Davis,
of Minnesota, chairman of the senate
foreign relations committee and the
second selection of the president for
peace commissioner, was in conference
with President McKinley yesterday af
ternoon after the forthcoming work of
the commission.
A stubborn cough or tickling in the
throat yields to One Minute Cough Cure.
Harmless iu effect, touches the right
spot, reliable and just what is wanted.
It acts at once
He eats heartily in the hottest weath
er who uses PRICKLY ASH BITTERS
It keeps his stomach, liver and bowels
in perfect order. Sold by H. R. Palmer
& Sons.
Coffins With Red Leather and Brass Nalls That
Have flany Tenants.
“The burial customs of the Spanish as
seen in Cuba are in some respects much
like those of Portugal,” said a former
resident of Portugal. “The poor there,
like the poor in Spain, economize on
funeral expenses by making one coffin
serve for a number of fuuerals in suc
cession. Iu Lisbon at least the coffin is
usually a very substantial piece of work,
covered with red leather and freely
studded with brass nails. Its lid is at
tached with hinges, so that the coffin
opens aud shuts like a large trunk. Of
course, the selling price of an article
like this would be beyond the means of
any poor family, but the rent for one
day is comparatively small.
“When a funeral procession reaches
the grave in the great Prazeres cemete
ry, just outside of Lisbon, the underta
ker’s men, instead of lowering the
coffin, open its lid, take ont the corpse
an<L lower it into its last resting place
The empty coffin is left there until a
Gallego takes it back to its owner, after
the mourners have retired. These
Gallegos, by the way, natives of Galicia
in Spain, do all tho work of porters in
Lisbon. If you ask a native Portuguese
servant to carry a parcel or a valise
through the streets, he will answer you
in a tone of offended dignity: ‘You
chamar um Gallego’ (‘I will go and call
a Gallego’), for no native Portuguese
would be seen carrying a load of any
kind in public.
These Gallegos have no objection to
carrying a load, even when the load is a
recently vacated coffin. That is the
kind of work they come to Lisbon for,
so that in their old age they may go
across the frontier to Gallicia and live
on their savings. And one little inci
dent that happened while I was in Lis
bon showed how little impression super
stitions regarding death make on the
Gallego mind. The city of Lisbon col
lected toll on goods brought within its
limits, and there were guards at the
different gates of the city to see that
nothing was smuggled iu. One very
rainy afternoon the guard at the Pra
zeres gate glanced along the road that
leads to tho cemetery and saw a suspi
cious looking package lying on the
ground close under the wall on one side.
There was not a living being in sight.
The guard thought he had detected a
plot. He thought that the package,
whatever it might be, had been left
there under the wall by smugglers, who
were no doubt sheltered somewhere in
its neighborhood and watching their
opportunity to rush it through the gate'
as soon as the rain held up a little. So
the active and intelligent officer got his
little sword ready to draw at a moment’s
notice aud regardless of the downpour
aivanced along the road to surprise and
apprehend the smuggler:, or at least
their goods.
“When we got to within twenty yards
of the suspicious object, he made out
through the rain that- the case on the
ground was of a red color aud studded
all over with brass nails. That dis
covery startled him a little, but the next
moment he was utterly demoralized at
seeing the lid of the coffin fly open and
a dishevelled head thrust itself out, its
eyes starting wildly. Without waiting
to draw his sword or challenge the ap
parition, the guard faced about and re
treated at a run. When he reached the
gate he called his comrades to come and
see tlie abandoned corpse that had burst
open its coffin ou the wayside. The
force seized their carbines and paraded
under shelter of the archway, but what
they saw was only a very bedraggled
Gallego tramping toward them, carry
ing au empty cqffiu ou his back.
“On examination tlie Gallego deposed
that, being overtaken by the raiu ou his
way from the cemetery, he had shut
himselt up iu the coffin to keep dry aud
wait for fairer weather, but when he
heard footsteps stealthily approachiug he
began to be afraid that some oue was
coming to play a trick and lock him up.
That was why he had so suddenly thrust
his head out and stared. He was no
corpse, but an honest, hard-working
Gallego. As for the coffin, the Senors
guards might look for themselves and
see that it was empty.
“There seems to be a certain morbid
fondness fbr what may be called playing
with the dead in Portugal. They seem
to take a peculiar delight in dressing up
their dead and exposing them to public
view. I happened to be present at the
solemn requiem of a cardinal patriarch
of Lisbon, when the corpse, dressed in
full canonicals was placed in a half-sit-
ting posture to face the crowd in the
nave of the Cathedral, and I thought at
the time that the interment ought to
have taken place sooner.
“One fine Sunday afternoon in spring,
I was strolling along one of the maiu
thoroughfares of Lisbon when the shouts
and merry chatter of a lot of little boys
Royal r l- *e» the food pore,
wholesome and dallclous.
Absolutely Pure
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
and girls attracted my attention to a
street. The children, all nicely dressed,
were coining down the side street at a
brisk walk, evidently interested in some
thing that was being carried along by
three or four of them. When they
reached the corner I saw that the center
of interest was a very small brass-studded
coffin. The lid was open, and I could
see the little flower-decked and bedizen
ed corpse inside of it.
“Another time I mistook the corpse of
a child on its way to the grave for a
waxen image of the Madonna being
earned in procession. It was a little
dead girl, beautifully dressed iu white
satin and wearing a white veil and white
flowers. The little body had been made
to sit up in a chair which four boys
were carrying on their shoulders. The
bearers aud the other children in the
procession wore white ribbons and white
flowers, all emblematic of innocence
and happy confidence that the soul of
their little friend was in paradise.”—
New York Sun.
A JOKE ON THE TEAMSTER.
He Roughly Ordered General Sherman to
Bruflli His Mules.
A good story is told of one of Genera]
Sherman’s Missouri teamsters. He had
just joined tlie service, a raw recruit,
aud was assigned the task of driving a
six mulo team. When the army halted
for tho first night, he was wearily un
harnessing his team.
“Hello there,” said the wag of thfl
company in passing. “What do you
mean by taking care of those mule*
yourself? Why don’t you have thfl
hostler do it?”
“Why, I thought every man had to
take care ef his own team, ” said tha
bewildered teamster.
“You bet he doesn’t. We’ve got a
hostler for that. There’s'his tent righf
over there. He’s a lazy, contrary old
cuss, aud he may not want to do it, bnt
you swear at him and he’ll move off al
double quick.”
The Missourian strode over to the
tent indicated, which happened to be
General Sherman’s headquarters.
“Here, you son of a gun,” he roared
fiercely, “get out of here and brusb
those mules. ”
Needless to say, the teamster speni
the evening in the guardhouse.
A pious old Indiana farmer was as
signed to the duty of teaming, probably
by mistake. The roads were muddy,
and the rest of the teamsters were lit
erally bombarding their charges with
oaths. It was against-the old man's
-principles to swear, and he held hiS
peace, albeit in impotent rage. At losi
one of the hind mules balked and re
fused to advance a step. The old mau
used every endeavor to urge the beasl
along, but to no purpose. At last ha
roared in a loud and solemn voice:
“Oh, Lord, you know where this mnla
ought to be as well as anybody. Thia
whole army knows where he ought ta
be this miuute. He knows where ha
ought to be. I know where he ought to '
be, oh, Lord, and if he doesn’t move in
a minute I intend to say so, by gum.
—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
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THE
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COMPANY.
SUCCESSORS TO
Moss Manufacturing Co • j and
Bondurant & Compay,
Athens, Oa.
acturers of Doors, Sash, Blinds, and ®ve£y
Wood=work needed in the erection of a build-
s and Jobbers, Stoves, Tinware, House Furn-
oods, Plumber’s Supplies, Pipe of every es-
R. L. MOSS & CO.—MOSSBONDURANT CO.
What It Cleans.
The consolidation of the three leading houses in their respective lines in this part
of Georgia. A continuation of each business under its former management on up-
to-date business principles.
IT MEANS your opportunity to buy direct from manufacturers and jobbers,
everything made of wood necessary to the erection of a building, including fine in
terior finish, stair work, handsome designs in figured and plate glass, glass and
iron store fronts, lumber, laths, shingles, stoves, tinware, house furnishing goods,
pipe of every description, and, in short, everything in any way connected with
either of the above lines.
IT MEANS reasonable prices since we economize expense and knock out middle
men’s profit.
IT MEANS that by dealing with us you get practically all the advantages of a
trip to the leading markets of the country without expense, at the same time trans
acting your business with people well known to you.
To the farmer and merchant IT MEANS an opportunity to secure loans on rea
sonable terms, thereby saving the expense of time prices. IT MEANS further,
ample warehouse facilities, where your interests will|be looked afterjby men of long
R.L.
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ATHENS, GriA.
Cotton Warehouse.
LOANS TO FARMERS.
it
CtIUpJVJ HWtVAAVHMV JVC**
. . rswc Puttv, Etc., Etc. experience and well established reputation.
r, Laths, Shingles, Glass, i ulvj,
Liberal advances on
Cotton in store. : : :
We employ only careful, honest weighers of long
experience, and are prepared to make the best dispo
sition of cotton consigned to us.
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