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VOL XXIII NO 1
Si a yeak In advance
REV. W. E: MUMEGRD DEAD.
All Georgia mourns the death of
Rev, W. E. Mumford since Priday
morning, when his noble heart ceas
ed to beat, and the great spirit pass
ed out of a lifeless form, taking
from earth one of the noblest char
acters that ever graced our state.
He founded the Georgia Indus
trial Ilcme, near Macon, five years
ago last February, for the protea-
, tion and oaro of-the friendless child*
ren of Georgia,-regardless of de-
nomsnatibn. Ho loft the Methodist
conference about seven years ago
to build this home, having no cap
ital bnt his faith in God and tho
people, depending entirely upon
charity for its purchase and sup
port.
Obtaining 150 acres of land five
miles from Macon, called upon the
lUJLJLl JN tr liN 1KWJUN
James Burke was out to death by
J. L. Mooley, at Fawfl P. O.—
Warren’8 Still, about 8 o’olook Sat
urday night. It is claimed that
Burke was druhK and broke into the
house ef Jane NasWorthy, where J.
L. Mobley was wiih Annie Naswor-
thy. He cursed Moblev, it is
olaimod, and shot at bun by tho
light of a match. As (lie match
burned out they grappled in the
dark and Mobley cut Burke to
death. Coroner McCormick held
an inquest at whioh tho jury return
ed tho verdict of 1 ‘killing in self-
defense
'Phis is tne second killing in this
county that has occurred about this
girl or woman.
The fathor of Annie Nasworthy
was killed by J. C. Barton near
citizens of Georgia to support it, j Whitley station about ten years ago.
went to improving it and to receiv-1 l nvl „ county has had threo mim
ing- children who were homeless I der cases within a few weeks John
and friendless and Bhut off from
orphan homes of the different
churches.
Starling with five children the
homo now has, 150 whose support,
edticatiou anu training depended on
the personal efforts of this gre.it
man, whose life was devoted to the
good of others.
Tne home is ohaitered under the
laws of Georgia Rev. Mumford
was president and manager, with a
board of directors composed ot
suoh men as the ordinary of Bibb
county, President Pollock, of Mer
cer University, G. R. Glenn, for
mer state school commissioner, and
others of the best business men of
Maoon.
The home is not expected to be
neglected because of the death ol
its founder, but a suitable man will
be sought to take his place, and
continue the work of the noble and
honored Mumford.
Land kiiieU his rather, Robert
Land, about a dog. J. L. Mobley
killed James Burke about a woman.
John Smith killed Abo Henderson
about a small account of about
$2.00.' They sell liqhor m that
county, and one of these murders
was at the rear of a saloon.
KILLED BY EXPLOSION.
The saw mill of Mr. J. F, Ar-
nall, near Sanoia, was blown up by
an explosion of the boiler Monday
evening at 5 o’clock and four men
killed, J. F. Arnall, owner of the
mill, Will Arnall, Bluford Arnold
and a negro.
Bluford Arnold was brother to
Mrs. S. Fr Simmers, of Vienna,
and was here oi a visit two weeks
ago. lie left here on Thursday to
take a position at the mill to work
until his fodder got ripe. He work
ed a week and a day, when his life | „ , . ^ ,
, . . j , . , J road to the Georgia railroad com
was taken suddenly and without^
Henry b. Baker, a well known
negro, in a letter to the Washington
Post, says: “As a colored man I
wish to call attention to the differ
once between the Republican and
Democratic national conventions.
At the Republican convention the
colored man was treated as a com
panion, friend and brother. There
lie was made to feel as if ho were
not only a political, but a social
equal. The delegates followed the
advice and example of our beloved
president, Theodore Roosevelt, who
teaches that tlie colored man de
serves to be treated as a social
equal. To emphasize this fact, he
had the courage to have at his table
Prof. Booker T. Washington. If
Roosevelt is elected it will so en
courage the colored inen that we
will demand that Booker T. Wash
ington shall be the next candidate
for vice president in 1908. Let not
my colored brethren forget that
. sconce in the Republican conven-
vention when a beautiful white girl
was placed ou r the stage, and by
her side a negro boy. They then
placect flags in their hands and al
lpwed them to lead the cheering
thus making the 1 first and grand
■eat example of the equality of the
races that history records. In the
Democratic convention there was
not a single colored man. It was
:in word and deed a white man's con
yention of a white man’s party All
bail to Rooseveitj ; ;who has given
the poor negro so much to enenur
age him to persist in his political
.and sooial rights. ”
warning.
The Grenadier Guard Band from posed to the building of one beceuse
London, England, one of the most it would have to be so far from the
famous of royal bands, will begin union depot, and'it is now begging the year 1904.
an engagement at tho World’s lair the road to get 411 with the other • The wavdens of the stale prisons
August 29. Special permission roads and use tho union depot, land the sheriffs of tho,counties are
was obtained from King Edward to We don’t always know what we j being requested to act as sppial
allow this band to leave England. want. ] agents to report certain facts con-
j.cerning every person delivered into
| their custody. Some counties
Ginnintr Notice | have not been heard from. In some
RUINED BY RUM.
“I am a physical wieoic from tho
use if whisky,’’ exolaimed J. G.
Marston, of No. 176 Randolph
street, in the police court yesterday
morning when he was arraigned on
the charge of failing lo support his
family.
Marston is a veritable wreck, and
when he appesred lii court ho was
illy clad, and he shook as it strick
en with palsy. Ills haggard face
and bloodshot eyes clearly told of
tho terrible ravages the liquor habit
had made on his health.
He stood before anting Recorder
Sid Holland and pleaded guilty to
all the charges against him, and
then made a plea to bo given a
chance to break off frtm tho habit
that had ruined his life.
“God knows I don’t want to
drink whiskey,” lie said, ‘'but the
habit is stronger than my will pow
er. My brain has become stupified
and I hardly ever know what, is go
ing on around me. The thirst for
liquor is so great that I will go
without food and clothing to got a
drinkb There was onoe a time when
lovgd my wife and children. I
want to be sent somewhere for a
long time until I regain my health
and try onoe more.to break off from
the liquor habit.’’
The poting recorder decided to
bind Marston over to the state
oourts on the charge of abandoning
his family. In this was *£he man
sent to the Toiver, where lie will be
kept threo or four months. He
will be treated by the sheriff, who
has done the same kindly deed for
other men who were sent there and
who had become physical wrecks
from the whisky habit.—Constitu
tion.
A GOOD WOMAN GONE.
BLACKS LYNCH ONE.
Selma, Ala., Aug. O.-Edmund | Tne homo of Mr> j^ 8B0 chmonts,
Bell, a negro, was taken from threo I at Arabi, rests beneath a gloom of
by a maskea mob of 80 rrow from the death of his
constables by a maskea
about threo hundred of his race,
eight miles from Selma, this after
noon and haifged to a tree, his body
then being nddlod with bullets.
Tuesday night Bell assassinated
Houston Scruggs, another negro,
shooting him from tho dark. To
day at Sardis iu preliminary exami
nation Bell was bound over, and it
was while en route to jail that the
lynching took place. Tho shonff
with a posse has gone in search of
the lynching.
Tho oflioers of llio law arc com
plaining of tho vast cumber of war
rants that are sworn out for little
tiofcy charges that would amount lo
nothing but satisfaction ,to the pros
ecutor. They are mostly among
negroes, and when one gets piad
with another, one makes a dash to a
court oflicer and swears out a war
rant and goes back home smiling
with a satisfaction of rov.cngo. We
heard an oflicer say Voconlly that ho
kaa lost as much as $1,000 worth of
legal service in his t'rao on frivo
lous warrants that amounted to
nothing, In some stales a man has
to deposit the amount of tho uost
before he can get a warrant for any-
Christian mother on Wcdhesday
morning ol last week.
Mrs. Clements was known as
Aunt Margaurott, was ono of tho
best women of tho ago, and every
body loved hor. She was 84 years
old, had long outlived ber husband,
had seen hor children well Rottlod in.
life, and was living among tnom.
Thus a beautiful life is gone, but
not forgotten, .tho influenooof wliioh
will live on and on for good. Old
age took hor away; the oil of lilo
had burnod out, and she lay dowu
to rest, fell nslcep iu tho arms of
mercy, ami-passed poacefnlly away.
She was buried Thursday at Salem
church, in Willoo.v county, whore
her membership -was, and where
her husband, Jessie Clements. Sr.,
and her son George wore buried
several years ago,
Threo hundred now bills to go
on the statute boons of Georgia,
and too many laws already. Like a
crate of eggs, half of them will bo
broken before they got anywhere,
Thero is estimated by the farmers
with whom wo have talked that the
cotton crop is off about one fourth,
as a result of tlin.resent rains.
body, and if the accused is convict- j When dog days began the cotton
ed ho gets nis money back. If that dutlook was for the largest crop wo
The ohamber of commerce in
Cordele reported the A. & B. rail-
mission on having no passenger
] depot, and urged that the road be
forced to build ono. Now it is op-
wero the case iu this slate thore
would bo loss livwing, and narrow
minded people would havo to nurse
their grievances outside the courts.
IS CRIME INCREASING.
Few social questions are asked
more frequently than, What is the
increase of crime? The national
census bureau is seeking a 1 answer
to this inquiry. It is undertaking
to secure a record of all tho per
sons who are sentenuod to the va
rious jails, penitentiaries aud oilier
prisons iu tho United States during
The Vienna Cotton Oil Qcmpany will run both
the up town and down town Gins this season. The
rianagement has taken the trouble to put both
these plants in first-class condition. The one down
town will pack both round and square bales, while
the up town gin will pack square bales only.
flessrs. A. J. Shell and C. A. Joiner, both well
knownTby the people of this section, will have
charge of these gins, Mr. Shell having the manage
ment of the up town and Mr Joiner the down town
gin. *
We propose 10 give first class service in every re
spect and we wish to notify the public that we will
not gin any wet cotton knowingly as it will not only
gives a poor sample, but interferes with the opera
tion of the gin, thereby, causing our patrons to wait
an unnecessary time to get their cotton and a use
less expepse to kaep the gins in repair, therefore,
parties bringing such cotton to the gin and causing
us to .shut down on this account, will be charged the
actuai cost of time lost.
Thanking you for past patronage and asking for a
continuance of same, we remain,
Very truly yours,
VIENNA COTTON OIL CO.
perhaps there is no jails in others'
perhaps the local jails are no longer
used, iu still others the sheriffs
have possibly neglected the matter.
But the records of the census bu
reau and the resulting statistics will
not be complete until all are heard
from, and it is hope I that the pres
sure ot other bush-css will no
cause the sheriff of any county to
block this most important inquiry.
have had tor year . But oven uow
thero is a prospeot of a crop about
equal to that of last year.
The people of Dooly county will
nov make any further kick pn the
road law if the powers that bo will
collect the tax in tho fall and not in
the summer whou money is scarce.
This limy make it harder on tho of
ficers, who whould have a harder
time locating tho floating popula
tion, but tho farmers would bo
much bene fitted.
We have, talked with lots of peo
ple in Dooly who will vote against
the amendment for now counties.
Very few men outside of Cordelo
want to give up any part of Dooly
for a i.ew county, and if it is left
to a vote of the people of Dooly
there will be no change. Dooly is
doing 'fairly well and should not be
disturbed.
The new county movement struck
a post at the first turn of the road,
and is held up for 12 months at
least, until the legislature next year
0.111 pass on a commission to lay out
the new co.untios, whioh this legis
lature failed to do. The move
ment may burst Ur boiler in tho
gencial election this year. Only
eight new counties are allowed, but
if it fails there will bo about forty
disappo nted towns in this state.