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THIRD GEORGIA TO LEAVE. Vessel on Which Regiment Will Go Held In Quarantine. Savannah, Jan. 10 According to latest reports, the Third Georgia regi ment may leave Savauuah on cue trails port Ronmania Thursday or Friday. The United States transport Rnutna nia, from Havana, which arrived at Savannah quarantine this morning, is held on account of a suspicious case of Illness on board Dr William Duncan, acting health officer, has gone down to quarantine to investigate. This was the ship which was ordered to carry the Third Georgia regiment to Nenvitas. The United States transport Michigan left this morning with the Eighth Mas sachusetts infantry on board. The troops go to Matanzas. The transport Panama arrived this morning from Havana. Convict Guni'd Fatally Hurt. Washington, Ga., Jan. 10.—JepDen rd, a guard, was fatally hurt by a con vict on W. J. Adams’ plantation, 18 miles north of Washington. While the convicts were eating sgßiperoue of them •lipped up behind DHwrd and knocked him on the head with some heavy in strument, crushing his skull. Immedi ately six of them escaped, going m dif ferent directions. One of them was captured about 6 miles from Washing ton. An armed posse is scouring that part of the country for the other five. Called to Meet Jail. 120. Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 10.—The state executive committee of the Demo cratic and Conservative party of Ala bama is culled to meet at Montgomery on Thursday, Jan. 2(5. The object of the lin etiug is to outline a plan of cam paign for the constitutional convention including the determination of the method by which delegates to the pro posed convention :<re to he selected. strike Al iy Hind tins Week. Augusta, Ga., Jan. 10.—The cotton mills at this place ran ,; bolls and opened their doors to strikers again today and quite a number returned to work. About 200 went back yesterday. There is strung hope that this week will wituess the end of the strike, either by the ac ceptance of the cut or upon some fair basis of compromise which may be reached. Klnnngnn Escapes a Noose. Decatur, Ga., Jan. 10.—Judge Cand ler has granted a motion to indefinitely continue the case of E. C. Flanagan, the double murderer, on the plea that the prisoner is mentally unable to assist his counsel. This is regarded as practically ending the criminal prosecution audit is believed Flanagan will be sent to the insane asylum. Aim oid Reaches Atlanta. Atlanta, Jau. 10.—An officer has ar il veil in this city from Tulare, Cal., bringing with him S. Lafayette Alnmnd of Conyers, Ga., who is alleged to have swindled merchants and farmers in several counties. The prisoner will be kept n prison here until given a pre liminary hearing. Prominent Aiibiirntte Dfikl. Auburn, Ala., Jan. 10 —J. S. Hair, a prom in tnt citizen and for six years tax collector of this county, died at his home here of consumption, aged 65 years He returned a few months ago from an extended srav in the west in search of health. He leaves a lamily. Representative A' tide l>-t<l. Quitman, Ga., Jau. 10—Hon. W. 0 Wade, the representative from Brooks county, is dead of typhoid pneumonia. mnn or cabpui MONTH LY SUFFERING. women are These pains are symptoms of dangerous derangements that can be corrected. The men strual function should operate w painlessly. Wineni snakes menstruation painless, p.ud regular. It puts the deli cate menstrual organs in condi tion to do their work properly. And that stops nil this pain. Why will auy woman suffer month after month when Wine of Cardui will relieve her? It costs fr.oo at the drug store. Why don’t you get a bottle to-day? For advice, iu cases requiring special directions, address, giv ing symptoms, “The Ladies* Advisory Department,” The Chattanooga Medicine Cos., Chattanooga, Teun. Mr*. RO2ENA LEWIS, o|f Oenavllle. Texas, says! 1 was troubled at monthly intervals with terrible pains In head and back, but have been enUrelv relieved by Wine ot Cardui.” . ’ mniE uf CA.?miu ALL WOMEN Suffering from female trouble! should try the “Old Time” Remedy, It has no equal. It strengthens the delicate femaleorgans andbullds a wom an up. All suffering and Irregularities at "monthly” periods can be avoided by Its use. It is for young girls maturing, for mothers, and for women at Change of Life. Shorn! tie used before child-birth. Sold’by all druggists, orsent (postpaid) on receipt of price SI.OO, FREE: Rook on Home Treatment of Fe male Diseases, NEW SPENCER MEDICINE CO., Chattanooga. Tennessee. li. W. DelaPerriere, Winder. Ga, LieWitii.idic luany Risers, Che famous little niils. PEONAGE CASE DISMISSED. Judge Newman Dec-lares He Has No Jurisdiction In the Matter. Atlanta, Jan. 10. —The famous peon age cases against William Eberhart, a prominent citizen of Oglethorpe county, and his negro overseer, Albert Boykin, have been thrown out of the United States court by Judge Newman, who, after argument, which was delivered on the question of the jurisdiction of the court in such matters, decided thaft he did not have jurisdiction and that the cases could not be lawfully tried iu the circuit court. The celebrated cases at one time promised to cause one of the greatest sensations the state has seen in a long while. Eberhart and Boykin were charged with holding in involuntary servitude negro laborers oil a farm in Oglethorpe county. It was stated in the indictments that they would hire men and then compel them to serve as slaves. When the case was called in the United States court some time ago, the attor neys for the defendants demurred to the in iictinent and stated that the court did not have jurisdiction, and that if the case was to come up anywhere it should be brought in the superior court of Ogiethoiqie county. Judge Newman’s opinion is a short one and states that he will not take jurisdiction of the matter. It is not thought that the ca_se% will be prosecuted iu the state courts of the county. PEACE TREATY REPORTED. DuvL Authorized to Submit Docu ment Without Amendment. Washington, Jau, 11.—The senate committee on foreign relations today authorized Senator Davis to report the peace treaty favorably without amend ment The committee was iu session for only an hour aud the greater part of this time was consumed iu waiting for a quorum, the senators meautime dis cussing informally the provisions of the treaty. There was only a bare quorum of the committee present, but Senators Cnllom aud Clark, who were among the absentees, sent their proxies. Seuator Morgan aud Senator Gray wore the only two Democrats in attend ance, but the other Democratic mem bers of tho committee, Senators Daniel, Mills and Turpie, had full notice of the purpose of the meeting and they indi cated no opposition to immediate aotiou. There was no suggestion of any amend ment in the committee. Senator Davis was instructed to press the treaty upon the attention of the senate with the view to securing as early action as possible. The committee also authorized Seuator Davis-to report fa vorably upon the proposition to remove the injunction of secrecy. Dispensary Law Proposed, Montgomery, Ala., Jan. o.'—State Senator F. S. Moody of Tuskaloosa is making a great effort to have the legis lature pass a general diwpeup&ry bill, and when the .legislator*, get together again he will present bis. bill. He is re ceiving some encouragement from the temperance people of Alabama. During the recess of the* legislature Seuator Moody has beer, making addresses on the subject. This week he will ad dress the people of Birmingham on the topic, and it is expected that a largo au dience will turn out f6r him. I etter, Eczema The intense itching• and smarting incident to these diseases, is instantly allayed by applying Chamberlain’s Bye and bkin Ointment. Many very bad cases have been permanently cured by it. It is equally efficient for itching piles and a favorite remedy for sore nipples, chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites and chronic sore eyes. 25c per box. Dr. Cady’s Condition Powders are just what a horse needs when in bad condition. Tonic, blood purifier and vermifuge. They are not food but medicine aud the best in nse to put a horse in prime condition. Price”*2tc a package For sale bv H. C. Focle, Winder, 0 a BARTLETT ON LIVE ISSUES. Congressman Defends Bailey and Op poses Expansion. Macon, Jan. 7.—Congressman Charles L. Bartlett, who has gone to Washing ton to resume his official duties, ex pressed himself before departing on two questions which the country at large is ieeply interested in—the question raised by Mr. Bailey, the Democratic leader of the house, as to the rights of any mem ber of congress to hold his 6eat while •erving in the army, and the question of the Philippines. “In reference to the statements in the papers criticising Mr. Bailey as attack ing General Wheeler,” said Mr. Bart lett, “I must say that I feel assured that the conditions as they exist in the house and the resolution which Mr. Bailey has introduced, are not understood. “I think that Mr. Bailey did the proper thing in introducing the resolu tion, which simply directs the judiciary committee of the house to inquire whether any member of the house has been appointed and accepted a commis sion in the army; and, if so, what effect such appointment has on his member ship in the house; and whether any member so appointed to an office in the army has exercised auy act as a mem ber of the house. “It is erroneous to say that Mr. Bailey is attacking General Wheeler any more than he is attacking either c: all of the three other gentlemen who were commissioned as army officers. That a member of congress has no right to hold an office under the United States during his continuance in office is clear from the constitution.” Speaking on the subject of expansion, Mr. Bartlett said: “lam opposed to the United States holding the Philippine islands. While I approve of the terms of the treaty which requires Spain to relinquish her sovereignty over them, I will never sus tain auy proposition looking to the gov ernment acquiring these islands perma nently as a part of our territory.” NEW INJUNCTION GRANTED. Street Railway Fight Transferred From Federal to State Court. Atlanta, Jan. 7. —Judge Candler has signed a restraining order enjoining the Atlanta Railway company from con demning the tracks of the Atlanta Con solidated Street Railway company on Mitchell street, or from constructing on that street guutlet tracks that is, tracks that lap over each other. This movement on the part of the at torneys for the Consolidated carries the litigation between the two systems of street railway in the city, for the right of way on Mitchell street leading to tho viaduct, into the superior court of the couuty. It is doue as a result of a de cision by Judge Newman ruling the parties out of the federal court and refusing to take further jurisdiction of their contentions. The plaintiff is the Consolidated Street Railway company alone, thus ruling out the Old Colony Trust company as a party plaintiff, as in the case when taken to the United States court. The Atlanta Railway company is the party defendant. Judge Candler set the hearing for Jan. 21. A BIG FIRE AT CHARLOTTE. Seventy Thousand Dollars Worth of Property Hurried. Charlotte, N. C., Jan. 7.— At mid night fire was discovered in the 3-story building of the Shaw-Howell Harness company, on Fourth street, near the center of the business portion of the city. The fire had gained such head way when the alarm was sounded that the building was soon totally destroyed. The loss to the stock will reach fully (50,000, with $25,000 insurance. From the Shaw Howell building tho flames spread to the adjoining building occupied by the Liddell Machine com pany as an office and sample room. The loss to their stock is about ((5,000, with (4,000 insurance. The building was a total wreck- and was valued at about $4,000.- The firemen worked under great dif ficulty 8 as a high wind was blowing. The burned buildings are just across a narrow street from the Buford hotel, a 4 story structure,, but that building escaped injury. The' total loss will probably reach from (65,000 to (75,000. FLORENCE PEOPLE- REJOi.CE>. Decision In the Bridge Case Followed’ by Ddniage Suits. •' Florence, AM;,‘Jan 7:—’Fforefiqe re joices today at fife*! n’&\\Vdl tliCs 'Settle ment of ' the celebrated bridge toll case by the United States supreme court at Washington. Notices of suits for dam.-.gvs mole lag made by the hundred. It is hardly pos sible that the Southern will be com pelled to pay all the damages which have been made liable every time a pas senger crossed the Tennessee river since the passage of the law. The’case was 1 Of unusual interest On account of the neat question of state’s rights which it involved. The saving to the people of this and Colbert county, will be many thousand dollars annually on the reduced schedule of tolls. Searching For Ksterhazy. New York, Jan. 11.— The Dutch steamer Rotterdam, which arrived to day, reports that during the embarka tion jof passengers the police authorities made a search for Count Walsin Ester hazy, who was said to pe stopping in a hotel at Rotterdam, trying to escape to America. FLANAGAN ESCAPES NOOSE. His Case Indefinitely Continued on the Ground of Insanity. Atlanta, Jan. 9.—E. 0. Flanagan, the double murderer, was arraigned at Decatur today. Judge Candler granted a motion to indefinitely continue the case on the plea of insanity, thus vir tually ending the prosecution. This was the fourth trial of the noted murderer, who shot and killed Mrs. Allen, the aged mother of George Allen, and Miss Ruth Slack, Mr. Allen’s wife’s sister. The double killing occurred on New Year’s eve, 1896, while the Allen family were at supper in their home at Poplar Spring, 4 miles from Atlanta, on the Consolidated trolly line. Flanagan wanted to marry Allen’s little 11-year-old daughter, and he was told that the girl was too young. He claimed that the whole family was plot ting against him and on the date above mentioned went to the hall where Al len’s family were at supper. He fired at Allen and the bullet struck the latter in the neck. The murderer then shot Mrs. Allen and Miss Slack, killing the former instantly ami inflicting a wound on the lattier which resulted in her death Flanagan was tried a few months after the crime, and his attorneys set up the special plea that the prisoner was insane at the time of the trial, and therefore ought not to be tried Iu this case the jury held that the prisoner was mentally able to go into a trial. A few weeks later Flanagan was tried on the main issue, the murder of the two women, and his attorneys set up the plea that he was insaue at the time the crime was committed, aud therefore ought to be sent to an asylum. The jury found Flanagan guilty of murder, and he was sentenced to be hanged. Flanagan’s counsel appealed both cases, and in the second case the su preme court held that Judge Candler bad erred in not charging the jury on the law of insanity. Last summer Flanagan was tried tor the third time, the jury found him guilty of murder, and he was again sen tenced to be hanged. Another appeal was taken and the supremo court the second time reversed the decision of the lower oonrt, holding that it was wrong to have forced a trial when defendant’s leading counsel was sick and that one of the jurors had disqualified himself by remarking before the trial that Flana gan ought to hang. FOUR KILLED IN A WRECK. ' Passenger and Freight Trains Crash Together Near Knoxville. Knoxville, Jaa. 9.— Four dead, two injured, 1 one of these, perhaps, fatally, | aud the loss of property of the Southern j railway to the amount of about SIOO,OOO, is the result of a wreck which occurred on the Knoxville and Ohio branch of 1 the Knoxville division of the Southern railroad, ih, milesw r estof Elk Valley. The dead are: Engineer J. D. Maxey. Fireman Frank Readdy, a negro. Brakeman Lonza Hoover, a negro. Flagman W. A. Diliou. The wreck occurred at 11:30 o’clock. It was a head-end collision, freight train No. 68. second section, aud mixed local ti’ain No. 3 met in an awful crash. Both of the trains were running at the rate of about 85 miles per hour, and the ac cident occurred so that the trainmen were not able to jump and attempt to save their lives. No. 3 was running 15 minutes late, having waited at Knox ville for connection with a western train, and. had the right of way. All the freight trains of the Knox ville and Ohio division had been noti fied that the mixed train was oil a late run, and the only cause for the acci dent that can be given is that Engineer Maxey of the freight train misread his orders. It would have been an easy matter for him to have read the order telling that the passenger train was 50 minutes late instead of 15. CYCLONE NEAR SAVANNAH. Wind Blows at the Rate of About Ninety Miles an Hour. Savannah, Jan. 9.—A severe cyclone passed over a section of Liberty county some 20 miles south of this city. The wind was of tremendous force. During 15 or 20 minutes it attained to a velocity of not less than 75 to 80 miles an' hour. At Johnston station, between here aud Waycross, it is estimated the wind blew 90 miles an hour for 10 minutes. In the village considerable damage was done. The residence of' Dr. Rogers , was unroofed and otherwise 'damaged. ;tlie roof of a brick store'was tora°off, and the top story was damaged. A drug store was practically demolished. Many dwellings were injured by the smash ing of windows and the collapse of chimneys. Crushed Under a Big Door. Charlotte, N. C., Jan. 9.— Harry B. a prominent young society man of this city, was found dead be neath. one of the huge doors of the Mer chants and Farmers’ bonded ware-' house. I Lis head was> crushed and back ' broken. The door was in place, but \>as hung, and it is supposed that in, going nome some time between 2 o’clock and day he ran against the door, knock- “ it down and crushing -himself to death. He was the sqn of Captain Har rison Wacts. Killed by a Falling Roof. Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 9. - John Dreher, night foundrymau at the Sloss furnaces here, met-a horrible death by the falling in of the roof over the cast house. lor some unaccountable reason the roof gave way, and an angle bar struck Dreher, pinning him down in a lot of molten iron, anew run having just been made,.. Before he could be rescued he was burned to death, parts of his body being roasted to a crisp. HOPE FOR SILVER. Prophecy That It Will Be Restored Withont Political Action. Why should we allow the victor of the moment to monopolize the rejoic ing? Taken altogether, the results of the recent elections indicate the relega tion of the silver issue to the rear. With a Republican senate assured for the next fonr years the passage of a free coinage bill dnring that time is made impossible aud the whole question placed for the time being outside of practical politics. “No question is ever settled until it is settled right,” and the assumption by those with whom the wish is lather to the thought that “free silver has received its death blow” is possibly premature. A gain in congressional representation for the Massachusetts Democrats on a platform emphatically indorsing the free silver plank of the Chicago platform, a loss of several congressmen to the Democrats in New York on a platform evading that issue, and the success of the fusion ticket in Colorado by the handsome ma jority cf 50,000, despite the defection of a strong faction of the Silver Repub licans and the open and lavish use of a considerable corruption fund in the in terest of the administration wing repre sented by Senator Wolcott, are straws of some significance iu this connection. It is plain that the currency question has yet to be settled. Thinking men on both sides fully realize that the insta bility of tho present system, which has caused so much distress and disaster in the past, must remain an element of danger until that system is reformed on a permanent basis. It is felt by many, however, that instead of being commit ted to the chances of party success, either at the polls or in congress, the ques tion will find a natural and speedy set tlement quite apart from political con siderations. The logic of events, it is now openly recognized by leading Dem ocrat.-. like Senator Morgan of Alabama and by those Republican leaders in the intermountain country who followed .Senator Teller into the Bryan camp, will decide the money question on a basis acceptable to both Republicans and Democrats—that is to say, as one unlocked for but most important result of the war with Spain we have virtu ally incorporated into the Union coun tries aud populations whose monetary needs can bo met only by a large in crease in the silver coinage. To supply these needs it now seems inevitable that a bill will be introduced in the coming session of congress with the ap proval—if not at the instance —of the administration, for the tree and unlim ited coinage of the American product. While only a beginning, such a meas ure cannot fail to be warmly welcomed by those whose championship of free silver coinage has been in a large meas x:re actuated by concern for the revival of an important, though by no means the most important, product of the Rocky mountain country. International bimetallism, it has been very distinctly demonstrated, cannot be forced. The ac tion of England aud other countries iu the matter must be based in the nature of things on what is now rather than on what may be looked for iu the fu ture. When through' the largely in creased use of silver as a money metal, which our colonial and eastern trade will require, the market price of silver bullion has naturally responded to the increased demand and attained or ap proximated $1.29 per ounce—as it sure ly will within the next year or two — there will be no serious opposition to an international agreement for the coinage of gold and silver on equal terms. - Arena. Municipal Grants. i At a recent session of the National Municipal league at Indianapolis Mr. Charles Richardson read a paper on ‘‘Municipal Franchises” that attracted attention. He said in part: , . ‘‘l feel constrained to announce my self as being unalterably opposed to any grant of municipal franchises for any purpose whatever, and I take this posi tion as a matter of principle. I main tain that the idea of granting fran chises to private individuals or corpora tions to minister to a city in social necessities is as wrong in scientific the ory as it is mischievous and destructive of what is best in municipal life in practice. The whole idea of granting special privileges to a few people to make profit off all the rest of tho peo- . pie is undemocratic, and consequently is opposed to and stands iu the way of progress toward the realization of our ’ it and best ideal, the equality of all men before the law.” Reformers Mnst Agree, If we reformers can find no basis of agreement as to what is to be done while the industry and moral well be ing of the entire nation are massacred by a single trust, then ,Nero fiddling while Rome burned is a paragon of in nocence in comparison with ourselves. If we can do nothing to save the people unless we can save them within the terms of our own particular programmes or until some day of dreadful judgment forces us together, then the fury or that reckoning may tear ail our programmes to shreds and the people be saved by fire and by suffering unspeakable be cause the leaders were too blinded by self will to see the day of their oppor tunity.—*-Dr. George D. Herron.