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The Corn Has Been Shel!-
ed Off.
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Art oldCrtlrtred prpach'er was ask
wh#fonw fua c.hnridi was getting cu,
sv. k! his answer was, —
• 'Mighty poor, flighty pocr,
-Wltf i* rtmttfnible?”
f>* W" i
- ‘Do cieties. cieties! Pay is jist
drawn all, do fatness and marrow
f no ten jiv body and bones ob de
t> v .-sse<l Cord’s Cody. We can’t do
u -• i|n widrrtrtf-de cietv. Par is de
i. mCitm -Gwky, wid sister Jones
dfctuddx-isrown to run it. Sis-
Williams must march in Iron!
m> dc Daughters of Rebecca. Den
15 dp-Dorcases, de Marthas, de
p itdgliters ob Ham. and Liberian
•Well you have the brethren to
it sip in tne Church,” we suggest
'*No, sah. Par am tie Masons;
si Odd Fellers, do Sons of Haro,
• f r ,and de Oklaoma Promised Land
: 'MgriniB. Why, hrudders by de
t; de brudder and sister pays all
be dues, and tens all de meetina,
.:a_ s nuflin left for Mount Pisgah
Lurch but jist do col>. De corn
,i,fA been shelled off, and frowed to
.i. e speckled chickens. —The
v.Lbristiaii Statesman.
A Word About Going in
Debt.
'I he coming of spring and
ji.tV: paration for another crop is al
t >£ dy being evidenced in town as
vlas on the Farm. Large ship
of horses and mules are
ii'mag brought here to market
•■ 'si. svy week, ami carloads of guano
.'fire arriving daily.
a.’ armers find it an easy matter
tv. buy and sign legal papers to
ure payment, which covers ev
‘Vj t'iing a man possesos or
iv pacts to make, but the chances
:*r> that on pay day this fellow
would give just anything in his
p rssesion if only he could repent
at' his folly, if only he could have
loomed in time to live within his
. sur.ome, and to have held fast to
which was then his own. hut
in r.> was the property of another
and in many instances
w I'fl no worldly posession what
-v to give evidence of thoconsid
erfCuon for the passing of hisprop
vty from him.
f times are hard we must cur
'Us. 1 our expenses to meet the pinch
Lt til the people learn to vote for
ft*. :r own interest instead of for
Vx-3 fellows who are administering
2.tv - pinching. It is for the interest
<i> every producer to vote together,
*o_d they must learn to do thisbe
■ ioce there will over be any pros
perity for them.
Turn around the cow and let
tlbs other fellow do the feeding for
a while, while we do some of the
'.milking.—The Clinton Caucasian.
' Keep people in ignorance and
yuc can keep them in slavery,” is
nxz aphorism much quoted. Yet
slaves of the press usually the
rii. 03 1 educated, are the most slav
vrttb on record. They sutler a slav
that is both galling and humi
v i.* ng, in that it destroys every
c* <V impulse iu the breast of its
viviv _n. It is not enough to edu
-05- men to make . them free.
Knowledge is power sometimes
To make men inOontestibly
aiac alisolutely free they must be
n ■' &5e economically free and pro*
rj.ii- ted by conditions and institu
ti cn calculated to conserve and
preserve their freedom. And un
fS..'. this is done, no man can truly
“a v that he is free —Mercury.
■&>T\e Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That la what It was made for.
Study of Political Economy
Thirty years ago the professors
in the Berlin university devoted
13 hours a week to the study of
political economy, This amount
of time is now more than doubled.
The range of this subject has been
extended and now includes such
questions as labor rights, curren
cy problems, social protective leg
islation, economic meaning of ma
chinery, and so forth. —Chicago
Tribune.
HUGE MILL TO BE ERECTED.
City of Iliinisvill** (i: ts Uip Largest
Cotton Factory South.
Huntsvii i.r, Ala., Feb. ,0. —Final ar
rangements l ave just been made, insur
ing the erection at Huntsville of a cot
ton mill of 200,0(0 spindles, three times
as large as any like industry now in the
south. The corporation that will erect
Bud operate the industry is entitled the
Merimac Manufacturing company of
Lowell, Mass., having a capital of $2,-
500,000. The charter has been granted
and the governor’s approval is affixed.
Several prominent business men,
headed by T. W. Pratt, have been work
ing to secure the new industry for 18
months past, but special legislation was
required to make possible its location in
Alabama. All these matters have been
attended to and tile contract papers are
signed. A site will be selected from
among several that are now under con
sideration and ground will be broken
within the next few weeks.
The Merrimac manufacturing com
pany operates an immense plant at
Lowell and the new plant here will be
an improved duplicate of the first. The
plant will consist of many buildings,
including a bleaehery, printing mill for
printing calico, a dyehouseand machine
shops. Print cloths, ginghams, sateens,
velveteen and fine dress goods will be
among the articles manufactured.
The employes will number something
more than 5,000, more than half of them
necessarily skilled workmen.
NO FUEL AT BIRMINGHAM.
Several Large Fnnuices Compelled to
lht.nlc Tin- r Fires.
Birmingham, Ala, Feb. 20. —The pro
duction of pig iron in this district has
been cut down quite a bit by the fur
naces banking their tires on account of
a scarcity of coke and coal. The Ox
moor furnace, three furnaces at Besse
mer and also furnaces at Ensley City
have their fires banked aud no iron is
being made. Each day that the fur
naces are idle cuts the production down
considerably.
The furnaces are making more than
175 tons of pig iron a day, and with five
of them out of blast it can be easily
figured as to the amount of pig iron that
will be missed. The demand for the
product is exceedingly brisk and orders
are oil the books of the various com
panies which will be shipped on for at
least four or five mouths yet. The ex
port trade is just as active as it has been
and the great advance in iron is being
given by the foreign buyers as well as
by the local purchasers. The cut in the
production is likely to advance the mar
ket some again.
LAST OF VOLUNTEERS GO.
War Department Issues Orders Dis
charging Troops in tile Sou ill.
Washington, Feb. 20.—The war de
partment issued the following state
men :
Orders have been given for the mas
ter out of the following volunteer regi
ments:
At Savannah, Ga.—Third Georgia;
Batteries A. B, C, D, Maine artillery;
Two Hundred and Second New York
volunteers.
At their present camps at Augusta,
Ga., aud Greenville, S. O.—Third Ala
bama, Third Connecticut, Fifth Massa
chusetts, Thirty fifth Michigan, Fif
teenth Minnesota, Fourth New Jersey,
Two Hundred and First New York,
Two Hundred and Third New York,
Tenth Ohio. First Rhode Island, Sec
ond West Virginia.
Tnis order discharges all tho volun
teers remaining in the United States.
NEGRO VOTE ELIMINATED.
General Assembly of North Carolina
Limits Suffrage.
Raleigh, Feb. 20.—An amendment
to the constitution of North Carolina,
limiting suffrage, has been adopted by
both branches of the general assembly.
It will be submitted to a vote of the
people in August, 1901, at the same
time state officers are voted for.
The avowed object of the amendment
is to eliminate the ignorant negro vote.
To do this educational, property and
poll tax qualifications are prescribed.
But this is made ineffective as to white
people by the further provision that any
person can vote who was entitled to
vote on Jan. 1, 1867, or any time prior
thereto, or whose ancestors were so en
titled to vote.
Mrs. Gleason Not Guilty.
Augusta, Ga., Feb. 20.— The jury in
the case of Mrs. Gleason, charged with
•ending obscene letters through the
mails, has returned a verdict of aot
guilty.
PRESIDENT FAURE IS DEAD.
Apoplrxy Carries OfT thf Chlrf Magis
trate of France.
Paris, Feb. 17. —M. Felix Faure, pres
ident of France, is dead. He succumbed
to a sudden and unexpected attack of
apoplexy. His family and several mem
bers of the cabinet were about him when
the end came. The dying statesman
realized the situation and bade wife and
children a most affectionate farewell.
Francis Feiix Faure, sixth president
of the third republic of France, was
born Jan. 20, 1841, in Paris, and was
the son of a cabinetmaker. When quite
young he married the daughter of M.
Beiluot, an attorney at Amboise. Al
most immediately afterwards he settled
at Havre as a commission merchant and
soon became a leading ship owner.
During the Franco-Prussian war he
was captain of the mobiles of Seine-
Infeneuro, in which capacity he took
part in the skirmishes near Havre,
being recommended by Admiral Mou
chey for the Legion of Honor. He
greatly distinguished himself by the
promptness with which, at the head of
volunteer firemen, organized by him
self, he extinguished the conflagrations
started at Havre by the Communards.
In doing this he was slightly wounded
by a shell.
In August, 1881, he offered himself
as a Republican candidate for parlia
ment in the Third district of Havre and
was elected. He was appointed under
secretary of state for the colonies in the
Gambetta administration formed in No
vember of that year, and held the same
office in the ministries of M. Jules Ferry
(1883), M. Brisson (1885) and M. Tirard
(1887).
In May, 1891, he became minister of
marine in Dupuy’s cabinet and was ap
pointed vice president of the chamber
of deputies, a position to which he was
several times elected.
On the retirement of M. Casimir Pe
rier, who resigned the presidency Jan.
16, 1895, he was chosen president by 430
votes as agaisiit 361 given to Henri Bris
son.
M. Emile Loubet, president of the
senate and formerly premier, has been
elected by the national assembly to suc
ceed the late M. Faure.
ONLY FOUR DAYS REMAIN.
The General Assembly Is Now About
Ready to Adjourn.
Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 18.— There
remains of the present session of the
general assembly only four more days
About 500 acts have already passed both
houses. About 50 of them are of a gen
eral uature. Only two of these 50 are of
especial general interest—the law pro
viding for the holding of an election to
determine whether a convention shall
be held to frame anew constitution for
the state, and the law providing for a
system of dispensaries in Alabama.
This latter is a general law with cer
tain counties excepted, but the excepted
counties contain 28 of the largest coun
ties of the 66 in the state, and 21 of the
remainder already have prohibition laws,
and, therefore, do not come under the
provisions of the dispensary act. Seven
teen counties will, therefore, try the
dispensary system on a plan essen
tially different from the Carolina plan,
in that in Alabama the municipality
and not the state is the poprietor of the
whisky dispensary.
; Several important bills are still on
calendars. The senate has not yet
passed either the general revenue bill or
the general appropriations bill.
The present session has been generous
in its grants to towns and counties of
permission to issue bonds for sanitary,
road and school improvements.
The bill abolishing the court of county
commissioners of Jefferson and provid
ing for the appointment by the governor
of a board of revenue for the county has
passed the senate.
Governor Johnston has vetoed the bill
which proposes to exempt from taxation
I for a period of ten years all manufao
-1 luring concerns which may be erected
i in the state within the next ten years.
SECRETARY IS RESTRAINED.
Fight Ov-r Railway ( barters Assumes
an Interesting Phase.
Atlanta, Feb. 18.— The fight over
the petitions of the Georgia Northern
railroad for an amendment to its chap
ter conferring the right to extend its
line from Moultrie to Thomasville, Ga.,
took on another complication and as
sumed anew and interesting phase
when a petition was presented to Judge
John S. Candler to restrain Secretary of
State Cook from granting the amend
ment.
The application for injunction was
presented by Attorney C. J. Hayden of
the Tifton, Thomasville and Gulf rail
road, who has made strenuous efforts to
prevent the secretary of state from
granting the amendment asked.
The petition for injunction was re
fused by Judge Caudler, after hearing
the argument in the case, but a rule nisi
was granted, calling upon the secretary
of state to show cause why the injunc
tion applied for by the Tifton, Thomas
ville aud Gulf road should not be is
sued.
A hearing was set by Judge Candler
for Feb. 22.
A Family of Six Drowned.
Charleston, Feb. 20 A terrible
story of suffering comes from Robbins,
on the Pee Dee river, in Darlington
county. A negro named Ned Bostic
found that the water of the river was
rising around his house. He got an old
boat and placing his family, consisting of
his wife. Emily, and his 'children, Ben.
Rollins, Burrell and Irene in it, he tried
to reach a point of safety. As heneared
the bridge on the Wilmington. Colum
bia and Augusta railroad, the boat went
to pieces and the entire party perished.
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PHYSICIANS TO DETERMINE.
Question of Locating the Prison Farm
Site Will lie Decided.
Atlanta, Feb. 22.—The question of
the location of the prison farm at Mil
ledgevilie, Ga., and also whether the
farm is t © be finally situated in that
town, is now left to the decision of Dr.
James B. Baird of Atlanta and Dr. Wil
liam O’Daniel of Ballards, Ga., formerly
state penitentiary physician.
Both professional men were agreed
upon by the board of health at Milledge
villo and by the state prison commis
sioners to determine after accurate ex
amination whether the present contem
plated location of the farm buildings in
that town would tend to pollute the
waier from which the town gets its
supply.
Injunction proceedings instituted by
the citizens ef Milledgeville have been
stopped pending the decision of the ex
perts.
GRAND LARCENY CHARGED.
Members of tile Late Fourth Tennessee
Under Arrest.
Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 22.— H. L.
Snyder of the late Fourth Tennessee
regiment aud M. A Wall of the Third
Mississippi are under arrest here on a
charge of grand larceny.it being alleged
they robbed John Boswick, another sol
dier, of $135.
While at the stationhouse, Sergeant
Robert Green of the late Fourth Ken
tucky regiment made charges against
the two soldiers, charging them with
holding him up at the point of a pistol
in this city last Saturday night and
robbing him of $23.00.
The two men make a denial of the
charges. They came here from Atlanta,
though their homes are in Dixon, Ills.
New Railway Commissioners.
Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22.—Gov
ernor Johnston has nominated for asso
ciate railroad commissioners for the en
suing four years Senator E. A. CafFey
of Lowndes and Representative Oceola
Kyle of Morgan. They are to succeed
Hons. Harvey.E. Jones of Mobile and
Ross C. Smith of Jefferson, whose terms
expire on March 1. There were 40 or 50
applicants, prominent among them
being Hons. John W. Tomlinson of
Jefferson, Horace Hood of Montgomery
and P. T. Hudmau of Lee.
Discharged Soldier Killed.
Macon, Ga., Feb. 22. Harry W.
Walp of the First territorial volunteers
was run over and instantly killed by a
Central railroad engine at the trestle
over Monroe street. Eyewitnesses of
the fatality say it appeared to them that
Walp waited until the engine had al
most reached him and then deliberately
threw himself across the track.
Denby Starts For Manila.
San Francisco, Feb. 22.—The Japan
ese liner American Maru, which sailed
today for the Orient, carried nearly
$500,000 in freight and treasure. Among
her passengers was Charles Denby, a
member of the United States Philippine
commission.
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Overdue Steamer Arrives.
Brunswick, Ga., Feb. 20.-The over
due Mallory line steamship City of San
Antonio, F. D. Avery master, from New
York, has arrived in port safe, with all
on board well, after the roughest voy
age in her history. Part of the cargo
was damaged. The vessel is being rap
idly unloaded and will sail Tuesday
morning on her regular trip to New
York. The engines need slight repairs.
Veterans Form a Company.
Atlanta, Feb. 20.—Georgia will soon
have as a part of the National guard a
company composed of confederate and
federal veterans. The petition for the
formation of such a company comes to
Governor Candler from Fitzgerald, Ga.
The governor has referred the matter to
the adjutant general of the state, who
will issue the necessary rifles.
Claim of Lawyers R fused.
Savannah, Feb. 18.—An order signed
by Judge Emory Speer has been filed in
court here, refusing the claim of Messrs.
Harden, West and McLaw of Savannah
and J. W. Weed of New Jersey for sl6,*
000 for the part they took in the Central
railroad litigation. The special master
awarded them a fee, which they re
fused to accept, and the court has re
fused to override the master’s decision.
They represented John S. Tilney, a
stockholder in New Jersey. __