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WINDER WEEKLY NEWS Published Every Thursday Evening Hors Bros. Editors and Proprietors i-l~ '"'MI.-I .. * Kate red attbe Postoffice/at Winder, Ga., as Second Class Mail Matter. I SUHSOKII *TI j) X I i ATKS One V' nr, * - Six Months, ... f>o Three Months, - - 2o Thursday, January 28, 1900 Spot cotton in Winch r today, good mi Idling, 9 8- 1 r*. It remained for Atlanta to do the (biggest slobbering over Taft, and now let’s seethe size of the lemon crop when appointments are made in Georgia. The government has donated $.35,000,000 more to the ship build ers. The paragraphers made much fun of Hobson, but lie seems to have carried bis point. Editor Holder, of .h ffersun, op< ti ed the (lood. Roads school at Athens Monday night with an eloquent ad dress. The dispatches failed to quote what lie said of Jackson’s HOOD roads. “Trv to live as Christ would have me live,” is the Atlanta definition of the.“living like Christ” move ment. Well, what does the church stand for? , It would seem Atlanta church members are resolving to become followers of Christ. May they succeed. a vi: i A state-wide prohibition bill is now being vigorously debated in the Texas Senate. Chatham county will make a n ar-lxer tax remittance to the c unptroller Saturday of 8 12,000. Some freak has advanced the theo ry that the recent earthquakes have shoved us fiv* hundred miles nearer the equate*-. Hut we still have the same rough road to Jefferson. Plans are being arranged to give Taft an aligator steak dinner at New Orleans. Well, if he can stand for the garlic they will dish out to him in Panama, these big lizz.ml will prove a palatable diet. The Island of Cuba passes from the hands of Americans today. The crew of the new battleship Maine hoisted a I’nited States flag and placed wreaths of garlands upon the wreck of the old Maine yesterday. Governor Magoon has planned to depart fertile Hinted Staten imme diately following the inauguration ceremonies. PROMINENT CITIZEN DIES. Mr. It. 11. Allen, of Buford died at his home Monday morning at 6 o'clock. He was buried Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’eleick. lb- was a member of the Masonic order and his burial was under the* beautiful ceremony of that ancient and venerable < rgani/.ation. Mr Allen !cav<s a wife and one daughter, tlie* latter being Mrs. K. W. Vaiu-e, of Buford. He was roared near Dr. Freeman’s place in this county. Some thrity years ago lie moved to Buford and engaged in the tannery He' W-gajl.^ EASE YEAR’S TRAGEDIES. 'According to The Chicago Tribune 3,1 43 passengers were killed on rail roads in 1908 and 10,296 were se riously injured. These figures dei not include any of the railroad em ployes. According tei the last cen sus, the deaths from alcoholism were 2,811 for the year in which the census was taken; yet this record is actually surpassed by the number of deaths among railroad / passengers. The homicidal record of 1908 sur passed that of 1907, hut did not quite reach that of 1906. There were during ti e year 8,692 bond ci les, overh aif of which resulted from quarrel-, 7-86 from liquor; 712 by highwaymen, 678 from jeal ousy and 181 infanticide. During the year 198 highwaymen were themselves killed as against 712 travelers killed by highwaymen. There were only 92 legal executions during the year, of which 66 wen in the south and 86 in the north. A majority o: those executed were whites. The ChieagoTribuhe’s annual sta tistical record shows an increase in the number of lynchings for the year. In 1907 the record fell to 63, the lowest yet. perceived since the war. This year it rises to an even 100, all of which, but three, took place in the south. The dis tribution was as follows: Alabama, 6; Georgia, 16; Mississippi, 22; Texas, 21; Kentucky, 10; Ten nessee, 8; Florida, 4; Arkansas, 1; North Carolina, 1; S rntli Carolina, 1; Lousiana, 8; Virginia, 1; 111 i noise, 2; California,. 1. The hunting casualties show a slight-reduc'.ion over those of It 07. There was 166 ii,iure<l^^^j^Mj Farquhar Engines THRESHERS. We Ik STGGK The Fauijuhar Engine, both large end small size. We have IN STOCK. The Farquhar Thresh, both large and small size. They are here for you to see and select from. Two car-loads here and more to come. We have the best jobbers, contract on these Engines and Threshers, and we can give you the right price and terms. We manufacture the WOODRUFF Saw Mill and Shingle Mill, and they are world beaters^^^^H The ; t*. ill flit : TT'-y-;; <> . s*.