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. SEP. i 6th, i 899. hia Aran of outbreak inj|y vOtyity, has reached Gofßfe*' j*3Siodler Colonel Lawton commends the tnen of hie regi ment in their promptness in respond ing to the call and their uncomplain ing manner under trying circumstances at I>arien. * * * *‘M iMikiug 1,1 nk M Hoful Chartered. Secretary of State Cook has granted a charter to the Missing Link Railroad Company. The company is capitalized at #3,000,000 and the road it contem plates erecting will be a trunk line from Chattanooga to Walhnlla. The money with which to build the road is all in band and the interested parties state that work will be com menced at once and will be pushed to a rapid conclusion. The road will be 1.00 miles in length aid will result in great benefit to the section of the state it will traverse. The proposed line will run through the counties of Catoosa. Whitfield, Fannin, Murray and Rabun, each of which is rich in mineral resources. It is expected that the building of the road will result in the opening up of mines and quarries and wonderful de velopments are expected by those in terested, to follow. * * • Reunion of Georgia Veteran*. The Confederate veterans of Geor gia and of the south who go to Havan nah in November to attend the Con federate reunion to be held during that month will be royally entertained. The dates for the reunion have been fixed by Gen. Clement A. Evans, ma jor general commanding the Georgia devision U. C. V., as Wednesday, No vember 22, Thursday, November 23, and Friday, November 24. Commenting upon the coming state reunion, in a circular letter General Evans says: “We will moot in our oldest Georgia city a city which has passed with lionot through all our country’s wars since 1732 to the present time, and whose record during and since the Confederate war bears proud witness to the bravery, patriotism and fidelity of its people we shall have the pleas ure ol gathering together as comrades in the cause we love so well. It is unnecessary to say that hospitality never exceeded and esteem for the Confederate veterans unsurpassed will greet 11s in the city of Savannah and warm our hearts afresh. “The dates of the reunion were clioseu after careful deliberation, so they would not conflict with other gatherings in the state, and a time appointed when the greatest number of our comrades could most easily be absent for a few days from business.” • • • M tuiirl|tl Ofllcfm Knjoined At Havaunab Saturday night Judge Failigant signed an order enjoining the mayor and aldermen and police of the town of Warsaw, better knowii as Thunderbolt,from arresting the motor men and conductors of the electric cars of the Savannah, Thuuderbolt and Isle of Hope Railway Company. At the last meetiug of the Thnnder t t town council an ordinance was f •>! requiring the railway company to provide separate accommodations for whit® aud colored persons. The order was ignored by the street car c ut{ :.y and the injunction asked for. • • • T • Talk of Farin*r' I nutif utr*. There will he a mass meeting of farmers in Hailey on Saturday, Octo ber 7th, and by invitation Hon. C. H. Jordan and Mr. W. G. Cooper will be on liandto talk of farmers' institutes and organize one for the comity. • • # Kttv. rtillilr*** Kxontrnted At Calhoun, Saturday, the jury iu the case of Rev C. C. Childress, charged with burglarizing #BOO from l'r W. B. Vaughn, at Fuirmount some time Mgo, brought iu a verdict of ao quital. A large number of witnesses were introduced aud many able lawyers were employed in the eo<e. Tlie courtroom was crowded during the ar gument. Many ladies were present. • V * ■ Meet At Fitlgerald. The Epworth League conference, Valdosta district, met at Fitzgerald the past week. State Secretary Wallis presided. Elder Cook and other prom inent leaguers participated and arous ed enthusiasm in the convention. V * * Fiiml For stil Hot; 1 ment Grows. The fund that is being raised to car ry (be Fifth regiment of Georgia to participate iu the Dewey day exercises ■ growing steadily, and it is thought by those who have charge of the finan cial end of the movement that ths sol dier boys will oertsiuly get to the me tropolis. • • • Farmer** l*y at Macon. The second day, October 11th, of the Macon carnival will be known as Agricultural Day and it promises to be one of the greatest successes of the four days' elaborate program. The street parade of the agricultural pro ducts of the middle Georgia section will be a crowning feature. The car nival association is liaviug built three beautiful allegorical louts for this pro cession. • * • Governor'* Count* Approved Governor Candler has received in the last few weeks a large number of letters from every part of the country commenting upon the position which and quickly disappear, - M Another Atlanta VenHatlon. } j The publication of Detective Green Conn’s confession of wrong doing has i developed the fact that there is a wide j split threat* ned in the Atlanta city po lice board. j One or more members o'the .hoard I place no confide ce in Conn’s state { incut, and the others believe every | w ord of it and will use it as a lever to I shove the rigid investigation of the I ilepirlment along. * * * Report 011 fifty* InHiied. The report of the slate geological de j pertinent of Georgia clays, on which | Geob gst Yeates and his assistants j have been at work for more than two ; years, has been issued, i In order to get materia! for this I treatise the geological department has brought clays from every part of the state and after determining the relative merits of Goorgia clays they have been compared with the best samples from other states. A review of the tests made with Georgia and foreign clays, shows that in nearly every quality of value the Georgia article is superior. The report on clays which is to be placed in State Geologist Yeates’ hands will be a valuable addition to the collection of reports completed since Profossor Yeates took charge of the department. * * * Prohibition Klertlnn Wanted. A petition has been circulated throughout Griffin and generally signed by all to whom it was presented, asking Ordinary Drewry to call an election to determine whether the voters of Spalding county will have prohibition for four years longer or not. Already enough names have been I secured to the petition to authorize | the ordinary to call the election, but I those who have the matter in charge j will not file the petition for several ' days. ... STATE FAIR TAI.K The attractive features of the state fair, which, after all, do more toward ! drawing large crowds to a fair or ex position than almost anything else,are j being added to almost daily, and the j indications are that the list will con j tnin more unique specialties than aDy fair that has ever been held in the ! state. There will be a confederate veter ans’ day, a cotton day aud several other notable special days during the i event. The railways have not only given liberal rates to exhibitors, but some of | the roads have sent agents into the counties along their lines to stir up public interest in the fair and aid in he collection of exhibits. I The enthusiasm with which the people have taken hold of the fair iR n surprise to the management. The en terprise lias rapidly outgrown the j original plans, and now looms up as a big show which will rank with our ! southern expositions. I Secretary Martin has just beguu sending out his big posters and circu lars, and the newspapers are filled with items of interest about the fair every day. In every stato iu the south people are beginning to talk about Georgia’s great show, and thousands of Geor gians at a distance will visit Atlanta in October to have a reunion with their kinsmen. The people want a big industrial jubilee, and they feel that Atlanta is i the place for it. Arrangements will be ! made to accommodate visitors at low rates, aud a public comfort department will look after their interests. ; It is safe to say that the eighteen days of the fair will he red letter days in our annuls, and the general results will grently benefit Georgia ar.d her people. i In the meantime the fair managers and their assistants are the busiest men in Georgia, as well as tho happi est. But they find time to answer I questions, and if the printed iuforma j tion does not fully cover the ground, all that a person seeking further facts has to do is to write to Mr. Thomas 11. Martin, secretary. Fair Headquarters, | Prudential Building, Atlanta. He knows every detail of the coming ; show, and will take pleasure in an ' swering inquiries from every quarter. HEAVY DECLINE IN COTTON. North ('aroll tin Agricultural Popart ment Give* Out Report. The North Carolina crop report for September was compiled Mouday by the agricultural department. From returns from 1,200 correspondents it shows another heavy decline iu the condition of cotton. This crop fell off In points iu August, as compared , with July, and now it declines 25 points from its August condition. Its present condition is only 75 per cent of an average crop. Tobacco is 87, corn 85, peauuts 85. ALABAMA TO HAVE STATE FA IK. State Kapoaitiun M ill lie Kelt! at Mr mliighitm in November. The Alabama state fair, to be held near Birmingham next November, promises to be one of the most suc cessful expositions iu the state’s histo ry. No state fair has been held in Alabama since 181*3, aud the revival is being welcomed on all sides. B<l Th*n Telu s“ " Aj The mind doesn't f eß *, or will not rest, but it needs a change of mental food. We cannot Bto P thinking,but we can give onr/^o u Khtß a more pleasing direction rest. And so, whe 1 I get tnt perplexed reading and rum^ iat ‘ I1 8 a!.' nt the war and the negroelk aP ~. polirical corruption, I take a day°s and commune with nature and her wonderful w irks, which are ever be-v* fore us and around us. It is even at rest to hear it thunder and to watch" the gathering of the clouds and wel come the big drops of rain that fall upon the steps. When the lightning is flashing and the thunder stroke comes quick and sharp and near, we retire from the veranda and for a little while humble ourselves nnder the ■fl'flhty hand of God, and that is rest. Then let us not worry and perplex ourselves all of our waking hours about things which are afar off, but take shelter and comfort at home. Let us change the diet and it will rest us mentally and physically. My good father was a philosopher and would say to me, “now, my son, I want you to hoe these potatoes and when you get tired you can weed the onions for a rest.” Prof. Mitchell, the great astronomer, told men that when his mind was wearied with long and per plexing calculations and hi* eyes were tired of figures, nothing relieved him more than a game of whist with his wife and children. Itwasa delightful rest. But my sweetest rest is a frolic with the little graudohildren and listening to their innocent discourse. There are two little girls of three and five years, who visit me almost every day and climb my knees and kiss my old rough cheek, and say that I am not old nor ugly and every night,l help their mother put them to bed and tell j them the same old stories about Jack J the giant killer, and the bean vine and the wolf and the pigs and little Red Riding Hood, and what I did when I was a little boy. By and by the mon otone of my voice becomes their lulla by and the little eyes close and their little heads fall over on my shoulder and they are off for the land of dreams. When the father has to go to his drug store every night an old grandpa is a help to a tired mother, and I am thankful that I am yet fit for that. I saw a pair of old-fashioned blue birds today and felt like the friends of my youth had come back. Some years ago they disappeared and I have won dered what became of them. A jay bird with only one leg comes every day to the fountain to drink. lam trying to make a friend of him, but he is very shy and suspicious. Some cruel boy hit him with a sling shot, I reckon, for I see them sometimes in the back alley trying to get a shot at my pigeons. Maybe that jaybird will meet that boy in purgatory. Boys are ns mean about killing birds as our gov ernment is about killing the Filipinos. But this is a Christian country, and, I reckon, it is all right. These pigeons that have a happy home at my house are an interesting study for the young people. We have about a hundred of them, and some of them are ever before us as we sit on the veranda. They are of many col ors, from almost black to a pure snow white, and at all hours of the day they gather at the little hydrant founta n in the front yard aud drink and then fly away. The pigeon is the only bird that drinks by draught or suction, as we do. All other birds raise their heads aud let the water run down by gravity and then dir> the bill down for nnotlier drop. Pigeons do not feed their young with worms or bugs, but the old birds digest their food in their own craws into a curd and eject it into the months of their young. Hence it is that very young pigeons or squabs generally die when they are given away. Pigeons are not exactly polygamists, but males have no particular mate, and they will feed the young of any mother. Indeed, they do most of the feeding. They are not gallinaceous nor razores. Now let the young peo ple hunt up those big words. They can walk, but cannot hop. Most all other birds can hop, but cannot walk. Of course pigeons are pigeon-toed, and so are some folks we know. A pigeon-toed girl generally wears long dresses. Then there is a language called pigeon English. It is really pidgin English, for pidgan is a Chinese word and means business, and pidgen Eng lish is a mixture of Chinese aud Eng lish and of signs by which business is transacted in the ports between natives and foreigners. The migrating butterfly is moving southward. For two or three weeks past one or more have been seen at all hours of the day on the wing passing through our grove. My neighbors far and near tell me they are passing their homes. It is a good, large, yellow butterfly of uniform size and shape aud color. They do not come in pairs or flocks, but singly aud often in sight of each other, they all come aud go in the same direction and do not stop a moment nor pattse to suck the honey from a flower. Well, now I have ! eouuted them by the clock as they passed and made five in a minute through my five-acre grove. That makes 300 hundred iu an hour or 3,000 t- \ \ j wfe* k JFa Jts to B flr the ”m--- ■ .. pot “1 •- * Jprred the [ •, lir, i won. An i .Bli 'P'M flints to know and and their 1 raa m i j|referred him interviewed ;i_,i said be- Mjflp;: | I?.jßioks of the ani- T*~~ a git-up-and- i _____ Bteid it was dona a horse, for itlfc ~~ ya horse to be a mule to be rap old farmer said ;vaiH B>f currying and sjfeby please the pegroesyß Bov them, but it was *pthe mule in fly My says that an a very unsightly beast. Jim J _ 'ine that he raised and never would'"'Ve trimmed. When the mule was twe;,.e years old Jeff got tired of her and trjed to swap her off to his neighbor, Stegall, for a horse, but they couldent trade. Then he offered to sell Kit to Stegall for $75, but he wouldent give it. Not very long after that Jeff comes to town and a Tennessee horse trader got hold of him and gave him an old chunk of a horse for his mule. Kit was put under the shears forthwith. She was clipped and rubbed and washed and groomed and in a few days was transmagnified into a very respectable looking animal. Stegall wanted a mule about that time and the Tennesseean sold Kit to him for SIOO, but he dident know it was Kit. Next day Jim Jeff had busi ness over at Stegall’s and Stegall took him down to the lot to show what a fine mule he had bought. As soon as Kit spied her old master she nickered and trotted up to him and put her head affectionately upon his shoulder just as she used to do, and Jeff kissed her on the nose, and said: “Kit, why Kit, is this you? Bless your old soul. I oughtent to have sold you. Stegall, I will give you $75 for her just because she loves me so.” Mules are curious creatures, but they fill a long-felt want and never strike for higher wages. The mule and the negro are a happy combina tion and when the negro is departed the mule will go too, I reckon. My neighbor, Morris, lias a very fine mule and about six months ago this mule tried to pick his teeth with his hind foot, and got the shoe fastened in his mouth on a broken tooth. Mr. Morris worked an hour to unloose it, and then called in the neighbors and they worked with ropes and levers, but couldent. All of a sudden, while Morris was standing by thinking what to do next, the tooth broke with a report like a pistol, and the mule’s foot flew back against Morris’ shinbone and broke it all to pieces. He was down in bed for three months and goes on crutches now. Such is a mule. He has no pride of ancestry, but lives long and happy.—BiiiU Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. Justice Chambers Resigns. A Washington special says: Justice Chambers, chief justice of Samoa, ap pointed from Alabama, has handed his resignation to the president and sent it to the other powers, simultaneously. The resignation will not be announced until his successor hss been agreed upon. ATLANTA MARKETS. CORRECTED WEEKLY. —37 Groceries. Roasted ooffee, Dutch Java, 100 lbs, $13.60, Arbuckle $11.30, Lion'and Lev ering SIO.B0 —ali less 50c per 100 lh cases. Green coffee choice 11c; fair 9c: prime Sugar standard gran ulated, New York 5.68. New Orleans b.%. New Orleans whites%<a>sb£-’; do yellows%e. Syrup, New Orleans open kettle 251510 c. mixed 12>£@20c: sugar house 28(E35c. Teas, black 50@Goc; green 505: OS’, ltlce, head 7}£e; choice 6%®70; Salt, dai ry sacks $1.25; do bbls. bulk $2.00; 100 3s $2.75; ice cream $1.25; common 65@70c. Cheese, full cream 13’. Matches, 65s 45@55c; 200s $1.50@1.75: 300s $2.75. Soda, boxes 6c. Crackers, soda cream 6c: gingersnaps 6c. Candy, common stick 6Vj"c: fanev 12®13c. Oysters, F. W. $1.85® $1.75; L. W. sl.lO. Flour, Grain and Meal. Flour, all wheat first patent. $5.00; second patent, $4.40; straight, $4.00. extra fancy $3.90; fancy. $3.70; extra family. $2.85. Corn, white, 52.’: mixed, 50c. Oats, white 40’; mixed 86c; Texas rustproof 38c. Rye, Georgia SI.OO. Hay. No. 1 timothy, large bales, 85c;No. 1, small bales,SOc; No. 2,75 e; Meal, plain, 50c; bolted 45 ■. Wheat bran, large sacks 85’; small sacks 85c. Shorts sl. Stock meal, 85c. Cottonseed meal 90c per 100 pounds. Grits $3.00 per bbl; $1.50 per bag. Country Produce. F.ggs 13®14e. Butter, Fancy Georgia. 18 <®2oo; choice 12$£<ai4e, dull;fancy Tennes see 15®17,Vc: choice 12f$e. Live poul try, chickens, hens 25c: spring chick ens, large 20 522V’; medium 165 18e; Ducks, puddle, 20 5 22'V,*; Peking 22 j® 25e. Irish potatoes, 55®60e per bushel. Honey, strained 6<®7c: in the comb 9(510c: Onions. 75c® 85c per bu.: $2,505 2.75 per bbl. Cabbage, l'o®2c lb. Beeswax 20®2U<c. Dried fruit, apples 7®Bc ; peaches 9®loe. Provisions. Clear ribs sides, boxed half ribs, 6c; rib bellies 6V£; ice-cured bellies Sugar-cured hams 11® ISLc; California 8c; breakfast bacon 105 I2V’. Lard, best quali ty 7 1 40; sec end quality 6 8 i (S'6Ve; compound sc. Cotton. Market closed steady-, middling 5 11-16. ■■■ - -v A' - ~ PASSENGER SCHEDULES. read up. TBBBPHs 23 TIME" CARD ~7S 24 32 22 aM^Daily 1 Daily Daily! In Effect June 11,1899. Daily Daily Daily Daily " 9 30a 9 OGp!Lv New York Ar 6 53a 1 03p BP ...! 2 25p 2 50aI ... Baltimore .... 108a 8 23a BfT. 346 p 4 30a, .. Washington. .. 11 30p 7 01a |C 7 30p 9 05aI Richmond ... 7 20p 3 23a 8 28pj 4 38p| 9 56a j 4 50a Jesup 11 44p 7 51a 10 42a 7 04p j 9 OOp 9 20a .. Brunswick .... 1 7 45p 7 30a 1 OOp 5 20p ....Columbus 10 00a 5 20p I 7 25p 1 7 35p! 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