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ICi Atlanta Piomwr I’niw. Away.
fe Col. George Adair, a well known
t*nd pioneer citizen of Atlanta, died at
HMa home in that city last Friday
|y ght.
-A better known, better beloved man
leaver lived in the Gate City. He wan
■jjte of her peerless pioneers, casting
with that city when she was
Struggling hamlet, growing with
growth and strengthening with
Hfer strength.
flMPfo man knew Atlanta more trior
vongbly than Colonel George W.Adair,
ilmd Atlanta has never known better
F and loved and admired more any man
E than Colonel Adair.
1 Always in the forefront of every
movement looking to the progress and
well-being of that fair city, he num
bered his friends by the thousand and
his acquaintances by the thousands.
In his death Atlanta sustains a dis
tinct loss, and to thousands his pass
im? nwav will be a matter of distinct
personal grief.
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I.cgiNlHlur<t Meet* October 25th.
The status of the business of house
and senate <d the state legislature on
which Secretary Charley Nortlien arid
John T. Boifenillet, clerk of the
house, have been working for the pnst
two weeks, has been prepared in
pamphlet form and copies forwarded !
to the members of the legislature.
The unfinished business in the house
for the past session is unusually large |
and when the members convene in
Atlanta on October 25th they will find
a considerable number of bills ready
to be put on their third reading.
The number of bills in the hands of
house committees is also large, and j
mncli of the time of the corning ses- !
•ion will be asked for the consideration i
of these measures.
The unfinished bnsiuess of the sen- j
ate is about the same us that crowctod
over at the end of every session, but
among the bills are several of unusual
importance and interest to the general
pnblic.
One of the measures of most gen- ]
eral public interest in the hands of •
committee *; that My, Ellis, of!
Bibb, relating to warehousemen it the j
state and authorizing them to givo
Wind and issuo warehouse receipts.
Little attention was paid to this bill
at the last session, and it remained
with the committee on general agri
culture for some time. At present,
however, renewed interest is felt by
the farmers of the state in the ware
house plan, and a strong effort will bo
made, it is understood to carry the
measure through.
The successful passage of the bill is
regarded by somo as a partial solution
of the cotton question, ns it would en
able the majority of the cotton grow
ers to hold their cotton for a good
price, ut the same time do business with
the receipts issued by bonded ware
house men.
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Col. tV. 11. I)ulnpy Dend.
Colonel \V. 11. Dabney, one of the
oldest and widely known lawyers of
north Georgia, died the past week at
his home in Calhoun. Colonel Dab
ney had been in bad health for six
months, and for the past few weeks
had been confined to his bed. His
body was carried to Atlanta and
buried in Oakland cemetery beside
his wife and two deceased children.
'William 11. Dabney was born in Jas
per county, Georgia, July 17, 1817,
and was therefore eiglity-two years of
age. lie was admitted to the practice
of law in Decatur, where for many
years he was associated with Colonel
James L. Calhoun, futher of W. L.
Calhoun of Atlanta.
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Cadet Wood h Goorclnn.
Naval Cadet Welborn Cicero Wood,
tho Georgia boy who was with Wat
son's gunboat which wns destroyed a
few days ago at Manila and who was
reported as being killed by the Filipi
nos, was given the appointment to the
naval academy at Annpolis by tlio Hon.
Carter Tate, of the ninth district.
Young Wood wus the persounl choice
of tho congressman for the place, and
and was not required to stand a com
petitive examination. Congressman
Tate had known the young man, and
was thoroughly satisfied that a better
representative could not bo sent from
the Empire State of tho south, and tho
young Georgian’s career has borne out
tue estimate.
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Fprlillifr Sales Kptlucptl.
The anuual report of the state de
partment of agriculture which is now
in preparation, will show a number of
interesting figures bearing directly on
the short crop of Georgia, both in cot
ton and other stuple products.
A report will show that the sale of
fertilizers which is directly controlled
by the department of agriculture, has
been brought down 20 per ceut over last
year. That while the sale of fertilizer
tags last year amounted to $43,000,
only $34,000 worth of tags have been
sold this year.
By advising the non-use of fertili
sers and reducing its sale throughout
the state the department of agricul
ture, its friends claim, has scored a
signal victory. The cotton acreage,
and hence the cotton crop, has been
reduced.
Commissioner O. B. Stsvens, at the
beginning of his term of office, urged
the farmers of Georgia to diversify
their crops in the hope that the agri
cultural classes of the south would
generally appreciate the fact that a
good price could not be demanded for
a surplus crop of cotton. The advice
of the department was taken in a great
many inetnnees in this slate, with the
: result that the sale of fertilizers has
t been reduced 90,000 tons over last
j year.
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STATE FAIII NOTES.
As the time draws near for the
opening of the state fair many inter
esting features are being added to the
already long list of special attractions.
It is now probably assured that a
Brumby day will be arranged, and a
movement is now on foot to have
Lieutenant Brumby visit Atlanta dur
ing the fair.
The arrangements for a South Caro
! lina dv ure being superintended by
Sam W. Wilkes, and Thursday, No
! vember 2, will be set aside for special
exercises to be participated in by resi
-1 ilonte of tho Palmetto state. The
| date having been fixed, invitations will
be extended to Governor McSweenoy
and many other prominent men of
: that state to attend and take part in
, the exercises of South Carolina day.
Secretary Martin announces that
1 Georgia will have three big days—
North Georgia day, Middle Georgia
' day and South Georgia day. North
1 Georgia will embrace the Seventh and
Ninth congressional districts, Middle
Georgia the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,
Eighth and Tenth districts, nju] South
Georgia the First, Second, Third and
Eleventh districts. A committee will
shortly be appointed for the different
days. The congressmen of the differ
ent districts will be invited on the
days on which the fair will be given up
to their part of the state, as well as
the mayors of the different cities and
towns.
The decorations of the fair build
ings at Piedmont park will be of an
unusually artistic order and the effect
will be something never seen at a state
fair before. Every building will come
in for its full share of decoration and
in order to complete the work on time
a large force of skilled decorators will
be empleyed.
A strong feature in connection with
Negro day will be a special chorus of
1,000 trained voices that will render a
number of selections during the day
in the auditorium. A telegram was
received from Booker Washington,
stating that he would attend the fair
on Negro day and take part in the
exercises. He will deliver a specially
prepared address, and there will be
several other prominent speakers.
WAS NOT A FAKE
Those Misleading Liverpool Cot
ton Quotations Are Explained
By Transmitters.
Tn explanation of the confusion in
tho cotton market quotations from
Liverpool, telegraphed to New Or
leans last week by the Gold and Stock
Telegraph Company, the following
statement of tho entire matter was
issued Monday by tho company in
New York:
“Tho confusion in tho Liverpool
changes of the cotton quotations sent
out by tho commercial nows depart
ment of the Gold and Stock company
on Friday, September 29th, was caus
ed by the neecossity of procuring
them from Liverpool direct, instead of
from tho New York cotton exchaugo
in the usual way, because the cotton
exchange was closed. Tho reports re
ceived through the New York exchange
are based on comparisons with each
proceeding report before they reach
the commercial news department.
“In order to furnish the cotton ex
changes of the country outside of New
York with quotations on Friday, the
commercial news departmer t arranged
that they should be sent to it direct
from Liverpool. Its correspondent in
Liverpool based the changes on the 2
p. m. price of that day instead of on
each preceding quotation, and the op
erators of the commercial news depart
ment, in forwarding the quotations
from New York, overlooked the ne
cessity for so advising the exchanges.’'
CAPTAIN BARKER ASSIGNED.
Coinmnmlflr of tho Oregon Is Placed In
Charge of Norfolk Navy Yard.
Captain Robert S. Barker has been
assigned to command the Norfolk navy
yard, relieving Admiral Farquahar,
who takes command of tho North At
lantic station. Captain Barker will
become a full rear admiral within a
month.
At present he is on waiting ordeis.
Captain Barker commanded tho battle
ship Oregon.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
COKUECTtn WBKKLY. —40
(irorfripft.
UoKsted coffee, Dutch Java, 100 lhs,
$18.60. Artmekle $ll,BO, Lion and Lev
ering #lo.Bo—all less 500 per 100
lh cases, Green coffee choice 11c; fair
9c; prims 7h (S'S'.j c. Sugar standard gran
ulated, New York 5W New Orleans s<l£.
New Orleans white Mfefff SVj'c; do yellow £jkc.
Syrup, New Orleans open kettle 25<6 40e.
mixed 131y@30e: sugar house 28®850.
Teas, black 60©65e; green 50(5 65*.
Klee, bead choice f.f’ 4 (©7c: Salt, dai
ry sacks $1.35; do bbls. bulk $2.00: 100 3s
$2.75: Ice cream $1.25: common 65<ff70c.
Cheese, full cream Matches. 65a
45@550:200s $1.50@1.75: 800s $2.75. Soda,
boxes 6c. Crackers, soda s<6Ve: cream
6c: gingersnaps 6c. Candy, common stick
61<c: fancy 12<S>14s. Ovst ’-s, F. W. $1.85®
$1.75, L. \Y. sl.lO.
Flour, Grain and Meal.
Flour, all wheat tlrst patent. $5.00. second
patent, $4.40; straight, $4.00; extra fancy
ss.9o; fancy. $8.70; extra family, $2.55.
Corn, white. 59: mixed, 50c. Oats, white
40c; mixed 86c; Texas rustproof SBc. Hye,
Georgia SI.OO. Hay. No. 1 timothy, large
bales, 85c No. 1. small bales. Soc: No. 2,75 c;
Meal,plain, 50c. bolted 45c. Wheat bran,
large sacks 85c; small sacks 85c. Shorts sl.
Stock meal, 85c. Cotton seed meal Poc per
tOO pounds. Grits $2.80 per bbl; $1.40 per
bag.
TrovUlon*.
Clear ribs sides, boxed 6-: half ribs,
s®i|e: rib bellies 6 1 .,; ice-cured bellies S f 4 c.
Sugar-cured hums 11®18 1 3 c; California Bc.
breakfast bacon 10(6 12'. l ard, best quali
ty 7\c;second quality O'^tEO’-jC;compound
5c
Colton.
Market closed steady; middling 6 11-16.
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
Mourns tho Doath of Col. George
Adair of Atlanta.
FRIENDS FOR FIFTY LONG YEARS
Oillce of Col, A>falr Wu. Arp'. Favorite
Ilttnnt When He Visited
the (Jute City.
“Friend after friend departs.
Who has not lost a friend?”
I don’t know what word the next
mail will bring, but I expect that my
old friend is dead. For more than
fifty years George Adair and I have
been friends—good friends. He was
always glad to meet me and held my
hand tight and long, and mailed a
pleasant, greeting. Of late years wg
have drawn closer together, u>r we
knew that we were approaching the
goal, and that but few of us were left.
Ihe memories of old men are sweet,
but they are sad, and it was a comfort
to George and to me to get close to
gether as oft as I visited Atlanta and
commune about old times and the old
people who have passed away. He
was never gloomy nor did he ever
bring a cloud to darken the sunshine
of our meeting. Where shall Igo now
for comfort when I visit the Gate City?
Where will Evan Howell go?
Yes.T was a college boy when George
Adair was conducting the first train that
ever ran into Atlanta. I traveled with
him sometimes, and since then our
warm friendship has been unbroken.
His warm Scotch blood beat more
kindly to his friends as the years roll
ed on. He was as frank as he was
genial. He had opinions and convic
tions, and did not suppress them to
curry favor with anybody. His life
was an open book, and everybody who
knew him at all knew him well. A
stranger would diagnose him in half
an hour’s conversation. Sincerity was
his most striking characteristic;
Scotchmen are always sincere; they
never dodge responsibility. I don’t
know whether George carried any In
dian blood or not, but his uncles did.
The Adairs of Cherokee were close
akin Iq him, and they were half
breeds or quadroons, and all went
west with the tribe in 1836. Their
descendants are out there now, for I
take an Indian paper and see their
names among the leaders.
It is singular how those Scotchmen
mated with tho Indian maidens early
in this century, and every one of them
wanted a chiefs daughter, and gen
erally got her. When the old chiefs
died these Scotchmen just stepped into
their places and groomed the tribes,
and so did their sons after them.
There was no English or Irish or<
jjFronch in it ; the Scotch alone had se
cured tho Indians’ respect and confi
dence. There was Ross and Ridge
and McTntosh and MeGillvray and
Barnard and Vann and many others
who became chiefs or sub-chiefs and
governed all or a division of the tribe.
Osceolu was the son of a Scotch trader.
I suspect that, George Adair had a
strain of Cherokee blood in his veins,
and it made a good cross—my wife
thinks it does, and is proud to trace
her Indian blood back to Pocahontas
through the Holts and Bolings and
Randolphs; wherever yon find it it is
dominant; I can prove that by myself
and my sons-in-lnw—“Woman rules
here” is what the rooster snys when he
crows iu this family, but she rules
well.
I told Uncle Sam yesterday to clean
out tho pit when lie got through cut
ting wood. When I got back from
town it was almost night, and he was
raking all around the back yard and
burning np the accumulated litter and
trash. “Uncle Sam,” said I, “I told
you to clean ont the pit, for I must put
some of the flowers in there. I’m
afsaid it will frost tonight.” The old
man raked on and said: “She tole me
to do dis,” nnd he never got to tho pit
at all. But my wife came out and ex
plained. nnd said the back yard look
er! so dreadfully bad nnd she knew'
that the pit could wait a day or two,
and it wasn’t going to frost no how,
and so forth, and of course I surren
dered —I always do, but I’ve got to
cleau out tliat pit myself.
Yes, I remember when George Adair
and ,T. ITenlv Smith started a newspa
per in Atlanta, called the Southern
Confederacy. I wrote for it some
times just to give our boys some com
fort and our enemies some sass. When
the foul invader ran my numerous wife
and offspring ont of Borne I wrote of
it on the wing, or the fiy, and told how
we passed “Big John” on the way, nnd
he was driving a steer with the steer’s
tail drawn through a hole in the dash
board and the eifd tied up in a knot.
I indited a small poem to his
memory, and gave the mournful
elegy to my friend Smith, and he pub
lished it-; Georgo had got all fired up
before this and joined General For
rest’s cavalry. lie proved to be a
great favorite with Forrest, and as the
admiration was mutual be named his
next boy after the general, and it
sticks to him yet. I told George
some time ago that in Appleton’s
biography of Fcrrest, which was said
to be written by Colonel Jordan, his
adjutant general, it was recorded that
he was very illiterate, and that his dis
patch announcing the fall of Fort Pil
low was still preserved at Washington
and read as follows:
“We busted the fort at ninerclock
and skaterd the niggers. My men is
still a cellanem in the woods. Them
as was cotched with spoons and
brestpins and sicb we kilt. The rest
was pavrold and told to git.”
George was indignant when I show
ed him a copy of it and declared that
it was some devilish lie that was made
up on him. “I know,” said be, “that
Forrest was no Scholar, but he never
spelled that bad. I have letters from
him that I know he wrote, and while
he misspelled some words, they were
fairly well written. I don’t believe
that Colonel Jordan wrote any such
thing about Forrest. Some of these
biographers are just like some news
paper reporters. If they can’t hear
a lie they scratch their heads and make
one just for a sensation.”
If George dies from this stroke, and
I reckon he will, where wili I go to
while away an hour with a friend?
His office in the Kimball was so con
venient and his chairs so comfortable
and his welcome so cordial that I will
feel lost when I visit Atlanta. The
boys won’t have time or inclination to
talk to me. It was the rendezvous of
other valued friends like Dr. Alexander
and Evan Howell and J. Henly Smith
and Cousin John Thrasher and the
Confederate veterans generally. But
George was the chief attraction, the
center of space. He was a friend in
need and a friend in deed. He granted
his favors with cheerfulness and a will
ing heart. Son e imes I wanted an
indorser on a bank note for a few dol
lars, and lie alwavs said: “Yes. ves.
my friend, of course I will.” If I
shall ever need one again I will not
know- where to go. I have a thousand
good friends in Atlanta, but they are
no* of that kind.
I was ruminating about the differ
ence between his domestic surround
ings and my own. He dies at home
with wife and all his children at his
bedside. His eyes can look upon them
all,and perhaps his ears can hear their
loving voices.
But my wife and I are living out
our days is sad apprehension of the
coming stroke, for four of our dear
boys are far away—too far to reach us
even at the call by telegraph—one in
New York, one in Texas, one in Flor
ida and the baby boy, as his fond
mother calls him, is 3,000 miles away
in Mexico. This is the hardest part
of life —these scattered children. Sup
pose thait ono of the unmarried ones
should approach the door of death and
his earnest telegram should be for his
mother to come to his bedside and
soothe his last moments, what could
she do but stay at home and weep?
Oh, for another life in anothar world
where all is love without affliction or
grief or separation.
Farewell, good friend. I would
that you might ho spared to us yet
awhile —spared to read your own epi
taphs and to realize what a noble life
is worth to a man. Would that the
rising generations might learn a lesson
from your example. The approach of
our dissolution is very stealthy. When
last I saw my friend he was as bright
and genial as a boy and showed no
sign of failing health. I thought that
he would outlive me, for nowadays I
get tired and when the night comes I
am the first to seek my bed. Yesterday
I was busy planting out strawberry
plants, and it was bending work and
ever and anon I had to straighten up
slowly and carefully for fear something
would break or hitch or give way, and
then I would try it again. I can’t
hold out like I used to. What’s the
matter with me, anyhow? Why should
I wear out? Why shonldent a healthy
man live on and on? If he has got to
die, why don’t lie die all over at once
and turn to dust like the one-horse
shay? Why should the heart get sick
when all the rest is well? I reckon
we will all know by waiting.
This morning I went out early to
peruse my new strawberry patch and
sure enough there had been a dozen
dogs in there last night, and they held
a carnival and a circus and played
base and tag and maddog all over my
pretty beds, and tore up a lot of my
plants, and now I am not calm and
serene, and my wife won’t let me put
out strychnine, for she says it isent
fair nor neighborly, and so I have got
to stretch more wire along the fence.
There are about 40 dogs within easy
reach of my house aud they are no
account—
For in this town more dogs are found
Than ever you did see,
Both mongrel, puppy, wlielp and hound,
And dogs of low degree.
Confound ’em dogon ’em. Bill
Akp, in Atlanta Constitution.
BRITISH CABINET ACTS.
Eitß’anil’s Iletnanil* On Kruger’s Govern
ment Arc Made More Sweeping.
A London dispatch says: The meet
ing of the British cabinet on whose
deliberations practically hangs war or
peace in South Africa, began at 1
o’clock Friday afternoon. President
Kruger’s reply to the last note of the
imperial government has been received
and was the pivot of the day’s discus
sion.
It is to the effect that the republic
strictly adheres to the London con
vention and asks nothing further. The
question of the suzerainty of Great
Britain over the Transvaal is not
touched upon in the dispatch.
It is said that Mr. Chamberlain’s
proposals submitted to the cabinet in
clude au indemnity for the cost of
sending out troops, the disarmament
of the Transvaal forts, judicative and
legislative independence from the
judges, and complete admission of the
supremacy of British interests
throughout South Africa.
BUST PAY FOR LYNCHING.
Widow of James Humphries Awarded a
Verdict of 810,000.
Some months ago James Humphries
and his two sons were lynched in
Henderson county, Texas. Ten per
sons were arrested charged with the
hanging. John Crenshaw turned
state’s evidence and they were remand
ed without bail. The widow of James
Humphries instituted suit for $25,000
damages against Greenshaw. The
jnry rendered a verdict Thursday for
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