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“Our Ambition is to make a Yeracions Work, Reliable in its" Statements, Candid in its Conclusions, and Jnst in its Yiews."
VOL. I.
ROBERT COLEMAN. JOHN N. BIRCH. boliV£BB.eay<
COLEMAN, RAY & CO.
Macon, FAOT#®!® Gctajp
COOTON Supplies^
Dealers in Groceries, Planters’
Bagging and Ties.
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After lu manv years' practical experience m handling and Cotton*
We announce to the Piontora Planters nt ot flportrin Georgia that that we we are are novr now renrltr ready for thd
costing season, with every facility entrusted and convenience Without tor satisfactory hand*
ling of all Cotton that may be to ns. any favorites
among the buyers, but treating all alike, we make it our special aim to get;
the very highest market price for each Planter, selling to the very best ad-»
vantage each individual hale of Cotton. For the convenience of our
friends in the country ,we have in connection with our warehouse a stor^
supplied with a lull stock of Giocenes, Piotisions and Bagging and Ties,
which we will sell as cheap as any one. In season we nave a full supply of
Mules, which we will sell for cash or on time. We also handle Guano of
the best grade, which we will be glad friends to furnish of the to all wishing it for cash
or on time. We thank our many past years for their liberal
patronage, and to all new ones we guarantee satisfaction. We solicit jour
Cotton and tlclde. liespectlul y,
COLEMAN, RAY & CO.
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I offer as inducements from now until Jan. 1st 1889, to advertise my goods
Best Band Sewed Shoes $3.50 Former Price, 16.00
“ Machine “ Calf J 2.50. .( (( 8,50.
2nd Grade “ “ “ 1.75. « 2.50.
Ladies Sewed Button Shoes 230 V- r. 4.00.
a “ 1.25 %( 1.75.
Calf Skin Lace “ 1.25 2 . 00 .
Best Boots for Men 2.00 « 3,00.
“ Brogans 1.00 and 1.25 it << 1.50 and 1.75.
Children Shoes and Hats at strictly your First own C^ss price and
All of these goods I guarantee to be
everything waranted to be as represented, we respectfully
invite you to give us a call. Remember the place.
Schall’s No 513 Cherry St,
MACON, GEORGIA
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451,453 and 455 mulberry st. macon ga.
Just received, One Car Load Dixie and Ludlow Bagging.
ti it it ii “ Arrow Ties.
(t it Two “ “ Flour.
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We also keep Seed Oats, Rye, Meat, Corn and everything
else kept in a First Class Grocery Business. Can give you
Bottom figures on such goods.
DAVIS & BALKC0I,
8-25—tf. 451, 453 and 455 MULBERRY ST., MACON, GA.
F. S, JOHNSON 1 JEFF LANE
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JOHNSON & LANE.
MACON (O)—
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H^9,rdware, Building Material, Belting,
Cutlery, Wagon Material.
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Cluns, Pistols and
Ammunition.
GRAY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1888-
CANNIBALS ON THE CONGO.
MILLIONS OF THEM IN THE BASIN
OF THE GREAT RIVER.
A Strange Contradiction—The Can
nilials are the Highest Grade Na
tives—Men Preferred to Women. "
Ibe practice . of cannibalism is
not a
pleasant subject to discuss or
plate. It is certain, however, that the
recently discovered .acts concerning the
men eaters of Africa cannot fail to attract
P<\'t nart^f ol tw?inVi the continent r finV nS where i a * the white /., do enter- *? a
prises the are of rapidly developing, and where
use human flesh as an article of
food prevais upon a scale never heard
of in any other part of the world. The
c ®nnibals of the Congo basin undoubt
ThL^re fonniToi*' al m ', lllons P eo Pj°
a thickly distance people of about the 0 banks lai/mTles'^ThS
of several of
the largest Congo tributaries and their
villages J?oth arc seen for hundreds of miles
north and south of the main river,
arc 1 dominating peoples in
one-half of the area ot the Congo Inde
pendent State. It is among these tribes,
terribly degraded as they are iti one re
spect, yet far supciior in intelligence
and in capacity for improvement, to
missionaries many savage and peoples, that traders and
the influences of civil
zed government are now pushing. Can
nibalism is being attacked in its greatest
stronghold by influences to wliicli the
practice will certainly succumb in time,
just as in many of the Pacific islands it
is now known only in the history of
former days of savagery.
The facts about the Congo cannibals
have been very slow in coming to the
light. The Manyema, the lirst cannibal
tribe of the Congo River who were made
knowu to us, told noth 1 iviugstone and
Stanley that they did not eat human
l.esh. When Stanley found at a village
above Stanley Falls hundreds of whitened
skulls arranged iu rows around the huts,
he was told they were the skulls of chim
panzees, and that this species of the ape
family was favorite food among the
people, specimen lie offered a hundred cowries
for a of a Soko, dead or alive,
but it was not produced. Two of the
skulls were taken to England, where
Professor lliuley pronounced them the
skulls of a woman and a man. They
bore the marks of the hatchet that gave
the unfortunate prisoners their death;
and Stanley said half the skulls he saw
were similarly marked.
The middle course of the Congo from
a point about 100 miles above
to ooIobiRtsome tSWtt miles down Ub
river, and the tributaries on bo h sides
of this part of the river are the regions
where nearly all of the Congo cannibals
a e found. They are not known near
the source? of the river nor near its
mouth. The traveler from Lake
yikato Nyangwe on the Congo
through a co ntry (‘surpassingly bdatlti
fill,” as Livingstone called it, which is
the home of the cannibal Manyema.
When a slave or carrier belonging to a
caravan dies in their country they always
wish to bury the body, offering grain hr
vegetables in exchange. They make
war on the weaker tribes around
them. Tt)‘ one explorer they usti
fled cannibalism on the ground that their
neighbors were thieves and ought to
be eaten. “They come here,” they sa d,
“and steal our bananas, and so wejehase
and kill aud eat them.” The country
abounds with a great variety of animal
and there vegetable food, and Livingstone said
was no reason for Manyema canni
balism except a depraved appetite. It
must not be supposed that all of the
Congo cannibals seek habitually to sup
ply themselves with human flesh. Most
of them, like the Manyema, limit them
selves to eating the bodies of those who
are killed in battle or who die. Came
ton said the Manyema consider the flesh
of men much superior to thatof women,
Although the many'other Munvcrna are far more dc
graded than cannibal tribes,
they are noted for their gentleness and
their physical superiority; and (heir
handsome women are mu h sought after
a? slaves by the Arabs, who now sup
port several stations in the Manyema
country, and here as well as further
down the Congo are doing much to de
stroy the practice of cannibalism.
The densely wooded legions between
Nyangwe and Stanley hails are the
homes of many thousands of cannibals.
The Waregga, the Wasongoro, Meno,
and the Bakumu are the best known
among these fierce tribes. A large part
of the territory they inhabit lia? not
been visited, but in some of their vil
lages along the river human skulls are
found lining the streets, and human
thigh bones, ribs, and vertebra? are piled
up in Wajimi the garbage heaps. “Ah, we shall
eat with meat to-day,” was the cry
which they sallied forth here and
there to do battle with Stanley. At Stan
ley Falls he sank in the river the bodies
of two of his men whom they had killed
to keep them out of the clutches of the
cannibals. These tribes, who a lew years
nver have ... buried thenuolrtS iu (ho
forme., the Arabs h.omg takou oona
Tbm 1 ,^." .S LoS.il ,«d
Yon Francois were ascending the Congo
their I.ukolela cannibals guide captured told them that Am
wimi three of Stan
ley’s Zanzibaris, who were part of the
garrison at the Belgian Station near the
mouth of th it river. Two of the un
fortunates had been eaten, but the third
who happened fattening, to be and very during thin was re
served for this pro
cess he managed did to es ape to Bangala.
The explorers not believe the story,
but they afterward learned that it was
true. The Aruwimi is one of the hot
beds of cannibalism. Lieutenant Wester
tell? of one King in this country who ate
nine of bis own wives. At Yumbumba,
only about thirty miles below the Stanley
camp hear, at A atnbuga, of which we so oftei
some 8000 people live who orn-.v
•men# their cabins with human skulls,
while many gnawed bones of their cap
tires are found iu the debris of theii
cuisine.
A few hundred miles further down th(
river are the Bangala, whose great vil
j higes 110,000 are people. estimated Though by Grenfell tocontair
among the most
of Congo cannibals, they are re
j garded Hate by the the officials of the Congo
as most useful, intelligent and
tractable of the natives, and hundreds of
them arc m the service of the State as
hands. soldiers, station laborers and .-teamboat
Cannibalism among them, ac
.cowling their to Lieutenant Wester is a part of
funeral festivities. Upon the death
of any one of considerable importance,
it has been the custom to decapitate
twent ? slav .es to accompany the
of nTof ihe dead e^h Mgala, body is b ,Hed°by'the'Sde
and the other half is
cut up into small pieces and boiled for
funeral feast. When hdf of the
. water in the great kettle? where the food
is preparing has evaporated, the feast is
SSSSf^CSS^ ly of human flesh and SSSJSK quantities of
vast
native beer. The Baugala formerly
waged incessant war upon their neigh
bora to provide victims for their funeral
feasts, but under the influence of the
Whites cannibalism has largely dimin
ished in this great tribe, and in a few
years more it will probably disappear
eniirely. These people, who did their
bestfto ann hilatc Stanley, and dinned
the word “meat” incessantly in the ears
of the little party as they chased them
down the river, are much elated by the
progress they are delight making under white
tuition, and they to yell “sav
age?, savages,” at the old enemies they
used 1 to kill for food,
A little below the Bangala tribe Gren
fell and Von Francois, three years ago.
found thpusunds of cannibals along the
Which tbiexly populated Tohuapa a nuent,
three hundred they ascended for more than
miles. These tribes, all
of whom speak the same language, did
not prelend to deny their weakness for
human flesh. They share with the
Mariyema the peculiarity of preferring
to for eat food. men, and"they do not kill offered women
They repeatedly to
give the explorers women slaves in ex
change fot men, who they admitted
would bd utilized tiS food. Votl Fran
fat cois Boruki says they particularly coveted his
interpreter. fellows surrounded Once some the pre- big
sumptuous pinched patted
interpreter, his arm?, 1”
him on the back, cried “Meat! moitt
f*'d begged the whites to reward their
gkl|$ them ywesent of
too man. " - - v • I
liver About thirty miles Mobaugi-Makua, further downtTttf the
the R reat
largest northern tributary, pours its flood
into Die Congo. Both near its sources
and its mouth dwell some of the most re
markable of cannibal tribes. On the up
P e<i course of this great tributary are the
famous Monbuttu, introduced to us by
Schweinfurth, who their are in neighbors, a state of coii- and
slant war will*
whose principal game is men. When
Schweinfurth visited them human flesh
entered very largely into the habitual re
sources of their cuisine. They had the
greatest Oontempt for the tribes on three
sides of them, followed of them simply as
game, killed as many the enemy as
they cotild, smoked the flesh immediate*
tyt They a 'id preserved bore it their away as provisions,
prisoners for future
u ' e - Schweinfurth collected more than
800 skulls of their victim?. And yet
these cannibals are in the front rank of
African peoples. Their friendship is
durable, their pledges are faithfully kept,
they build houses that hold a thousand
people, and their surprisingly deemed worthy developed
industries have been in
Germany of a co?lly book devoted to the
description and illustration of their arts,
It is a striking illustration of the
world’s ignorance forages of the Dark
Continent that until within the past lew
years we have not had the slightest con
ception of the appalling This extent because of canm
balism in Africa. is we
have until recently known nothing
whatever of the great Congo basin, to
which the practice of anthropophogy coutined.— New in
Africa is almost wholly
York Sun,
Ked Sea Pearl.
The mother-of-pearl fisheries of the
Red Sea extend the whole length of that
water. About three hundred boats are
employed by the Arab tribes who are
engaged in the work- open, undecked
boats, of from eight to twenty sail, tons
burden, carrying a large lateen
manned by crews of from five to twelve
men, and each provided with a number
of small canoes. There are two fishing and
seasons during the year, one of four
one of eight months, during nearly the
whole of which the boats keep the sea.
Fatal accidents are said to be unknown
among the divers, and they are remark
able for their strength and good health.
They dive between the ages of ten and
forty years, and the practice is said to
> dl<co rcd b ,' he ot
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tin. with tho oud. knocked out au.l a
of ? ,as9 °ne end have
r,c<! Q «^«1 to assist the eye. I he ghi ed
end , of the t,n is submerged under the
sca : ^en a much clearer and deeper
VMIon « o'’*™* 1 -.Durmg the last ten
years the find is saidI to have dimmished
the dearth of shells, from ten
* tw “‘y P er cent - ln quantity.
rork Star.
___ that
Life has such hard conditions
every virtue, dear and precious gift, faculty, every rare
genial endowment, every pleasant love, hope, joy, every wit,
sprightliness, benevolence, must some
times be put into the crucible todistil
the one elixir—patience.
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