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OOUMTY 06 ❖ M 9 I -- - A f /V ^ '4 “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. selling ■’*rTfv 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. NIL aug 25—3m. - GREAT SACRIFICE OF i i Ill I'I <21 1”-) AT ■ A AT MIL’S, 1513 CHERRY STREET, i Macon - Georgia. -*-r ... Special Offers to the Public. 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 iN H—8-25—3m. ixaaapaai 11111 7 451,453 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. . 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 . JOHNSON & LANE. MACON (O)— m “ G A H H^9,rdware, Building Material, Belting, Cutlery, Wagon Material. -:o: 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 , „ „ , . , „ rvl 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. W* 8VBATVON. --DEALER IN Phot Guns Rifles, Pis Pishing tols, Cut- Gun Tackle and :©• lery, Sportino’ to and Lock Goods. Smith, Repairing Promptly Done. 416 Cherry Street I AO 0 N, m m m GL N H-8-25—3m. E. L. BURDICK, Agt .1 Dealer In Corn, Meat, Flour, Hay, Oats, Meal, Wheat Bran, Sugar, Coffee, Lard, Syrup, Salt, Tobacco, Bagging and Ties, etc. When you come to Macon, call and sec me aud get my prices. - E. L. BURDICK, AG’T.: \ 452 POPLAR ST., MACON, GA. N H—8—25—3m, SB V* r .yt., ■ - ■!!' .v:,< * M ’’V 11. ! am ■■ : _',A .1 -J 4-JEWEL PAPER CUTTER4* LEADS, SLUGS AND GALLEYS. gf"A Few Second-hand Job and New* paper tresses. ML 11 be Sold Cheap. FILL TRADE NEW PRESSES FOR OLD. T. F. SEITZINGER, Agknt, Dealer in Printers’ Supplies, 83 W. Mitchell St., ATLANTA, GA Galley Racks. 11111 IESRH NO. KJEGITL.AK. IZZX. lb flALLKYS LAUGF TO HAUL. 0...... $ 55.00 $4T55 4.00 0.00 10 , 5.00 7.50 Vi 0.00 8.00 15 is! 7.50 1-1 m 80.. 10.00 9.00 Reguliir size Arms, put Pair...........4 to. Large size Arms, per Brackets l’air...........GOo. f&~Tha large will hold typo cast. 7HOS. F. SEITZINGER, Printers’ nxclxango, manuvactoukk a no vf.ai.kh is PRINTERS’ SUPPLIES ! 38 \V. Mitchell Ht., ATLANTA, UA. .VS. '.I,.- • @£2 Yankee Stick—Price I.int. 6Inch,........$ .75 Hindi,. .....$1.30 8 “ .........80 10 “ . ..... 1.4» 10 « ........ 1.00 18 “ . ..... 1 . 0 ) 11 ” 1.15 19 “ , 1.75 tTfStnil for Gircutfrra. Half Case Labor-Saving Reglet, NO. O. 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