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Just received a full line of Fall and Winter Dress Goods.
See tie Stool. Cash bought it-Loi
Prices will soli it.
Onr specin.lt-- To please our customers.
Our aim—To save money for our patrons.
Our intention—To do better by you than anyone else.
Stand up and tell ns, if you can, whore goods can be bought choapor,
for none are allowed to undersoil
MILIiEI DaE3VILIiE!i GFA.
8@“B. F. Finney and C. A. (Tobe) Jones, formerly of Putnam, are with this
house, and will be glad to see their friends.
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I am prepared to do as good
Engine, Boiler and Mill General Rejair Work 1
As any shop in Georgia. Have had years of expert-
rience, and can fully guarantee SATIS¬
FACTION IN EVERY PARTICULAR.
Can supply all demands for new engines, boilers, mill and gin outfits at
BOCK BOTTOM PRICES. Soliciting your orders, respectful iy,
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Pooser’s Machine Works,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
SAM’L. EVANS,
COTTON FACTOR AND
COMMISSION MERCHANT J
Millccl§ovillc, Grn.
Consignments of Cotton solicited. Liberal cash advances
made on cotton for storage.
E. B. Harris & Co.,
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Now located coin r Cherry and Third Street, (Dannenberg’s old stand,)
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where we are serving our customers as of old, with the best and cheapest
Shoes ever brought to this state. In fact, we retail Shoes at wholesale prices.
Thousands - of - Sample • Shoes
•- AT HALF PRICE.
Watch the oth r dealers imitate us and talk about us and against us, but
Jjojr don’t get thefe. Sea us before buying your shoe*.
GRAY, JONES CO.. GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER HI. 1895.
THE LEGISLATURE.
GEORGIA SOLONS MEET IN REG
ULAR SESSION.
Proceedings of the Senate and House
Presented in Brief.
Wednesday’s session of the house
was a short one, ns tho body adjourn¬
ed nt 11:30 to nttond tho “Drummers’
Day” exercises at the exposition
grounds. No bills were passed, but
the following were introduced and
read for the first time: To establish a
new charter for tho town of Covington
in Newton county; To repeal seotion
4103 of the codo of Georgia; To
amend au act to provide for tho levy
and sale of property ; To amoud the
charter of the town of Bhellman ; To
amend an act known as tho general
pension act of 1894; To regulate pro¬
ceedings to sell real estate under a
power of sale in mortgages and deeds;
To provide for a correct survey and
plot of the Cherokeo purchase line,
also a bill to prevent tho shoot¬
ing of tiro arms on the Sabbath
day and to prescribe penalties for the
same. Tho following resolution was
offered by Mr. West, of Lowndes:
“Resolved by tho house of representa¬
tives, the senate concurring, that Hon.
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, be invited to
address tho general assembly on tho
public issues of the day one evening
next week nt such time ns ho may
designate.” Tho resolution was unani¬
mously agreod to. This action is in
accordance legislature with the desire evinced by
the to hear from Georgian-
now which prominently before the people,
desire resulted in the invitation
extended ex-Speaker Crisp last week.
Other distinguished Georgians will
probably be called upon Inter.
Willingham stated in offering
the resolution that he felt it
necessary, by reason of the ever
ready suspicion that “the hit
dog yelps,” to say that he had been a
favorer of tho measure in question and
that his views on the subjoct had al-
ways been well known. At the same
time he considered it a slur upon every
gentleman in tho hous“, which could
not but be n disreputable insinuation
on the way in which each member cast
his vote when the bill comes up for
passage. He, himself, repudiated the
slanders, and in spite of his previous
friendliness to the bill would refuse
to vote for it unless the charges were
sustained or rotracted, referring par-
ticularly to the Wesleyan Christian
Advocate’s article. He dencuuoed the
story as a lie in tito. Mr. Bush, the
father of the measure in question, then
croBa nmi repudiated the
nud proceeded to eulogize the
probity of the members of the house.
He said tho writer had simply lied,
The resolution was then put to a vote
and passed unanimously. Tho
tigation committee were then appoint-
ed and gre Messrs. Willingham, Price,
Hopkins, Traylor and Hall. When
routine of business was taken up, a
number of new bills wero presented
and tho following were passed: A bill
to amend the charter of Guyton in
Effingham county; A bill to provide
for the removal of obstructions from
the running streams of Forsyth
county. To prevent the salo of liquor
in Elbert county ; To amend the
ter of tho city of Dalton. A great
deal of debate was raised by Mr.
ing’s bill to make tho personal earn-
ings of a married woman her own
property and not liable for the debts
of her husband. The bill finally
passed by a vote of 98 to 29.
The following new bills were
duced in the houso Thursday: A bill
asking for tho appropriation of
$25,000 to the Georgia Memorial Board
for the purpose of marking by
ments tho spots occupied by Georgia
troops at Cliickamanga; To
county treasurers to make reports to
county commissioners when required
to do so. Also a bill to provide for
tho confinement of certain felons in
the discretion of the court in the
county chaiugangs. The following
bills were passed: Bill to create a
park and tree commission for the city
of Savannah; A senate resolu¬
tion appointing a committee of
two from the senate and three
from the house to investigate the com¬
panies who are in arrears to the state
for the lease of convicts; To extend
for sanitary purposes tho jurisdiction
of the mayor and aldermen of Savan¬
nah ; To authorize policemen of the
city of Savannah to make arrests with¬
in two miles from the corporate limits
of the city; To abolish the county
court of coffee county; To fix the time
of election of the clerk and sheriff of
the city court of Savannah; To create
a board of education for the town of
Lithonia; To change the timo for
holding the spring term of the Daw¬
son superior court.
Representative Branau’s bill to fix
salaries for Fulton county officers and
to abolish the fee system which now
prevails, lies been defeated in the com¬
mittee room. It has been under the
consideration of the committee on
county and county matters, and was
reported back to the house unfavora¬
bly lay that committee on Friday. It
is understood that the opinion was
unanimous in the committee that the
lull was in its makeup unconstitution¬
al, ami the committee’s report was in
accordance with this view. All of the
county officers, the parties most con¬
cerned, appeared before the committee
and opposed the measure. Despite the
efforts of its advocates, the bill re¬
ceived a unanimously unfavorable re¬
port. Mr. Branan says he will intro¬
duce another similar bill and ask that
it be ri ferred to the judiciary commit¬
tee. The judiciary committee report¬
ed favorably lo the house a
bill by Me. Gi'e«, ot Houston,
which provides for the finding
of verdict by a majority of tho jury in
miy case. It offers an amendment to
tho constitution of the state so that the
general assembly may reqtliro than a muj >r-
ity, consisting of not less two-
thirds of the jury trying tho cause, to
find a verdict in any court in this
state. Tho bill has boon made tho
special order for next Friday. Tho
following new bills were introduced:
To make tho theft of domestic animals,
of a value less thou #50, a misdemeanor;
to amend on act incorporating the Sa¬
vannah Bank and Trust Company; to
prevent tho sale of liquor nt Triou fac¬
tory. Also a bill to prohibit tho sale
of intoxicating liquors within certain
limits of the depot on the Atlanta and
Richmond line nt Duluth. Tho fol¬
lowing bills wero passed: A bill to
create a system of public schools for
tho town of Oartersvillo, Bartow coun¬
ty ; to authorize the payment of insol¬
vent criminal ousts to the clerk of tho
superior court of Macon county ; to
authorize tho mayor and council of the
city of Savannah to condemn property
for the purpose of widening streets.
Senator Snead introduced a resolu¬
tion in tho seuato Wednesday which
was unanimously passed, appointing a
committee of two from the senate and
three from tho house to moot Governor
Hastings, of Pennsylvania, and to in¬
vite him to a public reception in tho
Capitol. The resolution recites tho
interest the state of Pennsylvania has
taken in tho exposition by her liberal
appropriation for a building and
exhibit, and the loan of the Liberty
Bell. The committee on tho part of tho
senate are Senators Claiborno Snead
and N. 1$. Harris. Tho following
bills wero introduced: To transfer
the county of Campbell from the Cow¬
eta circuit to tho Tallapoosa circuit;
To provide for election of tho clerk of
the county commissioners of Fulton
county by the voters of tho county;
To empower the principal phy¬
sician of tho penitentiary to dis¬
charge subordinate physicians; To
change the law fixing tho liconse of
photographers; To allow justices of
the pence to resido outside of their
districts. The senate passed Mr.ltock-
well’s bill changing tho penalties for
crimes. Tho bill reduces many of tho
penalties now in force, making some
that were felonies misdemeanors. The
bill of Mr. Jones, amending tho
ter of Albany, was passed. The senate
concurred in tho house resolution,that
the senate and house meet in joint ses-
sion at 8 o’clock p. m. to hoar an ad-
dress from Hon. C. F. Crisp,
A bomb was exploded in the senate
Thursday morning by Senator Little,
He introduced n bill to move the ex-
-perimeul si rion from Griffin to Ath-
Gi .'ffi -? him been demanding the
removal of (he agricultural college
from Athens to Griffin. Athons is car-
Tying the war into Africa, and asks
that all bo concentrated there. Tho
fight is on, and it will bo lively. The
senate was engaged most of its morn-
iug session in debating the Dodson in-
surnnee bill. Senator Cummings, Os-
borne and Wade opposed the bill,
while Senators Broughton and Harris
of tho 22d favored its passage. The
bill was passed by a vote of 27 for
tho bill to fivo against. Tho bill
as passed is as follows: “That
from and after the passago of this
act all insurance companies issuing
policies on property in this state shall
pay to their policyholders tho full
amount of loss sustained upon tho
property insured by them; provided,
said amount of loss does not exceed
tho amount of insuraDco expressed in
tho policy, and that all stipulations in
such policies to tho contrary shall be
null and void ; provided, that in cases
of losses on stocks of goods and raer-
ehandise and other species of personal
propertychangiuginspecifiesandquan-
tity hy the usual customs of trade, only
the actual value of the property at the
time of loss may be recovered. Other
bills passed were as follows: Bill to
amend section 4025 of the codo, rein-
ting to obstructing fish ways with
ilams; To define tho rights and privi¬
leges of foreign guardians and trus¬
tees. Senator Shepperd introduced a
bill to amend, revise and consolidate
the military laws of the state, and to
declare what military laws are of force.
This bill is aimed at independent com¬
panies, nnd if passed will disband such
companies as the Gate City Guard, or
force them to enlist.
Soon ufter the senate met Friday, it
adjourned to tho hall of tho house of
representatives to assist in tho recep¬
tion of the visiting governors. Upon
reassembling a number of bills wore
read the second time, and the follow¬
ing bills passed : A bill by Senator
Tatum, taking Cherokee county from
llio Cherokee circuit and putting it in
tho Rome Circuit; House bill of Mr.
McDaniel to repeal the act of 1883 in¬
corporating Fannin the town of Morganton,
amending county; Bill by Mr. Longley
the charter of Dalton.
Senator Mercer introduced a bill to
pnscribe how elections shall bo held
in counties on the fenco question,
when previous elections had been
held on the subject. The senate ad¬
journed until Monday at 10 o’clock.
The senate was not in session Satur¬
day and on account of the large num¬
ber of absentees there was no business
of importance transacted in the house
during the short morning session. The
session was principally devoted to read¬
ing bills for a second time while a few
new measures were introduced, among
which we re the following : To amend
an act authorizing the town of Wash¬
ington to issue bonds; To change tho
time for holding I he Pulaski superior
court; To authorize, in counties of
60,000 inhabitants, the payment bytbe
county for dockets of ju-ticcs of the
peace; Ter fix compensation for elec¬
tion clerks in Pietce county; To pre¬
vent the sacrifice of real proper¬
ly at legal sales by providing
for tho appraiseineut of the same and
allowing under the certain defendant circvimstanvek to redeer?) tho J.
fame
W. Law, tho colored member from
Liberty county, introduced a rather
unusual bill. Its object is to compol
all persona who sell or offer to noil, in
tho county of Liberty, any beef, pork
or mutton, to exhibit the ears of tho
animal killed and to state the brand of
the same. Mr. Tatum, of Troup, in-
troduced a resolution, which fixes the
time for lion. Hoko Smith to deliver
an address b.d'oro tho legislature. The
time fixed is tho evei in ; of Decem¬
ber 3d.
I lie Bribery Investigation.
Tho investigating committee in the
matter of tho corruption charges in
connection with the Bush anti-barroom
bill, begun its work Wednesday after¬
noon. The two principal figures in tho
ciusns belli, Rev. T. T. Christian nnd
Mr. M. S. Bickart, appeared before
tho committee and gave their testi¬
mony. Mr. Christian was the author
of tho article in the Wesleyan Chris¬
tum Advocate, and Mr. Bickai-t, of the
firm of Blumenthal A Bicknrt, liquor
dealers, is responsible for tho circular
addressed to tho liquor men. Those
two articles raised tho storm, nnd tho
committeo took up tho matter from its
first, source.
Mr. Christian stated that, ho had
written three articles in tho Advocate
nud that it was based on information
given him by Mr. Walter B. Hill, of
Mucoa, who is (he vice-president of
tho State Prohibition Association. He
showed a letter from this gentlemen
ns his authority for tho matter con¬
tained in tho article.
Air. Bicknrt was then examined, lie
stated iho circular had been sent out
by liis firm, but that no organization
had beou been effected by tho liquor
men nor nuy fund raised to defeat tho
measure.
With regard to th.it portion of the
article which refers t.o tho liquor men
having boforo been put to considerable
expense to defeat a similar bill, Mr.
Bicknrt said it was simply addressed
to tho trade and intended only to stir
them up. Ho did not really know of
nuy money having boon used for such
a purpose; it was mere hearsay and
ho did not remember whore ho had
heard it.
It was then decided in view of Air.
Christian’s testimony to subpuma Air.
W. B. Hill, of Alaeon, who was Air.
Christian's authority for tho statement
that $800 had boon raised by the
liquor men in AIncon for a corruption
fund. A number of other men have
been summoned to appear before tho
committee. Among them are Captain
F. AL Potts, of Atlanta, and Air. Al¬
bert Steiner, general manager of (bo
Atlanta brewery. Theso gentlemen
will be asked if they know anything of
the existence of a corruption fund.
Air. Hill has asked for sevoral sum¬
mons, to bo served upon Alucon liquor
men.
It seems that tho prohibitionists nl-
so havo a fund. This fact developed
in Friday morning’s session of the
house investigating committee, Jt
was made up for purely legitimate pur¬
poses and is intended to promoto tho
cause of prohibition hy sending out
literature and defraying expenses of
delegates to tho legislature to advo¬
cate the Bush bill. Tho committeo
wont far into tho matter of investiga¬
tion at the morning’s session, and ex¬
amined a number of witnesses. Air.
Walter B. Hill, of Alaeon, waspresent,
also Alessrs. R. H. Plant, Hum Alt-
muyer and A. Gibian, of Iho same
city. Ouptuin 1). Purse, of Savannah,
was there and likewise Captain F. M.
Potts, of Atlanta. In answer to ques¬
tions Air. Hill acknowledged that his
aide has raised a fund to promote tho
interests of tho Bush bill. It’s intend¬
ed use was entirely legitimate and he
did not think the fund was ever large
enough to pay for semliug out prohi¬
bition literature. Ho named the eus-
todian , of . tins .. . fund, . , Rev. A , J. t Hughes, T r ,
of Lexington, Georg,a. Mr. Hughes
will be Hummoncd boforo 1 he commit-
tee and asked to toll the amount of the
fund and the exact sources of expend,-
ture '
NEW YORK IS READY
To Swoop Down Upon Atlanta and
tho Exposition.
All doubt is new dispelled ns to
whether New York will do tho hand-
some tiling nt tho Atlanta exposition,
An enthusiastic meeting of the com-
mittee on plan and scope was hold
Tuesday afternoon, at which it was
nnanimously decided to send a full
representation of business mnn to
lanta to do tho honors of (heir city on
Afanbatlnn day, November 23lh.
Tho delegation, which is composed
of the cream of New York’s citizen-
ship, will be headed by Mayor Strong,
who will have tho celebrated squadron
“A” as bis oseor;. This company is
held highly in esteem by New York-
era and many of thorn are men of high
position and wealth. It is a cavalry
organization and will fake its quota of
mounts in palace stock cars. The com-
pany will also take its mounted bund,
numbering sixty pieces.
No effort has been made to mako
Alanhnttan day ono of revelry and
wild populnr demonstrations In fact,
idl such suggestions havo met with
prompt ducouragement on the part of
leaders, although there have been
wnrm advocates of such a plan. The
idea seems to prevail that Manhattan
day shall be celebrated decorously and
elegantly us befits the dignity of
great city. Nearly all tho names en-
terod thus far are men of prominence,
both in the business and tho social
world, and it is doubtful if such a
largo body of men of liko character
ever left New York or any other city
at one time iu the history of tho coun-
try 1,200 have already
More than cn-
gaged passage from New York city
alone and 500 from Brooklyn. This
will require twelve trains of eight
coaches each. Amplo room is to ho
allowed and expenses are not to bo
weildmd,
L 0L H1 LLN KILLLIL
TROLLUY CAR GOES Til HOUGH
AN OPEN DRAW BRIDGE.
Fourteen of the Passengers Dead,
Willie Only One Was Rescued.
A frightful accident, by which four¬
teen people lost their lives, occurred
nt Cleveland, ()., Saturday evening.
Owing to the criminal and still unex¬
plainable carelessuosH of a street car
conductor, a car well fl.led with peo¬
ple took an awful plunge of ono hun¬
dred nnd twenty feet from the draw of
tho Central viaduct iuto the dark wa¬
ters of tho Cuyahoga river.
Tho accident occurred at 7:25 o’clock
p. m. Tho Central viaduct is a long
stono and iron structure which crosses
tho Valley railroad and the Cuyahoga
river, and connects Jennings avenue
on the south side with Central avenue
cm tho east. The bridge is ono hun¬
dred and twenty foot aliovo tho river.
The draw was open for a tug draw¬
ing a schoonor, which was about to
pass beneath tho bridge. As usual, tho
gates wore closed ou both sides of tho
draw and danger lights wero displayed
to guard against an accident. An olec-
trio car was soon coming along the
oust toward tho Bouth side, but Cap¬
tain Clinrles Breuuan, who has charge
of the bridge, had no thought of dan¬
ger, as tho usual precautions had been
observed. The car was ono of the Ce¬
dar nnd Jennings avenue branch of the
big Consolidated line, and had fiftot n
passengers, a conductor and motormuii
aboard. At what is known ns tho “de¬
railing switch,” some two hundred
feet from tho draw, the conductor me
clinnically alighted, as is the wont of
nil conductors at, this point, to sec if
all was right. Tho cur came to a stand¬
still nnd tiio motormau waited for or¬
ders.
Tho conductor, for some unaccouut-
blo reason, failed to see tho red signal
of danger or the closed gates, or per
haps custom mndo him cureless, and
ho sigunlod to (ho motormau, John
Rogers, to come ahead. Tho motor-
man turned on the electric current,the
conductor jumped aboard tho car, and
nt considerable speed tho vehicle near¬
ed tho deathtrap.
Why tho motormau did not seo t) o
danger lights or the closed gates soi -
or than ho did will always remuiu a
mystery, but tho fact remains that 1 o
did not.
A few foot from the draw it dawned
upon tho motormau that it was open.
AVith a spcod horn of de-operation ho
throw tho handle and applied tho
brakes.
Throe Men Jump.
The bridge captain, seeing tho op-
prouchiog ear, shouted like a madman,
lmt availed nothing. Tho car was al¬
ready on tho down grade to tho draw
and the brnkes wore not able to hold
the ear on tho slippery rails. Tho
motormau, realizing his danger, for¬
sook tho precious cargo ho was haul¬
ing, and with a wild cry leaped oft tho
front platform, run down tho viaduct
in the direction of Center avenue uml
disappeared in tho darkness.
At the same instant two ihalo pas¬
sengers jumped off the rear platform
and escaped death iih by a miracle.
The cur reached the closed iron gates
and in an instant the crash of snapping
iron and breaking glass was heard.
This alarmed the conductor, who had
stepped inside, and ho was seen to
make a dasli for tho rear door, but ho
was too lato.
'I lie Fatal Plunge.
A second later tho ear swayed ou
tho edge of tho awful space, steadied
for an instant, as though in a frantic
endeavor to maintain its equilibrium
j t op ^hortfs led over . There was an ago
nizi i®,. of BCreams and j u atl iu .
, t£ ‘^“struck' .
0 upon ‘ a projection
of pilef) in the abut m0 nt beneath the
draw, then turning and collapsing it
fell into the dark river below, scatter¬
ing its passengers in all directions and
breaking tho tow line between the tug
and schooner that wero passing.
A few suppressed groans were beard
by the men who happened to be on
tho docks below. Aleu from the
bri lgo above and from tho (locks who
lmd witnessed the accident, called lo
the men on tho tug to pick up tho peo-
pie, but only two passengers, rescued, one man 'llio
and one woman, wero
woman, however, died while being re-
moved to tho hospital.
The nows of tho accident spread
rapidly and in a few minutes a fire
bout, six ambulances, six dead wagons
and a squad of policemen wero on
hand and the work of rescuing the
bodies was taken up. flue by one
they wero found and taken to under¬
taking establishments in different parts
of tho city.
The scones which were enacted in
Detroit after tho Journal accident
were repeated ut tho viaduct disaster
and undertakers, like ghouls, wero
struggling for possession of the bodies,
Tho moment the accident became
noised about they hurried to the docks
with their dead wagons and engaged
in the unseemingly wrangle for the
corpses. found mid¬
Tho motorman was after
night by two detectives and he insists
that the reason ho ran was because ho
was panic-stricken and he did not seo
the gates or tho lights until the crash
came,
Later,
Up to 0 o’clock Sunday evening the
bodies of fifteen victims of Saturday
night’s catastrophe had been recovered,
This accounts for all but four of the
j passengers known to have been on the
! car at the time tho it lundo Central its dreadful viaduct
plunge from opou
j down into the Cuyahoga river,
Ax extreme rigor is sure to aim
everything ngnioit it,
VOL I. NO. 47.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
Jones County Covo'nment.
•ludgo Superior Court—J. O. Hart.
Solicitor General— H. G. Lowis.
Senator—Hon. W..II. Harrison.
Representative—Hon. J. F. Ander-
aim.
Ordinary—R. T. Ross.
Chrk Superior Court—AV. AV. Bar-
ron.
Sheriff—R. N. Ethridge.
Comity Treasurer—F. M. Stewart.
Tax Ri oeivtT— J. A. Chiles.
County Surveyor—R. II. Bonner,
Coroner—R. B. Trapp. O. Barron.
Judge County Court—J.
Jrnv ComiissiONEBS—W. A. Card,
Ar. Aliddlebrooks, J. F. Barron,
John Gresham, E. F. Morton.
County Board of Education—D.
Anchors, Joo AV. Barron, J. R. Van
Duran, S. A. Hodge, J. AV. Anderson.
County Schoot, Commissioner— A.
II. S. AIoKay. P. O., Plentitude.
County Commissioners — W. F.
AVhlte, J. T. Speights, E. T. Morton,
11. T. Alooro, John T. Olover.
Bide Geenia & Atlantic R. 8.
TIME TABLE.
In Effect lli-rnubnr 11-
VIi'M) Down. Read Ur.
I’. M.
11 00 7 15 a Go. 11. R. Lv. Anguota 8 30
0 00 am” I-v Mieon Ar G» 2 4-5
t M 11*. M. | P. M.IP.M.
0 20 1 o.YLv.• • • MillcflicvlU© •• •• Ar 8 20 1 0ft
0 25 1 1<» Lv.. .Fafnnton June. .Ar H 15 12 50
(i 50 1 32! l,v.. ..McrrlvA ©t her.... Ar 7 60 12 25
7 05; 1 6o|Lv....... Dennis Ar 7 30 12 0ft
7 35 2 15 Ar......Eat on ton Lv 7 001130
7 2 ItijLv......Ea'onion . Ar 7 05 U36
H 10 2 35 Lv......Willards • Ar G 38 11 10
, Lv......Alkenlon 50
3 ;w; 2 65 . Ar fi 20 10
3 55; 3 07 Ly..... Maolien.-. Ar 0 05 10 36
0 00; 3 12!Lv.....Sluuly Lv........Kelly Dale Ar Ar 0 ft 00 43 10 10 30 15
0 13 5 22 ...
0 4 50 >| 3 45|Lv...Brouxhtonvllle...Ar 42 Lv......Newborn ../...Ar 5 5 33,10 15 9 00 50
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10 ooj 3 40j Lv....Carmel Junc....Ar 5 Oft 55 9 9 33 2)
W 10 22 10 3 1 5!>jLv........Hayes........Ar 02; Lv.....Starrsvll o.....Ar 4 4 45 9 08
10 471 4 13 >| Lv.. Covington Covlmrton June .....Lv - Ar 4 4 27 25 8 8 4H 47
lo 50, 4 2 Ar.....
12 15 0 oo (Ta71t.1t. Ar Atlanta Lv 3 05 1 5T
0 30 M. <fc N. Ar Macon Lv 9 00 a.m.
aM. A N. Ar Athens Lv 2 25 a.M.
JOSEPH W. PIIESTON, General Manager.
TURKS KILL 800.
American Mission Property Destroyed
lint the Missionaries Unharmed.
Secretary Oiney has received a cable
from United States Minister Terrell
confirming the reports from Constan¬
tinople concerning tho massacre of
800 persons by the Mussulmans at
Kharput, and the destruction of a
large amount of American. ,.mw*’'
property. The scene of this massacre
is far inland and beyond the reach of
a man-of-war, which would be obliged
to pass tho Dardanelles and enter tho
Black sea to approach even ilie neigh¬
boring coast. apprehension of
It was from an
trouble on tho Syrian coast that the
United States steamship Marblehead
was stationed there recently and the
wisdom of the move is now apparent.
She has been cruising along tho coast
but unfortunately just when the mas¬
sacre is reported to havo occurred at
Aloxandorettu, sbo Was further down
the coast at a place called Mereine.
Tho value of the property reported to
havo been destroyed is between
$75,000 and $100,000.
The News Confirmed.
The following cable message was re¬
ceived ot Washington Saturday, by tho
American Board of Foreign Missions,
from Rev. H. O. Dwight, of Constan¬
tinople, by way of Philipopolis:
''Fivo limi'lred wi re killed in Kh it pou',eight
or twclvo missions burned; lives spirod, houses
stripped. Turks "ill rcgird llus as a test of
the in'cntkm of the Unite 1 Hia'cs to defend
tni-sions. No missionaries anywhere; villages
everywhere deflated; people starving and
naked. Instant help.
(Signed) IJWjtlflT.
Costly Blaze In Sherman, Tex.
Fire destroyed the Lentz block at
ShermaD, Tex., Saturday morning.
Loss $100,000; fully insured. The
buildings wore the finest in northern
Texas.
FLAMES IN MERIDIAN
Consume Three Entire Blocks of Bus¬
iness Ileuses.
Tho most destructive fire that has
ever visited Meridian, Miss., occurred
Sunday night, As a result throe
squares in the business portion of the
city arc a masB of smoldering ruins,
and tho sash and blind factory, the
pride of Meridian, and by far the most
important factory in her manufactur¬
ing equipment, is no more. Besides
tho largo plant of this concern, situ¬
ated on the corner of Fifth street and
Twenty-eighth avenue, and tho Ship¬
pers’ Compress warehouse, with over
3,000 bales of cotton contained
therein, was almost, if not totally, de¬
stroyed by tho fire, and a number of
bales of cotton in the farmers' ware¬
house are badly damaged.
It is impossible to tell as yet the
lotal loss, but it is believed that the
loss on the sash and blind factory will
reach $150,000, with abont $35,000,
or more, of insurance. This concern
gave employment to nearly 200 men.
The loss on cottoD, building and
compress machinery will reach over
$150,000 with a goodly portion of it
oovered by insurance. It is openly
charged that the starting of the fire in
the Shippers’ warehouse was the work
of an incendiary, and the affair will
be thoroughly investigated.
Brewery Burned.
Fire which originated early Sunday
morniDg in the Banner brewery, at
Cincinnati, resulted in the total de¬
struction of the building and oontehts.
The loss (Till aggregate $250,000; well
insured.