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BARTOW MAM QUITS POSING AS
A “REFORMER.”
LOVE’S LABOR SEEMS TO BE LOST.
No Use Further Trying: to Enlighten
Northern Feople Concerning the
Negro’s Condition.
I’ve sworn off again. These Boston
people make me so tired. It seems
impossible to make a lasting impres
sion upon them. From time to time
we have sent our best men there. We
sent General Gordon and Colquitt and
Henry Grady, and they were well re
ceived, amt we thought our Georgia
missionaries had converted them, but
in a little while they had. a relapse.
Governor Northeu thinks he has con
verted all but the editors, but my ob
servation is that editors control the
animus of the people, and if they are
against us their readers will be. I
notice that some of their editors are
easy on our governor, bntnone of them
have apologized. They have got to
repent and apologizo before we will be
satisfied with their conversion.
This thing of going up to the altar
and shaking hands is played out.
They liked to have shpok Henry Gra
dy’s arm off, but in a few months they
took it all back and went to abusing
us again about the negro. It is very
discouraging to a missionary to have
to keep on convertingthe same heathen.
I notice that one of their papers lets
ns down sorter easy on Sam Hose,.but
•wants to know what about the lynch
ing of Lige Strickland. That’s all
right. Give us something hard. Lige
was a preacher in Meriwether county,
and his father-in-law, Aaron Watson,
says he was the meanest nigger in the
county, that he beat his wife up scan
dalously and out and gashed her with
a butcher-knife and the members of
his own church took him out one night
and gave him a hundred lashes and
told him to leave the county. Then
he settled down in Coweta and turned
politician and made himself generally
a disturber of public peace and good
order, and finally capped the climax
by denouncing the white people and
defending Sam Hose. The general
opinion is that Lige got off pretty well,
for they didn’t burn him.
The Boston Transcript says we are
“a generation behind the times, in fact
several New England generations be
hind it.” How is that? Why, it liaseut
been 200 years since New England was
burning innocent, harmless women for
being witches. It liasent been 50 years
since Boston merchants were shipping
rum to Africa to buy Negroes to sell
again to slave countries. Long after
Massachusetts set her slaves free her
merchants carried on the slave trade.
Joseph Story, the great jurist, charged
the grand jury "in Boston and said:
“The slave trade is still carried on
among us with implicable ferocity.
Avarice has grown more subtle in its
evnsions of the law. Its appetite is
quickened rather than suspended. Our
citizens are steeped up to their very
mouths in this iniquity.”
W. W. Story, his gifted son, says:
“The Boston newspapers denounced
my father, and said that a judge who
would deliver such a charge ought to
be hurled from the bench,” and he
says further, that “the fortunes of
many men of prominence were invest
ed in this infamous business. When
slavery disappeared in New England
the African slave trade took on new
life, and was winked at. A man might,
have position in society and be consid
ered a gentleman and a Christian,
while his ships were freighted with a
human cargo and his commerce was in
the blood and pain of his fellow crea
tures. Many of the largest fortunes
in Boston were the Idood money of the
slave trade and eatoe from tho sale of
the wretched cargoes of negroes that
survived the horrors of their transpor
tation across the seas.”
Yes, we are behind that sort of busi
ness several generations.
But I’ve sworn off. The history of
Massachusetts fatigues my indigna
♦ion. Here are our negroes who would
be happy and contented if the north
ern press would quit stirring up dis
content and telling them lies. If old
Mother Julia Ward Howe, who is now
in her eighty-first year and ought to
have an old woman’s sense, was to
drop down here in Cartersvillc, she
would see some young bucks wrestling
on the depot platform while waiting
for freight, and she would hear the
merry laugh of a score of negro dray
men who stood around. She would
hear the sound of the colored school
bell. She would pass and repass negro
women with baskets of clothes on their
heads nnd a smile on their faces. She
would see negro girls, clad in clean
garments, nursing white children and
watching them with tender care. If
there was a funeral on hand she would
see a happy gathering of women and
girls, daughters of Zion, foil nvinc the
hearse, nnd if there was a railroad ex
oursion on hand the depot would be
crowded with both sexes nnd all sorts
and f-xes. Then we would escort her
carefully to the baseball ground
and let. her see the young bucks piny
nnd bear them shout and give
the negro yell for victory,
But, she is too old to be cured.
I remember when she published an
abolition paper in 1847. But, pshaw,
it wouldn’t do any good, so I will
swear off. Somebody said that, if a
woman was a fool at forty she would
be fonI nnUI Khe And some
else said convince a woman
her will and she will be of the
same opinion still. And the parable
says, “\f they will not believe Moses
and the prophets,. noither would they
believe tho’ one should rise from the
dead.” And so I will Rwear off for
good and let those Boston Pharisees
die in their 6wn conceit. The Massa
chusetts state board of charities says
in their annual report, “And now we
find that there is hardly a country in
the civilized world where atrocious
and flagrant crime is so common as in
Massachusetts.” Well,that settles it.
Georgia has but two white women in
her prisons, while Massachusettea haR
134.
In 1890, Georgia had 214 white con
victs, while Massachusetts had 4,412,
and Mr. Stetson says that in one year
there were 65,000 arrests in the state,
and that divorces increase there twice
ns fast as population, and not more
than eight families in ten have pre
served tho purity and honor of the
marriage relation.
How is that for living in glass
houses? Yes, I reckon that we are
behind them several generations. I
hope so. But I’ve sworn off until
they repent and apologize. card of
I*. 8.—I have just read the
my friend, Mr. Metcalf, about Mr.
Lincoln and his mother, Nancy Hanks,
and am gratified at his statement.
Nevertheless, Mr. Cathey makes out a
good case in his little book, and it is
generally credited by the leading
North Carolina journals. So let the
investigation go on. In the meantime
to save myself trouble and postal
cards, let those who want the book
send 60 cents to B. H. Cathey, Bry
son City, N. C.— Bill Aki> in Atlanta
Constitution.
PEACE JUBILEE INAUGURATED,
•Ilf Demonstration at National Capital
Witnessed by Thousands.
Beginning with an imposing parade
of military and other uniformed organ
izations, and closng with a display of
fireworks at night, Washington inaug
urated a three days’ peace jubilee
Tuesday. The main tliouglifares of
the city and all the public buildings
are decorated with bunting, and active
programme of parades and festivities
has drawn a large number of visitors.
Over 5,000 men were in the parade.
The route was that followed by the
inauguration parades, down Pennsyl
vania avenue, nround the treasury and
in front of the white house grounds,
where a large reviewing stand, grace
fully decorated with bunting, had been
erected. The three squares extend
ing from the state, war and navy to
the treasury building had been trans
formed into a court of honor.
General Joe Wheeler had no trouble
about his carriage on this occasion.
He was the most conspicuous feature
of the military parade. He rode in
one of the handsomest carriages iu
Washington, and the crowd all along
the route of the procession gave him
continuous ovation, and the occupants
of the president’s stand, including the
president, gave the gallant little officer
a great demonstration.
THE MERCEDES IN PORT.
Captured ^paniidi Cruiser Causes a Great
Demonstration at Norfolk.
Amidst, the booming of cannon and
the. screaming of steam whistles from
tugs, bay steamers and oeeau liners
the captured Spanish cruiser Reiua
Mercedes arrived in port at Norfolk,
Ya., Saturday afternoon, and nccom
fmning her was a flotilla of thirty-six
tugs, all profusely decorated iu flags.
Gannon saluted as she was towed
through the harbor and the tug boats
, kept their whistles in an almost con
tinuous scream from the time she
rounded Lambert's Point until the
navy yard was reached.
It was a perfect din, as noisy a wel
come as could possibly bo desired.
Thousands of people witnessed the
procession through the harbor, they
being all along the water front on both
sides of the river and upon housetops.
The Mercedes was saluted by every
passing steamer and acknowledged
each greeting by a blast of her whistle.
When the prize was made fast to
the wharf she was turned over to the
United States government, Captain
Seymour', local agent of the Merritts,
receiving x receipt for the vessel.
TALLAHASSEE WON FIGHT.
Florida state Capital win tin to
Jacksonville,
The proposed constitutional ainend
me lit to remove the Florida state <oap
lt,}1 from Tallahassee to Jacksonville
was killed in the Louse of repreeeirta
tives after a long debate. Hon. Frank
Clark, McWilliams and Speaker Me
Namee spoke favoring the measure,
while Judge Haney and Colonel Nat
M alker opposed it. These gentlemen
aro best orators in the house and
crowds from both Jacksonville and
Tallahassee filled the hall and lent «x
citement to the notable scene.
^ the liveliest day of the session _
1 '’ as
since _ the senatorial contest. There
were thirty-seven votes for Jackson
ville and thirty for Tallahassee, but a
three-fifths vote was needed to submit
^ le amendment to the people, so
Jacksonvil le los t._
UOOIiEK ? S ‘ SCHOOL CLOSES ■
Kiahteenth Annual Commencement Oc
cur * Bt Tu»ke*ee.
The eighteenth annual commence
meu t of the Tuskegee, Ala Normal
and ..j Industrial institute, Booker Wash- ,
mgton s school, occurred Thursday.
Eleven hundred and sixty-fonr stud
ents have been enrolled during the
year, 801 boys, 363 girls. The atten
tion has been very steady, bringing
the avereage for the year above one
thousand. The graduates in all de
partments number nxty-oue, of these
forty-four are from both normal and
industrial departments.
Happenings In the State of Inter
esting Import.
MI8,000 In Premiums.
The premium list for the Georgia
State Fair is now ready for distribu
tion and every enterprising citizen of
Georgia should send for a copy. The
premiums offered in the various de
partments aggregate $16,000. Agri
culture is, of course, given first place.
The premiums in this department start
with 81,000 for the best county dis
play and cover the entire list of farm
products, offering really handsome
prizes for every imaginable article.
Live stock interests and the dairy are
generously treated. Some especially
handsome premiums are offered for fat
stock and for dairy products.
For the first time in the history of
state fairs education comes in for gen
erous recognition. A number of es
pecially interesting contests have been
arranged, and every boy in the state
will be given a chance to compete for
prizes offered for declamation, and ev
ery girl in the state may compete for
prizes offered for composition. These
contests will first take place in the
cities and counties, and the winners
will go to Atlanta and compete with
the -winners from other cities and
counties.
Poultry and pet stock come in for
nearly $2,000 iu premiums, This
guarantees the finest show of fowls
ever made in the south. Liberal pre
miums are offered in the departments
of art and woman’s work. Every im
aginable class and character of work
in these departments has been gener
ously has recognized. In fact, the entire
list been compiled with a view to
encouraging worthy enterprise of ev
every character. A copy of the pre
mium list will be mailed upon appli
cation to T. H. Martin, Secretary,
Prudential Building, Atlanta.
Cainjmit-cHiiB To Be Held In Atlanta
August 18th To a7tli.
One of the largest, campmeetings
ever held in Georgia wi 1 be held iu
Atlanta at Piedmont park, beginning
August 18th and ending August 27th.
This will be the first annual south
ern campmeeting of the Christian alli
ance and will be attended by people
from all over the south. It is the pur
pose of those interested in the meeting
to make it one of the largest religious
gatherings this section has ever known,
and active preparations have been in
progress for some time and will con
tinue until the time of the meeting.
The alliance has secured Piedmont
park and 1he free use of the buildings.
Matters will bo so arranged that, a
great number of families ean camp on
the grounds, and a number of tents,
the property of the alliance, will be
brought south and placed at the dis
posal of the visitors.
While campmeetings of this kind un
der the auspices of the Christian Alli
ance are neld every summer in the
north aud east, none have yet been
held in the south. At the last meet
ing held in New York city it was de
termined that a meeting should be
held in the south. After looking over
the entire field, Atlanta was selected
as the most convenient point, .and
preparations Were at once begun to
make the meeting ,a notable one. The
place of meeting will not be changed
yearly aud the annual southern camp
meeting will be hebl in Atlanta everv
year.
The meeting will be attended by a
large number of world famous evangel
ists who will address the sessions.
These ministers will come from all
parts of the country, and will be aid
ed by tlie local ministers who are
friendly to the Christian Alliance
movement.
The Christian Alliance held a meet
ing in Atlanta in March, and at that
time a number of prominent ministers
were present. These will attend the
campmeeting aud will be accompanied
liy othe> s.
Rev. A. B. Simpson, Stephen Mer
rist, LeLaeheur, the famous mission
ary; Revs. Wilson, Millard, Ollson,
the South American missionary Hous
ton, Holmes, J. M. Pike, Miller, Fife,
Shaw and Todd, in addition to many
others. Miss May Agnew and Miss
•Mattie Perry will also he present.
The Ohio quartet aud a number of
other musical clubs, assisted by local
talent, will furnish the music. The
meeting promises to be largely attend
ed and will attract considerable atten
tion.
Anxious to Honor ltrumb.v.
The Brumby sw< rd fund will be
closed in a few days, as soon as all the
parties written to have sent iu-replies,
All of the Georgia congressmen have
been heard from and without exception
they have sent a dollar to the fund,
A great number of the state legislators
have also been heard from and a full
list of them will be published as soon
as they all have time to reply.
The students of the University of
Georgia are raising a list to be added
to the fund by getting small subscrip
tions from the boys, Lieutenant
Brumby was at one time a student of
the university and the hoys in Athens
are taking a lively interest in the movrn
men’to present him with a sword,
Lists have.been received from Dal
t<m Marshalville. Washington and
Thomasville. Several towns have re
ported that they will send in good
lists. There are still a few towns to
be heard from aud the committee is
anxious that they report as soon ns
possible, as it is his desire that the
list be closed as soon as possible,
Lieutenant Brumby is expected home
the latter part of July or the first part
of August, aud the committee want.-f
to have the sword ready for presenta
tion by the time he arrives.
The fnnd is rapidly reaching hand
some proportions and the sword or
dered will be one of the most elegant
in the country.
* * ♦
l>ift|»vitc Over County IJnc.
Gwinnett and Walton counties have
a boundary dispute. About 14,000
acres of land are involved. The loca
tion of the flourishing town, Logans
ville, is involved, and it is claimed
that the town belongs to Gwinnett in
stead of to Walton county. population of
Logansville has a
about 600 and since the opening of
the new railroad through Lawrence
ville has taken on new life and shows
evidence of prosperity and rapid
growth. It is said that the people of
Logansville hope to be thrown on the
Gwinnett side of the line, as tkey
have railroad communication with
Lawrenceville, the county seat of
Gwinnett, but have none to Monroe,
the county seat of "Walton.
* * *
Foul Flay Suspected.
The relatives in Atlanta of Alexius
Balk, who died in Havana several
months ago, have been informed that
suspicious circumstances surrounding
his death indicate foul play, and they
are doing all in their power to bring
the guilty parties to justice. Mr. Balk
was well known in Atlanta, having
been conncted with a prominent firm
in that city as traveling salesman.
Harmony Prevails.
The last semblance of discord be
tween the Consolidated Street Railway
Company and the Traction Company
at Atlanta was done away with when
cases 36 aud 37, known as the Atlanta
Street railway cases, on the docket of
the supreme court, were formally dis
missed by request of attorneys for
both companies. The two’ cases were
among the first to be placed on the
docket of the Atlanta circuit, but were
subsequently moved to the heel of the
docket.
Governor Invited to Banquet.
Governor Candler and the members
of his staff have been invited to attend
a banquet in Athens during the com
ing university commencement, to be
given by the three members of the
staff in that city. As it had been the
governor’s intention all along to visit
the university of the state at commence
ment, he accepted at once and will in
vite his staff in the near future to meet
him in Athens.
*
Greensboro’s New Factory.
The stockholders of the proposed
cotton factory at Greensboro met. at the
courthouse a few days ago and for
mally organized by electing a board of
directors, empowered to secure a char
ter, purchase land, material and ma
chinery for a hundred thousand dollar
factory.
UNDER FLAG OF TRUCE.
Filijtino Cflmmlsfiioners Escorted Back To
Hebei Fines.
The Filipino commissioners left Ma
nila Thursday by special train and
were escorted to tbeir lines under a
flag of truce. It is expected that they
will return soon.
President Gonzaga, of the Philip
pine commission, said:
“We greatly appreciate the courtesy
shown us. We have spent some time
with your commissioners, incidentally
considering the American -constitution.
Its principles impress us profoundly.
“The plan of government offered the
Philippines seems in theory a good
colonial system. But why should a
nation with your constitution seek to
make a colony of a distant people who
have been so long fighting against
Spain to seeurc the same rights your
constitution gives? You fought the
same battle in America when you
fought against England.”
MACON JUSTICE INDICTED.
Is Charged "With Collecting; Double Costs.
His Bailiff* Included.
A dispatch from Macon, Ga., says:
It will be satisfaction for Colonel Pat
rick Henry Ray when he learns that
the justice of the peace who caused
him so much trouble just at the end
of his residence in Macon, is himself
in hot waier, the grand jury having
found a true bill against him.
On Thursday last trne bills were
sent in l)y the grand jury against J.
O. McMillin, one of the best known
justices of the peace in Bibb county,
and ateo against Constable Brown of
his court. They are charged with
collecting double costs. Brown was
aiso concerned in the trouble that was
given Colonel Ray.
GENERAL WHEELER ACCEPTS
Invitation to Address Grand Army Men at
Boston, Mass.
General Joe Wheeler has been in
vited to make the address on Decora
tion day before the E. W. Kingsley
Post, G. A. R., in Boston, Mass., and
has accepted. Colonel E. B. Stilling,
of Boston, was in Washington Thurs
day to extend the formal invitation to
General Wheeler and announced that
the memorial services at which Gen
eral Wheeler will speak will take place
in Boston theatre.
SLEW THE BROTHERS. •
Fatal Quarrel ltetween Young Men at
Wanamaker, S. C.
There is considerable excitement at
Wanamaker, S. C., occasioned by the
killing, Saturday night, of Brogdon
and Von Ewingtou, brothers, eighteen
and twenty years, respectively, by
Walter Rowell, eighteen years of age.
The young meu were returning home
from a eampmeeting when a quarrel
arose. Both parties belong to promi
nent families iu the neighborhood.
GEORGIA’S RESOURCES ARI) HER
ALDED ABROAD.
GREAT SPEECH BY MR. BROBSTON.
Wealth of Her Industrie*, Mine* and
Quarries are Beyond
Computation.
(From the Augusta Chronicle.)
One of Georgia’s representatives at
the Southern Pines, N. C., meeting
in April, was Mr. Edwin Brobston, of
Brunswick, who has been a most ac
tive worker in the cause of southern
development, and who has reaped some
of the most notable results in the state.
Mr. Brobston was a member of the
commission in charge of Georgia’s ex
hibit at the Omaha exposition, and
lent valuable service in this enter
prise. located of the most notable
He one
colonies that has ever been brought
south. Through him the Shakers, of
Ohio, the quaint but most upright peo
ple who work a community of interests,
having been induced to locate in Geor
gia. Brobston remained at the
Mr.
Southern Pines meeting several days,
and as a result is in correspondence
with a number of northern gentlemen
who are looking to the south for in
vestments. Following is his speech in
I appreciate the honor of being in
this distinguished presence and the
privilege of talking about Georgia. ,
I would not discredit the most ex
travagant charms claimed for other
fair sisters of our bright southland,
nor shall I discredit anything that may
be claimed by others for their state or
section. I would not give three cents
for any man that is not loyal to his
section, loyal to his family aud loyal
to his faith.
Georgia is my queen; to her I owe
allegiance, and in her greatness aud
possibilities I find a theme that is en
gaging at a time I }nke it to be auspi
cious.
She is a dear old mother who has
been kind and loving to me, and
wherever I may be and whatever the
occasion, I could not be less than loy
al and loving to her.
Georgia has 58,000 square miles
stretching from the grand mountains
of the Blue Ridge, 400 miles to the
southward, where the blue waves of
the Atlantic are ever kissing her
island-gemmed shores.
Rich in minerals, rich in forests of
timber, rich in water power and won
derfully rich in climate, she is keep
ing time to the drum-beat of prosper
ity; that prosperity which seems to
have again taken up its march around
the world.
From her rugged mountains and
hills are being taken some of the best
coal that burns, and some of the finest
ore that goes to the furnace, they tell
me that the highest grade ore which
is received at Birmingham, Ala.,comes
from a Georgia mine; some of the pur
est gold that is minted is mined in
Georgia, and our annual output is
something like a quarter of a million
dollars. We carry to the mint each
year more than $100,000.
The finest beds of aluminum found
in America are in the Coosa valley,
and nowhere is it in such paying
quantities as found in Georgia. As
evidence of its value the Engineer and
Mining Journal of April 15th, quotes
Georgia baxite at $5.10 at the mines,
while Alabama Rockrun is only
quoted at $3.85. in Georgia
We have enough granite
to pave every street in this union, and
probably enough to pave every street
in the world. Why, in sight of the
city of Atlanta is one mass of granite
which is seven miles in circumference
aud a mile high; it is put down in
Cram’s as one of the world’s wonders.
There are beds of granite underlying
many counties in the central and upper
portions of the state.
We have enough marble in Georgia
to build all the palaces for all the
rulers that will ever live, and some of
it as fine as any on the face of the
earth; the census of 1880 did not
reckon us as a marble producing state,
and we even built our own capital of
Indiana limestone, yet we stand tcS’day
at the head of the list, and the capitol
of Rhode island in the northeast and
the capitol of Minnesota in the north
west stand as mammoth advertise
ments of the resources of our state,
while the St. Charles hotel in New Or
leans illustrates better than words can
tell, the beauty and fineness and
finish of our most beautiful marble.
We have copper mines and slate quar
ries, and finest beds of clay; one coun
ty in Georgia ships over $10,000 worth
of clay annually to the pottery works
of new Jersey. We have magnificent
deposits of limestone, and the cement
that is used does not all come
Chicago or Louisville now, for we
have discovered beds of it in Georgia;
it is being shippid-in great quanti
ties and of the finest quality. Nearly
every mineral that is known has been
discovered in more or less quantities
in Georgia and the extent of ndne has
ns yet been fully determined; we are
yet in experimental stages.
The agricultural resources of the
state are something wonderful, practi
cally every variety of soil and climate
is found in the state, and in perhaps
no other state can be grown such a di
versity of crops. Well nigh every
thing that will grow on this continent
can be raised in Georgia. From the
winter wheat and clover, and buck
wheat of the mountainous hills, to the
rice and cane, and melons of her sea
coast, is like the transition to some
other clime, while the peach belt is a
section peculiar to itself.
In this state the apple and the or
ange, the olive and the cherry have
each been grown with profit.
As a wine aud grapo country we are
beginning to attract attention, and
there are not wanting experts to tell
us that we are destined to rival sunny
France, both in the luscionsnesR and
luster of our grapes, aud in the sparkle
and flavor of our wines, as well as the
volume aud value of our crops. Only
a short time since we learned that
grapes could bo raised with profit in
southern Georgia.
The state has made fame on her lus
cious watermelons, and who does not
know that New York hucksters have
learned to turn their crates so as to
show the label of “Alberta peaches
from Georgia.” Another thing for
which she is famous, made so from
my section of the state, where it is
mostly cut, and that is “the yellow
pine;” you can often hear that our
crop is about exhausted, but I am here
to tell you that it will take all the mills
now operating thirty more years to ex
haust the crop. Only a few days ago
I rode thirty miles throucrli one solid
body, and on one projected railroad of
140 miles in length I have the esti
mates of experts that 250,000,000 feet
of merchantable timber is accessible.
Last year the total output of yellow
pine was over $20,000,000, while na
val stores and rosin was about $5,000,
000 .
There is great value in other timber,
such as cypress, oak, poplar and gum.
It has been estimated that there is
enough hardwood in Georgia to sup
ply all the furniture factories in the
United States for the next twenty
years. My county alone exhibited
over twenty-five varieties of wood at
the last exposition held at Atlanta.
Notwithstanding tho great resources
of mine and field and forest, perhaps
the greatest attraction iu Georgia is
the climate. It appeals alike to the
man of wealth, to the man of moderate
means, aud those who have nothing
save brain or muscle. What wonder
that millionaires continue adding to
their winter palaces on Jekly Island,
and our people continue to build more
and more within our border. Into my
section of the state, indeed all over
Georgia, there are coming new citi
zens, aud the next census will show
some startling figures of increased
wealth and population.
(to be continued.)
THE ALASKAN MUDDLE.
Tho Cniteil States MayKetaliatc Aaainot
Canadians.
A Washington dispatch says_: There
is little doubt that our government is
inclined to retaliatory considerations
against Canadians by the discouraging
results of the negotiations in London,
looking to the clearing of the field for
the reassembling of the Canadian joint
commission.
It is gathered that the British for
eign office, which had seemed desirous
to meet Mr. Choate’s advances in the
spirit of compromise that promised
well, has been again informed of Can
ada’s refusal to agree to anything less
than a. concession of all their de
mands, which has stopped all pro
gress.
The news of the retaliatory rneas
ures is being considered.
COLEMAN’S STATEMENT.
Says Governor McFaurin Did Make Prom-
ise of Pardon.
Judge S. R, Coleman, of Greenwood,
Miss., makes public a written state
ment in which he says, positively and
emphatically, that Governor McLaurin
did promise him to pardon Ivo Miller
before Miller had been convicted.
This statement is in reply to the
sensational utterance of Governor Mc
Laurin’s in his debate with Congress
man Allen, at Shuquelenn, a week
ago, that the man who originated the
Ivo Miller story was a liar aud a
slanderer.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
COltKECTED WEEKLY.— 23
Groceries. Levering'^
Rraifle 1 coffee. Arbuckle and
$11.30. Lion $10.80, less 50c per 100 H> |
eases. Green coffee choice lie; fair 9o; prims |
TJ^(5)83^c. Sugar standard granulated, New"
York 5.G3. New Orleans 5.G8,.
New Orleans white do yellow 5)4"'
Syrup, New Orleans open kettle 25@40c.
mixed 12J4@20c: sugar house 28®35c.
Teas, black 00®65c: 6^®7<s; green 50(S05’.
Itiee, head 7)-£c; choice Salt, dai
ry sacks $1.25; do bbis. bulk 82.00; 100 –
$2.75; ice cream 81.25; I'fmmoii <!5@70i!.
Cheese, full cream J2Vc. Matches.
G5.s 45c; 200s $1.30@1.75: S00s'$2.75. Soda,
boxes Gc. Crackers, soda 5@G)4c; cream stick
Gc;gingersnaps 6c. Candy, common $1.85@
Gc; fancy 12®13c. Oysters, F. 5V.
$1.75; L. W. $1.10.
Flour, Grain and Meal.
Flour, all wheat first patent, $4.75: second
patent. $4.25; straight, $3.85: extra fancy
$3.70; fancy. $8.50; extra - family, $2.85
Corn, white. 555: mixed, 54c, Oats, white
45c; mixed 40 •: Texas rustproof 45c. By e >
Georgia 85c. Hay No. 1 timothy largo bales
' timothy
90c; small bales 85c: No. 2 bolted
small bales 80c. Meal, plain 52:: 82c:"
45c. "Wheat bran, large sacks
small sacks 82c. Shorts 95c. Stock meal;
85c. Cotton seed meal 90; per 100 lbs; hulls
fG.OOnerton. Peas stock $1.25 per bush
el; white erowders $1.60@$1.75; common
White $1.25(31.40; Lady $1.25@1.50. Grits,
$2.90 per bbl; $1.40 per bag.
Country Prodnoe.
Fggs 1 1J@ 1 2)^0.Butter, Fancy Georgia.-
15®17J<je; lanev Tennessee 15 @12}*' pouj'
" ' 10@12}5c. Live
choice spring chick
trv, chickens, hens 27}<f@30'.: 15@13
ens. large 30535 c: small 15^
Dueks, puddle, 18®20f; Peking
27}^c. Irish potatoes. 70@80 per
bushel. Sweet potatoes, G55 90c
per bu. 11 one.v, strained G@7c: W
the comb 9® 10:: Onions. $1.50®
$1.75 ner bu. : $3.25®3 50 per bbl. Cabbage
2®3-lb. Beeswax 20.®22^. Pried fruit
apples 7@8c: peaches 12)4<® 14c.
Provisions.
Clear ribs boxed sides i>% 0 : .clear site;,
5%c; ice-cured bellies 8J4o. 6}£c;
bams 9®lie: California GJ-ge; •■>«?
bacon 10®12V*\ T.ard,best compound quality 5c.
ond quality :
Cotton.