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™I/■■■ll I I HI z wi nr / H " j w.. w, 1 / a B * Vol IX No. 288. ■ ... AIM MB! JOHN MEADOWS MEETS DEATH FOR DAMRADIE CRIME. V jk, ’ - ■*'*'* »• * •’ <- - •• ► Vv"l t 'Z' *- K v ' Hanged to a Umb and His Body Riddled With a Thousand Bullets. John Meadows, a mulatto negro, wm lynched in thie city yesterday af ternoon at four o’clock, by a mob of fully 500 armed men from Meriwether, Pike and Spalding counties. Sunday afternoon Mesdowe attempt ed to rape Nora Camp, the 7-year old daughter of C«pt. Benton Camp, a prominent planter living about five miles from Senoia, and was only pre vented from accomplishing bis hellish purpose by the timely arrival of the little child’s mother. Nora and another sister were out at the barn playing when Meadows came up and drova the youngest child to the bouse which aroused the suspicion of Mr*. Camp, and she went to see what the negro meant by his strange actions. Meadows beard her coming and hastily fled, leaving his helpless victim bleeding and bruised to tell her sad story. The neighbors were given the alarm and at onoe organized a posse to bunt for the brute, but be escaped them. The officers of this city were informed yesterday morning of the affair, and notified to be on the lookout, as it was thought Meadows was beading this way. About one o’clock a posse from Meriwether and Pike counties reached thia city without having seen any* thing of the negro, and they were fearful he had escaped them for good. The arrival of this large party of heav ily armed men threw the city into in tense excitement, and business was practically suspended while men gath ered in groups to discuss the horrible deed and what punishment should be meted out to the brute should he be caught. About 3 o’clock Mr. A. B Cleveland ■ent the police word that the negro was on his place, sod if the officers would come out he would deliver the man to them. Officers Conpor and Flyot hastily armed themselves and securing ave» hide went after the man. They kept the matter very quiet and hoped to place Meadows behind the bars of Spalding county jail without the crowd knowing of his arrest, but in this they were unsuccessful. As they turned into Hill street and reached the Bap. tiet church a triumphant shout went up from the crowd and in a moment fully 500 heavily armed men bad sur rounded the officers and demanded their prisoner Resistance was useless, but Officer •Connor plead with the crowd to be al* lowed to place the negro in jail and let -the law take its course. He might as •well have tried to check the progress -of a cyclone, and before be ceased .speaking be and Officer Flynt Were -roughly jerked from the buggy and 4heir places taken by two of the most determined id the erowd. With all possible speed the negro was driven out to the western suburbs, when be was taken to a convenient oak tree, a rope placed around hi* neck and he was asked to make bis last statement. Trembling with fear and lacing a horrible death, the brute confessed his crime and the next in stant bis carcass was swinging from the end of tbe rope, completely riddled frith bullets. A thousand shots at least were fired before the fusillade ceased. ... After being fully- e nirfied that tbe!r work was done Well, the crowd calmly dispersed to their homes, and our city resumed its wonted quietude. Meadows was hanged on the same tree and limb that vaa used to lynch Oscar Willianu the 22nd of Jnly, 1897, for assaulting a six year-old girl of Clayton county Thin is the third lynching to occur in this county within the last two years, and iu every case the deed was committed in some other county. Our citizens regret that so many lynchings should occur here, but when black fiends rape pure and helpless girls and women and the btutes are caught in this section there will always be a limb in Spalding strong enough to emphasize tbe fact that our 'women shall be-protected. -o' Meadows’ body was cut down late in the afternoon and buried in the pot ters fiei)(T at the couuty farm. The Captain’s Economical Wife. In a- Massachusetts seaport town there is a retired sea captain who makes frequent boasts that be has the “smartest woman along shore,” says the Youth’s Companion. New in stances of her enterprise are constant ly coming to notice. The last one re fers to an exploit by which she saved herself a doctor’s bill. The vaptain tells tbe story with great relish. “She’s getting pretty heavy,” he be gins, “and now and again she will miss her footing. Well, not many months ago she missed it on our stairs and fell in a heap down three steps on to her side “When I got to her, she said, jast as brisk as usual: ‘Don’t ask me if I’ve hurt myself, cap’n, for of course I have. I reckon I’ve unjointed a bone in my left leg, falling on it. Now don’t try to pull me up. Let me scramble round a minute and you go for tbs doctor “Well, tbe doctor’s our next neigh bor, so it didn’t take long to get him. He looked her over and said there was a bone somewhere* round her left hip that was out of kitter. .“At that mother rose right up on her "feet and toppled over tbe opposite way from what she’d fallen downstairs, and we heard a kind of a crack, “She looked up at the doctor, with her mouth kind of whitlisb, but at tbe same old twinkle in her eyes, and she says: ‘I believe I’ve set that bone myself, doctor,’ and she had.” Bobbed, the Grave. A startling incident, of which Mr. Oliver, of Philadelphia, was tbe sub ject, is narrated by him as follows: “I was in a most dreadful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, paiu continually in back and sides, no appetite—gradually growing weaker day by day. Three physicians bad given me up. Fortu nately a friend advised trying ‘Electric Bitters’; and to my great joy and sur prise, ‘.be first bottle made a decided improvement. I continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well man. I know they saved my life, and robbed tbe grave of another victim.” No one should fail to try them. Only 50 cts per bottle at Carlisle <fc Ward and J. N. Harris & Son’s drug store. Will Be Sold To the highest bidder for cash, before tbe court house door, September 6th, the hand, some twelve room residence, in West Griffin, known as the J. D. Boyd place. This place is lighted by electricity, has electric bells, speaking tubes, water works and every modern convenience, and is located in a handsome grove of natural forest. The place contains four acres of land. Perfect titles can be given. Sold for tne purpose of division among the heirs of the late Hon. J. D. Boyd. House open for inspection on Monday and Thursday mornings. Bale will be positive. A great chance to buy a beautiful home. Wanted—A limited number of persons to do writing at their homes. Twenty five cents paid tor every one hundred words. Promptness and good work nec essary. Applications must be accompa nied by ten cents for particulars. Address The Sioux City Business College, Sioux City, la. Half Bate* to Savannah and Batura, :. Excursion tickets will be on sale Au gust 7th, Bth and 9th to Savannah and re turn via the Central of Georgia Ry. Co., at rate of one ’ fare for the round trip. Tickets will be limited to August loth, 1898, returning. This will afford a fine opportunity to visit Savannah and a short stay at Tybee-by-the-ocean. GROTIN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1898. RECEIVED AT LAST. SPAIN’S ANSWER BEING TRAM* DATED IN WASHINGTON. Quite a Lengthy Deeument.-Gep-. Shafter Explains “Round RaHn” laeident to the President. Washington, Aug. 8 Spain’* an swer io (be American peace lersti* was received at the French embassy al 2 :40 o’clock this afternoon. It was-in cipher and is quite long. The embassy staff begat) it* tranala lion at once, but it will take some tlmtf to complete the work. Io connection with tbe probable se lection of Secretary Day as one of peace commissioners, it is stated that be will at an early date retire from the office of secretary of state ani after concluding bis labors as a member of the commission resume the practice of law in Canton. Although this is the first public an nouncement that Secretary Day in. tends to retire from public life, it ha* long been known to bis most intimate friends that when he accepted the poitfolio he did bo with the under standing that he should resign his of* flee immediately after peace had been restored between Spain and the United Slates. Gen. Shafter has telegraphed tbe president regarding tbe publication of the “Round Robin,” signed by the general officers of his command, as follows: “I can very readily see the intense exoitement that publication must have occasioned; a great deal mor* than the situation warranted. The situation is greatly aggravated from the fact that before any of the men were taken ill they wore thoroughly exhausted. At least 75 per cent of the command had been down with mala rial fever, from which they recover very slowly, and are in no condition to stand an attack es yellow fever Or dysentery. Placed here now ia tbe condition in which they were when they came here, I do not beiiev* them to. be in any particular danger. “The regiment of immunes which recently arrived is not suffering at all, and I don’t believe they will. They can keep out of tbe sun, are well clothed and well fed. What put my command in the present condition was the two days of the campaign when they bad nothing but meat, bread and coffee, without change of clothes, without any shelter whatever, and during the period twice as stormy as it has been since tbe surrender. Fresh troops, arriving here in tbe middle of August, with good camps, good water, abundance of tentage— which they will find here—need not apprehend serious danger, “I thank you for the high regard in which you hold my command and tbe value of the services they have ren dered. It pays for all the suffering we have endured. “I have read this io Gens. Wheeler, Lawton, Bates and Kent, who concur with me in the view expressed.” A dispatch from Madrid quotes the Liberal as saying: “The government accepts the United States’ conditions ad referendum, be lieving that it is not authorized to cede territory without tbe vote of the cortea. If McKinley objects, the cortes will be convoked this month. A fresh note from President McKinley, reply* ing to Spain’s reply, is expected dur ing the course of this week.” Contining. The Liberal expresses the opinion that “certain passages of Spain’s reply may lead to an exchange of cable messages of a critical nature, possibly creating fresh difficulties.” Bemarkabl* Bewue. Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfield,lll., makes tbe statement that she caught cold, which settled on ber lungs; st* was treated for a month by ber family physician, but grew worse. He told ber she was a hopeless victim of con sumption and that no medicine could cure ber. Her druggist suggested Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consump tion ; she bought a bottle and to ber delight found herself benefited from first dose. Sbe continued ite use and after taking six bottles, found herself sound and well| qow does her own housework and is as well as she ever was Free trial bottles of this Great Discovery at Carlisle A Ward and J. N. Harris A Son’s drug store Large bottles 50 cents and fl 00. - -Ji* y 1 * u ' a ' p to* SigMtar* es ■ jOtN gAKINg MOYAL BAKING POWDf N CO., NEW YORK. ’ll*’.'" ' I ■ —■ Th« Two Riviera*. The wannest parts of Italy visited by tfce ordinary tourist are two rivieras (Shores), one commonly called the Riviera, ronhing from Nice to Genoa, where lie Menfone, Monte Carlo, San Remo, d».; tte other a still more beautiful coast, on tbe .sunny side of the rooky promontory that bounds the bay of Naples on the math, of which Amalfi is the gem. The Riviera from Nice to Genoa is sheltered from cold north winds by the barrier of tbe Alps, is full in the face of the sun and often poes not see a snowstorm Ur years. Semltroplcal pUnte'grow freely, and the temperature is so mild that many victims of lung troubles are sent there to conval esce or die. It has hotels idfrumerablo, which are for the most part well filled during the first four montfadtof the year. Queen Victoria usually goes there for some weeks In the early spring, and it abounds With royalty and nobility.—Robert Luce la “Going Abroad.” Porto Rico’s Tribute, r- The island of Porto Rico pays Spain this year in taxes 14,874,874, of which only 1650,000 is spent for the benefit of the na tive population. Os the 4£0,267 whites on the island only 96,807 can read and write. The Illiterate aggregate 696,828. The Spaniards supported by the Porto Ricans number not less than 86,000. .The Tunnel of the Alps. The Simplon tunnel in the Alps is to be between ft and ll,miles long, and yet the flnhef BrStft has redacted under a penalty of tf,*OO a dag to bore it by electricity. in one-quarter es the time and fit feree-qijarters of thejßaense Jnvolved the Mont Ccfl*mnnel. yteseeiy of When a*man becomes great his friends remember many things about him that never happened.—Yonkers Statesman. THE EICHIBiCB Os STRIP OF FI6S is due not only to the originality and simplicity of the combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the’California Fig Sybup Co. only, and we wish to impress upon all the importance of purchasing the trub and original remedy. As the genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, a knowledge of that fact will assist one in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other par ties. 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