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THE aMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECOKDER: FRIDAY, JULY 24, I P°1.
TdAYAT ellaville
uihERE THE SCHLEY COUNTY SUN
DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
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Annual Meotlo* Last Frlday-
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I was one of the fortunates that at-
tended at Ellaville on Friday last the
<ch i e y County Sunday School Conven-
o 0 n and am now asked, instructed and
commanded to write for The Times-
Becohdkb some mention of the raeet-
. J hate to undertake the pleasant
tjslc, for the pen that once becomes In
terested in the happenings of that de
lightful day will know no stopping.
Suffice it to say that If you have never
attended a Sunday school convention In
Dr. Smith’s county, you ought not to
die until you do so. This was not my
tirst visit to a similar convention at El
laville, and the millennium and Dr.
Carswell permitting, it will not be my
!l y'ine o'clock found a large gathering
of the people at the Methodist Church,
and before long it was full of all sorts
and kinds, children and old folks, town
folks and country folks, the chivalry,
the yeomanry and the girls, Methodists,
Baptists, Presbyterians and the rost.
Ellaville can surely beat Americus in
one thing, and that is in getting up an
audience for a Sunday school conven
tion. Our town tried that for the Bap
tists some weeks ago and she couldn'
succeed. Ono good Schley Baptist sis
ter told me laughingly, that country
psople wouldn’t go to Americus to meet
ing, and as Americus people didn't hurt
themselves attending, the showing was
slim one.
The morning session at Ellaville was
spent in hearing reports from the
schools, in pleasant addresses and in
good singing. Prof. Cheok of Sumter
presided at the organ.
Dr. Smith, the president, has an ad
mirable way of developing the speaking,
talent in his conventions, and
elicited a speech each from Mr,
Cranberry, Kev. Mr. Adams, Jno. W.
Wheatley, Lawyer Lane and Major
Speer.
Mr. Granberry told of of his first Sun
day school. It was a union of the pious
forces in Americus, of which Col. Dud
ley was the moving spirit Even in that
intoleranc day, people couldjsee same
good in a union school, the idea being
that a half loaf, or % third loaf was bet
ter than no bread.
Brother Wheatley spoke of the county,
state and international Sunday school
organizations. At Columbus last spring,
this worthy gentleman had greatness
thust upon him by making him president
of tho State Sunday School Association.
He is now out on a Sunday school bum
and will visit this summer tho state
chatauqua and the New York Chautau
qua, which is the father, or mother, of
all the other clmutauquas. Major Speer
cannot be with him on this trip and he
must play a lone hand. Such is the
penalty of famo.
You ought to have heard tho major's
speech. When he got to telling nbout
the international gathering at Pittsburg,
the big ships, and the world’s convention
at London, I forgot all about the good
meeting I had attondod at Newpoint
out here cast of town In tho diocese of
Jim Wilson, Mark Bell and Capt. Bill
Seals.
It was at Newpoint that Col. Lane
made qulto a Sunday school reputation.
Tho excellence of the effort had been
noised abroad, and when ho came to
Ellaville, Dr. Smith brought him to his
feet, nolens volcns.
With the approach of noon the presi
dent announced a committee on nomina
tions who would report during the after
noon session. He announced also that
there would bo a Binging contest
participated in by several schools, tho
Prize, I learned af terwarda, to bo a dozen
note books.
At tho announcement of dinner, f
tried, as usual, to act the part of a con
scientious guest, and that.wss, to oat
*hat was sot before me and ask no ques
tions. I could not begin to dine with
half the pretty girls and blessed women
that invited me, so I gave myself what
the lawyer? term “the benefit of the
clergy,” and In humble resignation
rlaced my case In the hands of Sub-
Blshop Williamson and the presiding
goddess of his household.
I didn’t have Pat Williams to eat
ngainst as once before, but In Col. Lane
I found a foeman worthy of my steel.
Afterwards I spied him at another table
with his fingers full, am)a lot of soft
«)cs around him.
Somebody shall beat him next time,
•f I have to send for Dr. Park.
Tho bountiful spread brought out
another set of Sunday school orators,
among whom I recall George Seig, Lott
'.arren, and to make an honest confes
sion, I took a short turn myself. It bad
leaked out that the Baptists had only one
oabbath school in the county, and that
was In its swaddling clothes, being only
hirty days old. I sorter blowed the
Baptist folks up. I think I had the
ght, for when a father thraahea his own
children, Ha nobody’s else business. My
ear sleeping Baptist, let me tell yon,
°n't rely too much on the water, hut
'•member to work. Both are essential,
if you* Bible won't allow yon to pull in
°able harness, then take it tandem
* B ? *** rn to tote year own skillet.
“ y°° don't, these Methodists will
come along with their "Old Ship of
Zion” and carry off all the passengers.
Tho speaking over, tho committee on
nominations reported the same old offi
cers for re-election. This had to be done
by ballot Here was trouble and trib
ulation. Everybody wanted the singing
contest to open, and to go into tbe delay
of a ballot was too bad. With a wave of
of the hand, Will McCrory moved that
we abolish the Schley county constitu
tion. This was done immediately and
unanimously, the Sumter vote aiding
materially In the result Dr. Smith was
then proclaimed president and Dr. Mon
roe secretary. In time of emergency
some blessed lawyer is bound to come to
onr relief. Its the fashion to cuss them
these days, but I don't On the other
band I love ’em and wouldn't mind be
ing a good one.
There ain’t much they can join now-
a-days except the church and the Sun
day school. If these two institutions go
back on them, tlieir last chance for ad
mittance will be at the golden gate.
Hopewell, Ellaville and Andrew Chap-
pel schools entered the singing contest
Prof. Cheek, Mr. Warren and ye scribe
were the judges. Hopewell sung with
out an instrument “in the old sweet
way,” under the leadership of Mr. Chap
man. Uncle Joe McMath, a noted choris
ter himself, enjoyed especially the mu
sic of this school. It carried him back
to the days of auld lang syne, before
the devil had got in his work through
the modern clrurch organ. Hopewell
school certainly deserved great credit
Ellaville school had perhaps the most
cultivated voices, but for geueral excel
lence tbe judges thought Andrew Chap-
pel was entitled to the prize. “God be
with you till wo moet again," was then
sung, and some of us wiped the tears
from our eyes to go out and eat more
melons with that kindly people before
the com'.ugof our train.
Amid the pleasantries of flie day there
was much that was soulful, and a Godly
cause has been advanced by our Friday’s
gathering. M. Callaway.
GONE GLIMMERING
HAS THE BOTTOM OF THE WATER
MELON MARKET.
Gluts Reported Because ot Improper Dis
tribution—The Railroads Wonts Freight
Charges Before a Wheel to Turned—It If up
be u Turn About Gums.
THE ONLY ORIGINAL.
"Q” Clubs Don't Begin to Hold Americus*
Barbecue Club u Light.
Atlanta has a “Q" club of which It
boasts considerably, but Americas has
the only free-and-easy-go-as-you-please
Barbecue Club In the eountry. The
members have a huge time at their
regular monthly meetings. Maj. Gloss-
ner knows how It is and this is how he
gave it to a Constitution reporter:
‘Atlanta may talk about her 'Q'
club,” says Major W. L. Glossnor, “but
If you really want to go to a barbecue,
go to Americus There Is the best club
in the world. Lot Joe Roney, Pat Wil
liams, Luke Forrest, Henry Allen, John
Pilsbury, John Cobb, Jim Stallings,
Soph Buchanan, Alf Bell, Si Hawkins
and that crowd take you down to Mag
nolia dell, tbe prettiest and coolest spot
on earth. There by the side of the
Muckaleo croek, and under the boughs
of hundreds of magnolia treos, heavy
with the beautiful and sweet blossoms,
right there on a perfect carpet of grass,
they will lot you lie, and give you the
best meal you over read of.
Barbecued meat, fixed only os they
can fix It, soup that reaches tho exact
spot needing an Installment, and at thU
time of the year tho very best watermel
ons In tho world. Now thoso fellows
enjoy life, and eat? Why, the only time
they wore over beaten was by an Atlan*
ta drummer, a little, slick, dudisb fel
low, who wasn’t used to eating, and I’ll
venture to say hadn’t had a square meal
in years. He cleaned up the crowd, and
didn’t have to chargo it to tho house.
“Folks know* liow to llvo down there,
want you to como and try it.”
Death of a Well Known Man.
Mr. J. P. Nicholson, father of Mr.
John C. Nicholson of Americus, died at
his home in Freestone county, Texas,
Monday morning at 9 o'clock aftor a
lingering illness. Mr. John C. Nichol
son arrived there a few hours boforo bis
father’s death.
Tho dead man bad lived two more
than tbe allotted years of threo score.
Most of the time be livod in Georgia—
near Americus. He was well known
hero and liked by all who know . him.
Those who wero nearest and dearest to
him have tbe sympathy of scores of
friends in this, their sore bereavement
Joiner A Nicholson’s store in this
city was closed yesterday during the
time when the funeral was occurring in
Texas.
After Deep Water.
Savannah la much interested just now
in the matter of harbor improvements.
A meeting of representative people, rail
road officials and others, will be held
there this morning to consider the mat
ter.
Col. S. H. Hawkins, president of the
Savannah, Americus A Montgomery rail
way, Capt P. C. Clegg, vice-president of
the Americus Investment Company, and
Mr. Uriah B. Harrold, vice-president of
the Savannah A Western road, will rep
resent Americus at the meeting. It Is
thought that; tome steps will be taken
wbloh will result In a great benefit to
Savannah’s splendid harbor.
The Cotton la light.
New Yore, July 18.—The total risible
supply of cotton for the world Is 2,093,-
842 bales, of whloh 1,657,345 Is Ameri
can, against 1,380,007 and 701,007 re
spectively last year. Tho receipts of
cotton this week in all Interior towns
are 5,082; plantations, 104, crop In sight,
8,519,584.
The bottom has dropped out of the
melon market, and as a consequence the
growen, with but few exceptions are as
blue as the best article of indigo
ever offeied tbe public.
What has been feared has come at
last. All the markets are glutted. That
is all tbe markots that have any melons
at all are glutted while the others are
literally crying out for shipments. The
result will be that every man who is
loading will hurry his car forward to
the first market that opens in the hope
that he will beat his neighbor to the
tank, as It goes in the language of the
street That will glut those markets also
and pandimonium will surely keep
company with the men who have hun
dreds of acres planted in melons.
These gluts arc due to the lack qf
proper distribution, and when they
come everything goes wild and prices
go downward at a rate that is surpris
ing.
So bad has become tho glut at somo
points that the Central road and the
other roads which reach the melon ter
ritory have sent out dispatches to the
agents to refuse shipments to the over
stocked points. The roads have refused,
so bad is the state of affairs, to handle
shipments of melons from connections,
unless the freight charges are prepaid
to destination. As an evidence of the
condition of the markets, Atlanta may
be taken as an instance. Ten cars a day
can be consumed there on a maximum
estimate. The Central railroad tele
graphed yesterday that there were
seventy-five cars on its yards at the
elose of business Monday for Atlanta
proper. As many more have probably
gone In since that it was impossible to
stop in time. That gives Atlanta 150 cars,
less ten which could have- been consum
ed there yesterday, leaving 140—or a
fourteen days supply. Of course the
melons will get stale. Not only that
they will stay there and rot so that they
will only be fit to be dumped Into the
river. Shipments will be held up for a
day or so. Then a telegram will an
nounce that Atlanta can handle a car
and In twenty-four hours there will be
no less than fifty headed there.
And that’s the way It goes without
any organized effort at properly dis
tributing tbe crop.
Some growers and papers deny it, but
it is a fact nevertheless that the returns
for this season’s crop have not boon sat
isfactory. The very best stock of tho
soason is going forward now, neverthe
less the growers are In almost every tn-
stanco drawn on for money to help pay
tho freight.
It may be that thoy are only reaping
what thoy sowed.
Last year the Goorgia and Carolina
Melon Exchange was organized. It
made contracts for decidedly tho hulk of
tho crops of Goorgia, Florida and South
Carolina. The plan was to pay the
growors $75, $00 and $50 per car for
melons on tho track wlion loaded. Noth*
Ing under a fifteen pound melon was to
bo put In a car and no car was to have
less than 1,000 melons. Thoso who were
interested In tbe exchange were a few
prominent growors and commission
merchants. To make sure of its monoy
the exchange made contracts with one
commlsslon'house at each shipping^olnt
to handle all melons, the exchange to
draw upon shipment qf car for $75, $00
or $50 as may have been paid for It. The
idea was to properly distribute tbe crop
and hold up prices that would pay.
The growers had a good thing.
Thoso who sold to the exchange made
more monoy than they had ever made
before. But it went not well with the
exchange. The growers fiew wide of
their contracts. MelonB were terribly
short in weight and numbers. It looked
like a plan for all who had contracts to
see how much they could make out of
tho exchange. The result was that the
commission men saw thoy were con
stantly getting in tho soup by advancing
more per car than they could possibly
realize. One fine morning the ex
change went to the wall, haring suffered
an actual loss of $35,000, while the ag
gregate loss of the exohange and the
co-operating commission men footed up
a much larger sum.
The growers bad hurried off green
melons, melons that had just dropped
the bloom, deformed melons and all
other sorts of melons, to get advantage
of the $75 price. The vines were bare
and the growers had mode big money.
Of course the loss fell on the commis
sion men. The idea therefore suggests
itself that the commission men are
haring their Inning this year. That la
the bulk of them, for some of them have
their inning on every ear shipped them
and have from the'beginnlng.
Be that at It may all the bottom la out
of prices now and gluts are reported
from many markets.
AN ENGINEER’S STORY
A MAN DUMPED INTO THE FIRE BOX
BY A MOB.
The New Orleans Division of the Louisville
A Nashville Hus a Haunted Enslne—The
Terrible Fate ots Colored Man I
Harris In Indiana,
Eleven Were Killed.
Liverpool, July.—A train passing
along the railroads running along the
line of the Manchester ship canal fell
over the latter's embankment, near this
city, killing eleven men who were work
ing underheading.
There is no classjof men that can tell of
more thrilling experiences—experiences
in fact which border on fiction—than
railroad men, conductors and engineers.
Yesterday a well known engineer who
makes his home In Americus now told
reporter this experience' of a fellow
engineer:
“There is a locomotive on the New
Orleans division of the Louisville
Nashville railroad that is said to be
haunted. In 1877 the onglne was No.
and was a freight engine on tbe old SL
Louis & Southeastern railroad. It has
since been rebuilt, however, given a dif
ferent number, and put into the passen
ger service in the south. There are
many railroad men who know the haunt
ed engine. The engtoe palled a heavy
freight train into Mount Vernon, Ind,
on the night of tho terrible lynching bee
in that town. Six colored men were
hustled off into eternity in a very short
time by an excited mob of citizens sev
eral hundred in number.
■The mob bad strung five of the col
ored men up to limbs of trees, when tho
engine pulled Into town and stopped
near the crowd. The one man left was
an old colored man named Harris, who
had brutally murdered a popular deputy
sheriff of Posey county. The feeling
against the man Harris was bitter. It
was tho prevailing opinion among the
peeple that hanging was too good for
him. Some one In the crowd said: 'To
the engine with Harris, let’s burn him,
In an Instant the cry was taken up by
the crowd. 'To the engine, burn him,
burn him.’ The looomotlve was sur
rounded by the mob In a few minutes'
time. The engineer and firemen were
covered with guns and ordered off ot
their engine. The engineer, John
Thomas, and his fireman, a man named
Buchanan, promptly obeyed the orders
of the mob and left the engine.
“The engineer’s story of the affair told
by him the next day was as follows
‘After we had been hustled away some
distance from the engine by some of the
crowd I noticed the sky light up by the
door to the fire-box being opened. It
was only for an instant the door re
mained open, then all was dark as be
fore. The fireman saw two men throw
something into the firp-hox. We were
completely in the dark os to the object
of the crowd In taking possession of the
engine. It was perhaps not more than
fire minutes before we were told to go
back to our engine, and the crowd dis
appeared. As soon as we mounted the
engine I whistled off brakes and told
the fireman to coal up. He took up the
shovel of coal and opened the door to
throw It in, but he never emptied the
hovel. The sight that met our eyes
was terrible. There in the fire before
us was the grinning skull of a human
being.’
“ ‘Good God,’ gasped tbe fireman, and
he sank down In a dead faint on the coal
at my feet. I finally pulled myself to
gether n.id shoveled coal Into the fire
box. Madly I throw shovelful after
shovelful into the fire, but the grinning
skull always appeared the same. Final
ly I slammed the door shut, pulled tho
throttle wide open, and wo left the town
at aiapld gait. The fireman finally camo
too and crawled to his place on the seat.
Ho remained there all night long. I
shoveled the coal into tbe engine my
self. It was a terrible night; every time
I opened the door of the fire box I could
see the skull and could frequently hear
terrible groans In the fire bed. When
we reached the end of our run,’ conclud
ed the engineer, ‘both the fireman and
myself asked to be relieved.'
“Engineer Thomas was In Colorado a
fow years ago running an engine on the
Denver & Rfo Grande railroad. Fire
man Buchanan took a solemn oath on
that terrible night that he would never
again fire an engine. He kept hts oath
and has never been on a locomotive
stneo." t
SUMTER'S REPRESENTATIVES.
Something of tha Man Who Represent Ue
la the General Assembly.
In its write up of tne men who go to
make up the lower house of Georgia’s
General Assembly the Constitution of
Sunday had this to ssy of tbe gentle
men from Snmter—Col. A. S. Cotts snd
Hon. J. M. MoDonald:
Col. A. S. Cntts, of Sumter connty, is
probably the only veteran of tbe Mexl-
STATE OFFICERS ALSO.
THEY TAKE A PLACE ALONG WITH
THE DOCTORS
If They should Happen to bo Imbibers
of Bag Jnlco—Sesy*e Bill to Tax Bache
lor! to Como np Next Week-Want the
Commleeloner Elected.
can war In the house. He wss bom In
Pulaski county, and as a boy he lived
In Pulaski, Randolph, Houston, Stewart
and Sumter counties. In 1848 he went
into the Mexican war, and served
through from “Vera Cruz to the city.
He draws a pension as a veteran of the
Mexican war. In early life he was
clerk, and first went into business for
himself at Oglethorpe, In Macon county.
Then when the railroad terminus was
moved on from Oglethorpe to Americus
he moved to that city, and engaged In
the mercantile business. When the
war broke out he sold out his' Interests
in Sumter and went In as captain of an
artillery battery; afterwards he raised
a batalllon of artillery, and was
made colonel of the artillery and
was in command of adlvlslon of artillery.
Ue went through to the end of the war,
receiving only one slight flesh wound
After tbe war he went back to his home
at Americas, and since has been engaged
in cotton buying, railroading and other
enterprises. *Hls principal business has
been that of cotton buying, and is now,
He has always been prominent In the
affairs of Americus, and he has always
refused to run for office. He was
member of the state convention of 1885,
and mayor of Americus four years. He
was strongly urged to become a candi
date for the (legislature, prominent al-
liancetnen being particularly anxious for
him to do so. He and his colleague, Mr.
MoDodald, were elected by large major
ities, though both had opposition.
Hon. John A. MoDonald, of Sumter,
was horn snd raised In that county. He
Is a farmer, one of the most successful
in that part ot the state. By his honest
dealings, his generous actions and dear
bead he commands the highest respect
of the people, snd often has he been
urged to ran for offloe. He always re
fused, however, until the alliance nom
inated him last year. Even then he ac
cepted under protest He is one of the
soundest members of the house.
A HOSPITAL CORPS
New Trial Granted.
It will be remembered that at the
November term of Sumter superio
court, 1890, W. A. Jones a prominent
and well to do young farmer of tbe
seventeenth district was tried, convicted
and sentenced to tbe penitentiary for
four years for seduction, Judge W. F.
Jenkins presiding. A telegram from
Jndge W. H. Kimbrough of the enter
prising firm of Simmons <ft Kimbrough
announces the grant of a new trial. The
question was submitted to Judge Jenkins
yesterday, when he was holding Bald
win superior court.
Simmons A Kimbrough have done
some good work In this case, as they si
ways do;'and they are to be congratulat
ed on their victory.
You Con Shoot Davos.
The dove season is now open.
The game law prohibiting the killing
of this particular bird haa expired for
this season, and already the boys are in
the wheat fields shooting these choice
birds.
The hunters had better remember,
however, that thoy are only peimltted
to hunt doves yet awhile, and they had
better “recover arms” when a partridge
flysover them, for it Is yet unlawful to
shoot any bird other than doves.
To bo Orsanlzad for the Second Georgia
Regiment by CoL Wiley.
There Is a new feature In Georgia
military.
The Second Georgia Regiment Is to
have a hospital corps. It Is to be or
ganized at once and the movement is al
ready well undor way.
An officer of the Americus Light In
fantry told|a reporter what was said by
Col. Wiley about it He says he expects
to havo a hospital corps In the Second
Georgia that will compare with any In
the military of any state.
This uaw feature was brought about
by the Chickamauga encampment and
the great number on the sick list there
all times showed the urgent necessity
of this. The surgeons and hospital
stewards wore worn completely out with
nflrslng and attending the sick, and more
nurses were needed.
Now, with a hospital corps In tbe
regiment this difficulty will be metright
there.
It Is of course the duty of the corps
nurse the sick and in every way ren
der assistance In the hospital work.
The corps will drill without arms, but
will have their tactics, the same as tbe
others. They will be designated by the
red cross on the sleeve, and will be
under command of the surgeon of the
regiment and hls|aulstanta.
The red cross Is recognized In the
armies of all countries as a safe-guard
against danger, ft No one wearing It on
his sleeve will be molesUxTby the enemy.
He can advance onjtlio field snd care for
and relieve the slok and he Is not
harmed.
It is not known yet how many will
compose tbe corps of tbe Second Geor
gia, but a good many have applied for
admission. The war department has
already been conferred with snd an an
swer is expected at once.
Colonel Wiley expeets to have the
corps organized and under a through
course of drilling within s very short
tlmo.
Atlanta, July 17.—Mr. Seay’s bill to
tax baohelors lsnotidead. It was referred
to the committee on hygiene snd sanita
tion, and they have been perfecting It so
as to equalize the amount of tax accord
ing to the age of the baehelor. It Is pro
posed that the tax go to the widows’
fund.
Dr. Baldwin and Hon. Gazaway Hart-
ridge are billed to make speeches In
advocacy of it, and Hon. Robert Berner
against It.
The committee will report favorably
on the bill next Wednesday, and Thurs
day It will probably come up for consid
eration In the house. Ladles will be
especially invited on that occasion.*
Mr. O'Neal of Coffee county introduced
a bill this morning making It unlawful
for any judge or justice, state, connty or
municipal officer, judicial or ministerial,
to get drank while exeeutlng the func
tions of his office. For the fii at offence,
the penalty is a fine of not leu than $50
or more than $100, an4 for a repetition
of the offence, they forfeit their commis
sion and are ineligible to re-election.
Mr. Montgomery of Taylor—A bill to
prohibit the sale of liquor In one-fourth
of a mile of any school In this state In
any corporate town or city; also a bill to
tax people who htve no fixed homes
who go about horse-trading.
Mr. Taylor ot Troop—A bill to pre
vent judges of county courts from draw
ing complaints, declarations and pleas.
The motion to adjourn until Monday
was voted down twice during the day
by the house, but when the avaUnehe
of leaves of abunee were asked for, Mr.
Davis of Borke Introduced the following,
whloh was adopted. This* lets off all
the other*:
“Leave ot abunee Is asked for all
members who have not asked leave from
to-morrow's seulon.”
The special order for the day In the
senate was the consideration of the blU
to prohibit the sale of alcohollo, spiritu
ous or malt liquors within four miles of
any church, pttblio or private sohool
house, except in Incorporated towns in
this state, which was passed.
Another special order was the reading
of a bill to provide for a board of equal
ization of real and personal properly
subject to taxation, and for other pur
poses, by Mr. Lane, of tne sixteenth.
Tills passod alsd.
A bill by Mr. Baxter, of Bibb, to make
the office of state school commissioner
elective, came up with an advene re
port of the committee. On motion of
Mr. Vincent, of the forty-first district,
the advene report of the eommlttee
was disagreed to. The roll was called,
showing twenty-four voting in favor of
disagreeing and sixteen against It.
This indicates that a majority of the
sonate ore in favor of making tbe office
of state sohool commissioner eleotive,
and u the bill hu already passed the
house It will doubileu bocomo a law,
and this office will be bunched with nil
the othen In being eleotive Instead of
the state sohool commluloner being ap
pointed by the governor.
GEORGIA'S BISHOP-ELECT.
Dead InJalL
Cohdele, July 18.—At Vienna yes-
to.day Sheriff Powoi! went to the jail to
release George Moon on an order from
Judge Fort, when to the sheriff's great
surprise he found the negro a corpse.
He was Indicted at the last term of
Dooly Superior Court for gambling and
had been oonflned In jail ever since.
Mr. Geo. W. Sheppard, one of the
eleverest citizens of Dooly oonnty, hu
leased the alliance warehouse here, and
will ran It to the but advantage possi
ble.
Foraker and Sherman.
New York, Jnly 21—A special to the
Sun from Cincinnati says that a break
has come between Senator Sherman and
ex-Governor Forakcr, and that Foraker
Is now an ppen candidate for senator. It
is stated that Sherman hu called a con
ference ot his friends to meet in Cincin
nati to-night, at which Foraker Is to be
invited to define his position.
What a Gentleman Who Knowe Him THns
of Him.
There wu a gentleman In Americus
yesterday—a well known Episcopalian—
who Is Intimately acquainted with Blab-
op-elect Ethelbert Talbot. A reporter
uked him what he knew of the gentle
man who hu been called to the bead of
the diocese of Georgia.
'I know a good deal about him,” re
plied the gentleman. “I know that he
a man of splendid ability; I know that
he It a man of wonderful resources, and
know that be is s man of remarkable
energy.”
“You think, then, he will fill tbe bill
If be decides to aecept the eali to Geor
glaf"
“I do indeed, I think he will be an ac
quisition to the state at large, u well as
to the Episcopal church of Georgia.”
“You know him personally?”
“Yes; and I am very much Impressed
by him. He is jost 42 years old, full of
energy, and In love with bis work.
He Is tall snd large—a commanding and
splendid p'hyslqae, and a very fine look
ing man. He Is a man of muct^ ability
and experience, and If he accepts I
think tbe people of Georgia will be
charmed with him.”
“And what do yon know about tbe
probability of hla acceptance?”
“That I don’t know anything about,
exoept that I think the foot that he has
not already deelined shows that he is fa
vorably debating the quutton of ac
cepting. He at leut hu not made up
bit mind to decline, whloh, of course, Is
favorable to that extent.” ,
Quay Is Undecided.
Rochester, Fa., Jnly 20.—Hon. M.
S. Quay made the following reply to a
telegram sent* him by the Associated
Press, concerning a report published
that he would resign as chairman of the
republican national committee at the
next meeting: qdgraSS-
-’it is probable, but not certain, that I
will resign the . chairmanship of tbe
executive committee on the 29th.”