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FL DON McLEOD
Editor and Proprietor.
Our solons in Atlanta are hammering
away at a law to break up stealing seed
cotton.
Mr, J. E. Crook, an Atlanta dry goods
clerk, wound up a big spree on the fourth,
by committing suicide.
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Buffalo Bit 1 has captured the French
capital and one of his half-breed Indians
has captured and eloped with one of its
fair daughters of wealth and station.
English gjld has been ceeured and the
boring of a railroad tunnel under the
Hudson liver from Jersey city to New
York will soon begin.
I)r- M. S. Whitlock, recently convict,
ed of volentary man slaughter and sen
tenced to 10 years in the penetentiary has
been admitted t" bail, pending his mo
tion for a new trial.
To see the press of the country teem
ing with details of a slugging match and
ovations due to a victorious general ex
tended to such men as Sullivan and
Killrain, begins to look as if our boasted
civilizations was decidedly on the wane.
Instead of countenancing and encour
aging such brutality as is witnessed iu
prize rings, the press of the country
slum Id unite in discouraging, and creat
ing a healthy public sentiment against
this most degrading of all American
amusinents.
The acquital of McDow charged with
murdering Capt. Dawson created con
siderable indignation among the better
people of Charleston. The clergy of the
city passed some strong resolutions ex
pressive of their condemnation of the ju
ry and its verdict*
The Georgia legislature has gone to
work in earnest, grinding out new laws.
The House has passed a bill prohibiting
the selling of liquor to any person intox
icated at the time; and are considering
another, making it a misdemeanor for
a m inor to enter a place where liquor is
sold.
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If a Chinese wall as high as the moon
was built around the state of Georgia
her people could still live and flourish
and be happy. Every element of wealth,
health, and happiness lies within her
limits. All we have to do is todevelope
the n sources that nature has placed at
our t loors and be perfectly independent
of the balance of the world.
The day was, when Americas' boast
and pride washer men ,.f brain, States
manship, and oratory, but the day seems
rapidly approaching when muscle, brav
ado and fight is coming to the front.
The bull lights of Spain cannot possi
ble-be more demoralizing degrading and
brutalizing than the bully fights of A
merica.
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Anev.spapei 4 newsnmer is is ^emi-niy «renerallv ju. iust t what l .t
the people iu the community make it.
vi m, .i nnm .| v edited
XwJnte, s'ov lv minted and fffie.l J, with
cneap patent medic medicine neciUs cuts, it it fe is pretty pretty
fair to assume that it is published in a
dead, non progressive.community. Pat
ronage will encourage and stimulate a
lazy editor to improve and keep up his
paper, and lack of patronage will dis
hearten and relax the most energetic
newspaper man that ever lived, There
is no such thing as failure when the peo
ple want a paper and will encourage it.
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That unfortunate fatality—to kill "or
be killed—which is said to have followed
tlie Alston family for several generations
seems not. to have departed. It was
heart’s desire of Col. Robert Alston,
Atlanta, a high toned honorable gentle
man, to escape it. He did every
that a man of courage and pride could
to avoid a difficulty with his slayer.
Robert Cox, but was hounded to the very
sanctuary of the Hate Capitol and mur
dered. Now it is announced that Dan
Alston, his only living son, while on a
spree, * last week, struck and killed Alex.
\\ nsoii , with a beer bottle, at ,, Lithoma. , .
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A gentlemen who has tried it vouches
for this story. Taking a gallon jug of
whiskey be passed a string through its
cork, which cord dropped to ihe bottom
of the jug. The twine was then intro
duced into a watermelon vine, by slitting
the vine, and the vine permitted to pro
duce only two melons. When the mel*
ons matured, they were served at a pri
vate barbecue to six gentlemen. The ef
fect was astonishing. The gallon of whis
key got in its work. Not a drop' of the
liquor remained in the jug when tlie
melons were ripe.—S miter Republican,
TO FAIL world) I1E RUINOUS
The farmers alliance of Schley we are
glad to learn are standing squarely up
to their brethren elsewhere in the fight
against the jute trust. It being a secret
organization we do not know enough of
the alliance to say whether or not we
would be a member even if we were
farming, but we do know that it is the
only organized opposition to one of the
most stupendous consolidations of cap
ital to impose an unjust levy upon Ihe
labor of the South that was ever wit
nessed in America, and the alliance
should be sustained. If the consolidated
capital should win in this fight, even by
a compromise, it would be ruinous to the
farming interest of the South for more
than a generation to come; labor would
be weakened, humiliated and discour
aged, capital would be strengthened, en
couraged and become more arrogant than
before; the unjust demand made at the
first would sooner or later he enforced,
and there is no telling where it would
end. Therefore every farmer, whether
in sympathy with the alliance in oth
er matters or not, every business man, ev
ery good citizen should assist and en
courage the alliance men in this simple
defense of the fruits of their labor. It
may be money out of the pockets of
some of us now but never was money
lost in a more worthy cause, and should
the farmers win which they certainly
will if we all assist them, it would re
tain in the pockets of the southern farm
er millions of liis hard earned dollars
and the result would be beneficial to all
To show i: the arrogance of the jute gam.
biers and fli nsineis of their claims, we
quote the following from the National
Economist.
“The cotton planters of America, rep
resented by delegates from their organ
izations, met in the city of Birmingham,
Ala., on the 15th ultimo, and after care
fully discussing the advantages and dis
advantages of substituting cotton for
jute as the substance from which the
wrapping for bales of cotton is to be man
ufactured, they decided by a unanimous
vote m favor of the adoption of such sub
stitute for a permanent covering. and as
a consequence they liave gone to to work
in earnest, to inaugurate the use of the
substitute.
It is probable that the press of the coun
try will now teem with arguments repre
senting all sides and views of this ques
tion; and should the deeission made at
Birmingham prove to liave been wisely
made and capable of standing the test of
the most thorough analysis’ it will soon
be so demonstrated. But it will not do
f or partisans on the subject to introduce
the argument by saying that the “farmers
are a lot of fools; “that the profits on
jute bagging will be completely lost by
by the substitution of cotton; “that it
will entail a great loss to wrap with cot
ton;” “that a sufficient amount of the
cotton substitute cannot be obtained;’
•that , t , he? e is . an actuai , profit „ the , jute .
on
to tho Pointer, or “ tbat i ute
i 8 the better material for the purpose,
aml , adozin .Wen more m re lnckneved ha kii< assertions tions
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“ simply expre8B the 8entiraents of
th08G P f ienting t !‘ em * /'“^farmers
ftt liinllin „. hain llrt d a full and free con
feren ce with the cotton-mills of the south
T1 ;lls0 toThe v fair Jen, f u u a nd imnartial
faring jute and received
pmpo8 itions from them based upon 1 the
cash deal , ver offl , mi jn ^
country. They went to work like busi
ness men in a business way. They had
written contracts and propositions as to
supply and price from both the cotton
and the jute manufacturers, and taking
such data as that and equally accurate
information on the subjects of freights,
tare, durability, inilainability, insurance,
and desirability of the two substances,
they applied the whole mass of evidence
to the stern arbitration of cold mathe
matical demonstration. Nothing could
he more systematic-nothing could be
more certainly correct than condusions
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| Liverpool, being the greatest cotton
| market in the world, practically controls
! ihe cotton markets of tlie world. There
1 the cotton from .. all „ ihe . producing ,
! cotton
countries meet in competition. Ameri
can prices represent just as low a price
as the Liverpool market will justify; and
whenever American buyers offer only a
fraction lower than the shipper can real
ize Lv sending liis cotton to Liverpool he
will ship it there. American prices must.
I therefore, represent the Liverpool price
less the cost of all expenses that attach
to shipping and selling in that market.
These expenses can be estimated with
great accuracy, and in whichever mar
ket the seller can realize tlie most net
money there lie will sell. This operates
to keep the markets practically equal.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
In shipping to Liverpool there is freight
to be paid, also insurance, commisions,
and a tare for bagging, ties, and dirt.
These all attach as expenses, and are de
ducted from the gross proceeds to give
the net or American price. The tare for
bagging and ties is variously estimated;
some claim that they take off the bagging
and ties and weigh the net cotton; others
that the ties are taken off and weighed
actual, and that the bagging is estimated
at 16 pounds and dirt four pounds, others
that they take a tare of 6 per cent., or
about an average of 30 pounds per bale.
The latter system is probably almost the
universal custom, and for the purpose of
this examination the tare will be calcu
lated at 30 pounds per bale, as is the cus
tom in estimating American quotations.
The ties actually weigh about 10 pounds,
and as we have seen the bagging aver
ages 101 pounds, the allowance of the 4
pounds claimed for dirt brings the total
up to 241 and leaves the balance of 54
pounds to represent loose cotton that
sticks to the rough bagging when it is
removed. Of course that is entirely too
much, as probably not over a pound or
two does actually stick to the bagging,
but it is very troublesome in that partic
ular. Since, then, a tare representing
the full amount of the weight of the bag
ging and ties and about 1 per cent, of the
cotton is deducted in the Liverpool mar
ket, and since the Liverpool market fixes
and regulates the quotations of all other
markets, American as well as foreign,
let no man be deceived by the assertions
of superficial reasoners who claim that
no tare is taken on the American market,
The tare is allowed for in the quotations
of prices, and, therefore, is never avoid
ed by a single bale. And since it repre
sents all the bagging and ties and 1 per
cent of the cotton, there is exactly that
much absolute loss that must lie charged
to the expense account. To illustrate,
suppose a bale of cotton sold weighing
5204 pounds; at 8 cents pm' pound there
are 500 pounds of cotton bringing $40.00,
and 204 pounds of baggins and ties bring
ing .$1.64, making a total of $41.64. It
would seem that the bagging and ties,
which cost probably 90 cents, had been
sold for 74 cents profit, but it should be
remembered that 8 cents as the price? is
based on the English tare, and without
that would be 30 pounds, at 8 cents, more
on the bale, or $2.40, being about 84
cents per pound. Now what is the dif
ference between paying the 84 cents and
denoting the tare, or paying 8 cents and
pretending not to?
LET US PULL TOGETHER.
When the Tallahasseean made its first
appearance on the streets of Florida’s
capital, nine years ago, its best friends
had little hope of its success. The field
was occupied by other journals, and
crowded. Its editor and proprietor was
younger, had less capital and experience
than either of his competitors. Failure
was predicted on all sides, but the
ple liked the paper and desired its success;
instead of withholding their patronage
tosee whether cr not it would be a fail
ure> they began at once to patronize it,
and the result has been a success far ex
ceeding its most sanguine expectations.
The same style of newspaper, gotten up
by the same editor and proprietor, is of
fered to the people of Schley to-day. If
they were to wait six months or a year to
see what it was going to do before pat
ronizincr ” !m it win- *’ ii 1 eo-ffil oa do '° hut but one one
thing, and that would be to fail. Such
delay would be like with-holding the
mi lk from a new born babe until it could
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this fact, and are going to sustain the
News from the start. Not a single sub
scription was solicited until our first is
sue appeared. Since then, subscriptions
have come pouring in without further
solicilation and we feel very much en
couraged thus far. Schley is a small
county, many of her farmers are already
taking several papers, and in money
matters, this is the very closest season of
the year with farmers, but we have put
our subscription down to a minimum
and if all will give us their support we
will guarantee to make the News a per
manent fixture> and keep it up as newsy
and readaWe as Qur lnnited abllit can
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make it.
A littletbree-vear-old child of Section
Boss C. H. Maitland was playing on the
track, uiiKnowu to its mother, atCohut
ta, a station on the East Tennessee, Vir
ginia and Georgia railroad, when freight
train No. 28 approached. The engineer
saw tlie child, and realizing its imminent
danger, reversed his machine and did all
in liis power to stop the train. But the
great wheels did not cease their revolu
tions until the little toddler had been
cruelly crushed beneath the ponderous
weight of the engine, producing almost
instant death.
At the small price of $1. a year every
citizen of Schley can alTordto read the
News.
GEORGIA’S NEW CAPITOL
Georgia’s magnifficant new capitol
building was turned over to the State, by
the builders, on the 4th, with imposing
ceremonies, In his address Governor
Gordon said:
Gentlemen of the Capitol Commission
ers : In the presence of the general as
sembly and in ’oehalf of the state, I accept
from you, Georgia’s new and superb
capitol. In the fashion of its architecture,
in the symmetry of its proportions, in
the solidity of its structure, in the beauty
of its elaboration and completeness of its
arrangement, it is worthy the dignity and
character of this great commonwealth,
In all regards this new home of the state
is my lawful and emphatic warrant for
congratulations to the legislature that au
thorized; to the architects who designed
it; to the contractors who built it; to the
commissioners who supervised it, and to
the people who own it. I congratulate
you, also, senators and representatives of
the present assembly, because it is your
high privilege to celebrate, and its ded
ication to wise and patriotic legislation.
I congratulate the state because in these
her assembled sous she has representa
tives worthy of this distinguished honor
and capable of drawing from these auspi
cious surroundings renewed inspirations
for the momentous duties before them.
I c<>ngiatulate the commissioners’ . be
cause through patient investigation, un
tiring energy, wise provision conserva
tive expenditure, they have achieved tlie
almost unprecedented success of comple
ting a great public work within the orig
inal appropriation. Above all else I con
gratulate the people because the whole
enterprise is clean, creditable and^above
suspicion. From the first bill passed by
ihe legislature to the expenditure of the
last dollar by the commissioners there
lias been neither jobbery nor thought of
corruption. From granate base to iron
dome, every chisled block and moulded
brick, every metalic plate and marble
slab is as free from official pollution as
when they lay untouched by mortal hand
in original purity in the bosom of mother
earth. Every stroke of hammer, of
trowel or brush is a record of labor lion
estly expended and justly rewarded.
Built upon tlie crowning hill ot her cap
ital city, whose transformation from des
olation and ashes to life, thrift and beau
ty, so aptly symbolizes the state’s resur
rection, this proud structure will stand
through the coming centuries a fit me
morial to the indomitable wiil and recu
perative energies of this people and of
the unswerving fidelity and incorrupti
ble integrity of their chosen representa
tives.
SUCH, ENCOURAGES LYNCU-LAW.
The technicalities and loop-holes in le
gal proceedings, making the conviction
of criminals so slow, expensive, and un
certain is rapidly causing the people to
lose confidence in legal redress and res
pect for the dignity of courts of justice,
The result is counter violation and disre
gard of law. Lynching.-! are growing
more and more frequent, and mob law
is taking the place of legal proceedings,
A Macon special to The Atlanta Jour
nal says that though Woolfolk has been
found guilty of murder and is under
sentence to hang August 16th next, the
end of the trial is not yet.
The fifth trial is over. Tlie sixth is
pending, for if a new trial is not granted
by Judge Gustin, Captain Rutherford
will carry the case to the supreme court.
It is further stated that should the
ruling of the state supreme court be ad
verse to Woolfolk, the case will go to the
United States supreme court.
Bibb county is thoroughly tired of the
case. It has already cost thousands up
on thousands of dollars, and they do not
see when it will it end.
Tliis feeling is so pronounced that it is
reported that the county commistioners
of Bibb seriously contemplate calling an
indignation meeting against the costs in
the case.
Postponed to Noxt Thursday.
The Board of Trustees for the Ellaville
High School met Tuesday morning to
elect teachers, but no applictions being
presented the board adjourned. As so
much depends upon the selection of a
principal we hope the board will unite
on a good man for this important po
sition,Ellaville lias a good building and
children enough to make up a good
school and if the Trustees will ignore
personal preference, prejudice and all
feeling in the matter, come right down
to business and select a principal for his
fitness and educational qualifications
there is no reason why we should not
have the best school of its grade in the
state, there are several weeks yet in
which to make the appointment and
we hope that the Trustees within that
time, may find such a principal as is
needed and all unite on him. They are
all of too much intelligence to be
lieve that a selection can be mad** with
out concessions being made, and too
much patriotism to quible and delay to
the detriment of the school’s interest.
WASHINGTON LETTER
From our Regular Correspondent.!
Washington, D, C. July, 5th, 1899
Harrison .
and nearly everv promi
ly nent member the chagrin of his administration, seekers-’ great'
to of the office
celebrated the “Glorious Fourth” by take
ing a short vacation. Tire President a Ji
Secretaries Noble and Tracv went
Woodstock, Conn., and are not ex Jet J ,
to return before Monday Secret y
Blaine weut to Bar Harbour and the d t
of his return is doubtful;Secretary PostmasT Pr
tor went to Vermont, and *
Genet al Wannamaker, to Philadelnl
The repu blican leaders seem to u'
quite a scare on about the coming ele ' -
tions in the four new states Senat Jin
Allison, Chandler, and Cullom have s ’ JV
the week in consultation with the out'"
guns” of their party in figurim- '
programme that would give them all Sen" ti
members of the House as well as the rJ
ators from those states. They are to
main here untill next week so as to get
Senator Quays opinion. Democrats who
are well informed believe that the party
is almost certain to carry Montana, and
that it has a good fighting chance for one
of the Dakota’s.
The republicans have, it is said, decided
upon an extra session of Congress to be
called about November first. They wan
ted it October instead of November, but
owing to their very slim majority in the
House they concluded to take no chances
but to wait for reinforcements form the
new states
Before leaving Washington the Presi
dent made a large hatch of appointments
mostly diplomatic and consular. One of
them Eugene Schuyler, of New York to
bo Consul-general at Cairo, Egypt—has
caused a great deal of talk, and when the
Senate meets it will cause much more,
and it would not be at all Surprising if
his nomination should be rejected. Mr,
Schuyler is a warm friend of Secretary
Blaine by whom lie was selected to be
First Assistant Secretary of State in the
early days of the admiistration but when
his name went to the Senate, then inses
sion, it was soon apparent to the friends
of the administration that it would be re
jected if voted upon. As soon as Mr.
Harrison was made acquainted with the
state affairs he withdrew the nomination
cabled request of Schuyler; Schuyler was
in Europe, where he spends the greater
porton of his time, but his friends availed
themselves of the cable to keep him post
ed. The enmity to Schuyler is on account
of a book he published some years ago
called” American Diplomacy” in which he
ridiculed the Senate to such an extent as
to gain him the ill will of many Senators.
The White House looks almost de
serted. Mrs. Harrison, her father and
the McKee children having gone to Deer
Park’ Maryland, and the office seekers to
the Lord only knows where.
Sir Julian Paunceforte the British Min
ister was asked to accompany the Presi
dntial party to the Fourth of July cele
bration at Woodstock, Connecticut, and
a rumor was generally circulated that he
was going but as a matter of fact he de
clined the invitation. Ho didn't think
it just the proper sort of an entertainment
for a Britisher’
That big discharge of democrats that
was expected to take place at the Gov
ernment Printing office July, 1, did not
materialize, Printer Palmer seems to
have adopted Mr, Harrison’s tactics, and
is taking his own time in making
changes.
Secretary Noble may, or may not have
been affected by the charge recently made
in the news papers against Pension Com.
missioner Tanner of allowing favoritism
to be shown in the taking up of applica
tions for Pensions. At any rate he has
sent the Commissioner the following: At
tent ion is required to the follow ngregu
lations appliable to the bureau of pensions
Order No. 108, January 23, 1885-0w
j n g to the pressure brought to bear from
all quarters to take cases out of the reg
u i ar order, and as at this late bate pover
ty and hardship from further delay can
be alleged of almost every applicant a
lilce, therefore cases will be taken out of
their order only when such causes there
for is shown to the Commissioner in wri
ting as would satisfy the other worthy
claimants whose claims precede it should
they know the facts, that such action is
proper Hereafter no case will be advanc
ed that is not clearly within this rule. It
is hereby further ordered that this rule
be extended so as to embrace cases only
where the applicant is in very great dcs
itution or at the point of death. This
regulation will not only be strictly enforc
but attorneys, agent or others persisting
in applications contrary to its language
and spirit will lie disbarred from prac
tice before the department. \ r ou will
have this made public
A friend of Secretary Blaine tells me
that there would be no more consular
appointments is made before fall. If this
true there is disappoinment in store
for lots of folks. Schley.
hundreds Copies of the News are sent out to
it that are not subscribers; read
and it you like it and think it ought to
he sustained, send us a dollar and relieve
for a year.