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Quitman is bothered with burglars;
the pockets of Dr, J. T, Davis, H. Hubert,
and J. B. Creech were rifled last Sunday
night.
Dr. Daniel President of the Florida
State Board of Health has investigated
the report of yellow fever at Fernandina
and found it to be false.
A plot to blow up the Pope of Rome
with dynamite has been reported to his
Holiness and the Vatican is now kept
strongly guarded, ala Czar of Russia.
What a jolly thing it is to be a Pope or a
Czar.
A carload of Georgia peaches shipped
by J. F. Simons – Co., of Atlanta, sold
in Philadelphia last week for $900, net
cash. The peaches were carefully select
ed, packed in excelsior, and shipped in
refrigerator cars.
For the second time the bondsmen of
the sheriff of Dodge county have report
ed that officer dissipated and unreliable
and asked to be released from his bond.
It strange that enlightened people would
tolerate such an officer.
Mr. Orin A. Horae of Eufaula Ala. and
Mrs. A. R. Taylor of II iwkinsville Ga.
were married last week at the home of
the bride. The Schley County News
extends hearty congratulations and best
wishes.
To fill the judgeship made vacant by
the unfortunate death of Judge Clark,
the following candidates immediately
entered the race; Janies H. Guerry, of
Terrell county, W. C. Worrell of Ran
dolph county, and Mr. Powell of Early
county.
The Dooly County Vindicator, publish
ed at the county site, ought to know
what the people want, and it declares
that a very large majority are opposed
to the bill transferring Dooly from the
Oconee to the twenty-fourth judicial
circuit, and are protesting against it.
If Dooly doesn’t want it. who is it that
does?
There is a good deal of gush over the
“poor convict” just now. It may be
that the lessees resort to acts of cruelty,
if so they should be restrained, but if all
the hardship of prison life is to be re
moved and our prison camps made into
comfortable rusticating resorts, for law
breakers, we will have to place an extra
guard around them to keep the multi
tude out.
Georgia still looms up a nong the in
ventors; Five aopear in the roll of South
ern inventions sent us< this week from
the patent office. They are as follows.
J. 51. Brosius, Atlanta, Ga. Tobacco box.
W. P. Clark, Elberton. Ga., cotton
chopper. T. E. Golden, Columbus Ga.,
Shaft hanger. M. Littlefield, Valdosta,
Ga.. churn dasher. Geo. W. Simmons,
Conyers, Ga., cottonseed crusher.
Give liquor an inch and it will take an
ell. For years the politics of mostofour
great cities have been controlled by their
liquor dealers. Cincinnati is no excep
tion to the rule, and so bold and defiant
have grown her saloon keepers that they
met last Friday in mass meeting and
openly resolved to defy the law and keep
open their saloons on Sunday, The
mass-meeting, while resolving to keep
open, declared its purpose to bring to
punishment all who closed their front
doors and opened side and roar doors.
It was also resolved with some enthusi
asm that all who may be arrested shall
meet at Turner Hall and march in a pro
cession to the police court lea 1 by a baud
of music. Whither are we drifting?
The legislative committees are not
finding every thing about the Capitol
exactly as it should be. One of the
State's bonds for $1,000, turns up dupli
cated, and the public money has not
been handled as judiciously and econoui
ically as it might be. Democrats cannot
afford to let such things go uncorrected.
It was for extravagance, incompetency
and corruption that the abominable old
carpet-bag regime was kicked out and
the Democrats put in power, now if we
fail to keep our skirts clear, we are no
better than our predecessors, and the
people will soon be up and kicking again,
Let us keep our administration clean and
leave no room for independentism or
some other negro and white combination
to bob up and offer to correct our errors
A BOOMEHANG.
As much as the power and influence
of consolidated wealth and powerful cor
porations are to be dreaded and avoided,
there are some lines of industry that
make such corporations absolutely nec
essary, and railroading is one of them.
Instead of increasing the rates for freight
and passage, the history of railroads
show that better rates and increased fa
cilities generally follow the merging of
the little corporations into the larger
ones. If a company, after building a
railroad, should find it unprofitable to
operate, it would be a very great hard
ship to prohibit such company by law
from selling to some stronger corpora
tion, who could, by merging it into
some other system of roads make it prof
itable, such a law would not only be a
hardship on the weaker company, but
upon its patrons as well; for they would
thus be denied the better facilities that
a strong r corporation could give. No
more unjust would be a law prohibiting
money lenders from advancing to an
unfortunate farmer who finds it impos
sible to complete bis crop without secu
ring a loan by mortgage. A mortgage
is a calamity as much to be dreaded and
avoided as the influence of a monied
monopoly, yet like the other, it some
times becomes a necessity, and a law
prohibiting a man from making the
best of a necessity, is a bad law, and
just such a law would be the Olive bill
if passed.
The House in the present legislature
is practically under the control of the
farmers, who have a majority, and in
most cases they exercise their control
wisely—Recorder.
It is to be sincerely hoped that they
will get in some legislation that will
tend to lift from agriculture the cloud
of depression that has hovered over it
for the past quarter of a century.
When we see our best farmers strug
gling from one year’s end to another and
just about come out even at the end of
each year, and see their sons leaving the
farm as though it was a sinking ship.
There is something radically wrong some
where. The laws of supply and de
mand seems not to govern in the case of
agriculture, there is always a demand
about equal to the supply yet prices re
main less remunerative than almost any
other industry. Wealthy men used to
put their money in farms. They don’t
do it now.
Great complaint is made by the farm
ers of Georgia because the negro farm
laborers want to rest on Saturday.
How about the meinoers of the legisla
ture who lose Saturdays at least every
second week, and draw four dollars a
day for lost days?—Cuthbert Liberal.—
And how about convening at 10 o’clock
and putting in about an average of five
hours a day durjng the other five work
ing days and calling it a week's work?
W hen Schley county’s worthy represen
tative is at home he begins work at day
light and “knocks off” at dark, and if he
was ever seen to sit down during the
day, except at dinner, someone would un
doubtedly start on a run for the doctor,
thinking he Was terribly sick. How in
the world he manages to exist during
the many hours that the house is not in
session is a wonder to his constituency.
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Hawkinsville had a gay old game of
base ball last week between two local
nines, the Fats and Leans. The game
was what old Gris Gray would call “a
darned bully game, sir.” It stood 18 to
16 in favor of the Leans on the fifth in
ning. If they had played out the ninth
inning they might have scored upward
of 100 each. The Fats were: Col. G. W.
Jordon, John Partin, J. P. Watson,
Bood Lasseter, Frank Coney, Pleas Love
jov, Thomas Holder, L, B. Wilcox, W.
Oliver. The Leans were: E. J. Henry,
T. L Coruthers, Jack Reagan, M. John
son, John Joiner, A. Jake Pierce, R. G.
Lewis, D. G. Mccormick, Pat Caldwell.
Wesley Elkins, an Iowa boy 11 years
old. had a difficulty with his father last
Wednesday. That night, he slept in a
barn until nearly day, when he got up,
loaded an old gun kept in the kiiclien,
and creeping into his father’s bed room,
shot the old man dead. He then seized
a club and killed his mother with it.
The case is a sad one, but we cannot
help thinking that the unfortunate pa
rents reaped what they had sown. It is
hardly reasonable to suppose that a boy
would develope such infernal deviltry at
that age, if bis early training had been
in the proper direction.
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A wagon load of little boys while
crossing the railroad near the foundry
in Atlanta last Saturday night was run
over by a train. Two of the boys were
killed and others wounded. The Macon
Telegraph warns people to keep away
from railroad crossings when they go to
j Atlanta.
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SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
TWO RAILROADS COMING.
Each Racing Against The Other.
Savannah News 25th.
A gentleman from Montgomery coun
ty stated to a representative of the Morn
ing News yesterday that the Savannah,
Americus and iuontgomery railroad and
the Savannah and Western railway are
pushing the work on their respective
lines in that county. The Savannah.
Americus and Montgomery has about
300 men at work on the east bank of the
Ohoopee, and a part of the gang has
nearly reached the crossing at that riv
er.
The Savannah and Western is also
grading its line on the west bank of the
Ohoopee. The two lines paralel each
other for a considerable distance in Mont
gomery county u and then,branch off, one
n the direction of McRae and the other
toward Eastman. At one place the lines
come within six hundred feet of each
other. The gentleman said that he had
made particular inquiry as to what the
real state of affairs was. and he found
that the Savannah, Americus and Mont
gomery contractors were receiving plen
ty supplies for their hands from Savan
nah, and were in earnest with their work
They are working nearly thirty miles
this side of McRae.
The Central, or more properly the Sa
vannah and Western, people, the gentle
man said, has everything it wants, and
the activity of the contractors in licates
that they are working against time. He
said that there is an impression in Mont
gomery county that the Central would
“gobble up” Col. Hawkins’ line, but lie
saw no indications of it. If there were
any such intentions a great deal of mon
ey is being unnecessarily thrown a\tfay
by building parallel lines. If one could
judge by what he sees, the gentleman
said, he thought that both companies are
in earnest, and their lines will be com
pleted to Savannah before the end of the
year.
THE S, A. –M. AND CENTRAL R. R’S.
Have They Compromized?
The Mt. Vernon Monitor says: It seem
now to be a settled policy of the Sams to
grade their road from McRae to the
Canouchee and then rest on their oars
until Savannah comes to terms. If Sa
vanah does not want the road then there
is Sapelo that does. For our part we do
not know why Savannah can not be sur
rounded and left in the lurch if she does
not want the road $59,000. worth Sa
vannah is not on the coast and the river
might be struck below the city at a point
where we helped to build a fort during
the war called Fort Jackson. Or it
might be above or below that point.
There is no use for Savannah to swell up
and say any railroad shall not be built.
In the fight for supremacy in location
and right-of-way that lias been going on
in this county between the Sams and
Central, an armistice has been affected
and hostilities have cease for the present
at least, ibe troops have been with
dawn by the Sams from beyond Stirling,
and by the Centrals from this side of
Stirling, and no more double-tracking is
| now being done. It is said that a compro
mise has been affected by which the
Centrals are to build east of Stirling to Sa
vannah, and the Sams west, to Mc
Rae and the two roads occupy the same
track through this territory, whatever
be the nature of the arrangement the
forces have fallen back each way from
Stilling. A foice of at least i hundred
men v\ith baggage wagons, camp
equipage, etc., passed through here on
Tuesday on their return from beyond
Stirlmg, to resume work on the Sam
road just west of the Oconee river. We
learn that it is expected that all the grad
ing from McRae to the river two mile3
and a half from here, will be done with
in thirty days. In that event trains could
be running to the river by the middle or
last of September. The bridge across
the Oconee is a big job, and has not beeu
contracted yet, but it does really look as
though Mt. Vernon would be a railroad
town by cool weather. So mute it be!\
The business of the Eiffel tower is im
mense. M. Eiffel calculated that when
everything was in working order the
gate money would be $5,000 a day. Since
the lifts have been in operation, he is
thought to have averaged more than th is.
It costa franc to enter the tower, two
francs to get up in the lift to the second
floor, and four francs to the top. On
any one of these ordinary full price
days more than 20,000 people have paid
admission, and with the increased prices
for those using the elevator, the entire
receipts exceed $10,000. The original cost
of the Eiffel tower,all included, was a lit
tie less $1,000,000. The proprietor has to
keep it in repair and hand over one
-fourth of his gate money to the exhibi
tion. It in estimated that it will be half
paid for when the exibition closes, and
then it will remain certainly three years
more, and perhaps ten.
SNOW WHITE WINGS
On Which They Will Fly to Glory, and With
out Which They Are Lost.
There are quite a number of Atlanta
darkies who are preparing to leave this
mundane sphere on August 16th. in grand
style.
They propose to mount straight up to
heaven on that day upon a pair of Atlanta
made snow white wings.
Last week there was published in the
Journal a prediction made by one of the
numerous false Christs in the country, to
the effect that the world was corning to
an end on August I6th. The more igno
rant negroes have been very much exci
ted over the prediction, and have been
talking of little else since it was made.
Some sharp negro, whose name could
not be learned, lias been making money
out of these ignorant, superstitious peo
ple.
He has been going around to their
houses sell ing wings, on which lie guar
anteed the trip to glory could be safely
made.
His scheme is to show the darkies a
picture of the wings and collect 25 cents
from any one who wished a pair. He
would measure the applicant for celestial
blis3, take his name, and agree to deliver
the wings a week before the final day,
another quarter to be collected then.
He sold quite a number of the wings
over in the Second ward, and then he
tackled the Fourth ward, among the more
ignorant inhabitants of which, his wings
went like hot cakes.
“I wants none er your yarthly wings
to fly home ter my Jesus wid,” said an
old woman of the Fourth ward to the
schemer.
“De debbil udblow his breff at me an
swinge all de fedders off fore I get high
as de top er de house, den I’d come down
more samer dan a broke wing pidgeon.
No sab, gimme de wings or faith, wats
made wid prar, and den I know I’ll get
home all safe and soun.”
The schemer is a good talker, and has
studied his subject thoroughly.
He explains to the negroes among
whom he is working that the Lord had
commissioned him to save his chosen
ones among the blacks by providing them
with wings to escape the fires that will
destroy the world on the 16th.
The start for kingdom come will be made
he says from the top of the new capitol
when the legislature is not in session.
He uiges his patrons to be particular
how they fly and strike a bee line up
ward. He urges them to keep away
from the direction of Macon and Chatta
nooga, or else the devil will surely get
them.
He says the wings are made by a secret
process handed down to him from heaven
when he was in a trance.
He guarantees them to stand the heat of
the bumining sun that will arise on the
resurrection morn; he guarantees them
to be proof against the fires that will
swirl and swish around this old earth of
ours on the 16th. of August, and heguar
. antees them to stand the fiery breath of
. 0 } d g a tan when he flies hither and thither
through the air scooping the poor unfor
tunate darkies who are not provided
w ith win< r s
The wings are pure white, so that Satan
may not see the darkeys too easy when
they make the start for heaven.
One very ignorant old negro woman in
formed the reporter that she had paid
her quarter for a pair of wings, and
would have the other quarter ready
when wings were delivered.
She said the man who had taken the
order guaranteed that she would reach
a land of never ending summer days and
that she would spe adan eternity of bliss
in a place built of water melons and fres
coed with white white handkerchiefs
and palmetto fans, while through the
center of the palace gurgled a river of
red lemonade that flow outward and on
ward through the streets of pure gold,
and emptied into the sapphire sea.
The name of the schemer, as stated
above, could not be learned, but there
will doubtless be some very disappointed
darkeys who will be out just a quarter
when the resurrection morning fails to
come.—Atlanta Journal
Last Friday John Myers a Baltimore,
Md. carpenter was at work on a building
when a gasoline stove exploded within,
and tfie dwelling was threatened with
fire. He rushed into the house, grasp e
the stove, around which the flames were
leaping, and raising it to his shoulders,
ran out into the street.
Gasoline poured down his back and
arms and soon the fl im *s were burning
his flesh, but he clung to his fiery bur
den until he had conveyed it where it
could do no damage. When he had
dropped his burden the by-stauders ex
tinguished the flames.
His back and arms were literally roast
ed and the blood ran in streams from his
burned body. There is little hope of his
recovery. He was true grit and saved
the building but probably will lose his
own life.
The Swallow-Tailed Coat.
In many Northern cities, the members
of some of the lodges have adopted full
evening dress, and members are not con
sidered in good style unless they con
form to it. The following lines are
therefore both interesting and satirical:
Oh, for the old fashioned days of our sires,
When craftsmen were judged by their meas
ure of merit;
When worth superseded ambitious desires.
And Masons were Masons in letter and spirit.
In those days the clothing one wore to meet
ing
His standard of excellence did not denote,
And a brother was sure of a brotherly greet
ing.
Although not togged out in a swallow-tailed
coat.
Then the rich, and the poor, the mighty and
lowly.
All mat together with one common care;
To propitiate friendship their purpose was
wholly,
And to meet on the level and part on the
square,
Then the humble mechanic, without being
i nvited.
Could to visiting lodges his evenings devote,
And be cordially welcomed, and never be
slighted,
By some elderly dude in a swallow-tailed
coat.
And yet, after all, ’mongst those swallow-tail
ed brethren
Are some of the best that the craft ever
knew;
They consider the lodge a society gathering,
And merely conform to the prevalent view,
But others who come to the lodge thus attired,
Are striving their own selfish ends to pro
mote,
And think they were born to be praised and
admired
Because they have borrowed a swallow-tailed
coat.
There are hundreds of brethren in promiueat
station,
With hearts of pure gold and inteligence
rare,
That have S ot been accustomed to fashii n'j
dictation
Regarding the style of the clothes they
should wear.
And names have the pages of history bright
ened,
Of inoie than one soldier and statesman of
note.
Who, though battles they fought and the
world they enlightened.
Would feel out of place in a swallow-tailed
coat.
Then reserve evening dress for society rackets
Th.e wedding reception, or “Upper-ten” ball,
And let brotherly love, aiul true friendship to
back it,
Prevail in the lodge room among one and all,
Don’t be too high-toned; but, without hesita
tion,
To your humbler brother your talents de
vote;
Don’t recall to his mind his inferior station
By parading around in a swallow-tailed coaf,
A Chicago dispatch says Fred Dro
enke today mourns over the mangled
and lifeless bodies of his two sons The
two boys, botli of tender years, were pi ly
ing near the great Western tracks at Elm
hurst last evening. The younger strayed
upon the track as an incoming passenger
train came in sight. The elder brother
hurried to the rescue of the younger but
tripped, and the two were cut to pieces
under the wheels. Death was instanta
neous.
We are having some gay appointment
under this administration. The colored
brother who has been made post master
at Ocean Spring,Miss.,is suspected of not
being able to read. It is said on good
authority that the chances are even
when a letter is mailed in that office
whether it will go North or South,
when the mail is distributed the people
have to swap until each gets his own
letter—Macon Telegraph.
The Australian wattle, a plant po sens
ing an enormous amount oftanic acid,
is suggested as a substitute for oak bark
in tanning leather’ As our great oak
forests are passing away a substitute for
it is keenly felt by tanners. The soil and
< l'mate of Georgia, it is said would grow
the wattle profitably.
Princess Louise Victoria Alexandria
Dagtnar, eldest (laughter of the Prince of
Wales, was married last Saturday to Alex
William George, Earl of Fife, Saturday
still seems to he a good enough day
for negroes and prinees to marry.
A New York dispatch of July 31, says:
“John L. Sullivan was arrested here
this afternoon upon a requisition w,i:
rant, signed by Governor Hill, and taken
to police headquarters in a close carriage
to aw lit transfer to Mississippi,
An old family fued in Telfair county,
culminated at McRae last Saturday in
the killing of Wash Lancaster, and
wounding his son, Wright, by E. A. Mc
Rea. who himself received a stab from
a knife.
Randolph county has solved the high
er education problem by going to work,
establishing and maintaining male and
female colleges of her own at Cuthbert.
The race for Georgia’s coining gubna
torial honors is said to Vie between Du
Bignon, Northen, Livingston and Henry
L. Grady.