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4. rftktj A 4^ j® cart PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. Subscription $1.00 A Year in ADVANCE. R. DON. McLEOD Editor. ?£diitaric–t 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. •O* 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. ----—----- 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. i 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.