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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1899)
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS. DEMOTED TO GIVING THE NEWS, ENCOURAGING THE PROGRESS AND AIDING THE PROSPERITY OP SCHLEY COUNTY* R. E. ELLIOTT. Editor and Business Manager. SCHLEY COUNTY. A Feir Words About One of the Finest Counties In Georgia. Schley county is composed of terri tory cut off from Sumter, Marion and Macon counties. It was organized in 1859 and named for one of tlie old colonial governors of Georgia—Gov ernor Schley. Its location is southwest-central. Area, 180 square miles. General fea tures, hilly, interspersed with level plateau. The soil is very fertile all over the county, but varies in color, some places being red clay, some dark brown, very sticky in wet weather, some pebbly aud some sandy, under laid with clay subsoil. Cotton, corn, sugar-cane, oats, peas, potatoes, pumpkins, melons, rice, wheat, rye, barley, peanuts and chufas, peaches, pears, prunes, pomegranates, plums, apples, apricots, quinces, cher ries, grapes, mulberries, strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, beets, cab bage, cucumbers, squashes, tomatoes, turnips and other Held, orchard and garden products grow here to perfec tion. Fruit culture is claiming the atten tion of many of our most progressive farmers. Thousands of young trees have been put out and this is sure to be one of the most important indus tries of Schley county. The waste places in old field and forest abound in wild fruits. Besides the native crab, crowfoot and other grasses, many of the best varieties of imported grasses do well here, especially Bermuda, herds blue and orchard grass. The no fence law prevails in the county, yet stock raising is rapidly be coming one of the leading industries of the county; some of the finest horses in the south are raised here, and the rich golden butter and sweet country hams that are daily brought to market by the farmers of Schley, could not be beaten anywhere. Cotton is the money crop of the county, but happily the (Uy is past and forever gone when the people of Schley de pended on other sections for their meat and bread. Nearly every farmer in the county makes plenty of corn and bacon for home consumption and many of them make a surplus to sell. No particular attention is given to poultry raising, yet the people have all they want for home use and help to supply other markets with chickens and eggs. The health of the county is excel lent, the average elevation being near two thousand feet above sea level and , drainage is generally good. An epi demic of any diseases was nevei known here. The farming people of Schley are intelligent, cultivated and refined as any agricultural people in the world. The county is dotted with school houses and churches. tf City and County Directory. MUNICIPAL. Mayor—E. L. Bridges. B. Aldermen—Dr. ,T. N. Cheney, J. Williamson, R. M. Murphy, P. C. Livingston, J. F. Stewart. Treasurer—Claude Dixon. Recorder—J. H. Cheney. CHURCHES. Baptist—Rev. N. R. Sanborn, Pas tor. Services first Sunday in each month. Sunday-school at 10 o’clock a. m. every Sabbath. Prayer meeting every Tuesday night. Methodist—Rev. T. R. McMichael pastor. Services every second and fourth Sunday. Sunday School at 10 o’clock a. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday night. FRATERNAL ORDERS. Washington Lodge No. 359, F. – A. M.—Meets second Thursday in each month. COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary—P. E. Taylor. Clerk Superior Court—J. M. Mur ray. Sheriff—William Allen. Tax Collector—C. H. Wall. Tax Receiver—J. H. Holloway. Treasurer—P. F. Dixom Surveyor—M. D. Herring. Coroner—F. B. Teel. Board of Education—E. L. Bridges, R. M. Rainey, R. A. Wiggins, L. W. Dixon, E. T. Lightner. School Commissioner—J. M. Col lum. County Commissioners—W. D. Mur ray, A. M. Caskey, T. Y. Bridges, V. H, Tondea, G. T. Walker. GA.. THURSDAY. MARCH 2, 1899. CUBAN LEADER IS GIVEN A IlOUS ING OVATION. THOUSANDS WERE AWAITING HIM March Into the City Was One of Great Triumph—Gen. Ludlow and Troops Acted us Escort. General Maximo Gomez, the Cuban commander-in-chief, entered Havana Friday afternoon, escorted by General Ludlow and his staff and troop L, of the Seventh United States cavalry. He marched at the head of 2,000 armed Cuban horsemen and footmen. The population of the city was wild with enthusiasm, throwing themselves in front of the general’s horse, imped ing its progress and pelting him with flowers. General Gomez arrived on the edge of the town from Marianao at 12:30 p. m., and escorted by the Second Illi nois band and three battalions. These battalions then returned to their camp and did not enter the city. The festivities were in honor of the fourth anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban struggle for independence aud were most spontaneous and wild ly enthusiastic. Havana had never seen anything like it before. The w r hole town was decorated and the streets were packed with a crow'd twice as large as that which turned out at the Garcia funeral. At half past 12 o’clock in the after noon General Gomez left Cerro, the suburb from which the march w'as to be made, with a procession in the fol lowing order of formation: The band of the Seventh mounted, playing the Cuban hymn aud national airs; company L, of the Seventh United States cavalry; Gen eral Gomez with Major General Lud low on his right, the staffs of General Gomez and General Ludlow riding side by side, General Rodriguez and staff; then a great number of Cuban generals and officers, some mounted and some in carriages, and finally 2,000 Cuban cavalry and infantry. As General Gomez passed the crowds w r ent wild with vivas, hats were Hung in the air and women show§red flow ers from all sides. General Gomez bowed incessantly as the crowds strug gled nearer his horse. The procession stopped frequently, eventually filing into the main streets of the city, passing Central park and arriving at the palace at 2:30 o’clock. The Frado and other avenues w'ere lined with patriotic clubs, taking up various positions of vantage and then joining the procession as it passed on from the palace, from a balcony of which it was reviewed by General Go mez. Welcomed at the I’alace. Once at the palace the Cuban com mander-in-chief was welcomed by Senor Federico Mora, the civil gover nor; Mayor Perfecto la Coste, the members of the city council, the Junta Patriotica, the members of the assem bly, the officials of all classes and numerous patriotic clubs. The palace w r as beautifully decorated and all pre vious efforts in the display of banners the and bunting was surpassed by almost endless showing of silk em broidered standards and flags, hund reds of w hich were carried by Havana’s daughters. Three Flags United. A handsome carriage containing ladies aud decorated with large Span ish, American and Cuban flags draped together with white ribbons and bear ing the legend, “Unity, Peace and Concord,” was vociferously cheered. Still another float represented a Cuban woman holding an American flag, with the shattered crown of Spain at her feet. No fewer than 25,000 people w'ere in line, requiring three hours to pass a given point. After the review at the palace Gen eral Gomez, accompanied by bis staff, proceeded to El Vedado to visit Gen eral Brooke. In tl 2 evening he at tended the charity ball at the Tacon theather, where the best Havana soci ety was present. After the ball General Gomez went to Quinta de Molinas, the former resi dence of the Spanish captain general, where he will reside with his staff es cort CONSTABLE SHOOTS WOMAN. Rullet Was Intended For Her Husband. South Carolina Trairedy. • A Columbia, S. C., dispatch says: Four state constables charged with enforcement of the dispensary law went at (5 o’clock Saturday evening to the residence of John Stuart, a well known citizen and a clerk in one of the largest mercantile establishments in the city, for the purpose of search ing it to see if there was any whisky in the house. They went with a search warrant, but were met at the door by Mrs. Stuart. She sent for her husbaud who, on arriving, indignantly refused to permit the search. The constables stated that they had been informed that he had been selling whisky con trary to the law' and were determined to make the search. Words follow'ed and finally upon Stuart cursing Constable Crawford, the latter slapped him. Stuart ran into his house. His w r ife had come out on the piazza. From the doorway Stuart opened fire on the constables. Crawford returned it and shot Mrs. Stuart just below the heart. The woman was dangerously wounded, but not killed. Stuart was also badly shot in the mouth, his tongue being nearly severed. In the fusilade that followed Constable Crawford was shot through the left wrist. The sheriff and several policemen arrested the constables and carried them to a magistrate’s office. The news of the shooting spread all over the city and«soon 400 or 500 infuriated men were in front of the office making a big demonstration. The constables were kept prisoners in the magistrate’s office all night guarded by the sheriff and his deputies. companies The two local military were ordered out to keep the crt)wd pressed back. GOMEZ CONFERS WITH BROOKE. Conference Was a Lengthy One, But Se crecy Was Maintained. A special from Havana says: Gen eral Maximo Gomez, accompanied by tw T o aids de camp, called on General Brooke at his residence at Vedado at 10 o’clock Saturday morning. He was received by the governor general, General Chaffee, the chief of staff, Major Kennon and Captain Page. Gomez requested a private interview with General Brooke, and the others, with the exception of an aid de camp for Gomez and Major Kennon for General Brooke, withdrew. The con ference lasted an hour and a half. Gomez said nothing to indicate that he does not adhere to the agreement ar rived at with Mr. Robert P. Porter, for the payment' and disarmanent of the Cuban troops. But he submitted some considerations verbally to Gen eral Brooke. Their nature was not disclosed. The interview terminated with the understanding that Gomez is to put the substance of what he said in writing. CABLE PROVIDED FOR. The Senate Committee On Appropriations Includes It In a Kill. The senate committee on appropria tions Saturday agreed to incorporate a provision in the sundry civil appro priation bill providing for the con struction of a submarine cable connec ting the United States with the Haw aiian islands. The amendment provides for the laying of the cable by the United states aud for its subsequent owner ship by the government, the navy de partment to perform, the service, and the cable 6y when completed to be opera ted the postoffice department. The original proposition providing for the extension of the cable to the Phil ippine islands w r as stricken out be cause of the uncertainty of the ten ure of the United States in the last named islands. IDENTIFIED JESSE JAMES. Passenger Says He Was the Man Who Helped to Rob Train. The most positive identification of Jesse James as one of the Leeds train robbers was made in the courtroom at Kansas City Saturday by William J. Smith, of Stokesboro, Mo., whtr was a passenger on the Missouri Pacific train the night it was held up. Smith testified that he got out when the train stopped and walked up among the robbers. He pointed out Jesse James as the man who placed a gun against his breast and ordered him back into the car. REQUESTS DEPARTMENT TO SEND OREGON AT ONCE. WASHINGTON OFFICIALS GUESSING. Admiral Says He Wants tlio Battleship For “Political Reasons."-—His Re quest Promptly Granted. A Washington special says: Friday morning the navy department received the following message from Admiral Dewey: Manila, February 24.—For political reasons the Oregon should be sent here at once. Yorktown arrived. Charleston and Petrel cruising around the Philippine islands. Affairs more quiet. Dewey. This cablegram has aroused the query indicated and now everybody is asking the question because of the re quest that the Oregon be sent him at once. It is not so much the request for the battleship, however, as the fact that the request is based on political con siderations that has started all the talk and speculation. Nobody pre tends to know just what possibilities Dewey sees, but in Washington the general opinion is that he regards it possible that European governments may yet meddle in affairs in the Phil ippines. The fact that the incendiary fires in Manila may have destroyed property of foreign residents leads to the belief that some of these foreigners, presum ably the Germans, have requested the intervention of their governments and that Dewey proposes to be prepared for any turn which international com jjlications may bring him. The cablegram was received with snprise by the officials. No one knew, or at least would admit that he knew, the nature of the political reasons why the admiral should demand the imme diate presence of the battleship. The cablegram was taken before the cabi net and fully discussed. The admiral, it is said, probably feels that the moral effect of the pres ence of the big ship upon the insur gents themselves, and particularly upon that large element among the Filipinos that is believed to be re strained with much difficulty from joining fortunes with Aguinaldo, with whom their sympathies lie, would be good. But there is an underlying doubt whether or not the admiral may not be keenly sighting a gathering cloud in the east and is looking to the preven tion of any possible intervention or interference by the European powers by the struggle now in progress in the neighborhood of Manila. « It is believed that in the big fire 3 a night or two ago much property of foreign residents and business con cerns was destroyed. That these fires were caused by the insurgents cannot be denied, and it may be that some of the foreign navel commanders in the east are disposed to seize upon the pretext that their interests demand protection, which we cannot afford them, to make a larfding or do some thing obnoxious to the United States and likely to encourage the insurgents. With such a strong naval force as would be afforded y by the reinforce ment of Dewey’s fleet by the Oregon there could not be any sound reason, nor even a plausible reason, for any such action on the part of third par ties. Secretary Long, when asked for an explanation of the reference to politi cal reasons in the dispatch, says: “I am sure that it has no international significance. You may state that pos itively. Probably he wants a fine ship there, as the American commissioners are about due, and it will give w'eight to the American representatives.” The Oregon arrived at Honolulu on the 5th * instant, according to the telegraphic report. Allowing for de tention on account of coaling at Guam or some other point between Honolulu apd Manila, it is estimated that the big battleship will reach Manila about the 10th of March. OUR ADVERTISING RATES ARE EXTREMELY LOW, AND ARE A GREAT INDUCEMENT FOR BUSI NESS MEN TO PATRONIZE OUR COL UMNS. TRY US. VOL. IX. NO. 9. ATTEMPTED TO BREAK THROUGH Filipino Uetwlt Taught Another Whole Koine Lennon By Our Troops. A Manila special says: With day light Thursday morning the enemy commenced worrying taotics at various parts of the American line, apparently for the purpose of withdrawing atten tion from affairs inside the city. “An attempt was made to rush through our extreme left near Caloo can, but it w r as promptly checked by a hot and effective musketry and artil lery fire. In the meantime small bodies of rebels, evidently some of those en gaged Wednesday night in the cow ardly work at Tondo, spread out be tween the city aud the outposts. Every available man was sent to drive them away with the i'esult that there was desultory firing all the morning. From 8 to 10:30 a.m. the United States double-turreted monitor Mon adnock joined in the engagement, hurling 10-inch Bhells over the Amer ican lines into the bodies of the enemy, as indicated by the signal corps. “So far our casualties are two men killed and ten wounded. At 11 o’clock there were sharp en gagements at the Chinese cemetery and at San Pedro Macati almost simul taneously, but the artillery fire from both positions drove the enemy back. From the high towers of the city fires could be seen burning at different points outside. Some of these Avere probably due to the Monadnock’s Bhells. Scores of rebels have beeu arrested in the Tondo district. A band of sixty rebels having ,two carloads of arms and accoutrements was captured in a house. Business is temporarily suspended. Major General Otis issued a geueral order Thnrsdej directing all the in habitants of Manila, until otherwise ordered, to confine themselves to their houses after 7 o’clock in the evening, when the streets will be cleared by the police. The general also warns in cendiaries and suspects that they will be severfely dealt with if discovered in any locality. Extraordinary precautions have been taken for the suppression of further trouble which is threatened to take place in the city then. But it is gen erally believed that Wednesday night’s experience will effectively quell the disturbing element. Sharpshooters at various paits of the line are very annoying, but otherwise there has been no further excitement since the frustration of the morning’s attack. COMPROMISE ON ARMY BILL. Democratic Plan Is Accepted and Extra Session of Congress Eliminated. A Washington dispatch says: The administration and its representatives in congress have reached an agreement with the minority in congress respect ing the army re-organization bill, which is believed will be satisfactory to all interests. t . There is a mutual understanding that the new army shall not number to exceed 97,000 men, as provided in the Cockrell bill, and that the staff provisions of the HuII-Hawley bill shall be retained in substantially the same form as reported from the milita ry committee. Of the troops author ized, 35,000 are to be raised subject to the discretion of the president and may be natives of the new possessions, or otherwise, as he may determine. “AND DON’T YOU FORGET*IT,” Was tlie Significant Response of Consul Osborne at Apia. Mail advices from Samoa, via Sid ney, show that, after the scene ip the Apia courthouse, when the British and American consuls showed they *were stronger than Germany, three cheers were given for the United States con sul for standing by British. Consul Maxse. In response Consul Osborne said that it was his duty to stand by the chief justice and his decision in the king case and he would do so. It was true that he had no man-of-war in Apia harbor to call to his assistance, but there were plentytof United States men-of-war in the background, “antf don’t you forget it,” he added. GEORGIAN VICE PRESIDENT. National Educational Association Elects State Superintendent Glenn. G. R. Glenn, superiUtSfident of schools of the state of Georgia,•' was chosen first vice president of the Na tional Educational association in ses sion at Columbus, Ohio, Thursday.
