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.
