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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1900)
CEORGIA NEWS ITEMS Brief Summary of Interesting Happenings Culled at Random. Georgia’* Growth in Population For tii» i,a*t no v,mr». The United States Census Bureau has issued an official bulletin contain iug some interesting figures relative to the increase in population iu the stato of Georgia for each decade from 1790 to 1900. From 1790 to 1900 Georgia’s increase is shown as follows: Tears Population Inorease 1900..........2,216,331 378,978 1890...........1,837,353 295,173 1880...........1,542,180 358,071 1870........... 1,184,109 126,823 1860...........1,057,280 151,101 1850........... 906,185 214,793 1840.......... 691,392 174,569 1830. ......... 516,823 175,838 1820........... 340,985 88,552 1810........... 252.433 89,747 1800........... 162,686 80,138 1790........... 82,548 The report continues: “The population of Georria in 1900 is very nearly 27 times as large as the population given for 1790, wheu it was only 82,548. “The total land surface of Georgia is, approximately, 58,980 square miles, the average number of persons to the square mile at the censuses of 1890 and 1900 being as follows: 1890, 31.1; 1900, 37.5.” Great Will Be Battleship “Georgia.” The battleship Georgia, work on which will begin about January 1, wili be one of the most powerful warships in the w’orld. She will be a veritable terror of the seas and will be one of the greatest ships of the Americau navy, rankiug above the Oregon, the Kentucky, the Kearsarge and the best warships of England and Germany. The U nited States government is about to contract for the construction of five of the greatest vessels that it is possi ble to build and one of these has been named for the state of Georgia. The bids are being considered by the navy department and will be awarded be tween now and New Year’s day. Sensational Charge, This. Harvie Jordan, president of the In terstate Cotton Growers’ Protective association, charge that the govern ment agricultural department, instead of being operated in the interests of the farmers, is being used as a basis for the rankest kind of speculation, to their serious injury. He further avers that the sources froum which this gov ernment secures its information is no longer reliable, and declares that the fact that this season’s crop is short is too well known for attempts at decep tion on the part of speculators. Bond Election Illegal. Judge Henry has decided that bonds could not be issued legally upon the recent vote cast for them in the elec tion held in Rome for that purpose. Judge Henry holds it is necessary for two-thirds of those registered for the special election to vote in favor of bonds in order to validate them. There were 3,000 on the registration list, aud bonds received 1,800. Latimer’* Murderer to Hang. T.’icy Griffin, who murdered Con ductor Marion Latimer, of the South ern railway, on October 27th last., and whose trial in Glynn superior court excited a great deal of interest, tvas found guilty of this crime aud has been sentenced to be hanged January 11. The court room was packed and those who were spectators say that Griffin displayed wonderful nerve, showing not the least sign of emotion, but rather seemed unconcerned about his doom. Broughton Promise* to Tell. Rev. Lou G. Broughton arrived in Atlanta from Meridian, Miss., Satur day night and will appear before tho board of police commissioners. A special meeting will be called for the purpose of entertaining the doctor and listening to his substantiation of the charges he has made against tho mem bers of the force to the effect that the men drank and gambled at the race course during the recent race meet. l)r. Heidt Assistant Editor. At a meeting of the board of trus tees of The Wesleyan C -a ristian Ad vocate, tho Metho diet M , held in Atlanta the past week, Dr. J. W. Heidt was elected assistant editor and busi ness manager of the paper. Dr. Heidt, it will be remembered, was appointed to the presiding eldership of the Rome district at the recent meeting of the North Georgia Methodist conference and Bishop Hendrix, on being notified of tho action of the trustees by Dr. R. J. Bigham, immediately appointed Dr. W. F. Glenu to succeed Dr. Heidt as presiding elder. Joint Depot Committee Named. Another step in the direction of a uew depot iu Atlanta on the site of the present car shed was taken by the gen eral assembly, before adjournment, when a joint committee of five mem- hers from the house and three from the senate was appointed to confer with the lessees of the Western – At lantic railroad relative to the proposed improvement. The resolution was in trodneed in the house at the afternoon session by Representative G. V. Gress, of Wilcox, a former citizen of Atlanta, who has sinc6 the beginning of the present legislature taken a lively in* terest in the improvement of the state’s terminal The resolution is based ou the theory that the lessees of the Western an( i Atlautic will be willing to im prove the depot property, since any depreciation between now and the ex piration of the lease would be felt by the lessee and not by the state. The joint committee of eight mem bers is permitted under the resolution to remain in session but twenty days, but during this time the actual ex penses of the committee are to be paid by the state. Jacob Beach Indicted. Ex-State Prison Commissioner Ja cob L. Beach has been indicted by the Glynn county grand jury ou tho charge of embezzlement. The indict ment was found some days days ago and the warrant for Mr. Beach’s ar rest was served upon him in Atlanta last Friday by Deputy Sheriff Robert Pyles. Mr. Beach accompanied Dep uty Sheriff Pyles to Brunswick. In regard to the indictment Mr. Beach says: “Yes, I am indicted for embezzle ment. I heard some time ago that the grand jury nowin session intended taking such action, and I came down from my home in Atlanta and remained here several days, but no indictment came uutil my return to Atlanta. I am ready and anxious for a trial, and when it comes, I am confident of f complete vindication.” The indictment referred to is based upon certain allegations connecting Mr. Beach’s name with the redemption of numerous Glynn county bonds, al leged to have been fraudulently issued in 1876. It is alleged that he secured a uumber of these bonds when he was a county officer and had them redeem ed by the county treasurer, after which he secured the same bonds from the treasurer’s vaults and had them redeemed again. Judge Bennett bound Mr, Beach over in the sum of $4,000, which bond was promptly given. Grand Jury Will investigate. Te grand jury of DeKalb county will begin an investigation of the recent jail deliveries at Decatur. The last on Thursday night, the second in two weeks, caused a sensation throughout the county. The fact that the escape of the prisoners was due to careless ness is not denied by the officials of the county, but there seems to be some difference ,j J" of opinion F as to who is to * Increased Capital Slock. At the annual meeting of the stock holders of the Columbus Manufactur ing Compauy, held the past week, the directors were authorized to increase the company’s capital stock from $400,000 to $500,000. Georgia an.l Alabama Railway. The annual meeting of the directors of the Georgia and Alabama railway, now system* a part of the Seaboard Air Line was held in Savannah last Saturday The officers were re-elected us follows: President, John Skelton Williams- first vice president, Cecil Middlendorf, o-vvr ,tj m secretaiy, . .. £â€“ all. Urge Appointment of Mr*. Atkinaon. A large majority of the members of » Z him to appoint Mrs. W. Y. Atkinson, widow of the late ex-govern° r W. Y. Atkinson, as state librar an, The petition hears the namea of many of the most prominent membeis of the house. The petition i« »» fob lows: At “Desiring the success of Mrs. kinsou, wife of ex-Governor W. Y. At• kiuson, in her caudidacy for the ofiice of state librarian, wo respectfully re quest your excellency to appoint her to this office. “She is gifted aud worthy, practi cally and peculiarly qualified to dis charge that office. We feel that the ambition of this loyal Georgia woman, who is seeking iu an honorable way means with which to rear and educate her children, shctild be gratified, and we believe that her appointment to this office named will meet with tne hearty approval of your constituency throughout the state.” MONEY ASSURED FOR GEORGIA. Members of River* mid Harbor* Commit tee A (tree Upon Appropriation. A Washington dispatch says: : The members of the rivers and harbors committee of the house bave_ agreed upon an appropriation of $225,000 for the improvement cf the Brunswick, Gn., inner harbor. The outer harbor item has not yet been decided upon. The Coosa river, in Georgia and Alabama, will get $225,000 for im p r0 voment work proper, and a suffi c i e nt sum to complete the lower locks and keep up the necessary dredging WO rk. The Chattahoochee river will get $85,000. BILL ARP’S LETTER Old Man 0-row3 More and More Solicitous of the Little Ones, THEt LIGHTEN TBE BURDEN OF LIFE Arp See* Many Beautiful Tiling* In Till* Vale of Tear*, and Doe* Not Sigh For Death. These little chaps alarm me—alarm me with their innocence, their happi ness, their love, for I have a forebod ing that it cannot las\ Life is full of sorrows aud they will have their Ehare. It is the common lot. One melancholy poet says: “Man was made to mourn.” Another says: “I would not live alway,” but I like that one better who wrote “The world is very lovely. Oh, my God, I thauk Thee that I live.” From my window almost every day I see two little girls, only four aud six years old, turning the corner and coming up through the grove to see graudma and grandpa and be petted, aud of course, bo feasted with biscuit and jelly and apples and to nurse the cat and play with their little cousin’s fine Paris doll. They always come hand in hand and with clean face8 and ribboned hair, and we meet them a t the door, for they bring S n U8 hine to our hearts and home, j i 0ve to b ave them climb into the back of my big chair and bother me wb ji e j wr it e , an j j bave to Btop aud draw pictures for them and to hear tbe little one call me her good old for nothing gan’pa. The other day I met them going another way and they said they were going to see their other grau a ma . “Yes,” said I, “you have two gran dmas, but you haven’t got but one gran d pa .” The little one looked up lovingly to me and said: “We don’t need any more.” I bought a fine turkey for the boys who are coming and the little girl surveyed him and said: “Gan’pa, he is running at the nose and it’s bloody.” It was the older one who said the turkey is sick, 1 reckon, for he keeps vomiting. Dean Swift was a cynic and had no love for children. He said that an author who talked about his own books was as silly as a mother who was ever telling something smart about her children. I reckon he would say that grandparents were more silly than mothers. I confess that it is a good part of my happiness uow to ming e with and to pet the little grand h dren, and that is why I feel alarmeu for fear something will happen to tljem before I die or that I will d e be fore they get old enough to ove me with a love that will not forget, and I think of Tom Moore and his gazelle that died. I don’t know where my spirit will be, but it seems to me now that I would like to have these little ones bring flowers to my grave sometimes and talk about me. What would the world be without children, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. Just imagine for a moment the desolation, the despair that would pervade the home and society and trade and commerce—not a day school in all the land, nor a Sunday school, not a little shoe or stocking, nor a little hat, nor a doll or toy in any store; no cas toria or soothing sirup or other infan tile medicines; no fireworks no Christ ",r» a m? srsart working for children. The cynics say that marriage is a failure. Suppose it £HureS^DivOrceS Children aro not may stifle the love ^ abd wife> but they still love the cMldreu .nd contend for tire pc '"“ 0 |etab build n) , towns communitie8 aud th , children make {“ schools Country people move to What would 4,000 teachers in the o[ Georgia! W hat would tho publishers do with all their school books aud picture books? Who would go to a picnic or a monkey show? What excuse would men folks have for going to the circus? Wouldent it bo a lone some, no account world? But marriage is not a failure. It could not be, for it was ordained by God. One or two unhappy marriages in a community sets all the dogs bark ing. Divorces are multiplying, but only among the very rich or the drunken poor. Money or whisky are the cause of most of them, and in nine cases out of ten the man is to blame. There is but one scriptural ground for divorce, and nine men are guilty of that to one woman. Poor, long suffering women. How silently, secretly and sadly you have to endure what you know, but cannot tell, and all you can do is to hug your children all the closer to your bosom and trust in God. I was ruminating about children be cause I am away off from mine aud ou my way here I passed a country school house just as the children were piling out for recess and they came like bees out of a hive. As long as the train stopped at that station I watched them at their merry plays and sports in the pretty grove near by and I almos^vished that I was a boy again so that I might join them. Good gra ciouB, how I could run and jump and climb and shout; how lo. an ^ ^ in PPy was the day. "The sun ne’er rose a wink too -mon, *. ’ Nor brought too long a day, But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away.” ’ Tom Hood wrote that, poor fellow. I do not say it, for I love to live and have few regrets to distress me. I am here in Okoloua, a pretty towu with a pretty name. This good old state, a daughter of Georgia, is full of Indian names of towns and connties and rivers. These names are all that is left of the tribes—the Cluckasaws, and Choctaws aud Creeks and Natches. They were a proud aud hsppy people, but had to vanish when the pale faces came aud coveted their lands. Colonel Gordon, a Confederate veteran, lives here and interested me greatly in the history of Mississippi, for he and his father before him could say “magna pars fni”—“a good part of it I was.” He gave me the origin and meaning of many of these Indian names, such ar Pontotoc and Tupelo aud Okolona, and also of Aberdeen, which his fath er, who was a Scotchman, had named Dundee, but got mad because onr peo ple would call it Duudy and so chang ed it to a name they could not mis pronounce, His father was very wealthy, owning thousands of acres of the rich prairie land that he had bought from the Chickasaws before they signed the treaty that ceded their lands to the United States govern ment. I said that his father was a nativj of Scotland. Of course he was or he could never have bought those lands. The Indiau tribes all liked the Scotchmen, for they treated them fairly and kindly in trading and taught them the use of the cross bow and long bow. These Scotchmen frequently mar ried Indian maidens, the daugh ters of the chiefs, and in course of time their halfbreed children be came the chiefs. Such was Rose and Ridge and McIntosh and Osceola. Ma jor Colbert,another halfbreed whose In dian name was Ittawamba, became chief of the Chickasaws. He was a great favorite with Mrs. Dolly Madison, the president’s wife, for ho w-as a splendid specimen of Indian and Scotch man hood and was smart and well edu cated. Mrs. Madison gave him a pair of peafowls and he brought them home and from that pair every peafowl in Mississippi has descended. This pair was many years afterwards given to Colonel Gordon’s uncle, Josiah Walton, and by him to his sister, Mrs. Doggett, arid the male bird lived to be seventy-two years old. A pair of this same stock has been recently present ed to the city of Memphis for their zoo. I had no idea that peafowls lived to such great age, but I do know that we have been breeding them for over twenty years and have given away a great many and I never knew one to die a natural death. But I am tired—travel worn, for no hours are mine; they are the railroad’s by night as well as by day and my rest is broken up and I begin to realize that 1 cannot stand it much longer. Ren Franklin’s definition of man was that bo is ‘‘a bundle of habits” and the older he grows the stronger his habits hold him. The very word hub its comes from the latin “habeo, ” to hold, to bind. The Daughters of the Confederacy are wide awake in this town and are going to build n monument to their heroic dead of whom about 1,200 are buried here. They called me here to help them.— Binii Arp iu The Atlanta Constitution. WORK OF LONE ROBBER. Fast Mail Train Held Up and Relieved of Registered Pouch and Letters. The southbound Illinois Central fast mail due at New Orleans at 7:15 p. m. was held up and robbed by a lone train robber atout one mile above the upper limits of that city Thursday night. Though some of the train crew say they saw four or more men concealed iu the bushes, only one man figured iu the action, and his booty consisted of only one registered mail pouch from Durant, Miss., aud six other registered letters from points between Cairo and New Orleans. Conductor Einnebrew was shot in the groin and J. C. Parker, railway mail clerk, has his left eye powder burned by a shot directed at his head. The robber got on the train, it is sup posed, at a point above the city, aud after passing Kenner, the last stop be fore the train arrives in New Orleans, he climbed over to the engine and covered the engineer and fireman, and brought the train to a standstill. MAYOR LOCKED UP. Police Take Char#* of Atlanta’* Intoxicat ed Chief Executive, Mayor James G. Woodward became so greatly intoxicated on the streets of Atlanta Monday night that he had to be taken in charge by the police. A case was entered against him on the police docket and the charge was simply “drunk.” He was locked up in one of the detention wards on the second floor of the city prison and kept there until Tuesday morning. * HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS Tim l><-roi’utl»n of T*>« Tables. The Oibles are rather difficult to „ it has become the fashion decorate, s u "erfect mosaic of dishes to make a urface. The most over the entire s sat Isfactory •s to fill long and manner . with light and slender shafts of gins, x rather spreading flowei. x and insert these with a sort of met ho d between the multifarious plates. The large tea table is far pre*^ ei ' covered with a colored silk cloth tha^ 1 with plain white napery, which nlwnjrtf gives one the feeling of a meal. Widths of* the Inexpensive china silk. Joined by insertions of lace dyed to the tone of the silk chosen, and edged only with a deep hem, make lovely covers and should be selected in exactly the tones of the flowers to be used. Ail extremely simple manner of getting an effect also is to have all sweets and cakes Iced and colored to match. This entails no more expense and gives a distinction to the very simplest table. AYn*Iiiiig Woolen Blanket*. After trying any number < f different ways of washing woolens, in an effort to find oue that would cleanse without shrinking them, the oue here recom mended has been used for several years with entire satisfaction; and as two members of our family wear all wool underwear the entire year, it has certainly been given n thorough trial. By adhering to the simple rules here given, any grade of woolens can be cleansed without shrinking, but the rules are positively inviolable. Provide a generous allowance of hot soft water, white eastile, or other pure soap and borax. Have the washing and rinsing wat ers of about the same degree of heat. Make a good suds for the first water, but on no consideration rub soap on the soiled article itself. Have the wat er as hot as the hands can bear com fortably and allow oue level teaspoon ful of borax for every gallon of water. Immerse the clothes, and allow them to stand ten or fifteen minutes before washing; then work them up and down, squeeze, and if necessary rul> with the hands, but never on a wash board, The water must be squeezed, not twisted out, consequently a wringer is better than the hands. Itinse through two waters, using a little less borax and no soap, but al lowing the clothes to lie teu minutes in each, working them up aud down and squeezing. After wringing pull into shape and dry as quickly as possible, pulling out at least twice during the process of drying. Woolens must never be hung in a hot sun, nor out of doors In freez ing winter. In winter, we dry ours ou clotlies-bars, standing the latter over a furnace register or near the kitchen range. To my thinking, woolens have a fresher, sweeter odor without ironing. Smooth with the hands and fold neat ly. Never put woolen blankets in the general wash. Choose a dull, windy (lay if possible, and wash as above. The colored borders of blankets will sometimes fade, in spite of every pre caution, but there is no excuse but ignorance or carelessness fox* their shrinking. Two persons are needed properly to pull a blanket into shape. Be careful not to stretch it when hang ing over the line, and to pull into shape occasionally during the process of dry ing.—Katherine B. Johnson, in the Country Gentlemen. V 1 i $ ‘ recipes r f Mutton Sausages — One pint of cold mutton, one-third of a cup of suet, one anchovy, one-half of a pint of oysters. Mince the whole very fine. Season with oue-half teaspoonful of salt, oue fourth teaspoonful of pepper and nut meg, and two well-beaten eggs and five tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs. Mix well, roll iuto cakes aud fry brown. Garnish with lettuce or parsley. Caramel Fruit Foat—To one quart of hot milk add beaten yolks of eight eggs, one cupful of sugar, one-eighth of a teaspoonful of salt; cook in a double boiler till thick; chill, add one table spoonful of caramel; place a layer of cooked Bartlett pears in deep dish, pour over the lloat; heat whites stiff, add six tublcspoonfuls of sugar, one teaspoonful of vanilla. Set on ice two hours and serve. Smothered Chicken—Select a rather large, broiling chicken, single, split down the back. Spread It open, turn ing the tips of the wings under aud crossing the legs. Put in a roasting pan, cover with four tablespoonfuls of butter, dust with salt aud pepper, add four tablespoonfuls of boiling water, cover closely with a second pan, put iu a hot oven and roast one hour. Sprinkle with chopped parsley. More living fish are sold in Berlin than in any other market in the world.
