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VOL 42 NO 16.
CHARGED WITH HAVING
POISONED YOUNG WIFE.
Ocilt.a, Ga., March 8. —Reason
Handley was lodged in jail at Ir
winville today charged with poi¬
soning h*s young wife of two weeks.
Handley is from near Crossland
and had tived here only a short
time. The coroner held an in
quest yesterday and the jury asked
that the stomach be analyzed. H.
L. Henderson left today for Atlan¬
ta with the organ for the purpose
of having it analyzed by a chemist.
The accused is young man of a
prominent family of Wilcox and
Irwin counties. He bro*ests His
innocence. His counsel waived a
commitment trial as the grand
jury of Irwin county will convene
Monday to take up the investiga
tioii.—Augusta Herald.
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instrument and held up his hand.
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i < I do not ask,” he said, t t that
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In the silence that ensued he
broke three strings and a plate
glass window.
LIST OF JURORS
Drawn For March Term of New¬
ton Superior Court.
Grand Jurors drawn for March
Term 1906.
I A Stanton J W Burns
J W Sock we II M G Turner
Fielder Osborn Jas W King
Ii M Dial .T L Stephenson
J W Anderson J F Henderson
C E Cook H .T Boggus
W T Patrick J F Dick
J A Porter B J Anderson
J Henry Carroll W A Ellington
J J Corley L D Adams
D A Thompson jr C C Brooks
N C Carr F D Ballard
A L King W C Clark
E 0 Lee G W Hill
R L Loyd A S Ellington
Traverse Jurors drawn for the
March term, 1906:
J B Lewis W R Morgan
W D Elliott R E Lee
C O Kimble E L King
T S Kmnett A H Milner
R O Usher C C Robinson
Carlton Poison G W Henderson
J I’ Longshore Leonidas Loyd
W T Stark W T Thomas
\V F Sherwood W T Smith
W H Sharp J A Starr
A H Smith • G T Murray
H C Hyatt W P Hicks
J L Skinner E H Low is
S G Hicks C R Rogers
Olin Pitts J C McClendon
R L Middlebrooks J L Marks
J W Osboru T J Speer
I L Mosely J A Farmer
Advertise iu the Enterprise.
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COVINGTON, GA. FRIDAY, MARCH 9. 1906.
NINE MILLION PLOUGHS
ARE BEGINNING WORK.
It’s plowing time, says an in¬
teresting an authoritative article
in Farming for March. Two hun¬
dred million acres of land will be
ploughed this year in the United
States and about 9,000,000 plows
are on the farms to do the work.
The capital invested in plow's
alone represents $80,000,000. Such
a multitude of types of plows and
plowers can be found on this old
continent that we can but name a
few. In the great southwest the
Mohave with his three or four
squaws starts for the planting
ground. Each woman carries her
digging stick, the most primitive
of all plows, and the man stands
guard all day while the “original
farmers” of this country dig the
land and plant their gourd seeds.
In Canada, but for the interference
of the government we might see
the Doukhobor women drawing
the plow in exactly the same way
that they have done for centuries.
In New England the oxen are be¬
ing yoked, and in the middle west
the four-horse teams are ready. In
the south the negro sits on his
plow stilt t j watch the train go by.
In other parts of the country we
find traction engines at work,
plowing forty or more acres a day
requiring but two or three men to
do it.
The plow stands for civilization,
and all civilized nations plow. No
savage ever thought of plowing as
we understand it because it in¬
volves fore-thought and a prepar¬
ation for the future.
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“There was company to dinner
at her house one night, and the
little girl, pointing to her plate,
said in a loud voice:
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“The thing was a hair, but the
mother, red with confusion, still
had enough ready wit left to say:
l i Hush, dear; that is a crack in
the plate.”
< ( Oh, mamma, look? I can
move this crack about! Isn’t that
funny? »>
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SOUTHERNERS TOAST
NEIGHBOR WASHINGTON.
The Southern Society celebrated
Washington’s Birthday in the As¬
ter Gallery of the Waldorf-Astoria
last night entirely as a Southern
tribute to the memery of a Virginia
gentleman.
The fact that George Washing¬
ton directed the republic in its
cradle was a matter that entered
not into the consideration of the
speakers nor even into the general
talk that pervaded the place for
the gathering of theclans. It was
a celebration in honor of the mem¬
ory of Washington of Virginia,
the gentleman who married the
Widow Custis There were some
present whose folks in New Kent
Couutv, Va., still go to service in
the old-fashioned red brick church
where Lieut. Washington was un¬
ited in matrimony to her who was
Inter the charming First Lady of
the Republic.
One of the guests, a Carolinian
with a sonorous voice, entered the
room and said “Good evening,
Colonel; mighty glad to see yo’
again! » ?
Twenty diners arose and replied
“Good evenin’ I”
The astor gallery was, in fact,
filled with Colonels, Majors and
Judges. The Virginians seemed
to predominate, judging by the
applause that followed the old
song, “Carry Me Back to Ole Vir
gimiv. » ?
Col. Marion J. Verdery, Presi¬
dent of the Society, after that song
addressed the Society, and said
that it was one of the legends of
his family that the spirit of a Vir¬
ginia gentleman winged its flight,
to Heaven, and on being admitted
promptly was astrounded to see
within the gates a party of angels
chained to varieus pearly posts
11 i In the name of alJ that’s
holy,’ exclaimed the new Virginia
angel, (as the Colonel related,)
i i why do you chain those angels? J )
< i 'Ve have to chain ’em, Colo
nel,” replied St. Peter, < l They’re
from \ lrginia and want to go back
there.
Thereupon the quartet arose and
sang “Dixie,” and a Mississipian,
forgetting for the moment that he
was in his evening clothes, arose
and gave the rebel yell with such
vigor that the orchestra in the
mezzanine gallery below faltered
:n its interpretation of a selection
from “II Trovatore.”
Col. Verdery introduced J. A.
MacKnight of Alabama as the only
speaker of the evpning. His tuple
wa» “The South of To-dav. » f Mr
MacKnight was in the Consular
Service of the Unitad States f >r
several years, but, lie has l>een
studying Southern conditions and
wrighting of them and lecturing
on them for the last decade.
t ( It is estimated,” he said, “that
the gain in wealth in the Southern
States at the present time is near¬
ly $8,000,000 a day. With this
rate of increase in wealth it will
not be long before the school sys¬
tem of the South will be equal to
that of any setion of the country.
The complaint that there is a high
percentage of illiteracy in the
percentage South, as the of Jesuit negro of population, the great j |
will be at end before long.
“The nagging of the South re- i
garding the negro question has j
gone on for forty years. It seems j
about time to give the South a rest j
0,1 tl “ s 9 uest ’ on au< * to lt?ave th e I
solutitM ' to pu ° p ' e wIk) ar * j
most ufilleted by it. V, hat the j
South has done in eliminating the
the negro vote, which is as cor
>* is W’ 0 ™"*- would **,
done to-day by any Northern com -1
munity if it were confronted with
the same conditions.
“If there w ere 1,000,000 negroes
in New York City and only 100,
000 white men the latter would;
rule the city, hold all the offices
aud keep control of public affairs. ‘
MR LUNSFORD ANNOUNCES
FOR TAX RECEIVER.
Elsewhere will be seen the an¬
nouncement of Mr. J. F. Lunsford
for Tax Receiver. Mr. Lunsford
is the present official of the office
tor which he seeks re-election, and
from his past record his friends
throughout the county, will read
with pleasure his announcement.
Mr Lunsford says he is in the
race to the finish, and, while his
opponents will find him to be a
hard political fighter, and one dif¬
ficult to heat, yet, we feel sure he
will tote fair and not strike below
belt.
STORES TO CLOSE
AT SIX O’CLOCK.
Covington, Ga., Feb. 28.
We, the undersigned business
men of Covington, hereby agree to
close our places of business at 6
o'clock p. m. from April 1st 1906,
to Sept. 1st, 1006 with the excep¬
tion of Saturday evenings.
M. Levin.
W. C'dien.
C. E. Cook.
Fowler Bros.
W. L. Adair.
S. F. Headen.
R. E. Everitt.
J. T. Lasseter.
C. A. Harwell.
C. C. Robmson.
Swann-Dav's Co.
Lee & Anderson.
The Harrison Co.
Jas. R. Stephenson.
Heard, White & Co.
J. N. Bradshaw & Co.
Stephenson & Callaway.
Covington Hardware C<>.
They would not admit the negroes
to social equality.
“The agitators in Congress, who
would like to see Southern repre¬
sentation cut down because of the
disfranchisement of the negro,
have, I understand, been warned
by President Roosevelt and Speak¬
er Cannon that they will receive no
comfort fn their Effort to cut down
down Southern representation.
The South has no fear that this
will be done.
“Ever race that has opposed
the Anglo-Saxon has been swept
away before a prarie fire. The
black man will prove to have been
only an incipeut in the civilization
of the Western Hemisphere, as
was the Ethiopian contingent in
Caesar’s army in the conquest of
Gaul, and as was the American
Indian.”
Mr. MacKnight said that the
South’s resources of coal, iron, oil,
its fertile land and climatic con¬
ditions were bringing there a for¬
eign element that bade fair to make
of it a polyglot section of the coun¬
try. Greeks, Italians and Syrians
were, he said, pouring into the
South and fastening their hold on
it, when Americans should be go¬
ing there and develope its abund¬
ant resources. Mr.
said in conclusion:
4 4 At the present rate of increase
the populat : on of the South will
in twenty-five yeats be almost
P q Ua j entire population of
the Unite(1 state* to -dav, and at
that time the Southern States will
fie producing more wealth
ly thnil th@ HIltire pr «,fiction of
the United States in 1905 ”
After the speaking there was
supper and certain bottles with
cobwebs over them were brought
f or th in t hc name of “Washington
>f Virginia.”—New York Times.
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