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OUT SHORT BY ONE FOURTH.
THE COTTON CROP IN GEORGIA IS
ALMOST A FAILURE,
e Caterpillar Has Appeared to Add
to the Damage by Drought ang
Excessive Rains,
['he cotton crop of the state seems to
nave had a serious set-back, and uo hing
like an average yield is expected. The
state department of agriculture apg
the government Crop experts agree on
this.
The weekly crop bulletin issueq by the
weather bureau has this to say: «7pe
sencral weatber condition during the
past seven days has been very detrimem
al to growing crops and the condition of
cotron has been deteriorated very much
sivce the last issue of this bulletin, The
holls are opening so rapidly that it is im
possible to pick it fase enough. The top
crop is almost an assured failure, as the
plant is shedding so rapidly.
“The cotton crop for the state will nct
exceed 75 per cent. of the average,
“There is great difficulty in obtaining
encugh hands.”
At the sarze time the following state
ment is given out from the state depart
ment of agriculture by Commissioner
Nesbitt: *“The caterpillar, one of ihe
worst foes of the cotton plant; has mad:
its appearance in southwest Georgia,
The department Las a report from Alb:a
uy 10 the effect that this worm is doing
great damage to cotton crops in that sec-
“Not long ago the crop of southern
Georgia was greatly damaged by a very
hot spell, succeeded by drenzhing raip,
which caused cotton to shed the squares
that would have made a top crop. The
September report of the condition is ten
ponts down for the whole south, and
those familiar with southern Georgia
think the depreciation already made
there by the shedding is 20 to 30 per
cent. With caterpillars following the loss
¢f the top crop the cotlon outlook in
southwest Georgia is nothing like as
good as it was a month ago.”
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YELLOW FEVER SPREADING.
Jackson, Miss., Almost Deserted and Busi
uess suspended, Georgia Quarantined,
A press dispatch from Jackson, Miss.,
says: This city is completely demoral
ized by the yellow fever scare, and busi
uess is at a standstill.
The people continued to pour out of
the city during all of last night and
today, and by midnight fully two-thirds
of the population will have gone.
Fears as to the suspicious cases at Ed
wards, twenty-five miles distant, are in
vo way allayed, but apprehension grows
hourly.
Lr. Guiteras, the government expert,
atived at Edwards at 4 a. m. today from
Mobile on & special train. In reply to a
telcgiam asking for information on the
sitiation at Edwards, he replied tha® he
culd make no statement for publication,
[t /s uunderstooa, however, that Dr.
Guiteras has already reported to the sur
geon zeneral at Washington, and that he
toniirms several genuine cases of yellow
tever,-and there are many suspects.
Mayor Wharton posted a notice that
Le s advised by the state board of health
that it woula be well to get all the peo
bic out of town provided they desired to
‘eave at all,
STATE QUARANTINE,
Surgeon General Wyman has taken
S'eps to establish a strict yellow fever
arantive ail along the western bound
ary of Georgia, from Florida to Tennes
. As Florida is already quarantined
tis erects a barrier to travel trom the‘
<ull to the Tennessee line. |
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‘¢ offer One Hundred Dollars reward
Ui any case of Catarrh that cannot be
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: 2itl queen of Holland knocked
day at the door of the room of
7 ier, the queen-regent. “*Who is
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' * motbhar, After a pause came
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HANNA ON THE STUMP.
The Ohio Senator’s Strange Jumble of
‘Words and Sentences.
Senator Hanna made a speech in
Ohio Sacurday, at the opening of the
republican campaign, and if the news
paper reports of it are correct it was
a strange jumble of words and Ideas.
He declared, amongflother things, that
“the repubiican party is responsible
through that measure (the Dingley
law) for bringing back this prosperi
iy,
Then he said he had about made up
bis mind that ““the Lord is a republi
can,” and that it is perbaps on this ac
count the Creator has caused short
crops of wheat in foreign countries.
There you have the average republi
can idea of the cause of better times
and higher prices. The whole blas
phemeous theory freely interpreted is
that the Lord looked upon the republi
can party and found it good: that He
then inspired the leaders to frame the
Dingley law : and that 1n order to make
sure of the result cut off the crops of
wheat in those countries which have
heretfore competed with the United
States in the world’s markets.
Mr. Hannais the first responsible
leader, go far as we know, who has had
the gall to announce that republican
legislation has brought about the re
turn of more tolerable times, and even
he 1s inclined to leave a loophole of es
cape by the suggestion that the T.ord
1s a republican,
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\
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FIVE ON ONE TREE.
Indian i Leads All the States in a Whole
sale Lyching Bee.
A Versailles, Ind., press dispatch says:
This has been the most exciting day in
the history of this city., The bodies of
five men, who had been lynched during
last night, were found hanging together
to one tree near the jail,
For four or five years, and even longer,
the farmers of this county have been vic
tims of a lawless gang, who apparently
lacking in fear have plied their vocation
to the terror of the people, for they
gsoemingly have no yisible means ot
earning a living, Farmers would come
into town with a bunch of cattle or load
of farming products and the next morn
ing they would be founl along the road
side suffering from a wound and minus
the proceeds of their cale,
Old German farmers have been visited
aad both men and women have been sub
jected to all the tortures that a hardened
wind could stand., Aged German wo
men have b2em forced to stand upon a
red hot stove in an effort to compel
them to disclose the hiding place of some
treasure in the house.
The citizens have taken the law into
their own jhands before, but unever to
such an extent as today. That an unus
ual sta‘e of feeling existed is shown by
determination of the mob which led it to
the ferocity of first kiliing three of the
men in jail and then dragging the living
and the dead together and hanging them
to the same tree.
Lorenzo Dow’s Wooing,
Numberless anecdotes are related of the
eccentricities and characteristic acts of
Rev. Lorenzo Dow, the fomous itinerant
' Methodist preacher, says he Youth's
‘Companion, Mr. Collins relates that
'when he was a widower he said to the
‘ congregation one day at the close of th:
sermon:
] am a candidate for matrimony; and
if there is any weman in the audienc»
who is willing to marry me I would
thank her to rise.
A woman rose very near the pulpit,
and another in a distant part of the
house, Mr. Down paused for a moment
and then said: “There are two: I think
his one near me rose first; at any rate, I
ill have her for my wife.”
The woman was in good standing §and
possessad considerable property. Very
soon after this eccentric wooing she be
came Mrs. Dow.
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A WASP, NOT FERVOR.
An Ex-Mavor of Atlanta Entertains a
Pesky Insect in Church. ¢
From the Savannah Press.
Hon. Porter King of Atlanta sat in the
amen corner of the Salem church in Con
yers one evening this week. Rev. A, W.
Bealer, an ex newspaper man who had
been translated from the tripod to the
pulpit, had delivered a fervent sermon,
just such a fetching owe asan editor
preacher can make, when a commotion
was noticed in the corner where Mr.
King sat drinking in the beauties and
gems culled from the gospe! by the elo
quent clergyman. Mr, King arose in his
seat, sighed deeply, lifted his eyes in
which were unshed tears. He moved |
about as if inoculated with the inspiring
spirit of the place and the occasion, The
worshipers in Lis neighborhood knew
the popular and able Atlantian and they
felt proud to think, as they did, that the
spiritual appeals of the talented editor
preacher had brought the henorable Mr.
King to a realization of his spiritual du
ties. They felt exceedingly proud to
think that Conyers had the honor of
bringing a, distinguisbed Atlanta gentle
man, who was once mayor of that city,
to an awakened religious spirit, Mr.
King faced abcut as if to utter repressed
thoughts and the people rejoiced. The
quickening impulse was generating a
new spiritual life. He jerked spasmodi
cally, sighed deeply, gasped, and start
ing forward slapped his leg violently.
The people again rejoiced. The religious
fervor in the ex-mayor w. s materializ
ing and they were about to rise and as- |
sist hum in its dayelopment, Just then
a painful look shot across his face and
the feelings he could no longer restrain
gave expression to the fact that instead
of having an awakened sense of religion
or the revivifying influences of the spir
1t his emotion was caused by a lively red
wasp which had crawled vp his trousers
leg and was inserting his sting with the
rapidity and force of a hydraulic ram. |
The derouement was sensational and the
good wneople of Conyers do not think as
much of the ex-mayor of Atlanta as
they did when they were reading his
face and accrediting him with religious
zeal,
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THAT ADVYERTISEMENT,
Advitirg People to Buy Cotton and Hold
It.
Within a few days there has appear
ed in the leading newspapers of the
country, says the Savannah Press, the
following advertisement, in big type:
“Buy cotton and hold 1t: it is the on
ly cheap thing left.”
For two days this advertisement was
printed. Everybody on Wall street no
ticed it and wondered that it had mno
brokerage firm’s name attached to It.
[t simply stood for itself. It was, on
the face of it, a bit of altrmstic advice
anonymously advanced. In the course
of a day or two Wall street men found
out that the peculiar advertisement had
appeared in all the leading newspapers
tfrom Maine to Texas and from the At
lantic to the Pacific. The cost must
have been between $25,000 and $30,000.
A local advertising firm handled the
matter, but the partners in the firm
declare that they do not know from
whence Jthe advertisement came or
what the purpose may be. All was
conducted with the greatest secrecy
they say. On Wall street the general
impression obtains that the advertise
ment is designed to bull cotton. If
this is true we are glad of it. The cot
ton market ought to be boomed.
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