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By E.L. RAINEY,
OEFICIAL PAPER OF TERRELL COUNTY.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF CITY OF DAWSON.
DAWSON, GA., Juxe 22~xp, 1898.
THE WAR REVENUE BILL.
The war revenue bill, which is now
a law, is full of interest for every citi
zen, and it is important to know the
main features of the measure as re
ported by the conferees and passed in
its final form by both houses of con
gress and signed by the president.
The bill contains the following feat
ures:
A tax of one-quarter of one per cent.
on the gross receipts of the Standard
Oil and Sagar Trust companies,
A stamp tax of one cent on sleeping
car tickets,. An additional tax of $I
per barrel on beer, ale and porter.
The issuance of $100,000,000 govern
ment bonds to bear interest at the rate
of 3 per cent,, and $100,000,000 of cer
tificates of indebtedness.
An inheritance tax,
A provizion for the coinage of the
seiguniorage in the treasury at the rate
of $1,500,000 per month.
A tax of 10 cents per pound on all
teas imported into the United States.
A tax on all adultered flour,
A tax on patent and proprietary
medizines,
[t is estimated that the measure in
its present form will yield a revenue of
over $150,000,000. The bill is by no
means satisfactory to the bimetallists
of the senate and house, but for some
of its best features ithe country has to
thank them, sincé but for their course
the senate amendments embodying
such provisions as the taxes on trusts,
the inheritance tax, the sleeping car
tax and the silver coinage clause would
not have been in the bill,
The bond issue will be larger by
$100,000,000 than was provided for in
the original senate bill. Four hun
dred millions of bonds are authorized,
a compromise between the $500,000,-
000 proposed by the house and $300,-
000,000 authorized by the senate, Only
$200,000,000 will be issued immediately.
In the ten years before they can be re
deemed they will have drawn $60,000,-
000 in interest. ;
The vote on the measure was not at
any time along strict party lines. It
is by no means satisfactory to either
party, by especially to the demo
crats, but all realized the necessity for
prompt passage of sovie msasure pro
viding the sinews of war.
YouNg MRr. Josera LEITER is no
I ongera ‘“ Napoleon of finance.”” He
has at length realized to his profound
sorrow that man cannot trifle with
fate. Everything seemed to play into
his handsat one time, and naturally
he felt that success belonged to him;
but from the dream of millions in
which he has reveled for the past few
months he has suddenly started up at
the unexpected drop in wheat to find
himself much poorer than when he
first set out upon his brilliant career
of speculation. It is said that his
wheat specnlations have lost him
$9,000 within the last twenty-five
days, and instead of being the rich
man he was a month ago he owes sey
eral million dollars he cannot pay. It
1s probable that the wheat pit will
Know him no more,
TuE house of representatives has pass
ed a resolution to annex Hawaii, and
it now seems to be a foregone conclu
sion that the island will be annexed,.
Two of the eleven members of the
Georgia delegation, Messrs. Living
ston and Lewis, voted with the re
publicans in favor of the government
cutting loose from its time-honored
and safe policy and embarking upon a
policy of colonization and “imperial
ism,” which may fasten militarism
upon us and keep us perpetually em
broiled in the quarrels of Europe,
CoroNer R. T. NEsBITT has been
nominated to represent the counties of
Cobb, Fualton and Clayton in the next
state senate, The convention was in a
deadlock for a week, and his nomina
tion was the result of a compromise
after 3,000 ballots had beeo taken.
Colonel Nesbitt will make an able and
useful member of the senate, and the
state is to be congratulated that it will
not lose his service 1n a puablic capaci
ty when he retires from the agricult
ural department,
Cor Rav's regiment is no myth ex
cept as to the “immune” part of jt.
There are about 200 men in camp at
Macon, most of them being country
boys who unquestionably have never
had yellow fever. The regiment is
officially known as the Third Regiment
U.S. Volunteers. The soldiers of it
have not yet received their arms and
uniforms, but are faring very weliin
the matter of eating, as they are tak
ing their meals at one of the hotels
in Macon.
Ho~. J. R. Hogax’s letter accepting
the populist nomination for governor
was published in Saturday’s daily pa
pers. It is a conservative document
in which the purposes of the people’s
party are reviewed, but no claims of
success 1n the campaign are made. On
the contrary, the tone of the entire let
ter shows that Mr. Hogan expects
defeat., The democratic majority of
80,000 will be restored this year under
the leadership of Allen D. Candler.
Now coMEs a story that the sunken
Merrimac does not really block the
channel of Santiago harbor, and that
Sampson ietends to sail in and pounce
upon the Spaniards. The bewiidering,
memory-destroying contradictions that
come from the seat of war authorize
the belief that there is an unusually
large crop of liars this year.
THE recent purchase by a Chicago
capitalist of a large tract of land near
Baxley, in this state, for immediate
occupation by a large colony of Ger
man farmers is an encouraging indi
cation of progress. Germans make
splendid colomsts. They are home
makers and home-lovers.
Tne Georgia bankers, at their meet
ing at Tybee, last week, decided that
the depositors must pay the stamp
tax on checks imposed by the war rev
enue bill. After July Ist every] bank
check drawn will have to have a 2-cent
stamp on it, and this the drawer will
have to supply.
OFFICIAL reports show that Colonel
Candler carried 99 of the 137 counties
in the state, Judge Atkinson captured
13 counties, and Hon. Bob Berner won
25 counties, Colonel Candler will have
268 votes in the convention, Berner 56
and Atkinson 26,
Tue Ocilla Dispateh is disturbed
because Tur News said that Colonel
Candler would probably be the last of
the gallant old veterans to be made
governor. If Hanlon has an idea of
occupying the Peachtree street man
sion we will withdraw all thav has
beei: said.
THE state nominating convention
will meet in Atlanta today week and
ratify the action of the people at the
polls on the 6th iast. Then the demo
crats will line up for the conflict in
October, with Candler and 100,000 ma
jority as the slogan.
AN expert'hasifigured it that a two
hours’ fight by the combined fleets of
Sampson and Schley would cost for
ammunition alone not less than
$3%3,000.
ACCORDING to the daily press the
fortifications at Santiago have been
bombarded and demolished several
dozen times,
IN the death of hs wife Editor
Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitu
tion has the tender sympathy of hosts
of friends.
It seems that your Uncle Allen
knew what he was doing when he
wrote that epistle to the Roman.
Tur weather clerk has been doing
better the past few days.
i STATE SPECIALS.
~ The Shaker Society of Union Village,O.,
! have closed a transaction by which they
purchased 51,000 acres of land, situated
in one body in Pierce, Ware and Charl
ton counties. About 35,000 are in Pierce,
and Ware, Titles have just been passed
with payments made theron. The dea)
involves about $125.000. The purpose
of the purchase is to develop a part of
the land for stock and sheep raising.
Dr. Hammond, president of Wesleyan
Female College, has been elected secre
tary of cducation for the Southern Meth.
odist Chureh, vice Dr. Marrah, resigned,
His election to the new position will
pecessitate his resignation as president of
Wesleyan.
In Columbus, during the burning of
Felix Kimbrough’s residence, Mrs. W. R,
Bedell, who lived next dvor, died from
shock, She was the wife of one of the
leading business men of that city,
Wants Him Kept in Congress.
From the Ocilla Dispatch.
Some of the papers are suggesting
that Jim Griggs would make a good
governor. Of course he would. But
he can do his state as good, if not bet
ter, service in his present position, and
the people of his district are likely to
keep him there for some years to come,
No other preparation has ever done so
many peopleso much good as Hood's
Sarsaparilla, America’'s Greatest Medi
cine. .
STATE TO BORROW MONEY.
$200,000 Needed With Which to Pay
Teachers for Second Quarter.
ATLANTA, June 18.—The governor
will probably borrow $200,006 in order
that the teachers may be paid in full in
July for the second quarter.
The fact that the revenue is behind
the appropriation will make *t necessary
to pay only half the amount due in July
for *he second quarter’s work, unless
$200,000 can be borrowed to make up
the deficiency.
O
The Cuban question and political is
sues sink into insignificance with the
man who suffers from piles. What he
most desires is relief. DeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Salves cures piles,
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NEWS AND VIEWS,’ .
The political campaign in Kansas is to
be conducted on a religious basis, Ex-
Seuator Peffar, the hirsute statesman,
has been nominated by the prohibition
ists on a platform which ‘*‘regards civil
government as an instrument of God,
recognizes the [.ord Jesus Christ as
King of Kings, and declares that the
management of civil affairs should be
conducted in harmony with His laws and
His spirit.” To be eyen with Peffer the
republicans have nominated a Sunday
school superintendent as their cardidate
for goyern r; and, notto be behind the
others, the “lewd democracy’ are look
ing around for a candidate of like piety,
In such a campaign the Philadelphia
Record wants t» know what chance will
there be for the berctics and sinners of
Kansas?
In view of the fact that 20,000 Ameri
can soldiers are bound for the Philip
pines it is interesting, and scarcely reas
suring, to learn from an account of the
islands written by Jos. T. Maunix for
the Review of Reviev's that the climate
is unusually severe and unhealthy, The
atmosphere is humid, and in the swampy
iand «f the interior especially there is
much malaria, The hottest season is
between the middle of March and the
middle of May, followed by a rainy sea
sen of six months with alternating
showers and blistering sunshine, The
winter months are comparatively agree
able. The mortality among Spanish
soldiers has been very great, fally 25 per
cent. of the 30,000 men sent from Spain
to quell the rebellion of 1896 having died
from the effects of the climate.
For some time past some of the pa
pers of Tennessee have been discussing
the war locust, or a peculiar specimen
of insect very much resembling the
Egyptian pest, which is said to wear a
‘“*W?*? on his wing whenever this country
is at war, and when ali is peaceful the
letter is at once changed and the wing
becomesa “P.”” Thursday Lamar Clay
ot Macon reeeived a letter from Mrs.
Clay, who “is spending some time in
Tennessee. In the letter was enclosed
one of the wiugs ot the ueer insect.
Sure enough the wing showed the “W,”
which was perfectly plain. It was
formed of ridges somewhat resembling
the ribs of oak ieaves. The ridzes were
of just the proper length.
The oldest man to volunteer his ser
vices in the war s I’r. Henry Coursney,
of New York, who is 109 years old. He
makes daily calts on his patients, aud
when the president called for volunteers
he offered his services as a surgen.
Mr. Hogan's Letter,
From the Savannah News.
The letter in which Hon. J. R. Hogan
of Linco'n county accepts the populist
nomination for governor is a new depart
ure in populistic political documents,
[t is a conservative, dlspassionate state
ment from a peace-loving gentleman, It
is, therefore, not the sort of letter to
arouse enthusiasm in the ranks of the
populist party., What the party wants
is something particularly hot; something
full of pepper sauce, and tacks, jand
broken glass, and vitriol, and other
things calculated to agitate. It is the
custom of the vopulists to piay upon
predjudicies, while Mr. Hogan pleads
for principles. It is the ordinary popu
list policy to regard everybody as an en
emy; Mr., Hogan desires an ery of friend
ship, forbearance and peace without
stagnation. However, Mr. Hogan is not
counting on being governor. While his
policy is praiseworthy, he knows that it
cannot win, He is already prepared for
the Inevitable, and will not be surprised
in October when the votes are counted
and he finds that the populists have been
left at the polls.
The People Have Confidence In Him.
From the Dalton Argus.
" HWon. O. B. Stevens, of Dawson, who
received the nomination for commission
er of agriculture last week, made one
of the finest campaigns ever made in
Greorgin. The fact that he will receive
238 votes in the convention is a very flat
tering endorsement, indeed. But Geor
gia never contained a more clever man
than Tobe Stevens, nor one more popular
with those who know him. No wonder
the people have such confidence in him.
Colonel Cindler’s Accurate Conclusiona,
From the Gainesville Eagle.
As a judge f means to ends his con
clusions are marvvelously accurate. In
diagonis of the public pulse Le is a past
grand master, 1o hislong career as a
public man only one slip can be charged
to his record, and that is the letter he
wrote to take the edge off the excruciat
ing truths in the Meyerhardt letter, and
that was written in compliance with the
hysterical pleadings of some of his ill
timed advisers.
The human machine starts but once
and stops but once. You can keep it
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stomach and liver troubles.
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INTERVIEWED BY A REPORTER
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FOR “THE INDEPENDENT »
He Tells of His Recovery from an Illlness that
Threatened to Incapacitate Him. Is now Aple
to Attend to His Duties. Has Nothing but
Words of Praise for the Remedy Used.
From the Independent, Auburn, N. Y.
It having come to the knowledge of the
editor of the Cayuga County Independent of
Auburn, that Rev. N. Wayne Wolcott, Pas
tor of the Baptist Church, of Fleming, N. Y.,
had been cured of nervous prostration by
the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale
People, he sent a reporter to that town to
ascertain from Mr. Wolcott the truth of the
report, and receive from his own lips a
statement of his case and how he had been
benefited.
The reporter found Mr. Wolcott to be a
gentlemen some 40 or 45 years of age, in
good health, and active in his ministerial
duties. He is highly esteemed as a pastor
and a citizen, and is a gentleman of strict
integrity, whose statements can be implicitly
relied upon as truthful in every respect and
devoid of exaggeration. In reply to ques
tions as to the truth of the report that he
had been benefited by Pink Pills he made
the following statement: ‘‘Eight years ago
while pastor of the Baptist Church in Covert.
N. Y., I was stricken with nervous prostra
tion. During the winter of 1887-8, I had
conducted revival services and delivered a
series of lectures in addition to my work as
pastor, and became completely run down.
I could not work, and felt as though my
days were numbered. I tried a doctor, but
did not receive much aid from him.
. At this time I received a call from the
church at Tully, N. Y. At first [ determined
not to accept it, for [ knew that in my weak
condition I could not do the work. But hop
ing against hope, I finally decided to try and
accordingly went there. My health continued
to fail and 1 grew weaker, and [ thought I
would have to give up entirely my work for
God which I love. Just then, however, the
sun broke through the clouds. Mr. Tall
man, of Tully, whom [ shall always remem
ber as a bhenefactor, recommended me to try
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. He had tried
them and they had done him good. As a
last resort I tried them. The effect was
wonderful and immediate. From the very
first box my system began to tone up, my
blood became rich, and onece more [ became
the strong and vigorous man [ was before
my health failed.
My labors, if you know of the labors of
a country parson, you can rveadily beveve,
were very heavy. [ had not been able to
work, and was losing my interest in the
cause of Christ, but like magic my old vigor
returned and for three more years I lahored
there and raised $4,000 toward building up
the Church in addition to my regular duties.
All my friends say of me that% am a very
hard working man, but in Covert I could
not work. After [ went to Tully, and the
pills had restored my health, I think T may
say that I merit that name. For three or
four years after I left Tully I did evangelistie
work. Two years ago I came here. Since
then I have never had any return of my old
trouble, but am in good health, strong and
active, with no symptom of nervous pros
tration, which was caused by overwork. It
is a homely expression, but I felt like a
‘“wrung-out disb-cloth without any starch
it
I owe my present good health to Pink
Pills, and want most heartily » commend
the magic remecy to everv one trc Ihled with
nervous prostration or physical weakness.”
Asa parting remark Mr. Woicott said : ‘T
have often thought that in return for what
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills have done for me,
I wonld like to become a medical missionary
to meke known their merits.”’
NOTES ABOUT NEIGHBORS.
Judge Sheffield is holding a special
term of Clay superior court at Ft. Gaines
this week. He convened the court for
the purpose of trying T. J. Brvant, a
vhite man who has been in jail several
weeks on the sharge of assassinating a
negro named Tom Anderson,
Last week a traveling showrman ar
rived in Richland and soon cast his net
about for victims, His plan, it sezms,
was to have little girls sell tickets for
him, and in some way be endeavored t.
exert hypnotie influence over them,and in
this way became an eye-sore to the peo
ple. Itis said that he made indecent
exposures to the little folks, and there
fore on Saturday morning he was h ustled
out of town in short order. He was
made to understand that Richland was
no place for animals of his caliber, ang
that he must shake the dust of Georgia
£oil frem his feet within ten days, and
that he must not be caught in that neck
of the woods agaip.
A few mornings ago Robert Albritton,
a young farmer of Sumter county, was
found dead by the roadside. A note
was found in his pocket bidding his fam
ily and frieads farewell. The verdict of
the coroaer’s jury was that he came to
his death by some unknown prisonous
drug administered by his own hand,
An Object Lesson,
From the Tifton Gazette,
The price of wheat dropped fifty cents
last week, for which the people who eat
flour will draw a breath of thanks. It is
an object lesson to those who do not he
lieve Ametica is dominated by trusts to
watch the way the common people are
being robbed under cover of the present
war excitement.
Is your hair falliug out or turning
gray? This can be stopped at once by
the use of Begg’s Hair Renewer. O, 9.
Iddell, of Nevada, Mo., says: “One bot
tle entirely stopped my hair falling out.”
We sell it. Sale-Davis Drug Co,
GEORGE KOCHERSPER, O mLA
N. Y., INTERVIEWED By ,
REPORTER.
From the Sentinel, Rome, ¥. ¥,
One of the well known mechanic of
Oneida County is George Kochersper
Hecla, N.Y. ge is thirty-seven years o] "s,('f
has had extensive experience as an Ql’lg:p:
and machinist at Rome, Ilion, Oneidg axm“:l‘-\"r
where. For some time he was employeqd }e‘:
the Atlas Gun Company of Ilion, ayg 1
holds a certificate from the foreman of q'l;"
establishment which testifies to his cgpfl,’;‘f
ity and efficiency as an engineer and vopeyq
machine hand, familiar with milling and
drilling machinery, pipe fitting, soldering
and general shop work. A few years aco \i .
Kochersper was employed in the Rome Lo,
comotive Works and later in the copper n“ili
in that city. 5
Mr. Kochersper now enjoys good heals),
but this has not always been tfie case wity
him. Like many other mechanics he )8
suffered with rheumatism, and at times ¢, .
has incapacitated him for work. One vwip:.»
he was so afilicted that he was confined to his
home at Hecla for three months. His doctoy
said he suffered not exaetly from rheymg.
tism, ])ut something very much like it
Mr. Kochersper did not ecare what the
disease, was called, but he was, of coure
chiefly interested in having it cured. 1t !
like rheumatism, being in the form of ve
severe pains in the muscles and joints of |
limbs. He doctored more or less all winy»
and although he felt somewhat beiter in 1)
spring, he wls not entirely cured. Lat
while working in Rome, he had a relapn .
He then tried other remedies, but they o -
himn no permanent relief. While work -~
in Ilion about a year ago he caught o |
through exposure, and soon had anoth
attack of his old trouble. ' Like all ip.
telligent mechanics, Mr. Kochersper rogis
the newspapers, and in one of them he & v
a statement regarding Dr. Williams' Pi |
Pills. He determined to give them a fair
trial and did so.
Whatever Mr. Kochersper does he dore
thoroughly. So in taking the Pink Piijg
he was careful to follow the directingg
implicitly, to diet as directed, and 4l
to continue the use of the remedy loix
enough to give it an opportunity to be effec.
tive. His condition improved from the starr,
and when he had taken twelve boxes he was
again a well man.
A year has passed since then, and during
that time he has not had a single = tack of
his dd ecomplaint. The ecritical nionths of
fall and spring came and went, witl their
attendant cold and dampness, but as he hag
felt no twinges of rheumatism, he feels safe
in asserting that he is permanently cuved,
He attributes his cure entirely to Dr. Wil
liams’ Pink Pills, and cheerfully recom.
mends their use to all who suffer from
rheumatism. He places great stress on ouly
one point, however, and that is that the
remedy must be faithfully used according to
directions, that the rules for dieting must he
strietly followed, and that the remedy must be
used for a sufficient length of time to eifecta
cure. After a fair trial he is convinced that
Pink Pills will do for other sufferers what
the¥ have done for him.
Mr. Kochersper is well known not only in
Hecla, where he lives, but in Oneide, Rome,
Ilion and Dolgeville, in all of which. places
he has worked.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale Pecple
are now given to the public as an unfailing
blood builder and nerve restorer, curing sll
forms of weakness arising from a watery eou
dition of the blood or shattered nerves, The
pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent
post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box or
six boxes for $2.50, (they are never sold in
bulk or by the 100), by addressing Dir. Wile
liams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
CUBAN INSURGENTS,
Organizing to Fight With Spain Against
the United States.
* A special from Havana says: The
Union Consticucional says the insurgent
chief Caballero, who tonk arms against
the Spanish goyernment at Barre on
Feb. 24, 1895, arrived at Santa Clara a
few davs ago to join the brigade being
organized by the former insurgent chief
tain Masso.
In the interview Caballero 1s alleged
to have asserted that the leading insur
gent chiets recently discussed the ques
tion of accepting American interven
tion in Cuba, and that a majority of the
insurgent leaders were against American
intervention,
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Not Earning Their Pay.
From the Oglethorpe Echo. 4
The annual fight between the fru_lt
growers of south Georgia and the rail
roads has cpened with vigor, If it were
incumbent upon our railroad commis
sioners to earn any part of the handsome
salaries paid them thers would be some
hope for the success of the growers, but
as it is they can hope to reap a very
small proportion of the profits of their
industry.
Bad management keeps more people in
poor circaumstances than any otber one
cause. To be successful one must ook
abead and plan ahead so that when @
favorable opportunity presents itself he
is ready to take advantage of It. A little
forethought will also save much expense
and valuable time, A prudent and care
ful man will keep a bottle of Chamber
lain’s Colie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem
edy in the house; the shiftless felloW
will wait until necessity compels it and
then ruin his best horse going for a doc
tor and have a big dostor bill to pay be
sides; one pays out 25 cents, the other is
out a hundred doliars, and then wonders
why his neighbor is getting richer while
he is getting poorer. For sale by Farrar
& Harris,