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TN CORICECT TYON
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In last week’s- NEWS there appeared an article which stated that the price of Drug
and Medicines would be greatly increased owing to the war revenue stamp tax, g,
while it is true that we will have to stamp nearly two-thirds ot our stock we neye,
theless will notimpose the burden of paying the stamp tax on our customers, },
will bear it ourselves, Soliciting a continuance ot the patronage of the people |
Da-wson and Te'rell county, we remain yours truly,
, Proprers of The Mano Steet P
PARRAR & GARRLS, Propeors of The Man Steel Phamy
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STANDARD SQUARE BALES.
MATTER OF IMPORTANCE TO COT
TOY GROWERS AND GINNERS,
Bales ¢f Uniform Size Demanded.
Reason Why all Cotton Bales
Should Be of ¢“Stand
ard Size,”
Tae News publishes the following
letter, which has been addressed to the
cotton prodacers and ginners of the
south by J. H. Sloan, the well knowvn
cotton merchant of Augusta, Ga., and
commends it to the careful considera
tion of the farmers and cotton ginners
of sonthwest Georgia :
AvugusTa, GA,, July 1, 1898.—Dear
sir—We take the liberty of calling
your attention to the iriportance of
exerting all your efforts in favor of the
standard size cotton bale, which 15 a
baie made in press box measuring on
the inside 24 inches wide by 54 inches
long, and deep enough to make a bale
weighing about 500 pounds.
The complaints made by the trans
portation companies and the foreign
mills about the difficulties of stowing
different size bales, and the damaged
condition 1n which the American cot
ton is received, are so numerous that
we are sure a great discrimination will
be made against our cotton next season
unless there isa change made and
a universal size bale adopted and en
forced.
After a number of experiments with
‘bales of all the different sizes it was
found that the best results could be
had from those made in press-boxes 24
inches wide by 54 inches long, and this
size has been adopted as the standard
by all the cotton growers’ associations
in the western and gulf states; also by
the convention 1n Atlanta, Ga., last
May. :
This size (24x54) was found to press
60 & greater density, and wheu pressed
ay the compress the bagging usually
placed on a bale of cotton would then
cover vhe bale completely and prevent
any damage.
It is well understood that the more
cotton that can be stowed 1n a steamer
the less theffreight, and consequently
the more the cotton grower will re
ceive for his crop. It naturally seems
that a few inches in the size of bales
would make no differenca, but a few
inches running irregularly through an
‘ocean steamer amounts toa great loss
Qf space, and instowing bales of irreg
ular sizes they are so screwed into odd
shaped spaces as to often break, and
nearly always are torn and twisted out
of shape by the time they reach the
foreign ports. The lost spaces also
form air passages, and in case of fire
the damage is much greater, conse
quently the insurance is higher than it
should be. The same complaints are
made by the railroads, and by the mills
when they put their cotton in ware.
houses,
We think we have fully explained
the reasouns for this change, and it is to
your interest to do all that is in your
power to have every one make this
change by next season. As a general
rule the press-boxes will have to be
made smaller,either one way or both,
This can be done with very little ex
pense by lining the inside with boards,
one lining on another where the size is
to be reduced several inches. Then the
follow b'ock can be sawed off to fit the
box. The cost of making this change
in most cases will not exceed $5.
This amount is too small to spare, and ‘
thereby continue to suffer the loss
caused by discriminations in the past,
as well as additional ones that will
surely follow.
. The European wmills use about three
fourths of our cotton crop, and, of
course, they have a great deal to do
with the price of cotton therefore it is
to our interest to see that it is shipped
in the condition they want it, and by
reducing the damage and the cost of
transportation the grower will get
that much more for his cotton.
We have received letters from a ma
jovity of the ginners in our territory,
and they promise to alter their press.-
boxes to the standard size. We respect.
fully solicit the co-operation of al
growers, and those iuterested 1n the
colton “rop, to urge upon the ginners
the importance of making all bales of
the standard size,as the success of the
movement and the benefits to be deriv
ed from it depend upon them. We are
confident that a large majority of the
ginners will make this change, but it
is necessary that the change be as near
universal as possible.
We are anxious to hear from those
that are interested in th)s movement,
and especially those that have made
this change. Yours respectfully,
J. H. SLOAN.
NOMINATED A NEGRO.
Republicans Name a Negro to Oppose
Judge Griggs.
As predicted 1n last week’s NEws, the
republican convention of the sec nd dis
trict, which met in Albany Thursday,
nominated a negro for congress. The
Albany Herald gives the fullowing ac
count of the meeting:
““The second district republican con
gressional convention met in the court
house in this city yesterday afternoon
and nominated a candidate for congress.
The man nominated is a negro Method
ist preacher at Bainbridge, and he made
a speech accepting the nomination and
piedging himself to make a canvass of
the district and to bea: aloft the banner
of the g. o. p.
‘“All the counties in the district were
represented except Worth and
Thomas, and there was only one lone
some white man in the whole number,
Captain O'Donnelle, postmaster at Bain
bridee,
“Professor J. L. Reddick of Shellman,
chairman of the district executive com
mittee, called the meeting to order and
presided over its deliberations. J. C.
Dixon of Dawson served as secretary.
**On motion the old executive commit
tee was continued for another two
years,”
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JUDICIAL CONYENTION.
Professor J. W. F.Lowrey Is in Atlanta to
Represent Terrell County.
Professor J. W. F. Lowrey has gone
to Atlanta to represent Terrell county
in the jndicial convention which will
meet there today to nominate demo
cratic candidates for supreme court
justices. 1. J, Simmons for chief jus
ticeand W. H. Fish and H. T'. Lewis
for associate justices, having carried
the recent primary held over the state,
will be nominated by acclamation.
Death of a Good Man,
Mr. Willis Hammond, one of Terrell’s
oldest and most highly respected citi
zens, died at his home in the T'welfth
district at 1 o’ciock Mooday night, and
was buried at Chickasawhatchee ehurch
near the city, yesterday afternoon, Rev,
R. H. Jennings performing the last sad
rites, Mr., Hammond had been a
congistent member of the Primitive
Baptist church for a long number of
years and bhad led an upright and
blameless life, enjoying the esteem and
¢ontidence of all who knew him. A
wife, two sons (Or. J. H. Hammond of
Enigma and Mr. R, E. L. Hammond of
this county) and three daughters are left
to moura his loss. The sorrowing ones
have the sympathy of a host of friends.
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: WHAT THEY ARE FOR.
Yellow Jack Calls Col. Ray’s Germ Proof
Soldiers to the Front,
The fact that Dawson has a numbe: of
immunes (?) in Colonel Ray's regiment
of fever-proof soldiers gives a local in
terest Lo this from the Macon News:
The question has often been asked
with reference to Colonel Ray’s regi
ment of immunes, ‘“What are they for?”
Tue answer to this question has come in
the announcement that yellow fever has
appeared at Santiago.
It is only a matter of a few days now
when Colonel Ray’s fever-proof soldiers
will be sent to the front to take the
places of thise who are not immunes.
This is demonstrating the practical good
to be derived from having a regiment of
immuues ready and waiting to defy yel
low jack and all the other diseases that
usually afflict soldiers in tropical coun
tries,
We have no official information as to
when the Macon ixamunes will be order
ed to the front, but it will probably be
done as soon as the yellow fever begins
to spread. Then will the thousand brave
bovs who have already bad their bout
with yellow jack rush in and defy fever,
smallpox and everything else. It will be
necessary for the Spaniards to kill them
with bullets in order to get rid of them;
for they are proof against everything
else,
It is understood that Colonel Ray’s
immunes are overjoyed thattheir chance
has come. They have listened long
enough to the insinuation that some few
have slipped into the regiment without
being able to show an honorable yeliow
fever record. They now want an op
portunity to show what they cam do to
yellow jack. And the government will
propably give them a chance at onee.
It is believed that with Shafter’s army
reiuforced by three or four thowsaud
men who can inhale yellow fever germs
like so much insense, who can run
against the disease day after day and
never feel any injurious effects, thel
American army in Cuba will be inval
nerable, |
With so many germ-proof soldiers al
the front the Spaniards ean no longer
regard Yellow Jack as an ally, Colenel’
Ray’s boys laugh at the thought.
CRUSADE AGAINST BAD WOMEN.
An Anonymous = Writer Gives Notice
Throagh VPostmaster Alexander,
Postmaster Alexander received the
followlng letter through the mail Sun
day:
““MR CAPIN ELLECTZANDER: There
have Ben agremeant mide amuig us to
have all of the bad womins kill what act
ing Bad in town. Tell it to all around.
I shot at Jane with a pistol and Jane
will be first one git kill.”’
MW
~ A Land Deal,
Real Estate Agent Horsley has sold
Bix acres of the Sharp land, north of the
city, to Mr. C. G. Lewis. The Pprice paid
was $25 an acre.
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Clean blood means a clean skin. No
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stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
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anish pimples, boils, lotches, blackheads,
and that sic‘idy bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug
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A pretiy young girl was taken in
charge by the police of Atlanta Wednes
day night for wearing men’s clothes on
the street. She was dressed in a full
suit of United States ‘‘regimeuntals,” and
sha intended to enlist if she could pass
muster wvithout her sex being discover
ed. She gave her name a 8 Lizzie Gam
mon, Her parents caused her arrest,
Mr. John Bevins, editor of the Press,
Anthou, lowa, says: “I have used
Chamberlain’s Colie, Cholera and Diar
thoea Remedy ip 'my family for fifteen
years, have recommended it t¢ hundreds
of others apd bave never known it to
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Some of our new goods have arrived, and in a few weeks we
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