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Alfred Baker, Wji. B. Young,
President. Cashier.
AUGUSTA SAVINGS BANK,
Sll BROAD STREET,
■^-VXa-TTS'X'-a., C-EC2GIA.
Transacts a general banking business; com-
mercial paper discounted and loans made
on approved collateral.
Issues certificates of deposits payable cn
demand, drawing interest if left three
months or longer.
Interest paid on saving accounts.
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THE TRUE CITIZEN.
Volume 12. Waynesboro, Georgia, Saturday, August 12, 1893. Number 16.
! L. C. Hayne, J.T. Newbery,
President. Cashier.
Planters Iioan § pavings Bank,
821 Broad St., AUGUSTA, GA.
Capital—All Paid iu Cash, 4100,000.-
With Stockholders liability which guaran
tees absolute safety to all depositors.
This is the oldest Savings Bank in this city
with an unbroken record of nearly 22 years.
It transacts a general Banking business
all of its branches, and is authorized to re
ceive and disburse money, securities or prop
erty in trust, and to act as financial agentfo 4
i a,, y person firm or corporation.
Jtggp* Interest allowed on deposits in the
! Savings Department. apr20,’89-by
The Lawmakers are Assembled Ac
cording to Cievelaud’s Call.
THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAG-7,
For the First Time in an Ace the D in
ner atic Party Uules in All 15ranches
of the American Govern
ment at Washington.
Washington, Aug. 7.—Opening day
of the fifty-third congress brought with
it a most welcome and refreshing
change in the weather. The cool
breezes replaced the torrid heat of the
previous week, and it was supplement
ed by improved ventilating fans, mak-
ADLAI E. STEVENSON.
Tice President of the United States, and
President of the Senate.
ing the temperature of the house and
senate chamber quite endurable, not
withstanding the crowds of spectators
who, as usual, packed the galleries and
thronged the corridors.
Among the latter there were many
who were thoroughly not American.
At this season of the year there appears
to have been a sudden impetus in for
eign travel to the World’s Fair and Eu
ropean tourists are familiar figures on
the streets of Washington. Many of
these were about the capital at an early
hour, anxious-to see, what one typical
Englishman called, our “Hamerican
’ouse of commons.”
after the assembling of congress a mes
sage from the president was announced
and received by both houses assembled
in separate session.
The reading of the message was list
ened to with profound attention from
all parts of the house.
It is as follows:
To the Congress of the United States:
The existence of an alarming and ex-
traordinary business situation, involv
ing the welfare and prosperity of all
our people, has constrained me to call
together, in extra session, the people’s
representatives in congress, to the end
that through a wise and patriotic exer
cise of the legislative duty with which
they solely are charged the present evils
may be mitigated and the dangers
threatening the future may be averted.
Our unfortunate financial plight is
not the result of untoward events, nor
of conditions related to our natural re
sources; nor is it traceable to any of the
afflictions which frequently check nat
ural growth and prosperity. With
plenteous crops, with abundant prom
ise of remunerative production and
manufactures, with unusual invitation
to safe investment, and with satisfacto
ry assurance to business enterprise, sud
denly a financial distrust and fear have
sprung up on every side. Numerous
moneyed institutions have suspended
because abundant assets were not im
mediately available to meet the demands
of frightened depositors. Surviving
corporations and individuals are con
tent to keep in hand the money they
are usually anxious to loan, and those
engaged in legitimate business are sur
prised to find that the securities they
offer for loans, though heretofore satis
factory, are no longer accepted. Val
ues supposed to he fixed are fast becom
ing conjectural, and loss and failure
have invaded every branch of business.
I believe these things are principally
chargeable to congressional legislation,
touching the purchase and coinage of
silver by the general government. This
legislation is embodied in a statute pass
ed on the 14th day of July, 1890, which
was the culmination of much agitation
on the subject involved, and which may
be considered a truce, after a long strug
gle between the advocates of free silver
The Senate Opened.
The senate was called to order at noon,
and the opening prayer made by the
outgoing chaplain, Mr. Butler. After
the president’s proclamation was read,
the oath of office administered to Sena
tors Quay of Pennsylvania, and Pasco
of Florida, a communication was read
from Beckwith, of Wyoming, announc
ing that, owing to a combination of cir
cumstances, he had placed his resigna
tion as senator in the hands of the gov
ernor. The communication was placed
on file.
The secretary elect of senate, Cox, of
North Carolina, had the oath adminis
tered to him, and took possession of the
office.
The usual resolutions to notify the
house and president were adopted, and
then at 12:30. the death of late Senator
Stanford, of California, was announced
by Senator White, of that state, and as
a mark of respect, the senate adjourned
for the day.
The House Organized.
As early as 10:30 the house galleries
devoted to public use were filled to re
pletion. The doors leading to them
were crowded, and spectators less for
tunate than their associates peered over
the shoulders of more favored ones and
waited patiently for the hour of noon.
At 11 o’clock the reserved galleries
opened, and in one minute seats even
there were at a premium.
The picture then presented was an
animated and interesting one. The gal
leries constituted a frame and a hand
some frame it was. Ladies, who made {
ud more than one-half of the audience,
were attired in their prettiest summer
costumes. Many of them discarded
their headgear, and the fluttering of
cans and the buzz of female' conversa
tion mingled pleasantly with the sterner,
manly tones which arose from the floor.
Called to Order.
The house was called to order at
noon, the president’s proclamation
read, and the call of names of members-
elect begun. Three hundred and thir
ty-six members responded to their
names and the house proceeded to vote
for speaker, the candidate being Crisp.
Reed and Simpson. Crisp was elected
SPEAKER CP.ISP.
For the Second Time Presiding Officer of the
United States House of Re : re^entatives.
speaker, receiving 214 votes, against 122
votes for Reed and 7 votes for Simpson.
There was hearty handclapping from
members and generous applause from
the galleries when the announced induc
tion into office of Charles F. Crisp tor
speaker the second time was made.
He was escorted by Reed, Holman
and Jerry Simpson, who, minus Ins
moustache, created much amusement.
Speaker Crisp briefly acknowledged
his thanks.
THE SECOND DAY.
President Cleveland’s Message Read Be-
fore Both Houses of Congress.
Washington, Aug. 8.—Immediately
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coinage and those intending to be more
conservative.
Uundoubtedly the monthly uurchase
by the government of 4,500,000 ounces
of silver, enforced under that statute,
was regarded by those interested in sil
ver production as a certain guaranty of
its increase in price. The result, how
ever, has been entirely different, for
immediately following a spasmodic and
slight rise, the price of silver began to
fall after the passage of the act, and has
since reached the lowest point ever
known. The disappointing result lias
led to renewed and persistent effort in
the direction of free silver coinage.
Meanwhile, not only are the evil ef
fects of the operation of the present
law constantly accumulating, but the
result to which its execution must ine
vitably lead is becoming palpable to all
wlio give the least heed to financial
subjects. This law provides that in
payment for the 4,500,000 ounces of sil
ver bullion which the secretary of treas
ury is commanded to purchase monthly,
there shall be issued treasury notes re
deemable on demand in gold or silver
coin, at the discretion of the secretary
of the treasury, and that said notes
may be re-issued. It is however, de
clared in the act to be “the established
policy of the United States to maintain
the two metals on a parity with each
other upon the present legal ratio or
such ratio as may be provided by law.”
This declaration so controls the action
of the secretary of the treasury as to
prevent his exercising the discretion
nominally vested in him, if by such ac
tion the parity between gold and silver
may be disturbed. Manifestly a re
fusal by the secretary to pav these treas
ury notes in gold, if demanded, would
necessarily result in their discredit and
depreciation as obligations payable only
in silver, and would destroy the parity
between the two metals by establishing
a discrimination in favor of gold. Up to
the 15th day of July, 1893, these notes
had been issued in payment of silver
bullion purchases, to the amount of
more than §147,000,000.
While all but a very small quantity
of this bullion remains uncoined and
without usefulness in the treasury,
many of the notes given in its purchase
have been paid in gold. This is illus
trated by the statement that between
May 1st, 1892, and the 15th day of July,
1893, the notes of this kind issued in
payment for silver bullion amounted
to a little more than §54,000,000, and
that during the same period about §49,-
000,000 were paid by the treasury in
"old for redemption of such notes.
The policy necessarily adopted of
paying these notes in gold has not
spared the gold reserve of §100,000,000
long ago set aside by the government
for the redemption of other notes, for
this fund has already been subjected to
the payment of new obligations amount
ing to about §150.000,000 on account of
silver purchases, and has as a conse
quence, for the first time since its crea
tion, been encroached upon. We have
thus made the depletion of our gold
easy, and have tempted other and more
appreciative nations to add it to their
stock. That the opportunity we have
offered has not been neglected is shown
by the large amounts of gold which
have been recently drawn from our
treasury and exported to increase the
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financial strength of foreign nations.
The excess of exports of gold over its
imports for the year ending June 30,
1803, amounted to more than §S7,500,-
000; between the 1st day of July, 1890,
: and the 15th day of July, 1893, the gold
j coin and bullion in our treasury de
creased more than §132,000,000, while
during the same period the diver coin
and bullion in the treasury increased
more than §147,000,000.
Unless government bonds are to be
constantly issued and sold to replenish
our exhausted gold, only to he again
exhausted, it is apparent that the oper-
i ation of the silver purchase law now in
j force, leads in the direction of the en
tire substitution of silver for tlie gold
in the government treasury, and that
this must be followed by the payment
of all government obligations in depre
ciated silver. At this stage gold and
silver must part company and tlie gov
ernment must fail in its established
policy to maintain the two metals on a
parity with each other.
Given over to the exclusive of a cur
rency greatly depreciated according to
the standard of the commercial world,
we could no longer claim a place among
nations of the first class, nor could our
government claim a performance of its
, obligations so far as such an obligation
i has been imposed upon it, to provide for
J the use of the people the best and safest
I money. If, as many of its friends
J claim, silver ought to occupy a larger
j place in our currency and the currency
j of the world through general interna-
j tional co-operation, and agreement, it
j is desirous that the United States will
| not be in a position to gain a hearing
[ in favor of such an arrangement so
j long as all are willing to continue our
j attempt single handed. The knowl
edge in business circles among our own
people that our government cannot
make its fiat equivalent to intrinsic
value, nor keep inferior money on a
parity with superior money, by its own
independent efforts, lias resulted in
such a lack of confidence at home, in
the stabilities of currency values that
capital refuses its aid to new enter
prises while millions are actually with-
j drawn from the channels of trade and
J commerce to become idle and unpro-
j ductive in the hands of timid owners.
Foreign nations, equally alert, not
only decline to purchase American se
curities, but make haste to sacrifice
those which they already have. It does
not meet the situation to say that ap
prehension in regard to the future of
our finances is groundless, and that
there is no reason for lack of confidence
j in the purposes or power of the govern
ment in the premises. The very exis-
| tence of this apprehension and the lack
j of confidence, however caused, is a me
nace which ought not for a moment to
be disregarded. Possibly, if the under-
j taking we have in hand were the main-
| tenance of a specific known quantity of
| silver at a parity with gold our ability
i to do so might be estimated and gauged
j and perhaps in view of our unparalleled
j growth and resources, might be favor-
j ably passed upon. But when our
j avowed endeavor is to maintain such
j parity in regard to an amount of silver
j increasing at the rate of §50,000,000
yearly, with no fixed termination to
such increase it can hardly be said that
a problem is presented whose
solution is free from doubt.
The people of the United States are
entitled to a sound and stable currency,
and to money recognized as such on
every exchange and in every market of
the world. Their government has no
light to injure them by financial exper
iments opposed to the policy and prac
tice of other civilized states, nor is it
justified in permitting an exaggerated
and unreasonable reliance on our na
tional strength and ability to jeopar
dize the people’s money. This matter
rises above the plane of party politics.
It vitally concerns every business and
calling and enters every household in
the land. There is one important as
pect of the subject which especially
should never be overlooked. At times,
like the present, when the evils of un
sound finance threaten us, the specula
tor may anticipate a harvest gathered
from the misfortunes of others. The
capitalist may protect himself by hoard
ing or may even find profit in the fluc
tuation of values; but the wage-earner
—the first to be injured by a depreci
ated currency and the last to receive
the benefit of its correction—is practi
cally defenseless.
He relies for work upon the ventures
of confident and contented capital.
This failing him, his condition is with
out alleviation, for he can neither prey
on the misfortunes of others nor hoard
his labor.
One of the greatest statesmen our
country has known, speaking more than
50 years ago, when a derangement of
the currency had caused commercial
distress, said: “The very man of all oth
ers who has the deepest interest in a
sound currency and who suffers most by
mischievous legislation in money mat
ters, is the man who earns his daily
bread by his daily toil.”
These words are as pertinent now as
on the day they were uttered, and
ought ts impressively remind us that a
failure in the discharge of our duty at
this time must especially inj ure those
of our countrymen who labor, and who,
because of their number and condition,
are entitled to the most watchful care
of their government. It is of the ut
most importance that such relief as con
gress can afford in the existing situa-
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tion be afforded at once. The maxim,
“He gives twice who gives quickly,” is
directly applicable.
| It may be true that the embarrass-
: ments from which the business of the
: country is suffering, arise as much from
I evils apprehended, as from those actu-
j ally existing. All may hope, too, that
! calm counsels will prevail and that
| neither the capitalists nor the wage
earners will give way to unreasoning
j panic and sacrifice their property or
j their interests under the influence of
i exaggerated fears.
Nevertheless, every day’s delay in re-
j moving one of the plain and principal
causes of the present state of things en-
I larges the mischief already done and in-
! creases the responsibility of the goveipi-
j ment for its existence.
Whatever else the paople have aright
| to expect from congress they may cer-
I tffinly demand that legislation con-
j demued by the ordeal shall be removed
j from the statute books as soon as their
i representatives can legitimately deal
with it.
It is my purpose to summon congress
in special session early in September,
that we might enter promptly upon the
work of tariff reform which the true
interests of the country clearly demand,
which so large a majority of tiie people,
as shown by their suffrages, desire and
expect, and to the accomplishment of
which every 7 effort of the present ad-
j ministration is pledged.
I But while tariff reform has lost noth-
! ing of its immediate and permanent ini-
! portance and must in the near future
! engage the attention of congress, it has
seemed to me that the financial condi
tion of the country should at once and
before all other subjects be considered
by your honorable body.
i earnestly recommend the prompt
| repeal of the provisions of the act pass -
ed July 14, 1890, authorizing the
purchase of silver bullion, and
that other legislative action may
put, beyond all doubt, or mis
take the intention and the ability of the
government to fulfill its pecuniary ob
ligations in money universally recog
nized by all civilized countries.
[Signed.] Grover Cleveland.
Executive Mansion, Aug. 7, 1893.
THE BONE OF CONTENTION.
Full Text of the Sherman Silver Pur
chasing Act of 1890.
An act directing the purchase of silver
bullion and the issue of treasury notes
thereon, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the senate and house
of representatives of the United States of
America, in congress assembled, That the
secretary of the treasury is hereby direct
ed to purchase from time to time silver
bullion to the aggregate amount of 4,500,-
000 ounces, or so much thereof as may be
offered each month, at the market price
thereof, not exceeding SI for three huu-
I dred and seventy-one and tweuty-five-
j hundredths grains of pure silver, aud to
i issue in payment for suoii purchase of sil-
! ver bullion treasury uotes of the United
I States to he prepared by the secretary of
j the treasury in such form aud of such de-
j nominations—not less than SI nor more
| than §1,1.00—as he may prescribe, and a
I sum sufficient to carry into effect the pro
visions of this act is hereby appropriated
out of any money in the treasury not oth
erwise appropriated.
Sec. 2. That the treasury notes issued in
accordance with the provisions of this act
shall be redeemable on demand, in coin,
at the treasury of the United States, or at
the office of any assistant treasurer of the
United States,and when so redeemed may
he reissued, but uo greater or less amount
of such notes shall be outstanding at any
time than the cost of the silver bullion
and tiie stagdard silver dollars coined
therefrom, then held in the treasury pur
chased by suclqnotes; and such treasury
notes shall be a legal tender in payment
of all debts, public and private, except
where otherwise expressly stipulated in
the contract, aud shall be receivable for
customs, taxes and public dues, and when
so received may be reissued; and such
notes, when held by any national bank
ing association, may be counted as a part
of its lawful reserve. That upon demand
of the holder of any of the tie isury notes
herein provided for the secretary of the
treasury shall, under such regulations as
lie may prescribe, redeem such notes in
gold or sliver coiu at his discretion, it be-
| ing the established policy of the United
States to maintain the two metals oa a
parity with each other upon the present
legal ratio, or such ratio as may be pro
vided by law.
Sec. 3. That the secretary of the treasu
ry shall each mouth coin 2,000,000 ounces
of tiie silver bullion purchased under the
provisions of this act into standard silver
dollars until the 1st day of July, 1S31, and
after that time he shall coin of the silver
bullion purchased under the provisions
of this act as much as may be necessary
to provide for the redemption of the
treasury notes herein provided for, and
and any gain or seigniorage arising from
such coinage shall be accounted for aud
paid into the treasury.
Sec. 4. That the silver bullion pur
chased under the provisions of this act
shall be subject to the requirements of
existing laws and the regulations of the
mint service governing the methods of
determining the amount of pure silver
contained and the amount of charges of
deductions, if any, to be made.
Sec. 5. That so much of the act of Feb.
28, 1878, entitled “An act to authorize the
coinage of the standard silver dollar, aud
to restore its legal tender character,” as
requires the monthly purchase and coin
age of the same into silver dollars of not
less than §2.000,000 nor more than §4,000,-
0U0 worth of silver bullion is hereby re
pealed.
Sec. 0. That upon the passage of this
act the balance standing with the treas
urer of tlie United States to the respec
tive credits of national banks for deposits
made to redeem tho circulating notes of
such banks and all deposits thereafter
received for like purpose shall be covered
into the treasury as a miscellaneous re
ceipt, and the treasurer of the United
States shall redeem from the general cash
in the treasury the circulating notes of
said banks which may come into his pos
session subject to redemption, aud upon
the certificate of the comptroller of the
currency that such notes have been re
ceived by him, and that they have been
destroyed by him and that no new notes
will be issued iu their place, reimburse
ment of their amount shall be made to
the treasurer, under sucli regulations as
the secretary of the treasury may pre
scribe. from an appropriation hereby
created, to be known as national bank
notes redemption account, but the provi
sions of this act shall not apply to the de
posits received under section 3 of the act
of June 20, 1874, requiring every-national
bank to keep in lawful money with the
treasurer of the United States a su.-i
equal to 5 per centum of its circulation,
to be held and used for the redemption of
its circulating notes, and the balance re
maining of the deposits so covered shall
at the close of each month be reported on
the monthly public debt statement as
debt of the United States bearing no in
terest.
Sec. 7. That this act shall take effect 80
days from and after its passage.
Approved July 14,1890.
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HEWS OF SPECIAL INTEEEST
The Happenings Throughout the South
ern States Recorded as They Are
Gathered and Given Out
Without Comment-
Augusta. Ga., Aug. 5.—A sensation-
| al shooting affray occurred in North
I Augusta, a suburb across the river in
Carolina.
Mr. James A. Fulcher, a crockery
merchant in Augusta, shot at Mr, Pleas
McCatliern three times.
Mr. Fulcher has heard for some time
that McCatliern was frequently in his
wife’s society and constantly associat
ing with her on evenings while he was
at work, and he became suspicions of
their intimacy, and watched his wife,
who met McCathern, and they went
out for a walk over the river. Fulcher,
unseen, followed the couple, accompa
nied by &ne of liis clerks.
When McCathern and Mrs. Fulcher
stopped in the woods, Mr. Fulcher hur
riedly 7 advanced and fired three times
upon McCathern, who dropped his coat
and hat and ran off, leaving Mrs. Ful
cher behind.
Mr. Fulcher picked up the coat and
hat and returned to the city. McCath
ern came back to town shortly after
wards uninjured, a yd he went before
Magistrate Neibling and swore out a
peace warrant against Fulcher and his
cierk; also took out a possessory war
rant for the recovery 7 of his clothes. Mr.
Fulcher crossed McCathern’s peace war
rant with another. Mr. Fulcher claims
that McCathern has wooed his wife and
alienated her affections from him.
Mrs. Fulcher is middle aged, and has
been married over 20 years.
Baltimore, Aug. 4.—Miss Ollie Wil-
j kinson, of Baltimore, and Charles Mac-
Alister, of Philadelphia, will be mar
ried here next week. Walter J. Wil
kinson, Miss Wilkinson’s brother, and
Mrs. Charles MacAlister, the divorced
wife of his prospective brother-in-law,
will soon be married in Europe, where
they are now traveling.
“Mr. and Mrs. MacAlister visited the
Wilkinsons here last winter, and later
Miss Wilkinson travelled south with
Mr. and Mrs. MacAlister. An attach
ment seems to have grown up between
Mr. Wilkinson and Mrs. MacAlister,
the result being the divorce of the Mac-
Alisters and the coming double mar
riage into the Wilkinson family 7 .
The MacAlisters are prominent in
Philadelphia society, and the Wilkin
sons In Baltimore’s four hundred. Mr.
MacAlister is now at his shooting box
in New Jersey.
Brunswick, Ga., Aug. 5.—The Eve
ning Call, a new daily 7 for Brunswick,
will make its first appearance here next
Monday. The Call will be a five col
umn, four page paper, devoted to the
interests of Brunswick, and the propri
etors and publishers promise to give a
live, newsy and reliable paper that will
be a credit to them and the city 7 . Mr.
M. J. Parker will he business manager,
and will have associated with him
Messrs. Robert B. Lindsay and George
A. Carney. All of these gentlemen are
well known to the people of Brunswick,
each having lived here a number of
years, and each has many friends who
will give the paper cordial support.
Columbus, Miss., Aug. 5.—Hon. W.
R. Morrison, of Illinois, member of the
interstate commerce commission, has
been here taking testimony in regard to
alleged discrimination^in rates against
Columbus by the Mobile and Ohio and
the Richmond and Danville roads. He
came on the invitation of the hoard of
trade of this city to investigate the rates
in effect to this and some other points
on this road. Mr. J. T. Poe, general
freight agent, and Mr. R. P. Deshon,
attorney for the Mobile and Ohio, and
Mr. H. Miller, general freight agent of
the Richmond and Danville, were also
here. The testimony was taken, but
the case will not be decided until the
commission meets in Washington.
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 4.—News
has been received hero from Evergreen,
a little town south of Montgomery on
the Louisville and Nashville railroad,
of a desperate shooting affray 7 which
occurred near there. Deputy 7 Sheriff
Harry Riley had a warrant for the ar
rest of a desperate man, Tom Broker,
who recently 7 shot and killed Frank
Wells. When the deputy came upon
Bocker a duel with pistols took place.
The deputy’s hat was shot off his head
by 7 Booker and Booker was hit and in
stantly killed.
It Shoud. Be Iu Every Huuse.
J. H. Wilson, 371 Clay street,
Sharpsburg, Pa., says he will not be
without Dr. King’s New Discovery
for consumption, coughs and colds;
that it cured his wife who was
threatened with pneumonia after
an attack of la grippe, when various
other remedies and several physi
cians had done her no good. Robt.
Barber, of Cooksport, Pa., claims
Dr. King’s New Discovery has done
him more good than anything he
ever used for lung trouble. Noth
ing like it. Try it. Free trial bot
tles at Ford & Fulcher’s drug store.
Large bottles, 50c. and §1.
Clarksville, Tenn., Aug. 5.—James
Darnell, leader of the outlaw band,
which for the past year lias been a ter
ror in the vicinity of Thomkinsvillo,
Kv., has been captured at Alvarado,
Tex., and brought back for trial. He
endeavored to escape from Sheriff Pat
terson at Princeton Junction by jump
ing through the window when the train
was running at a 25-mile-an-hour speed.
He was afterward found in a near by
thicket where he had crawled, badly
injured and still handcuffed.
Dyspepsia aiul Liver Complaint.
Is it not worth the small price of 75c. to free
yourself of every symptom of these distress
ing complaints? If you think so call at our
store and get a bottle of Shiloh’s Vitalizer.
every bottle lias a printed guarantee or. it,
use accordingly, and if it does you no gpod it
will cost you nothing. Sold by Whitehead &
Co., Waynesboro. Ga.
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Williamston, S. C., Aug. 4.—John
. Hicks caught his wife in a compromis
ing position with Jeff Reynolds and
emptied both loads of his shotgun into
Reynold’s side and abdomen, inflicting
wounds which will cause death. All
the parties were respectable people and
the woman had not been suspected of
wrong-doing. Hicks will probably not
be arrested and public sentiment up
holds him. Reynolds himself said
Hicks did right.
Augusta, Ga., Aug. 5.—The Georgia
railroad tenders free passes to delegates
to tho State Agricultural association,
which meets at Stone Mountain Wednes
day, ^.qgust S. All other roads in the
state liave already done the same.
Jackson, Miss., Aug. 7.—The pre
liminary trial of Holcolm Cameron for
killing Dr. George S. Roudebush was
had at Canton, Miss.
Miss Cameron, the only witness to
the killing, was not put on the stand
and it was agreed that the case should
stand upon the dying declaration of
Roudebush which in substance was
that Roudebush was kissing Cameron’s
sister, and had his arm around her
when he was shot.
Bail was fixed at §10,000, which was
promptly given. It is believed that this
ends the case, it not being thought that
tho grand jury which does not meet for
several months will return a bill.
Chattanooga, Aug. 7.—A defective
has unearthed a system by which stock
owners in this city have suffered heavy
losses. Mat Crouch and Bud Lowry,
white men of respectable apj^aranoe,
are in jail. The charge is that they had
a systematic plan of stealing stray
horses and driving them to Georgia and
returning them when a reward was of
fered. One of the men, it is alleged,
would pick up the stock on the com
mons at East End and drive it way.
The other would find the stock and re
ceive the reward.
Florence, S. C., Aug. 7.—News has
been received from Rev. W. A. Guerry.
of this city, who is spending his sum
mer holiday in North Carolina, that he
has telegraphed his acceptance of the
chaplaincy at the university of the
south at Sewanee, Tenn., made vacant
by the consecration of Rev. Thomas J.
Gailor as bishop of Tennessee. Mr.
Guerry lias received calls from St. Phil
lips Episcopal church, Atlanta, from
New Orleans, La., and from Trinity
church, Columbia, which it was thought
he would accept.
Hillsboro, Tex., Aug. 5.—Fire at 4
o'clock a. in., destroyed Hattie Rogers’
house of ill fame and beer saloon. She
is thought to be fatally 7 injured. Maud
Webb, an inmate, perished in the
flames. Five others barely escaped
with their lives. Joe Chumley, a citi
zen. was dangerously injured while try
ing to assist the women from the build
ing. Three negroes and one white man
have been arrested on suspicion of set
ting fire to the house.
Asheville, N. c.. Aug. 4.—A. B.
Wheeler, superintendent of the Balti
more brick and tile works, is under ar
rest on a charge of larceny preferred by
Charles Moname, agent for George W.
Vanderbilt. Wheeler's system of steal
ing, it is alleged, was falsifying pay
rolls. He came here in March, 1890,
from Monticello. N. Y., and began work
for Vanderbilt at a salary of §200 per
month.
New 7 Orleans, .-vug. 5.—A. M. Rore-
shides, bookkeepeFand confidontial man
for J. D. Peet <fc Co., lias been arrested
for raising checks and failing to
account for city and county collections.
E. P. Seymour, an employee in the
house was Roreshides’ accomplice, and
was also arrested. The amount 'in
volved is §8,000. The accused admits
his guilt.
Oh, What a Cough.
Will you heed tlie warning? Tlie signal
perhaps, of the sure approacli of that mo: t
terrible disease, consumption. Ask your
selves if you can afford for tlie sake of saving
50c. to run tlie risk and do nothing for it. We
know from experience that Shiloh’s Cure will
cure your cough. It never fails. This ex
plains why more than a million bottles wer<j
sold the past year. It relieves croup and
whooping cough at once. Mothers do not he
without it. For lame hack, side or chest use
Shiloh’s Porous Plaster. Sold by Whitehead
A Co., Waynesboro Ga.
Norwood, Ga.. Aug. 5.—Warren
county held an election for receiver of
tax returns to till the vacancy caused
by 7 the death of H. H. Hill. There were
two candidates in the field, W. H. Shel
ton, Populist, and Isaac H. Binson.
Democrat, Shelton’s majority over
Binson, Democrat, was 487. Total vote
polled in the county 7 979.
The Week, y (institution.
We call attention to the announce
ment of the Weekly Constitution
published at Atlanta, Ga. The Con
stitution has the largest number of
subscribers of any weekly newspa
per published in the world, now hav
ing more than 150,000 regular sub
scribers. It wants 200,000 and we
commend it to our readers. No pa
per has done more for the upbuild
ing of the agricultural interests of
the south than the Constitution. It
has worked for years for the agri
cultural development of this section
and for the betterment of the farm
ers’ condition.
With recent improvements and
additional facilities the Constitution
is now a better newspaper than
ever, and is iq a position to push
with increased vigor its magnificent
work for the agricultural develop
ment of the south. Being essenti
ally a newspaper, and at the same
time devoting much of its space to
the very best of current literature
and to such special features as are
of peculiar interest to the farmers,
it commends itself to every farming
household.
It will be glad to furnish sample
copies on application, and we have
made arrangements to send it to all
yearly paid ud subscribers to Tiie
Citizen for 75 cents. If you are a
subscriber to this paper and want
the Constitution, seventy-five cents
gets it at any time.
All clubbing subscriptions should
be sent to us. All requests for
sample copies should be addressed
to the Constitution, Atlanta, Ga.
—Wanted—beef cattle and hogs
Highest market price paid in cash.
dc.!7tf. W. J. Stephens.
ITS A QUEER WOMAN
—who cannot understand the benefit
to be derived from the use of Dr.
Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. Did
you ever see a sickly woman with
bright eyes, clear skin, and rosy
cheeks? Or a healthy one without
them? A woman can live in full
health, do more work, have more
pleasure, amount to more, by taking
the “Prescription.” When the
bodily functions are not regular the
woman is delicate.
As a support for nervous, ex
hausted, overworked, women, it’s an
invigorating tonic, a soothing and %
strengthening nervine; besides, it
lessens pain. It’s the only remedy
for woman’s chronic weaknesses and
irregularites that’s guaranteed to
benefit or cure, or the money paid
for it refunded.
Memphis, Aug 7.—The grand jury
has indicted Sheriff McLendon, Deputy
Sheriff J. A. Perkins, Jailer Harold and
Police Captains O’Hara and Hackett for
failing to do their duty in permitting
Lee Walker to be taken fiom the jail
and lynched and burned two weeks ago.
Several of the members of the mob
were also indicted.
Clarksville, Tenn., Ang. 7.—At the
small town of Newport a sickening
enrne is reported to have been commit
ted by a woman. Because her child
disobeyed her she whipped it to death,
and then heated irons red hot and with
them burned the flesh of her offspring
in numerous places.
Watkinsville, Ga., Ang. 7.—John
Callaway, the negro who attempted
rape*on the person of Mrs. John W.
Redman on the night of the 26th of
June, was captured near Loganville
and has been lodged in jail here. There
was a reward of §200 for his capture.
Gainesville, Tex', Aug. 7.—L. B.
Parshall, a leading cattle man of the
Indian Territory , was shot and killed by
concealed assassins near his home on
Red Creek. Dick Ketchuro and his
brother were arrested charged with the
assassination.
Atlanta, Ang. 4.—Porter stocks,
who was convicted of the killing of
Alph Cassin about a year ago, and
whose case has been in all of the courts,
has just been sentenced to a term of
five years in the penitentiary.
Montgomery, Ang. 4.—The first bale
of Alabama raised cotton of this crop
was soW at Ozark Wednesday for 10
cents a pound. It was shipped to tnis
city. Another bale was received at Do
than. which sold for cents.
Macon, Aug. 7.—Friday night the
Central railroad discharged 160 men
from its car shops. Mr. Klein says
times are dull and the traffic does not
require that many men in the shops.
Electric Bitters.
This remedy is becoming so well
known and so popular as to need no spe
cial mention. All who have used Elec
tric Bitters sing the same song of praise,
A purer medicine does not exist, and it is
guaranteed to do all that is claimed.
Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of
the liver and kidneys, will remove pim
ples, boils, salt rheum and other affec
tions caused by impure blood. Will
drive malaria from tiie system and pre
vent as well as cure all malarial fevers.
For cure of headache, constipation and
indigestion, try Electric Bitters. Entire
satisfaction guaranteed or money re
funded. Price 50c. and SI Der bottle, at
by Ford & Fulcher, druggists. .
ABOUT TO COLLAPSE.
The French Cabinet Was in a Fair IVay to
Go to Pieces.
Paris, Aug. 5.—It is now known that
the active intervention of President
Carnot alone prevented a ministerial
crisis and probably a different issue out
of the Siamese trouble. M. Delcasse,
supported by a majority of the minis
ters, who stubbornly insisted that
harsher terms be exacted from Siam as
a stepping stone to a French protector
ate, and M. Deville would have been
compelled to yield or resign if M. Car
not had not thrown his whole weight
into the scale in favor of his policy, and
induced the Delcasse party to content
themselves with the additional condi
tions imposed in the second ultimatum.
The Delcasse clique are particularly
gratified at the establishment of a con
sulate at Korat, which, a few years
hence, will be connected with Bangkok
by railway, and is regarded as an admi
rable center for French intrigues in the
future.
D eafness Can’t be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot reach
tlie diseased portion of tlie ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is by
constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused
by an inflamed condition of the mucous lin
ing of the Eustachian Tube, hen this tube
gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely
closed deafness is the result, and unless this
inflammation can be taken out and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hearing will
be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but
an inflamed condition of ihe mucous surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that we
cannot cure by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75 cents.
Advertise in The citizen.