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Alfred Baker, Wm. B. Young,
President. Cashier.
AUGUSTA SAVINGS BANK,
.. Sil BROAD STREET,
&EOSGIA.
Transacts a general ban king business; com
mercial paper discounted and loans made
on approved collateral.
Issues certificates of deposits payable on
demand, drawing interest if left three
months or longer.
Interest paid on saving accounts.
feb!8,’93—by
THE TRUE CITIZEN.
Volume 12. . Waynesboro, Georgia, Saturday, September 2, 1893. Number 19.
L. C. Hayne, J.T. Nkwbxby,
President. Cashier.
Planters Iioan § .Savings Bank,
821 Broad St., AUGUSTA, GA.
Capital—All Paid in Ca«h, $100,0€0.
With Stockholders liability which guaran
tees absolute safety to all depositors.
This is the oldest Savings Rank 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
I I ceive and disburse money, securities or prop
erty in trust, and to act as financial agentfoi
any person firm or corporation.
Vfif* Interest allowed on deposits in tli*
Savings Department. apr20.’89-by
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Destruction It Wrought Along
the Southern Coast.
IT WAS FATAL IN SAVANNAH.
One* Death ltesult<><l in Charleston, and
Florida, from South to North, v.as
Visited by tin.* Destroyer.
ment. Two immense meetings of credi
tors were at once held, expressing unlim
ited confidence in the bank managers.
As a result, a committee was appointed
to secure consent of depositors that as
signees surrender the trust and that the
bank be reopened. The liabilities were
si ,1)00,000; assets, about $8.600,000. Ev
ery depositor interested in tbe large line
of liabilities has signed the agreement by
which time is given to the bank to pay
up its indebtedness and tbe assignees
have tamed the bank, tissets, etc., over
to the firm, and the bank door will be
reopened at once, and business resumed.
From South Carolina.
Atlanta, Aug. 30.—The hurricane
which was hooked for the south Atlan
tic coast several days ago, appeared
promptly on time, and, not since the
summer of ’81, has such havoc been
wrought.
The story from Savannah is appalling.
From Charleston, comes a tale of des
olation that has seldom been approxima
ted.
Brunswick, the ill-fated “city by the
sea" adds another chapter of suffering
wrought by the elements, which has
been heaped up< >n her in addition to the
horrors through which she is passing
from yellow fever.
Augusta, away in the interior, sends
accounts of a storm, than which nothing
within the recollection of the oldest citi
zens has been more terrible.
Upward, through Florida the monster
came, devastating a large territory of
the peninsular state and destroying tele
graphic facilities, thus cutting the coun
try off from communication with the
world abroad.
Fearful in Savannah.
Wheeling, Aug. 29.—The liabilities
of the Buchanan River Lumber compa
ny. failed, will reach *200,000, with as
sets that will more than cover that
amount. The creditors are principally
banks that hold the company’s paper.
The concern was one of the largest in
the state, and employed 1,000 men. It
is thought an arrangement can be made
with the creditors to permit the works
to resume soon.
Lancaster, Kv., Aug. 29.—Frank
Turner, the Garrard county outlaw, es
caped from the jail during a visit of his
wife to his cell. As Jailer Rothwell un
bolted tlie door to let Mrs. Turner out
the two brushed by him, Turner flying
through all doors to the street, where
Mrs. Turner had hitched her horse.
Mounting the steed he sped out of town,
and the devising wife walked home.
Atlanta, Aug. 2G.—The paying teller
of one of' the leading banks here, with
gold, silver and currency piled up around
him, says: “There are no hard times.
It is all .talk." The clearing house cer
tificates, for which the people here have
been clamoring, are not to be seen at
this bank, and checks are paid in cur
rency. Let the cotton come along, and
Atlanta will be ready to pay for it.
The worst wreckage seems to have oc
curred in, and around Savannah.
The street cars were compelled to stop
about 10 o’clock, and a little later the
electric light wires went out. leaving the
city in darkness, the telephones ceased to
work, telegraph wires were blown down
and all outside communication was cut
off.
The damage done was fearful, the
< )cean Steamship and the Savannah,
Florida and Western docks were sub
merged; the Tybee railroad track was
washed to pieces, and many buildings
swept away on the island.
The quarantine station, just comple
ted. was swept away, and four barks
were driven ashore during the gale.
One negro was frilled in the city by
pulling on a live electric wire, and many
were drowned on the plantations along
the' river.
But the saddest death of all was that
of A. G. Ulmer, cashier of the Central
railroad bank, who had gone over to his
farm on Hutchinson's island to pay off
hands, and from the bruises on bis bead
and body it is supposed he was blown
against an outshed when he jumped from
from Ms bam.
Many others are missing, and the meas
ure of fatalities cannot even be guessed
until the wreck of the hurricane is
cleared up. The loss of property amounts
to a large sum. but cannot be estimated
ns yet. thousands of dollars in buildings,
railroad lines, telegraph, electric light,
telephone and other public enterprises,
besides the shipping and the business
bouses and dwellings in the city. The
rice crop is ruined in the path of the
storm and other crops have suffered ter
ribly.
Six vessels, names unknown, were
wrecked outside the harbor. The fol
lowing were wrecked in the river: Bark
Harold, bark Linden, bark Elma, bark
Mexico, bark Royal, bark Andacia,
schooner Leila, steamboat Abbeville and
an oyster boat.
On Tybee Island.
The Hotel Tybee is considerably dam
aged in front. Her verandas are gone,
and so are lier bathhouses. The Knights
of Pythias clubhouse was washed away.
Two of the cottages of the Cottage Club
are gone. The railroad pavilion is all
right, and so is Captain Henry Blun’s
house. The Naylor house is damaged
slightly. The Butler house is gone. Mr.
Starr's house was washed into the woods.
The Ranche and Rambler clubhouses
were wrecked. The railroad track is
cleaned out. Henry Green’s house was
burned. George Bossell’s cottage was
swept out to sea.
The north end is practically cleaned
out. The water swept with tremendous
force over this part of the island,railroad
tracks being carried from 200 to 500 feet.
On the south end, the Chathams’ club
bouse is badly damaged. The pavilions
on the beach are gone; so is the switch
back.
Havoc in South Carolina.
A special from Columbia says:
All South Carolina was in the very
teeth of the storm. The state weather
observer says that nearly the entire early
rice crop has been destroyed and that
cotton has been injured from 25 to 30 per
cent. The crops in this section are in a
distressing condition. Corn and peas
are ruined. Pasture fences have been
blown away and the cattle are scattered
everywhere. Bams and cribs have been
blown down, leaving the forage exposed.
One Death at Charleston.
At Charleston the storm was terrible.
Fortunately the people had timely warn
ing, and there were few large vessels in
the harbor, the small craft getting under
comparative shelter before the storm
burst.
Tlie velocity of the wind was upwards
of 60 miles an hour, and a great deal of
damage was done to property, estimated
at more than *1,000,000.
Oiilj- one life was lost as so far report
ed, and that was a negro woman: but
from Ten Mile House to the battery the
storm track is a waste.
Charleston was completely cut off from
outside communication.
Damage at Washington.
Washington, Aug. 30.—The storm
did immense damage to the shade tree a
in Washington, tearing them up by the
roots or dismembering them in every di
rection.
The electric light and telephone ser
vice in Alexandria and Georgetown is
crippled, and in both these suburbs, as
well as in the city proper, great uneasi
ness is felt by the police and lire depart
ment.
Telegraphic communication with the
west was entirely broken off about 7:30
p. m.. and with the east shortly before
midnight. In the early morning partial
Milan, Mo., Aug. 29.—Two villains
attempted to chloroform Mrs. L. L.
Orear and Miss Mollie Graham of this
city. They were sleeping in Mrs. Orear’s
room over a dry goods store. The win
dows were raised, which gave a slight
draft through the house, and no doubt
saved their lives. The burglars made
their escape for the present, but it is be
lieved they will he caught.
Austin, Aug. 29.—Cotton planters tell
a doleful tale about tbe condition of cot
ton, which is suffering for rain, and they
assert that they will not make more than
a bale to six acres. Buyers are prompt
ly paying for all offered, the ruling price
being 6 1-2 cents for middling. Many
farmers refuse to take this, and haul
their cotton home to hold for higher
prices.
Brunswick, Ga., Aug. 30—-There are
no new or suspicious cases of yellow
fever. The board of health issued a bul
letin at noon warning people not to be
lieve rumors on the streets. Mayor Lamb
issued a poclamation imposing a fine and
imprisonment on people circulating false
reports, and also ordering all loafiing ne
groes off the streets under penalty of ar
rest.
Raleigh, Aug. 29.—In Orange county’
Umstead Jones and Robert Morrow were
walking together. Jones seized a pick
ax and with one blow split Morrow’s
skull from the forehead to the nape of
the neck. Morrow fell like slaughter
ed steer. A crowd made a rush at Jones,
but with the ax he defied them and ffed.
He was captured later at Durham.
Belton, Mo., Aug. 29.—Alex. Mc
Pherson and his son Frank and two of
Albert .McPherson’s daughters, living
near Martin City, have eloped. The men
are uncle and cousin to the partners of
their flight. They are supposed to have
gone to Oklahoma. The elder McPherson
is 50 yeafls of age and Ms niece is about
25 years.
Gainesville, Ga., Aug. 26.—A man
lias been killed near here who is confi
dently believed to be Coley Dowdrell.
the outlaw and double murder of Ala
bama. the man who killed the engineer
at Gadsden. Ala., a short time ago and
then killed the sheriff who went to arrest
him, and has since been in hiding.
Augusta, Ga., -Aug. 29.—Charles
Busbee, a painter, while at work on the
new King building, fell 40 feet from a
third story window and broke his left by
and both arms, and mashed his head.
The accident will prove fatal, but the
patient is still struggling against death
in the hospital.
Newport News, Va., Aug. 25.—A
through east bound freight was wrecked
at Lee Hall by the parting of tlie train.
The wreck took fire, and several cars
loaded with leaf tobacco, hay and whisky
were consmneif. Two tramps are sup
posed to have been burned to death.
Denmark, *S. C., Aug. 28.—Fire has
broken out in a row of six frame store
buildings at Barnwell. Some of them
are the oldest in town. All of them are
on lire and it is feared other buildings
will catch. There is very little insur
ance.
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 25.—At Tus
caloosa W. H. Vick, a prominent con
tractor, is in jail for an alleged attempt
to burn his house with his wife in it* He
then tried to commit suicide by severing
an artery in his arm with a penknife.
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 25.—Owing
to the stringency of money and the gen
eral depressed condition of affairs, the
city of Birmingham voted to issue city
paper in denominations from 25 cents up.
Little Rock, Aug. 25.—Captain A. S.
Blythe, sheriff of Miller county, Arkan
sas, has been found short in his accounts
nearly *17,000, *8,347 of which is due the
state on his bond as collector.
Savannah, Aug. 25.—The Savannah
Morning Telegram newspaper announces
suspension of publication for the present.
The Telegram was started a few weeks
ago by Orth Stem.
Jackson, Tenn., Aug. 25.—Mr. M. M.
Hammond, one of the oldest citizens of
Jackson and tlie oldest merchant in the
city, died at his home here of general de
bility.
Raleigh, Aug. 25.—Rev. D. B. Black,
the oldest Presbyterian preacher in the
state, died at his home in Pender county,
aged 83 years.
WcElree’s WINE OF CARDUI for female dise«*e».
SK'-WINE OF CARDUi, a Tonic for Women,
THE WILSON BILL.
Congress Has Repealed the Purchasing
Clause of the Sherman Hill.
Washington, Aug. 28.—The senate
will now be the cynosure of all eyes for
a time, and especially those who have
been watching the trend of the silver ag
itation in congress.
Since the decisive vote of the house on
the repeal of the Sherman silver pur
chase act, and the rejection of the many
loinage amendments which were offered
Ihe senate Mull be expected to proceed at
once to the consideration of the repeal
! bill, which has just passed the house.
The Great Battle.
The vote began upon the reading of
the bill by Mr. Wilson for the repeal of
the Sherman bill, which was followed
by an amendment offered by Mr. Bland
for the free coinage of silver at a ratio
of 16 to 1, and it was defeated by a votS
of yeas, 124; nays, 226, amid applause
from the anti-silver men, who received
one more majority than they expected.
This vote was considered a decisive
blow, and interest among the friends of
free coinage began to wane after the an
nouncement of the result.
Some Comfort for Silver Men.
The vote that gave the silver men the
greatest comfort was that on the re-en
actment of the Bland-Allison act, and on
this amendment they succeeded in re
ducing the majority against them to the
lowest figure of the day—77, the vote
standing, yeas, 136; nays, 213.
The story pf the day’s voting is told in
the shortest and most instructive man
ner in the following summary:
Sixteen to one, yeas. 124; nays, 220;
majority, 102.
Seventeen to one, yeas, 100; nays, 240;
majority, 140.
Eighteen to one, yeas, 103; nays, 239;
majority, 136.
Nineteen to one, yeas, 104; nays, 238;
majority, 134.
Twenty to one, yeas, 121; nays, 222;
majority, 101.
The Wilson Bill Then Passed.
On the Bland-Allison act the final
vote was: Yeas. 136; nays, 213; major
ity. 77.
On the final passage of the Wilson bill
the vote stood: Yeas 240; nays, 110;
majority, 430.
Bow the South Voted.
Among the southerners who voted for
the Wilson bill were: Black, of Georgia;
Bxeckenridge, of Arkansas; Brecken-
ridge, of Kentucky; Cabaniss. Catchings,
Clark, of Alabama; Cobb, of Missouri;
Cooper, of Florida; Russell, of Georgia
and Wilson of West Virginia, the author.
Some of those who voted against it
w r ere: Bell, of Texas; Bland, Cobb, of
Alabama; Cooper, of Texas: Culberson,
Hatch. Henderson, of North Carolina;
Hooker, of Mississippi: Kilgore, Living
ston, of Georgia; Maddox Moses, Tate
and Wheeler.
Tin- Bill Before the Senate.
Washington, Aug. 29.—The senate
committee on finance decided to report
back to tlie senate the Wilson repeal bill
with the recommendation that the Voor-
hees bill, already on the senate calendar,
he substituted for it.
The committee also resolved to set
aside tlie national bank circulation bill,
which is now unfinished business in the
senate, in favor of the Voorhees bill and
the latter measure, as rapidly as the tem
per of the senate will permit it.
The difference between the house bill
and the Voorhees bill is found in the at
tachment to the latter of a paragraph
declaring that it is the policy of the
United States to use both gold and silver
as money metals and to preserve the
parity. The program of the committee
as far as it contemplates the setting aside
of the national bank bill can only be car
ried out through the aid of the majority
in the senate, for the national bank bill
cannot be withdrawn or set aside save
through a majority vote in favor of the
consideration of the repeal bill.
The silver men in the senate profess to
be indifferent as to which bill is consid
ered in the senate, holding that the bank
bill is almost as objectionable as the re
peal bill. But there are indications that
the program will meet with prolonged
resistance nevertheless, and the silver
men say they will fight repeal at every
step.
Chairman Voorhees reported the Voor
hees bill (570) to the senate as a substi
tute for the house bill, at 12:15, and gave
notice that lie would call it up immedi
ately.
Mr. Voorhees, chairman of the finance
committee, reported back to the house
the bill repealing a part of the Sherman
act with an amendment in the nature of
the substitute. Ho asked that tlie bill
be placed on the calendar and gave no
tice that he should ask the senate to take
it up immediately after the morning bus
iness from tills time on until final action
is taken.
When be called it up, Mr. Teller ob
jected to its immediate consideration,
and it went over for a day.
Stewart’s resolution inquiring into the
condition of the treasury, is now under
consideration.
In the House.
After a little routine business, Dir.
Catchings called up the report of the
committee on rules, reporting rules to
govern the house of the Fifty-third con
gress.
The committee on ways and means will
proceed at once with the preparation of
a general tariff bill, and will give hear
ings in the course thereof to persons and
parties interested.
Chairman Wilson has announced the
following sub-committees:
On Customs—Wilson, Whiting, Breck
inridge, Reed and Burrows.
On the Administration of the Customs
Laws—Turner, Stevens, Tarsney, Payne
and Gear.
On Internal Revenue — McMillin,
Montgomery, Bynum, Hopkins and
Payne.
On the Public Debt—Bryan, McMil
lin, Whiting, Burrows and Dalzell.
On Reciprocity and Commercial Treat
ies—Cockran, Bynum, Torney, Gear and
Dalzell.
Hatl You Thought of This?
New York, Aug. 28.—The Advertiser
says: Flour tliis year is cheaper than in
any year since tbe war, but the loaf of
bread with flour at $4.15 a barrel is al
most as dear as when flour sold at *21 a
barrel. The profits of the baker at the
present time are simply enormous. To
the big baking firms this year means
simply a clean scoop in over last year’s
profits of at least $250,000.
Try BLACK-DRAUGHT tea fa; Dyspepsia.
Daily Happenings of Interest Re
ported During the Week
FE0M ALL FOISTS IN THE SOUTH.
Condensed as 3Iucli as Possible to Give tin*
Sense, and Prepared Especially for
Headers Wlio Are in a
Kush of Business.
Lexington, Ky., Aug. 29.—A bas-
f tardy case in the county court, at Stan-
f ton, Ky., cost the county attorney, W.
| H. Averitt, his life and caused Robert
I Hardwick to receive wounds from which
V he will die. The shooting occurred on
- the street. Robert Hardwick, who was
“ under trial for bastardy, called to Ave-
’ ritt across the street and words were
passed, when Hardwick informed the at-
j; torney that he intended to kill him.
^ Averitt ran his hand in his pocket and
" as he was in the act of pulling his pistol,
■Hardwick fired a charge of buckshot
into the young man’s breast. The shot
3 struck Averitt a little to the right of the
breastplate and entered his chest, tearing
his heart and lungs to pieces,
i In falling, Averitt reeled and landed
- arthe feet of his friend, Asa Pettitt,
3 with whom he was walking. Pettitt
3 ran into a store near by, and. securing a
Winchester, fired twice at the slayer of
i his friend. Hardwick fell with a bullet
- Ik A in liis side, and his recovery is un
certain.
; i. ue affair has caused great excitement
and may result in further trouble. Av-
; eritt was a promising young lawyer and
had hundreds of friends. Hardwick has
; several brothers and relatives who avow
they will kill Pettitt on sight. Ilard-
; wick, at a previous term of court, threat
ened Averitt’s life.
Griffin, Ga., Aug. 28.—On being pe
titioned by the business men of the city
1 the officers of the different banks met to
. consider the matter of issuing clearing
house certificates. A full representation
l from all four of the banks was present
’ and after much deliberation an associa
tion was formed with Henry C. Burr,
president of the City National bank, as
president, J. P. Nichols, cashier of the
; Griffin Banking company, secretary and
. treasurer.
Tlie trustees were also elected, consist-
| ing of tlie two mentioned above and J.
i D. Boyd, president of the Merchants’ and
Planters’ bank. Tlie trustees must pass
: on all collateral and have general charge
: of the clearing house.
The certificates are issued especially
; in order to move the cofton crop that
. will soon be in the market.
Atlanta. Aug.’26.—Hon. James H.
Blount, late special- commissioner and
now United States minister to Aawaii,
1 passed through Atlanta for Macon, his
; home, on the Central road at 8 o’clock.
Mr. Blount’s live months residence in
foreign land has changed him little. The
few friends who learned of his presence
in the city and greeted him while here,
found him the same calm, deliberate,
quiet-speaking man he has always been.
He was looking well, and declared that
the climate of the Sandwich Islands had
agreed with him, not to such an extent,
however, as to make him long for a life
time residence there.
New Orleans, Aug. 26.—The Clear
ing House associate >11 has adopted the
following as ,a remedy for the money
stringency: To issue certificates of de
posit to persons having money on de
posit, payable to themselves or hearer in
sums of $5, $10, $20 or more, and make
the certificates payable through the clear
ing house. The members were unani
mous in the belief that this would give
the required relief, not only to planters,
but to business men as well. The cer
tificates will be just as good as money,
and can be as well circulated.
Nashville, Aug. 25.—Jere Baxter lias
secured backing and will at once proceed
with the completion of the Nashville and
Knoxville railroad, which is intended to
run from Nashville to a pi >int on the
Cincinnati Southern. Tlie road is already
in operation from Lebanon to the Craw
ford coal field, a distance of 56 miles,
haring 84 miles to be built. Three hun
dred teams and wagons were sent out to
the present terminus, and an effort is
being made to build tliis road.
Bowling Green, Ky., Aug. 28.—Ham
Brothers’ store at Scottsville, Ky., was
entered by burglars. The safe was blown
open and about $10,000 in cash was
taken. Ham Brothers have kept money
on deposit there since the Bank of Scotts
ville failed. People here are greatly ex
cited. The burglars are still at large,
and there is no clew to their identity.
Tuscaloosa, Ala.. Aug. 25.—Dan
Webster, accused of killing W. O. Har
ris, has been arrested in the town where
the crime occurred. Mrs. Courtney, the
only witness to the killing, was also ar
rested. She recognized the man as Web
ster, and says he is the man. Both are
in jail. Mrs. Courtney was the woman
with Harris.
Raleigh, Aug. 28.—In Beaufort coun
ty J. W. Whelen has been arrested,
charged with the murder of his son’s
wife and father in Texas six years ago.
Detectives tracked Whelen, who, six
months ago, became a settler in Beau
fort county, having no acquaintances.
The governor of Texas has made a re
quisition for him.
Raymond, Miss., Aug. 28.—The case
of the state versus Cicero Heard, for the
murder of Colbert, which has occupied
the entire time of the court for several
days, has been concluded: the jury bring
ing in a verdict of not guilty. ‘Heard’s
friends picked him up and carried him
in triumph from the courtroom amid the
shouts of the crowd.
Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 25.—The
state auditor will issue a distress war
rant on the bondsmen of W. E. Werner,
the sheriff of Crittenden county, Arkan
sas, who was shot at Memphis some
weeks ago while on board a departing
train and robbed of $12,000 due the state.
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 29.—Two
weeks ago the famous banking house of
Josiah Morris & Co., made an assign-
■cELREE’S WINE OF CARDUI for Weak Nerves.
telegraphic communication was reopen
ed as far east as Baltimore, hut there it
stopped, and as far south as Lynchburg,
Virginia.
Intense anxiety is manifested for news
j of the havoc of the tornado at Savannah
and other points south, but up to 11:30
a. m. nothing had been heard to supple
ment the meagre and alarming dispatch
es received.
Traffic over the Richmond and Dan-
I vi lie (fend the Atlantic Coast line is al
most at a standstill,hut one train arriving
on the former, and it was ahead of the
storm.
Reports From Augusta.
Augusta, Aug 80.—There are no fur
ther details of the storm to be had, and
Augusta reports no fatalities. The chief
damage is 20 per cent loss to crops.
The Aiken, S. C., courthouse and rec
ords were damaged by rain, and part of
the Langley mill roof was uncovered,
across the river.
A South Carolina Cyclone.
Florence, Aug. 30.—In a cyclone at
Sullivan’s Island, a man by the name of
A. Bryan and his wife were drowned,
and Mrs. E. Poland, white, was killed
by a fallin; house.
Fifteen houses were swept away and
every one on the Island was more or less
damaged.
Still Iloiug: Damage.
Atlanta, Aug. 30.—A special weather
bureau bulletin from Washington says:
The hurricane center h;is passed north
westward over Washington city, and is
probably now in Pennsylvania. All tele
graphic communication is cut off except
from Maryland to North Carolina.
Freshet in East Tennessee.
Knoxville, Aug. 30.—News comes
from Sevier county of a terrible freshet.
Pigeon river rose 15 feet in two hours,
and water flowed two feet deep in the
streets of Sevierville. Growing coni
along the river has been greatly dam
aged.
Cyclone in Texas.
Fort Worth, Aug 30.—A local cy-
| clonic storm blew down a small neigh
borhood church on Stratton’s ranch,
four miles from Cleburne, and wounded
21 persons, broken limbs being the most
serious injury.
HE SHARED THE SEAT.
A Fellow Who Was Selfish Taught a Little
JLesson.
Lawrenceburg, Ind., Aug. 29.—An
amusing occurrence took place on a
crowded car on the Big Four road com
ing in from Indianapolis.
At a way station a number of passen
gers entered the already crowded car,
and most of the new comers remained
standing up in the aisle, among them
several tired appearing ladies.
Near the middle of the car was a bur
ly specimen of the two-legged hog in a
seat by himself, with his valise by his
side. Seeing that he failed to offer the
seat one of the ladies, who was eyeing it
covetously, a gentleman who was stand
ing up asked tlie fellow to put the va-
lise on the floor and let the lady have the
seat.
The selfish creature refused, and the
gentleman making the request, although
scarcely half the size of the occupant of
the seat, deliberately lifted the valise
from the cushion and placed it on the
floor. The surly owner made such
threatening demonstrations that the lady
declined to take the vacant seat by him.
“Well, then,” said the little fellow, “I
will occupy it.’’ and he sat down by the
side of the thoroughly angered boor as
calmly as if lie was nestling next to his
sweetheart. The big fellow began to
crowd the small man against the end of
the seat, when suddenly the latter pulled
a dangerous looking dirk from his clothes,
and pointing the long, keen blade against
the bloated abdomen of liis corpulent
companion, coolly said:
“I am from the country and a scien
tific hogstieker, and if yon make another
move I will run tliis into you up to the
liilt.” The burly coward seemed to
shrivel up to less than one third liis for
mer size, in the effort to get away from
the point of that gleaming knife, while
quaking with fear and paling to the
shade of a corpse. As soon as liis fright
would permit him to speak he said in a
tone of abject submission, “Please let
me go out. I will go into the other car,
and you can have all of the seat.” And
he moved with celerity.”
A Leader.
Since its first introduction, Elec
tric Bitters has gained rapidly in
uopular favor, until now it is cer
tainly in the lead among pure me
dicinal tonics and alteratives—con
taining nothing which permits its
use as a beverage or intoxicant, it i6
recognized as the best and purest
medicine for all ailments of stom
ach, liver or kidneys. It will cure
sick headache, indigestion, consti
pation, and drive malaria from the
system. Satisfaction guaranteed
with each boltle or the money will
be refunded. Price only 50c. per
bottle oV the money will be refund
ed. Price only 50c. per bottle. Sold
by Ford & Fulcher, druggists.
FIGHT OVER A BANK.
The President Says “You Shan’t,” and
Eckels Says “I Will,” Take Charge.
Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 30.—President
M. M. Taylor, of the Washington Na
tional hank, which went into liquidation
July 27, has refused to allow Comptroll
er Eckels' examiner to take possession,
and has secured from the United States
district court an order requiring the
comptroller to show cause why a tem
porary restraining order should not be
issued.
Although a Democrat himself, Tajlor
declares that all that is desired is to fur
nish a fat job for some Democratic re
ceiver for his hank. Comptroller Eck
els' examiner and deputy marshal tried
to oust Taylor forcibly, and Taylor in
turn tried to oust the marshal. Neither
succeeded, although the marshal re
mains in the bank. If any attempt is
made to open the safe Taylor will charge
Comptroller Eckels with robbery.
Answer This Question.
Why do so many people we see around us
seem to suffer and be made miserable by in
digestion, constipation, dizziness, loss of ap
petite, coming up of the food, yellow skin,
when for 75c. we will sell them Shiloh’s Vi-
tr izer, guaranteed to cure them. Sold by
Whitehead & Co., Waynesboro Ga.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Short Items Gathered and Condensed for
Those Who Are Hurried*
Recent rains in Texas, it is said, insure
good crops.
It is denied that yellow fever has ap
peared at Memphis.
The Pennsylvania shops, at Fort Wayne,
Ind., are working half time.
Gold mining is to be revived in Mexico,
and good results are predicted.
Hundreds of people are flocking to the
border to enter the Cherokee strip when
opened.
Chicago authorities are preparing to
make Chicago day at the fair a memor
able one.
• The Redemptorist Fathers of the world
are preparing to elect a new superior
general.
An appeal for aid has been issued by tlie
relief committee of yellow fever stricken
Brunswick.
Near Guthrie, Ky., Pinckney Humphries
and liis mother were shot and killed by
William Meadows.
A contagious disease, affecting the eyes
of cattle, is prevalent in the pastures
near Bloomington. Ills.
Alex Brady attempted to blow up the
house of John Johnson in Knoxville, but
was foiled in his effort.
There is great rejoicing in Montgomery,
Ala., over the resumption of business by
the Morris banking firm.
Mr. Blount 's friends in Washington con
tinue to insist that iie will run for gover
nor of Georgia next year.
A female baseball team is traveling
through Georgia, playing the local teams
of the various cities and towns.
Massachusetts Democrats are jubilant
at the resignation of Josiah Quincy, who
will take charge of the state campaign.
There is evidence that a foreign newspa
per crusade is to be made against Mgr. Sa-
tolli, the papal delegate to this country.
There is a legal contest at Sioux City,
la., over the remains of W. H. Livingston,
the contestants being two widows of Liv
ingston.
J. W. Chitwood, the station agent at
Blocton, Ala., was run over by a passing
train and both limbs were cut off. He
bled to death.
A mob attacked the jail in New Castle,
Ky., and secured Leonard Taylor, a negro
who killer! an Italian boy peddler, and
strung him up to an oak tree.
At Fall River, Mass., Andrew Gibson
cut Charles Connor’s throat from ear to
ear, and then hacked himself to death with
the same razor. Gibson was crazed by
drink.
Henry Taylor and wife, of Stonesboro,
Tenn., were carried for some distance dur
ing the night in their house, which was
borne from its foundation by a cloud
burst.
Secretary Mohler, of the Kansas state
board of agriculture, has issued an appeal
for seed wheat and money to buy it for the
farmers of western Kansas. The appeal
states that the wheat crop is a failure in
that portion of the state.
The Chapin Mining company, of Mil
waukee,has filed a certified copy of a mort
gage for 81,308,000 on its property, ore and
franchises, to secure funds for tlie purpose
of the payment of labor and taxes,the pay
ment of royalty on ore actually mined and
for the development and operation of the
mines in Wisconsin.
Railroad Rrcvitlcs.
The total railway mileage of Arkansas
is 2,290.27, valued at *19,311,527.
The Elkhart and Western railway has
been completed as far as Elkhart, Ind.
The Union Pacific proposes to make a
reduction in wages of 10 per cent Sept. 1.
A switchman named Ryaj^. of Denison,
Tex., has sued the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas for 820,000 for personal injuries.
The Great Northern has bought 18 miles
of the roadbed of the Yankton and Nor
folk road, which is taken to indicate fu
ture connection with the Missouri Pacific.
Sliiloli’s Consumption lire.
This is beyond question the most successful
cough medicine we have ever sold, a few
doses invariably cure the worst cases ol
cough, croup and bronchitis, while its.won-
derful success in the cure of consumption is
without parallel in the history of medicine.
Since its first discovery it has been sold one.
guarantee, a test which no other medicine
can stand. If you have a cough we earnestly
ask you to try it. Price 10c., 50c., and $1. II
your lungs are sore, cnest or back lame, use
Shiloh’s Porous Plaster. Sold by Whitehead
A Co. Waynesboro Ga.
T H E GO LD IN FLU X.
The New York Times, on Its Rapid Re
turn to America.
New York, Aug. 29.—The Times, in
its financial article Sunday, has the fol
lowing:
The total imports of gold for the six
weeks ending Friday were over $34,600,-
000. The Campania brought several
millions more and there are some addi
tional millions in transit now. Our to
tal imports for the year so far recorded
aggregate over $46,000,000 while the ex
ports for the same perion were $68,000,-
000. . The interesting feature of the
movement is the suddenness with which
the outward stream was arrested and
then turned back.
One cause of this was that our interna
tional trade this year has been done more
on a cash anti less on a credit basis than
probably has ever before been known.
The methods in use before the Baring
crash, which was felt with special sever
ity in the foreign exchange markets, had
been to spread the actual movement of
gold over longer periods by the use of
credits, and also to minimize the amounts
transferred. Tliis year international
credits have shrunk severely; cash was
called for and went. As soon as the bal
ance changed cash has come back more
rapidly than it went out.
Posted in the Wrong Flace.
Washington, Aug. 29.—The war de
partment has called on Second Lieuten
ant Archer W. Yates, Ninth infantry,
recruiting officer at Ogdensburg, N. Y.,
for an explanation as to how a poster in
viting recruits to join the United States
infantry and cavalry came to lie dis
played in a store window at Ottawa,
Canada.
At .Saratoga, October, 5.
New York. Aug. 28.—The Democratic
state committee has decided upon Sara
toga, October 5th, as tlie place and the
time for holding the state convention.
There is more catiu.h in this section of the
countiy than all other dlsetwffput * gether.
and until the la t few years was suppose I to
be incurable. Foragrcat many years doetors
pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing t >
cure with loca' treatment, pronounced it in
curable. Science has prove l catarrhlto be a
constitutional disease and therefoie r quires
i onstitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure, mauufacturid by F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure
on the market, is taken internally in
doses from 10 d-ops to a teas] anful. It acts
dir ;tly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. They offer) one bundri 1 dollars
for any case It fails to cure. Send | or circu
lars and testimonials. Address,
F. J. CHENEY <fc CO., Toledo, 0.
Sold by druggists, 75 cents.
A WOMAN'S BURDENS
arc lightened when she turns to the
right medicine. If her existence is
made gloomy by the chronic weak
nesses, delicate derangements, and
painful disorders that afflict her sex,
she will find relief and emancipation
from her troubles in Dr. Pierce’s
Favorite Prescription. If she’s over
worked, nervous, or “run-down,”
she has new life and strength after
using this remarkable remedy. It’s
a powerful, invigorating tonic and
nervine which was discovered and
used by an eminent physician for
| many years, in all cases of “ female
complaints” and weaknesses. For
young girls just entering woman
hood ; for women at the critical
“change of life”; in bearing-down
sensations, periodical pains, ulcera
tion, inflammation, and every kin
dred ailment, if it ever fails to
benefit or cure, yon have your
money back.
The key to the situation
—if you suffer from Ca
tarrh, you’ll find in Dr.
Sage’s Remedy. No mat-
eh ter how bad your case may
pi be, the proprietors of the
medicine promise to pay
$500 if they can’t cuTe
you. For sale by all druggists.
Help for the Sufferers.
Topeka, Aug. 80.—In Phillips and
other counties in northwestern Kansas, a
movement has been started to send a car
load of provisions from each county to
eastern cities to lie distributed among
the unemployeu. Already a «ar
load of wheat and com has been
collected at Phillipsburg to be sent to
Chicago for the idle workmen. Sherman
and other counties will follow the exam
ple and ship provisions to New York.
Populists are managing the scheme.
They say it will help the cause and cor
rect the false idea in the east that north
western Kansas farmers tire suffering
for want of bread and seed wheat.
A Guaraneed Cure.
We authorize our advertised drug
gist to sell Dr. King’s New Discov
ery for consumption, coughs and
colds, upon this condition: if you
are afflicted with a cough, cold or
any lung, throat or chest trouble,
and will use this remedy as direct
ed, giving it a fair trial, and expe
rience no benefit, you may return
the bottle and have your money re
funded. We could not make this
offer did we not know that Dr.
Kii g’s New Discovery could be re
lied on. It never disappoints. Trial
bottles free at Ford & Fulcher’s
drug store. Large size 50c. and $1.
Rolva Lockwood was a Witness.
Indianapolis, Aug. 30.—Belva Lock-
wood. the well known suffragist, came
here Sunday to visit Mrs. Dr. Ellis, and
in the afternoon she and Mrs. Ellis and
Charles Ellis, son of the latter, took a
drive over the city. About 2 o’clock in
the morning an unusual noise in Ellis’
room attracted the attention of liis
mother, and upon entering the room she
found her son dying from poison, having
taken a large dose of chloroform. Med
ical aid was summoned, but death fol
lowed in a few moments. Mrs. Lock-
wood was summoned before the coroner,
and gave a graphic account of the death
scene.
Immersed at the Age of Ninety-Two.
Fevada, Mo., Ang. 28.—Mrs. Mary
Bannon, of Osage Tovvnshship, aged 92,
united with the Christian church-and
was immersed at Tooker lake.
The "Week, y oustitution.
We cali atten tion 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 theConstitution
is now a better newspaper than
ever, and is in 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 The
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.
* Hal Pointer Distanced.
Springfield, Mass.. Aug. 28.—In the
free-for-all race at Hampden Park Hal
Pointer was distanced by Blue Sign, an
unknown in fast time.
Assertion unsupported by fact is nuga
tory. Surmise and general abuse, in
however elegant language, ought not to
pass for truth.—Junius.
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