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THE
CITIZEN.
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Volume 18.
NEWS CULLED AT’ RANDOM.
Waynesboro, Georgia, Saturday, January 13, 1900
Number 39.
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Trea uvy Secretary Answers
Recoilt Inquiries.
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stays |lie Cotirac Piirsucti lias 15 >en tile
Kd iblislH'd Poiicy of the Govcrn-
jji ■ iit For Years and a Departure
Therefrom Would Bring Disaster.
Washington, Jan. 10. — Secretary
G..ge today sent to congress Iris reply
to the resolution recently introduced in
the senate by Sir. Alien of Nebraska
ami in the house by Mr. Suizer of New
York.
fiie lest of his reply, which is an ex
haustive exposition of the management
of ihat branch of the treasury finances
under hie- administration relating to
bank dt p isitorios, contains about 9,000
words, which is supplemented by special
reiioris by department officials relative
io soectal inquiries in the resolution, in
cluding copies of over 1,000 letters on
the subject- under consideration.
In summing up his reply to the inqui
ries the secretary says;
“1. That the reason for utilising na
tional banks ns depositories for public
moneys authorizt d by law when the re
ceipts of the treasury were exceeding
its xronditures, haa been to avoid the
disturoivuce to business which the wtih-
dravai o. large sums of money from
at ■70 circulation to the treasury vaults
tiiG-r inevitably cause. Tne policy thus
pursued by me has been the established
policy of the government for many
years and a aepartrue from it under
similar conditions would certainly cause
disastrous results.
Menace to Business Interests.
"2 The t^ason for directing the in
ternational revenue receipts into de-
pce.tory banks at this time is that the
revenues are now laigelv exceeding dis
bar-enienrs from month to month and
seem likely to do so for an indefinite
time. This coudiiion would be a menace
to the business world if assu.aiice were
not given that this surplus would be ai-
ver ed from the treasury vaults to pub
lic depositories, where, while secure to
the government, it would remain avail
able to business use.
“3. The reason for directing all of the
internal revenue receipts to one depos-
itory was that it is more convenient to
first collect the receipts of numerous
cilices into one place and to make the
desired distribution from it, than to
give new instructions daily to 113 col
lectors. The most convenient agency to
effect such distribution is a bank which
is a member of the New York clearing
house.
“4. The reason for selecting the Na
tional City bank as such distributing
agt-ucy was that at the time the order
v-as issued, it was one of but two banks
which had offered bonds sufficient to
cover the amount of the daily deposit.
Es bund deposit was $4,000,000 and
that of the Hanover National bank $i ,-
8,>0,000. The National City bank was,
therefore, the one most naturally chosen.
0i the 68 banks applying for a share of
the deposits, the National City bank,
the Hanover National bank and three
others, applicants for over $800,000 each,
are the only oues out of the 6S consti
tuting group oue, which have now been
supplied the fuil amount for which they
had offered security,
Sale of Customhouse Property.
“6. The customhouse property was
told to the National City bank as the
highest bidder on July 3. 1809. Under
the terms of the sale it had the option
of paying in cash all of tne purchase
money at any time, or any part it might
elect above $750,000, which sum it was
at 'ointely obliged to pay. It exercised
this option bv choosing to pay $3,215,-
000, leaving $50,000 yet. due.
‘‘The payment received was turned
into the treasury by deposit in the Na
tional City bank, it having been the
established custom of treasury officials,
under the counsel of their legal ad
visers, supported by decisions of the su-
Pieme court, to consider moneys on de-
l 1 »it to the credit of the treasurer of
the United States in designated deposi
tories, as moneys in-the treasury. This
deposit was made in a depository bank
for the same reason that other deposits
have been made in them, viz:
"Locause to withdraw the currency
into the vaults of the treasury, where it
' T as not needed and could not be util
ized, would have required a withdrawal
o! credit that was being extended in
commercial circles and to that extent a
disturbance to the natural order of
business would have followed. To have
required its payments by the National
pity bank to another designed depos-
itorv would have been an ungracious
discrimination without substantially
changing the fact.
"Finally, under my administration of
f he treasury department nc discrimina-
hon iu favor of oue bank against an-
pther has been made. Generally speak-
’ug, when an increase iu depository
hanks was desired all have been invited
fo qualify themselves for receiving such
money and have been equally and
equitably considered in their respective
relations to the treasury.”
CASTOR IA,
Bears tho
Signature
of
The Kind You Have Always Bought
yj mu Mini iuu nave Always
An election at West Point, Ga., re
sulted in u victory for the antiurohibi-
iionists.
Governor Roosevelt sent a message to
the New York assembly
antitrust legislation.
Advices from Honolulu state that ;he
6teamer Algoa ran on a reef while en
tering that harbor on Dec. 23 and nar-
! rovviy escaped destruction.
Major Georgo A. Howard, who was -
fourth auditor of tho treasury depart
ment during President Cleveland’s sec
ond term, is dead at Dixou Springs.
Tean.
Signor Mohring. editor of a Berlin
comic paper, has been sentenced to six
mouths’ imprisonment for insulting the
Catholic church in a poem entitled “The
Cowardly Act of Rennes.”
Receipts at the office of the internal
revenue collector of Alabama for the
six months ending Dec. 21, 1899. were
$312,032.18, indicati: g that wuen the
next fiscal year ends, in June, the re
ceipts will have reached nearly $700,000.
7 § $
Rev. Mr. Brooks, a missionary to
China, has been murdered near PingYiu.
Representative Lewis of Georgia has
introduced a bill in the house repealing
the revenue stamp tax act.
Tho British government has adoptod
for its rough rider service in the Trans
vaal the United States cavairy saddle
and bit.
Senator Hanna declares that, although
he has been urged to stand for the per
manent chairmanship of the next Re
publican national convention, he will
not do so.
The navy department has been ad
vised by a cable message from Admiral
Watson of the death of Commander
James W. Carlin, on board the Cmgoa,
from an attack of peritonitis.
General Joe Wheeior has drafted a
bill for the establishment of a perma
nent army post at Huntsville, and it
will be introduced by Congressman J.
F. Stailings, with the support of all the
Alabama congressmen.
$ § §
Recruiting for the Boer Red Cross
service gce3 on daily in New York.
The Schley memorial fund, which
was started last October by Miss Edna
McClellan, has now reached $5,000
Senator Oiay of Georgia has intro
duced a bill giving the lare Lieutenant
Brumby’s mother a pension of $50 a
month.
The French government has cabled
their commandant of the naval squadron
in the Atlantic to proceed immediately
to Santo Domingo.
W. W. Watt was taken from the sta-
tionhouse at Newport News, Va., by a
mob and shot to death for criminally
assaulting Mrs T. M. Simpson, wife of
an employe of the shipyard.
A prize court at Cape Town has re
leased the steamer Mashona, captured
bv a British gunboat early in Decem
ber with American flour, said to be in
tended for the Boers, on board, but or
dered her cargo to be warehoused pend
ing a trial of the case.
§ § §
Fire at Miami, Fia., destroyed busi
ness buildings valued at $60,000.
A United States gunboat has seized Si-
butu island, near the Philippine group
Smallpox is raging inChatkam county,
N. C., and several persons have died
from the disease.
Ernest J. Lehman of Chicago, who
first put into execution the department
store idea, is dead at White Plains, N. Y.
The Savannah cotton mills, which
have been idle for three years, will
shortly be started up again on full time.
Four quarrymen on the Tennessee
Central railroad near Rockwood at
tempted to thaw out a stick of dyna
mite which had been frozen up in a box
and in the explosion which followed
three were killed.
The mother of a New Orleans news
boy, w T ho was shot by a stray bullet dur
ing the duel in that city between
Colonel C. H. Parker and Editor Domi
nick O’Malley, has filed suit against the
principals for $15,000 damages.
9 $ $
Admiral Dowey has accepted an in
vitation to visit St. Louis early in May.
Judge T. J. McFarland, member of
the legislature from Yalobusha county,
Miss., is dead at Jackson of pneumonia,
aged 60 years.
Governor Candler has appointed G.
M Ryals of Chatham county and Philip
E. Bt»yd of Early conuty directors of
the state experiment station.
A New Brighton. Pa , couple refused
to caii in physiciaus when their children
were attreked by diphtheria, relying on
Christian science, and two of them died.
A drunken express messenger at
tacked General A. W. Greely, chief sig
nal officer of the army, at Washington,
throwing him down a long flight of
steps and inflicting serious injuries.
C. C. Yonge, manager of the Sanford
Lumber company’s mills at Carriville,
Fia , and Arthur McConnell, leaner of
the Knights of Labor in that distriot,
have amicably adjusted the differences
between the strikers and the mill own
ers and the men have resumed work.
§ § §
Representative Fleming of the Tenth
Georgia district is seriously ill at Wash
ington.
J. C. S. Blackburn has been elected
United States senator by the Kentucky
legislature.
William Jackson, the famous govern
ment scout, and the courier who brought
in the first news of the Custer massacre,
is dead at Blackfoot, Mon.
Major General Shatter has sent Ad
jutant General Corbin a draft for $9,-
495, the contributions to the Lawton
fund from the people of the Pacific coast.
The United States erniser Albany,
purchased from Brazil shortly before
the Spanish war, developed a speed of
20 knots on her official trial in England.
The president has sent the following
nominations to the senate: Louis J.
Winston, to be collector of customs at
Natchez, Miss.; Lorena Hayes, post
master at Cullman, Ala ; I. H. Gutter,
postmaster at San Francisco, N. C., W.
L. Henderson, postmaster at Oxford, Ga.
Richard D. Creech, of 1062
Second Street, Appleton, Wis
consin, says:
“Our son Willard was abso
lutely helpless. His lower limbs
were paralyzed, and when we
used electricity he could not feel
it below his hips. Finally my
mother, who lives in Canada,
wrote advising the use of Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pill's for Pale
People and I bought some. This
was when our boy had been on
the stretcher for an entire year
and helpless for nine months.
In six weeks after taking the
pills we noted signs of vitality
in his legs, and in four months
he was able to go to school. It
was nothing else in the world
that saved the hoy than Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale
People.”—From the Crescent,
Appleton, Wis.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People
contain, in a condensed form, all the ele
ments necessary to give new life and richness
to the blood and restore shattered uerve6.
They are an unfailing specific for such dis
eases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis,
St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia rheu
matism, nervous headache, the after-effects of
la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and
sallow complexions, all forms ot weakness
cither in male or female.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are never
sold by the dozen or hundred, but always in pack
ages. AtalI druggists, or direct from the Dr. Wil
liams Medicine Company. Schenectady, N. Y., 50
cents per box, 6 boxes $2.50.
LONG AND SHORT HAULS.
United States Siipn ins Court Decides
»i Case From Carolina.
Washington, Jan. 9.—Justice White
of the United States supreme court has
handed down the opinion of that court
in the case of the Louisville and Nash
ville Railroad company and others ver
sus Henry W. Behlmer, appealed from
the decision of the circuit court of ap
peals for the Fourth circuit.
The case involved the constrnction of
the long and short haul clause of the
interstate commerce law.
Behlmer was iu 1892 a merchant at j
Summerville, S. C., and was charged 28
cents per 100 pounds on a consignment
of hay shipped from Memphis, whereas
the rate on hay from Memphis io
Charleston, £L C., was only 19 cents per
loO pounds, or 9 cents less.
The court of appeals, as well as the |
interstate commerce commission, de- i
cided that this was a discrimination in j
the meaning of the law.
The decision just rendered rever-es
the circuit court of appeals on the au
thority of the decision iu Alabama Mid
land cases.
SMALLPOX IN A COLLEGE,
ROAD TO GAIN ADMISSION.
Supreme C-nirr. Upholds the State
Ii nil xv ay Commission.
Tallahassee, Jan. 9.—The supreme
court has rendered a decision reversing
the judgment of the circuit court in the
case of the railroad commission of Flor
ida versus the Terminal Station com
pany of Jacksonville.
Early in 1899 the Atlantic, Valdosta
and Western railroad, a new road, ap
plied for admission with equal privi
leges to the terminal station. Th9 rail
road commission decided in favor of the
petitioners, but the terminal company
would not assent.
On mandamus proceedings the circuit
court sustained the terminal company
and tho railroad commission then took
the matter up to the supreme court with
the result announced.
CALL ISSUED BY JOHNSON.
Faculty and All Min Students ai Pea
body Vaccinuted.
Nashville, Jan. 9.—A case of small
pox has been discovered in Lindsley hall,
a dormitory in the Peabody Normal col
lege.
About 40 young men students have
rooms in the hall and one of them—
James M. Kilpatrick—was taken sud
denly sick. It was found that he had
a well developed case of smallpox, which
he is supposed to hax r e contracted at his
home in Cullman, Ala., during the hol
idays.
All the occupants of the hall, about
40 in number, are quarantined, and Kil
patrick has been removed.
As Lindsley hall is several hundred
yards from the other building, the nor
mal college xvill continue to run.
Physicians hax - 9 vaccinated the fac
ulty and all the students, about 600 in
number, who come from all over the
south.
Republicans to Meet In Atlanta and
Put Out a State Ticket.
Atlanta, Jan. 9.—Chairman Pro.
Tem. Walter H- Johusou of the Repub
lican state central committee has issued
a call for a state convention in this city
on March 7, at which candidates tor
governor and other statehouse officers
will be nominated.
It will be the first time in a number
of years that the Republicans have put
a state ticket iu the field.
One of the principal features of the
convention will be the naming of the
delegates to the national convention,
which meets in Philadelphia June 19,
and the indications are that there will
be warm contests for these places.
Boy Shoots a Llttl? Girl.
West Point, Ga., Jan. 9.—A serious
accident happened at Beulah, Ala.,
about 12 miles from here, yesterday. A
little boy, Johnnie Rav, was playing
with some little girls, among whom was
! Ruth Barnes. They had been playing
! for some time, when the boy got his
father’s pistol and began playing with
; it around the girls. He pointed it to-
! xvard Rnth Barnes, when it exploded.
| The ball entered the jaw, coursed down
ward and pierced her lungs. The child
lived only a few minutes.
Knltvea trie
A startling incident of which Mt
John Oliver, of Philadelphia, was
the subject. Is narrated by him as
follows: “I was in a most dreadfui
condition. My skin was almost
yellow, eyes snnken, tongue coated
pain continually in back and sides
no appetite—gradually growing
weaker day by day. Three phy-
cians had riven me up. Fortuna e
Jv. a friend advised trying ‘Electric
Bitters/ and to my great joy and
surprise, the first bottle made a r «■
cided improvement. I continn*"!
their use for three weeks, and m
bow a well man. I keow they fr v
,ed my hfe, and robbed the grave o
another vietlm.” No one t-hou ■
fail to try them. Only 50 cents i-e
bottle at EL B, Mo Master’d dru;
•tore.
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers,
The famous little pills.
Jackson’s Nov Cotton Mill.
Jackson, Tenn., Jan. 10.—J. S. Be-
mis, treasurer of the Be mis Bag com
pany of Boston and of the Home Cotton
Mill company, is in the city and has
completed the details of the transfer of
the 300 acres of the Jackson farm do
nated by the county for the site for the
proposed $400,000 cotton mill. Mr. Be-
mis says that the company will break
ground as soon as the weather will per
mit of securing a graded foundation.
The mill will employ 300 people.
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To Repeal th* GoebeULaw.
Fjrankfort, Ky., Jan. 10.—In the
senate today, Burnam (Rep.) intro
duced a bill to repeal the Goebel elec
tion law and substitute the former elec
tion law, which placed the election ma
chinery in the hands of th# county
judges.
IT. T. Travis, Agent Southern R
R., Selina Ga, writes, “I cannot say
too much in praise of one Minute
cough cure. In my case it worked
like a charm.” The only harmless
remedy that gives immediate re
sults. Cures coughs, colds, croup,
bronchitis, and all throat and lung
troubles, h. b. MCMaster,
To Press Demand on England.
London, Jan. 9.—There is some rea
son to believe that the United States
and German ambassadors are trying to
find a common basis on which they can
co-operato iu pressing their respective
demands against Great Britain for the
Deiagoa bay seizures. A high official
in German embassy had a long confer
ence today at the American embassy
snd-the diplomats are believed to have
discussed the step each country has al
ready taken and the best future pro
cedure.
F«-xv Cas<-s of Mob Violence.
CoiuiiBiA, S. O., Jan. 9.—Iu his an
nual report G. Duncan Bellinger, attor
ney general, shows that there were 227
trials for murder in this state last year,
there being 97 convictions. There xvere
372 violations of the dispensary law,
with 100 convictions. To the credit of the
state there were nine cases of rape legally
disposed of, two death sentences in Dar
lington and seven life imprisonment
sentences in other counties. There xvere
fewer cases of mob violence than for
years.
Railway Officers Enjoined.
Macon, Jan. b.—Judge Emory Speer
of the United States circuit court of the
southern district of Georgia has granted
a temporary injunction restraining the
officers of the Georgia and Alabama
railway from consolidating it with the
Florida Central and Peninsular railroad
or any other corporations, on a bill filed
by Michael J. Dady, a minority stock
holder.
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Editor’s Awful Plight.
M. Higgins, Editor Seneca,
(Ills.,) News, was afflicted for years
with Piles that do doctor or remedy
helped until he tried Bucklen’s Ar
nica Salve. He writes two boxes
wholly cured him. It’s th9 surest
Pile cure on earth and the best
salve in the world. Cure guaran
teed. Only 25 cents;- Sold by H. B
MCMaster, druggist.
One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That i9 what it was made for.
New Combination Will Improve and
Enlarge Plants.
Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 6.—The or
ganization of the Continental Gin com
pany has been effected with a capital of
$2,000,000, and the following officers
named:
President, W. T. Northington of Bir
mingham.
Vice president in charge of xvestern
business, S. J. Monger of Dallas, Tex.
Vice president in charge of purchas
ing, transportation and insurance, Dan
iel Pratt of Prattville, Ala.
Vice president iu charge of Georgia
and Carolina, C. R. Winship of Atlanta.
Vico president in charge of the east
ern business, F. C. Gammon of Bridge-
water, Mass.
Vice president and treasurer, A. W.
Smith of Avondale.
Vice president in charge of manufac
turing and improvements, S. S. Monger
of East Birmingham.
The following plants have entered
the consolidation: Daniel Pratt Gin
company of Prattville, Ala.; Smith &
Sons’ Gin and Machine company of
Avondale, Ala.; Winship Machine com
pany of Atlanta; Eagle Cotton Gin
company of Bridgewater, Mass.; Mun-
ger Improved Cotton Machine Manu
facturing company of Dallas, Tex., and
Northinvtoa-Manger-Prate Gin com
pany of East Birmingham, Ala.
These six plants control 1*0 per cent of
the gin machinery made iu the world.
Tne new combination will not shut
down a single plant, but will expend
$50,000 in improving them. All of the
plants xvill be equipped with the latest
machinery. Birmingham will be the
headquarters.
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ELECTION ORDERS ISSUED
Officers For the Stuta 3Iili!ia Will Be
Chosen Feb. 1.
Atlanta, Jan. 6.—Orders requiring
the election of ail officers of the state
militia to take place on Feb. 1, at the
armories of the different commands
throughout the state, have been issued
at the capitol by direction of Governor
Candler.
The orders issued to the six regiments
of the 6tate embody the decision reached
by the colonels during the meeting in
this city to the effect that there shall be
no distinction between the commissions
of field and line officers and that the
successors of all officers holding com
missions shall be named on the day pro
vided in the reorganization bill.
In case any officer in the service is re
elected he will not be required to stand
an examination and all elections had on
Feb. 1 are to hold good for three years.
The officers to be elected in each regi
ment in the state ?-e a colonel, lieuten
ant colonel and three majors; for each
compauy of infantry and cavalry, acap-
tain.-a-first lieutenant and a second
lieutenant, and for each battery of ar
tillery, oue captain, two first lieuten-
tenauts and two second lieutenants.
Provision is also made in the order for
the election of officers in the two naval
battalions of the state.
Hoxv’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Rexvard foi
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall’s Catarrh Cine.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last fifteen years, and believe
him perfect ly honorable in all business trans
actions and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their firm.
West & Truax. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
Ohio.
Walding, Rinnan* Marxfip, Wholesale drug
gists. Toledo, Ohio.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price. 75c. per bottle.
Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free.
Hali’s Family Pills are the best
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You meant to write and ask us
more about our goods.
You certaiuly owe it to yourselt
to find out all you cau about the goods
for which w T e claim so much.
For all we claim, we only claim
the truth.
We will send you circulars and
catalogues auy time.
Write tor them,
W T e make this a safe place tor you
to buy at.
We cheeriully give 3’our money
back if anything you get from us
doesn’t prove to be just exactly as rep
resented.
No back talk—just your money.
We want you to see our prices.
We want you to try our goods.
Manufacturers of Doors, ''ash,
Blinds, Lumber, Laths, Shingles, and
Fancy or Pla n Woodwork lor all kinds
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aenme-s XTiDute to Hobart.
Washington, Jan. 10.—Today the
senate paid eloquent tribute of respect
and affection to the memory of the late
Vice President Garret A. Hobart. Mr.
Sewell of New Jersey paid a feeling
tribute to the memory of the late vice
president, with whom his personal re
lations covered a period extending from
early manhood. He spoke of events in
his private and official career and of the
characteristics which had endeared him
to the people with whom he had come
in contact. Messrs. Depew, Lodge and
others also eulogized the dead vice pres
ident.
French-Doiniiiican Trouble.
Paris, Jan. 10.—The foreign office
officials here express themselves as san
guine that a satisfactory settlement of
the trouble between France and Santo
Domingo will be reached today. The
only question now remaining, it is
pointed out, is reparation of the insults
offered France and this doubtless will
be arranged at an interview between
Admiral Richards and President Jim-
inez.
ville Female College.
Greenville, S. O , Jan. 6 —Rev. Dr.
Riley, president of the Greenville Fe
male oollege, and Chevalier Ferratta,
director of music in the same institu
tion, have resigned, their resignations
to take effect at the close of the present
college session, on June 20.
Dr. Riley and Chevalier Ferratta
have bought an interest in the Georgia
Female Seminary and Conservatory of
Music, at Gainesville, Ga. Dr. Riley
will have the position of business man
ager of the Georgia sem ary and
Chevalier Ferratta will be director of
music.
Dr. Riley has been president of the
Greenville Female college since August,
1894. Chevalier Feratta has been di
rector of music for rhe past five years.
Labor Truiibu s Art- Srrious.
Pensacola, Fla., Jan. 6.—The labor
troubles in Santa Rosa county are tak
ing a serious torn. Fred Diden, a
white man employed at one of the
Baadad mills, was shot from ambush
last night while on his way from Mil-
ton to his work and was perhaps fatally
wounded. This morning the dead bodies
of Louis Cobb, fireman of the Bagdad
sash factory, and of another negro,
name unknown, were found in the
streets of Milton, they having been shot
from ambush. There is intense excite
ment there.
Coal Diggers on a Strike.
Knoxville, Jan. 6.—Three hundred
miners of the Coal Creek Coal com
pany, at one of its two mines at Coal
Creek, are out on a strike. The cause
of the strike is that 21 men were re
moved from one mine to the other
against their will, the company officials
desiring to increase the second mine’s
force, but making no change in the scale.
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Farming Company Dissolves.
Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 10. — Th«
laigest farming corporation Alabama
has ever known, the Comer-Bishop
Farming company, has dissolved. Tha
company ran 375 plows and farmed 13,-
000 or 15,000 acres of the rich black land
in the cotton belt in the upper part ot
Barbour county, in east Alabama. Tha
lands in the company were owned chiefly
by B B. Comer of Birmingham and C.
H. Bishop oT'Enfanla, each of whom
will hereafter manage his own interests.
Fell Into a 70-Foot Well.
Macon, Jan. 6.—Miss May Hudson of
Walden, a hamlet near here, while look
ing into a 70-foot well, lost her balance
and fell to the bottom. A young man
who was with her at the time succeeded
in rescuing her. Beyond a few stratches,
she was uninjured.
Question Answered.
Yes, August Flower still has the
largest sale of any. medicine in the
civilized world. Your mothers and
grandmothers never thought of us
ing anything else for indigestion or
biliousness. Doctors were scarce,
and they seldom heard of appendi
citis, nervous prostration, or heart
failure, etc. They used August
Flower to clean out the system and
stop fermentation of indigested
food, regulate the action of the liver,
stimulate the nervous and organic
action of the system, and that is all
they took when feeling dull and bad
with headaches and other aches
You only need a few doses of
Green’s August Flower, in liquid
form, to make you satisfied there is
nothing serious the matter with
you. Sample bottles at H, B. mcmas-
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Bell, Millen, Ga.
Mistrial In Meares Case.
Spartanbuog, S. C., Jan <J.—After
being locked in their room 45 hours, the
jury in the case of Professor J. C.
Meares of the state asyinm for dumb
and blind, charged with the seduction
of Cora Jenkins, a 15-year-old girl, was
discharged and a mistrial ordered.
Farmer Accused of Murder.
Tuscumbia, Ala., Jan. 6/—JackTnbbs,
a farmer living near this place, is under
arrest here charged with the murder of
William Grisham. A difficulty took
place between them at a dance at Tnbbs’
home, resulting in Grisham’s death.
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RILEY AND FERRATTA OUT. BOERS SUFFER A DEFEAT.
President nnd Musical Director Green- General White Repulses the Burghers
Near Ladysmith.
London, Jan. 8—The war office has
just published the following dispatch
from General Buffer:
“Tb« following is from General
White, dated yesterday:
" ‘An attack was commenced on my
position, but was chiefly against Cae
sar’s camp and Wagon hilL The enemy
was in great strength and pushed the
attack with the greatest courage and
energy. Some otthe entrenchments on
Wagon hill were three times taken by
the enemy and retaken by ns. The at
tack continued an til 7:30 p. m.
“ ’One point iu onr position was occu
pied by the enemy the whole day. But
at dusk, in a very heavy rainstorm,
they were turned ont of this position at
the point of the bayonet in a most gal
lant manner by the Dexons, led by Col
onel Park. Colonel Ian Hamilton com
manded on Wagon hill and rendered
valuable service. The troops have had
a very trying time and have behaved
excellently. They are elated at the ser
vice they have rendered the queen.
“ ‘The enemy were repnlsed every
where with very heavy loss, greatly ex
ceeding that on my side, which will be
reported as soon as the lists are com
pleted. ’ ”
ICE BREAKS; THREE DEAD.
Sods of Prominent Citizens Drowned
Near Raleigh.
Raleigh, Jan. 8.—Yesterday about
noon, at Hinton’s pond, 8 miles north
west of this city, three boys, sons of
prominent citizens, were drowned.
They were:
Mial Williamson, 15-year-old son of
Captain B. P. Williamson, treasurer of
Wake county.
Edward Lee, 14 years old, only son of
Mr. Ciee Lee, a prominent leaf tobacco
dealer.
James Hinton, aged 15, only son of
Mr. Charles Hinton, formerly executive
clerk of Governor Carr.
The boys were schoolmates and de
voted friends. They had planned to
spend the day hunting on Mr. Hinton’s
farm. They had gone but a short dis
tance from the Hinton residence when
they came to a pond known as Hinton’s
pond and maintained for fishing pur
poses. This being frozen over, they
placed their gnns on the bank and went
ont on the ice. But they had not gone
far before it broke and all three went
under together. Four honrs later they
were found, frozen and lifeless, under
the ice.
NEW ROAD INCORPORATED.
Company Will Operate Railway and
Steamship Lines.
Plant City, Fla., Jan. 8.—The United
States and West Indies Railroad and
Steamship company of Plant City, with
a capital of $1,000,000, has been incor
porated.
The purpose of the company is to con
struct and operate a railroad from Plant
City, in Hillsboro county, to a crossing
on the Manatee river, thence southerly
through Manatee county to and upon
Gasparilla island, on the waters of
Charlotte harbor, in De Soto and Lee
counties, with spurs and branches to
various points enroute; to acquire al
ready constructed roads, or portions of
roads, between the said points, and to
operate steamships between the United
States and points in the West Indies.
J. L. Young, M. E. Moody, W. L.
Lowey, D. O. Thompson and A. Schneid-
man are the incorporators.
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