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THE FITZGERALD LEADER, Offioinl Newspaper of Irwtu County, Georgia. Ga. Official Newspaper of City of Fitzgerald, PUBLISHED EVKRY THURSDAY BY !?‘g' [■«**. and Publishers. Terms— Invariably In advanoe. known Job and advertising rates made on application. Your patronage solicited. COUNTY OFFICIALS. C. C. Smith,Judge Sup. Court,Hawkinville.Ga Tom Eason, Solicitor Sup. Court. McRae. J. It. Clements, Co. Judge, Irwinville, J. E. Burch. Co. Solicitor, Fitzgerald, J. J. Lee, Ordinary, Irwinville, J. II. p. Paulk,Clerk Sup.Court,Irwinville, Fitzgerald, R. v. Handley, Sheriff, ‘ C. L. Royal, Tax Receiver, Sycamore, J. H. Paulk, Tax Collector, ocilla, ' James Walker. Co. Treasurer, irwinville, F,.J. Hogan, Co. Surveyor, Minnie, “ M ft Uenderson’, Co!CmnniTssloner, Ooilla, “ TiFTON AND iNOKTHKASTKJO li. It. | “SOLDIERS' COLONY ROUTE.” General Offices, Tifton, Georgia. No 1. No3. ; Feb. 9,1897. jNo.a.lNo. 4. A. M. 1 '. 1". M. ! P. 7:30 |Lv. Tilton, Brighton Ga. Ar.!l2:00 11:45 | 7 ;45 1 7:55 1 Harding. 11:311 8:15 |l' Pinetta. 11:1® 8:31 Irwin. 111:1® i 8:43 it' Fletcher. 40:59 9:®n i A r. Fitzgerald. Hv.i l®:15 > Trains Nos. L 2.3 and 4 run daily except ^Trains Nos. 7 and 8 run on wiH* Sunday only. Tr^ins'cnnnect'atTifton railroads, and Georgia Piant and System Ala¬ and G. S. & F. bama at Fitzgerald. President. H. H.Tift, Vice-President. W n. Tut. Traffic Manager. F. G. Boatright. GEOIUHA & ALABAM A KAILWAY, ••the savannah short LINE.” Passenger Schedule, Effective June 1, '»?. P. M A. M A. M. P. M. 5 23 10 55 1. Lv Della Ar 10 35 C« 6 00 11 25 Lv. Fitzgerald Ar. 9 A 45 „ »*• 35 7 30 12 25 Ar. Abbeville, Lv. < 45 CO A. M p. m. Cordeie 9 05 t-2 15 5 55 1 40 I 7 30 3 00 Americus i 7 20 IL j P. M. A. W. 7 55 Montgomery 7 50 32 25 4 15 Halena Lv.l \ „ 30 nn I I * 2;> 7 20 8 35 Ar. Savannah < i Sunday— Lv. Ocilla 5 15p.ni;; Ar. 9 30 a. m. Ar. Abbeville 6 40p. m.; Lv. 8 00 a. m Close connections at all junctions and ter¬ minal points for Vice.Pres. all points. &Gen. Mgr. CECIL Cfcil Gabuet, oabhl , a PopEt Gen. Pas. Agt. Gh 4 S. N. Right, Ass’tGenT Pass. Agt. Ed Stallings, T. P. A., Fitzgerald.__ Postofflcf. Si! foffiinnps^atffie^&yeven- ln §ffice from 7 a. in. to 7:30 p. m. open Sunday from9;80 Lg; 30 Office open a Christian Science. Services every Sunday morning 10:30; Sun- hall i pine avenue. A cordial invitation is ex ten ded to all of whatever creed or calling. CHENEY & BURCH, ATTO R N E Y-AT-L A W, Office—I n Faulk Building, G rant Street, FITZGERALD, GEORGIA. WAY & JAY, Atto r n ey - at - Law, Fitzgerald, Georgia. OFFICE—In the Slayton & Kern building on Pine avenue.____ E. W. Hyman, L,. Kennedy, Of South Dakota. Of Sa/annah. RYMAN & KENNEDY, Office—I n Fitzgerald Block. Be On the Safe Side And Take Your Work to H. WETTSTEIN I The Pioneer Jeweler. Watches, .Jewelery, Clocks, Silver- ware, Diamonds, Spectacles, etc., Lowest Living Rates. FITZGERALD, GEORGIA, Grant St. Between Pine and Central Avs. DR. J. H. POWELL, (Late of the Best American Hospitals) Specialist in Chronic Diseases, Of Men and Women, Office. S.Grant a8 tre et,n ea r Magnolia. {Per- n o tt ea4 A. T. CURRY, Notary Public, COLONY BANK, Fitzgerald, Georgia fog, C, A, A L< C. KoMdorf, Office—I n Slayton & Korn building, oppo¬ site Commercial hotels Fitzgerald, Ga Phone 21. E. NICHOLSON, Auctioneer, East Pine Avenue, FITZGERALD, GEORGIA. Is now prepared to give rates on short notice. Sn^Tsfnction^is^gua^sntc^.^For'^ate^fmd call at LKADBHoffico. bills Palace Botel, Mrs. Orcel ia R. S mith, Prop. Cor. Jessamine and Main Streets. wn are now making special rates to our When fel- low colony members t'rnm the North. you reach the depot here have the hack driver take you to the Palace Hotel Everything new and strictly first-class. city and county. Here at Fitzgerald with its cooling breezes the thermometer dropped to 81 at 8 o’clock last Saturday nig 1 1. Read, read, read the big ad. of the Savannah shoe store It. will pay you if you are in need of shoes. One of the hardest rains of the sea¬ son visited this section last Tuesday night for about four hours. Hon. R. W. Clements and wife, of Irwinville, were in the city last Tues¬ day trading with our merchants. Mr. Price, musical director for the ‘ Mid-summer fair, ’ was in the city ’ last Saturday, , to engage an orchestra , . dur- th® f a * r wei -k. The city council of Americas have ordered a special election on July 21st, j I for the purpose of issuing $35,000 in I bonds for public improvements. Prof. R. J. Prentiss, of Abbeville, was in the city last Friday on matters pertaining to the Chautauqua meeting. The Leader was favored with a short call. Miss Alberta Royal, who has been spending the past winter and spring in this city, left last Friday for her home in Michigan. She leaves many friends here who were sorrv to see her leave. Joe Fitzgerald and Miss Susie Mc¬ Nally, both of Abbeville, were married in this city last Sunday evening, J ustice Drew W. Paulk tying the connubial knot. _ County court convened at Irwinville last Monday. A number of jury cases as well as court cases were up for trial. The attorneys from this city were present. _ C. M. Wise, secretary of the Colony Company, is quite sick with appende- cities. At present he is resting easily, and is now out of danger. The Leader trusts he will soon be out among us again. The Salvation Army has struck Fitz¬ gerald and are giving nightly concerts on the streets each evening, after which they adjourn to their hall over Harrison’s store, where they continue their services.__ Attorney Hal Lawson, of Abbeville, was in the city Monday on his way to Irwinville to attend the county court session. In company with City Attor¬ ney Ryman he left for Hawkinsville, where both gentlemen have some court cases to argue before Judge Smith. First Sharkey knocked Maher down, then Maher knocked Sharkey down, then the police bagged the pair and the referee declared the affair a “draw,” while the promoters walked away with $40,000 in box office receipts. The fish¬ ing season is upon us. The people are the suckers. _ The police of Atlanta mfffle the big¬ gest rade of the season last Saturday night. Sixty-five negro men and women were pulled at one time, and it took eight patrol wagons to carry them to the police barracks. The charge pre¬ preferred against the crowd was that of gambling and disorderly conduct. F. L. Douglas, who left here two weeks ago by team for Union City, Ga., to prospect, writes to his wife here that he will be back by July 1st. He says that Hunt, the hardware man, who was in business here, has a small store there, but is not doing much business. The loveliest boquet that we ever “sot” eyes on was sent to this office last Tuesday by Miss Louise Benton, living on the corner of Sherman and Jessa¬ mine. Every kind of flower, together with the beautiful white Monthly rose, was in the boquet. The giver has our heartiest thanks. Commissioner Henderson, who has been acting as deputy tax receiver, with headquarters at The Leader of¬ fice during the past three days, has been a very busy man. Everybody waited until the last moment to list their property, and hence he was crowded with work every minute. At a regular meeting of the school board Wednesday afternoon the follow¬ ing teachers were engaged for the next school term: Miss Maud Stewart, Daisy Gardner, Mrs. Ellars, Louise Goodnow, Hattie Ohovin, Ora Whitman, Ora Welch, Ella Riebsam, Dell Herrington, substitute. With Prof. J. T. Saunders, superintendent, and Prof. F. W. McIn¬ tosh, principal, the public schools of Fitzgerald will be second to none in the State. L. F. Johnson was hired as jan¬ itor of the Third Ward building and Wm. C. Thompson of the First Ward building. _ There is something inexpressibly pitiful about the common fate of the old horse. After he has had his day and served his owner faithfully, his teeth get poor, his legs stiff, and he be¬ comes an unprofitable animal to keep. He once sold for $100 and now $2.50 represents his value and so he is traded off, and nearly always to some hard hearted man who buys him to pound a few more days’ work out of him to get his money back. The right thing to do instead of trading him off is to hu¬ manely kill him, lor no man with the love of God and man in his heart will turn a faithful old friend over to the tender mercies of the average horse trader. The following few lines are respect¬ fully dedicated to a young man of Fitz- gerald: "Meet me on the corner Where they sell ice cream, Life shall be lor you, love, Like a blissful dream, Cling to me, my darling, As vine bugs the oak, And when you aredonc eating 1 shall be dead broke." J. M. Satchwell, advertising agent of the Penn Tobacco Co., painted a “hot article" on the east side of Shuraway's house last week in which the aforesaid sign looked as if it had the blind stag¬ gers or the man who painted it had seen an air ship. Nevertheless, the sign was afterwards toohed up and now resembles the work of an artist. Mr. Robert Henderson and Mr. Ho- gan, of Ocilla, were here last Tuesday and delivered over to Sheriff Hanley a negro by the name of King Clark, who was convicted of murder in the year 1892, but who secu.ed a new trial. The bondsmen were Robert Henderson, L. Hogan, Wm. Fletcher, T. B. Young, Wm. Branch, with a bond of $5,000. The bondsmen thought best to get re¬ leased from the bond as they didn't care to be holden any longer. King Clark will be remembered as running the restaurant where the negro was killed a few weeks ago by one Henry Nesbit. The Tifton Gazette has changed hands, with John L. Herring, one of the brightest editors in the State, again in charge. The Gazette, during the past four months, has been under the control of W. H. Parks, a young man of splendid newspaper ability, if only used in the right direction, but who has not only made innumerable breaks against his own citizenz, but has re¬ peatedly jumped on to and roasted citi¬ zens all over the State. His career was short. _ We have decided to giveH. A. With- am the whole bakery including the baker. Mention was made last week in which M. D. Wilbur had a tomato vine that takes all the cookies in the bakery. The aforesaid vine having eighty-seven tomatoes thereon. He has, however, lost the cookies. H. A. Witham re¬ ported to this office last Monday that he has a tomato vine that has 125 well de¬ veloped tomatoes and more coming. It is of the Peach variaty and stands 7 feet high and 4 feet across the top. Mr. Witham lives near Corbett mill. Col. C. W. Fulwood, that bright and shining deciple of Blackstone, and Col. W. O. Tift, vice-president of the Tifton & Northeastern railroad, were in the city Monday in the interest of the mid¬ summer fair that opens up at Tifton on July 7, and continues three days. The fair this year promises to be far ahead of all preyious undertakings as the fruit farmers all over the counties which the fair embraces are making extensive preparations for large exhibits. All kinds of sports will also be held at the bicyle track. A very low rate on all railroads have been granted. A pretty good story is going the rounds of the press on a certain German in a town near by who has not paid much attention to learning English and who had a horse stolen from his barn, whereupon he advertised as follows: “Von night the other day, ven I vas been awake in mine sleep, I heard some¬ thing vot I tinks vos not yust right in my parn. I out shumps to bed and run mit the parn out, and ven I vas dare coorn, I sees dot my pig gray iron mar he vas tied loose and run mit the stable off, and whoeffer vill him pringback, I shust so much pay him as vas been _ A hobo of the newspaper variety vis¬ ited this office last Monday and with the usual request, wanted a half dozen changes. When asked if he wanted the old papers in order to read the society notes or to find the location of a bath house, he replied : “Naw, de side door sleepers on dese railroads are so dirty that we want ’em to put on the floor to keep our clothes clean, see! Give us re¬ publican sheets if yer got any there; dete softer, the arguments ain’t so solid and the facts ain’t de cold kind wot knocks you silly; an de points don’t stick out enough to hurt, see! It’s just like sittin’ton a pneumatic bed, dere’s so much wind about it.” The charter for the extension oi the Wadley & Mount Vernon railroad from Wadley to Fitzgerald, a distance of 75 miles, has been granted by the secre¬ tary of State, and an interview with the president of the road in the Atlanta Journal of last Wednesday, says “the work on the road will commence imme¬ diately.” This is good news to the cit¬ izens of Fitzgerald. In speaking of the probable extension of the Waycross Air Line from Nichols to Fitzgerald the At¬ lanta Constitution, in its issue of the 12th inst., says: The Waycross Air Line is figuring on extending to Fitz¬ gerald, although this will not be done immediately. The road now extends from Waycross to Nichols, which is forty miles southeast of Fitzgerald. Preparations are being made to build from Nichols to Broxton, fifteen miles. The remaining twenty-five miles into Fitzgerald will be built later. B. A. Denmark, esq., of Savannah, is presi¬ dent of the company. Mr. Denmark is also president of the Southwestern Rail¬ road Company. A very destructive hail storm visited the farmers in the vicinity of Crisp northeast of tnirf city, last Friday evening. The strip of country devastated is about one mile long and a half mile in width. The rain fall was very heavy and the lightning terrific. The Rochelle boys didn’t do a thing to the Fitzgerald boys last Friday..... There was said to be fully five hundred people who witnessed the ball game here last Friday between Fitzgerald and Rchelle... .Some ot our boys, and men, too, seem to have damaged their lungs Friday yelling at the ball game. There are several who can hardly talk beyond a whisper... .The Rochelle boys say that the victory won over the Fitzger- aid ball team, was the easiest thing they ever tackled. Don t brag too much, boys,, things may change the next time. Rochelle_New Era. mental Ben Watkins farming in is the doing wheat some line expert- this j summer and gives actual figures in ver- ideation of the fact that there is money to be made in planting wheat. Here is the planted story five just bushels as we got of wheat it: He recently j of land raising therefrom on seven j acres bushels of wheat which he values at $1 per bushel. The straw he values at $30, making a total of $170 in money made on the seven acres. Now, the ex¬ pense of tending the land is as follows: Cost of five bushels of wheat for plant¬ ing purposes, $5- ploughing it in $4.50; fertilizer used on the seven acres $24: harvesting wheat, $5.50; threshing, $3; making a total expense of $42, and leaving a profit of $128 on the seven acres. He is now going to plant the same seven acres in peas to fatten his stock and cattle on. W ho said there wasn’t money in raising wheat?—Jack- son (Ga.)Times. The following program for the fifth quarterly convention of the Fitzgerald Sabbath school union to be held Satur¬ day and Sunday, June i9 and 20, 1897, at the Christian church, Fitzgerald, Georgia: Saturday. 1 3C. Sons: and Devotional Service—Presi¬ dent Becker. Followed by a discus¬ sion on "Sunday School Work,” to which all ministers, superintendents, teachers and Sunday school workers are expected to take part. SUNDAY. 9 39 Song and devotional service—Rev. N. Lohr. 10 09 Welcome Address—Mr. E. Booker. 10 20 Song—U. B. choir. Topic: “The Sunday School vs. the Sa¬ loon"—Rev. J. M. Glenn. il 00 Song—Miss Loucks. Topic: "The Sunday School and the Home”—Rev. Norris. 11 30 Singing, reading minutes of previous 12 00 meeting. benediction. Dinner. Song and Service—Oldfield 1 30 Song and Devotional school. 2 CO Instrumental Music and Solo—Miss Ho- zella Denney. Topic: YDoes the Sunday School Fully Appreciate Its Prerogatives? Is it Ef¬ fectively Improving Working its Oppoitunity? the End for And Certainly out Which it Claims an Existence?—Rev. 2 40 Long Song—Luthern • school. Subject: “The seed is the Word”—Miss Sue Portsmouth. 3 10 Singing—Pine Level. Business meeting. Singing. 4 00 Benediction. J. B. Deniston. Program Com. A Strange Case. Abbeville Cor. in Rochelle New Era. A remakable case was tried before a commission of lunacy in Ordinary War¬ ren’s court on Wednesday last wgek. Adolph Weckle, a German aged 70 years, was the subject of the examina¬ tion. He was brought from his home at Lulaville, at the instigation of prom¬ inent citizens of that town. On the examination, Weckle displayed so much intelligence that the investiga¬ tion was suspended till Thursday to get witnesses from Lulaville to better ena¬ ble the jury to reach a verdict. At the final examination Weckle was adjudged a lunatic, and on Friday morning left for the asylum at Milledgeville in charge of assistant clerk of Wilcox su¬ perior court, George Mixon. Weckle was one of the original Fi tzgerald colo¬ nists, from Sprinfield, III. He sub¬ scribed for one of the colony shares, and promptly paid his assessments, amount¬ ing to $190. He subsequently moved to Lulaville, where he invested $2,000 in property. Soon after locating at Lula¬ ville his hermit-like life and peculiar actions attracted attention. He lived in a hut all alone, and frequently dis¬ turbed his neighbors with his profanity and ravings. Another of his peculiari¬ ties was, that he always declined to ac¬ cept money in his business transactions prefering to take plain notes of hand even from strangers and irresponsible persons, declaring that he preferred in¬ terest bearing paper to money. Mr. Weckle has a large family consisting of a wife and eleven grown children who refused to come with him. He thinks they have treated him badly, which may account for the unbalancing of his mind. He had papers in possession representing large sums of money, one of them a note for $100, made by one of his sons, the payment of which he has repeatedly refused. This son visited him recently at Lulaville. and en¬ treated his father to return with him to Illinois. The old man refused to go. He is infatuated with this section, and says he will never leave the South, as it has been his dream for years to make his home in this sunny land. Weckle has been an independent, thrifty farm¬ er, is intelligent, and claimed Presi¬ dent Lincoln as a warm personal friend. He asserts that Mr. Lincoln was present at his marriage, and was a guest at the wedding dinner. A few weeks ago Mr. Weckle was stricken with paralysis, re¬ sulting in his total blindness. He left Abbeville contented in the assurance that he was going where he would be properly cared for. i THE MIRACLES OF JESUS Sn Called Divine Healers ami Christian Scientists Criticised. * Rev. J. W. Ingram, who is now hold- special services in the Christian Church, this city, preached a sermon last Monday night on the “ Miracles of Jesus,” that has called forth much fa- vorable comment. The text was taken from Acts il:22: 11 Ye men of Israel hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among ycu by miracles and wonders and signs," etc. In his introductory remarks Mr. Ing¬ ram stated that it was not in the spirit of controversy that ho discussed the subject , but on invitation of one espe- cial]y and pei . sonal]y interested. He vvould deal kindly but plainly. Christ, sa j(i jj e , was always moved to act by the loftiest motives. He never did anything without a worthy motive, and the OKI- tive was always worthy of the deed. The miracles of our Lord was the grand¬ est of His life among men. He did not come into the world and work these wonders simply to heal a few sick peo- pie. When He healed He hafl before Him an external purpose—a purpose worthy of God. That purpose is indi¬ cated in the language of the text. It was to show that THE Christ had God's approval. In John’s history of Christ, he de¬ clares these sigps and wonders were to convince men that Jesus was what He claimed to be—the son of the living God. (See John xx:50) This position was argued at considerable length and reinforced by numerous scripture quo¬ tations. It was then contended that the apostles and those of whom they con- fered the power did not heal for the sake merely of healing, but that they were empowered to work miracles for the confirmation of the word which they were commissioned to preach. This position was supported by such scrip¬ tures as: “Mark xvi:20—“And they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and con¬ firming the word with signs following”; and Heb. ii:4—“ God also bearing them witness with signs and wonders and with divers miracles, and distribution of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will." It was his contention that after the word was once confirmed, we had no further need of miracles. That which is once confirmed needs no further con¬ firmation 1 Hence Paul said that mir¬ aculous gifts of the which Holy Spirit should cease, when that is perfet is come. The Bible was a cempleted book when Jesus forbid any man to add thereto ana take therefrom. (Rev. xxii: 18-19.) Miracles, said ended, they he, with the apostolic age, for accomplished their lofty two-told purpose of approv¬ ing the Sonship of Jesus, and demon¬ strating or confirming the word of God. Those who claim miraculous power today do not claim to exercise this power for the same purpose for which Jesus and the early church performed miracles. They claim no higher pur¬ pose than to merely relieve bodily ills, and those of a less serious nature. It seems to be their conviction that God comes down from heaven that he may, through them, relieve one of a trifling pain of no great seriousness, but will pay no regard to one who is very seri¬ ously crippled or dangerously to'methat ill. It has always seemed strange God will not, through the dear people, perform some cures worthy of Him ! Some such sures as were performed by Christ and his apostles. this There is a sweet little girl in audience that is a great cripple. If these people will heaL this little child, we will all become ardent believers in their miraculous power. But they know they cannot do it. When asked why? they tell us they are not perfect enough yet. But God who does the healing is perfect, and is as able to heal this child as to cure the headache. Such diseases as had their origin in the mind may be healed by a few words of good cheer and joyous sun¬ shine mixed with a liberal sprinkling of mesmerism or human magnetism. Mr. if modern healers would confine themselves to such eases they would do a world of good. It is inconsistent, said he, for this class of wonder-workers to found their claim on Mark xvi:17-18, unless they can dem¬ onstrate their power to do all that is set forth in that chapter. They should be able to cast out devils and speak in un¬ known tongues, and take up snakes and drink deadily poison as well as to heal the sick. They are equally incon¬ sistent in founding their claim upon James v'14. In this scripture we have the most explicit direction giyen. The elders of the chnrch must be sent for, and prayer must be made and the sick must be annoiDted with oil. This course is not pursued by modern heal¬ ers. The are not in it, and the church is entirely ignored and the oil is no longer needed. Those who appeal to the Bible in support ot their claim, should be consistent and follow out the Bible direction. Mr. Ingram contended that the con¬ tinuation of miracles would have been a great curse to the world in that it would have encouraged idleness and a careless neglect to the cause of health and life. The masses would have de¬ pended upon these as in the days of the Savior for the loayes and fishes and for restoration of health. The audience was amused at his ref¬ erence to the teaching that nothing is real; that all our ills and aches are merely imaginary. He said it was his sincere belief tnat all the ills cured by these healers were purely IMAGINARY. Said he: “ In Memphis a Christian Science mother was grieving that her babe was suffering so much pain from cutting teeth, when I said: ‘The mis¬ erable little scamp ; be is suffering no pain—it is all imaginary !” ’ The good mother looked serious ! “ I hope these healers (God bless them) will con¬ tinue to confine themselves to imagi¬ nary diseases and leave the real ones to nature and the M. D’s.” Keep the teams in a good condition by feeding and grooming regularly. I SATURDAY A HOT DAY. Thermometer Reached 98 Degrees at ‘2 p. m.—The Forecast Elsewhere. Last Saturday was the hottest day ever recorded by the local weather bu¬ reau at Atlanta on June 12. The high¬ est the thermometer reached at At¬ lanta was 04, but this is hot for the cap¬ ital city. The following table of the highest temperature for June 12th of every year since 1870 shows that the day was a trifle like sunnier as we glean from the Constitution: Year. Highest Temp. I Year. Highest Temp. 1R79...................SS | 1889.................. 84 1880. ...91 1890...... .85 1381. . ...82 \ 1891...... .84 1888. . ..82 ! 1892...... .84 188:1. ....87 ! 1893..... 1884. .... 74 1 1894...... 1883. ....82 1893...... .88 18Hli. ....90 I ! 18911...... .83 1887 ... .79 l 1897...... ...94 18KS, . ....85 But it didn’t require a thermometer here at Fitzgerald on Saturday lo tell you it was hot. The thermometer at 2 p. m. registered 08 degrees. All day long the fat as well as the lean man was looking for a shady nook. For a won¬ der nobody boasted of being “hot stuff” or a “warm article. In fact they wore that expression of too utterly too, too, as much as to say “there are other pebbles on the beach.” The weather report as shown by the selected weather stations all over the United States shows the following ob¬ servation at 8 o’clock p. m., Saturday: 3 ture..... inches..... p. lemperature Highest Precipitation m • STATIONS. .. at tempera- in' New York, clear..... Norfolk, clear...... Savanna, pt. cloudy Jacsonville, rain i Atlanta, pt. cloudy.......... Montgomery, Vicksburg, clear.......... New Osleans, pt. clear.......... clqudy..... Palestine, cloudy........... Galveston, pt. cloudy...... Corpus Memphis, Christi, pt. cloudy.. pt. cloudy........ Knoxville, clear............. Cincinnati, clear............ Buffalo, cloudy.............. Detroit, clear................ Chicago, clear .............. St. Paul, clear............... St.Louis, pt. cloudy........ KansasCity.pt. Omaha, cloudy... clear.............. Huron, S. D., clear.......... Rapid North Platte, City, clear............ Doda-e Oitv. pt. cloudy.. ■. pt elnndv..... Prostrated by Intense Heat. Milwaukee, June 14.— Reports from various parts ot Wisconsin show an ex¬ treme degree of heat to-day, the aver¬ age being in the neighborhood of 100 degrees. At Eua Claire the thermometer was 100 in the shade. Five builders working on a school building were prostrated by heat. Two are serious cases. There were several severe cases of sunstrokes at Janesville, where the thermometer registered 96. Sunday School Field Worker. Last Saturday I took President Den niston with me and hied myself away to Mystic, closely followed by S. I. Ray¬ nor and wife of the Oldfield Sunday school. We staid all night with those princes of good fellows, the Bussell brothers, of the Reedy Creek Sunday school. Sunday morning we drove to Reedy Creek church, where we found in Sunday school convention assembled a house full of representatives from the Moran, New Prospect, Oldfield, U. B. M. E., S., of Fitzgerald, Zion, Christ¬ ian, New and Mount Zion and Ebe- neezer Sunday schools, together with the consolidated forces of Reedy Creek and Bethel Chapel. Ebeneezer and Moran each took part with Reedy Creek and Bethel Chapel. Every part rendered was well done, showing that their heart was in the work. We pre¬ dict many returns of the pleasant event. Professor George Warmic was chair¬ man of the c nvention. I beg an apol¬ ogy for not getting this notice to tho printer for the last issue; my home work was too pressing. C. J . Estey. Fitzgerald, Ga., June 8th. The editors of The Leader with their wives were the guests of the Grand Central hotel last Sunday at tho dinner hour. This popular hotel was formerly the Kimball house, but since its change in management to that of Hopp in & the Partin, two of the best hotel men State its name was changed to that of the Grand Central hotel, and is now one of the best resorts in tho city. Mr. Hopp, one of the partners, was the landlord of the Margaret hotel, and his success as a hotel mail is well known throughout the State. The din¬ ner was fit for a king and the excellent service by the young ladies who have charge of the dining room, is far super¬ ior to any hotel in the city. The fol¬ lowing was the bill of fare: DINNER MENU Bream. Soup. Alloduchesser. Fish Brook trout. Lobster a la Newbergh. Sliced Relishes. oucumhers. Sliced tomatoes. Green lettuce. New beets. Boiled. Boiled veal with fish gravy. Roast. Aioysn au gues. Pii- •>f pork. Hr gravy. Sweet. Pickles. Sauce. Sour. Tomato catsup. Worcestershire sauce. Peper Entrees. sauce. Braised mutton and mushroom. Braised chicken with cream sauce, French pan cakes. Lobster marquise. Pine apple au bine. Abattis lantet. Vegetables. Illinois sugar corn. Early June peas. Lima beans. Stuffed tomatoes. New potatoes In cream. Steamed Rice. Peach Pastry. pie. Coeanut. Mcrangue. Dessert. Huckleberry roll. Fruit. Vepotinan ice cream. Watei ». . u on ice. Biead. Wheat. Rye. Graham. Georgia corn pone. Drinks. Iced tea. Coffee. Ice cold lemonade.