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THE ASHBURN ADVANCE.
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Was thought to be a fa'se
report , but was found io be
true.
News broke cut among the
people of Worth county that
MeGirt &
McPhaul
Were selling Goods cheaper
than any other merchants in the
county , which was investigated
and found correct .
Now we ash the people of
Worth and adjoin ng counties
to come and examine our line of
General leMise.
We Carry a Side Line of
Wash Pots,
Dinner Pots,
Stoves,
Stove Furniture,
Plows*
Plow (tear
AM All Fanil Utessils.
FURNITURE!
FURNITURE!
FURNITURE!
Crockery
—AND ALL—
Heavy Groceries.
CLOTHING!
We have a large lot o)
Clothing selected for the Fall
Trade, and we want to sell
them rapidly. We have pu
them at very low prices. We
can save you enough of money
on one suit of Clothes to pay
you for coming io Poulan.
When you want Hats, come to
see ns.
When you want Shoes, come tc
see us.
When you want Suits, come tc
see us.
When you want Harness, come to
see us.
When you want Groceries, come to
see ns.
When you want Stoves, come to
see us.
When you want Furniture, come to
see us.
We have good and polite salesmen,
so that when you come to see us,
goods will be thrown down to you for
your examination.
We carry everything in the HAB.D-
WARE LINE from a handsome File
to a Grind Rock.
tob acoo.
Everything from a pinch of Snuff tc
a box of Tobacco.
Call ami examine our Goods and get
prices, We will take pleasure in
showing you. of the best RICE
We have one
MILLS in the country. Rriug your
rough rice and let us hall it.
Have yonr corn ground here.
We will gin your cotton for yon and
then buy it or ship it from our ware¬
house free of dravage.
Turn your face this way and make
our store headquarters for trade.
NIcGirt & McPhaul.
RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS.
sermon by Key. mm, ii. Lewis
OK BRIDGEPORT, (OJUN.
Kev Wttltrtiii It. l.-ivlrt, „f Bridgeport,
t’onii., Dlarourai's Upon “The Gift of
iicllgiou- ('onm lousiic.i," w All Men
Arc Possessed bl Spiritual Capacity,
Tim Now York Herald 1ms offered a prize
of ifli'OO for tin’ best sermon, nml three
subsidiary tional prizes aggregating ,* 100 (i addi¬
for tho three next best sermons.
Ministers of all denominations have linen
invited to compete for those prizes, and the
sermons offered In competition will appear
in the Herald’s Sunday edition, llev. Will¬
iam 11. Lewis, 11, D-., whose name is ap¬
pended of John's, to tiie initiator'' m-fmon, is rector
able St. Episcopal the largest (a Ikiilgeport, and most fashion¬ Conn.,
and is considered parish ablest
one of tiie preach¬
ers. His subject isi '"The Gift of In Religious
Consciousness, follows: and tlio sefinoil tall is
as.
Text: “And another came, saying. Lord,
hobbit); laid here Is thy pound, which I have
kept tip tu a napkin, for I feared thee,
because thou art an austere man. * * *
And he saith up to him, Out of thine own
mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked ser¬
vant.”—St. Luke six., 20-22.
The lord of tho parable, about to go
away into, a j'fnr country,” had given to
each of lils servants it certain amount to
make use of while lie was away: l ? oi- these
three the amount given is specified, but to
all his servants lie gave something. “To
each man.” the parable says, "according to
his several ability. Only throe arc spe¬
cially designated, because they highest, serve as
sufficient illustrations of the the
medium and tlio lowest gift. Eachreeeivor
seems to have known that the amount
handed him was not a gift outright, but a
trust, and that his lord would uvonluaily
come back and make an accounting, Each,
therefore,treated he his trust lord. according to the
opinion held bf his
, Tits sitbstance bf the parable is evidently
this—that in certain cVery man living there Is im¬
planted it spiritual capacity of
ability; that men have ttds capacity in de¬
gree, so that one has clear and distinct
ideas of God and his duty, another lias less,
and anotberalmost none at all. But the
trust of a spiritual instinct or conscious¬
ness, and of a conscience which recognizes
this consciousness, belongs to all. None is
so low in the sente of humanity that the
thought of God does not somehow enter
into liis life; and whoever lms tills gift has
also the intelligence to know that he has
it, and to ask himself, at least once in ht9
life, if only once, what lie shall do with It.
With tliis consciousness of God and this
conscience there comes a sense ot respon¬
sibility; and with that there comes a cer¬
tainty of judgment. Wo when Indorse tho rea¬
soning of tho parable saying wo excuse the
man does of small capacity by that that ho
lie not know have any better; of another, and
ought to known better, of a
third, that he did know better; nnd tint
With popular judgment according condemns bis each gift man of
capacity, a severity his his to educated
conscience, or
uneducated Sense of the value of the gift
Which determines his use of it, and the very
worst Sin of all In the popular judgment is
to have made no ttse of tiie gift. I t wits tint
servant who knew his gift and ills lord,
Cven though he knew him wrongly, excited and
then made no use ot his gift, who
his lord’s anger;
Mako much of thd thought, for it has
much in it. If we grant the universal con¬
sciousness of God nnd tiie universal con¬
science, then everyone is bound to conduct
himself always under pressure of the
thought that’one day lie will be called
upon to answer to God for Ilia use of these
capacities. If a man only recognizes God
by taking His name in vain, that is n recog¬
nition. And in actual fact there are many
people who excuse themselves in their neg¬
lect of religion on tiie very grounds on
which tliis man of the parable rested his
defence—viz., harsh and distorted ideas of
God and religion. They do not see that
logically a man witli harsh ideas of God
ought to be the stricter iff his life for that,
if be shapes his conduct by his theory and
if he expects God to judge him by his own
confession. If my whole idea of religion Is
that it is such a straight and narrow
way that I cannot walk in it without
help from above, anil, knowing I that
I must walk iu it if I wou Id bo saved, have
yet never sought that help, shall I care to
plead this neglect ns an excuse when I
come to stand napkin before a which righteous judge?
Whether the in we tie up our
religious consciousness be clean and white
with the starch and bluing and ironing of u
gelf-satisiled morality or filthy with the
stains of every self-indulgence will make
no difference with the fact tlint we tied it
up and buried it. When capital what combines to
for selfish purposes we know say
of it; when an anarchist wants a division
of capital for his own benefit we can deal
with him. But when a man nuts his thou¬
sands in an old stocking and hides it under
his chimney hearth we simply call him a
miser—a miserable one. He may plend condemn that
he had no faith in banks, Dut we
him nevertheless. Again tho common
judgment illustrates the pnrnble.
In some shops you may find a device to
keep check upon business transactions. A
litUedlse springs up in full sight of buyer,
seller and employer, records tlio price and
drops out of sight again. But at the close
of tho day, when the accounting is made,
the registry is there and tho balance must
agree with that. A man’s conscience is like
this— every thought of God and duty that
comes into mind is on record there a good
thought, or a mistaken thought, or a had
thought, it held up its signal eared for to a look moment and
in the presence of all who
made its unnlteraldo record of what was
done. When the time comes the judges—
Gotland conscience, and even tho popular
judgment—will bo at the count, as daring they
now are at tiie transaction, lie is a
thief who with these three looking on can
try to take money out of the box nnd throw
up a blank. Every thought of God and
duty is a talent, a pound, bringing with It
a demand for interest upon the original
capital of God’s first gift of spiritual con¬ day
sciousness and conscience, When the
ot reckoning comes we shall he condemned
by every opportunity we have had to know
and to do better. No belief can possibly of
warrant neglect. Whatever we think
God we are bound to do something.
Wm. H. Lewis, D. D.
Hector 8t. John’s Church,Bridgeport,Conn.
THE SHELLS IN THE BIBLE.
Dr. Talmage Draws nti Interesting Les¬
son From Timm,
Dr. T. De Witt Talmage delivered iu
Washington a sermon on “God Every¬
where.” The subject of the sermon God Among was
"Conchology of tiie Bible, or
the Shells,” as found in the text, Exodus
xxx., 34: "And tiie Lord said unto Moses,
Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte and
onycha.” noticed the shells of
You may not have
the Bible, he said, although in this early
part of the second book God calls you to
consider and employ them, ns lie called
Moses to consider aud employ them. The
onveha ot my text is a Hindi found on the
hanks ot the lied 8ea, and Moses and his
army must have crushed many of them un¬
der foot as they crossed the bisected waters,
onycha on the beach and onycha in the un¬
folded bed of tiie deep. beautiful
I shall speak of this shell as a
and practical revelation of God. and as
true as the first chapter of OenVsIs and the
last chapter of Revelations or every¬
thing between. Not only Is this shell, the
onycha, found in the Red Sea, but In the
waters of India. It not only deleetateg the
eye with its convolution of beauty, white
and lustrous, and seriated, but blesses the
nostrils with apungeut aioma. I spoke to
you l last Sabbath of God iu the great, now
sp$ak of God in the small, God in the In¬
finite, and God in the infinitesimal.
ASHBURN. WORTH CO.. GA.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 2fi. 18!>;.
It Is a secret that you may keep for me,
that lit all the realms of the natural world
there is nothing for me so fascinating, divine so
Suggestiverii’ss eerttplateijr absorbing, (lit it rtlttflh so full What? of More
bntertetning than 4 bird, Wlitclt Can sing,
when rf shell cannot sing? Well, there you
made rt great mistake. Flok up the
tmvctia frotti llifl banks Ot the Had Sort, or
pick Atlantic up' a Ocean, bivalve And from listen, Hid una bench you Hoar of the a
whole ohqir of marine Voices - bass, alto,
Soprano—in H Unknown tongue, but
seaming to rhnn(, and ns I put made then! It.” to mv oar,
"Tilt) sea Is Ills He
As tlm shell Is only tlie house and the
wardrobe of Inslgnlfleaut animals of the
deep, why all the wonder and beauty of
construction? God’s care for them Is the
only reason. And If God provide so munif¬
icently wardrobe for them, and wilt lie not see that and you
have shelter? Wardrobe
Shelter fora periwinkle; shall there not he
wardrobe and shelter for a man? Would
God give a Coot of mail for the defense of a
Nautilus and leave you no defense against
the storm? Does He build a stone house
for it creature that lasts a season and leave
without hOmd rt soul that takes hold on
fceiuiuie- and moils? this pointed
Hut While jroii get lesson of
providential dt rare from the shelled crea¬
tures the deep; notice ill their construc¬
tion that God helps them to lyolp them¬ they
selves. This house of stone In wide It
around live is not dropped on them and is not exudes built
them. The material for it
from their own bodies and Is adorned with
a colored fluid front the pores of their own
liock: It Is rt most interesting tiling to see
these etitsttieeiiil itrtliriills fflsliion their own
homes out of eafhduittd of lliilo rtud irleiii-
brano. And nil of this is a mighty lesson
to those who are waiting for others to build
their fortunes, when they ought to goto
work and, like tho mollusks, build their
own fortunes out of their own Drain, out of
their own sweat, out of t heir own indus¬
tries. Not a moliusk on all tiie beaches of
nil the seas would have a house of shell if
It had not itself built one. Do not wait for
others to shelter you or prosper you. All
(lie flrttstaccous creatures of tho earth,
from every flake of their covering and
from every ridge of their tiny castles tm
Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
coasts, say: “Help' yourself, while God
helps yob to from help only yourself,” two' persons—Odd Have great
expectations and yourself. the onycha of text
Let my
become your preceptor. I examine shells, tho
Hut tho more the
more I am impressed that God Is a God of
emotion. Many scoff at emotion, and
seem to think that God is a God of cold
geometry, and iron laws, and eternal
apathy, imd enthroned stoicism. No, nol
The shells with overpowering emphasis
deny it. While law and order reign in the
universe, you have |mt to sen the lnvish-
ncss of color on tho Crustacea, all shades
of crimson from tho faintest blush to blood
of hattle-lleid, all shades of blue, all
shades of green, all shades of all colors
from deepest black to Whitest light, order just
called out on the shells with no more
than a mother premeditates or calculates
how many kisses and lings she shall give
her babe waking up in tho morning sun¬
light. Ye»; My God is an emotional God,
And He Says: “We must have colors and
let tho snn paint all of them oil the scroll
of that shell, and wo must have music,
and hero is a carol for the robin, and a
psalm for man, and a doxology for
the Seraphim, and a resurrection
trumpet for tho archangel. Aye, He
showed Himself a God of sublime
emotion when He flung Himself on this
world iii the personality Of Christ to' save
it, without regard to the tears it wo it Id
take, or tho blood it wobld oxhnust, Ot the
agonies it would crush out. Wlion I See
the Louvres and the Luxembourgs and tho
Vntieans of divine painting strewn along
tho eight thousand miles of coast, and I
hear, in a forest, on a summer morning,
in a sical academics and Handel sociolies of
full orchestras, 1 say God is a Gori of emo¬
tion, and if Ho observes mathematics, it is
mathematics set to music, and His llgures
are writtou not in white chalk on black¬
boards, but written by a Anger of sunlight
on walls of jasmine and trumpet-creeper.
In my study of the conchology of the
Bible,this onycha of tho text also impresses
mo with the fact that religion is perfume.
What else could God have meant when He
said to Moses: "Take unto thee sweet
spices, stacte and onycha. Moses took that
shell of the onycha, put it over the tire, and
as it crumbled into ashes, it exhaled an
odor that bung iu every curtain and Ailed
the ancient tabernacle, and its sweet smoke
escaped from the sacred precincts and satu¬
rated the outside air.
Perfume! That is what religion is. But,
instead of that, some make it a mal-odor.
They servo God in a rough and acerb way.
They box their child’s ears because ho iloes
not properly keep ,Sunday, instead of mak¬
ing Sunday so attractive tho child could
not help hut keep It. chapter They make him learn
by heart a difficult in t.hn Hook of
Exodus, with nil tiie hard names because
lie has been naughty. there How rnuny disa¬
greeable good people are. No one
doubts heaven, their they piety, will and they will fixed reach
but have to get up
before they go there, or they will mako
trouble by calling out to us, "Hoop off that
grass!" “What do you mean by plucking
that flower?” "Show your tickets!” Ob,
how many Christian people need to obey
my text, and take into their worship and
their behavior and their consociations
and presbyteries aud general assemblies
and conferences more onycha.
But what thrills me with suggestiveness
is tiie material out of which all pearls are
made. They are fashioned from the wound
of the shellfish. The exudation from that
wound is fixed and hardened und enlarged
into a pearl. fashioned The ruptured vessels of the
water animal tho gam that now
adorns finger or earring, or sword hilt or
king's crown. Ho, out of the wounds of
earth will come the pearls of heaven. Out
of the wound of conviction tho pearl of
tlio pardon. pearl Out of of the wound of bereavement
solace. Out of tho wound of
loss tlio pearl of gain. Out of the deep
wound of the grave pearl of resurrection
joy. Out of the wounds of a Havlour’s
death, the rich, the radiant, tho everlast¬
ing pearl of heavenly gladness. “And the
twelve gates were twelve pearls.” Take
the consolation all ye who have been hurt
—whether hurt in body or hurt in mind or
hurt In soul. Get your troubles sanctified.
If j ou suffer with Christ on ourth you will
reign with Him in glory. 'The tears of earth
are the crystals pearl.” of heaven. "Every several
gate was one
OMNIBUS AS POSTOFFICE.
Kept in Ihe VI i 1 1,1J r ■ or the Koarl X! l.rml.
to Litigation.
A novel question regard!ng a postoffice
In Die middle of the road came up bet ore
Judge Paul In tiie United Htates Court at ,
Abingdon, Va. Thomas I’ayne, Pastrmwtor
at Pilot, Montgomery County, complained
that tiie owners ot all the lands within a
radius of one mile of his office had refused
to rent or sell a site on which he might
open his office. He procured an omnibus,
which he placed in the road and used as an
office. B. M. Guerrant sued out In tho
County Court a writ of unlawful detainer,
but Judge Paul, on the petition of injunc¬ Post¬
master Payne, issued a temporary
tion restraining Guerrant. nnd the tho deputy
sheriff from Interfering witli Postmas¬
ter and his omnibus postoflftcc of tho Unit¬
ed Htates. A rule lias been issued against
the same Postmaster’s opponents, requir¬ and
ing them to appear before tho court
show cause why the temporary injunction
should not he perpetuated.
No More Football at Girard.
President Felteroif, of Girard College.
Philadelphia, has issued an order against
iootball. The order was the result of a boy
having his leg broken In a practice game.
English Weather Observers.
Distributed all over Great Britain ure
about 3000 observers, who send up to Lou¬
don periodical reports of the local weather,
A MONEY CONSIDERATION WAS IN
THE BARGAIN.
INSURGENTS REFUSE TO ACCEPT.
1* A ml o' tortimlSnlWifyi fly ftiwiioo to {'miry
Out Pi'ografti Dirt Wiofo
Dismal Fill!tiro.
A special of Monday from Havana,
via Key West, says: General Panilo,
ns recently cabled by the Associated
l v ess, started by train from this city
on Saturday last In order, according
tooffieial announcement, to take charge
of tire e/iiopflign against the insurgents.
He was accompanied by his full stuff
mid w as escorted by it company of ar¬
tillery, I5nt flifft it is stated on very good
authority Gfenhrnl l’ando has
been commissioned by Marshal Blanco,
the captain-general, to enter intd Com¬
munication with the insurgent, leaders
with the view of arranging for peace.
Thi* statement is based on accurate
knowledge of flit the facts lit the case.
General l’ando did not leave ftfitll he
hud taken steps calculated fa further
the object which Marshal BltlncO basin
view. General Panilo, after a consul¬
tation with the captain-general, first
brought about the release from con¬
finement of Damian Caballere, who
has been confined on the Isle of Pines
for seine time past, for, it is alleged,
acting fls spy for the insurgents anil
bringing about a disaster of the Span¬
ish (rttags at Cacao,
General Pflndo's official peace emissary was
also furnished documents em¬
powering him to act for the Spanish
commander, and from Manzanillo
Caballero made his way secretly to the
.Tiguani hills, where General Haiti lias
his headquarters. General l’ando in¬
structed Caballero to offer General
Haiti a high rank in the Spanish army
ami a large sum of money to lie dis¬
tributed among the other insurgent
leaders of that part, of Cuba and in ad
dition a large amount of money for
himself in the event of his succeeding
in arranging terms for peace.
Besides this, Caballero was instruct¬
ed to inform the insurgent leaders that
the Spanish authorities undertook to
honestly establish the new autonomist
regime if the leaders of the insurgents
would accept, the proposition made
them. Although Caballero 1ms not re¬
turned from Santiago do Culm, confi¬
dential advices which have reached the
Spanish officials at Havana seem to in¬
dicate that. Caballere has so far been
unsuccessful. it. is Understood that
General Ilahi has replied that, he be¬
lieves a successful ending of the war
in favor of the insurgents is approach
ing; that the Cubans with the aid of
the United States will gain their inde¬
pendence and that, therefore, he pro
fers to continue fighting the Spaniaids
till the final victory is won.
Caballere also negotiated with Gen¬
eral Duvalon, the French leader of the
insurgents. There seems to lie no in¬
timation as to the result of Caballere’s
negotiations with General Duvalon,
although it may be judged from the
attitude assumed by General Ilahi that
the peace negotiations are likely to
fall flat in Santiago de Cuba.
Insurgents Arc Itelncbllft.
In some quarters it is believed that
(he reluctance to accept the overtures
of General l’ando is due to the fact
that the insurgents are anticipating
some strong steps in their favor when
the United States congress meets, it
is generally admitted that Geneva!
l’ando is somewhat mortified witli the
non-success of his plans up to tho
present, and has so informed the three
ex-insurgent leaders referred to.
He directly gave them to understand
that he was of the opinion that they
were opposed to the sovereignty of
Spain over Cuba, and had no desire to
assist the Spanish authorities in their
efforts to bring about a peaceful settle¬
ment of the troubles. The Cubans
protested that they were sincere and
repeated the excuses they had already
made for their non-eouqdiunce with
tli • requests of the Spanish general.
The latter, although somewhat disap¬
pointed, it is understood will continue
liis efforts to come to an understand¬
ing with the insurgents, and tho mili¬
tary authorities believe that the best
way to do this is to inflict on the en¬
emy a signal defeat which General
l’ando hopes to accomplish.
BROTHERS BURIED TOGETHER.
Kdltor Hrann Warned and IfI h Home
Guarded by ID* Friend*.
The bloody duel between Colonel
Gerald and the Harris brothers at
Waco, Texas, has been the sole topic
of discussion in that usually quiet
city. Editor J. W. Harris, who was so
terribly wounded, died Katurday and
his body was buried Sunday beside
that of his brother, W. A. Harris,who
was killed while the battle was at its
fiercest.
Editor W. C. Braun, of the Icono¬
clast, whoso discussion with Baylor
uniAersity was the origin of the trouble,
was warned anonymously Friday
night and friends guarded bis resi¬
dence, but no trouble occurred.
MONUMENT TO YANUE.
Grand Lodge of Mason* of North Carolina
IVill Lay the Corner Atone.
A special from Asheville, N. O.,
saps that Grand Master Moore, at the
request of Masons of North Carolina,
will call a special communication of
the grand lodge to assist in laying the
corner stone of the monument to the
late United States Senator Vance ut
Asheville.
The ceremonies will occur early iu
Lfi^ember.
PLUNGED INTO A CREEK.
Train Wrecked Had ltilrnrd -Only One
Drnlli, Hut Many Injured.
Train 2 on the Kansas City, Fort
Scott ami Memphis, which left Rir-
miiigliam, Ala., Wednesday evening
for Kansas City, was derailed west of
WalIlford, Ark., at it o’clock Thurs¬
day morning. The combination coach,
chair car and sleeper went over
the bank, tho combination car going
into Spring river. The chair car and
sleeper were both consumed.
Ono passenger was fatally injured,
dying shortly afterward, and about
thirty others more or less seriously
hurt. It is believed none of the lat¬
ter will die.
No. 2 is a fast t lirongh train from
the flonth. Between Williford and
Hardy tho Memphis tracks parallel
the Spring river, a little stream run¬
ning out of Mammoth Springs.
Wlieu near Williford the engineer
felt the train leap forward and found
that it had parted between the two
day coaches. The last three cars
bumped over the ties, tho chair oar
and sleeper turning over on their
sides and the combination car finally
going into the liter,
The engineer backed tip the front
part of the train and the Work of res¬
cue was immediately begun. The ter¬
ror of the passengers who had gone
down into the stream with the combi¬
nation car was heightened by cries of
alarm from which the chair car and sleeper,
both of soon took fire, The
intense darkness added to the confu¬
sion and it was some time before an
organized effort at rescue was put into
effect by the train crew and those of
the passengers who had been able to
extricate themselves without aid. Tiie
passengers in tho burning cats were
luckily rescued before the firo liml
reached its height, and but few in
those cars were injured.
The wreck is the first one of a seri¬
phis ous nature in the history of the Mem¬
road, and according to the state¬
ment of General Passenger Agent ,T.
E. Lockwood, Mr, Hoover is the first
passenger ever killed while riding on
a train on that road.
REPORT OF SECRETARY IfUSS,
Document Shotvn Work of Interior D«*
pari motif, For Pant Voar.
Secretary of tho Interior Bliss, in
his annual report made public Thurs¬
day night, submits ostimates aggregat¬
ing §156,5:12,41'.! for appropriation by
congress for tlio fiscal year ending
Juno HO, 18117.
Discussing pensions he says 200,-
000 pension claims are awaiting adju¬
dication nnd it is estimated that 40 or
50 per cent of those will be finally ad¬
mitted. If they are rapidly adjudi¬
cated they will swell the pension roll
from §5,000,000 to §7,000,000. When,
however, these claims are adjudicated
and the first payments made thereon,
the amount of the pension roll w ill de¬
crease very rapidly, possibly to $125,-
000,000 oi $130,000,000 the first year.
The total Indian population of the
United States exclusive of tho Now
York Indians and the five civilized
tribes, approximates 177,178, located
on 177 reservations, which contain
approximately 33,404,837 acres. Of
these, 4,545 have accepted allotments
of )am> which aggregate 644,147 acres.
Hecretary Bliss says while the opening
of the Wichita reservation in Okla¬
homa to white settlement would great¬
ly promote the development of that
country, yet, in view of the unsettled,
condition of tho questions affecting
their rights, until there is further leg¬
islation he does not see how it can ho
done without causing groat injury and
distress.
To guard against this recommendation
is made that tiie Dawes commission be
authorized to investigate questions as
to their righis and claims and report
recommendations from speedy and just
bo .tlement.
DISASTROUS PRAIRIE FIRES.
Three ThouHimri Hlieep Humeri in Text**
Counties.
A terrific prairie tire hcia passed
through Lubbock, Hale and Crosby
counties, Texas, doing great damage
to the ranges.
It originated east of Crosby county,
burned eastward through Crosby be¬
fore a severe west wind.
'Die /lames made a fire ten miles
wide, which traveled at great speed.
At least 400 square miles of territory
were burned, Cattle suffered and
many were burned to death. Three
thousand sheep were burned in one
Hock and many farmers lost all their
winter feed.
PARIS HAS RIG EIRE.
FltvntttK H|iruatl Over Two Acre* am! 1.0**
Amount* To 400,000 Franc*«
A special dispatch from Paris says
that a destructive fire started Saturday
afternoon in a shop in the Rue des Py¬
renes, in tiie northern section of tha
city. The /lames spread rapidly and
before the fire was under control a
large number of small houses and
workshops were destroyed. The burn¬
ed district covers an area of about two
acres. The loss is placed at 400,000
francs.
After a six-hour battle with the fire,
the members of the fire brigade were
utterly, exhausted and were relieved by
a force of 260 soldiers.
HUNTING THE AUTHOR.
Ttilmfco JVfillioniiira (-'onnectfid With a
I'mmc Hunrulttl.
A special from Winston, N. C., says:
The millionaire tobaeco manufacturer
of Twin City, whose name has been
connected with a scandal that has
reached almost a national circulation
within tin* past few days, has author¬
ized the statement that lie will give
half liis tremendous fortune us a re¬
ward to the mau who will discover the
originator of the story, which is a base
fabrication from beginning
Dr. J. F.
Physician and Siirprcon.
( alls Answered Promptly
DAY AND NIGHT.
Special attention given to diseases
of women and children.
Residence at the Hicks place.
ASHBURN, GEORGIA.
DU. J. F. GREGORY k CO.,
SPECIALISTS.
Rupture, Catarrh, Rectal Diseases,
Hemorrhoids (Piles), Fistulas Cured.
NO KNIFE, NO PAIN.
Room No. 1, Heard Building,
Cordele, Ga.
167 Cotton Ave,, Macon, Ga.
WARREN L. STORY,
Physician and Burgeon,
SYOAMOBE, OA.
Diseases of Nose and Throat.
UK. W. J. TURNER,
Physician and Burgeon,
ASHBUBN, OA.
Special Attention Givon to Diseases of
Women and Children.
Office in Room No. 2, Retts Build-
ing.
Residence: W. A. Shinglor’s.
CallB Answered Day or Night.
Telephone No. 18.
DR. T. H. THRASHER,
Physician and Surgeon,
Ashbuiin, Georgia.
General Practice Solicited. Office
rn the Christian Building.
0. E. WALKER,
Physician and Surgeon,
Hvcamobe, Georgia.
GEO. W. COOPER,
DENTIST,
Asiimhin, Georgia.
Office, Room No. 4, Betts Building.
W. II. CONE, D. D. 8.
I Mako a Specialty of Crown, Bridges
and Replantations.
Teeth Extracted Without Puiu.
Asiibubn, .•. Georgia.
W. T. WILLIAMS,
Attorney at Law.
Land and Collections.
Syoamoke, Georgia.
A. J. DAVIS,
Attorney at Law,
Ahhhuun, Georgia.
Real Estate and Collections.
Prompt attention to all business plneed
in our hands.
B. B. WHITE,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Asiiiiijrn, Georgia.
Will practice in alt the Courts, State
and Federal.
,1. (1. POLE ILL,
Attorney at Law,
Sylvester, - - Georgia.
Practice in all the Courts. Patronage
Solicited.
W. A. HAWKINS,
Attorney at Law,
e Building, Rooms 4 and 5.
Cordele, Georgia.
Prompt attention given to all business
intrusted to my eare.
John V. Powell, J. W. Powell,
Vienna, fla. Ashburn, Ga.
JNO. F. POWELL & HON,
Attorneys at Law.
We practice in all the courts. Im¬
mediate and careful attention given to
business placed in our hands, Em-
ploying one secures services of both.
Business solicited and inquiries
promptly answered.
FRANK PARK,
Attorney - at - Law,
Pour, an, Georgia.
B. W. ADKINS,
Attorney at Law,
Collections a Specialty,
Poulan, Georgia.
Lanier & Dekle,
DEALERS IN
Buggies, Wagons,
Harness, Saddles,
liaby Carriages,
Express Wagons and
Poflins and Caskets,
CORDELE. GA-
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Yellow Pine Liber,
Ash burn, Ga.
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ill Orta lor <%■
Laths , Shingles , Staves ,
Car Sills , Bridge Stuff,
Flooring , Moulding , Brack¬
ets , Ceiling, Etc .,
Will Receive Prompt Attention.
We oarry a well selected and assorted
stock of
Dry Goods,
Hardware,
Groceries, Etc.
If in need of anything in
CLOTHING,
Such as MEN'S AND BOYS'
SUITS , We Can Fit You.
WE HAVE A NICE STOCK OF
LADIES’ DRESS GOODS AND
TRIMMINGS
would ho pleased to show
the ladies of Ashhurn ami sur¬
rounding country.
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OUR BANDIES • • •
Are Fresh and Fine.
Flour, SMS
Meat,
Grits,
Rice,
Sugar,
5 MS Coffee,
Meal,
And in fact any and everything that is
kept in a first-class Grocery House can
be had at our Large Brick Store aa
cheap a* the cheapest.
f
We Carry a Fall Line of
PURNITURB.
UP STAIRS
Onr Stock of SHOES is Complete, with
a Specialty or Ladies’ and Chil¬
dren’s Fine Sunday Wear.
We also handle the best brands of
Cigars Tobacco , Snuff, Etc.
,
Foil line of the best makes of
STOVES NOW ON HAND.
All kinds of STOCK FEED at
REASONABLE PRICES.
The citizens of Ashburn and sur¬
rounding country are cordially invited
to call and inspect onr stock.
We have a Wagon Yard and Stella,
Feed Troughs, etc., for the convani-
ouoe of our oustomer® especially.
Respectfully,
J, S. BETTS & CO.