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0 SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Ons oopy one year ?1 50 One copy six months, 75 One copy three months, 40 Or Will clnb Thi Her*ld and Ai>- vertiser with cither of the following named publications at 12 50 per annum fbr both papers: Atlanta Weekly Con stitution, Macon Weekly Telegraph, Louisville Weekly Courier-Journal, Sou thern Cultivator. t3T Remittances can be made by P. O. Money Order, Postal Note, Registered letter or Express. THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER. VOL. XXII, NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1887. NO. 38. D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO. ATLANTA, GA. Please stand in the shower for a few minutes and allow us to hold your hat and umbrella, and let us state that there must be some misunderstanding about the thing, for we did not capture a line of ocean steamers, nor we have not scooped in what few auction houses there are in New York; neither did we have all of Broadway, New York, wrapped up and shipped out to us as a sample lot, for we don't do things by halves, But here is the trouble for this week: An immense stock of choice new WHITE GOODS. 45-inch wide Lace Flouncing and all over and narrow to match. New Nottingham for yokes. Mull and Swiss—the largest and handsomest line we have ever shown. D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO. LEAD IN LOW PRICES. D. H. LEAD DOUGHERTY & CO. IN LOW PRICES. New White and Cream Mits. An immense variety of white fans. A whole car-load of Table Linens, and we lead the] pro cession on low prices. . It will pay you to consider well before you go elsewhere was a constant tired and lan to buy Dress Goods. We know positively that no house can gu'd feeling. 1 hen followed touch us on low prices. a dreadful nervousness, with gloomy forebodings. Finally the patient was unable to re tain .any food whatever, and there was constant pain in the abdomen. All prescribed rem edies failing to give relief, consultation was held] when it was decided that the patient had a cancer in the stomach and in order to save the pa tient’s life an operation was jus tillable. Accordingly, on the 2ad of February, 1883, the op eration was performed by Dr. Vance in the presence of Dr. Tuckerman, Dr. Perrier, Dr. Arms, Dr. Gordon, Dr. Capner and Dr. Halliwell of the Police Board. The operation consis ted in laying open the cavity of the abdomen and exposing the stomach and bowels. When this had been done an examin ation of the organs was made, but to the horror and dismay of the doctors there was no cancer to be found. The pa tient did not have a cancer. When too late the medical men discovered that they had made terrible mistake; but they sewed the parts together and dressed the wound that they had made, but the poor woman sank from exhaustion and died a few hours. How sad it must be for the husband of this poor woman to know that his wife died from the effects of a surgical operation that ought never to have been performed. If this woman had taken the proper remedy for Dyspepsia and Nervous Prostration (for this was what the disease really was,) she would have been liv ing to-day. Shaker Extract of Roots;, or Seigel’s Cura tive Syrup, a remedy made ex pressly for Dyspepsia or Indi gestion, has restored many such cases to perfect health after all other kinds of treatment have failed. The evidence of its ef ficacy in curing this class of cases is too voluminous to be published here; but those who read the published evidence in favor of this dyspeptic remedy do not question its convincing nature, and the article has an extensive sale. Our lace and Swiss Embroideries arc superb. We are lower than ever, owing to "CUT RATES.” A big job in Ladies’ White Dressing Sacks, beautiful styles, formerly sold at $2 to $5, and we are closing them at $1 for choice. We beat the State on handsome Ruchings. Elegant lines of novelties in Handkerchiefs. SHOES. We have had to add two more men to our Shoe De partment, which shows for itself how our trade runs. We out sell and undersell everybody on Shoes, and are prepared to E rovc what wc say. Shoes for everybody and lower than any- ody. D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO., ATLANTA, GA. NOW LOOK OUT! OR YOU WILL MISS A BARGAIN. I. P. BRADLEY lias tho goods and tli03 r must be sold, for I10 wants the money. A splendid line of Dry Goods, Notions, Boots, Shoes, Hats and Heavy Groceries. Cush or credit, on which tho very lowest figures are marked. Too many goods for the season. They must be sohf at some price. A TERRIBLE SURGICAL OPERATION! ROCK OF AGES. A FATAL MISTAKE. The Cleveland (Ohio) Press, of February 23d, 1883, pub lished an account of a fatal surgical operation which caused a great commotion among med ical men throughout the whole country, Dr. Thayer, the most eminent surgeon in Cleveland, pronouncing it scandalous. It appears that a Mrs. King had been suffering for many years from some disease of the stom ach, which had resisted the treatment of all the physicians in attendance. The disease commenced with a slight de rangement of the digestion, with a poor appetite, followed by a peculiar, indescribable dis tress in the stomach, a feeling that has been described as a faint “all gone” sensation, a sticky slime collecting about the teeth, causing a disagree able taste. This sensation was not removed by food, but, on the contrary, it was increased, After a while the hands and feet became cold and sticky— a cold perspiration. There A BIG LOT OF FRESII SPRING WHITE AND STRAW GOODS IN GREAT VARIETY. A SPECIAL LINE OF CLOTHING, Guaranteeing Fit and Quality, on which I can Sava You Momey. Come and see mo and you will bo sure to buy. Mr. 1). P: Woodroof is with me and will welcome his friends. I. P. BRADLEY. SPRING MILLINERY FOR THE MILLION! “Rock of Ages, cleft for me," Thoughtlessly the maiden song; Fell the words unconsciously From her girlish tongue; Sang as little children sing— Sang as sing the birds in June; Fell the words like light leaves down On the current of the tone— “Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee.” l her soul no need to hide; Sweet the song as song could be— And she had no thought beside. AH the words unheedingly . Fell from lips untouched by care, Dreaming not they each might be On some other lips a prayer— “Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee.” “Rock of Ages, cleft for me”— 'Twas a woman sung them now, Sang them slow and wearilv— Wan hand on her aching brow. Rose the song as storm-tossed bird Beats with weary* wing the air, Even' note with sorrow stirred— Every syllable a prayer— “Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee.” “Rock oi Ages cleft for me”— Lips grown aged sung the hymn Trustingly and tenderly; Voice grown weak and eyes grown dim— “Let me hide myself in Thee.” Tr&mbling though the voice, and low, Ran the sweet strain peacefully, Like a river in its flow; Sung as only they can sing Who Life’s thorny paths have pressed; Sung as only the}* can sing Who behold the promised rest— “Rock of Ages, cleft for rne, Let me hide myself in Thee.” “Rock of Ages, cleft for me,” Sung above a coffin lid; Underneath, all restfully, All life’6 joys and sorrows hid. Nevermore, O storm-tossed soul! Nevermore from wind or tide, Nevermore from billows’ roll, Wilt thou need to hide. Could the sightless, sunken eyes Closed beneath the soft gray hair; Could the mute and stiffened lips Move again in pleading prayer, Still, aye, still the words would be— “Let me hide myself in thee.” The Handsomest Display of Spring Millinery ever Seen in Newnan! The Prettiest Bonnets, the Shapeliest Hats, the Tastiest Trimmings, the Handsomest Assortment 0/Ladies' notions, and Everything Else in the 1 cag of Ladies' Head and ncciacearS the very latent novelties in the Milliner}* line, and shall replenish the same every* week during the aeaeon. I respectfully invite an inspection of my goods and a fair comparison of prices. 1 Minot be undersold, and am bound to please. Thanking my friends for their generous patronage in the past, I respectfully ask a contin uance of the same, which I hope to merit by dealing only in first-class goods and selling at liting prices. Give me a trial. MRS. J. S. WILLIAMS. MY SPRING AND SUMMER STOCK IS COMPLETE. SUITS FOR MEN, BOYS AND CHILDREN IN ENDLESS VARIETY. PRICES GUARANTEED LOW AS THE LOWEST. SUITS MADE TO ORDER. xGEORGE MUSE, 38 WHITEHALL STREET. ATLANTA, GA. BRADFIELD’S An nfallible specific for all the diseases peculiar to * women, such as painful or I suppressed Menstration,. • Falling of the Womb,Leu- ! corrhcea or Whites, etc. FEMALE CHANGE OF LIFE. If taken during this crit ical period, great suffering and danger can be entire ly avoided. REGULATOR! New Yorkers With Big Salaries The editor of one of the great dail ies took a novice into bis office one day. “You may go on the reportorial staff,’’ he said to him. “It has been my experience that money, women and choice foods make capital news paper stories. Whenever you can get a story in which money plays an im portant part you have an article that will be read with interest.” So what follows is all about money and the well-known New Yorkers whose nimble fingers chase the elu sive dollar, or rather thousands of them each year. There are a score of men in New York who are paid as much for their services each year as the President of the United States. Forty thousand dollars a year is a very tidy salary There are hundreds of men who get $25,000 a year salary, and the number who get from $10,000 to $20,000 are le glon. Very ordinary men get from $5,000 to $S,000 a year, as much as Cabinet Officer. Dr. Norvin Green president of the Western Union Tele graph Company, is paid $50,000. So is Chauncey H. Depew, president of the New York Central railroad. R, M. McCurdy, president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, gets a like amount. John M. Hoey, president of Adams Express Company, fares equal ly as well. President Henry B. Hyde, of the Equitable Insurance Company is also in the list. George G. Wil liams, president of the Chemical Na tional Bank, the richest banking in stitution in America, with nearly $5,- 000,000 of surplus, $20,000,000 average deposits, is paid a salary of $35,000 yearly. President Potts, of the Park Bank, and President Tappan, of the Gallatin National Bank, receive like sum every twelve months. The best paid minister in New York is Dr. John Hall, a brainy man from the north of Ireland, who preaches to $200,000,000 every Sunday. His is the smallest church in town. He owes his rise in life to Bobert Bonner, of the Ledger, who found him preaching to a small congregation in Dublin and in duced him to America. Hegetsasal- ary of $20,000 a year, and makes $5,- 000 by his newspaper and magazine articles. He is given a luxuriously furnished house as well. Dr. Morgan Dix, the chief pastor of Trinity Church Corporation, the wealthiest in Ameri ca, receives $15,000 yearly. Dr. Wil liam M. Lavier, of the Broadway Tab ernacle, gets the same amount. He does literary work and lecturing that brings his income up to $20,000. Dr. Charles Hall, of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, is paid $15,000. He is very eloquent, and his church is crowded at all services. Dr. Park- hurst, of Madison Square church, gets $12,000. He has a large and distin guished congregation. Cyrus W. Field is one of the pillars of the church. Dr. Paxton, who preaches to J. Gould and others less wealthy, is paid $15,- 000. The Rev. Robert Collyer, the blacksmith preacher, is paid $10,000. Of the editors Mr. Stone, of the Journal of Commerce, is paid $20,000. He is president of the Associated Press, is immensely wealthy, lives in Brooklyn, and has a mania for choice flowers and plants; his collection is worth over $250,000. Charles A. Dana, editor of the Sun, is paid a $15,000 sal ary, but he is also a large stockholder in the paper, and his income from this source is quite $100,000. Before the paper began to decline the sum was nearly $200,000. Whitelaw Reid, chief owner of the Tribune, pays himself $12,000 yearly. He has been very for tunate in speculating, and is said to be worth over $1,000,000. His wife, a daughter of D. O. Mills, has a fortune of half that sam in her own name. Dr. George H. Hepworth, who was at one time a great pulpit orator, now the Send for our book containing valuable in- Chief Of the Herald staff, is paid $12,- tS™pUMmi W ° men 11 wm ” maiied rree 000 yearly by James Gordon Bennett; BKADPrxi.p Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga- ; Julius Chambers, the managing editor ; of the paper, receives $10,000. Charles j R. Miller, the real editor of the New BADGES, paid $10,000 yearly for editing Har per’s Weekly. He does not do much work, and for days at a time he does not go near the office. He lives in de lightful ease, in a great, big, roomy house on Staten Island. Novelist Howells is paid $10,000 for his work on Harper's Magazine, and Charles Dud ley Warner just half the sum for his humorous work on the same month ly. Richard Watson Gilder gets $12,000 fer editing the Century Haga zinc. Of the physicians, Dr. Fordyve Bar ker probably makes the largest in come. His reputation as a consulting physician stands very high. He is said to make from $50,000 to $60,000 each year. Dr. A. L. Loomis, a spe cialist on throat troubles, makes about $50,000. Dr. J. T. Metcalf makes about the same amount. Dr. L. A. Sayre, the great surgeon who mended John L. Sullivan’s broken arm, makes $40,- 000. Dr. A. Jacobi, who devotes him self entirely to the diseases of children, makes $30,000. Dr. C. R. Agnew, who makes the eye a specialty, clears $25,- 000 yearly. Dr. George T. Shrady, who attended Gen. Grant so faithfully, has an income of $35,000. Dr. Herman Knapp, an eye specialist, receives about $25,000. The legal profession is very remun erative. Col. Bob Ingersoll and Ros- coe Conkling are both said to be mak ing over $100,000 a year. Joseph H. Choate makes considerably over that. So does Senator Evarts. There are hundreds of lawyers who make from $25,000 to $60,000 yearly. And the number who make from $10,000.to $20,- 000 would fill a column. Jockey McLaughlin, who rides for the Dwyers, is paid $10,000. He has the privilege of outside mounts, which means $8,000 more. He gets in addi tion from $5,000 to $10,000 in gifts from owners of horses he has ridden success fully. Jocky Isaac Murphy gets $10,- 000 and outside mounts. His income is fully $25,000 a year. Five thousand dollars is not regard ed as a very big salary. Quite a num ber of editors and at least a dozen re porters on the New York dailies make that amount, not to speak of the cler gymen, bank officials and men in commercial houses who get as much. But talking about money! John P. Ritter, the assistant mana ger of the Clearing House in New York, has probably seen and handled more than any man in the world. He has been more than twenty-two years in the institution. All the money re' ceived and paid out in balances passes through his hands. The daily balan ces run from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000, and in one instance as high as $15,000, 000. Mr. Ritter has handled these vast amounts day after day for years without making an error of a penny, A rough estimate of the total amount that has passed through his hands at the clearing would be between $30, 000,000,000 and $31,000,000,000. This amount has not been handled in the form of notes, bonds or other negotia ble securities, but in actual cash. The largest legal tender issued by the gov ernment is for $10,000. These bills are plentiful in the clearing house, where they greatly facilitate business, mak ing it quite easy to handle the enor mous sums necessary from bank to bank each day. The New South. Pittsburg Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat. T. K. McKnight, of this city, re- turned home yesterday from an ex tensive tour in the South. He was sent there by the Pittsburg iron manu facturers. who had become somewhat alarmed by the iron boom in the South. He reports as follows: “The fever to build in those States is almost anparalleled. Capitalists from the West, the North and even from England are rushing in to build iron works of every description, wherever they can secure a foothold of available territory. In the time I was there heard of fifty corporations with plans for building in the near future. At West Nashville alone there were bolt works, iron furnaces and steel works Some time ago the town had a public sale of lots for building purposes. In three days it had realized $275,000 and OVER THE STATE. that town is bufcnewly laid o^t. .The. ,J* ome West NashvilleBteeqlron and Char coal Company is now building two furnaces, with a capacity of ISO tons each. At Sheffield, Ala., the Tenues see Coal and Iron Railway Company is building a furnace of 140 tons capac ity. At Anniston, Ala., the Noble Brothers are building a furnace. At Bessemer, Ala., the DeBradlebain Iron Company is building two furna ces. At Woodstock. Ala.,-the iron company of that name is also build ing a furnace in Birmingham. The Tennesse Coal and Iron Company, with a capital of $1,000,000, is putting up four new furnaces with a capacity of 999 tons a day. Chattanooga to-day congratulates herself on having the first steel rail mill in the South. It is called the Roan Iron Company, and the mill was putin operation last week At Louisville, the Union Pipe Com pany has just erected anew cast-iron pipe works. This conveys but a faint idea,” continued Mr. McKnight, “of the craze which is possessing capital ists to invest in the Southern iron busi ness. The country is literally alive, and even the natives are forming companies to build works.” Fashions in Montana. The editor of the Montana Screecher attended a May-day ball, and for the first time in his life attempted a des- scription of the costumes for the bene fit and gratification of his lady read ers. We copy several of his descrip tions: “Miss Sallie McSniffin was rigged out as pretty as a red and green wagon wfilh two spring seats, and made more mashes than a few. She had on blue dress with a red flap at the side, and a puffy something or other on the othe side. “Miss Suze Sharp wore an en train rig, and could have knocked Mrs. Langtry silly when it came to good looks. Her hair was era curl and her face en powder. She had sixteen rings on one finger and bracelets clean to her elbow. “Miss Dorrity reminded one of double rainbow, and was the belle of the occasion. It’s a cold day when Lizzie Ann Dorrity gets left at a ball, and she was at her best last night. “Little Birdie Bloom was the dain tiest darling of all, in white toggery of some sort, looped up in spots. She ore handpainted gloves and slip* pers, and passymentry jewelry; also the curls that have been on exhibition the window of our fashionable hair dresser for the past week.” MEDALS, BANGLES, ENGAGEMENT RINGS, t'tt 1 ptt ttiv err ! Frederic, the London correspondent, ETC., ETC., ETC., ETC. : ^ Colonel John A. Coekerill, York Times, gets $10,000 a year. He j has several assistants in editorial writ- j ing who get from $4,000 to $7,000. j John G. Reed, the managing editor of i the paper, gets $8,000, and Harold MADE TO ORDER BY W. E. AVERY, THE JEWELER. manager of the World, geta $15,000. He also gets a small share of the prof its of*the paper, making in all $20,000 j early. George TV. Turner, the pub lisher of the same paper, makes $20,- 000 yearly. George William Cutis is Taking a Mean Advantage. Dakota Bell. A man from Minnesota moved to Da kota this week and bought a farm few miles from Sioux Falls. He was just getting settled ;when, day before yesterday, a man with a book under his arm leaned over the fence and Baid: “Just bought this land, stranger?” “Yes.” “Mighty fine farm.” ‘Yes, sir, very fine.” ‘Must be worth $2,000.” ‘More’n that—I paid $3,000 for it. Then, there are indications of coal on sure. Then the new railroad is go ing across one corner and a town is platted there now. I consider my farm worth $15,000 of any man’s money.” ‘Fifteen thousand, hey?” “Yes, sir, $15,000 at least—I wouldn’t take a cent lees. What are you put ting down in the book?” “Oh, nothing much. You see I am the tax assessor. Other farms aronndiiere ain’t worth more’n fifteen hundred or two thousand, but I’ve just put yours down at the figure you mentioned, seeu’s you insist. Good mornin’, sir; glad you’ve moved into the neighbor hood.” A Good “Morrel” Town. Tid Bits. A Boston woman wrote to the may or of a new town in Wyoming, asking him for information regarding the state of society in his town, its she con templated going there for the benefit of the health of her childrea. On re ceiving his reply she concluded to re main in Boston for a while longer. The mayor wrote: “As for soweiety, it is bang up. This is a mity morrel town, considerin’ that there’s sixty-nine saloons to a popyla- tion of 2,000. But every saloon has a sine up sayin’: ‘All fitin’ must be done outside. No Killin’ Alloud in this Room.’ Only two men has been kill ed since Monday and to-morrer will be Wensday. Cheatin’ at gambling is punished by linchin’ and every effort is made to put the town on a good morrel baysis. And ladies is univer sally respected and I sell them beer at half price when they buy at my place. There is a grand sacred concert and a free dance ev’ry Sunday night and preaehin’ every Sunday that the pas tor don’t have to stay to home on ac count of the big rush at his bowling ally. Don’t hezzytate about cornin’ here on account of soweiety. This is a good morrel town.” Item* of Interest Called From Oar Ex changes. There is a glad monotony in the Crop reports—good in all sections of the country heard from. Holman, who murdered Matilda Gudger in Whitfield county, will hang to-day, July Sth. There are 2,S62 voters registered for the coming prohibition election at Rome to-morrow, (9th inst.) I. F. Cox, late President of the Southern Female College, LaGrange, had his life insured for $4,000. Madison county is stirring up the prohibition question. They will prob ably have an election in September. In a few weeks three fine iron bridges-wiil: span the Etowah-and Oostanaula rivers within the limits of ADVERTISING RATES. One square 1 month, - -- -- $200 One square 3 months, 3 SO One square 6 month, ----- 6 00 One square 12 months, ----- 10 00 Quarter column 1 month, - - - • 6 00 Quarter column 3 months, - - - 12 00 Quarter column 12 months,: - - - 30 00 Half column 1 month, ----- 7 SO naif column 3 months, - - - - - 20 00 Half eolurnu 12 months, - - - - 00 00 One column 1 month, ----- 10 00 One column 3 months, ----- 25 00 One column 12 months, - - - -100 00 Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds of Georgia wool were sold in Boston recently at 31@31><c. per pound. The Central had a pay-train be tween Angusta and Savannah last week that had on board $200,000 in sol id cash. There are quite a number of appli cations for the position at West Point recently vacated by Rufus Clark, of Gainesville. Sandersville is a prohibition town by a large majority. The Mayor has had but one or two cases of drunken ness to dispose of since February, There is a negro in Athens who makes a good living feeding cats. He buys scraps of beef from the market and feeds the cats at 50c. per month. George Robinson, who is Treasurer of the colored lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Sandersville, is said to be a defaulter in the sum of $50. The Governor having declared the office of Tax Collector of Washington county vacant, the Ordinary has order ed an election to be held on Wednes day, July 20, to fill the yacancy. The firm of McGinty & Co., of Ath ens, has been dissolved, by Mr. Mc- ginity purchasing the interest of Dr. E. S. Lyndon and Dr. J. A. Hunni- cutt. Mr. McGinty will continne the business. Thirty members of the Salvation Army were baptized by the older ers in jail—both negroes—one await* ing trial, the other awaiting the re sult of an application for a new trial. The LaGrange Female College ia on a boom. The trustees have guaran teed $10,000, and will ,erect an annex to the boarding department, thereby giving ample accommodations for 100 boarders. The college buildings al ready erected will also be much im proved and beautified. Water work* and other conveniences will be added. Work begins at once, and everything will be completed for the fall session, which opens September 21st. The farmers of Heard county have organized an alliance for tbeir mutual protection. Their object is to take such steps as may be deemed avisable to open, the way to the innovation by which they could in crease the price of what they raised amyower the cost of what they were compelled to buy. Some arrangement will be made by which they Can ship their cotton direct to New York with out going through the intermediate stages of having a buyer and shipper. Col. C. y\. DuBose, of Sparta, exe cutor of the will of the late David Dickson, was in Augusta Friday at tending to business pertaining to hie executorship. Since the decision of the Supreme Court was rendered af firming the verdict of the lower court complications have arisen which will probably delay a complete settlement with the heirs at law. Col. DuBose, however, is inclined to believe that the exceptions to the decision of the Supreme Court cannot be sustained, either by law or equity, but in making his settlement with the heirs he will reserve a sufficient amount of the • property to meet whatever emergen cies that might possibly develop. As the construction train was re turning to Americus from Flint river on Saturday night last, a negro man was knocked oft one of the cars and had a narrow escape from serious injury. He was stretched out upon the car fast asleep, with his head pro jecting over the side, when suddenly it was brought with terrible force against a lightwood stump near the track. The darkey was knocked from the car by the force of the blow,’ and the train at once stopped, his compan ions expecting to find him mangled beyond the hope of recognition; but, greatly to their surprise, tho darkey was already upon his feet, uninjured, and swearing roundly at having had members of the band at Augusta Bun- day ‘ -™°]™ 0U “ nd A P l° pl f_ I Ws sweeTdream7so"'rudel7cii*s"turb5r The Piedmont Exposition has thns A story is told that two Califor nians engaged in a dispute over the proper method of speaking. They agreed to leave it to the next man they saw, who happened to he George Heaist. He was seated on the stoop of a hotel with his feet on tho railing. One of the gentlemen stepped up to him and said: “Sir, my friend and I have been having a dispute about a matter of speech. We have agreed to leave it to the next man we meet. Are you a grammarian?” “A what?” asked Senator Hearst. “A grammarian,” was the repeated inquiry ‘No, sir.' Not by a long sight,” was the emphatic response. “I am a Mis sourian.” A man who has more time than money has taken the trouble to find out how far a farmer has to walk to cultivate forty acres of com. To plow the ground with a sixteen inch plow, he walks 350 miles; to harrow the ground thoroughly before planting, he walks 50 miles; to cultivate it af terwards, he walks 300 miles, makiDg a grand total of 700 miles, besides the gathering. The Savannah JVetz’s thinks that brooding over information like this is one of the things that makes the farmers’ sens too tired to stay on the farm, and suggest that as a set-off, somebody ought to find out how many miles a dry goods clerk walks in a day. “Boy!” called a patrolman en An toine street, as he hnrried into the al ley to find a lad coming out of the back gate, “did you hear that report of a gun?” “You bet!” was the reply. “Where was it?” “In our back yard.” “Who fired it?” “I did, and don’t you keep me here any longer. Dad was in the woodshed when I fired at a cat, and from the way he is enssin’ and rearin’ around, I guess I missed the cat just about six feet!” - Young Man (whispering to jeweler) —“That engagement ring I bought of you yesterday—” Jeweler—“What’s the matter with it? Didn’t it fit?” Young Man (cautiously—“Sh! It didn’t have a chance. Gimme a collar button for it.” Never abuse back. a mule behind his “Georgie,” said the Sunday-school teacher, “whom of all others will you wish to see when you get to heav en?” With a face bright with anticipa tion, the little fellow shonted: “Ger- Iiah!” Yon can get more wind out of a ten cent fan than you can from a $500 one. It’s the same way with a ten cent mao. the ceremony. The Augusta Army is now 120 strong. There is less water in the ponds and creeks of Terrell county than there has been for years. The creeks are lower, and some of the ponds that were nev er known to be dry before, are with out a drop of water in them W. B. Wolcott, of Griffin, makes the following claim concerning his family. His father and four grown sons, and his uncle and three grown sons, are all living and none of them have ever tasted- of tobacco or liquor in any shape. The crop prospects in Murray coun ty are finer than for many years past. The wheat crop just harvested is ex ceptionally fine, and there are num bers of farmers in the county who will make from twenty to twenty-five bushels per acre. The oat crop is also good. Corn and cotton both look most promising. Hon. D. N. Smith, State Senator from the Twenty-fifth Senatorial dis trict, died at his home near Ivey, Tuesday morning at 9 o’clook. He had suffered many days from a severe attack of typhoid fever. Senator Smith was in the prime of life, and was one of the most prominent young legislators in the State. Reports from all over Sumter coun ty are to the effect that crops of all kinds were never mere promising than they are just at this time. Corn has been laid by and will yield an abundant harvest, while .cotton is booming along at a lively rate from the effects of the recent rains. It is al ready heavily fruited and the yield promises to be large. A certain fanner of Hart county, talking about his crop of cotton, told us that his preacher’s patch was the best cotton he had. “Where is your preacher's patch located?” we asked. “Right in the centre of the field.” “Why did yon put it in the centre of the field?” “So that the Lord couldn’t send rain on the preacher’s patch without rainiBg on mine!” The Rome Courier says that in the last week or ten days there has been a very marked and decided reaction against prohibition in Rome and Floyd county. The intolerance and bigotry of extreme prohibitionists have disgusted the conservative ele ment and set them to thinking, and this is unfavorable to prohibition. But, then, the Courier is on the other side of the fight. . At a meeting of the citizens of For syth Monday the question of the ad visability of extending the city limits to one mile from the Court-house in stead of half a mile, as at present, and establishing a free school system was discussed. Upon motion, A. B. Banks was instructed to have a notice prepared to that effect, and have it published. Brown’s Ferry, in Hart county, some eighty or ninety years ago was known as Shockley’s Ferry, and it was here the name of the celebrated “Shockley apple” is supposed to have had its origin, which was from a seed ling that grew near the ferry. The “Shockley” is now a standard apple, and is grown throughout the country in nearly all the first-class nurseries. In Houston county during the past four years and six months there have been 286 prisoners in jail; 235 colored males, 35 colored females and 15 white males. The oldest prisoner was 72 years of age, youngest II; average age | 27 yean. There are now two prison- j people. far received applications lor over 100,- 000 square feet of floor space. This ex ceeds the space in the main hall by 15,000 square feet, and to meet the de mands the architects are now prepar ing plans for another building, 500x96 feet, to be used for machinery and ag ricultural displays. The new build- will be of the same general design, as the main building, extension ends and centres. Three hundred bands are now at work, and matters are moving along rapidly and satisfactorily. The track will be completed in about two weeks. The main building will be ready within four weeks, and by Sep tember 15, at the latest, all will be in readiness. Thg question of establishing by lo cal taxation a public school for Cov ington is being agitated at this time, and a meeting of tho citizens was held Monday to consider- the matter. As the establishment of the school will largely depend on the question as to whether or not the city can secure the use of the buildings of the Georgie Methodist Female College, the only action taken was to appoint a com mittee to confer with the trustees of that institution with a view to ascertain ing whether the #Tortb Georgia Con ference (which controls the institu tion ) would grant to the city the use of the college buildings in the event that a public school should be estab lished. It seems that a large majority of the citizens favor the establishment of the school. Several months ago a in ad-dog bit George Kenmore and two of his cows the Fifteenth district of Sumter county. One of the cows went mad and died soon after she was bitten. Last week the ether cow was seized with hydrophobia, and made things lively out there for several days. Ev erything that came in her way was attacked, and she would bite like a dog a3 well as push with her horns. Mr. Charles Howell was called in to shoot her Monday, but before he got there the cow was chasing a negro, when she fell in in a fit and before she could get up the negro split her head open with an axe. Mr. Kenmore 13 very low spirited, fearing that he may be attacked with rabies at any time, and injure some of his family, who keep watch of him all the time. W. A. Jeter, representing the Bruns wick Light and Water Company be fore the City Council of Griffin, stated his proposition to the Council, which is substantially this: The light and water company to erect a gas and wa ter plant costing $85,000, the water tower to be 100 feet high and located on a high elevation. The company to furnish the city with fqgty-five plugs and eighty street lights. In return for this, the city is to give the company $4,000 per year for the term of twenty- five years, and for ten years to relieve the-company from the burden of taxa tion and license. Or, if the city pre ferred, the company would erect the plants fob $85,000, and take in pay ment bends of the city for thirty years, payable at 7 per cent, interest. If the first proposition was accepted the city was to be at no expense what ever in maintaing the fire plug er lighting the gas jets and keeping them in order, the company taking the full responsibility upon themselves. The city charter will have to be amended by legislative action before the prapo-. ' sition is submitted to a vote of tba
