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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