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p| ?e County News.
Official Or “fan of Irwin County.
A. G. DeLOACH, Editor and Prop’r.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
■yy l. story,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
Sycamore, Georgia.
j^JAKK ANTHONY.
PHYSICIAN ahd SURGEON,
Sycamore, Georgia
Will ba lor.,ted for the present at the Dod
son House. Patronage respectfully solicited.
^ Dili.IS,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Ruby, Georgia.
Culls promptly attended to at all hours.
t respectfully solicit u share Cockrell’s of tho public
patronage Office in B. H store.
* JT)R. dr. V. GARDNER,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
Ashburn, Georgia
Cals answered promptly day or night.
tSST'^peeiai attention to diseases of women
and o.iiidrou.
jgENTON STRANGE, M, D.
SPECIALIST.
Cordelle, Georgia.
Diseases of -women, Strict ires. Nervous
and all private diseases. Strictures dissolv
ed out iu 2 to 5 minutes by a smooth current
of Galvanism without pain or detention
i of ram alcohol. business; Correspondence and given to patient solicited in a vial and
best references given. Office north-east cor
ner Suwaueo House.
Jl> M. 1R1ZZELLE,
LAWYER,
McRae, Georgia.
Practices in tho ‘5tat.o and Federal Courts.
Real Estate und Criminal Law Specialties.
A. AARON,
LAWYER,
Ashburn, Georgia.
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Collections and Ejectment suits a Special
ty. BfOfilce, Room No. 4, Betts Builuiug.
W. EUIAVOOD,
LAW, REAL ESTATE & COLLECTIONS,
Tifton, Georgh,
Fronips attention given to all business,
igy*Office, Love Building, Room No. 1.
JOHN HARRIS.
SHOEMAKER,
Ashburn, Georgia.
My prices ait) low and all work strictly
Guaranteed. ,
DIR T 'CTOR Y.
Mayor—A G. DfrLoacli.
Councilmen—W. Cockrell, R. B. Smith, Dasher. J. I. P. L. Fountain, Murray.
W. R.
and Superior October. Courts—First C. C. Smith, Monday Judge, Hawkins- iu April
ville, Ga.
Solicitor Gsneral—Tom Eason. McRae,Ga.
Clerk Superior Court—J. B. D. Paulk, Ir
win ville, Ga.
Sheriff—Jesse Paulk, Ruby, Ga.
Deputy Sheriffs—C. L. Prescott, Irwin
viiie, Ga.; C. Wm. VanHouten, Monthly i-yeatnore, second Ga.
County QuarterL urt — session, session, second Monday
Monday; July ami October. J. B.
in January, Judge, April, iriviuiille,
Clements, Ga.
County Court Bailiff—William Rogers, Ir
■(Tiiiville, Ga.
County Commissioners’ Court—First Mon
day iu each month. M. Henderson. Commis
rforter, Ocilla., Ga.
Ordinary’s Court—First, Monday in each
month. Daniel Tucker, Ordinary, Vic, Ga.
School Commissioner - J. Y. Fletcher, Ru
by. Ga.
i ounty Treasurer—W. R. Paulk, Irwin
vil e, Ga.
Tax Receiver—G. J. Mobley, Vie, Ga.
'iax Collector—J. W. Paulk, Ruby, Ga.
Purveyor—M. Barnes, Minnie, Ga.
Coroner—Dauiei Hull, Minnie. Ga.
Board of Eilue iliou—Jno. Clements Chair
man, Irwin vide, Ga.; .henry T, Fletcher, Ir
wiuville, Irwinvile, G,.; L. R. Tucker, S. Vic, Go; L. D.
Tailor, Ga,; E. Coleman,
Oddis, G i.
Juslieu Courts—901 IMst. G. M, Second
Saturday in each mouth. Marcus Luke. N.
P. uud ex-offl, J. P ; Wm. Rogers, Bailiff,
Irwmv.Ue, Go.
laSS Disc G. M-, Third Saiurday in each
moot . V. Hanley, J. P ; David Troup,
Bad ff. Minnie, Ga.
9a: DLt G. ill , Third Wednesday in each
month. U j, R ,yai,J. P.. sycamore, Ga ,
A. Jones &P Royal, Bailiffs, Sycamore, Ga.
ftSJDiiu G M. . i). A Riy, A P. & Ex
[ oflic.o J. P.. Byir-ntioro. Ga.
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LO’JOa OifttCTORY.
Sjorn... is)at,e, no 210 F. & A. M
Rfgu .u cwnniumcatiOUS 2nd and 4ih Ba:u -
da,.. W. L Story, W. M.; J. F. Ko, al, Sec.
Ocilla Lo go, F. iSc A. H.—Regular com
m.. icaiioii j hursduy before J, Henderson, the 4th Sunday W. M
in , .cn uioutu, J. A. ;
D. W. M. tt nitley, Sec’y, Ocilla, Ga.
CHU ,tCM DlRECTO.-iY
sycamore circuit.
. Sycamore— 2nd Sunday and Sunday night.
CVoionaCt— iGiey First Sunday.
Grove—3rd Sunday and Saturday
before. Chapel—4ih
Clemon’s Sunday and Satur
day beioie.
Duma cus—4ih Sunday afternoou and 5th
Sumriy.
Fiuyer meeting at Sycamore every Thurs.
day night; Sunday school Sunday morning
at lO.Jj o’clock,
J. VV. Connors, Pastor.
union primitive baptist.
Brushey Creek—4 h Sunday and Saturday
oefore.
Sturgeon Creek—2nd Suuday and Situr
day before.
Salem—3rd Hopewell—1st Sunday Suuday & Saturday before. before.
Eld W. H. and Harden, Saturday
Pastor.
Little River—3rd Suuday and Saturday
betore.
Turner's before Meeting House—2ud Sunday and
Saturday
Oaky Gievo—lib Suuday and Saturday
before
Emauis—tat Sunday James and Saturday before
EiA>. Gibbs, Pastor.
NOTICE.
Parties aro warned that no hunting or fish
ing Will btiollavred on lota of land Nos. 18,
18, ** iU “ i iu
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SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., JANUARY 5 1894.
GENERAL NEWS.
Wholesale Summary of the News of the
Week Gathered from Every Quarter.
San Francisco had a $500,000 tiro
the past week.
The Santa Fe railttoad is in the
hands of receivers.
An Earthquake shock was felt in
Pennsylvania (ho past week.
A vote will not be taken on tho tar
iff bill before the last of January.
Mitchell, lhe pugilist, lias arrived at
Jacksonville, lie was greeted enthu
siastically.
The Bakers’ Union, of Chicago is on
a strike, and the consequence is a
bread famine.
President Cievoland and Secretaries
Gresham and Earnout spent Christmas
in hunting ducks.
Anolher train robbery was commit
led on the Kansas and Arkansas road,
a few nights since.
Pcndergast, Mayor Harrison’s slay
er, has been found guilty of murder
and will receive the death penalty.
The prospects are that the balance
in the treasury of available cash will
reach the lowest figure ever recorded
in its history tho present week.
It is becoming-somewhat interesting
now to see which will win in Florida,
the Governor or the sporting men in
charge of the Corbett-Mitchell fight.
Gov. Fishback of Arkansas has
written a letter to President Cleveland
complaining that the Indian Territory
is an asylum for dangerous criminals
of all kinds.
Heavy lighting is reported to have
occurred at Bio, on Christmas eve.
The result of the engagement is not
fully known, but; both sides are said
to have suffered severely.
Rev. Dr. Samuel K. Lewis, a young
Jewish rabbi, from Charleston S. C.,
was married a few days since, and
while on his bridle tour went crazy
and had to be confined in an asylum in
New York.
,J. S. Malison, ex-speaker of the
house and the present Chairman of
Ways and Means Committee of the
Mississippi legislature, died very sud
denly at his home near Urookviile,
Noxubef county.
J 03 Dan Jam, who sent threatening
letters to President Cleveland, Vice
President Stevenson, Senator Mills
and other prominent public men and
fur whom the police in several cities
have been looking, has been arrested.
Governor Waite has issued his long
talked-of call for a special session of
the legislature to meet Jan. 10. The
call consists of abont 5,000 words and
mentions over thirty subjects on which
legislative action should be taken, in
the Governor’s opinion.
At a meeting of the representative
men of Atlanta a few nights since, it
was decided to begin at once on the
Cotton Stales and sub-tropical exposi
tion which will be ready for opening
about one year hence. The business
men of the city have pledged them
selves to raise any amount necessary
for the movement.
Corbett and Mitchell was arrested
in Jacksonville on last Thursday. The
arrest was according to a prearranged
programme of the Duval Athletic
Club in order to test the law in Florida
in reference to glove contests. They
gave bond. The Club will now pre
cipitate the suit by making an appli
cation for a writ of nabas corpus.
EYances Ragan asked the city au
thorities of Chicago to look him up
for the winter as he feard that he
would set fire to Chicago, lie said
twice he had committed arson 1 , serving
a term of seven years in a Canadian
prison, and having been recently re
leased from tiie Michigan City peni
tentiary after an imprisonment of
six years for arson. The man will be
tield pending investigation.
Are the Letters Genuine.
Two letters were picked up on the
streets at Abilene, Kansas a few days
ago by a country woman and handed
to the poliece. One letter is from
Topeka, dated December 10, and says:
“We have concluded to make two jobs
out of the White House business. We
will take the oldest child first. We can
get her all right. Mollie will get her
and hand her over to ns, and we will
keep her till the reward is ottered. It
means thousands to us to get this child
Ruth, and we will get her, too, iu Jan
uary. Address me in Chicago. We
will go right on.”
The other letter is from Minneapolis
and written prior to the one already
quoted. It said: “We have every
thing ready for the White House and
will send Grover to hades when the
bugle sounds. We will also get our
$20,000, We will start for the White
House now., We have never failed in
our job and won’t now. There is
much in the houses of gold bugs and
Vanderbilt,”
The letters bear evidence of sinesri
ty, and the police considered them the
work of cranks. A queer acting in
dividual who was around the city ear
ly iu the week declaring that he soon
would be rich is supposed to have
been the recipient of them. He has
gone east and has not been located.
“In ITnion. Strength and Prosperity Abound,”
DUN’S REVIEW.
General Trade Is Quiet.—No Im
proveinent Along Industrial
Lines.
It. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review
of trade says: Tho year is piaeU
cally over, except the holiday business,
which is remarkably sustained as re
spects the number of sales, consider
mg the state of industries and the
army of unemployed, but is materially
diminished in volume. 1 urchaseg ay
erage much smaller in value than in
recent years Probably the s ocks of
holiday goods of the better class left
on hand after next week will be
larger than .usual. Oilier business,
a l branches included, appears from
clearing house returns 2o.l per m
less than last year at tho same date. Hut
much is done at prices which return
no r «,, „.»d, a.
(fetter or i-etam oi.tomoi., arid lire
losses by numerous and heavy failures
reduced profits even where the vol
ume of transaction has given fair
promises.
Changes c uring the past week , . )ave
not been cheering in character, but
the minds of many are now turning
to the dawn of the new year with
hope of better things.
I he delayed treasury report in favoi
of coimng the silver bullion on hand,
substitution of other issues for gov
eminent paper currency, issues of
bonds and a tax on incomes derived
from corporations attracts not much
atlention; but, notwithstanding the
abundance of money, the market is
rather less confident in feeling. It is
believed, however, that the usual 1
pinch about January 1 will not occur
Failures for tho week were 344 in
the United States, against 288 last
year, and 37 in Canada, against 18
last year. The liabilities in failures
reported la8t week appear to have ex
ceeded $6,220,587 in amount, includ
ing $3,895,950 for manufactures and
$2,084,919 for trading coucerus,
against $5,459,409 for the previous
BURNED IT OUT.
Details of the Lynching of Sloan Al
len in Mississippi.
The particulars about the lynching
of Sloan Alien, colored, in Holmes
county Miss., Friday night are as fol
lows: After he was arrested for
burning Nabors’ body and house, af
ter having hacked him to pieces, a
regular inquiry began. It soon be
came apparent that the negro was guil
ty, though lie strenuously denied it.
A fire was built up and the negro was
thrown into it for tiie purpose of ex
torting a confession. When the flames
had burned him terribly be yelled that
he would tell all he knew if released.
He was promptly taken from the
flumes. He said he and a white man
named Jim Berry were the guilty ones.
An investigation sliowid that Berry
was innocent. The negro was for the
second time cast into the flames and
badly burned. On promising to tell
the truth he was again taken implicated out,.
This time, with himself, he
three or four other negroes, who upon
investigation, proved conclusively their
innocence. For tiie third time Alien
was thrown into the (lames, and on
promising to correctly tell all about
the murder of Nabors lie was removed,
more dead than alive. He said that
only lie was guilty, He told where
considerable of the money stolen
could he found, and where he placed
the bloody clothes he had on when lie
hacked the body of Nabors to pieces
and burned the residence, All was
found as he had stated, Allen was
then turned over to some negroes,
who then hanged him and burned his
body. The negroes were as greatly
enraged over the terrible deed as were
the whiles, and insisted on burning his
body as he had burned Nabors. Na
bors was a respectable white man, an
old bachelor, wiio lived alone with the
negro youth, T ie sole motive of the
crime was robbery. The amount se
cured was $5 in gold.
Big Strike Imminent.
A conflict is on between the receiv
ers of the Northern Pacific railroad
and its employes, including all the en
gineers, conductors, firemen, trainmen
switchmen, etc. The new schedule of
wages adopted by the receivers, which
implies a cut of 5 to 10 per cent, in
the employes’ pay, was rejected by the
employes’ representatives. A confer
ence was held iu St. Paul with Gener
al Manager Kendrick and the pros
pects are that on Jan. 1, when the
new schedule is to go into eflect, 3,600
men employed all along the road will
quit work.
Worse Than a Comet.
There is great excitemeut among the
negroes at'Wsycross, Ga., on what
they consider a sure sign that the
world is coming to an end. They re
port that there was seen a brilliant
star of great size, oblong in shape, and
having a tail at each end. It was en
circled by a halo and had across it a
dark belt, which, they claim, was like
a coffin, and a cross distinctly seen,
The result is that that the superstitions
negtoes are gieatly excited, especially
in the country, wher they are prepar
ing for the end.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Items of General Interest that are Occur
ring at the Capital City.
i u uiviu«n. In c.™. Tax.
AVhile some of the members of the
mld meang C0111Illi uee are work
.J , d , „ others are mak
& h oliday of it. In fact it is
ehliuil , d tllftt jittie can be done until
thy cleven „ mjol k . it 1IlCIIlbei . g come to
» , bep and ae pt l cither majority or
lin0l . u / , eports Avenue. of lhe sub . c „mnnttee
^ hlte nal Messrs. McMiL
ljn and a roported 5 a plau in favor
of W| lndlviduJ incomo tax . Ml ,
Moiltgomei . y sported | Jax against it and
the 1 Hn of on the in
from illve6ted woalth . Mr.
Montgomery defends his plan and
”, , ed b 0 fi,„ of tire
c0 ( 1 ldttee 'first
llJu the £ place,” said Mr. Mont
gomery| „ i£ a an has $100,000 and
engages in any business enterprises be
w jjj gj ve employment to many people
and - g benefit tQ the community, if
) le makes $200,000 a year [ and spends
j don > t CRre bow he money gets
in circulation and benefits the people.
if the profits are invested in stocks
Bfld bonds, the man does not spend it
bllt (g a ve£ul . n j u interest, and upon
guch retul . ng he should pav ta kes for
support of the government. The mon
ey which a man earns and spends is
kept in circulation, and, no matter
where or how, it reaches many people,
and is constantly doing good. 'When
a man having $1,000 or any such man
chooses rather than invest it himself
to loan it to those who are more ven
turesome, who have more energy arid
enterprise and who wish to engage in
business on such capital, he becomes a
fiioue in society, is supported by the
work of other persons, and he should
not complain if he is taxed for a very
small part of his profits.”
While Mr. Montgomery was talking
Mr. Stevens, of tho committee, said in
a jocular manner that he believed he
would win over members of the com
mittee who disagreed about the in
come tax to support a proposition to
put a duty on sugar to make up the
deficit, which was expected to be
raised by the tax on incomes. This it
only an indication that all the mem
bers of the committee are not altogeth
er satisfied with tho income tax prop
osition, and that a duly on sugar is
yet a question to be considered.
A Big' Strike Imminent.
A strike of alarming proportions
will be instituted by 1,600 miners in
the vicinity of Belleaire, O., on Jan
uary 1st, if the operators do not re
voke their decision to cut wages on
that date. The miners affected are
those employed alono the line of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Some
time ago tiie operators announced that
they were unable to pay 70 cents per
ton as heretofore and Jan. 1 would re
duce to 60 cenls per ton, (he wages
paid to West Virginia miners. The
claim of the boss was that they could
not compete against West Virginia,
coal and pay 10 cents more per ton for
mining, alleging under this arrange
ment West Virgina coal could be sold
at tho mouth of the Ohio mines for
less than Ohio operators themselves
could sell their own coal.
On the other hand tho miners claim
that the bosses can make a good profit
with wages at 70 cents per ton. They
have decided to refuse tiie reduction
and unless some compromise is agreed
upon within a few days ail will lay
down their tools New Year’s Dav.
Out of Work,
Bradstreet’s agency has been trying
to obtain reliable information as to the
number of unemployed wage-earners succeeded
in the United States and has
in gathering some facts which are very
impressive. Correspondents principal iu one
hundred and nineteen of the
cities in the country send reports show*
ing that ihere are in enforced idleness
in those cities 801,855 wage-earners and
that nearly two million people are de
pendent on those idle workmen. A
summary of the reports is given as
follows:
New England, 6,200 unemployed;
154,400 dependent. 223,250
New York and New Jersey,
unemployed; 563.750 dependent.
Pennsylvania, 151,500 unemployed;
449,200 dependent, unemploy
Central W’esiein, 227,340
ed; 443,310 dependent. unemployed;
Northwestern, 64,900
175,800 dependent. unemployed;
Pacific Coast, 25,800
47,000 dependent. unemployed; 122,
Southern, 43,065
650 dependent. unemployed; 1,956,
Totals, 801,855
110 dependent.
The Crop of Cranky
A man giving his name as Timothy
Kane, aged 35 years, of No. 1776
Third avenue, called at the East
1041 h, street police station
Chicago and announced that he was go
ing to kill the Rev. Dr. Charles Park
hurst and wished two poliecemen to
accompany him and arrest him after
the iL deed. , , After , „ a hard , , struggle , Kane ...
was overpowered and locked up. An
examination as to his sanity will be
made.
$1.00 a Year in Advance.
01)1) LITTLE ITEMS.
There are about 250,000 words in
the English language.
The unclaimed funds in the English
courts amount to $339,252,410.
One-quarter of all the people born
die before six years and one-half be
fore sixteen.
A year on Jupiter is equal to eleveu
years, ten months and seventeen days
on our globe.
The fashionable cat at the national
show in London this year is blue and
long-haird. To perfectly proportioned
be a man
should weigh twenty-eight pounds
for every foot of his height.
In 1552 books on geometry and as
tronomy wore destroyed in England
as savoring of magic.
Japan has no fewer than 700 earth
quake observing stations scattered
over the empire.
With a load of 400 pounds a camel
can travel twelve or fourteen days
without water, going forty mile3 a
day.
It has been discovered that cholera
germ is seldom fatal to a system im
pregnated with tobacco,
An inch of rain means a gallon of
water spread over two square feet, or
about 100 tons to every acre.
Among all drinks, soda water is the
seldoinest adulterated. Among intox
ications beer is the freest from tire
evil.
The number of insane persons in
Ireland has increased from 249 pet-
100,000 population iu 1880 to 369 pet-
100,000 in 1892,
It was the vogue at one time in
Venice to gild their rolls of bread and
the oysters on the supper table. The
candles were also coated with gold.
The original of the word trump as
U6ed in card-playing is said to be the
French word “triomphe,” equivalent
to the English “triumph.”
HORRIBLE BRUTALITY.
Two Babies are Brained and the
Mother is Burned.
A horrible story of the superstition
of the Mojave Indians is told by a
gentleman just from Needles, a town
on the Colorado Rivev, on the Atlantic
and Pacific Railway, He bad heard
the details just before he took the
train, and they seemed to be corrobo
rated by an account given in a local
paper, The Eye, which he brought
with him.
The Mojave Indian reservation is
about half a mile from The Needles,
and the aborigines are virtually their
own masters, having their own laws
ami superstition. From Saunders’s
account on Tuesday last, a tripple
murder was committed under the plea
of a tradition bv the Indians. One of
the prettiest souaws of tho tribe,
known as Loneta. was married, accot
dint'* to the savage rites, about a year
av 0 ? She was a comely girl, only edn- 18
years old and had picked up some of tho
cation. He husband was one
bravest and appeared to be very fond
q .£ j ier . twins,
Sunday last she gave birth to
and as a result, a grand pow-wow Mojave
was called for according to the
tradition, the squaw who has twins is
a witch and a consort of evil spirits.
The penalty has always been death
for tiie babies anil the mother.
Loueta’s husband was so fond of her
that he made a strong plea for her and
her babies, bat it was of no avail. The
medicine men held that lhe old custom
must be observed, and the two little
ones were brought forward and brain
° kept for
ed with a club. Loneta was
aroore tryino ordeal, which she suf
f C red without complaint. Evory one
of her personal belongings were gath
ered and put into her “shack” and she
wa8 ordei . ed inside She bid her 1ms
.
band farewell and went in. The en
terance was closed, straw and brush
were piled about the frail structure
and fired, and in two hours nothing
but a few embers remained to tell tho
tragio story- The Needles learned the
officers at
facts too ] ate to interfere, and tho poor
g q UaW) w ith this horrid torture, passed
to the happy limiting ground, nad preceded where
b ei[ . ill-starred ofl-spring
pg,..
Silver In Texas.
Advices from San Antonio, Tex.,
tells of a great discovery of silver near
the town of Shafter, Tex., where ex
tensive mines are already being
worked. The find is located near the
Rio Grande river in Persidio county,
and in a district which contains several
old abandoned mines which were
worked a century or more ago by the
Spaniards. Two prospectors named
Frank Harding and Theodore Wall
ing were the discoverers of the new
mine
A Past, Run.
Frances J. Dawes, a wealthy Chica
go Brewer, received word at New Or
leans that his child was dying there
and chartering an Illinois Central
train, the tracks were cleared and Mr,
Dawes aud his wife were whirled over
the 1,000 miles at, lhe rate of a mile a
minute. He paid Records $1,000 for the trip
a|ld broke a j t between New
Orleans in and Chicago, making the run
25 1-2 h. urs.
VOL,IV, NO. 34.
Locks in Empire Style.
A pretty, pseudo-classical fashion ot
dressing tho hair comes from Paris.
It really belongs to the period enough of with the
Empire, but agrees •well
some phases of the 1830 gown. The
bands of satin ribbon are of a color
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harmonizing with tho gown, hair and
complexion. the hair
Many Parisians are wearing
very much waved and puffed out at the
sides over the ears m the way of char
acteristic of the former days of big
sleeves and berthas. A braided ’“knob”
(or puff) or two of hair at tho crown
completes the picture, and soft little
stray locks waver over the forehead.
Though this style, it would seem, must
give width to tihe face, the effect in
reality is the reverse, and it is par
ticularly becoming to the round-faced
woman.
There has been a great revolution in
the fashion of hair-dressing of late
years. Time was whtn the girl who
rejoiced in thick, long locks had dis
tinct cause for triumph over her sisters
who had been denied this special gift
of Nature; and any one who possessed
what was called “a wealth of hair”
was admired, and her special beauty
coveted in consequence, Unguents,
pomades and washes innumerable were
used in the vain hope of thickening
tiie scanty plaits, and false hair was
worn almost nniversally. Now, how
ever, small heads are the fashion; lit
tie fluffy curls and tiny knots of hair
are do rigueur, and the smaller the
better.—New York Tribune.
THE SOUTH’S ADVANTAGE.
The Cotton Mills Paying Good Div
idends.—The Coming Industry.
Augusta Chronicle: In a year of
unexampled depression of cotton man
ufaeturing in the eastern states, the
nulls ot Georgia and South Carolina
have been running on full time,
With climatic advantages, cheap water
power and raw material at first cost
all large factories have made money
and paid dividends. Mills iu and
around Augusta make a splendid
showing for the year just closing,
The Augusta factory, capital $600,
000. paid a 0 per cent, dividend; the
Enterprise Manufacturing company,
capital $750,000, 6 per cent, the Sib
ley Manufacturing company, $1,000,
J00 capital, 0 per cent, and also the
King Manufacturing company, capi
tat $o00,000 and the Granite Mann
facturing company has increased its
capita! during the year from $400,
000 to $000,000 and will pay a semi
annual dividend of 3 per cent, on the
increased capital The records of
these mills show that the south is the
most inviting field for cotton maim
facturing and the indications are that
in the near future new factories will
be started iu this section. In 1880,
the south consumed 200,000 bales ot
cotton. In 1893, the southern mills
consumed 600,000 bales. There could
be no stronger evidence of the south s
superiority over the north in its ad
vantages for cotton manufacturing
than that during the past year north
ern mills have been shut down whit*
mills in tho south have been running
on full time and have paid good div*
dends.
Will Wlitstle Hereafter.
The major general commanding tha
United (States army has approved providing that for
part of the new tactics
officers giving commands, under cer
tain circumstances, by whistles ni
stead of bv word of mouth, iha
whistles are to bo placed in the cross
pieces of tho guards of tiie swords,
and an order has been issued to the
commanding officers of the bpi mg - d
armory and the Rock Island arsenal
to make this alteration as promptly at
possible.
Ho is All Right.
Thirty days haye passed since
George, Woodruff, a wealthy farmer of
Frankfort, Ind., has slept. Mr.
Woodruff was afflicted with the same
strange malady a year ago, when he
went sixty-five days without sleeping.
He is to all appearances healthy aud
works each day. His case is attracting
great interest among the medical fra
ternity, his physician having utterly
failed to produce even a stupor with
drugs.
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Florida produces over tifi .rietie*
of the orange.