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The Irwin County News
Official Organ of Irwin County.
fi. A. DnLOACH, Editor anil Proprietor.
GETTING WELL.
GOVERNOR ATKINSON CONSID-
FRED OUT OF DANGER.
Taking Nourishment and Improving
ll in Every Way.
There is mnch to make the physi-
mans think Governor Atkinson is on
*bo road to recovery. He had a com-
lOrtable day of it Friday and rested
well all night. During tho day thero
were no uupleasant symptoms. nourishment
The governor took at
regular intervals and retained it all
without the slightest disposition to
nausea. He also took the stimulats
that were given him by tho doctors
from time to time and both stimulants
and nourishment did their work and
did it well.
With these and refreshing sleep
during the day, the patient grew grad¬
ually stronger, and when tho physi¬
cians met at 9 o’clock to hold n con¬
sultation they all declared that there
was not a single bad symptom and that
the governor would certuinly recover
unless some unexpected development
in the case occurred.
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The governor himself declared that
he had rested better during the day
than he had since ho became sick. He
declared that he had rested in com-
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strength from now on.
He talked quite freely with the phy¬
sicians about his case and spoke hope¬
fully of the future, evincing that same
incomparable will power that has
characterized him throughout as one
of the best patients that ever went
under the keen blade of a surgeon’s
knife.
Until Friday afternoon the doctors
had been giving Governor Atkinson
beef peptinoids as the only nourish¬
ment they thought he could retain on
his weakened stomach, but late in the
afternoon they decided to give him
some chicken soup and they were very
much gratified to observe that he took
it with great relish. He said it tasted
good and several times afterwards he
was given more of it. This had
strengthened him very greatly and he
was considerably improved when the
physicians held their last consultation
for the night.
The news that the governor's dan¬
ger was diminishing every minute was
received everywhere with groat re¬
joicing.
Latest Reports.
Governor Atkinson continues to im¬
prove, and everything indicates more
strongly than ever before that he will
recover.
He continued to gr.in strength all
day Saturday, and when the physicians
called to see him in the forenoon and
found him so much better than he had
been, with so much brighter chances
for recovery, they decided to retire.
The patient is now in the hands of
Dr. J. B. S. Holmes alone and will
remain at the Halcyon, Dr. Holmes’
sanitarium, until he is sufficiently
strong to leave his bed.
It is a mistake to think that the gov¬
ernor, even with the Bteady progress
toward recovery th&t he now seems to
be enjoying, will bs out of bed and
able to walk about the streets in a few
days, as has been reported. In fact,
it is hardly reasonable to believe that
be will be able to sit up for a good
lopg diction time to como, and the pre¬
that he will be able to walk
$bout the streets entertained Within a few days
pannot be save only by
thosie who have not conception of the
sovere trial to whieli marlin he has been put
and the narrow of life that was
left him.
Bofi Fitzsimmons on Trial.
'Pfie trial of Robert Fitzsimmons
Upon an indictment for manslaughter
ifi the first degree in killing ‘<Con”
Riordan in a sparring match corn-
gienced at Syracuse, N. Y., Monday.
Mallory Makes a Cut.
Tfie Mallory steamship line has an¬
nounced a 12-cent rate on oarloads
from New York to Galveston. It is
expected that the Southern Paoifie
will meet this cut.
SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA„ FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1895.
SOUTHERN GISTS IT.
Tlie Atlantic anti Florida Sold by the
Central Trust Co.
The Southern railway gets the Atlan¬
ta and Florida railroad. And Atlanta
gets the new union passenger depot,
of which the city has dreamed many
yenrs. These two hits of railroad news
constitute the most important change
in the railway chess board of this
region of the south for a long time.
While it is true that the Atlanta and
Florida was bought in, on the face of
tho contract, by the Central Trust
Company of New York two weeks ago,
it became known that the deal was
really in behalf of the Southern Rail¬
way Company, to which the formal
deed of the property has been made.
The Southern will take charge with¬
out del ay, and tho Atlanta and Florida
becomes a part of the splendid system
of roads which is rapidly growing to
proportions as great as the greatest
railway system in America.
The reasons given for the purchase
of tho Atlanta and Florida by the
Southern are that the road was cheap
and was regarded as available at the
price paid. The price as named in
the papers was $275,000.
It will be remembered that when the
Central Trust Company bought the
property this was the price paid, bnt
owing to certain indebtedness of the
road to the Central Trust Company,
only $59,975.48 of the price named
bad to bo paid in actual cash for the
property.
The amount of purchase was for the
most part taken up in what the Atlanta
and Florida already owed the Cen¬
tral Trust Company of New York, the
amount of indebtedness being $152,-
383.00, and another debt coming due
July 1st of $02,640.80. These debts
to the Central Trust Company were
accepted in part payment for the road
and the actual outlay of cash was com¬
paratively small.
CONSOLIDATION SUGGESTED.
Railroad People Talking of a Com¬ I
bination of Interests. j
A well-known railroad man of Sa¬
vannah says there is a movement on
foot backed by the Southern Railway
Company and its officers to consolidate
all the big railread systems of the
south under one gigantic management.
In support of his statement, which he
says is founded on good authority, he
the acquirement of the Georgia South¬
ern and Florida by the Southern, and
the fact tha.t the Central will soon go
into that system. This, he says, will
eventually out out the Florida Central
and Peninsular from a good deal of
the business, which will be sent via
the Georgia, Southern and Florida,
and will effectually bottle up Mr.j
Plant from all except his eastern con-,
nections with the Louisville and Nash-!
ville, and he says a combination be¬
tween the Southern and Louisville and
Nashville is now being seriously talked
of. This would bring all the big sys¬
tems together, the idea being, he says,
to stop the general rate cutting and
securing business through improper
methods which has been going on for
years.
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BANKER AGNEW INDICTED. i
Charged With Crookedness and Mis¬
application of Funds.
E. W. Agnew, president of the First
National bank of Ooala, Fla., has been
indicted by the grand jury of the
United States court Jacksonville, on
charges of embezzlement, abstraction
and misapplication of funds of the
bank and of making false entries on
the books of the bank by crediting his
personal account with sums of money
aggregating $25,000. The bank sus¬
pended two mouths ago and has since
been in charge of National Bank Ex¬
aminer J. R. McDonald. The affairs
were found to be in bad shape and it
is doubtful if the depositors will get 10
per cent of their money.
Agnew is under bond for appearance
for trial in the United States court.
One of the counts in the indictment is
placing a check for $3,400 payable to
the bank to his private credit. An¬
other is the embezzlement of $17,500
in bank notes, greenbacks and coin.
He is charged with buying worthless
stocks and bonds of a par value of
$25,000 for a nominal consideration
and placing them to his personal ac¬
count on the books of the bank at the
face value.
NATURAL GAS IN TENNESSEE
Causes Several Explosions—Indica¬
tions of Oil.
A few days ago there was an explo¬
sion of natural gas near Whitebuff, in
Dickens oounty, Tenn., that threw up
severol tons of stone and earth. Sun¬
day another explosion occurred near(
the scene of the first one. Great
blocks of stone were thrown opt and a j
hole made in the ground fifteen feet
across and nearly as deep. The roar¬
ing of the escaping gas was heard for
some distance. The stone bears traces
of oil.
Flot Against the Sultan.
Advices from Constantinople statp
that a plot against the sultan has been
discovered at the Panoaldi Military
college and thirty of the students have
been arrested.
“In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound.”
KENTUCKY DEMOCRATS
In Convention at Louisville—A Finan¬
cial Fight.
The Kentuoky democratic conven¬
tion called to order at Louisville Tues¬
day was the biggest, most excited and
turbulent that the history of the party
has ever known. In attendance it sur¬
passed any other held for a generation.
Interest in the currency question iB
so great that every delegate present
had his nerves strained to the last de-
gree of tension. Yet with all the de-
sire for harmony was evident from the
start. Never before were there so
many complications, for tho flood of
candidates crossed and recrossed each
other, and the ghost of the banquet,
the dreadful financial problem, kept
waving its ghostly form before the af¬
frighted eyes of the convention.
Promptly at noon John D. Carroll,
chairman of the state central commit¬
tee, oalled the body to order.
The organization of tho committoo
on resolutions, which is composed of
one man from each of the eleven dis¬
tricts and two at large to be appointed
by the chair, shows a majority of gold
men in the committee. Of the eleven
already chosen, seven are gold advo¬
cates and four for free silver.
Nominations being next in order,
Judge William Beckner and ex-Con-
gressman W. J. Stone, of Lyons coun¬
ty, were nominated for chairman.
The voting was watched with much in¬
terest, as the vote was a test one,
Beokner being the Hardin man and
Stone the choice of the Clay men.
Judge Beckner received 448 J votes on
the first ballot against 419 J received
by Stone. Chairmain Deokner made
a very good speech, urging harmony
and submission to the will of the ma¬
jority. When he referred to silver
the hall was rent with yells and when
he praised Cleveland’s honesty and
courage another demonstration took
place. concluded the
When he had organ¬
ization was completed and then the
chairman gave the silverites a shock by
dividing the committeemen from the
state at large among the two factions.
On the platform committee he named
Senator Lindsay and Congressman
Claridy, representatively gold and sil-
ver men, but not extremists. The
sound money men then had an over¬
whelming preponderance on the com¬
mittee.
MYERS FOUND GUILTY.
Convicted for the Second Time for the
Murder of Crowley.
The second trial of Will J. Myers
for the murder of Forest L. Crowley
came to an end at Atlanta Tuesday.
Three ballots by the jurors who held
Myers’ life in the balance settled h s
fate, and for the second time he was
declared to be the murderer of Forest
L. Crowley.
If Myers is innocent, despite the
overwhelming cloud of circumstantial
evidence against him, his look when
the verdict was read might have sprung
from that knowledge which he himself
alone can hold to as a certainty.
There was not a visible quiver of a
muscle when the jury filed into the
courtroom and when the verdict was
read, Myers was less nervous than
the several hundred on-lookers. No
apparent change of countenance was
to be seen, and of all those present
there was not one who did not appear
to hold more interest in the verdict
than the young prisoner himself.
Mr. Moyers, his leading counsel, is
still confident that Myers will not be
hung and unhesitatingly declares that
Myers will never step upon the gal¬
lows. He says that an application for
a new trial will be put in and that a
new trial will be secured. Of this he
says he is certain.
FRUIT GROWERS ORGANIZE.
Preparing to Make War on the Rail¬
roads for Lower Rates.
Georgia fruit growers organized at
Atlanta Tuesday. Representatives and
delegates from every section of the
state were present at the meeting call¬
ed for that purpose.
The present freight rates on fruits
is what incited the meeting and forced
tho fruit growers to organize. They
claim that tho rates as now laid down
by the Southern Railway and Steam¬
ship Association are exorbitant, that
with an unprecedented crop now on
the trees the charges of the roads wifi
make it impossible to realize any¬
thing.
The sentiment against the railroads
ampng tne fruit men is strong. The
object of their present organization is
to get in good shape to deal with the
rate committee; hut there was a mean¬
ing deeper than this in the many
speeches which were made. Unless
satisfactory arrangements are made it
is not improvable that they will take
some measures to test the legality of
the organization of the Southern Rail¬
way and Steamship Association, At
any rate, it will m ean a fight and a
hitter one, the too, for composing the political the influ¬
ence of men organ¬
isation is not limitted,
Comstock Makes a Raid.
Anthony Gomstook, with his men
mide a big raid on the offices of the
American Bank Note Oompany prem-
ises and in the office of T. C. Gruber,
at New York. He captured 100,000
circulars and 1,000 tiokets of lotteries.
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
ITEMS OF NEWS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
The comptroller of the ourrenoy has
deolared a fifth dividend—5 per oeht—
in favor of the creditors of the Peo¬
ple’s National bank of Fayetteville,
N. C.
Scott Secretary Carlisle has appointed
oierk Nosbit, of Missouri, appointment
of the treasury, vice Herman
Ivretz resigned, and E. 0. Johnson, of
the state of Washington, chief oierk
of the internal revenue bureau, vice
Nesbit promoted. These changes will
take effect July 1st.
Consul Seymour, at Palermo, Italy,
informs the state department that dur¬
ing the year 1894 the exportation of
oranges and lemons from Palermo to
the United States was eight times as
much as tho exportation during the
same time of the same articles to all
other foreign countries.
Secretary Carlisle has refused deportihg to re¬
verse his decision as to the
of three Chinamen who are now in
San Francisco. These Chinamen left
New Orleans several months ago for
Bluefields, with the intention of settling
there. They changed their minds and
returned to New Orleans. Admission
to the United States was denied them
and they were ordered to depart for
China.
The case of Captain Henry W. How-
gate, recently convicted in the crimi¬
nal court of forgery and falsification
of government accounts, probably will
be taken up in tho distriot court of
appeals during the first week of Octo¬
ber. His counsel are preparing a bill
of exceptions to carry the case to the
higher court and expect to file it in a
few days. The feature of the bill and
the point on which the strongest fight
will be made is the “fugitive from jus¬
tice” question.
Advices received by the marine hos¬
pital service confirm previous reports
relative to the plague in Foo Chow,
China, and say it is an established
epidemic. It ia confined to the city
proper, most of the deaths occurring
tieveriti within the city walls near the gates,
cases are alleged to nave oc¬
curred among the natives of a village
on the island of Nantan, in the vioinity
of a foreign settlement, but Consul
Hixson is unable to say that these are
real cases of plague.
Baron von Thielman, the new Ger¬
man ambassador, arrived in Washing¬
ton Friday night from Hamburg. He
was accompanied by his wife and two
young daughters with a retinue of
eight servants. In the absence of
President Cleveland, Baron von Thiel¬
man will deliver his credentials to
Secretary Olney and enter at once up¬
on the duties of his office, seizing the
first opportunity when the president
returns to be formally presented. The
new ambassador is not a stranger to
Washington, having been secretary of
legation at the capital from 1874 to
1878, when Baron Schloezer was •min¬
ister.
A question has arisen in the treasury
department as to the payment of ex¬
penses incurred by treasury agents in
looking after filibusters on the South
Atlantic and Gulf coasts. An expense
account amounting to $17 was received
at the department, but when it reached
the warrant division it was discovered
that the department had no appropri¬
ation from which the expenses in pre¬
venting the violation of the neutrality
laws could be paid. It was apparent
that it could not be charged to the ac¬
count for the collection of the reve¬
nues and so the matter was referred to
tho state department in the hope that
it could be paid from its secret service
fund.
Although it is customary to prompt¬
ly inform the state department of such
an important change, no word has yet
been received at the department from
Ambassador Bayard touching the
downfall of the Boseberry cabinet in
London. It is assumed,however, that
Mr. Bayard is waiting until the formal
announcement is made in parliament
and the new ministry has sucoeeded in
power, so as to make his statement.
At tho state department it is believed
that the change from liberal to a con¬
servative government in Great Britain
will not sensibly affect the relations
between the United States and Great
Britain, for it has come to be a well
recognized fact that while British pol¬
itics are subject to even more violent
and sudden mutations than are known
in the United States, there is seldom
a change in the foreign policy of the
British government resulting from
those upheavals.
Advantageous Concessions.
Consul General Jernigan, at Shang¬
hai, has sent to the state department
another report upon the commercial
advantages of the treaty between China
and Japan. Former treaties contained
no favored nation clause, but the new
treaty oontains concessions beneficial
to and expansivo of all Asiatic com*
meroe. The concessions to Japan
have given to the world new marts and
avenues of trade. Now twenty-eight
VOL. VI. NO. 18.
ports are open and the countries huv-
mg the “favored nation clause” in
their treaties have the equal privileges
with Japan. Japan was under restric¬
tions bb to the interior trade which
have now been removed.
Mr. Jernigan says the most impor¬
tant provision of the treaty is that
which makes it free to carry on manu¬
facturing industries. This virtually
ope ns China to new industries, as ma-
eliinery may now be imported under
one clause of the treaty. Mr. Jerni-
gnu says that if American capitalists
and merchants propose to make per¬
manent business investments ia China
they should etndy with great dilligence
the wants of the Chinese and not ven¬
ture too far without accurately esti¬
mating all surroundings.
Spain Must Pay Up.
The United States have demanded
the immediate payment of $1,600,000
which Spain has owed to Antonio
Maximo Mora, an American citizen,
since 1886. During one of the Cuban
revolts twenty years ago, the Spanish
government arrested A. M. Mora, an
American citizen, and seized his valuj
able sugar plantation. Before Spain
admitted its mistake, it had collected
from the Mora estate more than 82,-
000,000. A settlement was insisted on
by Secretaries Fish and Bayard, and,
finally, under pressure, Spain agreed
to pay $1,500,000.
Before the last congress adjourned it
passed a joint resolution requesting
the president to insist upon the pay¬
ment of the sum agreed upon between
the governments of Spain and the
United States in liquidation of the
claim of Antonio Maximo Mora against
the government of Spain, with inter¬
est from the time when the said
amount should have been paid under
the agreement. This resolution passed
both houses and was approved by all the
president, and, therefore, has the
force of law.
Spain has made many excuses for
delaying the payment of this just
claim, but now it appears that further
excuse will not be tolerated. On the
day that Mr. Olney beoame secretary
of state in place of Mr. Gresham, he
sent a letter to Spain through the
United States minister at Madrid, de¬
manding the immediate payment of
$1,500,000 which the Spanish govern¬
ment has owed to Mr. Mora since
1886. Mr. Olney, according to re¬
port, calls the attention of the Spanish
government to the fact that the justice
of this claim is not in dispute, and
that no further delay will be tolerated.
SALISBURY ACCEPTS.
He Agrees to Take Charge and Form a
New Ministry.
The Central News (London) is au¬
thority for the statement that Lord
Salisbury, during his interview with
the queen, informed her 'majesty that
he was ready to form a ministry and
submitted for her approval a list of
the names of the members of the pro¬
posed new cabinet of state for the col¬
onies. An official dispatch from Wind¬
sor announces that Lord Salisbury has
accepted the request to form a minis¬
try and kissed the hand of her majesty
upon being formally appointed pre¬
mier.
The members of the new ministry,
so far as they have been selected, are
officially announced as follows:
Prime minister and secretary of
state for foreign affairs, the marquis
of Salisbury.
Lord president of the council, the
dnke of Devonshire.
First Lord of the treasury, Right
Hon. Arthur James Balfour.
Secretary of state for the colonies,
Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain.
Chancellor of the exchequer, Right
Hon. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach.
First lord of the admiralty, Right
Hon. George Joachim Goschen.
The other places in the ministry
have not as yet been definitely allot¬
ted.
It is reported that Lord Salisbury,
besides becoming prime minister, will
take the foreign portfolio temporarily.
He has made overtures to the marquis
of Dufferin to resign his present office
of British ambassador to France and
become secretary of state for foreign
affairs.
DISRESPECT TO ALTGELD.
The Illinois Legislature Treats His
Message Shabbily.
The Illinois legislature met at
Springfield Tuesday afternoon iu ex¬
tra session, but did no business of im¬
portance. Governor Altgeld’s mes¬
sage was read in both branches and in
the house was referred to the commit¬
tee of the whole. In the senate it was
referred to the committee on expendi¬
tures. This action was regarded as a
slap at the governor and was the first
indication of war between the repub¬
lican majority and the executive.
Another Advance In Ralls.
The Illinois Steel Company at Chicago
have announced an advanoe of $2 a ton
in the price of steel rails, the former
price being $23. The increase is at¬
tributed to the increased cost of ore,
coke and labor. It is said by the com¬
pany that a further appreciation in
values will be justified before the close
of the year.
Always try to live above the re¬
proach of your adversaries.
1.00 A Tew.
[ GEORGIA
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IMMIGRATION
AND
INVESTMENT BUREAU
ATLANTA, GA.
Ex-M Morin )
MANAGER.
PROPERTY
FOR SALE IN
IRWIN COUNTY
1.-2,940 acres in the 8d district
with 125 acres in a high state of culti¬
vation, produces 30 to 40 bushels of
corn or bale of cotton per acre. Bal-
anoe of land the best timbered in the
state. Thirteen milee east of Syca¬
more and four milee west of Irwin-
ville. Prioe, $13,500 oaeh.
2— 245 aorea one mile north of Ir-
winville and six milee from Tifton &
North Eastern B. R. 60 acres in cul¬
tivation with good new residence and
other improvements; balance land
thick with fine yellow pine timber.
Price $3,500 cash.
3— One 8-room house and acre lot in
town of Sycamore, convenient to
Methodist church, institute and depot.
Best location in the town for resi¬
dence. Price only $350 cash.
4— One 5-room house and lot 200x200
feet in town of Sycamore, close in.
Price $425 cash.
5— One 5-room house, new, and sev-
en acres land in town of Sycamore;
ample quantity and variety of choice
fruits for family demand. The very
place for small truck farm. Can get
more land adjoining. All in 3 min¬
utes walk of the depot. Price $1,700,
on easy payments.
In Worth County,
6—Lots of land Nos, 12 and 18, in
the 7th district of Worth oounty, con¬
taining 490 acres each; bo improve¬
ments, but well timbered. Only 8
miles from Inaha, G. S. t P. R. R.
Price $2,100 cash.
All of the above properties are very
desirable and well worth the prioe we
ask.
It is not our purpose to “skin” you
but to give you a warrantee deed to
the property when you inspect it and
pay the price agreed upon.
For fuller information about this or
any other property in south Georgia,
write to A. G. DeLOACH,
Immigration Agent, Sycamore, Ga.
IN CARNOT’S MEMORY.
Anniversary of His Death Celebrated
in Paris.
In the presence of enormous crowds
of people the anniversary of the death
of President Carnot, who was assassi¬
nated at Lyon, June 24th, last year,
by Csssario Santos, the anarchist, who
was afterwards executed for the crime,
was observed Monday at the Pantheon,
in Paris, with touching ceremonies.
In the official cortege were President
Faure, M. Challemel-Lacour, Presi¬
dent of the French Senate, and M.
Brisson, president of the French
chamber of deputies, followed by the
cabinet ministers, ambassadors, sena¬
tors and deputies. The cortege ar¬
rived at the tomb at 10 :15 a. tn.
M. Faure, in the name of the re¬
public, deposited a crown upon the
tomb. The religious ceremonies took
place ia the Church of La Madelaine
at 11 o’clock.
JAMES GENTRY’S DEFENSE.
Madge Yorke’s Murderer Makes
Charges Against Another Woman.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: Sen¬
sational rumors have come to light
that there will be a odiange in the de-
fense in the trial of James B. Gentry
for the murder of Actress Madge
Yorke. It is hinted that the defense
will now endeavor to show that Gentry
killed the girl because he believed
that her love for Miss Lida Clark, her
actress friend and companion, was of a
morbid and unnatural character simi¬
lar to that shown to have existed in
the Freda Ward and Alice Mitoholl
case.
The Great Canal Opened.
With imperial pomp and ceremony,
and amid the plaudits of thousands
upon thousands of people, the great
canal connecting the Baltic and North
seas day. was opened to commerce Thurs¬
The weather was perfect, and
the inauguration ceremony was highly
successful.
Earnings of the Georgia Central.
For April the Georgia Ce**<ral ab¬
road earned $21,763, a d« u wtigm
$1,436,697, $29,599, and from deorease July 1st ](
a of $9