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Spring Place Jimplecute
Carter cfc Hoartsoll, Pvitolisliers,
VOLUME X V.
STATE NEWS ITEMS
CULLED FROM MANY SOURCES
BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED.
m Happenings of General Interest to
Georgia Readers.
Lexington is expecting much from
the development of the blue granite
quarries which have been bought by
the Venables of Attanta.
* * *
The ordinary of Jackson county has
been petitioned to order an election on
the prohibition question. The county
is now dry and has no open bar-rooms.
• * *
The first session of the Tifton Chau¬
tauqua will be held from June 5th to
the 10th, inclusive. The organization
is now about complete and success is
assured.
* * »
The people of Thomas county are
watching with interest the progress of
the Atlanta exposition and it is the
purpose of that county to make an ex¬
hibit Georgia. second to no county in south
* * *
The net majority for the sale of liq¬
uor in Mitchell county in the recent
election was 127 votes. There was a
large negro vote, the greater portion
of it being for the sale. The election
will be contested.
The Bell Telephone Company gives
the information that the building of a
long distance telephone line from
Griffin to Columbus, via Warm Springs,
Greenville, Hamilton and Ohipley is
to be begun at once.
The boys of the McRae College have
They organized their military company.
have received the guns. The
company will flourish under the name
enrolled of “SouthGeorgia Cadets.” They have
twenty members.
* * *
An old citizen of Athens states that
every willow tree in that city is a di¬
rect descendant of a great willow that
stood at the grave of Napoleon in
Paris, The first twig was brought
from Paris by Hon. William H. Craw¬
ford.
The Crown cotton mills at Dalton
will add at once another mill fifty by
seventy-five, three stories high, aud
with thirty-five thousand dollars more
machinery, making a completed 10,000
spindles mill, employing six hundred
hands.
A deed was recorded in the office of
the clerk of the superior court of
Lumpkin county a few days ago from
Scott, Baldwin & Truitt to the Clies
tatee Pyrites Co. in consideration of
the sum of $99,900, being the copper
mine property.
One of the very best farm records
that we have heard of is that of Mr. J.
W. Wimberly, of near Henderson,
Houston county, last year. He oper¬
ated a three-mule farm for wages, and
produced forty-four bales of cotton,
1,000 bushels of corn, a sufficiency of
oats, peas, syrup, etc., 9,000 pounds
of meat and a large quantity of lard.
His largest hog weighed 450 pounds
net.
Mr. S. H. Iiumph, proprietor of
Willow Lake Nursery, and a leading
« fruit grower of southwest Georgia,was
• reported a few dayB ago by some one
as saying that the peach crop was
killed despite the reports to the con¬
trary, and quite a number of papers
have copied the article. Mr. Rumph
requests the press to state that he has
made no such statement, and that he
regrets very much that he has been so
badly misrepresented. The fruit crop
will be a large one if no disaster be¬
falls it.
The state normal school is now al¬
most ready to open its session. With
the Rock college building nearly re¬
paired and remodeled to suit its new
purposes, with an able faculty of dis¬
tinguished educators and the hearty
cooperation Jiool will be of quite the people, the normal
a success from the
very beginning. The governing body
and the faculty chosen are among the
leading educators of the South. The
state normal school commission con
sists of State School Commissioner
Glenn, Chancellor W. E. Boggs, Pro¬
fessors Lawton B. Evans, A. J. Battle
and W. H. Baker.
A Savannah special says: There has
been something of a shake-up in the
offices of the Plant system. By a eir
cular recently issued a new general
office s created-that of superintend
system. til* The’new official^ is pfacTd I
s P s-antt:
Midland. Thi. i. in lino with Pre.i- 1
dent Plant’K nniidT of Superintended i
all his departments 1
George W. Haines, of the Brunswick ;
and Western, will have charge of that |
road, and is also appointed to fill the I
jposition of superintendent jf the Sa-
SPRING PLACE. MURRAY COI N'l V. GA„ SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1895.
vannab, Florida and Western, made
vacant by the death of Captain E. G.
Fleming.
Sustained the Will,
Twelve jurors have declared by their
verdict that the will of Geo. W. Dye
shall stand. The case was a hard
fought one, every inch of ground was
stubbornly contested, and for two days
the case was on trial. It attracted
large crowds to the court-room at El
berton. A large number of witnesses
were examined for and against the will.
The array, of course was powerful.
After <J udge Reese’s charge, the jurors
retired, but were out only a short
time, when they returned with a ver¬
dict sustaining the will. Besides $2 »*
000 given to Mr. Hawkins, of Ogle¬
thorpe county, SI,500 to Rev. John
H. Grogan, of Elbert, and the inter¬
est of $1,000 to Mr. Martin V, Dye, a
brother of the deceased, Lucinda Dye
and her children get all the property
of this estate which is worth about
$100,000.
• * *
A Cotton Factory for McDonough.
It is announced that McDonough
will soon have a cotton factory.
Messrs. Thomas D. Stewart, J. W.
Alexander and Wilson Pullen are be¬
hind the movement, and while they
have not positively authorized the
statement made public, it is pretty
well settled that a factory will be built
by them. Only a few points yet re¬
main to be decided. These gentle¬
men are amply able to build and
quip a good, substantial factory with¬
out any outside aid whatever, aud in
ill probability this will he done. A
perfectly sound basis of operation has
a en planned and decided upon,
vhich, with a capital of about $50,000,
'■’ill make the factory a success from
ho start. Tho operation of this fact¬
's y will turn loose from eight hundred
u a thousand dollars per week in Mc¬
Donough, and it is useless to comment
n the gnat benefit this will be to the
ntire community.
Appeal to Cotton Growers.
The following appeal was unani¬
mously adopted by the Cotton Grow
ts’ Protective association at its meet
ug in Atlanta:
To the Farmers of Georgia:
Realizing the importance and neces¬
sity for concerted action of all en¬
gaged in the growing of cotton for
mutual protection, wc, the Cotton
Growers’ Protective Association,, in
convention assembled, do hereby ap¬
peal, not only to those engaged in
growing cotton, but all interested in
t, for their active co-operation in an
ffort to better our condition. The
mports into Georgia exceeded her ex¬
ports. Therefore, there is an impera¬
tive necessity for reducing our expen
os of all kinds, from a ton of grain to
a ball of potash.
Spend nothing that can be done
without. Our home produets are su¬
perior to any. We would encourage
the establishment of factories of all
kinds, as by that means their em¬
ployes may become consumers of our
products. The contraction of the
currency may he relieved by a system
of bartering between the farmer and
merchant.
Wo appeal to you to aid in this ef
fort.
First, by the raising of supplies of
every kind possible to be produced on
the farm for the sustenance of man
and beast.
Second, by making the cotton crop
a surplus crop, intensifying it’s cul¬
ture on every line.
Third, by the use of more home¬
made fertilizers, and the use of less
commercial fertilizers.
In inviting your co-operation we as¬
sure you that there is no fees, dues or
charges made for membership, and no
salaried officers, but each county is
left to pursue its own plan of carrying
out the plans of our organization.
RIOTERS INDICTED.
Twenty-Eight of Them Held for Mur
der by the Grand Jury.
The members of the New Orleans
grand jury have presented fifteen in¬
dictments to the court, charging twen¬
ty-eight men with murder committed
during the levee troubles. All have
been in custody but were released
from the recorder’s court on bond.
All the indictments contain the clause:
“And other persons whose names
are as yet unknown to the grand ju¬
rors aforesaid, being workmen and la¬
borers in the art, mystery and manual
occupation of rolling, placing and
stowing compressed cotton on board
of vessels at the port of New Orleans.”
NEW SPANISH MINISTRY.
The Selection of New Officers Approved
by the Queen Regent,
The new Spanish ministry M aIi .
nou nced at Madrid is as follews:
Conovas (1 el Castillo, J president of
the eoancU; Navarro Bev ter> finance .
SLon'^BSKuMic'.o^S*'’""””’ c f' b G ‘™ Saras
C0 ,J, nleB ' " oscn ’ public works,
ua Ln reg“nt 8 InT 8n<1 wer^apnrove'd a PP roved bv h ?
----.
The man who makes his own god
always has a little one.
“Tell tiio Trutli.”
BISMARCK SNUBBED
THE GERMAN REICHSTAG RE¬
FUSES TO HONOR HIM.
The President of the Body Resigns
Amidst Much Excitement.
The lower house of tho German
landtag, by a large majority, decided
Saturday to congratulate Prince Bis¬
marck on the occasion of his eightieth
birthday. The centrists, tho vollcs
patrel, the Freisimnge and the Polish
members opposed the resolution.
The reichstag Saturday afternoon,
by a vote of 163 to 148, rejected the
proposal of Herr von Levetzow, pres¬
ident of that body, that the reichstag
charge him with the duty of offering
the congratulations of the chamber to
Prince Bismark upon the occasion of
tho ex-chancellor’s eightieth birthday.
When the result of the vote was an¬
nounced President von Levetzow im¬
mediately resigned.
In the course of the debate on Pres¬
ident von Levetzow’s proposal, Baron
von Hompesch, centrist, said that tho
matter of congratulation concerned
Prince Bismarck’s political personali¬
ty and was a political* act. Prince
Bismarck, ho said, was still continu¬
ous in his endeavors to influence po¬
litical matters. The centrist could
not consent to the reichstag’s officially
congratulating Dr. him.
von Bennigsen, national liberal,
warmly approved the proposal of Pres¬
ident von Levetzow.
Horr Richter, radical, said that he
recognized Prince Bismarck’s national
fame, but the progressists would light
his tendencies towards influencing the
interior policy. They see in him an
enemy of liberalism, who influences
state affairs; therefore, it would be
impossible for them to consent to the
proposal.
Herr Singer, socialist, said that
Prince Hismark’s policy had severely
damaged the German laborers. He
had always persecuted his adversaries
to the utmost extent and he cannot
now claim their thauksor recognition.
Herr von Kardoff.free conservative,
said: “If the reichstag refuses to
adopt this proposal, it will make itself
ridiculous before the whole world for¬
ever. ”
Herr Rickert, radical unionist, de¬
clared that the freisinnige party would
almost unanimously support Herr von
Levetzow’s proposal. Baron von Hod
enburg, independent said: “The
Guelphs cannot congratulate Prince
Bismark, who made the kingdom of
Hanover a Prussian province.”
Baron von Knyphausen, conserva¬
tive, declared that there was a large
majority in Hanover who would not
understand tho refusal of tho reichstag
to congratulate the ex-chancellor.
Prince Radziwill, Pole, said the Poles
would regard tho proposed congratu¬
lations ns eminently a political demon¬
stration. Prince Bismark, he declared,
had violated old Polish rights and,
therefore, the Poles would not support
the resolution.
Herr Sonnenberv, anti-semite, said
the anti-semites would fulfill their du¬
ty of gratitude to Prince Bismark and
join in the proposed congratulations.
Emperor 'William Indignant.
When Emperor William was ap¬
prised of the rejection by tho reich¬
stag of President you Levetzow’s pro¬
posal that the reichstag vest in him
Prince (Levetzow) tho duty of congratulating
Bismarck on the occasion of his
eightieth birthday, he wired to the ex¬
chancellor at Friedrichsruhe the fol¬
lowing dispatch :
“I have to convey to your serene
highness tho expression of my most
profound indignation at the resolution
which tho reichstag has just adopted.
It is in most complete opposition to
the feelings of all tho German princes
and people. “William.”
All the evening papers got out extra
editions to announce the reichstag’s
decision. The Neuste Nachrichten,
Bismarckian, said:
‘ ‘The grand duke of Baden saw the
reichstag, twenty-five years after the
creation of the empire, take this most
shameful step. The beBt answer to
such action would be an immediate
dissolution. . The nation can help the
government win battles at home as
well as abroad. ”
Bismarck to William.
Prince Bismarck, in answer to the
emperor’s message, sent the following
telegram:
“Fbiedbichsbtthe, March 23.—I
pray spectful your majesty to accept my re¬
expression of my gratitude
for your most gracious message, where¬
by your majesty has transformed an
unfriendly action of my political op¬
ponents, concerning which 1 am not
yet fully informed, into a source of
joyful satisfaction to me.
“Bismarck.”
Dr. Buerklin, vice-president of the
H ‘” hT Lelve tz0 'r “ if"': 1 ™' °>
(h the reichstag, and . when he learned.
theC8UBehe f once ^^graphed hie
resignation also.
Considerable money was lost last
year in attempts to introduce Califor
n j a grape , in the English market.
HONORING CONFEDERATE DEAD
A Monument in Chicago to bo Dedi¬
cated In May.
General J. C, Underwood, ex-lien
tenant governor of Kentucky, and one
of the most prominent southern men,
is the author and executor of the
movement to huild over,the 6,000 dead
confederate soldiers who sleep in
Oakwood park, Chicago, a handsome
monument commemorating their brave
deeds and lieroio fortitude.
He has succeeded in this magnifi¬
cent work, the monument has been
completed—the only confederate mon¬
ument north of the Mason and Dixon
line—has been recognized by the
United States government and will be
unveiled with imposing ceremonies on
May 30th.
Xho dedication of this monument,
the ceremonies attending which will be
participated in by prominent generals
of both armies, will be a great event
in American history. It will make a
great step toward cementing the divi¬
sion between the sections and will an¬
nihilate much of the bitterness that
remains. It will be an occasion that
will attract the people all over the
country, and no one can fail to appre¬
ciate its significance.
The monument is a handsome affair.
The pedestal is of Georgia marble and
the statue is of fine bronze. It is
forty feet high from the base to the
top of the statue. Surrounding the
monument will be four cannons, ap¬
propriated by the United StateB gov¬
ernment by special act of congress,
approved January 25, 1895, The bill
making this appropriation was pushed
through the senate by the efforts of
Senator John B. Gordon. The sena¬
tors recognized his good purpose in
tho matter and lent him their willing
assistance. The bill passed the house
during tho last session without a dis¬
senting voice.
This act of the government consti¬
tutes the first recognition ever shown
the confederacy by the government,
and for that reason is very significant.
Tho dedication speech will be made
by General Wade Hampton. The
southern generals who will he present
are: General Fitzhugh Lee, General
John B. Gordon, General W. W. Ca¬
bell, Harry ITeth, E. C. Walthall, L.
L. Lomax, Marcus J. Wright, M. Y.
Butler, Clement A. Evans, F. C. Arm¬
strong, Eppa Hunton, William H.
Payne and others. From the federal
side are expected General Schofield,
General Flagler, General Lawler and
General Palmer. Tho Grand Army
posts will participate in tho exercises
and hundreds of confederates will be
present. The Grand Army men have
been for two years assisting in decor¬
ating the graves of the southern sold¬
iers.
General Underwood is very enthu¬
siastic over the outlook for a great
ovent on May 30th. He expects many
southerners to be present. He also
expocts every southern city of size to
send a earload of flowers.
RED WINE'S BOND
Is the Subject of a Suit in the Atlanta
Courts.
The old Redwine ease is being re¬
vamped in the Atlanta, Ga., city court.
Tho case now on trial is that of tho
Gate City bank oguinst the Fidelity
and Casualty company of New York,
and in its trial most of ihe important
testimony taken in the Itsdwine case
will be gone over with. Redwine was
bonded in the sum of ten thousand
dollars to the bank by the Fidelity
and Casualty company. He defaulted
in tho sum of one hundred thousand
dollars and a little over, and the bank
officials applied to the company for
the sum of his bond. The company
refused to pay it, claiming that the
officials as far back as a year before
the default knew that Redwine had
been crooked in his transactions. The
bank officials entered suit for the re¬
covery of tho ten thousand dollars
with interest, as well as the recovery
of the sum of twenty-five hundred dol¬
lars damages alleged to have been sus¬
tained on account of the failure of the
company to pay the bond.
PRAYERS VERSUS PHYSIC.
The Young Wife of a Christian Scien¬
tist Dies and Ho is Blamed.
Mrs. Ella Samis, the wife of a black¬
smith at Los Angeles, Cal., gave birth
to a child two weeks ago. During her
confinement she was denied the usual
medical attendance and even skilled
nursing. Instead of providing medi
cino and nourishing food, the husband,
a Christian scientist, summoned a prac¬
titioner of that belief whose sole treat¬
ment consisted in praying for the
young mother’s recovery. After three
days of this treatment a violent fever
set in. Even then homely remedies
were despised, prayers constituting the
whole treatment.
The woman died Friday morning
and the husband will be- summoned
beforo a coroner’s jury to explain hie
action.
Iron and Steel Workers Out,
The members of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel Workers
employed at the Andrews Bros. & Co. ’s
iron plant, at Hazelton, O., deoided to
declare a strike. This action was
prompted by tho discharge of four
puddlers on account of alleged mis
conduct.
a Year* in Advance
MORE WAR TALK.
THE ALLIANCA TROUBLE NOT
YET SETTLED.
Secretary Gresham Maintains a Strong
Attitude Against Spain.
There is more war talk among the
enthusiasts at Washington, It iB
claimed that if Mr. Gresham maintains
his strong attitude against Spain, and
is baoked by President Cleveland, a
conflict with the Spaniards is almost
inevitable. It has been declared
semi-officially that at the state department
this government will not tolerate
delay in the reply from Spain.
It is remembered that in diplomatic
controversies hitherto, Spain has given
the United States no satisfaction at
all. In 1881, four American schoon
ers were fired upon off Cape Maysi,
just as the Allianca was. The Spanish
government answering delayed four months in
a demand for an explana¬
tion, and the reply stated that an in¬
vestigation would be made, Four
months later, a note was received that
Spain had jurisdiction for six miles
from the Cuban shore and that is all
that ever came of the matter.
Secretary Gresham is represented as
being determined that no such unsat¬
isfactory reply shall be tolerated in the
present instance. If president Cleve¬
land does not interfere and stop any
demonstration, it is believed that Mr.
Gresham will go to the length of sever¬
ing diplomatic relations with Spain.
With her internal dissensions, Spain
is in a peculiar position. Any party
or faction in power that would propose
to hack down in the controversy with
this country, would be very unpopular
and be put out of power.
Meade is a Fighting Man.
Admiral Meade, who is in command
of the American squadron, now in
Central American waters, is one of the
naval fire eaters. He is a good fighter,
and would need no second command
to open fire on Havana in retaliation
of a refusal of Spain to settle the Alli¬
anca affair. There are others beside
Admiral Meade aching for a fight.
One of them is Senator Morgan, of
Alabama, chairman of the senate
committee on foreign affairs, who
is anxious to annex Cuba. He
thinks the present time propi¬
tious for such an event. “If the ad¬
ministration,” he said, “maintains its
bold American attitude against Spain,
it is not impossible that a resort to
arms may be necessary to settle the
affair. If this country would ‘unbe¬
knownst, ’ as it were, get into a squab¬
ble with a foreign country, it would
be a good thing. It would make a
market for our provisions at least. ”
sharp Secretary Gresham has written a
reply note demanding that Spain make
at once to his first message.
MUST PAY BACK TAXES.
The Supreme Court of Florida De¬
cides Railroad Cases.
In the supreme court, Tallahassee,
Fla., Tuesday, Mr. Justice Liddon,
for the court, handed down a decision
against the Florida Central and Pen¬
insular railroad and in favor of the
state for back taxes for the years of
1879, 1880 and 1881, amounting to
$96,000. The lines of the road from
Jacksonville to Chattahoochee, in¬
cluding the St, Marks and Monticello
branches, from Fernandina to Cedar
Keys and from Waldo to Ocala, are
held liable to sale for these taxes for
the years mentioned. From Ocala to
Wildwood is held liable for the taxes
of 1881. From Wildwood to Plant
City and Tampa is held to be exempt.
This suit wbb deoided in favor of the
railroad December 1, 1893, by Circuit
Judge John F. White, at Live Oak, so
far as these particular back taxes were
concerned. Colonel John A. Hender¬
son represented the railroad company
and Attorney General Lamar appeared
for the state. The latter appealed
from Judge White’s decision to the
Juno term last year of the supreme
court. It is expected that Colonel
Henderson will appeal to tne United
States supreme court. Not only the
state, but all counties through which
the road runs, are helped by the de¬
cision unless it should be reversed by
the higher courts.
GALVESTON OFFICERS INDICTED
They Are Charged With Misapplica¬
tion of City Funds.
A startling sensation has been occa¬
sioned in Galveston, Tex., by the
grand jury finding bills against Tax
Collector Thomas D. Gilbert and ex
Auditor R. H. Tiernan. The bills
against Gilbert charge misapplication
of the city’s funds, and there are four
counts against him. Only one indict¬
ment was found against Tiernan, al¬
leging alteration of items in the books,
with intent to defraud. Both were
arrested and gave bonds.
An Ax Company Closes Down.
The East Douglass ax works of the
American Ax and Tool Company syn
dioate, of New York, have closed their
doors for an indefinite period on ao
count of the demand of their striking
workmen. %
NUMBER 9.
If You
ARE GOING TO
Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas,
Texas, Nebraska, Louisiana,
Colorado, Utah, California,
Oregon, Washington, Mex¬
ico, New Mexico or Arizona,
And will send me a postal card or let¬
ter stating where you are going,
when you are going, where
you will start from, how
many there are in your
party, what freight and
baggage you have,
I will write you or call at your
house and furnish you with
the fullest information regard¬
ing routes, lowest rates of all
classes, besides maps, descriptive and
illustrated land pamphlets, resort
bookB, Hot Springs guides, etc.
Cheap fanning lands in Mis¬
souri, Arkansas, Kansas and
Texas.
1 A. GALLAGHER,
SOUTHERN PASSENGER AGENT,
Missouri Pacific R’w’y
and IRON MOUNTAIN EOUl'E.
103 Read House,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
0HARLES N. KING,
Attorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
J. BATES,
Attorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Special attention to collections and
criminal practice.
Y' L. WATTS,
Attorney-At-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Prompt attention to all business.
L, HENRY,
Attorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Will practice in the courts of this and
adjoining counties.
S. FANN,
Dentist,
DALTON, GA.
Solicits VOUE nnnAmm-a
J£cN£LLL & HEARTSILL,
General Job Printers,
CLEVELAND, TENN.
Mail orders will receive prompt atten¬
tion. Send for prices and
samples of work.
THOMAS J. BRYANT,
Livery Stable,
DALTON, GA.
I have bought the entire Livery
business of Calaway & Longest, and
solicit your patronage.
L P. BAGWELL, M. D.,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Offers his professional services to the
people of this section and solicits a
share of the patronage.
}Y. W. ANDERSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
SPRING PLACE, GA,
Professional services offered to the
people fully of this section. Calls cheer¬
answered day and night.
J. A. PRICE, M. D.,
SUMACH, GA.
Will practice his profession in this
and surrounding country.
Will be at the Temple House on the
first Tuesdays in each month for the
purpose of examining . and treating
Acute and Chronic diseases.
We have Money to Loan at 6 per eent.
On farm or city property in any seo
tion of country where property has a
fixed market value. Money ready itr
immediate loans where security and
title is good. No commission. We
solicit applications. Blanks furnished
upon request. ALLEN & 00.,
40-42 Broadway, N. V*