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Spring Place Jimplecute
Carter tfc Uoartsell, Putolisliers.
VOLUME XV.
STATE NEWS NOTES.
CULLED FROM MANY SOURCES
BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED.
Happenings of General Interest to
Georgia Readers.
The gale of the Altamaha Cypress
Mills to the Hilton & Dodge Lumber
Company last week will result in 100
The men or more being employed at once.
court’s confirmation is all that is
needed to start the wheels to turning.
• • *
The annual meeting of the Royal
Aorannm of Georgia will be held in
Rome on May 1st, and the Romans are
already arranging to give their distin¬
guished visitors from all parts of
Georgia a rousing and royal welcome.
* * *
About four hundred aores of water¬
melons have been planted In the im¬
mediate vicinity of Arlington and with
a moderately fair yield; this means
that about 130 carloads of melons will
be shipped from this point the oorning
season.
The oldest man in White county is
Henry Turner. If he lives until July
he will be 98 years old. Ho is very
feeble, but persists in trying to do
some farm work. Ho is a veteran mi¬
ner and has dug thousands of penny¬
weights of gold out of the ground in
that county.
* * *
Ordinary Calhoun, at Atlanta, states
that there has been a faro and one
third obtained as the round trip rate
to the convention of Georgia ordi¬
naries, Tybee which will be held May 8th, on
island, near Savannah. The
attendance will be very large.
A curious old custom exists in White
county, and has been put into effect
already this year. It is the chastise¬
ment of tardy road workers by their
fellow laborers. Three or four men
were “tanned” on a certain road on
Wednesday, and the overseer himself
got a few stripes for being late at
work.
Judge Falligant at Savannah has re¬
fused to grant an injunction to the
Savannah, Florida and Western rail¬
road against the city of Savannah,
which haB instituted proceedings for
the opening of a large number of
streets across the tracks of this road
in the southern part of the city. The
case will go at once to the supreme
court.
Thomson will Boon have two new
canning factories. Dr. Reese and
Mr. Oscar Lee are building one near
Dr. Reese’s residence, and Messrs.
James Irving and Otis Hill are build¬
ing one on Hall street, Tlie fruit and
vegetable crops bid fair to be full and
abundant this year, and these new en¬
terprises will greatly enhance their
market value.
The outlook for the fruit crop is just
now tho most interesting master for
consideration in Georgia. When the
severe cold weather, accompanied with
a snow snow storm, came late this year
before the sap had begun to rise it
was at on36 predicted that the fruit
crop would be larger than it had been
for years. For the past two or three
seasons, mild springs beguiled the
fruit trees into forwardness and when
a late cold spell came it caught the
young buds and blossoms in too ten¬
der a condition to withstand the blight.
The blizzard of February this year re¬
tarded the trees in their “spring open¬
ing” and the blooms came late enough
to escape the effects of the cold nights
of March and April. Altogether, there
is promise of a full and abundant orop
for 1895.
Seventy aud Fifteen.
Mr. George Mann, a highly respect¬
ed and well-to-do citizen of Union
ville, who is 70 years old, was a few
days ago happily united in marriage
to a charming and vivacious young
girl of 15, named Miss Jackson. Quite
a contrast in their ages, but they are
living happily together on the farm of
Mr. Mann, on the Little, Towaliga
river. They seem to be perfectly con¬
genial in their relations. Another
thing which makes the marriage of
this couple more interesting is the fact
that his son, Oscar Mann, several
months ago married a sister of the
bride. So you can see that Mr. Mann’s
son is his brother-in-law and his
daughter-in-law is his sister-in-law,
and his wife is the mother-in-law of
her older sister.
Convict Management Criticised.
The grand jury convict of Dade has in this the to
say of the camps
county: “We believe that the con¬
victs at Cole City have not been fed
and clad as the law contemplates for
some time past. This belief being
based on a complaint of a large per
cent, of the convicts. Some need
better shoes. We believe that the medi¬
cal treatment is reasonably fair, except
at No. 2, where we found some com
plaint. Further, in regard to food, we
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA„ SATURDAY. APRIL 20, 1895.
recommend that the convicts have
enough succulent food to insure their
health. We further recommend that
all Sunday washing be done away with,
and that each convict have a clean
change of clothing once a week. We
recommend that all corporal punish¬
ment be administered by the strap as
the law directs and by a person of
proper age and judgment. We fur¬
ther recommend that all abuse of con¬
victs by unnecessary cursing and
tongue lashing be discontinued. We
eall attention to the fact that there
are some guards who are not yet twen¬
ty-one years old.”
Sale of the Northeastern.
The approaching sale of the North¬
eastern road is causing a considerable
amount of discussion among Athen¬
ians. The sale is only a few days off,
and naturally they desire to know
what is going to bcoome of the rail¬
road which they were largely instru¬
mental in building. The recent sale
of the Georgia Southern and Florida
road is taken by some to be an indica¬
tion of the purchase of the North¬
eastern by the Seaboard with a view to
combining the Georgia Southern and
Florida, the Macon and Northern and
the Northeastern, and extending to
Knoxville. At the same time, while
these rumors are going around, the
report is also out that should the state
fiud itself without a bidder on the
road to the amount of $300,000, a
party of Athenians will form a com¬
pany and lease the road, as they re¬
gard it as a paying piece of property;
Will Work Independently.
The news has reached Savannah that
the interests in charge of the Central’s
reorganization plan will go ahead with
the work in hand, notwithstanding the
action of the bondholders of the Sav¬
annah and Western railroad. This
may mean no little trouble with the
Central railroad property. Justice
Jackson decreed two years ago■ that
the Central’s endorsement on the
$7,755,000 consolidated mortgage on
the Savannah and Western was valid.
Should the property be Sold separate
ly-from the Central the latter might
bo held responsible iu case the Savan¬
nah and Western did not bring the
amount of the bonded indebtedness
upon it.
The committee in charge of the re¬
organization plan has made the state¬
ment that it wont as far as possible
with the Savannah and Western bonds,
giving what they believed to be a fair
pro rata of the new securities. On
this offer the committee says it will
stand pat, that is 50 per cent in 4 per
cent bonds, 25 per cent in first and 25
per cent in second preferred income
bonds. The new Savannah and West¬
ern committee believe they are enti¬
tled to 4 per cents stra ghi. If they
do not get it they will nuve a separ¬
ate receiver and a separate sale of
their road. The affair has aBsnmed a
decidedly interesting shape, and the
outcome will be watched with no little
interest by railroad men.
A Big Colony Expected.
Ex-Governor Northen and Mr. P.
H. Fitzgerald, manager of the Soldiers’
Oolony Club, of Indianapolis, returned
recently from a trip to middle Geor¬
gia, where they went in the interest of
tho colossal colonization movement
they have recently entered. There
has been a great deal said lately about
the work of ex-Governor Northen and
the railroads in encouraging southern
immigration. This last scheme shows
to what a great extent the work can be
carried. For several month ex-Gov¬
ernor Northen has been in correspond¬
ence with Mr. Fitzgerald, who was the
organizer of the famous Soldiers’ Col¬
ony Club in the northwest, and he
finally succeeded in interesting Mr.
Fitzgerald in the lands of Georgia so
considerably as to bring him down
here on a trip of inspection and inves¬
tigation.
Mr. Fitzgerald and ex-Governor
Northen have just returned from a
trip to that delightful land known as
middle Georgia, one of the most fertile
and productive soils in the south.
They visited the counties of Mont¬
gomery, Dooly, Wilcox, Berrien, Ir¬
win and Dodge. The purpose of the
trip was to show to Mr. Fitzgerald,
the great colonizer, what a temjiting
world of agricultural lands is open to
the honest investor from the north in
that fair section of the state. Mr.
Fitzgerald was asked for an expression
of opinion of the country he bad just
visited. He was all enthusiasm at the
outlook and declared that he was de¬
termined to make a most favorable re¬
port of his visit when he returns to
the northwest and goes face to face
with the men who will come to this
seotion of the south to find homes.
‘ ‘It is the very spot we have been
I joking for,” said Mr. Fitzgerald, “and
I am sure that there will be thousands
of old northern soldiers who will take
the offer that will be made them
through the Soldiers’ Oolony Club,
and come to Georgia.
“There is an abundance of land
down in that section of Georgia for all
our purposes. We want to get about
100,000 acres to start with and will
have an option on 50,000 or 100,000 in
addition to this.
“I am in close touch today with at
least 14,000 heads of families who will
be willing to come to Georgia when
they are made acquainted with the ad-
“Tell tlae Trutla.”
vantages of this favored section as a
place for homes, These families will
average five members each, making at
least 70,000 souls that will probably
come here. ”
FURTHER PROCEEDINGS
Will be Taken In the Attempt to Over¬
throw the Income Tax.
Sinee the delivery of the income tax
decision, attorneys and others inter¬
ested in overthrowing the tax have
taken steps to test various parts of the
law iu further proceedings. Attacks
will be made both on those portions
that, were sustained by a tie vote, and
on some fresh points not passed upon
upon in the particular cases deoided
Monday.
Attorney J. M. Wilson, who repre¬
sented John G. Moore in the court of
appeals in the recent cases, says that
further proceedings will be taken im¬
mediately. “Several
parts of the law will be
being attacked,” said he, “the principal one
the exemption from taxation of
incomes under $1,000 annually. This
will be attacked as an unjust discrimi¬
nation. I cannot say just yet who the
eomplainauts or what the titles of the
suits will be, but they will be insti
tned Very soon, probably within a few
days, and be pushed as rapidly as pos¬
sible.”
What the President Says.
The president, on being asked wheth¬
er in view of the decision of the
supreme court on the income tax law,
un extra session of congress would bo
called, said that neither he nor tbo
secretary of the treasury saw any
necessity less for such action and that un¬
there was an unexpected change
in conditions he had no idea that con¬
gress would meet again before the
tiiue appointed for the regular session.
English Opinions of the Decision.
The London Globe, referring to the
supreme court of the United States as
to the constitutionality of the income
tax, says: “Every man in this coun¬
try will regret that there is no supreme
court of the American variety here.
Never in all the long history of the
English bench have they soared to the
heights of liberty reached by the
American judges yesterday. It is quite
impossible to establish such a tribunal
here.”
The St. James Gazette comments on
the supreme court decision in a simi¬
lar strain, and adds: “No one has: sug¬
gested that this august tribunal can be
bribed in the manner familiar to liti¬
gants in sc mo of the inferior courts of
the union. Still, it is significant that
tbo politios of the various judges are
carefully mentioned in the dis¬
patches. ”
THE ADVANCE IN BEEF
Brings Out Some Explanations From
tho Big Packers.
The story telegraphed from New
York to a Chicago morning paper that
the recent advanco in beef was not
justified, and tbat the big Chicago
packers were making an effort to con¬
trol tho meat market of the country
and advance prices to consumers, is
emphatically George denied by Nelson Mor¬
ris, F. Swift, Armour & Com¬
pany and other packers.
“l’he advanco in the price of dressed
beef,” said Nelson Morris, “is the
natural result of the scarcity of cattle.
Already this year the receipts of cattle
at the four principal points—Chicago,
St. Louis, Omaha and Kansas City—
are 300,000 head behind last year’s
record. Last week the receipts were
29,000 head short, which is equal to
18,000,000 pounds of dressed beef.
We are 16,000 head short already this
week. The price of live stock is now
$2 per hundred pounds higher than it
was last year, and I expect to see
prices go still higher.”
Mr. Swift also denied that there was
a combine among the packers, and
said the cattle market was 30 per cent
higher now than it was lust year, which
fact is advancing the price of beef to
consumers.
Manager Favorite, of Philip D. Ar¬
mour & Co., said tho statement that a
pool had been formed by the big
western packers to advance the price
of beef was absurd. “It is scarcely
worth denying,” said he. “The only
causes for the high price of beef are
tho scarcity oi cattle and the fail¬
ure of the corn crop. The latter is, of
course, the cause of the former. Wo
are not working for the interest of
other packers—that is certain. Be¬
sides, it would be impossible to form a
pool of the kind alleged, if desired, so
great is the diversity of interests
among the western packers. Last
Saturday’s receipts were the lowest I
have ever known them—only five
hundred head. I do not know any¬
thing about other markets, but one
has only to use his eyes to see how
things are going here.”
Tj Disrupt Georgia Central.
It is reported in Wall street, New
York, that an attempt would be made
to disrupt the Georgia Central system
and that one or two of the branch
dues would snortly make application
for the appointment of a seperate re¬
ceiver. There has been much friction
between the Savannah and Western
and the Georgia Central people, and
it is surmised that tho Savannah and
Western bondholders may make an
effort to operate the road independ¬
ently.
WASHINGTON NOTES
ITEMS OF NEWS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Sayings aiul Doings of the Offleial
Heads of the Government.
The treasury department has issued
to all income tax collectors a series of
supplemental to instructions to conform
the recent decision of the supreme
court.
", la accordance with the usual custom,
Good Friday was observed for a holi¬
day by the supreme courtof the United
States. No business of any kind was
transacted.
An intimation of the aggressive fight
which the new silver party will make
for the white metal is found in the
announcement made Tuesday that the
ex-Congressman Joe Sibley, of Penn¬
sylvania; Senator Sewart, of Nevada,
and General Warner, president of
the bimetallic league, will go to Colo¬
rado next week to open the campaign
in that state.
Owing to the troubles in Cuba, the
mails for that country and vicinity
have fallen off to such an extent that
the postoffice department lias permit¬
ted the Plant system to make one less
trip per week from Savannah to Tampa
by rail and the same permission has
been granted on the steamboat line
from Tampa to Cuba. Iu consequence
of the prevalence of yellow fever In
Cuba the department is making pre¬
parations to fumigate mails from all
tropical countries, which is an unusual
precaution to he taken so early iu the
season.
Secretary Herbert bad decided to
award the construction of two of the
torpedo boats to the Columbian iron
works of Baltimore and one of them
to the Union iron works of San Fran¬
cisco, but subsequently he changed his
mind and awarded the contract for
building all three of the sea going
torpedo boats to the Columbian iron
works of Baltimore, Md., awarding
none to San Francisco, as was at
intended. The boats will be of about
138 tons displacement and will have
speed of about twenty-four knots. The
ivt sels, exclusive of grmor, will
$97,500 apiece. The ‘Columbian iron
works were the lowest bidders.
Annulled the Contract.
Secretary Herbert has annnulled the
contract with Johg Gillies, of Brook¬
lyn, for the New York navy yard dry
dock and advertised for proposals to
complete the work. /The contract was
made November 17th, 1892, the dock
to be delivered to the government in
thirty-two months. The price to be
paid was $402,619 and up to date pay¬
ments to the amount of about $165,000
have been made to Gillies. It has
been a foregone conclusion for some
time that the contract would never be
completed and several days ago the
department permitted other builders
to take measurements with a view to
estimating on the remaining work.
The Income Tax Puzzle.
'Ibo treasury officials, in the ab¬
sence of the full text of the supreme
court decision in the income law, are
still groping in the dark as to its exact
meaning, aud have, therefore, been
unable to send out supplemental in¬
structions to collectors as to how the
act, that still remains, shall be carried
out. Collectors will have to be
guided until they receive official in¬
structions by their own best judg¬
ment. Many telegraphic inquiries, both
from internal revenue officials aud pri¬
vate parties, are being received at the
treasury, aud are being answered as
well as they can be with the existing
light. It is admitted on all hands, as
the matter is more closely studied,
that much confusion must neoessarily
arise from the elimination of mental
receipts from the returns, as this ex¬
ception will affect cognate questions.
Commissioner Miller is devoting his
entire time to straightening out the
tangle and hopes to have comprehen¬
sive supplemental instructions ready
for issuance at the earliest moment
possible.
Improvi in - ii ■ 'I s;ouri.
Secret- r> l.« u ■ approved tho
project > • v fie Mississippi
commits i>ti for the improvement of
that river fioai the fiend of tho passes
to the month of the Ohio river, under
an appropriation of March 2, 1895, of
$2,665,040, and increased $8,000 by
unallotted appropriations of 1894.
The remaining unexpended appropria¬
tions are as follows: First and second
districts, lower St. Francis, $88,000;
upper Yazoo, $100,000; upper White,
$5)3,000; lower White, $75,000; lower
Yazoo, $150,000; upper Tensas, $300,
000; middle Tensas, $100,000.
Fourth district, lower Tensas,
$132,000; Atchufalaya, $152,000; La¬
fourche, $90,000; Barataria, $60,000;
Ponehartrain, $150,000; LakoBorgne,
$50,000.
Construction and river repairs, first
and second districts—Restoration of
old work at Daniel’s point, $60,000;
new construction above Daniel’s point,
$130,000; new construction of Osceola
bar, $78,750; purchase of tow boat,
$30,000.
May Pay In Silver.
Careful inquiries, both at the Chi¬
$1 a Year in Advance
nese and Japanese legations at the cap¬
ital and of officials of the state depart¬
ment and officers of the navy, who, by
residence in both the contending
countries, have become familiar with
their customs and currency, seem to
indicate a strong probability that the
indemnity to be paid by China to Ja¬
pan will lie paid in silver and not in
gold, though uo definite official state¬
ment to the effect has yet been received
at Washington.
Silver is the measure of value, to a
great extent, iu both countries. Japan
has not been called upon to negotiate
any European loan payable in gold for
the prosecution of the war. There¬
fore, she has experienced no espeoial
drain of gold. China, on the other
hand, being heavily indebted to Eng¬
land and other European nations, has
exported within the last few years large
quantities of gold, and the national
treasury does not now contain any con¬
siderable amount of this metal. More¬
over, silver is the only medium of ex¬
change in the Chinese empire, and this
being the case, it would bo much easier
to pay the indemnity in that metal
than in gold.
Some misunderstanding exists as to
the meatiing of the word “tael” in
which the indemnity will be paid.
The “tael” is not a coin, but a weight.
It varies in value according to the
price of silver. In Peking at the
present time one tael is equal to $1.50
in Mexican silver dollars, or 75 cents
iu American gold. The silver is put
up in the form of bullion or ingots,
each ingot containing silver to the
amount of from 20 to 50 taels. Be¬
yond the fact that strong grounds ex¬
ist for believing that the indemnity
will be paid in silver and that at no
time has gold been stipulated in the
negotiations, no further details are
obtainable at this time. The “tael”
which will be used as the measure of
value will be no doubt the Hai Kwan
tael, in which customs duties are paid
and whose value is as above stated.
CHICKAMAUGA BATTLEFIELD.
Federal and Confederate Veterans
Will Meet There in September.
Secretary Lamont has decided upon
the main features of the official exer¬
cises authorized by congress in the
dedication of the Chickamauga and
Chattanooga national military park.
The ceremonies will begin on the bat¬
tlefield of Oiiickamauga September
19th, and will comprise the formal an¬
nouncement of the opening of the
park by the war department, repre¬
senting the government; two orations
by speakers of national prominence,
aud the proper military display. On
the following day exercises in continu¬
ation of the dedication, relating to
tho battles of Lookout Mountain and
Missionary Ridge, will be held at
Chattanooga with a somewhat similar
programme.
In case of rain all exeroises will take
place at Chattanooga under cover of
adequate capacity, to be provided as a
prudential measure. The secretary
will arrange to have all the armies rep¬
resented in the battles participate in
the dedication by setting apart the
night of September 19th to the Union
and Confederate armies of the Tennes¬
see, and the night of the 20th to the
armies of the Potomac and northern
Virginia. The regular army will be
represented by the lieutenant general
and a detachment of troops. Tho So¬
ciety of the Army of the Cumberland
will hold its regular annual reunion at
Chattanooga on the evening of Sep¬
tember I8th, preceding the dedication,
and to this all official visitors and rep¬
resentatives of the other army socie¬
ties will befinvited.
NEW ENEMY OF COTTON.
A Destructive Pest Brought Over
from Mexico.
The department of agriculture at
Washington has just issued a circular
to cotton planters relative to a new
and very destructive insect that has
been brought across the Rio Grande
from Mexico into the cotton belt of
Texas and which, during 1894, seri¬
ously injured the cotton crop over a
territory of about five thousand square
miles. It punctures the bolls with its
beak and lays eggs in the hole thus
made. The grubs hatch and ruin both
the seed and fiber, thus destroying
simultaneously both products of the
cotton plant.
The Texas legislature, at the sug¬
gestion of the agricultural department,
is discussing the question of quaran¬
tining the cotton from the infected
section and the enforcement of the
remedial work by act of law. The de¬
partment of agriculture has appointed
a skillful agent, who is located at
Brownsville, Tex., and who will study
the life, history and habits of the new
pest and experiment extensively with
remedies during the coming season
under the direction of Mr. L. O.
Howard, chief entomologist of the de¬
partment. Inasmuch as the iusect is
new to Amorican cotton planters, there
is much yet to be learned about its
habits before practical remedies can
be suggested. This insect is now in
Texas and threatens to spread to other
cotton states, and the entire south is,
therefore, interested in tho problem
now confronting the Texas legislature.
Onb, although advanced in years,
may not always chide his juniors, un¬
less he desist in vicious example to his
fellows.
NUMBER 12.
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
books, Hot Springs guides, etc.
Cheap farming lands in Mis¬
souri, Arkansas, Kansas and
Texas.
A. A. GALLAGHER,
SOUTHERN PASSENGER AGENT,
Missouri Pacific K’w’y
and IKON MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
103 Read House,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
(HIARLES N. KING,
A ttorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
J. 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 VQUr niqrnnftffH
McNELLY & HEARTSILL,
General Job Printers,
CLEVELAND, TENN.
Mail orders will receive prompt atten¬
tion. Send for prices and
samples of work.
rpilOMAS J. BRYANT,
Livery Stable,
DALTON, GA.
I have bought the entire Livery
business of Calaway & Longest, and
solicit your patronage.
P. BAGWELL, M. D.,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Offers his professional services to the
people of this section and solicits a
share of the patronage.
W. ANDERSON,
Pliysiciau and Surgeon,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Professional services offered to the
people of this section. Calls cheer¬
fully 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 cent.
On farm or city property in any sec¬
tion of country where property has a
fixed market value. Money ready f #r
immediate loans where security and
title is good. No commission. We
solicit applications. Blanks furnished
upon request. ALLEN &CO.,
40-42 Broadway, N. Y,