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Spring Place Jimplecute
Cartor eb Hoartsoll, Publisliers,
VOLUME XV.
Washington notes
ITEMS OP NEWS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL,
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
The president has appointed James
M. Martin, of Louisiana, United
States- marshal for the western district
of Louisiana.
The treasury department sent two
special agents to Lynchburg, Va.,
Tuesday to transfer the internal rev¬
enue collector. office to Fitzhugh Lee, the new
Secretary Herbert has decided not
to attend the Kiel canal celebration on
June 16tb, notwithstanding the spe¬
cial invitation which, it is understood,
was extended to him by the German
government.
The treasury circulation statement
for April shows that during the month
circulation of all kinds of money in
the United States increased $15,249,-
730, making the total in circulation on
May 1st $1,599,434,154, or $22.97 per
capita. As compared with May 1,
1894, the total circulation has de¬
creased $92,000,000.
lowing Secretary Lamont has made the fol¬
assignment of officers recently
promoted: General Ruger, to special
duty at Washington; General Merritt,
from St. Paul to Chicago; General
Brooke, from Omaha to St, Paul;
General Whoaton, from San Antonio
to Denver; General Bliss to San An¬
tonio; General Coppinger to Omaha.
The treasury receipts for April wore
only $24,247,000, or about $8,704,000
less than the expenditures. The deficit
for the fiscal year to date is officially
stated at $45,247,000. During the
month the gold reserve increased
$650,000, standing at $94,289,000.
The amount of the United States notes
and treasury notes exchanged for gold
during April uncounted to $989,000.
Secretary Gresham, it is feared, is a
very sick man. Those most intimately
concerned as to his health* mako no
denial of their anxiety as to his con¬
dition. His main affection has been
diagnosed as gall stone, and this is
complicated by the weak physical con¬
dition from which the secretary has
suffered for some timo past. No visit¬
ors are admitted to see the patient,
who is confined to his departments at
the Arlington hotel.
The president’s letter to Governor
Stone, of Misslesippi, in which he warns
democrats holding office that they can¬
not abuse the policies and acts of the
administration and retain their places,
and then proceeds to lay down the ad¬
ministration’s policy against free sil¬
ver, is regarded to some extent in
Washington as practically a proscrip¬
tive edict. It has created a sensation.
Advocacy'of-gold monometallism is to
bo made the test of loyalty to the pres¬
ident, and office holders who refuse to
surrender their rree silver convictions
are warned that they do so at their
peril.
The engineer commission to examine
the Nicaragua canal route completed
its inspection of the construction com¬
pany’s pland and contracts in New
York and left at once for Mobile, Ala.,
where they will embark on the cruiser
Montgomery and sail for Greytown.
It is expected that the Montgomery
will land the commission at its desti¬
nation on May 12th, and that at least
two months will be consumed in exam¬
ining the 170-mile route of tho pro¬
jected waterway. The commission,
however, goes prepared for a three
months’.ajay, and United is in little hope of
returning to the States before
the middle of August.
The colored commisssioners for the
District of Columbia to the Cotton
States and International exposition at
Atlanta met Wednesday night. Ways
and means for making the negro ex¬
hibit from the district were discussed.
Sub-committees were appointed to as¬
sist in the exhibit and forwarding the
exhibit to Atlanta. Special Agent
Johnson reported that the auxiliary
committee of women would hold a
meeting at an early date. It was
agreed that a general appeal should be
made to the colored people of the dis¬
trict to contribute financially to, the
success of the exhibit, and a letter was
prepared to be sent to all the colored
pastors and others of prominence in
the district asking their co-operation.
The Treasury Statement.
The detailed monthly treasury state¬
ment of receipts and expenditures was
issued at Washington Wednesday. The
receipts for April were $24,247,836
against $22,692,364 in April, 1894.
The expenditures for April were $32,
990,676 against $32,072,836 in ApfTii,
1894. The receipts for the ten months
of the current year are $5,000,000
greater than for the corresponding ten
months of last year, and the expendi¬
tures are $6,000,000 less for the same
time. Customs receipts have increased
$7,000,000 over last year. Pension
payments have increased $1,000,000
over the,ten,mjra.tl^B of the 1894, public and in¬
terest payments on debt
have increased $2,000,000 over the
same period. This is because of the
new bond issue, aggregating $162,-
400,000.
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. MAY 11, 1895.
Lyman Resigns.
The resignation of Civil Service
Commissioner Lyman is undoubtedly
in the hands of the president, but no
official announcement of the fact can
bo obtained from either the white
house or from Mr. Lyman himself.
The latter refuses to talk upon tho
subject. The announcement of the
resignation and the appointment of
tho new commissioner will probably
become public at the same time with
the announcement of the name of
Commissioner Roosevelt’s successor.
Some years ago Mr. Lyman appeared
before a congressional committee to
answer a charge of favoritism toward a
relative and other accusations connect¬
ed with his position as commissioner.
Two reports were made in which Mr.
Lyman was severely censurod, but the
reports never came before the house
for action. Since that time a rumor
that Mr. Lyman would leave the com¬
mission has been prevalent for several
months.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
flradstreel’s Review of Trade for the
Past Week.
Bradstreet’s trade review for the
past week says:
“The manifest improvement in many
lines of general trade has resulted in
an inereaso in the volurno of business,
notwithstanding the impending idle¬
ness of 9,000 Rhode Island worsted
mill operatives and many in other in¬
dustrial lines. Industrial unrest now
takes tho form of striking for higher
wages. This week about 50,000 indus¬
trial employes have struck, and the
tendency does not Boem to be checked.
About 3,000 pleople are reported to
have obtained higher wages without
striking.
“April hank clearings reflect im¬
provement in demand for staples and
enlarged speculation in stocks and
bonds, wheat, petroleum and cotton
in a monthly aggregate which is, with
two exceptions, the largest reported
sinco June, 1893. Total April clear¬
ings at sixty-one cities are $4,323,322,
999, a gain over 1894 of 14 per cent,
and over March this year of 5.5 per
cent. Tho increase over February is
25 per cent. Three-fourths of all the
cities reporting show increases over
April, 1894, special improvement be¬
ing noted in tho eastern and middle
states and in the south and southwest.
The far western group alone shows a
docronse.
“Naslivillo and Galveston report
some little improvement in the vol¬
ume of business, but they provo tho
exceptions among southern cities. Ag¬
ricultural conditions in Tennessee are
saicl to be favorable. In Texas the
coast country still needs rain. At
Chattanooga and Augusta tho week’s
business has been of somewhat smaller
volume, although at the former some
of the manufacturing industries are
better employed than one year ago.
There is only a fair business in cotton
goods, and prices remain firm. No
gain is looked for until the demand
for all supplios becomes general.”
DEATH DEALING CYCLONE.
Probably a Hundred People Killed by
a Storm In Iowa.
Sioux county, la., was devastated
by a terrific cyclone Friday afternoon.
The storm came from the northwest
and struck Sioux Centre, a small town
forty-five miles north of Sioux City, at
4 o’clock. Telegraphic reports from
tho scene of the storm are very meager,
the wires being down, but it is under¬
stood that three schoolhonses and at
least twenty residences and barns were
swept away. At the schoolhouses two
teachers and three pupils were killed
and many injured. Two women were
found dead not far from the point
where one of the school buildings
stood. One man who arrived in Sioux
Centre late in the evening reported
that his house was blown away and his
iamily killed. He himself escaped
and says that at least a hundred peo¬
ple must have been killed. Relief
parties were sent out from Hull, Sioux
Centre and Orange City, neighboring
towns.
May Reach One Hundred.
Further advices state that probably
100 people were killed by the cyclone.
Half a score of prosperous little ham¬
lets were touched by the flying storm
and hundreds of farms were laid waste.
The territory devastated is as rich and
populous as any in Iowa, but the storm
mainly kept clear of the railroad tracks
and telegraph lines. It will be many
days before the extent of the ruin is
known or a full list of the dead and
injured can be compiled.
BL1XT PLEADED GUILTY
And is Sentenced to the Penitentiary
for Life.
A Minneapolis special says: Claus
Blixt, who is awaiting trial for the
murder of Catherine Ging, pleaded
guilty before Judge Pond Saturday
morning, changing his plea of not
guilty. But a short time was taken
for the proceeding, as Blixt had
evinced his desire to change his plea
and his willingness to do so before
May 14th, the date regularly set for
his trial. Blixt was then sentenced to
imprisonment for life.
It is one of tho features of love to
give some kind of warning to those
that are exposed to temptation,
“Toll tlxo TrutH.”
STATE NEWS NOTES.
CULLED FROM MANY SOURCES
BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED.
Happenings of General Interest to
Georgia Headers.
At the annual meeting of the stock¬
holders of the Elberton Air Line rail¬
road, directors were elected and reso¬
lutions were passed to have the road
made a standard guage, which will be
done at an early date.
The extension of the Macon and
Birmingham from LaGrange to Bir¬
mingham is being agitated with con¬
siderable promise of material results.
LaGrange is interested, and there is
not a pluckier little city to be found
than tho metropolis of Troup.
Judge Griggs, at Maoon, has con¬
firmed tho sale of the Georgia South¬
ern and Florida railroad at $3,000,000
to the bondholders’ committee. He
has also postponed tho sale of the Ma¬
con and Birmingham railroad from
tho first Tuesday in May to the first
Tuesday in November.
Tho reclaiming of 500,000 Acres of
land is the task to which Senator Josse
Mercer invited tho attention of the
state by his swamp drainage bill, pass¬
ed at the last session of the state legis¬
lature. Tho return for the outlay
thus made will be the addition of $12,
000,000 to the taxable values of the
Btato. But an evon greater return will
be made by tho assured healthfulness
of a country so largoly subjected to
the miasmatic fevers whioh now render
living so dangerous. A
Mr. H. I. Kimball, whoso hind and
brain wrought greater results in tlMi
the material work development of other of Atlanta perh^B t^H
any man, W§jj
died in a suburb of Boston Kimball^B a few
ago. Tho death of Mr.
carry sorrow to tho hearts of hunS
of Atlantians who know him peiH
1 y and to thousands who knei
through did for tho Atlanta. marvelous Monumom^ work wjl
genius anu ability siund or4|H thtfiB
ery block in Atlanta and
his form work of great is preserved industries, in fine tho burH ofll_
and flourishing enterprises.
The jury in tho case of II. M. !■
against Sharp A I’erhara, puhlisheriH
tho Waycross Herald, returned a
diet for $1,250 in favor of tho
The case was tried by Judge
man and the plaintiff was
by Colonel W. M. Toomer; C. 0.
Thomas represented the defendants.
Tho suit for libel was because of a
report in the Herald last fall which
charged Baggs with having skipped
town and mistreated his creditors.
Baggs returned about the time the
article appeared, and ho entered suit
for libel. Baggs was out of work and
had merely gone in search of work.
The supreme court, sitting at At¬
lanta, has reversed the decision of the
superior court and granted William J.
Myers, convicted of the murder of
Forrest Crowley, a new trial. The
case is one that has bocome known all
over the oountry, and the horrible as¬
sassination of Crowley in an out-of
the-way place has taken its place in
the annals of murder histories as one
of the most atrocious sacrifices of hu¬
man life ever on record. As to wheth¬
er Myers committed the horrible mur¬
der is a question that is now thrown
in issue again after the young man has
stood in the shadow of the gallows.
The history of the oase is well known.
The people of Cochran have at last
an artesian well whioh will abundant¬
ly supply the town with pure water
for all uses in the future. Since April,
1894, Messrs. Derring and Voufleet
have been steadily at work trying to
bore a well. Having failed on two
previous attempts the town agreed to
pay them $1,500 for a well furnishing
a supply of forty gallons per minute
with the aid of a pump. They have
succeeded even better than this. The
water is fine. A largo rosevoir will be
built, at a good height in order to
furnish every dwelling. Several years
ago the town spent a lot of money for
an artesian well without avail and the
citizens are consequently now happy
over the final success.
A tew days ago Mrs. Schwartz, who
lives a few miles from Borne, shipped
to New York two eases of wine which
was brought over from England by
the late Mr. Burnerly. family Tho wine had
been in the 100 years, Mr.
Burnerly inheriting it from his great
grandfather. The bottles were secure¬
ly corked and had never been opened
from the first day of their sealing.
Together with tho “century wine,” a
small oil painting landscape was also sent de¬
scriptive of a painted in Italy. Tho
picture was born, and one its year befoio
Christ was great autiqui
ty makes it of almost priceless value.
This painting also was an old heir-
loom of the family, which has been
down from generation to gen¬
eration.
A company is being organized in
Knoxville, Tonn., to build a road from
that city to the Atlantic Seaboard.
The result of the movement is of con¬
siderable interest to several Georgia
towns located on the proposed route,
especially Athens. The Classic City,
Macon and other central Goorgia towns
have been striving for a long time to
get a direct route to the coal fields of
East Tennessee, and the Knoxville
people tion from will this find section. considerable The co-opera¬ proposed
new road is intended to be a competi¬
tor to the Southern’s western system,
or of the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia, and if pendiug negotiations
are consummated, the Blue Ridge and
the Savannah Valiev will probably bo
taken in to form a part of tho new
road. Tho Knoxville people are dis¬
playing considerable determination in
tho matter, and it is not unlikoly that
the proposed road will be commenced
at no distant day.
Manufacturers to Meet.
Governor Atkinson has called a con¬
vention of manufacturers of tho state
for the purpose of perfecting an organ¬
ization for thoir interests. The call
is ^s follows:
To All Porsons Engaged in Manufact¬
uring Enterprises in this State:
“A convention of manufacturers of
this state is hereby called to meet in
the hall of the house of representa¬
tives in Atlanta at 12 o'clock on Tues¬
day, May 7th, 1895.
“The purpose of this oall is to se¬
cure the organized co-operation of all
the manufacturers of this state in ex¬
hibiting to the world a creditable dis¬
play of our product at the Cotton
S^^aieider States and International Exposition,
^Llustrial suoh questions as may affect
growth, and to tako
action as may be deemed
to the encouragement of
RBi iu factories in this state.
f8« manufacturing industry,
. all or large, if- requested to
^Ksentutivo HI Atkins attend. Governor.”
>n,
t. Day, who represents
|4es Bkg^hibit geological survey in
of minerals at
and International
r making arrangements
and installation of
- if V Ho will keep u number
■ling on this business uml
■ make the exhibit olio of
'Bksy Bp? high character. He says
. in a very short time to
HRiterial enough to till four
■ml Hp space, which is by no means
wB^p it will be absolutely ueoos
make tho exhibit in a degree
seleWin order to get a fair represent¬
ation of tho resources of the country
within the display. For this reason
it will bo a high honor even to be ad¬
mitted to the mineral display.
It is not intended to confine the ex¬
hibit to properties already opened and
in operation, for ono of the objects of
the exposition is to present to tho
world the value of tho undeveloped as
well as the developed resources of the
south. Typioal exhibits of all import¬
ant mineral industries will be admitted.
The exhibit will be to a degree educa¬
tional from the fact that the pyramids
of raw materials will be accompanied
by pyramids of the manufactured pro¬
ducts from the raw material.
For example, throe or four dif¬
ferent products received from
bauxite, including alum, aluminum
and sulphate of aluminum, will be ex¬
hibited in cubes alongside of the
bauxite in such masses as will show
the amount of each product to be ob¬
tained from a given mass of bauxite.
Tho bauxite resources of Georgia and
Carolina will be fully shown, Other
raw materials will be treated in the
same way. Operative exhibits will il¬
lustrate the processes of manufacture.
For instance, tho method of digging
anthracite coal will be shown.
LABOR DAY IN CHICAGO.
Several of the Assemblies Refused to
Participate.
The May Day parade, under the
auspices of the socialistic federation of
Chicago and the Central Labor Union,
took place Wednesday afternoon.
About 3,500 men were iu line. Aftor
marching through the down-town
streets they proceeded to Turner
hall, where speeches were deliv¬
ered by T. J. Morgan and Rich¬
ard Braunschweig, after whioh there
was prize turning and singiDg and
dancing contests. Both the trade and
labor assembly and tho building trades
council declined to participate in the
demonstration on the ground that they
recognized September 1st as labor’s
legal holiday. The 1st of May cele¬
bration is in support of tho interna¬
tional struggle for eight hours on the
part of the working people, especially
in Englan d and Germany,
Morgan Held Good for the Pen.
Tho suprome court of appeals at
Richmond, Va., has refused a writ of
error in the case of Charles Morgan
held, alias Morgan, the Aquia Creek
train robber, and the judgment of the
Stafford county oourt stands. Mor
ganfield must now go to the penitenti¬
ary.
SI a Year in Advance
IN TURNEY’S FAYOR.
DECLARED GOVERNOR OF TEN.
NESSEE BY A SMALL MARGIN.
Eight Democrats Vote Against Him
Both Sides Talked of Bribery.
A Nashville special says: At 12:25
Pillow, o’clock Saturday morning, Speaker
of the senate, acting as presi¬
dent of the joint convention, declared
that Peter Turney, having received a
plurality of the votes cast, was duly
and constitutionally elected governor
of Tennessee for the ensuing term of
two years.
For four long days and nights the
report of the committee on governor’s
election had been discussed. The de¬
bate ended at 11:40 o’clock Friday
night and a vote was taken on the mo¬
This tion to adopt the minority report.
motion was rejected by a vote of
yeas 57, nays 71.
The roll call began on the motion to
adopt the majority report. This mo¬
tion prevailed by a vote of 70 yeas to
57 nays, eight democrats voting no.
Thus tho verdict of the people, giving
Evans 544 plurality, was overturned
and Turney declared to be elected.
The committee’s figures give—
Turney 94,794
Evans . 92,440
Mims.. 23,088
Turney’s plurality 2,356
A resolution by Mr. Johnson, de¬
claring Peter Turney eleoted governor,
was at once adopted, and the result
was declared by Speaker Pillow. Tho
republican members retired from the
hall in a body shouting: “Steal I steal!
steal!”
The democrats showed great enthu¬
siasm, and a saluto of cannons was fired
as soon as the result was declared.
In the joint convention Mr. Baker
reforred to the report that a democrat
had been offered $1,000 to vote for
Evans and demanded to know Mio had
offered the bribe. He declared that
any man who said Evans or Newell
Sanders was responsible for any such
action stated what ho knew to bo false.
Representative Deakens, of Se¬
quatchie county, then arose and stated
that a man named Burrows, of Bed¬
ford county, had oomo to his room
and offered him $1,000 to vote for
Evans, which he had declined.
Bribery Charged.
Charges of attempted bribery in
connection with the gubernatorial con¬
test come from both democratic and
republican sources. Senator J. W.
Taylor, a republican from East Ten
uessoo, publishes a card in whioh he
charges tbat Petor Blow, of Knoxville,
attempted to bribe him with $200 cash
and a promise of a position at $100 per
month if he would absent himself when
tho vote on the contest was taken.
He says that by the advice of a friend
he played Blow and demanded $2,000.
Blow saw the parties he was represent¬
ing and reported that they refused to
pay it because they had five to fifteen
majority for Turney without him.
At Saturday’s session both houses of
tho general assembly adopted a resolu¬
tion providing for tho inauguration of
Governor Turney, Tuesday, May 7th.
GOV. BROWN UNCONSOLABLK.
lie is Crushed Over the Shameful
Death of His Son.
A special from Frankfort, Ky., says
that the state offices on the public
square in that city were all closed
Thursday morning and crape sus¬
pended from the entrance doors. The
desk ocoupied by Archie Brown is
closed, and the papers and pictures of
his little girl at different ages remain
exactly as he left them. It is said that
Governor Brown will not now enter
the senatorial raoe. He is terribly
distressed over his son’s tragio and
shameful death. Many close friends
have called and tendered their sym
thy.
Intimate friends of Governor Brown
say that the governor is so heart¬
broken over the disgrace attached to
the death of his son that, in all prob¬
ability, he will resign the office of
governor and retire to private life.
The governor is overwhelmed With
grief and denies himself to all callers.
DISTILLERS WILL CLOSE.
The Whiskey Trust Making Prepara¬
tions to Shut Down.
A Peoria, Ill., dispatch says: Gen¬
eral MoNulta has met with no oppo¬
sition in gaining access to or nsing
bonded warehouses, and the commis¬
sioner of internal revenue has ruled
that the regulation reqnring the con¬
sent of securities on former bonds for
such purposes in change of ownership
does not apply to him. The commis¬
sioner holds that tho reoeivership is
not a change of owners.
Cattle is now being shipped out of
distillery barns, and there were on
hand Thursday at the three houses
of the distilling and oattle feeding
company in Peoria 5,362 head. There
is the best of onthority for saying that
nil the cattle will bo shipped out by
June 1st and that the distilleries will
bo shut dawn.
The fear of being overcome by vice
is a good preventive against it.
NUMBER 15.
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 mo 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
classos, besides maps, descriptive and
illustrated land pamphlets, resort
books, Hot Springs guides, etc.
Cheap farming lands in Mis¬
souri, Arkansas, Kansas and
Texas.
i. A. GALLAGHER,
SOUTHERN PASSENGER AGENT,
Missouri Pacific R’w’y
and IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
103 Itoad House,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
011 ARLES 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.
(J m L. HENRY,
Attorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Will praotice in the courts of this and
adjoining counties.
J t S. FANN,
Dentist,
DALTON, GA.
Solicits VQUT nati-Anni.i'
JJcNELLV & HEARTSILL,
General Job Printers,
CLEVELAND, TENN.
Mail orders wilt receive prompt atten¬
tion. Send for prices and
samples of work.
'JHOMAS J. BRYANT,
Livery Stable,
DALTON, GA.
I have bought the entire Livery
business of Calaway & Longest, and
solicit your patronaga
L P. BAGWELL, M. D.,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Offers his professional services to the
people of this section and solioits a
share of the patronage.
W. ANDERSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Professional servioos offered to the
people of this Beotion. 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 eaoh month for the
purpose of examining and treating
Acute and Chronic diseases.
Wb hays Money !o Loan at 6 percent
On farm or city property in any seo
tion of oountry where property has a
fixed market value. Money ready far
immediate loans where security and
title is good. No commission. We
solicit applications. Blanks furniahed
upon request. ALLEN k OO.,
40-42 Broadway, N. X,