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Spring Place Jimplecute.
Carter tfc Hoartsoll, Putolisliers.
VOLUME XV.
WASHINGTON NOTES
ITEMS OF NEWS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
The president has filled the two va¬
cancies at the bottom of the naval pay¬
master’s corps by the appointment of
Baron Dubois, son of Medical Inspec¬
tor F. L. Dubois, of the uavy, and C.
T. Brawley, son of Circuit Judge W.
II. Brawley, as assistant paymasters
with the rank of ensigns.
Secretary Carlisle will deliver five
speeches in favor of sound money, four
of which will be made in Kentucky.
•In his native state he will deliver ad¬
dresses at Covington, Bowling Green,
Louisville and Lexington, and one be¬
fore the convention at Memphis
Tennessee., on May 23d. The first
speech in Kentucky will be made at
Covington, his home, on May 18th, or
20th. From there he will go to Mem¬
phis, Tenn., and during the Inst week
in May he will make speeches at tho
other three points named. The dates
have yet to be fixed for these places.
Why Thurston was Bounced.
Hawaiian advices received from Hon¬
olulu dated May 2, per steamer Mari¬
posa, aro as follows: The letter de¬
manding the recall of Minister Thurs
ton was read to tho executive session
of the councils. This lotter had been
to Hong Kong. It went past Hono¬
lulu in a bag with a couple of hundred
others. Tho fault lies with the post
office at San Francisco. The grouuB
of the objection to Thurston is com
fined to a single transaction. The sole
offense alleged is that Thurston at the
legation showed to reporters private
letters to himself from Honolulu. The
particular letter that gave such offense
to the secretary of state, intimated in
strong terms that Cleveland and
Gresham wore largely responsible for
the January uprising in Hawaii.
The Treaty Signed.
An official dispatch from Tokio, re¬
ceived at tho Japanese legation at
Washington Thursday afternoon, states
that tho ratifications of the treaty of
peace between Japan and China were
exchanged at ChoeFoo on Wednesday.
It is understood that ho change was
made in the text of the treaty as orig¬
inally concluded, but according to the
recommendations made by Russia,
Germany and France the Japanese
government has agreed to renounce
the permanent possession of the
Liao-Tuug p-enln-ida, on condition,
however, that arrangements regard¬
ing tho form and the terms of the
renunciation shall be reserved for ad¬
justment between itself and the gov¬
ernment of China. This latter stipu¬
lation is construed to mean that Japan
will not surrender the peninsula until
a suitable indemnity shall have been
paid, and that it may even be agreed
between Japan and China that the
possession of Port Arthur itself will be
retained for a term of years extending
beyond the date when the indemnity
shall have been paid in full, thus
guaranteeing to Japan not alone the
payment of the indemnity itself, but
also sufficient timo to safeguard herself
against anything like a war of reprisal.
The Cotton Movement.
Complete and revised statements
furnished the department of agricul¬
ture at Washington by the railway
and water transportation companies of
the cotton movement from the south¬
ern states to ports and northern and
eastern points from beginning of the
season to April 1, 1895, together with
returns made by the department’s
county agents of the amount of cotton
remaining on plantations and in in¬
terior towns on April 1st, and the
amounts reported by mills as bought
from September 1st to April 1st, show
as follows: Total railway movement,
8,495,127 ; remaining on plantations,
etc., 384,880; bought by mills, 602,-
896. Total crop, 9,482,913,
In addition to the above mill pur¬
chases are to be added 11,965 bales
bought by Alabama, Mississippi, Geor¬
gia, Tennessee, North and South Caro¬
lina mills from states in which their
mills are not located; also 19,001
bales bought by Virginia and 12,266
bales bought by Kentucky mills, all of
which are included in railway move¬
ment, making a total of 646,128 bales
reported by southern mills as bought
from September 1, 1894, to April 1,
1895. No deduction has been made
of cotton remaining on plantations
and in interior towns on September 1,
1894.
Enunciation On the Monroe Doctrine.
It can be said upon the authority of
a senator, whose interest in our for¬
eign affairs has made him a leader on
the floor and who is of the same polit¬
ical party as that of the present ad¬
ministration, that as soon as tho new
congress convenes initial steps will be
taken looking to the emphatic enun¬
ciation by congress of the Monroe
doctrine. This will come about in p
very natural way, for tho message of
the president will undoubtedly bring to
the attention of congress our relations
with other powers during the interim
when congress has been in recess. It
is the intention of the senators, how-
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1895.
ever the house may act, to call for the
correspondence in the Nicaragua affaii
and an investigation may perhaps be
asked. The message of the president
will be referred, in the ordinary course,
to the committee on foreign relations
and some member of that committee
will introduce a resolution calling for
the correspondence. According to the
understanding had at the present time,
this resolution will not contain the
usual elnuse, “if not incompatible with
the public interests,” but will be a
mandatory order in the shape of a join!
resolution. Should the correspondence
not be furnished, then the senate com¬
mittee will be asked to iuvestigte the
whole subjest and will be given powei
to send for persons and papers.
JACK FROST ON DECK.
V Decided Drop In tho Thermometer
Out West.
Western Minnesota was visited by
the heaviest May frost in many years
■Saturday night. What the damage is
to garden truck, young corn and flax
cannot yet bo told. There was a heav¬
ier fall of frost in Nebraska and west¬
ern Iowa Saturday night than Friday
night. Gardens were damaged to some
extent and fruit also in some sections.
Corn and other cereals were not in¬
jured.
A very light frost is roportod through¬
out Kansas. Vegetables and tender
grass were slightly injured, but no
damage was done to other crops.
A very heavy frost is reported all
over Chippewa county, Missouri. It
is feared that much damage has been
done to not only fruits but young flax.
Dispatches from tho interior of
Wisconsin show killing frosts in the
northern portion of the state. In the
southern and western parts tho frost
was light and causod but little if any
damage.
The mercury recorded a drop from
91 degrees Friday to 28 degrees at
Lansing, Mich., Sunday morning.
Owing to a clouded sky the damage
was reduced to a minimum. Wheat
and oats are reported all right, but
market gardening and the fruit croni
must have suffered.
Dispatches from interior frostuifl poiffl
lilinoi- indicate heavy
nipping lender I, d. gardelisb^H i
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lowlands
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heavy frosts throughout lo^|
damage xhiMQHHBii was ili^ to early vog
reTpRe low places,
corn will i replanting.
BUSINESS IMPROVES.
Braflstreet’s Review of Trade for the
Past Week.
Bradstroet’s commercial agency re¬
ports on tho condition of trade for the
week as follows:
“The past week brought distinct,
and in some instances, even more pro¬
nounced evidences of improvement in
business, notwithstanding the increas¬
ing wavo of industrial discontent and
strikes for higher wages, alwavB the
accompaniment of an upward tendency
to prices. Some little gain in demand
for either dry goods, plantation sup¬
plies or in collections (which is most
significant), thirds is announced by two
of all cities reporting. Savan¬
nah expects her carnival to stimulate
demand, and Augusta states that fac¬
tories are asking for more money than
a year ago.
Merchants at Memphis, Charleston,
Chattanooga and Atlanta have experi¬
enced a better demand, but at Bir¬
mingham, New Orleans and Galveston
business remains quiet or unchanged.
Cotton goods are not moving very ac¬
tively at the advances, buyers having
supplied themselves at lower figures.
Popular lines of prints are relatively
active. First orders for dress woolens
for fall delivery have been taken, but
demand is moderato. Woolen machin¬
ery is fairly employed. Wool is quiet,
prices at tho interior being above views
of manufacturers and stocks at eastern
cities making a light supply. The crop
is late.”
WILL ADVANCE MONEY
For the Purchase of the S., A. & M.
Railway by the Committee.
The Baltimore Trust and Guarantee
Company will advance $600,000 to the
reorganization committee for the pur¬
chase of the Savannah, Americus and
Montgomery railroad, the sale of
which is fixed for May 17th. A mini¬
mum price of $1,800,000 has been
placed on the property by the courts.
The funds obtained by the loan will
bo applied to the retiring of preferred
liens, including the bonds of the
Americus, Preston and Lumpkin and
the receiver’s certificates.
The road extends from Lyons, Ga.,
to Montgomery, Ala., 265 miles, and
operates under a lease the Albany,
Florida and Northern railroad, making
a total mileage of 300 miles. It is said
that the building of an extension of
the road from Lyons to Savannah may
follow the reorganization of tho com¬
pany. ____
It is better to bo unpopular for the
right than receive applause for wroDg.
“Toll tMe TrutH.”
STATE NEWS NOTES.
CULLED FROM MANY SOURCES
BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED.
Happenings of General Interest to
Georgia Readers.
Governor Atkinson has appointed J.
I. Carter county judge of Appling
county to succeed T. A. Parker, who
resigned several weeks rgo.
* * *
The Fort Valley and Perry Tele¬
phone company will at once put in a
line from Fort Valley to Perry, and
the two places will be connected.
Talbotton is to have a creamery.
The site has been bought and work
will begin shortly. The machinery is
to be purchased from the Chicago
Manufacturing Company.
President Cleveland and his oabinet
and officers of the army and navy will
be asked to come to Atlanta on the
opening day, and President Cleveland
will be asked to open the exposition.
This was decided upon at a recent
meeting of the invitation committee.
* * ■*
Carroll oounty’s centenarian, Mr.
Eason Stamps, who lives about five
miles south of Waco, and who, if ho
lives to see June 22d, will be 103
years old, is very sick with pneumonia
and little hope is entertained of his
recovery. Mr. Stamps was a soldier
in some of the Indian wars in his
young manhood and is well known all
over western Goorgia.
Principal Keeper of
Turner and Princiral
Intosh returned veem
spection nwrtl^Mfl of
r ^T\i j
'to ;
ii howl
that they will nil po^H axiM
attorneys and make
the assessors in the courts;
Dirt has been broken for the main
building of the Massachusetts cotton
mills in the suburbs of Rome, and the
work has begun in good earnest. A
largo force of hands will be put on the
work and it will be pushed through to
completion as rapidly as possible. It
is estimated that the main building
will cost about $125,000 and the cot¬
tages and accessories about $50,000
more, which will turn loose about
$175,000 in and around Rome, which
will go far toward tiding tho city over
the dull times without any apprecia¬
ble diminution in local business.
The will of the lato A. J. Cheney,
who died at East Point, Ga., is on im¬
portant one, for Mr. Cheney leaves an
estate worth at least $100,000, and he
wills the residue of his property after
certain specified clauses in the will are
carried out, to Mercer university, to be
used in educating poor young men who
are not able to pay for their own edu¬
cation. The will consists of notes and
bonds and real estate, and until they
have been converted into cash it can
not be told exactly what tho estate is
worth or what sum will go to the uni¬
versity.
Messrs. Payne & Tye, of Atlanta, at¬
torneys for the Western and Atlantic
and the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis Railway, have filed their
cross hills in the Seaboard injunction
case now pending in the supreme court
of Georgia. The cross bill simply
goes into the old issue in the injunc¬
tion case, with which the public is
familiar, construes Judge Lumkin’s
decision in favor of the Western and
Atlantic, holding that he was right in
not compelling them to do through
business with the Seaboard. The cross
bill was duly signed and the case will
shortly come up before the supreme
court.
* * *
Georgia has something besides
peaches to blow about just now. Re¬
ports from south Georgia indicate that
this year’s melon crop will be an un¬
usually large one, The present acre¬
age in south Georgia is estimated at
about 10,500, from which will be gath¬
ered over 6,000 car loads of watermel¬
ons. Watermelon culture has until
very recently been a very profitable
business, but it is thought that this
year the mallets will be badly glutted,
owing to the increased acreage of mel¬
ons in Florida. The orango groves
have been planted in watermelons and
as the Florida crop is from a week to
two weeks earlier than south Georgia,
the Floridians will have the first ship¬
ments to northern markets. This will
enable them to reap the benefit o!
fancy prices .—Macon News.
Central’s Floating Debt,
The attorney for the reoeivsrs of the
Central railroad, has filed an order in
the United States court at Savannah
signed by Judge Don A. Pardee,
authorizing the receivers to borrow
money off on thirty days call with which
to pay the floating debt. This debt
now amounts to $5,294,269.84, with
interest. Of this amount nearly
$3,900,000 is due the syndicate repre¬
sented by H. B. Hollis & Co.; about
$1,100,000 to the Mercantile Trust
Company; $100,000 to the Central
Trust Company, and $200,000 to the
National bank of New York. All of
these loans were due July 1, 1893, but
payment was deferred by agreement.
The receivers believe they can borrow
the money necessary to pay off the
floating debts in New York on th ; rty
days call. The money will be bor¬
rowed at 6 per cent.
Many States Will Exhibit.
President Collier of the Cotton States
and International Exposition states
that tho outlqok is exceedingly bright
for handsome exhibits from several
states. Pennsylvania, he said, had al¬
ready passed its appropriation bill and
would probably have a building
with a splendid exhibit. New York
appropriation bill carrying an appro¬
priation onp branch of $|£^|^iadtalready passed
was
Mhtain^ii
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and
■P^ns resig¬
nation tliirTae ns" had been given
a federal appointment which would
tako him out of'the state during the
next session of the legislature. The
governor accepted the resignation and
expressed his regret that Mr. Harrison
had seen fit to leave the services of the
state. In the letter accepting the re¬
signation Governor Atkinson also an¬
nounced that he would not call an elec¬
tion for the naming of his successor
until after the crops were laid by and
the busy Beeson was past. He stated
that he did not wish to interfere with
the farmers by bringing on an election
in the midst of their work. The elec¬
tion will probably be held in August.
, jDeath As gently of Major and peacefully Campbell Wallace, he
as had
lived for eighty-nine years, Major
Campbell Wallace died at his home in
Atlanta last Friday night. Major
Wallace’s death was the result of no
illness. It was the ending of a life
that had been spent, the fading of a
vital spark. Eighty-nine busy, useful,
honorable years had passed over his
head, and nature’s law demanded rec¬
ognition. His life had been a busy
one. Up to four years before his
death it had been pressed full of du¬
ties—duties to his family, to his state,
to his friends and to society. He led
a long and useful public career, made
his home happy, gave help to the
needy, happiness to his friends, built
up a large personal fortune and be¬
came known of all men as the possessor
of a noble, gentle, lovable character.
He did not leave the activities of
life until long after he had lived out
man’s allotted share of time. N early
five years ago he resigned from the
railroad commission to spend the re¬
mainder of his days in quiet retire¬
ment.
The news of his death will be re¬
ceived with deep sorrow all over the
south. No man in Georgia was better,
no life was ever more beautiful or
beneficent.
Demands of Furuacomon Granted.
The furnacomen’s strike at Sharon
and Harpsville, Pa., furnaces has been
settled, the operators granting the de¬
mands of their striking employes.
■yVork was resumed at once. The in¬
creased wages make glad the hearts of
about fifteen hundred men in Sharon,
Sharpsvillo and West Middlesex.
81 a Year In Advance
KNOCKED ODT.
DECISION ON SOUTH CAROLINA’S
REGISTRATION LAW.
The Dispensary Statute Also Declared
Null and Void.
The decision in the registration case
of Mills vs. Green was read by Judge
Goff in the United States circuit court
at Columbia, S. C. It was very
lengthy. It holds that the court has
jurisdiction; that no official, state or
national, is above the law; that, as to
the constitutionality of the registra¬
tion, citizens of the state are citizens
of the United States, residing in that
state, and that Mills is such, and that
the plaintiff’s claims are sustained by
the decisions of the court; that the
registration law’s requirement of cer¬
tificates is not warranted by law; that
the registration law is unconstitutional
in such requirements; that the con¬
stitutional convention act does not
cure defects; that the whole laws aro
unconstitutional; is that the proceeding
not against the state; that this
court is a court of the state of South
Carolina as well as of the United
States. Judge Goff, therefore, issues
a permanent injunction.
dispensary law also downed.
Judge Siinonton, after the disturb¬
ance caused by Judge Goff’s decision
had been quelled, read the decision in
the dispensaay case of Donald vs. The
State Constables, declaring that the
court has jurisdiction, that the provi¬
sions of the dispensary law are in vio¬
lation of the United States interstate
commerce law and that the injunction
jwjsue as prayed for.
OTHER CASES THROWN OUT.
A^-e ■fcaseof’Dunbar Bimonton then read the a decision
vs. coimta
tkM^sary matter, deelar
ul j ■
Bfc. i :
k> ’• • ’ T ,■ &§l.
>0
;ed
<>r
■tgniu, ^SuT^court, United
Hnui knocked tho
P^Bne H^the effect state of the into a
de
ion e and open ballot in the
■ming Bnstitutional election for delegates to the
that convention, something
works completo revolution in tho
state. The court room was jammed,
packed to its utmost capacity, during
the reading of the decision.
The cases brought by Messrs.
Caldwell and Pope were dismissed and
the decisions were rendered on Messrs.
Bryan and Douglass’ cases.
COMMISSIONER MIXSON RETRACTS.
State Liquor Commissioner Mixson
and Constables Davis and Lafar were
beforo Judge Goff on the charge of
contempt Tuesday afternoon, The
commissioner, in submitting his re¬
turn, practically said that he did not
mean anything he said in his circular
to the constables, telling them to be
more vigilant than ever in seizing
liquor and disclaiming any intent in
issuing the circular of disobeying the
ordeT of the court. The other returns
were even more retractive, and in
strange contrast with the talk of state’s
rights and the announcement that no
heed would bo given the order on the
part of the dispensary officials last
week.
The s -corn! day o' the rehearing of
in the income tax eases in the supreme
court of the United States began with
Assistant Attorney General Whitney in
the midst of his argument for a revers¬
al of the former opinion of the court
on tho questien of the validity of a
federal tax on incomes derived from
rents. Mr. Whitney was followed by
Attorney General Olney. All the seats
on the b unch were again occupied as
on the first day, anil the visitors
crowded the limited space of the court
room as they have done every day that
the income tax has been before the
court.
Mr. Joseph H. Choate made the
closing argument, and when he had
finished, the chief justice directed the
crier to adjouru court until Monday,
May 20 th.
CLEVELAND COMPLIMENTED.
He Reciprocated With a Check for
Five Hundred dollars.
Three weeks ago there were born to
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Zerkles, living
near Decatur, Ind., three girl babies.
The parents namod tho children,Ruth,
Esther and Frances. A neighbor of
the Zerkles wrote President Cleveland
informing him of tho facts and a day
or two ago the father cf the children
received a draft from the president for
$500, to be used for the education of
the girls should they live.
NUMBER If).
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 yon are going,
when you are going, where
yon 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
hooks, Hot Springs guides, etc.
Cheap farming lands in Mis¬
souri, Arkansas, Kansas and
Texas.
L A. GALLAGHER,
SOUTHERN PASSENGER AGENT,
Missouri Pacific R’w’y
and IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
103 Read House,
Chattanooga, m Tenn.
(JHARLES N. KING,
, Attorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GAl
• >.
J; J. BATES,
Attorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
-Special ... mtion to collecti ns and
criminal practice.
p:rwi^§;
Attorney-At-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Prompt attention to all business.
C. L, HENRY,
Attorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Will practice in the courts of this and
adjoining counties.
J # S. FANN,
Dentist,
DALTON, GA.
Solicits Your
JJcNELLY & HEARTSILL,
General Job Printers,
CLEVELAND, TENN.
Mail orders will 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 patronage.
P. BAGWELL, M. D.,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Offers his professional services to the
people of this section and solicits a
share of tho patronage.
W. ANDERSON,
Physician and Surgeon.
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Professional services offered to the
people of this seotion. Calls oheer
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 Mye Money to Loan at6 percent
On farm or city property in any seo¬
tion of country where property has a
fixed market value. Money ready fsr
immediate loans where security and
title is good. No commission. We
solicit applications. Blanks furnished
»\pon request, ALLEN & CO.,
40-42 Broadway, N. Y,