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Spring Place Jimplecute.
Carter tfc Eteartsell, Putolisliers,
v OLUMK XV.
THROUGH G E0RG1A.
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BITS OF SEWS GATHKUED FROM
OVER THE STATE,
Being a Summary of Interesting Hap¬
penings From Day to Day.
Several cases of hemorrhagic fever
have been reported from Acree, near
Albany.
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There are fifty-nine white and nine
negro schools in Paulding couuty in
full operation.
The University of Georgia now has
236 students enrolled. The different
classes of the college have been busy
selecting *
class officers.
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The gates of the Cotton States and
International exposition will not open
on Sundays. The question was settled
by an overwhelming vote at a recent
meeting of the directors.
At an election held in Pike
to determine whether bonds should
issued to discharge the debt incurred
by the building-of a new court house,
bonds were defeated. The new build¬
ing is now in process of erection
the taxpayers of the county will
called upon this fail to pay about §5
on the thousand as extra taxes lor
purpose.
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One of the most important
deals that Brunkswiclt 1ms had in
time occurred a day or two ago* Jas.
8. Wright, a prominent aud
business man, bought the entire
insurance business of Jordan S.
Thomas. The Thomas firm
about twenty large companies, and
one of the largest in this section.
consideration is large.
Solomon’s lodge of Masons, at Sa¬
vannah, the oldest Masonic lodge
the state, has sent a large collection
old Masonic relics for exhibition
the exposition. They include the
ble which was presented to the
by General Oglethorpe.
Purse, who has charge of the Savan¬
nah exhibit, is one of the
members of Solomon’s lodge.
LaGrange is to have a new cotton
mill, carrying 15,000 spindles. The
new factory will be kuown as the
“Dixie Mills.” A New Hampshire
gentleman will bo secretary aud man¬
ager and the board of directors is com¬
posed of some of the leading citizens
of LaGrange and three prominent
New England manufacturers. The
principal article manufactured will be
shoe linings.
Captain Duncan Wright, of Bruns¬
wick, has issued an informal challenge
to race his pilot boat, the Grade,
against the Sophie Ainelie K., of Fer
nandina, for §500 a side. The chal¬
lenge lias been formally accepted. The
boats will start at St. Simon’s sea buoy
and run to Martin’s Industry lightship
and return. The distance is about
forty miles. The rounding point is
situated between Charleston and Sa¬
vannah, on the South Carolina coaBt.
November 2d has been set as the day
for the sale of the Savannah and At¬
lantic, or Tybee railroad, which will
take place before its depot in Savan¬
nah. According to the decree, the
bidder must deposit §10,000, either in
cash or the first mortgage bonds of the
company, and $5,000 of the purchase
price must at all events be paid in
cash for the purpose of paying the
court expenses and those of the sale.
The road will be sold by Messrs. John
Screven and J. N. Talley, who havo
been made special commissioners for
that purpose.
Bryant Churohwell and a woman giv¬
ing her name as Mattie Jones were mar¬
ried at Cochran a few days ago. Later
it was‘stated that the bride was the
widely* known Debby Nobles, who has
assumed the name of Mattie Jones. A
brother-in-law vouches for this. The
bride was heavily veiled. The couple
left at once. Debby Nobles is the
daughter of the woman in jail at Ma¬
con under sentence of death for mur¬
dering her husband. Debby was ac¬
cused of assisting in the murder, hut
she was acquitted and went to Alabama.
She returned a few clays ago aud vis¬
ited her mother in jail at Macon.
A special from Topeka says: The
leading populists of Kansas have started
an agitation for an early national con¬
vention, and will urge Atlanta as the
place and Febuary 21st as the time, so
that the nomination can be made Feb¬
ruary 22d, Washington’s birthday.
Senator Peffer, Hon Jerry Simpson,
Chairman Breidenthal and others will
urge this date and place on the na¬
tional committeemen in the several
states. This is done to force the free
silver fight early, as they say both old
parties are advocating a short cam¬
paign in order to sidetrack the finan¬
cial issue.
For the purpose of reorganization
SPRING PLACE. MURRAY COUNTY. GA.. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 12, 1895.
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titioTi to place the property in
bands of a receiver. There are
creditors of the company except
. bondholders, and no change will
I made in the management. Colonel D.
B. Dyer was appointed receiver.
: Judge Speer passed the order
i days ago. It is understood that Colo
j uel Dyer had paid up every
outstanding before the order was pass¬
ed. The bill was filed by Thomas G.
Hilhouse, of New York, the
of the Metropolitan Trust Company,
trustee for the bondholders.
Kepr« sontative Barnes Resigns.
Hon. John Barnes has resigned
position as a member of the
from Richmond county. A special
election to fill the vacancy will bo held
as soon as it is possible under the law.
j Mr. Barnes resigns because be
accepted a position in the pension de
lament of the federal government.
lu ' V' ,lainR tuo r ° 8ltl0Q for
j s veral months, and is stationed
Knoxville, Tenn.
When the matter of the conflict
tween a slate office and a federable
office was brought to his notice, Mr.
Barnes decided that the spirit of the
constitution was clearly against bis
holding both positions, and so for¬
warded his resignation to the gover¬
nor.
Governor Atkinson immediately is¬
sued formal notice of the vacancy to
tlie ordinary of Richmond county.
That officer will at once issue his call
for a special election to fill the
vacancy.
Fight Over a Will.
A fight in to be made in, the
over the will of the late A. J. Cheney,
who died at East Point and left a large
estate, to be divided among a number
of relatives and Mercer University.
Judge Luuipkiu, at Atlanta, has grant¬
ed an order restraining the
of the wilt from paying certain sums
over to some of the relatives of Mr.
Cheney, aud this is the beginning of
what may be a long law suit.
Mr. Cheney left an estato
about §150,000, with the proviso that
§1,000 should be given to each of
nephews and neices, children of
brothers and sisters. The residue
his estate was willed to Mercer Uni¬
versity.
The trustees now claim that after all
the expenses are paid and the
are settled there will be one hundred
thousand dollars of the estate ex¬
hausted, but the executors refuse to
pny the balance to tbo university ns
they say there are at least thirteen
neices and nephews who were dead
when the will was made, but whose
children should share in the estate.
Mr. Watson’s Daily.
Hon. Tom Watson’s paper, The Daily
Press, is not likely to appear in Atlan¬
ta. Some time ago Mr. Watson, as
president of Our Publishing Company,
issued an order saying that The Daily
Press would begin publication again
about October 1st. It did not appear
on that date, however, and the project
will in all probability be given up.
Major Charles McGregor, associate ed¬
itor of The Peoples’ Party Paper, and
who would also have been associated
with Mr. Watson in editing the daily,
does not think that a daily in Atlanta
with one in Augusta also would pay,
and he says the populists will probably
abandon the idea of publishing a daily
in the former city and support the one
in Augusta or establish one in Colum¬
bus so as to have access to both Geor¬
gia aud Alabama. If one is established
in Columbus Mr. Watson will be edi
itor-in-ehief with Major McGregor and
Colonel Carey J. Thornton as associ¬
ates. Major McGregor does not believe
that the populists will support more
than one daily and a meeting will be
held within the next ten days to decide
where the best field for that daily is.
GEORGIA’S GATES AJAR.
Immigrants From All Sections Bound
Hitherward.
A pleasing theme in Georgia is the
influx of immigrants to Wilcox county.
The work is one that arrests the at¬
tention of men.
Col. W. L. Glessner, first in employ
of Central railroad, then
Southern, was the pioneer of this
work. It was he who induced the ex¬
cursion movement.
Then came Governor W. J. Northen
who went into this work with the
termination which always brings suc¬
cess. And now Governor Northen is
the toast of the state.
But others have seen what was going
on and are on the alert tor the further
development of Georgia’s resources.
J. J. Hanesley has made consider¬
able progress in the matter of immi¬
gration development. The gateway to
the upbuilding of Georgia has been
opened and Mr. Hanesley thinks the
gates are ajar to be closed no more.
He bases his hopes on the many letters
he has received from abroad,
inquiry about Georgia and her re¬
sources.
These letters of inquiry led Mr.
Hanesley to go to work systematically,
aud he he has now local co-workers in
some eighty counties of the state. Ho
has secured the co-operation of north¬
ern, northwestern and western land
agents, colonizers and eo-w T orkers, who
‘•Toll tla.o Trntli.”
are aiding mm in the cause of
gratiou. Mr. Hanesley’s idea is to fur¬
nish homes for home seekers. He
not hunting speculators who open up
vast orchards and farms and
away, preferring palatial
north. But he is striving to bring set
t iers. Already there has been put
his hands over a million acres of
on which he ami his coadjutors
options and for which he desires
seekers. Como south, be not
among us but of us!
A few days since n party of
soldiers i,i,i who bad been imprisoned —- 1
Andersonville, aud who were at
Chickamnugu celebration, visited the
old Andoraouville prison grounds. A
few of them were so well
structed” that they openly declared
for pensioning Confederate soldiers
by the Federal government.
are the men who want to come south.
They have buried the hatchet, and
is such as these Mr. Hauesley and
co-laborers are addressing themselves,
And the. prospect is bright.
Georgia is the home of the peach,
*he melon, the grape; here the
all flourish, here the grasses grow, anti
the cotton blooms, here all the agri
cultural aud horticultural products
abouud; here the sweat of the brow
turns into gold.
The great exposition will aid the
immigration work. Lot the visitors
see nil Georgia. The gates are open
everywhere. The hand of greeting is
cordially extended from every section
of the state.
Great is Atlanta, great is Georgia,
and blessed are the men who are de
voting themselves to the development
and upbuilding of the state, who are
bringing not land pirates but genuine
home dwellers, whose future boast
will lie like that of Dr. Duncan of
Chatauqua fame, “Georgia is my
adopted home.”—Atlanta Journal.
WARSHIP WRECKED.
A Spanish Cruiser Driven on the Reefs
by a Cyclone.
Nows has been received from
vana of the wreck by a cyclone
probably total loss of the Spanish war
ship Christobal Colon, a
cruiser of about twelve hundred
displacement and sixteen
horse power. The Christobal Colon
formed part of the fleet of
warships detailed to watch the coast
of'Cuba in order to prevent the land¬
ing of filibustering expeditions from
the United States and elsewhere.
The cruiser carried four twelve een
temetre Ilonotoria guns; two seven
centometre guns and two rapid fire
guns. Her crew is estimated to have
about two hundred officers and men,
but tbo exact figures are not known at
present, as she had on board men in¬
tended for the smaller patrol vessels of
the Spanish fleet and may have de¬
tailed men ashore.
The station of the Cristobal Colon
was the waters about Cape Antonio,
off the western extremity of the island
of Cuba, her commander having par¬
ticular instructions to wateh the gulf
of Correntes aud Gaudiana, south and
north of Cape Antonio. The disaster
occurred off Colorado Point, in the
gulf of Gaudiana, south of the town
of Mantua, ;n the province of Pinar
del Rio, neaT which territory Havana
is situated.
Crew of a Storm Swept Barge Lost.
The barge Elma, which broke loose
from her tow during the recent storm
on Lake Superior, has been picked up
and taken to Grand Island, Mich.
She will prove a total loss. About
200,000 feet of her cargo of 520,000
feet of lumber remained on the broken
barge. The crew of six men and a
woman and child have not been found
and are undoubtedly lost.
MRS. MONTGOJ1KRY INDICTED.
T ie Grand Jury Finds a True Bill
for Murder Against Her.
A special from Rome, Ga., says:
Mrs. Joanda Montgomery and her son,
Harvey Wilson, has been jointly in¬
dicted for murder bo the Floyd county
grand jury. The jury reviewed the
case thoroughly and found the bill of
indictment after a hearing of several
days.
The attorneys of Mrs. Montgomery,
who it is alleged was a party to the
crime iri holding the hands of her hus¬
band while her son stabbed him, are
confident of her acquittal. Their plea
will be that Mrs. Montgomery did not
know her husband was being stabbed
and held her husband to protect her
child.
HERBERT SPEAKS.
He Makes a Plea for Sound Money in
Montgomery.
Secretary H. A. Herbert, of the
navy, delivered an address at Mont¬
gomery, Ala., on the financial ques¬
tion. The speaker was introduced by
(X Governor Jones. The secretary
laid he was a bimetallist from no sen¬
timental reason. He was a democrat
who always worked in harness, who
never complained that the party collar
chafed him or worked uneasily upon
his neck, and he approached be the money looked
question as one that should
ut, discussed aud decided upon wholly
upon business principles. Mr. Herbert
then plunged into a discussion of the
money question and of the causes of
the recent aud bad times.
RIOT IN CONSTANTINOPLE.
Many Helpless Armenians Beaten
Heath by Turks.
To add to the state of terror
i ng at Constantinople, a third
Wednesday. earthquake was experienced
This, with the
and bloodshed, the imprisonment
about 500 Armenians, the killing
prisoners in cold blood and the
ence of troops under arms at all
is well calculated to excite eveu
most phlegmatic Turk.
The rioting and blood-letting
began on Monday was renewed
Tuesday evening in spite of all
precautions taken by the authorities
the much disturbed city. On
day the principal rioting was the
of the Softas, Mohammedan
eal students, who chased and beat
bludgeons every Armenian they
During Tuesday night a mob of
and Turks attacked the house of
leading Armenian, Kasim
storming the building aud
its destruction and killing several
sons who were unable to escape
r j n time.
This mob also attacked a cafe
queuted by Armenians and twenty
those unfortunate people who
found there were beaten to death
bludgeons. To the disgrace of
authorities, not a single
appeared on the scene, and no
was made to save the lives of the
menians.
The Riot Was Deliberate.
The critical condition of affairs
Constantinople day is the sensation of
in London, and all the
from that city are read with the
est eagerness.
In spite of the assurance to the
trary of the Armenian cominitteo
London, the belief prevails in
circles that the rioting at
nople was really deliberately planned,
brought about by the Armenian
tors who are desirous of forcing
hands of the powers in order to
about direct interference upon
part of Great Britain, France
Russia in the administration of
menia.
It is now known definitely that
.los.Bt five Armenians were killed
fb y had been arrested on Monday
tnis has caused great indignation.
GROW! II OF THE SOUTH.
Tire Industrial Condition as
for the Cast Week.
The Chattanooga tradesman
the following new industries
ated or established in the
Btates during the past week:
Newport Grain and Milling Co.,
Newport, Ark., and the Thompson
and Gas Works, of Wheeling, W. Ya.,
each with §100,000 capital; a sash
door factory to be built at Palatka,
Fla., also with §100,000 capital;
manganese mining company at Roan¬
oke, Ya., capital §50,000; a
cotton oil company at Brownwood,
Texas,a §40,000 construction
at Columbia, S. C., and a §40,000 oi!
and gas company at Wheeling, W. Ya.
A cotton mill with 150 tons daily ca¬
pacity at Greenville, Texas, and a 30
ton oil mill and oil refinery at New
Orleans, La.
There is also reported an electrical
plant at Canton, Miss., a 50-barrel
flouring mill at Madisonville, Tenn.,
an ico factory at Biloxi, Miss., and an
oil and fertilizer company at Ander¬
son, 8. C. A knitting mill is to be
established at Brunswick, Ga., and
woodworking plants atPiedmont, Ala.,
McAlpin and Williston, Fla., Athens,
Ga., Trenton, Tenn., and Orange,Tex.
Waterworks are to bo built utBufaula,
Ala., and Canton, Miss.
The enlargements for the week in¬
clude brick works at Harriman,Tenu.,
iron and steel works at Houston, Tex.,
an increase in the capital of the Gaff¬
ney cotton mills at Gaffney, 8. C.,
from §200,000 to §000,000, and an en¬
largement of the Woodstock woolen
mills at Woodstock, N. 0.
A NEW WAR SHIP.
The Cruiser Brooklyn Launched at
Cramp’s Ship Yards.
The United States armored cruiser
Brooklyn was launched in the waters
oi' the Delaware at Cramp’s ship yard
at Philadelphia Wednesday.
Miss Ida May Schieren, daughter of
the mayor of the city from which the
ship takes her name, broke a bottle of
American champagne on the cruiser’s
bow and christened her “Brooklyn.”
After the ceremonies luncheon was
served in the mould loft aud a number
of felicitous speeches were made,
among tlie speakers being Mayor Schi
eren, of Brooklyn; Assistant Secretary
McAdoo, Mayor Warwick and the
Messrs. Cramp.
The Brooklyn is regarded by naval
experts as a marvel in the art of marine
architecture. She ia classed as a steel
armored cruiser, having four eight
inch barbette turnots. Her cost ex¬
clusive of armament is §2,680,000.
Bank Officials Default.
Two employes of the National Bank
of Illinois at Chicago are missing, and
with them has disappeared §19,500 of
the bank’s funds. The bank officials
refuse to make public the names of
the defaulters, but it is learned that
they are Paying Teller B. B. Jones
and Receiving Teller J. II. Wilson.
a Tear I n . Advance
NOT IN TEXAS
WILL CORBETT AND FITZSIM
MONS HAVE THEIR BOUT.
Tile Legislature Passes an
Fight Law.
A Special from Austin, Texas,
Corbett and Fitzsimmons must
another place than Texas to pull
their fight for the proposed champion¬
ship of the world.
Thy legislature by a vote that was
practically unanimous in the sonata
and only a little less in the house, pass¬
ed the bill prohibiting prize fightiug,
and thus accomplished the purpose
which the governor assembled them in
special session.
The vote by which the bill was car¬
ried furnishes the strongest proof
the sentiment of the state with
ence to prize fighting. The only
ing point of the minority was opposi¬
tion to the emergency clause which
carried the bill into immediate effect.
Certain of the members honestly re¬
garded this as an injustice to such
the citizens of Dallas as had spent
large sums in anticipation of the fight
and opposed it for that reason alone.
Their arguments were not effective,
however, and the vote in the house on
the final passage of the bill showed
but five votes in opposition with 107 in
its favor. In' the senate the bill
was carried with only one negative
vote in the twenty-seven that were
cast. The senate made quick work of
the measure. It had taken a recess
until 3 p. m. in order that Dallas peo¬
ple might be given a full hearing by
the judiciary committee. Within fifty
five minutes after reassembling the bill
was passed.
The bill makes prize fighting a fel¬
ony and imposes a punishment upon
the principals for every infraction of
the law by imprisonment in the peni¬
tentiary for a term of not less than
two and not more than five years.
NO LOWER RATES.
Western Railroad Officials Refuse
Further Reduction.
A Chicago special says: Atlanta ex¬
position rates from the west will bo no
lower than 25 per cent of the double
locals unless developments arise to
change the minds of western passenger
officials. They have reaffirmed their
former decision to make no more than
! the 25 per cent reduction and also
agreed to ignore the greater reduction
made by the Kansas City, Fort Scott
and Memphis from Kansas City. The
officials say that in no case would they
be justified in making a further reduc¬
tion to last the three months of the
exposition.
PREACHERS TO PRAY
For the Success of Governor Culber¬
son’s Call on the Legislature.
Work on the amphitheater,intended
for the Corbett-Fitzsimmous’mill, has
not been resumed, and tlie building
stands as the mechanics left it Satur¬
day evening. President Stuart, of the
Florida Athletic Club, says work on
the structure costs him §1.500 a day,
and he does not consider it good busi¬
ness judgment to take any chances on
what the legislature may do.
The Pastors’ association has called a
special prayer meeting to pray for the
success of Governor Culberson’s call
upon the legislature to pass the emer¬
gency law. The people of Dallas be¬
lieve the chances of beating the emer¬
gency clause are even.
IIEAD-END COLLISION.
Two Engines Crash Together and En¬
gineer Atkins Killed.
A terrific head-end collision of two
passenger trains occurred at 7:15
o’clock Saturday morning on the main
line of the Atlanta and West Point
railroad, between Red Oak and Fair
burn, Ga., resulting in the death of
Engineer Elex Atkins, one of the best
men in the service of the road. No
one else was hurt. Two engines were
completely demolished and traffic on
the road was suspended for some time.
The blame for the accident has not
yet been fixed upon any one, as there
may have been a misunderstanding of
orders.
AN ELECTRIC PLANT.
Chattanooga Parties Get tlie Contract
lor a Street Railway.
At a meeting of the board of aider
men of Meridian, Miss., a resolution
to award the franchise for the opera¬
tion of an electric street railway on the
streets of the city and the maintenance
of an electric light plant to furnish
lights for the city and motive power
for the railway to W. R. Hall and as
sociates, of Chattanooga, Tenn., was
unanimously passed, The board of
council has concurred with the alder
manic board in the adoption of the
resolution.
Danville Tobacco Firm Assigns.
Stult, Lisberger &Co., large tobacco
manufacturers of Dauville, Va., who
do an extensive business in the south
and west, have assigned to P. H. Bois
seu, trustee. Liabilities §75,000; as¬
sets nearly that amount.
NUMBER 37.
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 rat is 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 IRON MOUNTAIN ROUI’E.
103 Read House,
Uli a H :t a (Modi , ' Tenn.
QHARLES N. KING,
Attorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
J # J. BATES,
Attorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLAGE, 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 voiir imixaiuuYA.
JJcNELLY & HEARTSILL,
General Job Printers 5
CLEVELAND, TENN.
Mail orders will receive prompt atten¬
tion. Send for prices and
samples of work.
^HOMAS J. BRYANT,
Livery Stable,
DALTON, GA.
I have f ought 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,
Physician and Surgeon,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Professional services offered to the
people of this section. Calls oheer
fully answered day and night.
J. A. PRICE, 31. 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 hare Money lo Loan at 6 per cent.
On farm or city property in any sec¬
tion of eouutry whore property has a
fixed market value. Money ready far
immediate loans where security and
title is good. No commission. We
solicit applications. Blanks furnished
moon request. ALLEN k 00.,
40-42 Broadway, N. Y,