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Carter efts Heartsoll, Putolishers.
VOLUME XV.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
B1TS OF NEWS GATHERED FROM
OVER THE STATE,
Being a Summary of luteresting Hap¬
penings From Day to Day.
The pear crop in Georgia this year
is the largest on record. It is esti¬
mated that it will exceed 300,000 bar¬
rels.
Alex Johnson, a thrifty negro of
Washington county, had his barn
burned this week, together with five
bales of cotton and 101) bushels of corn.
It is reported that his brother applied
the torch while Alex was at church.
The city of Marietta has granted
the Marietta paper manufacturing
company, which has recently been
made a stock company with a paid up
capital of $150,000, the franchise for
putting in a complete system of water¬
works, which will be owned and oper¬
ated under the same management.
Michigan is in line aud will show up
at the Atlanta exposition on December
9th with 1,000 citizeus. A recent let¬
ter to Chief Walter Cooper told of a
mass meeting in Detroit at the cham¬
ber of commerce. Committees were
appointed from that body and from the
Commercial Club. Special trains have
been arranged for and all state officials
will come to the show, in fact Michi¬
gan will be out in force.
The legislature will adjourn on
Wednesday, December 11th. There
are only a few more working days,and
there is a vast amount of business ou
hand to be disposed of. A large
amount of business has been transact
ed, but the most of it was local in its
nature. The legishiture has its work
well iu baud, however, and a great
deal of business can be transacted in
the short time now remaining.
The following directors were elected
at ihe recent stockholders’ meeting of
the Savannah and Western road : H.
B. Plant, It. G. Erwin, M. K. Jessup,
H. M. Flagler, B. F. Newcomer ami
J. H. Estill. The report showed
earnings of $3,560,457 and expenses of
$2,490,802, leaving not earnings of
$1,069,565. This is a decrease of
$200,000 from last year. When the
directors meet officers will be elected
and a dividend of two per cent will be
declared.
Thanksgiving, as everybody knew it
would be, proved doubly the greatest
day of the Atlanta exposition. Every¬
thing conspired to make it so. It was
a day of unalloyed glory. A perfect
day, a tremendous multitude, and a
great show were the three elements in
the make-up of the great gala day of
the fair. The turnstiles registered ex¬
actly 60,454 admissions. This is the
largest assemblage of humanity which
ever gathered iu the south iu times of
peace in one place iu one day. There
is no other town in the south that
could have done it.
Rev. Dr. W. U. Murkland, the lead
ing Presbyterian divine of Baltimore,
has accepted the invitation of Gover
nor Brown to be the orator of Mary
land day at the Atlanta exposition.
Dr. Murkland is one of the most prom
nent ministers in Maryland and is an
eloquent speaker. His coming will
add a great deal to the interest in tho
Maryland day exercises. The people
of Baltimore are going to swoop down
on Atlanta and capture the exposition
on December 6th. That day has been
set aside by the exposition directors
as Baltimore Day and Maryland Day.
A mortgage for $350,000 was filed at
Atlanta a few days ago for' record by
Messrs. King & Spalding, as attorneys
for the Atlanta Railway Company.
The mortgages were given to the Balti •
more Guarantee and Trust Company
and covers property belonging to the
Atlanta Railway Company. There are
in all seven hundred mortgages,
each for the sum of five hundred dol¬
lars. They bear 5 per cent, interest
and are due on the 1st of September,
1895. The interest and the principal
is to be paid in gold of the present
standard weight and finenes.
A Washington dispatch says: Sena¬
tor Bacon, ex-Speaker Crisp, and
Representatives Russell, Bartlett and
Livingston are the only members of
the Georgia delegation yet to put in
an appearance at the capital. The
ex-speaker arrived Friday morning
and has taken hiB old apartments at
the Metropolitan and Representative
Bartlett, who came with him, is there
until he can decide on a definite place
of residence for himself and family.
Russell and Livingston have taken
their old quarters. Senator Bacon has
rented a suite of apartments on Six¬
teenth street for the present.
The convention began itsworkMon
day morning with five articles, four
ordinances and a few resolutions still
SPRING PLACE. MURRAY COUNTY. GA.. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1895.
open to be acted upon on second and
third reading. There was not very
much accomplished during the morn
ing session, however, in the way of
clearing the calendar of the matter
upon it. There was a final scramble
to get Seabroolc and Rock Hill coun¬
ties provided for, but after an inter¬
esting debate the whole thing was
killed, amendments, ordinances and
all. The ordinance to provide for
putting the counties on cash basis , also
i led, after quite a fight.
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New Jersey Day at the exposition
will be Thursday, December 5th. Gov
ernorWerts, of New Jersey, named
that day as New Jersey’s at the expo
eition. The matter will be worked up
by the commission appointed by the
governor to represent the state. Ar
ran gements aro being made to run a
special train, to lea ve New York early
in the morning. Ihe railroad fare
from New \ ork on the excursion lias
been made $20 for the round trip. No
special program for the day has been
prepared yet. It is expected that Gov
eruor Werts and his staff, with an es
cort of the natioual guard, will accom¬
pany the party.
The Nobles case will be heard in the
supreme court within the next twenty
five days. A day or two ago Attorney
Marion Harris for Mrs. Nobles, and
Attorney John R. Cooper for Gus
Fumbles, sent to tho clerk of the supe¬
rior court of Twiggs county the bills
of exceptions in those cases. The
clerk lias to forward these to the su¬
preme court within fifteen days and
the supremo court has then ten days
within which to hear argument. Mrs.
Nobles is not in good health and it is
declared that her confinement isunder-j
mining her strength. Tho attorneys
expect to securo new trials for both of
their clients.
Tho Ileresford case will again be
submitted to Governor Atkinson in a
few days. When the legislative com¬
mittee on penitentiary affairs visited
Kramer recently the members were
waited upon by two delegations, one
consisting of Indies of Kramer, tho
other composed of Mr. G. V. Gross,Dr.
Powell, camp physician, Captain Price,
of the camp, and the heads of tho de¬
partments of the Gress Lumber Com¬
pany. Sir. Gress spoke in compli¬
mentary terms of Beresford’s conduct,
and stated his belief in the man’s in¬
tention to amend his ways. The peti¬
tion, which was signed by many citi¬
zens of Kramer, was read to tho com¬
mittee by Dr. John E. Powell, camp
physiciau.
By the judicious expenditure of the
money appropriated to the agricul¬
tural department, Colonel Nesbit, the
commissioner, has saved $4,000 to tho
state and has that much on hand. It
is a rare thing that an office does not
expend all that is given to it. Colonel
Nesbit has saved it, though, and he
now suggests that as it was saved in
the farmers’ department of tho state
that they should receive the benefit of
it, aud he therefore suggests that the
legislature give it to complete the sur¬
vey of the swamp lands in Georgia.
Senator Mercer will therefore have a
resolution introduced to that effect,
that he may have the means of carry
ing out his scheme to drain the swamp
lands with the convicts at tho expira
tion of their lease,
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The exposition directors have been
asked by some of the foreign commis¬
sioners to make a special jury of
awards for the foreign exhibits at the
exposition and the request is now in
tho hands of President Collier and
other officials of the fair to be acted
upon. Their request indicates that
they are dissatisfied with the action of
the jury of awards and they are anx¬
ious to have another trial in a contest
for gold medals and diplomas. The
request sent to the board of directors
was signed by Dr. Niederlin, commis¬
sioner from the Argentine Republic,
Commissioner General Macchi and
other exhibitors in the foreign sec¬
tion. They intimate in the paper that
the board did hot award as many med¬
als in their department as they should
have given and they are anxious to
have the directors appoint another
board who will make another inspec¬
tion of what the foreigners have ou
exhibition.
Charged with Fraud.
Irvin Milam, a well known citizen
of Meriwether county, was tried be¬
fore Commissioner Broyles at Atlanta,
for using the United States mail to
defraud. He was bound over to the
circuit court at Columbus, and gave a
five hundred dollar bond.
The evidence showed that Milam
bought a quantity of goods from John
B. Daniels, a druggist of Atlanta, and
to obtain the goods represented him¬
self to be worth a certain amount of
money. He also signed his father’s
name to the orders, it is charged.
Upon investigation by the postoffice
inspector, it was found that Milam was
not worth anything, it is claimed, and
that all tho property belonged to his
father. The inspector thinks by the
time of the trial he will have much
more evidence going to show that Ir¬
vin Milam has been engaged in simi¬
lar swindling enterprises before.
‘‘Tell tHe Trutli.”
TRADE TOPICS.
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Business for the Past Week Was Rather
Discouraging.
Bradstreet’s review of trade condi
tions for the past week says:
“The volume of general trade shows
a falling off compared with the preced¬
ing week, largely owing to the inter¬
vention of the Thanksgiving holiday,
but in part to the continued effect of
m iid weather east and south, storms in
the central west and the usual disin
olination of buyers to add to stocks
during the closing month of the year.
“Western jobbers report activity,
noticeably in clothing, woolen goods,
rubbers, shoes and holiday specialties,
with some increased demand for coal
and light hardware,
“General trade remains unchanged
at the south, with mercantile collee
tions in some instances improving, tho
tendency of cotton to move slowly and
the movement of merchandise smaller
than in October. Texas merchants
report a fair movement of notions aud
fancy goods, but a check to distribu
tion of groceries and dry goods,
“There are 288 business failures re¬
ported through the United States this
week, a noticeable falling off from the
total one week before—323—and even
when compared with the total one year
ago—307.
“The most striking industrial fea¬
ture is the continued reaction in prices
in iron and steel, Bessemer pig being
off 25 cents and steel billets fractional¬
ly lower, with reactions in prices for
wire, sheets and other forms. There
is little likelihood of an increased de¬
mand or a reversal of tho price move¬
ment prior to the middle of January.
There is an improved demand for
boots and shoes at Baltimore, Chica¬
go and St. Louis, as well as at some
New England manufacturing centers,
while at Philadelphia tho demand is
not so conspicuous as previously.
“Dry goods are quieter with the
continued unseasonably mild weather
aud the revival of the holiday trade.
Tho strength of cotton maintains the
price of cottou goods.
“Stock speculation at New York is
waiting for tho meeting of congress
aud for tho beginning of tho agitation
over tho currency which is considered
probable at this session.
Bunk Clearings Decreased.
“Bank clearings throughout the Uni¬
ted States amounted to $880,000,000
this week and reflect rather more than
the customary falling off incidental to
Thanksgiving week, the decrease as
compared with the preceding week
to 23 cent.
“The general tendency of the prices
of staples continues in line with that
shown in two or three preceding
weeks—a clear majority of those
usually quoted showing decreases as
compared with the week before
notably various forms of steel and
iron, including wire, hides, live stock,
wheat, flour, Indian corn, oats, pork,
lard, coffee, petroleum aud print
cloths. Practically unchanged quota¬
tions are announced for lumber, coal,
leather, naval stores, leaf tobacco, su¬
gar and wood. The more conspicuous
advances appear to be confined to
wheat, Jc a bushel; cotton, Jc a pound
and some of the cheaper grades of pa¬
per stock fractionally.”
TOBACCO IS the: talk.
Farmers of the State are Much Inter¬
ested in the Weed.
Tho recent meeting at Ocala to dis¬
cuss the question of tobacco growing
was well attended by the farmers from
Marion county and several from bor¬
dering counties. General Bullock
called the meeting to order and stated
its object. Captain J. B. Johnston
made an interesting address, showing
what had been done in Florida in the
way of growing tobacco.
Professor Moodie followed, and
showed how he succeeded and explained
why he failed at first. He explained
about fertilizers and 'the attention
needed. He said tobacco properly
grown and cured brought a good price,
but poor tobacco was not worth any¬
thing except for fertilizer. Many ques¬
tions were asked Professor Moodie,
which he answered to the satisfaction
of questioners.
Then a permanent organization was
effected by making County Commis¬
sioner F. A. Teague chairman and D.
S. Williams secretary. A committee
of one member from each commis¬
sioner’s district was named to secure
signers to an agreement to plant a cer¬
tain amount of tobacco. Fully one
hundred signed. The F. C. & P. rail
BLACK C11EROK ICES.
Big Law Suit Compromised and Es>
Slaves Are Made Cherokees.
A big law suit brought against tho
Cherokees by the colored people of
the Cherokee country, who were
brought into the country as slaves aud
afterwards became free men, to estab¬
lish their rights as Cherokee citizens,
has been compromised.
The settlement, as agreed upon,
makes the colored people members of
the Cherokee nation and entitles them
to about $1,300,000 of the money re¬
ceived for their strip and their proper
interest in the unsold lands, compris¬
ing many millions of acres.
When the strip was sold the Chero¬
kees refused to give the colored people
anything, claiming that they were not
Cherokees.
CAPITAL NOTES.
GOSSIP OF WASHINGTON IN
BRIEF PARAGRAPHS.
Doings of the Chiefs and Heads of the
Various Departments.
As a result of the investigation into
the recent destruction and mutilation
of treasury records in the theft of ob¬
solete internal revenue stamps attach¬
ed to the records, Secretary Carlisle
has just dismissed four employes, one
a clerk and three colored laborers.
Their names are C. D. Vining, Orville
Bacon, A. B. Hopkins, Charles Ed
wards.
Mr. Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish
minister at Washington, has received
a cablegram which confirms tho news
printed in Sunday’s papers of the re¬
pulse of Maximo Gomez, the leader of
the insurgent forces in the island of
Cuba. The message is dated at Mad¬
rid,' Spain, and reads: “Maximo
Gomez tried again to invade the
province of Santa Clara, Las Vegas,
and has been cheoked by General
Luiz Oliver, who routed him on the
20th of November and following days
with heavy loss. His ranks were
totally broken and ho was obliged to
escape in disorder. His followers have
taken refuge in the mountains of
Camaguey. ”
The report of Secretary of the
Interior Hoke Smith elaborately re¬
views the varied work of the interior
department. It begins with the
Indian service and calls attention to
the strict enforcement which has boen
given to civil service reform, both as
to those places covered by the classi¬
fied service and those to which the
rules of this service do not apply.
It dwells upon the necessity of elimi¬
nating politics from the management
of Indian affairs and of conducting
each reservation upon strictly busi¬
ness principles, the object being to
make every Indian who remains upon
the reservation self-supporting and
ready, as soon as possible, to aHsumo
the dutits of citizenship and be freed
from the paternal care of the govern¬
ment.
Uncle Sam’s Mails.
In Postmaster-General Wilson’s an
nual report it is estimated that two
thirds in weight of all the matter car¬
ried in the mails is under existing
laws and classifications carried as sec¬
ond-class matter, at the rate of 1 cent
a pound, where it is not actually car¬
ried postage free. The aggregate
weight of second-class matter in the
year 1894 was 299,000,000 pounds.
During the last year it increased to
over 312,000,000, a growth of over
13,000,000. pounds, Deducting the
weight of that which is known as
“county free,” being tho matter which
is circulated among subscribers froe
of postage in the respective counties
of publication,estimated to be 46,820,-
185 pounds, there remained 265,314,-
382 pounds which returned, at the rate
of 1 cent per pound, a revenue of $2,-
653,143.82. The average cost to the
department of transporting and hand¬
ling this matter is estimated at 3 cents
per pound.
Thefts of Autographs.
The wholesale investigation through¬
out the executive departments as to
the stamp thefts has resulted iu find¬
ing even worse ravages than were first
discovered in the treasury. Another
element has crept into the situation as
it is learned that the autograph fiends,
too, have been at work among tho
files. This vandalism, so far as is
known, seems to have been practiced
principally in the interior depart¬
ment.
In the investigation by tho secret
service men it has been discovered
that the signatures of many great men,
long since dead, especially presidents
of tho United States, were affixed to
papers in the land office. Some of
these were accordingly examined, with
the result that scores of autographs
have been found to be missing from
them. Abraham Lincoln’s autograph
has been especially sought after.
These papers are stowed away in the
files, and it is hardly once a year that
any of them are needed, so that dis¬
covery of mutilation, in the ordinary
course of office routine, was improba¬
ble. The papers have been, in many
instances, rendered practically value¬
less by this mutilation,which is a very
serious matter.
Hauling Over Public Roads.
The office of road inquiry of the
department of agriculture has com¬
pleted an interesting investigation re¬
lating to the common roads of the
United States, Returns have been re
ceived from about 1,200 counties
showing the average length of haul
from farms to markets or shipping
points to be twelve miles, the average
weight of load for two-horse wagons
2,002 pounds, the average cost per. ton
per mile, 25 cents and $3 for the
tire haul.
Estimating the farm products at
219,824,227 tons in weight and making
estimates on other articles carried over
the public roads, it is calculated that
tho aggregate expense of this trans¬
portation in the United States is
$946,414,665 per annum.
to « Year In Advance
Reports have been asked from the
United States consuls abroad of the
expense of hauling where the roads
are good so as to render possible a cal¬
culation which will show bow much of
this vast outlay is due to bad
roads. The estimate is ventured,
however, upon information in the of¬
fice of the bureau, as to the enforced
idleness and the wear and tear to live
stock and hauling machinery caused
by poor roads, that two-thirds of the
cost might be saved by an improved
condition of the roads.
No Canal as Yet.
A serious blow has been dealt the
Nicaraguan canal company’s project
for the construction of a waterway
across the isthmus by the report of the
Nicaraguan canal commission, In
evitable delay and a further and more
thorough investigation of the entire
subject are declared to be necessary
before even the engineering feasibility
of the canal across Nicaragua can be
decided upon.
The contents and the text of the
conclusions of the report of the Nica¬
raguan canal commission is now lying
on the president’s desk, and is being
considered by inm in connection wltn
his annual message to congress.
The report is at such varianoe with
tho numerous rumors and predictions
which have from time to time been
published concerning it, that it will
cause great surprise and disappoint¬
ment among those who have hoped
for a generally favorable report, and
who have therefore placed credence in
these rumors, which usually stated
“on the highest authority” that the
commission favored the route pro¬
posed by the company, and placed the
cost of the caual at about $110,000,000.
The report pointB out that it is nei¬
ther practicable nor advisable to at¬
tempt the construction of the Nicara¬
guan canal upon the data at present
available, and that the undertaking
would be fraught with hazards too ob¬
vious to disregard.
ATLANTA’S BIG DAY.
Olio Hundred Thousand People Visit
the Exposition.
Nearly 100,000 people saw the fair
at Atlanta Thanksgiving day, and when
the day was done that number of peo¬
ple returned to the city to tell their
friends that the Piedmont exposition
had been eclipsed.
South Carolina carried the day.
Her conquering army paraded the
streets, captured the city and stormed
the exposition. The crowd that came
into Atlanta from the Palmetto state
was the largest that has ever been sent
from one state to the exposition.
Twenty trains, consisting of from eight
to ten cars each, came in loaded to the
ptatforms.
Inman day will be handed down as
the most memorable day in the annals
of Atlanta.
This return to the city was made in
a mighty rush. The most imaginative
mind could not picture the scene
Thursday night after the grand display
of fireworks, when the great throng
strived to make its way to the trains.
It was a bigger rush than any one had
expected—than any one had prepared
for—and the mighty host surged and
pushed in vain effort for release.
It was early Friday morning before
the exposition grounds wore deserted
and all the visitors had been transport¬
ed to the city.
The Thanksgiving appetites of the
people were not satisfied during the
day and at about 7 o’clock in the
evening everything on the grounds
suitable to satisfy gnawing hunger had
been exhausted. Not a restaurant on
(he grounds could accommodate those
who called and thousands were turned
away wearied and hungry.
A JUDGE INDICTED.
The Grand Jury Didn’t Like His
Dispensation of Justice.
The New Orleans grand jury has
returned indictments against Judge
Jas. C. Moise, one of the two judges of
the erimiual district court for slander
and oppression in office.
The indictment grew out of an
attempt several days ago by District
Attorney Butler to enter a nol pros in
the case of Henry Bier, a capitalist,
who had been tried and convicted of
perjury, committed in trying to hide
matters concerning the purchase of
the New Orleans Traction franchise.
Since his conviction Bier has con¬
fessed, and it is believed his testimony
is vitally essential in the trial of M. J.
Hart. Judge Moise refused to permit
the nol pros to be entered, and a heat¬
ed oolloquy between the court and tho
district attorney followed, in which
the court was forced into saying that
he viewed the conduct of the district
attorney’s office with suspicion and
committed the district attorney to jail
for twenty-four hours for contempt of
court.
The latter official and the attorneys
of Henry Bier brought this to the at¬
tention of the grand jury, which was
much prejuoed against M. J. Hart,
with the above result.
Decided Against the Bell Telephone.
The United States supreme court
has denied the motion of the Bell Tel¬
ephone Company to dismiss the appeal
of the United States in the case
involving the Berliner speaking mioro
scophone.
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when you are going, where
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Cheap fanning lands in Mis¬
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SOUTHERN PASSENGER AGENT,
Missouri Pacific P’w’y
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103 Read House,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Attorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
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Attorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Special attention to collections and
criminal practice.
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.
J # S. FANN,
Dentist,
DALTON, GA.
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CLEVELAND, TENN.
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Livery Stable,
DALTON, GA.
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BAGWELL, M. D.,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Offers his professional services to the
people of this section and - solicits a
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yf W. ANDERSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Professional services offered to the
people of this section. Calls cheer¬
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J. A. PRICE, M. D.,
SUMACH, GA.
Will practice his profession in this
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Will be at the Temple House on the
first Tuesdays in each month for the
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