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EACH ACCOUDIKU TO
IIKIt H1EAIH,
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LET US CONTRIBUTE.
II1M OB
T* Aid Iho Fetple of Brnmswlck—
Thop Hood Uolp, Rud Wo
Cnn Giro ll.
No doubt osn exist,Id the minds of
nil those persons wbo have heard or
read aeoounts of tbe sad state of af
fairs in Brunswiok, brought about by
the yellow fever epidemic, tbat the
people of that stricken city are suffer
ing for want of tbe prime necessities
of life.
Tbe olkss of people wbo have bad to
depend on their daily labor frit sup-
j port, are now thrown upon the mercy
■ of more fortunately situated persons,
as no business of any nature affords
them opportunity to prooure even sim-
* pie food.
The .people of Albany have never
been backward or parsimonious in the
cause of charity, and certainly this Is
not a time to draw our purse-striugs
tighter.
. A party of Albany’s leading and
best citizens were disousslng tbe mat
ter of raising a relief fund for Bruns-
wiok in Mayor Gilbert’s office this
T' morning, and it was unanimously
agreed tbat something ought to be
done at once toward helping tbe suf
ferers. The following plan was finally
suggested, and will be carried out:
A contribution box has been placed
with Mayor Gilbert, and all subsorlp-
tions to the fund will be purely volun
tary. Every Monday morning will be
a special occasion to make regular do
nations, and, instead of giving a oon-
' slderable amount at one time, it is de
sired tbat smaller sums be handed in
weekly. Of course all subscriptions
on other .days than Monday will be
gladly aocepted and promptly for
warded to Brunswick, but the object
of naming a particular day, is to have
most of tne money at once, and buy
supplies for shipment In as large
quantities as possible.
Most of tbe money will be converted
into food, and donations of sacks of
flour, meal, bates, etc., will be equally
aB acceptable as the cash.
Now, one and all, if you haven’t al
ii, ready done bo,go and hand In as muoh
*' as you can spare to Mayor Gilbert, and
repeat tbe operation jUBt as often as
Sr"you feel able, and as long as the epi-
i demio lasts in Brunswiok.
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Because you owe D. W. Price, the
merobant tailor, a small bill, don’t go
back on him. T.et him do your work.
A N
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nil. GllEEIV WKLLH, OP BROR-
WOODy TUB VICTIM.
The Mysterious Murder of a Goad CM.
sen—Coroner’s Jury tioarehlup
Per a Clue.
HANDSOMEST
-BINE OF-
NECKWEAR
EVER OPENED BY ANY HOUSE,
THEY ABE POSITIVE
LY THE
Shapeliest!
Sattlest f
Things in Neck-Eaga ever offered
by any one.
Come in and look them over; they
are very interesting.
Yours to Serve,
FOUL ASSASSINATION.
Speoial Correspondence) of tbe Hiram).
Skithville, Ga., Sept. 17th, 1898.
The little town of Bronwood, in Ter
rell county, eight miles from Smltb-
vllle, is to-day the scene of mueH sor
row and exoltemeut.
Air. Green Wells, one of her promi
nent citizens, sleeps the sleep of dezth,
having been foully murdered at an
early hour yesterday morning.
Mr. Wells owns a large pasture at
Wright’s bridge across the Klnohafoo-
nee. It extends some distance up the
oreek, and is splendid hunting and
fishing ground. Early Saturday morn
ing Mr. Wells hitohed up a horse and
buggy and left for the bridge to hunt,
and also to post up some notioeB for
bidding person, to hunt on his lands
on the oreek, telling hts family he
would be back at 12 o’clock. Night
came and be had nut returned.
Twelve o’clook at night and still he
had -not oome. Mrs. Wells was very
muoh alarmed by this time, and per
suaded some of her near neighbors to
organize a searching party to look for
her husband.
Quite a number of the good people
of Bronwood.were soon on their way
to Wright’s bridge to Investigate the
cause of Mr. Wells’ absence. Ills
horse and buggy were found near the
bridge all right, but no owner was
anywhere to he seen. The night was
dark and torches afforded a poor light
in the dark, dismal swamp, and the
night search proved fruitless.
The party oamped at Ihe bridge and
waited for daylight. A party was dis
patched to Suilthville to Becure help,
and by half past 7 o’olook the writer,
in oompany with thirty or forty others,
were at the soene. But the camping
party had already found the body of
the murdered man. ,
Tbe body was found several hun
dred yards from tbe bridge up the
creek. It was a terrible sight to look
upon. Two loads of shot (squirrel
shot) had entered his person from be
hind; one lodged in his back just be
low the shoulders, and the other in the
back of the head, tearing away all the
back part of the skull and coming out
at one of the eyes.
From appearances Mr. Wells was sit
ting on a log with bis gun by bis side
when the assasin shot him.
“Either wound would have proven
fatal,” said several physicians who ex
amined them.
The body was carried to Mr. Wells’
home at Bronwood this morning, and
tbe Coroner’s jury is now in session.
There are many witnesses to be
sworn, and it is hoped thqt some light
will be thrown on the mysterious mur
der. But at present everything is
shrouded In mystery.
GEORGIA'S CONGRESSMEN.
BRiir
niooBAPHimi or
DELEGATION
Compiled For ike Hernia hr a BrlRkl
IVublsiin Correspond**!.
I.otcr.
Smithvillk, Ga., Sept. 18.—8 p. m.—
Two arrests in the assassination of
Mr. Green Wells, were made last night,
Both colored. Evidence circumstan
tial. They were lodged In Terrell
county jail to await developments.
BBCNMWICK’8 .HAIL.
All ihe Mail Mailer Coming Oat of ike
Ferer City la be Fumigated#
Now all the mail matter coming out
of Brunswiok is to be fumigated.
The Savannah News says:
Dr. Brunner received a telegram
from Surgeon General Wyman last
night, In answer to telegrams sent
him the day before inquiring about
the disinfection ofjnails, the opening
of the camp of. detention at Waynes-
ville, and other matters relating to
the siuation at Brunswick. The tele
gram reads as follows;
Washington, Sept. 14.—W. F. Brun
ner, Health Officer: Have ordered in
spectors at Jesop and Waycross. Have
ordered railroad companies at Bruns
wiok to sell no tioltets for points South
of Atlanta. Have requested Postmas
ter General to cause disinfection of
mails from Brunswick. Will open
camp as quickly as possible. Murray
'dings or' ~ “ *
and Geddings ordered to Brunswick.
Wyman,
Surgeon General.
D*. Brunner said that if the Bruns- , . .
wick mails are not ordered disinfected Some of the business men
by the Postmaster General they will know how to advertise. A
not he allowed to enter the citv. tisiner Dave” such advertise
! allowed t
j»7
a Big steal from tbe Phila
delphia MINT.
A Receipt mined on Fallli by Col. Bee-
brskell When He Took Ckor|e
*( Ike Mlnli
Washington, D.C, Sept. 14 th, 1893.
Some very interesting facts can
often be deduoed from what Is popu
larly oonsldered^o be an extremely
dry volume. Tbe Congressional Di
rectory which Is usually hidden away
on some-shelf, oovered with dust and
cobwebs, or else consigned to the
waste-basket as a thing less useful
than ornamental, contains, yet, soon
interesting statements oonoerning the
Georgia representation in Congress.
Tbe new apportionment has given
Georgia another congressional district
and consequently adds one to the con
gressional representation of the State,
making the number of members In the
delegation thirteen. This inoludes
Senators Colquitt and GWdop. two of
the most active and best known men
in the Senate. The eleven,Congress-'
men are: Bufus E. Lester, Repre
sentative from the First dlstriot; Ben
jamin E. Bussell, of the Seoond dis
trict; Charles F, Crisp, Third district,
and Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives; Charles L. Moses, Fourth
distrlot; -Leonidas F. Livingston, Fifth
district; Thomas B. Cabaniss, Sixth
district; John W. Maddox, Seventh g,^L
district; Thomas G. Lawson, Eighth
distrlot; Farlsh Carter Tate, Ninth
distrlot; James C. C. Black, 'i^enth dls
triot, and Henry G. Turner, Eleventh
district. With the exception of Speaker
Crisp, who flrsj saw the light of day at
Sheffield, England, where his parents
had gone on a visit, all of the above
mentioned representatives were born
on Southern soil. All but four—Rus
sell, Crisp, Black and Turner—were
born within the limits of the State of
Georgia Itseir. Of these four, Con
gressman Russell oatqe to tbe State
when a small ohlld; Speaker Crisp was
brought to his father’s home In Geor
gla the year of his birth; Represent
tive Black was born in Kentucky
migrated to Georgia shortly after
war to aocept a position in a law
at Augusta, and Represepti
Turner, born lif-North Carolina, at l
death of his father in 1858 turned
steps towards the State of his adop
tion and his attention to teaoblng
sohool.
A majority of the Georgia delega
tion have had oollege educations, Sen
ator Colquitt having graduated in the
class of ’44 of Princeton, N. J„ while
most of them reoeivetl their edmmtlons
In tbelr native State, two at the Uni
versity of Georgia and three at Mercer
College.
Eleven of the thirteen served In the
Confederate Army during Ihe late
war, and reoord shows that their vAlor
was orowned with distinction in many
enses, there being among them a ma
jor-general,a brigadier-general,a cap
tain, a lieutenant, a major, live pri
vates—of which one rtas n- cavalry
man—and a drummer boy. Represen
tatives Moses and Tate were too young
to enter the army at the outbreak of
the war.
All tbe members of the delegation
are lawyers save three. Mr. Russell is a
printer and editor, and Messrs. Moses
and Livingston are farmers, the latter
having held tbe Chairmanship of the
Agricultural Committees in both the
Senate and House of tbe State Legis
lature of Georgia, and other. Import
ant .positions having in'charge the
agricultural interests of his State,
Mr. Moses was a member of the House
Committee on agrioulture in tbe last
Congress. Senator Colquitt, the fath
er of the Georgia representation, is
one of the oldest members of tbe Sen
ate. In the House, Mr. Livingston Is
the oldest of his colleagues and is In
his sixty-second year. The youngest
Georgia member is Mr. Moses, who is
thirty-seven. '
Tbe new faoes among tbe delegation
are those of Messrs. Bnssellr Cabaniss,
Maddox, Tate and Blaok, who fill tbe
places made vacant by Messrs.' Blount
resigned, Watson, Everett and Winn,
not returned, and the place created
by the new apportionment.
The delegation, as a whole, is a char
acteristic one, of which much is ex-
peoted and a great deal will be heard
before Ihe session closes.
Ernest H. Bradley,
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Anil a Slight Wreck.
At, or near Dnokers’. Station on the
Columbia Extension, late Saturday
afternoon, there was a railroad wreck.
A speoial freight train bad been
“doing” tbe road for cotton, and when
near Duckers’ tbe engine was thrown
from the track by a “snake-head”—a
fractured rail. No one was, hurt, but
*irn,hp,;jnd it
111;
able.
Albany
dver-
A-Philadelphia Ledger'speoial from
Washington says that the weighing of
the.gold bullion In one of the vaults of
the Philadelphia - mint has led to the
discovery of a shortage of about five
thousand ounoes, valued at $105,000.
The vaults were sealed In 1887, and
when Col. Bosbyshe'.l assumed obarge
of the mint the bullion In the reserve
vault was not weighed, Col. Bosbyshell
receipting for Its contents on faith.
Upon preferring a request for the
presence of a treasury offioial when
the vault should be opened, Direotor
Preston reminded Col. Bosbyshell tbat
as be bad receipted for the full amount
stated on the schedule he was respon
sible.
Henry 8. Coobran, wbo bad charge
of tbe vault, has been employed In tbe
mlijt forty-three years. Tbe seals
dearly showed that the doors' haven't
been opened, and If there have been
abstractions or a felonious' entrance
they must have been made through
one of the walls, wbloh are said to be
only three Inches thiok.
ALBANY’S QUAHANTINB.
Will be Taken ni Once I* Make
• H Mere Rigid.
hero Is no doubting the faot—Al
ba y’s quarantine is not what it should
be. It is too slack and the kinks that
have been made against it have been
vigorous and numerous, not that all
the blame rests upon the officers, but
that it Is next to impossible to inaug
urate discipline under the present
provisions.
This morning Mayor Gilbert in
formed a Herald reporter that he had
er contemplation a plan of quar-
ine that would prove effioaolous to
ault. All trains coming into the
over the B. & W. road will be met
the health officers or Inspectors at
e. At that plaoe every ooaob will
icked, and no person coming from
an infeoted olty or town will be al
lowed to leave tbe train. Others, how
ever, will be provided with 0. K. In
spector's tickets,, nnd when the train
arrives at the junotlon, they will have
to produce those tiokets before they are
allowed to be transferred to tbe city
train.
Those passengers who failed to pass
examination will remain under look
and guard and will either be sent back
or hustled through the city In olosed
cuaohes. f ,
It is thought that this plan will ob
viate danger as far as practicable, and
It is probable that it will be put Into
operation at onoe.
And It needs to be done. Yellow
fever has become epldemlo in Bruns
wiok and Albany cannot exercise too
muoh precaution.
Let’s have a RIGID quarantine, or
none at all. Tbe burlesque is expense
for nothing.
LIVELY CIO ENTRY “COONS.”
Thcv Gere An Exhibition of
Weil Pauline and Were
Fnllcd.
the track was badly torn up and It
took'a large corps of hands until near
noon yesterday to make tbe track pass
able. - - ^
Saturday afternoon about fi o’clock
Marshal Westbrook and Sheriff F. G.
Edwards arrested Jim Whitehead and
Jeff Davis both Negroes.
It seems tbat Davis and Whitehead
had been in tbe city all Saturday In
oompany with a number of other la
borers wbo work on tbe Morris Mayer
plantation In south Dougherty. By
tbe time they were ready to go home
tbe whole gang was pretty well loaded
with “bug juiee.”
All ot them but Davis and White-
bead were in a large four-mule wagon.
These two followed on foot and as they
neared the Intersection of Jefferson
and State streets they prooeeded to
give the women and ohildren in tbat
neighborhood a correct imitation of
Kit Carson pastjme.
Some one coming into tbe olty re
ported it to_the officers, and the two
Negroes were overtaken near tbe Tar
ver -borne while still cursing and
brandishing their pistols and knives.
The two plucky officers met with tome
resistance in arresting the drunken
Negroes, but 1 they got there just the
same and lodged them in jail. They
will both answer to tbe obarges of car
rying concealed weapons and disor
derly conduct.
Judge Sam Smith’s fall supply of
marriage licenses are now ready for
nk anil, $1.50. Call early
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When several weeks ago it was an
nounced that there was a ease of yel
low fever at Brunswiok, there were
those who were willing to dlsoredit
the rumor, but mostly among the ones
who remained at Brunswick,
First, Surgeon Branham died, and
there was a big dispute as to whether
he liad yellow fever. Then the Harris
ease came on. There were all sorts of
rumors as to the nature of His ailment.
Many believed thnt. he was openly
murdered by being carried to the
Branham cottage where be died.
Following olosely upon tbe demise of
young Harris the Cox ohlld came into
prominence through newspaper re
ports.
But, out of all this, Brunswick—
through the expert phyelolans then on
hand—oame out ahead, so to speak.
As many as twenty days elapsed and
no new eases were reported and the
refugees were assured that they ooQld
return with safety.
The big doctors had said there would
be no more fever and there just simply
couldn’t be any more,
And so the most of them went back,
only to go through the same trying
experience that they had undergone a
short time before.
Now, what docs all this go to prove?
In the opinion of the Herald there
has been yellow fever at Brunswick
ever since the first oase was reported.
If there had not been the recent cases
could not have broken out. There
have been some things that have not
been reported.. No later than last
Sunday a man was orittoally 111 there
and the physiolans pronounced it
gastrlo fever, As tho Herald said
several dnys ago, It does seem that an
expert physician could dell the differ
ence between gastrlo fever and yellow
fever, but it appears that those at
Brunswiok cannot.
Bringing t-lio matter fight np to the
surfaoe Brunswiok 1ms been Imposed
upon. Thej-e have been make-believes
and make-believes until any one Is
warranted to 'believe anything ho
wnnts to.
Yesterday’s telegrams tell us that
the Board of Health In that elty takes
a hopeful view of the situation. How,
In the name of reason, oan they do
this when two deaths, from yellow
fever, were reported and more to 1 be
reported?
It doesn’t Beem probable, to say the
l»»st of ,it. Brunswiok either has not
any yellow fever or is a regular nest-
bed of it.
Whoever Is the cause of Brunswlok’s
condition should be made to pay the
penalty.
A Moiilhcrn Victory*
One of tbe tnost important victories
ever aohleved by a Southern firm was
tbat recently announoed at tbe World’s
Falf at Chicago. In tbe printing de
partment at the Fair it has been
known for some time that the contest
for superiority in printing and bind
ing would he lively indeed.
Among the hundreds of thousands
of competitors—some of them from
across the waters—tbe Methodist Epis
copal Church Printing House, at
Nashville, Tenn., was one of wbloh,
and they won the prize. The work
submitted bj? them was a Bible, and
the Chloago Herald, speaking of It,
says that it Is the finest piece of work
of the art preservative ever seen In
the United States.
Tbe size of the book is 17x28, and
it oontains 886 pages, weighing
eighty pounds. It was made expreess-
ly for the exhibit at the Fair. Vellum
or fine parchment,-is used-for the
leaves and tbe printing was done with
gold leaf, $210 worth of that being
used. Each page has a tinted border,
twelve different colors being used and
running in regalar order throughout
tbe book. Six impressions weya re
quired for each page. /The binding is
simply beyond description—it is won
derfully beautiful. The ond book cost
$1,500 and required three mouths of
oonstant labor to oomplete it.
An Alknnr Criminal la Damon.
Monday morning Mr. F. G, Edwards
received a telegram from Dawson say
ing that Will Dezoh, a young Negro
man,bad been arrested therein accord
ance with instructions received from
Albany authorities.
Dezon is the Negro who stole some
articles from Gilbert Jones, the barber,
some time ago, - '•(. ’iif ?.
The
tionery i
, We have 150 pohnds of his host a
lrcshest Turnip Seed. We do not cla
to be the only onewho sells them; other!
may do so. We have nine varieties: Tin
Flat Dutch, Purple Top, Rutal
Seven Tops, White Globe, White x
Red Top Globe, Yellow Aberdeen, i
Horn.
We also, cany the most complete 1
opened in Albany,
of anything in this line give us a c
We can save you money.
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