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ALBANY WEEKLY
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VOL. 9.
ALBANY, GA.. SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1901.
NO 12
MONEY IN CTLOCPES.
On
"Growers Have “Struck it
Rich” This Season.
The Crop Has Boon Disposed ol" at
Fancy Prices, mid With Few tscf|"
(ions the Growers Have Made liitr
Money—M«uy Have Caught the
‘‘Cantaloupe Fever” and Want to
Plant Next Year.
The cantaloupe season in the Albany
distrlot Is now nearly over and the
growers are casting np their accounts
for the ascertainment of profit or loss as
the result of their operations.
It is safe to say that very few grow
ers, if any at all, will find the balanoe
on the wrong side of their ledgers after
the lust orate of fruit has been marketed
and the final items of expense dis
charged. The growers are about as sat-
isfiod-lookiug a lot as might be found in
a month’s searoh; and well may thoy be
content.
Most of the looul readers of the Her
ald have hoard the stories that have
been in circulation since the oommenoe-
, ment of the shipping BeaBou for canta
loupes. of fancy prioes rooeived for first
cluss fruit. Some of the stories have
been greatly exaggerated, of course, as
is always tbe cose, but in the main they
have been straight.
This is not the first season in whioh
the cantaloupe orop has been found
profitable in this immediateeeotion. It
has been planted for shipment from
time to time in this and other South
west Geofgia counties during the past
decade, and has often yielded good re
turns. Quite as frequently, however, it
has proved a white elephant, and well
nigh bankrupted unfortunate growers.
But this year the growers "strnok it
right.” The season was not altogether
favorable, for early in the season the
young crop passed through many vloissi-
tudes. There were terrific rains and
hard winds, while late oold weather
contributed to the generally unfavor
able conditions prevailing.
But in spite of all this, the crop made
satisfactory progress and matured bet
ter fruit than is usually raised in south
west Georgia. The crop was a short
one, when considered as to the average
nnmber of melons raised on an aore of
ground, but for all that there were
enough and to spare.
There have been scores of commission
men in and around Albany for three
weeks past, and the rivalry between
ithem has been sharp. Many of the
igrowers have sold their loaded cars on
the side tracks, preferring to take a cer
tain profit without risk rather than con-
isign to commission merchants in the
eastern markets and take the many
chances of loss such a course neoessarily
entails.
Those who have taken the chanoes
:and shipped on consignment are the
ones who have made the biggest profits,
A refrigerator oar holdB 400 orates of
•cantaloupes. The Southwest Georgia
•article has been bringing in the big
markets something like $4 per orate,
makings oar lood worth $1,000. The
lowest prioe we have heard of a oar of
this season’s fruit bringing was $700,
and that was an exceptional case
Parties of a speculative turn have
ibeen steady customers of the growers.
They have bought loaded cars on the
side tracks at from $700 to $1,000, ship
ped them and sold them out with good
profit. Good fruit has commanded as
much as $2.50 per orate on the tracks
here, but as long as it Bold for as much
as $4 or more per crate in the markets
there was a good margin of profit for
.the speculators,
There are lots of Albany business men
and Dougherty county farmers who
have made big inoney out of their can
taloupes this season. For various rea
sons, they do not like to tell exactly
what their profits have been, but in
many cases a pretty good idea may be
formed from casual observation.
One Dougherty oounty farmer planted
200 acres a short distance out from Al
bany.
parliPF who enjoyed exceptional fnoili
ties for marketing oantaloupes and for
gathering, packing and shipping. Those
who are in position to know Btute that
from his two-lmudred-ucre field he ship
ped cantaloupes whioh sold for about
$18,000. As the cost of making and
marketing the orop could not have ex
ceeded $6,000, it may safely bo assumed
that the net profits in tliiB particular
case wero cot less than $12,000.
Another "oity farmer” has already
shipped from a thirty-acre patch fifteen
hundred orates, and has sold lovery one
of them for good money. Other casos
of a similar nature could be cited. With
one or two exceptions the growers are
away "ahead of the hounds,” and are
about as happy as successful operations
oan make men.
It is predioted that a record breaking
acreage in cantaloupes will be planted
next year, many parties having been
heurd to declare that they propose to
make large plantings.
Such, however, will hardly prove the
oaso. No crop raised In the south re
quires as much nursing us the cantaloupe,
and only those who have had large ex
perience in raising It for tbe market can
hope to grow it successfully. It is bus-
ooptible to every change of weather,
and is so tender that wipds qniokly
bruise and ruin the vines unless they
are cared for by experienced hands.
It is safe to say that nine tenths of those
who plant cantaloupes next year with
out having had large previous experience
will come out of the little end of the
horn at the end of tbe season. Those
who made money this year were backed
oy experience for whioh they had paid
dearly. Raising cantaloupes for market
is a game in whioh the novioo will be
beautifully “skinned."
NEGROES LYNCHED NEGRO.
It Was a Negro Affair Throughout—Victim
Confessed.
Memphis, Tenn., July 17.—A mob of
two hundred negroes, late yesterday
afternoon, lynohed Alexander Herman,
of their own race, for the murder of
Sallie Swoope, also a negro. He mur
dered the woman on a plantation near
Oourtland, Ala., and cremated the body.
After his preliminary hearing the
court bound him over to the criminal
court.
The negroes of the neighborhood
clamored tor his life.
The sheriff made an effort to escape
on the west bound train, but the mob
swarmed into the coaoh and took the
prisoner. They carried him about a
mile out of town, hanged him to a tree
and riddled his body with ballets.
On the way to the place of doom the
man confessed he did the deed because
the woman, whom he v. as anxious to
marry , had rejected him and intended
marrying another.
After confessing the orime the negro
spent his remaining moments in pray
ing.
WILL RE LYNCHED IF CAUGHT.
HON. DDPONT GDERRT
IN THE RICE FOR GOVERNOR.
Hon. Dupont Gnerry, of Bibb county, will bo a candidate for gov
ernor. He made the auuonucement yesterday.
Mr. Gnerry was at Mt. Airy yesterday engaged in a case before
Judge Emory Speer, and the Atlanta Journal sent him a telegram asking
what he was going to do, now that Hon. P. G. duBignon had announced
that he would not be a candidate.
Mr. Gnorry’s reply was brief bnt to the point. It follows:
" Mount Airy, Ga., July 17, 1901.
“ To the Atlanta Journal :
“ In answer to yours of to-day, I will say, first, I regret the retire
ment of Mr. duBignon from such a cause. Socond, I will be a candidate.
Am busy trying a case. Dupont Gukrry.”
MAY BE 110,000 STRIKERS.
President Shaffer Threatens to Call Out Workmen in
All Union Plants of the United Steel Corporation.
74,000 MEN ALREADY OUT-STRIKERS FEEL CERTAIN OF VICTORY.
Washington, D. O., July 10.—The following estimate by President
Shaffer, of the number of men nffeoted by the strike, is nearly anthentio:
Amerioau Tin Plate Co., In the union mills, 21,000; In union mills and
non-nnton, 22,000; American Steel Hoop Oo , nnion and non-union mills,
88,0001 American Sheet Steel Oo., nuion and non-union mills, 41,000.
Total in union mills, 48,000; total In union and non-union mills, 74,000.
President Shaffor also threatens to call ont the other nnion plants
nnder direction of the United States Steel Corporation. This wonld re
sult in oalling ont 48,000 other men, making in all over 110,000 men.
Pittsburg, Pa., July 10.—President Shaffer and the man under him
are greatly pleased with the strike situation. More men are Btill coming
ont., and Shaffer hopes to have the three greatest mills in the world
dosed very soon. Clerks and foremen are shearing plates left alone by
the strikers. Shaffor predicts early vietdry.
Hon. Fleming duBignon will not bo
a caudldato for tho next Demooratio
nomination for the governorship of
Georgia.
This announcement is definite and
conclusive, and is made in tho Savan
nah News this morning. Mr. dnBIg-
non’s determination is based upon the
dooision of his physician, Dr. Oharlos L.
Danu, who Is one of the most promin
ent specialists in New York, and under
whose treatment Mr. dnBignon has
beon tor the post year. Mr. dnBiguon
loft Savannah a week ago for tho pur
pose of consulting Dr. Dona, and de
termined to be governed freely by hia
physioian's advioe os to whethor or not
he Bhonld enter the gubernatorial race.
Ho has seen Dr. Dana, and the latter
writes as follows:
Hon. F. G. duBignon lias been nn-
dor my observation and care for over a
year. While his trouble is arrested and
he is improved, he wonld seriously risk
a relapse and permanent and serious
loss of health if he entered into a stren
uous life like that of politios.”
This deoisiou at onoe determined Mr.
duBignon’s conrse and ho has written
to his law partner, saying, among
other things:
“Of conrse, Dr. Dana's opinion settles
the matter, and I must put my guber
natorial aspirations behind me, however
keen the disappointment. I explained
to Dr. Danu that my friends had been
kind enongh to say that they would re
lieve me of most pf the phyatoal labor of
the campaign, bnt his opinion is that
the mental anxiety and strain even
without tho physioal work, would be
very Injurious,'and that I mast decide
Amalgamated Association Officials Are Sanguine of
Success, and the Big Mills are Still Tied Fast.
Wisconsin Farmers Quit Tbelr Fields to
Pursue Woman’s Assailants.
Portage, Wis., July 18.—The only
reason there haB been no lynching here
is that the two men who yesterday crim
inaily assaulted Mrs. Fred Hodge as she
was returning from a field cannot be
captured. All the farmers are arming
with gnns and pitchforks and chasing
the guilty men, swearing to lynoh them
if caught.
ELECTRICAL WORKERS STRIKE.
They Demand Shorter Hours sad More Psy In
Washington.
Washington, D. O., July 18.—The
electrioal workers of this district, strnok
this morning for higher wages. They
want $3.50 for eight hours instead of
$8.00, the present scale. They also want
doable pay for extra work.
Master Quintard Wright, tbe bright
yonngson of Rev. and Mrs. Ohas T.
Wright, brought hia pet rat np to the
Herald office this morning. It iB quite
an interesting rodent, wearing a mixed
ooat of dark brown and cream tint. It
is quite tame, and ia a great pet for
He had associated with him 1 Master Quintard and hie young friends.
MINE FIREMEN IN WILKEBBARRE DISTRICT STRIKE,
Wilkesbarre, Fa., July 18,—Tbe mine firemen went ont on striko
th is moning in this distriot and 20,000 to 28,000 miners are thrown out of
work. The miners had no grievances, neither are they on strike, bnt
neoessarily the mines are olosed down because the firemen are ont. It iB
said that other firemen will soon go ont and throw out a great number
more of miners.
BIG STRIKE IS STILL ON.
MAY BE 25-GENT ASSESSMENT IN FEDERATION OF LABOR.
Pittsburg, Pa., July 17.—The Amalgurnated Association officials are
sanguine of sneoess. Thomas Flinn, the general organizer for the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, called at headquarters this morning and offered
anything tbe federation had to aid the strikers.
Fe suggests that as the federation has 2,000,000 members, eaoh man
he asked to give the Amalgamated Association 25 cents per week, making
$2,000,000 per month, whioh would support every man out. -The Great
Bar mill of the Ainerioan Steel Hoop Company olosed today at Mingo
Junction, O. A sheet mill operated under the same roof, whioh gets its
material from the Bar mill, will also have to olose.
FORT? MINES CLOSED
RV STRIKE OF FIEEHEN.
Scranton, Pa., July 18.—A result of the stationary firemens' strike
is that forty mines are closed and 25,000 men are ont. Many more col
lieries will be olosed during the day.
HE FOUGHT ROBBERS,
INDIGNATION IN FINLAND
And One of Tbera Lodged ■ Bullet |o His
Shoulder Before Departing.
Chicago, July 18.—Three robbers this
mornipg attempted to hold up W. R.
Miller, cashier of the elevated railway
station at Hayne avenne and Lake
Btreet.
Miller was called immediately after
the train had left and told to give np his
money, revolvers being pointed at hie
head. He duoked and drew his pistol,
firing at the robbers. He then dropped
with a ball in his shoulder. The midii
then ran, and Miller says he wotmded
one.
On Account of Russian Order Destroying Last
Vestige ef Finnish Liberty.
Holsingsfers, Finland, Jnly 17.—
Groat indignation has boon caused here
by an order taking away the last ves
tige of {Finnish liberty. The order dis
solve the separate Finland army and
merges it with tbe Russian army, the
change to go into effeot in 1008.
OUT OF POLITICS.
HON. F. 0. DUBIUNON WILL NOT BE A
CANDIDATE POR GOVERNOR.
between invalidism and politics. This
opinion leaves me no other alternative
than to have the announcement defi
nitely made that I will not be a candi
date for Governor., It Is the doolston of
my physioian, rather than my own oon
olnsion. I would not make any an
nouncement in referenoe to the matter
this early, were it not for the fact that
delay would he unjast to the over
whelming sentiment in South Georgia
whioh has orystalizednpou the idea that
this seotlon of the state should name tbe
next Governor of Georgia.
'For more than a year I have been
receiving a moat oordlal assurauco of
support, not sniy from North Gergia,
but from almost every county In South
Georgia, and had I'annonnoed as a can
didate, I believe I would have carried
practically the whole of Sonth Georgia.
Sentiment in onr seotion of the state has
never Centered as strongly os it is now
upon the idea that Bonth Georgia Bhonld
nnite npon a candidate who is really a
Sonth Georgian. I should have prefer
red to wait before making this an
nouncement of my conclusion, bnt felt
that it was doe my friends and the sec
tion of the state in whioh I live that
they be made acquainted with the situa
tion so that they might act accordingly
“My name has been mentioned so
often in conneotlon with this offloe that
I wish it already understood that this is
personally a great disappointment to
me. I am out of politios, exoept to work
and vote in the ranks of the party. I
will, of course, resign my position as
ohairman of the State Demooratio Com
mittee in due time,"
The resignation of Ohairman duBig
non will make Hon. E. T. Brown hlf
successor on the etate committee. Mr.
Brown ie now vice ohairman, and upon
the resignation of Mr. dnBignon will
assume at onoe the dnttes of the chair
manship until the state committee eleots
a snooessor, and the probability ia that
Mr. Brown will be eleeted by the com
mittee to the chairmanship.
MYSTERIOUS DROWNING
m
The
ah ol
sell.
Defease.
The popular idea expressed in tbe
phrase, “the art of self-defense, v allows
the opinion that the chief enemies a man
has to defend hitneelf from are visible
and external. But the real danger of
every man ia from minute and often in
visible foes. In the air we breathe and
the water we drink are countlese minute
organisms leagued against the health of
the body.
The one defense against these enemies
Is to keep the blood pure. Dr. Pierce'*
Golden Medical Discovery thoroughly
m
purifies the blood, removing poisonous 1
When the
substances and accretions.
blood is pure there U no harborage for
the germs of disease which find a lodg
ing only when the blood Is impure and
corrupt.
"I consider year 'Golden Medical Discovery'
ne of the best mcdltfue* on the face of tu*
wth," writes Mr. Win. Floetcr, of Rcdoak.
~o., lowr “*”*-*’- **-
m ago,
am
outd go
cine, trl
all tbe relier they could g
pocket-book lighter. I I
Pierce's Golden Medical
bottles without relief. I
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Montgomery Co., Iowa. •While is the
westjthffWMr
the horrors ! suffered cannot be told in word
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In my Mood and
be told In words,
I tried different
rerent doctors, bnt
tn« was to make ray
--- began taking L..
x Discovery. Took four,
bottles without relief Kept taking it. X took
in all ten bottles and got entirely cured."
Dr. Picrcs's Pleasant Pellets cum con
stipation.
STIR IN THE NAVY
OVER THIRD VOLUME OP MCLAY’S HIS.
TORY OP THE U. S. NAVY.
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The Book Mikes Vicious Attack on Rear Ad
miral Schley, and Accuses Him of Coward
ice oa the Occasion of tho Battle ot Sun-
tla|o—Facts Denied and Suppressed.
"Washington, July 18.—Naval oirrlca
are Intensely aroused over the third
volume of “MaoLay's History of the
United States Navy,” whioh ia used aa
a text book at- the Annapolis naval
academy.
The first two volumes are impartial.
Tbe third,prints the story of the battle
of Santiago Bay in a false manner, abus
ing and losing no opportunity to Injure
Bear Admiral Sohley. The book
oharges Sohley with being a coward at
the battle of Santiago, and takes hear
say evidence and uses It as perfect troth,
Foote favoring Sohley are refuted, de
nied and suppressed, and the book says-
the Brooklyn went into the fight agalnatt
the wish of Admiral Sohley.
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FIERCE FLORIDA STORM.
01 Two Boys Who Were Bathing 1$ a Pool
With Forty Others.
Gloversville, N. Y„ July 17.—Al
though 40 people were in the water in a
swimming pool here this morning, two
boys, Harry Gohrman and Calvin Mille,
wero drowned, and the faot was not
known until a diver struck one of the
bodieB. Mystery surrounds the drown-
ings.
Several Uvea Loai and Mach Damage Done •
Near Tallahassee.
Savannah Nowh Special. •
Tallahassee, Fla., Jnly 17.—Advices.
rooeived here state that in the oountry
near this oity, daring a heavy eleotoloal
storm late yesterday afternoon, heavy,
lose of life and property resulted.
Lightning struok the house of Oapt. A,
G. Spiller and did considerable dam
age. John Henderson, colored, who
was near, was knooked senseless, hia
shoes being turn from his feet. Ho
will probably recover, A house oc
cupied by a colored family- neqr this
place was completely wreokod. One of
the girl ohildren waa instantly kill
ed while lowering the windows, and one
of the male inmates was so.badly shock
ed that he died daring the night. On
the plantation of Gen, Patriok Houston,
two negro women In the-house of one of
the tenants were instantly killed. The
storm lasted for two hours and a num
ber of houses were badly damaged. The
storm is described as the most destruc
tive to life and property of any that
over visited this eeotion.
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STORM IN BIRMINGHAM.
OPENED INFERNAL MACHINE
GEN. ISAAC HERWOOD
Toledo, 0„ July 16,—General Isaao
Herwood denies the report that he is to
be the candidate to head the proposed
Bryan ticket la this state,
And Had a Hand Blown OH—New York
Clerk's Misfortune.
New York, July 18.—John 3. Kleok,
a olerk in the office of the Brooklyn
board of publio works, this morning re
ceived a/queer package through the
mail. When he and Edward Sohrbeder
opened the box It suddenly exploded, ,
Bohroeder'a right hand was blown off, account of the flooded
The police are investigating the oaee. danger of
One Man Killed by Lightning nnd Slreel Cnr
Synlem Tied Up.
Birmingham, Ala., July 18. A heavy
rain storm struck this city last night,
oaitslng considerable damage. A saloon
near the rolling mills was strnok by
lightning: Pete Oroley, a laborer, was
instantly killed, and a man standing
near him was knocked uenseless.
The entire st*ee$ oar syett
city was tied np for nearly a
