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All Over the County. Local Items Condensed for The Herald Headers. READ ’EM IF YOU CASE TO. “ You See il Mere, Chances an* ’Tisn’t True, Tom Newton is able to be again after a protracted spell of fever. Miss Daisy Martin left today lor Savannah to sp'end several days visiting relatives, Misses Mabel le Oiliff and Maud Brannon are spending several days visiting relatives in Swainshore. Revs. Cobb and Brown are en¬ gaged in a protracced meeting at the Excelsior Baptist church this week. Mrs. D. B. Rigdon is spending a couple of weeks out on the farm, recuperating from a recent slight illness. Miss Mabel DeLoacli returned Tuesday from a couple of weeks’ visit with friends in Savannah and Pooler. Col. A. M. Deal returned this week from a weeks’ visit at his father’s home in the Irie neigh¬ borhood. Miss Ophelia Strange is spend¬ ing a few days with the family of her father, Mr. David Strange, in Swainsboro. Mr. J, G. Biitch is about the streets again after several confinement to his room with typhoid fever. Mr. \V. C, Parker is spending several days at his old home in Liberty county, visiting with the family of his father. Miss Lula Mathews returned yesterday from a very pleasant visit of ten days with frienxjs iu Savannah and Guyton. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Grinerwere up from Savannah last week and spent several days visiting the family of her uncle, Judge Martin. Contractor Foss has been forced to suspend work on the big brick warehouse for a few days, pending the arrival of several carloads of brick. Mr. R. Simmons left yesterday for Bartow, Fla., to resume his prospecting tour. He will proba¬ bly be gone until the middle of August. Among the nice things received by The Herald family this week, was a basket of tomatoes from the garden of Charlie Lanier. It was much appreciated. Mrs. R. L. Sample returned this week from a ten days’ visit to In¬ dian Springs, where she had been enjoying the balmy climate for the benefit of her health. The district conference of the colored Methodist church, for the Waynesboro district, is in session at this place this week, a large number of ministers being present. Col. Ed. Corey wishes it under¬ stood that he is now established in his new office in the Oiliff build¬ ing where he will at all times found ready to serve those in of legal advice. Cob J. E. Robinson and his family returned to Atlanta today after a three month’s residence in Statesboro, during which they made many warm friends who re¬ gret to see them leave. The watermelon season is not so nearly past as was thought some days ago. Three or four carloads have been shipped from Statesboro this week via the D. & S., and the g. & S. continues to handle them extensively down in the Ivanhoe section. Sam Brc ady, col •) wa.-i arrested and lodged in jail here vu-ti rdny on the charge of assault and bat¬ tery committed upon one Bob Floyd, also colored, in .4 he Briar patch district sev^a! days ago. Mr. S. C. Groover returned this Week from a trip doWh to his country place, and reports fine crops in the section of Areola, One cotton stalk in Ids field he says contained fifty grown bolls, Attention is invited to the ad¬ vertisement of \Y G. Baines, hardware man, in this issue. He lias just opened up •a uow slock. and will mK ionbtedlv r.^wv, a good patronage from Statesboro and vicinity. Mr. Charlie Hamilton and ids wife arrival ill town last and are spending several days vis iting relatives in States! or >. Charlie is now in the furniture business in Savannah, and will return to work about the first of August. j Splendid summer rains continue ,o fall throughout the county, aim general prospects are not gloomy as they were some weeks ago. Corn, which in some places was thought to be almost ruined by the dry weather, is slightly proved, while the cotton crop was never better. Mr. Oliver Rountree, whose re¬ cent serious illness has been a source 1 of apprehension to his many friends, is now somewhat improved. The physicians at one time feared that an operation for some internal troubles would be necessary, but he seems now to be improving without it. Messrs. R. Simmons and B. T. Outland returned last week from ten day’s prospecting through Florida, spent chiefly the vicinity of Bartow. were both highly elated at they saw in the way of and timber prospects, and ma * invAsl so We money down way. The members of Bethlehem church are just now arranging to build a large new house of wor¬ ship, and for the next month a committee will receive bids for its construction, The names of the committeemen and the specifica¬ tions of the new building will be found posted on the old walnut tree, The largest melon that lias reached town this] season was sent to The Herald office yesterday by Mr. Horace Hagin to be enter¬ ed in the subscription contest. We cannot announce the weight of it, but will say that the man who gets first prize'overjjMr. good-sized Hagin will have to bring a melon. Work was commence 1 yesterday upon the construction of the tram road from Lester & Ellison’s saw mill, about eight miles west of here, to this place. These gentle men are doing an extensive busi ness, shipping vast quantities of lumber for export, and their road to this place will save them much in the way of freight rates. Engineer John Opie, of Ogee chce, pulled the throttle of the D. & 8. engine last week during tlie illness of Fireman Wilson and Engineer Smith. While Mr. Smith is up, he is not able to re¬ sume work on account of his lame back, and this week Mr. Wilson is being the throttle-pulling while Angelo Smith chunks in the wood. Mr. E. W. Nance, besides ship¬ ping melons in large quantities, is supplying the local consumers at greatly reduced prices. He has sold several wagon loads at a cent apiece delivered, and says he wo uld be glad to sell four thou¬ sand oil the same terms within the next two weeks. Those who bought claim that they are e,t kind of stock feed. Sheriff Donaldson has been noti (led of tin* arrest, at Panasofkee, Fla., of Jim Love, formerly of i his county, who killed Simon Slater ut a negro festival in 1894. Love disappeared imnn diately after the killing, and his whew abotils lias been a mystery until 1iie • sheriff was notified of bis arrest h\ Florida this week. He "'ill probably go after him in a tbiv or two. The supreme court has just banded down its decision in the appealed case of 8, 8. Sasser vs. -LX. Akins, tax collector. The levied upon Sasser’s per¬ sonal property, including a lot of liquor and a gun, for license fee for Ids barroom run here a couple f a »°- s “* Mr on the ground that he was not at that time in the liquor business, ’ the supreme court found the property subjest. THE PRIZE WATERMELON. Our watermelon cutest is open, and the big melons are pouring i m. The premium is a year’s subscrip¬ tion for the largest, six month’s for the second and three month’s tor the third largest melon receiv ed. * Bring in your big melons and get the best weekly newspaper in this section of the state. SOr»E “WONDERFUL” THINGS. WONDERED BY THE WANDERER. The “Wanderer” wonders why all those weeds on the lot north of the court house are not*cut down. Also why that little street near the Simmons’ hotel, leading from East Main to Vine, wasn’t thrown up like a potato bed. It, is wonderful, too, how* quiet the electric light question has be come all of a “suddint;” and we volK j or ifj j l( .. py^u. are going to bond the town this tall to put in a plant. We wonder who it is that pro¬ poses to kick up a row this fall when our coui.cilmen begin to draw their $80 salaries, as pro¬ vided by recent local legislation. Some people wonder why States¬ boro capitalists do not make a little effort to get a factory of some kind established here. They say that even a brick kiln would be,a great help to the business in¬ terests of the town. Another follow says he wonders why a certain hog pen on Main is not renovated, with view'to improving the healthful ness of that part of the town. The Wanderer. Ilnmnn Rye Raster Than tlie Pen. “You read 1,000 miles." ia theealeu* lation of a clever individual fond of de¬ tails. The eyes of the average busy man, in reading alone, travel 1,000 miles, which is equivalent to an “ocu¬ lar trip” a third of the distance across our continent. Even the busiest man probably travels with his eyes 19 miles of type yearly, and there are doubtless many readers who travel six times the distance. If you read a yellow backed novel, your eyes have traversed from a mile to a mile and a half of type. The busiest pen cannot keep up with this pace. With ordinary use, your pen not traveled as far as from New York to Albany. Philadelphia Inquirer. A llu Id Statement. “It’s hard to be happy once got a reputation for saying things,” remarked the sad eyed man. “What’s the trouble?” “I’ve lost another friend. I compli¬ mented him on being the most cool headed person I ever saw. He took it as an allusion to the fact that he is to¬ tally bald.”—Washington Star. lie Wat Soured. The doctor looked at him. “You are a dyspeptic,” he said. Then he put his ear to the heart and gravely added: “A high liver. ’ » “Heavens 1 » > cried the startled pa tient. il » Tain’fc as high as that, is it?” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. HIGH LIFE IN GOTHAM. A St'orplCiiK CrJtidmi of tlie Wal tlorUAiki itt utti »ls Ualittueii. The Waldorf-Astoria hotel is a great temple ot Mammon. You go there at any time and the only things you hear a ’ 1Jont are millions. You see million a ires of all sorts, fat and 'lean, young and old. You hear them, at the bar or gathered around tables, talking “mar¬ gins” ami of trusts and of millions. Everybody tiaras, around the Waldorf at least, to be money mad. The bellboys won't leek at a tip less than $1. In the cafe ah egg costs'as much ns a square local. Cig&ite at £1 apiece are quite the ordinary thing. You can spend a mouth's salary oh u dinner for four, and wine at $15 per bottle is not at all exorbitant. The place is crowded all the time by tbe wealthiest visitors to Manhattan from all over the world. You are told in awe inspiring whispers that there are suits of rooms costing $250 per day. Yon a re sho wn the safe which at this very minute holds $7, 000,000 worth of valuables belonging to guests. And you’ll see milAmakes eating with their knives, and you'll hear dowagers tcll ing their friends “I done it” and “I seen her.” Money, money, money! The continual elevation of it is nauseating. There is something sordid in all the Waldo! f-Astoria splendor. The atmosphere of the Waldorf-As¬ toria is reeking with vulgarity and all unheal thin ess. Ail these millionaires are nothing, after all, but a horde of gamblers. And the women, so far as one sc.es them, seem to be oppressed by their wealth. If there is anything more horrible than the high Gotham life in which every man and woman every day is sentenced to evening dress after 0 o’clock, where is itV A distinguished man of letters said to me, after a view of the Waldorf-As¬ toria cafe in the evening, where yon have to reserve your table in the early afternoon, “The trouble with these people is that they have no souls. ” And most of them haven’t. They live solely for the senses. They are to bo pitied rather than envied. — Exchange. THE HEADSMAN. He U«ed tlie Stvoril nn.l Not the As Prior to 14SB. I am inclined to think that prior to 1483 the sword and not tlie ax was usually employed as the weapon for judicial decapitation and that a block was dispensed with, the victim# receiv¬ ing their doom “meekly kneeling upon their knees,” and in this opinion I am fortified by the concurrence of an emi¬ nent clerical historian. This learned writer agreed with mo that the ax did not become the “regulation” lethal im pleimmlppLJ. “heading of after Lord the.rough Hastings .wwlr the ’ on Tower green, when he was summarily dispatched by order of the protector, Gloucester, In this inxance, according to the chroniclers, the victim’s neck was stretched upon a piece of timber then in use for tbe repair of the adjacent church of St. Peter ad Vincula, prob¬ ably a “putlog,” part of the scaffold¬ ing which, we read, “conveniently lay in the way.” Contemporary accounts seem to indicate that the executioner straddled over tlie prone body, and from this position I infer that the decapita¬ tion was effected by the tool known as an adz, the cutting edge of which ia at a right angle to and not in a plane with the haft. I may add that the only contempo¬ rary reference I have come across of the use, or proposed use, of an ax and block for inflicting capital punishment prior to this tragedy is in one of the Past on series of letters describing the peril of an unfortunate captive of Jack Cade’s rebels (A. D. 1450), a generation before Lord Hastings was so clumsily hacked to death.—Notes and Queries. American Speech. The faults of American speech, ac¬ cording to an authority on the subject, originate in the primary school. The child is not taught the melodic value of his phrase. He is allowed to use the throat instead of the tongue, and the flow of speech becomes, therefore, halt¬ ing and guttural. .“Educate your alphabet and you will find your language as mellow as any of the family of Latium,” is the advice given. “Your i’s are throaty, your in’s are too labial, your s’s are too hissing, your c’s are not soft enough. When you can train your scholars to emit these and other consonants within the pitch, using the tongue instead of the throat for their emission, then you will see that for rhythm and sonority your English language may be compared with the Tuscan, the Roman, the Spanish aud the Provencal. ” Ram ed the Reward. “Ma, Mrs. Smith gave me a big piece of cake. ” “Jimmie, I’ve often told you not to ask for anything to eat when you are over there. ” “But, ma, she gave me tbe cake be¬ cause I told her who was here to dinner last night.”—Chicago Record. Tho Englishman, it is calculated, ex¬ pends on the average $250 a year for sustenance; the German $215, the Frenchman $210, the Italian $110, the Russian $95. W. G. Raines, at the old World's Fair Store, has just opened up a com¬ plete line of Hardware, in¬ cluding a fine assortment of Stoves, Cutlery* Pistols * Mesh Wire Fencing (three heights), Barbwire; Saddles, Tinware, full assortment of Crockery ware, etc., etc. I'rirrs to M«et s»!l Omiprtiliosi, New Store—New Goods— Courtei>us treatment. FARM LOANS. Brannon & Moore, States¬ boro, Ga., negotiate loans at the lowest rates* WANTED! While Dak Tiiei! D. F. RILEY * fill A L ESTATE A CENT, : Statesboro, Ca Will sell your white oak timber at; the following: prices: For all trees measuring 28 inches and up at the stump $ 1.50 each. For all trees measuring 24 Inches ami up at t he stump 80 cents each. Don’t give options on your timber Tor 3 5 ? and a tree, when you can get $1.50 and 80A I don’t want all as agent and give the owners of the trees nothing. If you want fair treatment and full value for timber, write or call to see me at the county school commis¬ sioner’s office. City lots and farm lands also handled. Now is the time to sell your property; the new railroad will bring buyers! ' iff ’3 Adver tisvimenIs. GEORGIA BULLOCH COUNTY. Will be sold Delore the court house door of sal© county ou the FlilST TUESDAY IN AUGUST, 1809, within the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder foreash. the following described property to-wlt: All that tract or parcel of land lying and being In the state and county aforesaid and in the 47tli District, G. M., thereof, containing One Hundred and Thirty-one aud one -half (18114) acres, more or less, and bounded as follows: On the north by lands known as the K. A, Smith lands, on the south by lands of J. J. Elarbee, on the east by lands of A. Lewis, aud ou the west by lands of J. L. Purvis, and known as the Futch place. Said land levied on to satisfy a tax execution issued by J. N. Akins, tax collector of Bulloch county against H. H. Elarbee for state and county taxes for the year 189s. Legal notice given the defendant. This July 5th, 1899. J. El. DONALDSON. Sheriff. GEORGIA— Bulloch County. Will be sold before the court house door of said county ou the FIRST TUESDAY IN AUGUST, 7899. within the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for cash, the following described property to-wit: All that tract or parcel of land lying and being In the state and county aforesaid, and in the 1209th District, G; M.. thereof (beiug in the Town of Statesboro) and bounded as follows; On the north by lands of J. T. Mikell, on the south by Elm street, on the east bv lands of B. E. Turner, and on fhe west by lands of Maggie Teal and Lenn Teal. Said lot fronting ou Elm street Forty (40) feet and running back One Hundred and Fifty (150) feet. Said loud levied on os the property of Jame« Mason to satisfy a justice court U. fa. issneing from the justice court of the 1209th District in favor o l B. E. Turner against the said James Mason. Levy made by W. J. Wilson, constable of said justice court, aud turned over to me for advertisement and sale. This July 3rd, 1899. J. H. DONALD80N, Sheriff. Georgia—Bulloch County. Will be sold on the First Tuesday in August, 3899, for cash, before the court house door in said county, the following described property: A certain tract or parcel of land lying aad being in the Thirteen Hundred and Twentieth (1820th) District, G. M., and described in a plat made July 3rd, 1833. by G. 8. Lanier, Surveyor, as follows: Begin at a point on Big Bianch, thenee South 75 degrees East 54 chajns; thence North 88 degress East 32 ehains; thence North 38 degrees West 70 chains; thence South 70 degrees West 50 chains to Big Branch; thence along said Branch to beginning point, containing Three Hundred and Fifty-eight (358) acres; now bounded north by lands of S. a. Crumpton, east by lands of David Bell, south by lands of J. L» Smith and G. W. Nichols, aud west by lands of J. M. Nichols, iu the county of Bn!a 1> state of Georgia. Said land levied on to satisfy a 11. fa. issued f the Superior Court of said county in av. i , Barringer agaiust D. N. Nichols. Device o»* a u property of said D. N. Nichols. Deed ret title for the purpose of levy and sale flicu in . office. This 3rd of July, 1899. ). U. DONALDSON, Sheriff.