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The Bulloch Herald.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY.
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
PEBLISUED THURSDAYS.
Entered at the postoffice at States¬
boro, Ga., as second-class mail matter.
Statesboro, Ga., Sept. 6, 1899.
Striking proof of the growing popu¬
larity of automobiles is found in the
way women well known in society are
taking them up. . These machines
have already become a craze in New¬
port, where several women have
shown great proficiency in running
them.
_
At the recent annual meeting of
the Society for the Employment of
Women, in London, Sir Owen Rob¬
erts, who presided, said that in Eng¬
land there are two million women in
excess of the male population, while
in the colonies the surplus of males is
about the same.
A capital of $50,000,000 is now en¬
gaged aud 50,000 people are employed
in the various clipping bureaus of the
world. The business consists in mak¬
ing and distributing newspaper clip¬
pings among those whom they con¬
cern. This is a very clear indication
that a great many individuals take a
deep interest iu themselves.
This is peculiarly an age of experts.
It is peculiarly au age wbeu the man
who expects to succeed must very early
choose his eslling, must choose it with
reference to his taste and his abili¬
ties, must iu early life give himself
the benefit of special training in the
direction indicated, must concentrate
his whole mind, heart and strength
npon the subject which ho is pursuing
and must not turn aside to the right
hand or to the left.
The salvers of the Paris will make
over $350,000 profit on their job.
Salving, like gold mining, is a busi¬
ness that pays very well when it does
pay, and is most ruinous w hen it does
not. The money spent in trying to
raise the Spanish cruisers would ruiu
many a firm, and it is but right that
successful operations, involving as
they do an absolute saving to the
world of a large amount of wealth,
should be paid in proportion to the
risks.
A government official is causing
trouble because he will not draw his
pay. He does not need the money
and allows it to accumulate, using the
treasury as a sort of bank, till he has
thirty warrants ahead, amounting to
several thousand dollars. And this
mixes up the bookkeeping of the gov¬
ernment badly, fince it is unaccus¬
tomed to, and has made no provisions
for, this kind of an officeholder, fa¬
cetiously observes the New York Com¬
mercial Advertiser. It really seems
as if he ought to be put out and his
place given to a man that will appre¬
ciate his pay enough to take it out on
pay day. There are plenty of
men that would be glad to agree to
this stipulation; many, indeed, would
sell their warrants months in advance,
and at a discount. The government
has worries enough without
to trouble over men that will not draw
their pay when it is due.
The collection of mail in Hartford
by trolley-cars, operative i-iuce April
1, has been highly satisfactory, and
has benefited the service in many ways.
Prompt advantage of the opportunity
was taken by the people, and during
the firs^ month of the service, 22,209
letters and cr.vds were collected from
the boxes in the cars. This number
was increased to over 30,000 in the
second mouth, and in that number
were 2241 special-delivery letters. This
was an increase of more than oue
fourth in the number of special-deliv¬
ery letters over May in the preceding
year, showing ready appreciation by
the public of this method of quick
communication. From the extremes
of the trolley-car routes a letter ar¬
rives at the postoffice in a half-hour,
and the subsequent immediate deliv¬
ery of a special-delivery letter affords
a cheap substitute for other messen¬
ger service. The probability of the
establishment of a like service ii
o her cities of the relative size oi
Hartford is increased by the good re¬
ports from that city.
GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Happenings In the State of Inter¬
esting Import.
Will Summon Advisory Board.
Governor Candler is preparing to
summon together for the first time
during his administration,the military
advisory board of the state consisting
of eleven prominent officers represent¬
ing the regiments of Georgia militia.
The advisory board has not been in
session since January, 1898, and the
coming meeting to be held before the
close of the present month will be one
of the most important in the history of
the state militia.
The military board will pass on the
reorganization of state troops,and will
be called upon to recommend to the
chief executive what military compa¬
nies are to be put in the place of those
ordered disbanded. The military ad¬
visory board consists of the following
members,all of whom will be required
by executive order to meet in Atlanta:
General John M. Kell, adjutant gen¬
eral, Sunny Side; Colonel A. J. West,
quartermaster general, Atlanta; Colo¬
nel A. R. Lawton, First infantry, Sa¬
vannah; Colonel W. E. Wooten,
Fourth infantry, Albany; Lieutenant
Colonel E. D. Huguenin, Second in¬
fantry, Macon; Lieutenant Colonel W.
S, Shepherd, aide de camp, Colum¬
bus; Major Beirne Gordon, First in¬
fantry, Savannah; Captain W. A. Pat¬
ton, Third infantry, Rome; Captain A.
J. Renki. Sixth infantry, Augusta;
Captain J. S. Dozier, First battalion
cavalry, Atlanta; Captain W. W. Bark¬
er, Fifth infantry, Atlanta.
The work of reorganiztion under¬
taken by Governor.Candler began dur¬
ing the early spring, when an order
was issued from the office of Adjutant
General Byrd requiring every military
command in the state militia to appear
before the inspector general for exami¬
nation.
Building Cars In Georgia.
With the arrival at Americus the
week of a large shipment of car
from a northern foundry, work
be started at the car shops of the
and Alabama railway upon
building of 1,500 freight cars for
road.
Delegates Appointed.
Governor Candler has appointed
from Georgia to attend the
industrial convention, to be
during the latter part of Septem¬
at Huntsville, Ala. The Georgia
delegation will consist of Hon. T. M.
of Elbert, Hon. J. Pope Brown,
of Pulaski, and President J. Harris
Chappell, of Baldwin.
Considerable interest has been at¬
tracted in the state to the proposed
work of the industrial convention, and
Governor Candler received requests
from a number of towns in Georgia to
appoint a delegation to represent this
state.
Itinerary of Mormon*.
The report of the Mormon work in
the south for last week shows there
are 488 elders laboring. During
the past week they walked 10,967
miles, visited 2,553 families, and were
refused entertainment 578 times.
President * W. *D. Rencher, of the
Georgia conference, whose headquar¬
ters are at Bowersville, reports 37
eledrs at work there. They walked
during the week 985 miles* visited 304
families and were refused entertain¬
ment 98 times, held 49 meetings, and
baptized two persons.
Reunion ot Dnles-Cook Brigade.
A reunion of the survivors of Doles
Cook’s Brigade, Association of Na¬
tional Volunteers, will be held in At¬
lanta on October 24th and 25tb, at
which time the members of four regi¬
ments will be in attendance.
Georgians Go to Boston.
Governor Candler Las appointed
delegates from the state at large and
each congressional district to attend
the sessions of the farmers’ national
convention at Boston.
The governor has been notified that
the convention is to be in session
October 3d, 4th, 5th and 6th and he
was strongly urged to name the Geor¬
gia delegates in time to allow all of
them ample opportunity to make prep¬
arations to attend.
From the state at large Governor
Candler appointed ex-GUvernor W. J.
Northen and Hon. Pope Brown, of
Pulaski, the first of whom is thorough¬
ly identified with agricultural inter¬
ests, not only in the state, but in the
south, while the latter is the presi¬
dent of the State Agricultural Society.
The following delegates from each
congressional district are named:
First district, G. M. Ryals; second
district, Hon. O. B. Stevens; third
district, Hon. Jerry Owens; fourth dis¬
trict, George W. Truitt; fifth district,
C. P. Bowens; sixth district, R. J.
Redding; seventh district, J. A. Man
gette; eighth district, J. M. Smith;
ninth district, Nathan Bennett; tenth
district, P. J. Berkeman; eleventh dis¬
trict, Allen W. Groover.
Delegates from every state in the
union have been appointed to attend
the sessions of the coming convention
and Governor Candler regards the con¬
vention as one of the most important
to agricultural interests ever called to¬
gether. The members of the Georgia
delegation will undoubtedly exercise a
controlling influence in the conven¬
tion, since from an agricultural point
of view this state is regarded as one of
the foremost in the United States.
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Will lie Sent North.
The troops stationed at Key West
will most probably not be sent to At¬
lanta, as it was first thought they
would be ordered, on account of the
refusal of the Plant and Miami Steam¬
ship companies to accept them for
transpr^-tation upon orders from the
state otncials. The war department de¬
cided to remove the troops at Key
West from that place because of the
appearance of four cases of yellow fe¬
ver in that city.
Stock Eagerly Taken.
In July the Eagle and Phenix mill
decided to increase their v stock from
$600,000 to $750,000 and the present
stockholders were given an option on
this additional stock, each stockholder
being allotted 25 per cent of his hold¬
ings. September 1st was the day by
which stockholders should report on
the matter. When the stock applica¬
tions were consolidated it was found
that not only was the 8150,000 taken,
but there were applications in for
8150,000 more of stock.
To Build Syrup Mills.
At a conference held between Mr.
D. G. Purse, representing the board
of trade at Savannah, and Commis¬
sioner Stevens regarding the sugar¬
cane industry in Georgia, they agreed
to unite their efforts to secure the
establishment of mills at various points
iu south and southwest Georgia, to
wit: Savannah, Valdosta, Quitman,
Thomasville, Bainbridge, Helena and
other points, taking into consideration
the cheapest transportation to each of
these points and the amount of cane
grown in the territories adjacent to
each of these points.
There will be no trouble in securing
all the capital that will be needed to
establish the mills to grind the cane
and to refine the sugar.
The great object in view is to induce
the planters to grow a sufficient amount
of cane to authorize the building of
these mills.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
List of New Industries established the
Past Week.
The new industries reported during
the past week include brick works in
Georgia and West Virginia; a broom
factory in Texas; car works in Geor¬
gia; coal mines and coke ovens in Ala¬
bama, Georgia and Virginia; cooper¬
age works in Kentucky; cotton mills
in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and
the Caroliuas; cotton seed oil mills in
Mississippi and Texas; a crate and
barrel factory in North Carolina;
electric light plants in Alabama, Geor¬
gia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ten¬
nessee and Texas; fertilizer factories
in Florida and North Carolina; flour¬
ing mills in Alabama, Florida, Ken¬
tucky and Tennessee; foundries
and machine shops iu South Car¬
olina and Texas; glass works iu
West Virginia; a grain elevator in
Texas; a handle factory iu Tennessee;
a hardware company in Mississippi; a
hub and axle factory in North Caro¬
lina; ice factories in Alabama, South
Carolina, Virginia and Texas; an iron
furnace in Alabama; lumber mills in
Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia and
West Virginia; a paper box factory in
Tennessee; a petroleum company in
Texas; a shoe factory in Louisiana; a
tobacco factory in North Carolina and
warehouses in North Carolina and
Kentucky; telephone companies in
Arkansas and Kentucky; water works
iu Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
North Carolina and Tennessee.—
Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
SPAIN WANTS SOLDIERS.
Queen Regent Makes a Cali Far Six Thou¬
sand Men for Service.
Advices from Madrid state that
the queen regent has signed a decree
calling 6,000 men of the 1699 class for
military service.
Thirty-five Spanish soldiers, survi¬
vors of the garrison that long held
Baler, on the east coast of Luzon
agaiust the Filipinos, arrived at Bar¬
celona Friday and were enthusiasti¬
cally received by the populace.
YOKOHAMA FIRE SWEPT.
Square Mile of Building* Burned and
Sixteen Lives Lost.
Advices from the Orient state the
greatest fire in the history of Yokohama,
Japan, occurred August 12th. when
square mile of buildings was destroyed
and sixteen lives lost. The property
loss is estimated between five six mill¬
ions. The famous theater Btreet was
destroyed from end to end. The
owner of the house where the fire
started was killed by p, mob.
Minting Small Money.
According to an officer of the treas¬
ury department dimes, quarters and
half dollars are being turned out by all
the mints as rapidly as they can be
produced. The demand for fractional
currency and silver dollars is unpre*
cedented.
CONFESSION ALLEGED
Officer Who Once Guarded Drey¬
fus Makes Statement.
SAYS TBIT PRISONER ADMITTED GUILT
Suspicious Conduct of the Witness, How¬
ever, Causes His Deposition To Be
Discredited—Dreyfus Weeps.
Advices from Rennes state that
Dreyfus had the most trying day Thurs¬
day he has yet gone through. The
strain proved too great for him, and,
for the second time in the course of
the trial, he gave way to his feelings
and sought relief in tears.
The generals have branded him as a
traitor before the court, their subordi¬
nates have pointed the finger of scorn
at him. But he only flinched once—
when the official report of his treat¬
ment on Devil’s island was read before
him and the pictures of his sufferings,
menial and physical, were thrown
vividly on the screen of his memory.
Then he hid his features and wept.
He passed through another such
crisis Thursday when after Captain
Lebrun-Renault aud witness after wit¬
ness had brought up before him again
that cold January morniug which ush¬
ered in the scene of his degradation,
Major Forseinetti, a man of heart, told
in simple words and unaffected man¬
ner the story of Dreyfus’ struggle with
the maddening temptation to take his
life and the intervention of his wife,
as an angel, pointing out the road of
duty. Then again the prisoner’s breast
heaved with emotion and teardrops
trickled down his cheeks.
He arose, and after a forced effort to
remain calni as he spoke a few words
concerning his denial he to Colonel Du
Paty de Clam that wrote the bor¬
dereau, he turned to Forseinetti with
'a look of thanks for his consolation so
needed.
Dreyfus then uttered these words of
heartfelt gratitude to his wife for the
courage with which she inspired:
“It is due to her,” he cried, “that I
am alive today.”
The prisoner could articulate no
more, but sat* down abruptly to con¬
ceal his distress.
The proceedings concluded a few
minutes later aud he was taken back to
his prison, where his wife visited him,
and, in the presence of Mme. Dreyfus
and the gendarme on guard, he broke
down completely. The tension has
been too much for him. He sobbed
convulsively and the partner of his
sorrows joined him in a solace of tears.
Captain Lebrun-Renault and the
supporters of his assertion of the
Dreyfus confession had an inning last¬
ing nearly the entire session, their de¬
positions containing little but what has
already been stated before the court of
cassation.
Captain Lebrun-Renault introduced
anew the new assertion that the fact
that he had not related the incident of
the confession to President Casimir
Perier was because he overheard him¬
self called “canaille,” “cur” and “trai¬
tor,” while waiting at the Elysee. He,
however, could not explain why he
kept this to himself for so long a time
instead of recounting the incident be¬
fore the court of cassation. Nor did
his explanation as to why he destroyed
the page of his notebook containing
the record of Dreyfus’ confession
sound very convincing.
THIRTY-SEVEN TRUE BILLS.
Many of the McIntosh Alleged Rioters Are
Released By Grand Jury.
Thirty-seven true bills were return¬
ed by the McIntosh grand jury at Dari¬
en Thursday afternoon. In twenty
two cases no bills were found. This
large percentage of releases knocks
the props from any proposition for a
change of venue, on which all attor¬
neys for the defense were basing their
main fight. In releasing so many,
the McIntosh grand jury shows that
no prejudice exists against the negro.
On announcing that riot cases were
ready to be called, Judge Twiggs,
counsel for the defense, announced
that defendants’ attorneys were ready
to try the negroes in groups of such
numbers as might be selected.
Attorney Charlton, counsel for the
prosecution, stated that he wanted it
understood that the prosecution was to
select the groups.
ROYAL DRAGOONsTreADY.
Famous English Regiment May Be Sent
to the Transvaal.
A London dispatch Bays: It is re¬
ported at Aldershot that the first royal
dragoons, under Lietenant Colonel
Burn-Murdoch, is under orders to be
in readiness in the event of hostilities
iu the Transvaal.
' T >e regiment which figured at Wa¬
terloo, Balaklava and Sebastopol has
not left England since the Crimean
war.
Tjiree Killed; Four Injured.
^ The boiler in Chapman
bowl & ^argent's
ploded factory, at Copemish, Mich., ex¬
Fnday afternoon, killing three
men and fatally injuring four others.
YELLOW FEVER l» FLOR1RL
State Board of Health Officially
Announces Its Existence
At Key West.
The Florida state board of health,
through its local representative, Ur.
Sweating has officially declared the
existence of yellow fever at Key West.
Two persona were pronounced to be
suffering from the disease. They were
Dennis L. Eagan, an attache of the
custom house, and William M. Brew
der, special agent of the treasury de¬
partment. dpwn
Several other persons are with
fever, which exhibits symptons sinjj.
lar to those cases already pronounced
to be yellow fever. Considerable ex¬
citement exists throughout the city
among the unacclimatea who are pre¬
paring for a hurried departure. Every
precaution is being taken by the au¬
thorities to prevent the spread of the
disease.
HALSTEAD HUSTLED.
Noted Editor Lectured On **Philippin» g >»
and Caused An Uproar.
Editor Murat Halstead lectured in
Cincinnati Thursday night by invita¬
tion before the Economic Club, which
meets in the Vine street Congrega¬
tional church.
The audience was miscellaneous, in
addition to the members of the club,
which Mr. is largely anti-imperialistic,
Halstead’s subject was the Phil¬
ippines.
After the lecture, according to the
rules of the club, Mr. Halstead was
plied with questions. One of the
questioners, after he had been answer¬
ed, remarked:
“I hope Otis will be kept in and
will keep on blundering till he and the
whole army are driven into the sea or
captured.”
Mr. Halstead said:
“A man with those sentiments is a
traitor to his country.”
Several men jumped up and remark¬
ed: “Two-thirds of this audience
thinks that way.”
Mr. Halstead replied:
“Whoever thinks that way is a
traitor.”
Then there was a rush down the hall
with raised fists toward Mr. Halstead,
but a great number of men stepped in
between Mr. Halstead and those who
were rushing at him.
There was a great noise and uproar
which disclosed the fact that the audi¬
ence sides was composed of men on both
of that question. Mr. Halstead
was quietly led out of the church by a
door and taken home.
No blows were struck, but chairs
seats were upset and there were
and great uproariousness.
WILL RESTORE WAGES.
Southern's Cut of Ten Per Cent Will Soon
Be Annulled.
A Chattanooga dispatch says: The
Southern railway, during the dull
season of 1896, mado a cut of* 10 per
cent in wages of all employees on the
system, embracing trainmen, office
men and officials in all departments.
Some months ago the wages of shop¬
men were restored, while the engineers
also secured a slight increase. It is
learned that President Spencer has
decided to restore the 10 per cent cut
all around and that announcement to
this effect will be made about Septem¬
ber 10th.
LARGEST ORDER ON RECORD.
A Report That Cecil Rhodes Bays 500,
000,000 Feet of Lumber.
A special from Kansas City says: An
order for 500,000,000 feet of southern
yellow pine, the largest single sale in
the history of the lumber trade, for
use in the construction of Cecil
Rhodes’s proposed Cape to Cairo road,
in Africa, is said to have been consum¬
mated.
According to The Kansas City Star
lumber dealers and railroad officials
interested understand that the nego
tiations are ended and that twenty
mills along several Texas aud Louisiana
railroads are under contract to fill
order.
Women Protest Against War.
A petition from the Netherlands
Woman’s Disarmament league has
been presented to Queen Victoria,
praying for her, in the name of woman¬
hood and motherhood, to avoid war
with the Boers, and saying, “it would
cast a frightful blot upon yoar majes¬
ty’s most glorious reign.”'
PENSIONS INCREASE.
Rep rt of Commissioner Evans Shows
Tremendous Amount I'aid Out.
The annual report of Hon. H. Clay
Evans that during commissioner of pensions,sho’>' added s
the year there were and
to the pension roll 40,229 names,
43,186 were dropped, 34,345 of these
by reason of death.
There was expended for pen 810n *
$138,355,052. The annual value of
the entire pension roll amounts o
$131,617,691, being $649,469 mor ®
than it ever was, due to the bigoer
average roll is made annual value 758,451 of pension surviving 8 -. , ^
up of depend¬
soldiers, 237,415 widows and
ent relatives, and 653 nurses.