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The Bulloch Herald. OFFICIAL OFCAN OF TfiE COUNTY ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. PUBLISHED FRIDAYS. DAVID B. TURNER, Editor and Proprietor. Entered at the postofflee at Statesboro, Ga., a' second-class mail matter Statesboro, Ga., Oct. 36, ipoo. There is sometimes honor among thieves. A couple of sharpers have recently returned from the Klon¬ dike and paid to an Indiana far mer $1,500 out of which they swin dledpiim nearly thirty years ago, adding another $1,000 for interest on the forced loan. A young woman in New York has broken the 2,000 miles record on a bicycle, and lias started on another thousand miles. She is shortly to be married. There is no information as tc whether she knows how to darn a hole in a sock or to make a nice, light ome¬ lette. One of the skyscrapers in New York has a daily population of 3,100, and the mail sent out from it averages 18,000 pieces a day. Every forty-five minutes a mail wagon from the postoffice carries away from this building about 75 pounds of outgoing mail. Another New York office building sends out 35,000 pieces of mail every week day. The chairman of the Iowa re¬ publican state committee says that “never before in tho history of the state has there been so much apathy on the part of the repub¬ licans.” There is a sullenless ’on the part of the people that bodes no good for the capitalistic rulers. The people are getting ready men¬ tally for the great change. Trust ism is doomed. Now please note in the daily press about this time cf bets in large sums made on the election. Betting is prohibited by law in every state. But'perhaps the pub¬ lic officials in the cities where these bets occur cannot read the daily papers and therefore do not know of the violators of the law! But the rich can do no wrong. The boys who shoot craps for pen¬ nies—they are arrested. They violate the law! An undertaker’s business is ad¬ vertised for sale in an English newspaper in terms which are hardly such as to encourage any one to become a permanent resi¬ dent ot the locality. After stating that he is retiring from business altogether, the advertiser praises the town thus: “Sanitary arrange¬ ments much neglected; mortality from fevers excessively high ; total deathrate 10.7 higher than any town within a radius of fifty miles; one trade competitor (carpenter) only. Excellent opening for en¬ ergetic man willing to put his heart into the business.” That is a pretty romance the republican committee gives us about Hanna and the coal strike, says the Columbia (S. C.) State. It is designed^ to put wings on Mark and a crown on McKiuley. We have no doubt that Hanna contributed to the ending of the strike, influencing the opeiators to make terms with their men. But there need be no higher reason for this than the approach of the election, the republicanism of the coal kings and the fear of all con¬ cerned that if the deadlock should continue McKinley would lose heavily of tha labor vote. Hanna has been something of a strike crusher himself. There is “nothing doing” in pol¬ itics in South Carolina. Every¬ thing is dull, dead, fiat, stale and unprofitable. The Greenville News speaks of the situation as one of “unparalleled apathy,” and sighs tor a return of the old days when the candidates got out and made spread-eagle speeches, and the “boys” in red shirts, loaded the atmosphere with kerosene fumes from torchlight processions and then rent it with their shouts What is the matter? The News says that the leaders of the “domi¬ nant element,” having got their own ambitions safely cared for in the recent primary, are sitting back unconcerned and letting things rock along, careless of whether Bryan gets a big vote or a small one. The Prosperity Issue. Teddy Roosevelt and Mark Han¬ na have made much of what is called “prosperity,” telling their Western audiences that McKinley brought it. The panic did come to a close during the last four years, but when the trado revival came it not confined to America. France, Germany, Rus¬ enjoyed it; and it was with them as with All enjoyed it at the same it came alike to all. The trade revival was universal and over the civilized No one nation can claim the Czar of Russia can say he did it as truthfully as Mc¬ Kinley, If the trade boom wns all over the world and came to all simultaneously, then the cause was iiot local. What was the cause? The phenomenal gold discov¬ eries did it-TTheee discoveries put the world on a boom. More gold was discovered in three years, after 1896, than had been discovered in three centuries prior to that time. Here is the true explanation of the world’s boom. No one man, no one country did it—and none claim it but Hanna aud McKinley. When understood, the vastness and suddenness of the gold dis¬ coveries, blessing all nations, the claim of McKinley falls to the ground, making ridiculous to all sensible people his pretentious claim. An Experienced Man Needed. No better evidence than is con¬ tained in th* Washington dispatch which we published Saturday rel¬ ative to river and harbor improve¬ ments is needed to convince voters of the section of country tributary to Savannah that Savannah’s har¬ bor interests require the presence in the House of an experienced man from the First Congressional District, says the Morning News. According to the statement of Col. Mackenzie, who has charge of the river aud harbor division of tho engineer ccrps, the Savannah harbor improvement is going to be given special attention at the next session of Congress. Col. Mackenzie is of the opinion that provision will be made in the river and harbor bill, which it is hoped will be passed before the Christmas holidays, f jr a channel of twenty-eight feet from Savan¬ nah’s wharves to the sea. But it will require the best efforts of an experienced and influential man to get an appropriation for Savan¬ nah’s harbor sufficient to give her a twenty-eight-foot channel. And it is by no means certain that the river and harbor bill can be got through as soon as Col. Mackenzie thinks it can. If an appropria¬ tion should be obtained from this Congress for Savannah’s harbor, other appropriations would doubt¬ less be needed until the work was completed. Therefore an expe¬ rienced man will be urgently needed for several years to repre¬ sent this district in Congress. There are few, if any, men in Congress who have as much expe¬ rience in river and harbor matters as Col. Lester. He has served on the river and harbor committee for years, and he now holds the highest position on the committee that a democrat, i:i a republican Congress, can hold. As pointed out by our correspondent, if the next House should be democratic Col. Lester would be the chairman of the committee, and the chances that the next House will be demo¬ cratic are excellent. What this city and this district should do is this: They should give Col. Lester a majority that would make him feel that his work at Washington is appreci¬ ated. And there is no way in winch this appreciation can be shown so well as by a big majority. A word of praise or a letter of ap¬ proval is highly prized, but it does not have the same effect ou a congressman who is seeking a re election as a big majority. That Col. Lester has rendered excellent service for this district there is no doubt. He has a record of which he has reason to be proud. He has done his toward his constituents. They should now do theirs by him back to Washington by a ger majority than they have him. The Dr»p In Cotton. The Valdosta Times “was surprised at the drop in the price of Sea Island cotton last As soon ns we learned that the ceipts at the port last week greater than they were for the corresponding week last year, were prepared for a decline in price of the Btaple. The was the natural result of the large port receipts. Cut off the receipts at the port and the price should advance again. “The rush to market last week gave buyers the idea that the crop was much greater than reports from the interior would indicate and the decline in price followed. If the crop is as short as the farm¬ ers say it is, there is no reason for hurrying the staple upon the mar¬ kets and thus forcing the price still lower. “Well posted cottou men say that 23 cents is a low price for cottou on the present outlook aud if the staple can be kept out of the market for a few days there will be a reaction in the price. In gathering information about crop conditions, it is to the interest of the growers to make their reports accurate and trustworthy. False reports may bull the price for awhile, but it will not pay in the long run. “Assuming that the reports of a short crop are true, we see no reason why the growers should not hold a stiff upper lip and hold the staple back until the price takes another upward turn.” Southern Industrial Convention In commenting on the approach¬ ing meeting of the Southern In¬ dustrial Convention at New Or¬ leans, the Philadelphia Times says: “The South is today the most inviting field of the world for legitimate employment of both capital aud labor.” Further along in the same article attention is called to the fact that there is a vast amount of surplus capital in the North, particularly in Phila¬ delphia, seeking opportunities for profitable investment. Within the last or two a great deal of Northern capital has been invested in the South. In North Carolina many hundreds of thou¬ sands of dollars have beeu put in silk, cotton and tobacco And there are evidences that the amount of Northern capital will be invested in Southern en¬ terprises in the next few years will be very much greater than that which has already been in¬ vested. But the South must not depend upon Northern capital to open her mines and build factories for her. She is just beginning to accumulate the surplus £ wealth that is necessary for the proper development of her resources. Last year her cotton crop brought $81,000,000 more than the crop of the previous year, and there is no doubt that the crop of this year will bring many millions of dol¬ lars more than the crop of last year. And the cotton seed crop is becoming more valuable every year. The South is fast getting in a position where she will be able to do a vast amount of fac¬ tory building without any assist¬ ance from the North. Indeed, tho greater part of the money that is now being put into factories in the South is furnished by South¬ ern men. What the South needs at this time is a little more agitation in the direction of industrial devel¬ opment. Her people must be made to realize that there is a great deal more money in the long run in cotton factories than in cottou futures. It is a safe state¬ ment that since the Civil War the South has lost ou cotton futures money enough to build a number of factories sufficient to turn the whole of the cottou crop into fabrics. The industrial conventions which are being held in various parts of the South are productive of a great deal of good. They are turning the attention of the peo¬ ple to industrial enterprises and are inspiring them to make great¬ er efforts along the line of indus¬ trial progress. The third annual meeting of the Southern Industrial Convention will he held in New Orleans, be¬ ginning ou Dec. 4 and ending on Dec. 9. Extraordinary efforts being made to attract a large tendance. It is expected prominent men from all parts To The Voters of Bulloch ! The election for President and Representative in Congress occurs on Tuesday, November 6th. The Republicans are organizing and will endeavor to get a big vote in the county, and it is the duty of those who favor Democratic government and desire the election of Bryan and Lester, to go to the polls that day and vote the national Democratic ticket. Bulloch is now happily united, and all that is nec¬ essary is for us to vote. Georgia should give a big vote on that day, and the voters of Bulloch should turn out and roll up a big majority for our ticket. The polls will be open in all the precincts, and any person registered can vote. Don’t forget the day—Tuesday, Nov. 6th, 1900. JOHN F. BRANNEN, Chairman Democratic Executive Com. the South will bo present. In deed, the invitations will not be confined to the South. Subjects in which the South is profoundly interested will be considered. If the attendance is what it is hoped it will be, the effect of the con¬ vention will be to give the South a great boost in the direction of industrial enterprises. A Bill of Divorcement. In the olden times there were circumstances under which a hus¬ band was authorized to give his wife a bill of divorcement. Wheth¬ er that document was required to go through a rigamarole of court proceedings, or was a simple off-hand instrument of writing, is not fully understood. Many of the colored population appear to think it was of the latter class. An example is reported by the Waycross Journal: “Monday afternoon a young col¬ ored man as black as Erebus, and a woman upon whose face char¬ coal would make a light mark, stepped into this office. “‘Say, boss; 1 wants to git somethin’ printed,’ remarked the man, while the woman blushed like sweet sixteen!, “After fumbling in his pockets a few minutes, the man produced a piece of paper upon which was written the following: “ ‘This is to satisfy that Mary Glover, who was once Mary Hut¬ son and married R. G. Glover, don’t live with him no more. I is now known as Mary James, mar¬ ried to George James, and this is to satisfy that R. G. Glover are free to marry who he pleases. This are writ with my free will an’ consent, thank the Lord, Mary Jamgs, once known; as Mary Glover.’ “Glover was asked if he or Mary had ever Lem granted a divorce. << ( No, sail;’ he replied, ‘we don’t live together no mo’. She went off an’ married George James, an’ give me that paper so I could marry agiu when I gits ready. Low Kales to Savannah. The Central of Georgia Railway will sell low rate excursion tickets to Savannah, on account of Elks grand fair and carnival, Nov. 5-17. Tickets will be on sale from all points within the state of Georgia and from Birmingham and Mont¬ gomery, Ala., and intermediate points, Nov. 5, 7, 9, 12, 14 and 16, with final return limit Nov. 18, inclusive. Tickets iuolude ad¬ mission to the fair grounds. The Floral parades and grand night spectacular pageants and wonder¬ ful coronation and court scenes given free upon the streets are well worth the trip to Savannah to see. The Bostock animals, in a $10, 000 gilded palace, $50,000 gondo¬ las, a marvelous mechanical won¬ der; the wonderful Midway at. trtetions and others too numerous to mention. The grandest collec¬ tion of monster shows on earth. For full particulars see any agent of the Central of Georgia Railway. Estray —A black Shepherd dog with white breast and brown legs, named Balsy. Liberal paid for his return to Abram Scoxt, Eual, Ga. Ogeechee Lodge No. 213 F. & A. M. Meet* in regular session 1st Friday at 10 a. m. and 3rd Tuesday at 8 p. m. All members and visit¬ ing brethren are Invited to attend. J. W. WILSON, W. M. W, H. ELLIS, Secty. Jersey Cows. —The undersigned have just received a carload of fine Jersey Cows for sale, and in¬ vite the public to call around aud inspect them. Smith & Oi.i.ifv. Southern Inter-State Fair. For this occasion the Central of Georgia Railway will sell very low rate excursion tickets: One rate for the round trip, plus 50 cents admission to the fair grounds, for civilians. One cent per mile distance traveled for military companies and brass bands in uuiform, twenty or more on one ticket. One-half rate for children between five and twelve years of age. Tickets on sale from all points in the state of Georgia Oct. 9-27 inclusive, and from all points within the states of Ala¬ bama and Florida Oct . 12, 16, 18, 23 and 25—final limit of all tick¬ ets Oct. 30, 1900. ■-- M - * -OT - DO NOT TRESPASS. All parties are hereby iorewarn ed not to hunt or otherwise tres¬ pass upon my lands, under pen¬ alty of the law. Cage Groover. Application fop Discharge. In the District Court of tbs United States for the Eastern Division of the Southern District of Ga. NOTICE OK APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE. In the matter of JESSE NEWMAN, -In Bankinptcy. County of Bulloch. I To the Creditor of the above-named Bankrupt: You are hereby notified that the above-named bankrupt has filed his application for a discharge from allot the debts provable In bankruptcy against said Jesse Newman, of Pembroke, Ga. The said application will be heard hy the Hon. Emory Speer, Judge of the United States District Court, for said District aud Division, at the United States Court House, In Macon, Ga„ on the 5th day of Novem¬ ber, 1900, at ten o’clock, a. m. A11 creditors of said bankrupt are nettled to a; pear at the time and place stated, and show cause, if any they can, why the prayer contained In the said petition should not be granted. Dated in Savannah, Ga., this 23d day of Oct., 1900. H. H. KING. Clerk. finance report Town of Statesboro for Quarter End¬ ing October ist, 1900. July RECEIPTS: 1. To balance Gen. Fund....$125.57 “ “ “ “ Street “ 353.86 .... “ Street tax collected.... 1.50 “ Pound fees.................. 14.55 Stock sold................... 17.10 “ Fines collected............ 60.00 “ Oil barrels soid........... 3.00 “ Note and int. collected 107.17 “ Cemetery lots sold...... 15.00 $737.75 EXPENDITURES. order Street work.......... $ 66.50 “ Marshal’s salary.. 105.00 “ “ Chas. Blocker’s salary,. 64.75 “ “ Stand. Oil Co. lor oil.... 29.99 “ “ Mule board........ 12.00 “ “ For lime............. 10.00 “ “ For merchandise 10.96 “ “ For boarding prisoners 4.75 " “ For lumber and posts.. 55.21 “ “ S. L. Moore for work in Cemetery Marshal . ...................... 8.00 hire elcc’ii day 6.00 Carpenter Haulinglumber.... work............ 14.25 .50 (’leaning Digging well......... 4.50 out wells 3.00 Advertising Mule and pr’ting 50.16 hire...................... 9.75 Mower hire................... 2.26 Pound rent................... 4 50 For repairs................... 3.10 For seal........................ 3.90 For recording papers... 5.85 $474.92 By balance Street Fund.., .$288.86 To balance Fen’l Fund.... . 27.03 Total amount on hand #261.83 FARM LOANS. Brannen & Moore, States boro, Ga., negotiate loans at the lowest rates. tjtjjel FALL SEASON ★ * * Is now upon us, and we are opening at Register a full line of the latest styles and designs in Dry Goods, Notions, Millinery, Shoes. Etc. Prices on these goods will compare favorably with those of all competitors. Our stock of Groceries and Hardware is complete. We handle all goods in large quantities, and give our customers the advantage of our facilities for buying. You are invited to call and inspect our goods and prices. J. W. OLLIFF & lO. - Ga Administrator’s Sale. Apreeabiy to an order of the court of Ordinary of Bulloch county, (minted at the October term of court, will be sold before the court house of said county on the FIRST TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER, 1900, within the legal hours ol sale, the following property, to-wit: A11 that lot of land In the Town of Statesboro, and particularly described as follows, to-wlt: The America A. Olltff house and lot fronting on the side of North Main street, and bounded as follows: North by lands of D. R. Groover, erst by Main street, south by'J.’E. Bruuuen’s Aead west by Town ditch or lands of J. A. Brannon. Sold as the..property of America A. OllilT, late of county, deceased. TERMS OF sale.—O ne-third Cash; one-third In months; one-third in two years; the deferred payments to draw seven f per cent interest and to he secured by mortgage“on land. The Adminis¬ trator also to retain insurance policy on the house. This Oct, 2nd, 1900. J. W. OLLIFF, Administrator. Guardian’s Sale. Agreeably to an order of the Court of Ordinary of Bulloch couniy, will be sold on the FIRST TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER, 1990, at pubic outcry at the court house In said county, between the legal hours of sale, the follow¬ ing described property, to-wlt: All that certain'traet Or parcel or land lying and being in the state and county aforesaid, aud in the 45tli District, G M, thereof, containing Fifty acres, more or less, and bounded as follows: By lands of John T Brannrn, Willaim Uundeewood, Wash Nesmith et al, being the land deeded to children of W F Proctor, deceased, by Seaborn M Proctor in 1887. Sold as the property of the heirs of IV F Proctor, late of said countv, deceased. Terms of Sale—Cash, l his Oct. 10.1900. KITT1E L. I’ROCTOR, Guardian children of W F Proctor, deed. Administrator's Sale. Agreeably io an order of the court of Ordinary of Bulloch county, will be sold at auction at the court house door of said county on the FIRST TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER, 1900, within the legal hours of sale, the following described property to-wit: About 35 bead of stock cattle located ou the W W Olliff home place, near Excelsior, Ga., and about 20 head of stock hogs at the same place. Also, by virtue of the same order, will be sold at the same time, at the residence of the late America A. Olliff, In the Town of Statesboro, the following property to-wit: One One milch cow and calf, one piano, house¬ hold and kitchen furniture, consisting of chairs, tables, bedsteads, table crockery and cutlery, stove aud Bxtures. ‘ Sold the property of America A. Olltff, late of as said county, deceased. Terms—Cash. This Oct. 10th, 1900. J. W. OLLIFF, Administrator. J. F. WILLIAMS. T. J. GRICE. WILLIAMS & GRICE, DEALERS IN FANCY GROCERIES AND LIQUORS. JUG TRADE A SPECIALTY. ‘ Consignments of Country produce Solicited. 340-2 West Broad Street, - M M SAVANNAH, GA. China, glass, rockeryuiars. Another lot of China, Glass and Crockeryware has just been opened up. We can supply your wants in this line, and at prices tliat will please yon. PARKER & SMITH. ORDINARY’S NOTICES. For Leave to Sell Land. I A—Bulloch Cocnty, all whom It may concern: John W. 011111. administrator de bonis non of W. W. 01 lilt, deceased, ha* In due form applied to the undersigned for leave to sell tbs lands belonging to the estate of said deceased, and said application will be passed upon at my office tn Statesboro on the first Monday In NoTember neit. This Oct. 2nd, 1900. C. S. MARTIN. Ordinary. *. C. Fop Leave to Sell Lands. GEORGIA—Bulloch County. To all whom it may concern: B. F. Laniet, administrator of the estate of C. Lanier, sr., deceased, has In due form applied to the undersigned for leave to sell the lands belonging to the estate of said deceased, and said applicatien will be heard on the Drat Monday in November next at my office In Statesboro. This Oct. 2nd, 1900. C. 8. MARTIN. Ordinary. Application’,for Guardianship. GEORGIA—Bulloch County. To all whom It may concern: W. R. Akins Ravine applied for guardianship of the persons aud property of Annie Davis, Janie Davis, Elina Mauldon and Jesse Maulden, mlnoi of America Maulden. late of said county, deceased, notice is hereby given that said applica¬ tion will be heard at my office at'loo’clock, a. m.. on the flrst Monday In November next. This Oct. 1st. 1900. C. S. MARTIN, Ordinary B. C. Letters of Dismission. GEORGIA— Bulloch county. Whereas, Elleanor Kennedy and D. L. Kennedy. Administrators or A. J. Kennedy, deceased, repre¬ to the court In their petition duly Bled and on record, that they have fully administer¬ A. J. Kennedy’s estate. This Is therefore to elte < persons concerned, kindred and credltore, to cause, if any they can, why amid adminlatrators discharged from their administration, and receive letters of dismission on the Brst Men day in November next. This August 7. 1900. C. 8. MARTIN, Ordinary B. C. Letters of Dismission. GEORGIA—Bulloch county. Whereas, Mis. Kate Bland. Administratrix of Ai bury Rland, represents to the court to her petition duly tiled and entered on record, that the has fall' administered Asbury Bland’s estate, This It therefore to cite all persons concerned, kindred ait creditors, to show cause, if any they can. why tall administratrix should not ho discharged from he administration, and receive letters of distillation oi the Brst Monday In November, 1900. This August i, 1900. C. S. MARTIN, Ordinary B.C.