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THE TIMES
Is* Far in the Lerul.
By A. C. TURNER & SON.
Removal.
Removal.
BBT REMOVAL SALES!
n*#s
EYEHYTUIHa AT THE
*. ♦ IPorlb’s fair Store*
jflmt be sold ere moving
into their new quarters, Sept.
15th, 1898.
BIG BARGAINS
offered for the me.vt thirty days.
The power of money will be
quickly told, for it i is surprising
how cheap a «■ oodi will be sold.
NOTHING LIKE IT
lias ever been offered to the peo*
pie of Bulloch County; so every'
on© is cordially invited to come
to the World’s Fair Store and
sue 3 the winders^- what quantities
of goods bought there for little
money, as everything must be
w '
sold within the next thirty days
We reserve nothing, as we want
to sell off our entire stock ot
goods, consisting (if Ol*y Goods,
Notions, Clothing, Shoes, Hats,
etc . ere moving into our new
store, whieh is being erected for
us hv Dr. Holland, and every
*/
thing in the way of goods must be
converted into money, as we in¬
tend placing before the trade an
cn.ire new stock of goods bought
direev from northern and eastern
markets for the fall and winter
trade, Kind ant! polite attention
given everyone, i and an early
call is solicited, by,
A. \V. BATTM,
tUKfi. WORLD’S FAIR STORE,
Statesboro,
BULLOCH TIMES.
Statesboro, Bulloch County, Georgia, Thursday, Aug. 17,1803.
Bulloch County Directory.
Ordinary—-0. S. Martin, Statesboro.
Clerk C it—Harrison Olliff, Statesboro.
Sheriff—W. H. Waters, Statesboro.
Tax Receiver—W. 1$. Akins, Exceisior.
Tax Collector—I. 0 . DeLoach,Harville. Statesboro.
Treas'r—.Tosinli Zettrower, Proctor.
Surveyor—H. J. Proctor, Statesboro. jr.,
Coroner—T. A. Waters, Hall, W. P.
Board of Education—W. N.
Donaldson, .1. C. Crumley, It. P. Miller
and Algarene Trapnell. Hagin, Belknap.
School Com.—J. S.
JUSTICES ANl) NOTARIES.
44th. J. B. Rushing, Justice, Green.
R. R. McCorkell, Jstc. &Not'y,Green.
4oth. Geo. Trapnell, Justice,Parrish.
4<>th. R- F. Stringer, Justice.
llardv'M. Lanier, Notary. Jvanhoe.
47th. U. M. Davis, Justice, Harville.
W. J. Richardson, Notary,
4Hth. J. R. Williams, Justice, Zoar.
W. H. McLean, Notary, Brag.
1209th. J. W. Rountree, Jstce., St’sboro.
J. B. Lee, Notary, Statesboro.
1230th. A. C. Clifton, Justice, Bloys.
E. W. Cowart, Notary, Bloys. Harville.
1340th. J.W.Donaldson,Justice, Enal.
Samuel Harville, Notary,
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
ts*) M. HOLLAND, M. I).,
Statesboro, (5a.
J. 11 HIRES, M. D ,
Excelsior, Cl a.
All calls promptly answered.
jryR.J. S. DUSENBURY,
Practicing Physician,
Statesboro, Ga.
All calls promptly answered.
D U. Ik 11. Miller,
Practicin£ Physicicm,
Butch, Ga.
All calls promptly attended to.
j. McLEAN,
Jm
Dentist,
States boko, Ga.
j^OBKRT LEE MOORE V
Attorney-at-Law,
Statesboro, Ga.
Practices in all the Courts; and nego¬
tiates loans on fanning lands.
H. B. STRANGE.
Attorney-a t-Law,
Statesboro, Ga.
H. (i i:\T.lttTT.
Attorney-at-Law,
Statesboro, Ga.
Will practice in courts of the middle circuit.
J. A. BUANNEN,
AI tor ’ ney-a t-Law,
Statesboro, (5a.
Q S. JOHNSTON,
Attorney-at-Law,
Statesboro, Ga.
^ VV. SUTTTON,
Ton sari at Artist,
Statesboro, Ga.
Shaving aw) Hair Cutting in the neatest
Manner, aud in the very latest, Styles.
Harris Hotel,
Statesboro, Ga., Opposite Court House Square.
Having leased this Hotel I propose to
operate it in first-class style. The rooms
are large and well ventilated.
Table Supplied with the Very Best.
Board by the day, week op month at
reasonable rates. Miih. \\ . M. 11 arkih,
4-ltf Proprieti*ens.
I^ee Hotel,
Statesboro, Georgia,
^rs. Margaret Lee, Proprietress.
Tables supplied with t lie fiewt the market
affords. Good board by the month at rea¬
sonable rates. Itespoctfully invite nyv friends
from the country, anti the public generally to
stop with me when in town.
ROUNTREE HOTEL,
Statesboro, Ga.
Table supplied with the best the market af¬
fords. Rooms -nicely furnished. Comfort of
our ffuests our greatest aim. Come and make
yourself at home at the Rountree Hotel, near
the’_depot.
HIRAM FRANKLIN
Proprietor.
Headstones and Monuments,
I am now prepared to furnish Headstones
and Monuments at lowest posible pin es.
1). C. MOCK,
lEelkiiap, Georgia
J. P. WILLIAMS. s'. A. O. CARSON.
J. P. WILLIAMS & CO.,
Gen. Commission Merchants,
Naval Stores, Cotton.
No. 120 Bay Street.
savannah. qj!
A BOLD SCHEME.
Washington, August 10.—What
is believed to be a very extensive
conspiracy to defraud the govern¬
ment is now being unearthed by
the inspectors of the postoffice de¬
partment. C. P. Barrett, of Spar¬
tanburg, S. C., who is said to be the
head conspirator, has been arrested
upon what is believed to be positive
proof of his guilt.
The story as told by the post
office officials is substantially as
follows: Early in the last adminis¬
tration Barrett succeeded in get¬
ting himself and a friend appointed
as postoffice referees in the Spar¬
tanburg district. The officials of
the department were expected to
refer to them all applications for
appointments as postmasters on
that section, together with all
questions as to the establishment
of postoffice, etc.
Barrett it is said at once began
operations and succeeded in getting
from 25 to 50 new offices located
in York, Greenville, Pickens and
other counties in his section of the
state. It has since been discovered
that in many cases the postmaster
was the only patron of bis office
and by false returns as to cancel¬
lation of stamps a very good in¬
come was obtained. In some of
the cases the bonds furnished are
said to be bogus. Barrett also had
himself appointed as special mail
carrier to these offices, which was
another source of rev( ime. It is
also said that some of these post¬
masters procured printed letter
heads and by taking advantage of
their position as postmaster and
by giving as references Barrett and
a number of the other postmasters
in the deal succeeded in getting
credit for pianos, sewing machines,
etc., from city dealers. Altogether
the scheme is said to have been a
very extensive and profitable one.
Several of the parties are now in
jail and additional developments
are expected.
Washington, Aug. 12.—Capt. C.
P. Barrett, under arrest at Spar¬
tanburg, S. C., for alleged complic¬
ity in postal frauds, was given a
preliminary hearing yesterday be¬
fore United States Commissioner,
and committed to jail in default of
$00,000 bond, pending the action
of the grand jury. Barrett was ar¬
rested on three charges: First, of
defrauding the government of its
revenues; second, of using the
mails to defraud; and third, con¬
spiracy to defraud. He was at
first hoi 1 in the sum of $1,500 on
each count, but at the preliminary
hearing his bond was increased to
the sum stated.
The case is one of great interest
to the department, because of
adroitness of the swindlers, and
because of the years of labor which
the department has expended in
their detection and capture.
SEYMOUR’S PROJECTED FEAT.
Hillsboro, Ill., Aug. 8.—The
mind reader, A. J. Seymour, is gen¬
erally known in Illinois, and his
proposed attempt to be buried and
remain in the ground while a crop
of barley is grown on his grave
creates interest in this state. Dr.
E. C. Dunn of Rockford nas been
selected bj Seymour as manager.
Dr. Dunn says:
“There is no question that this
feat can be performed. 1 have
seen it performed successfully
tiiree times in India at Allahabad,
Delhi and Benares. For several
days Sey incur wil 1 be fed upon a diet
of fat and heat producing food.
He will then throw himself in a
cataleptic state, the lungs will be
filled with pure air to their fullest
capacity, and the tongue placed
back and partially down the throat
in such a manner as to completely
close the aperture to the lungs.
The nose, eyes, and ears will be
hermetically sealed with wax. Af
ter parafine has been spread over
the entire body to close the pores
it will be ready for burial. The
body will be putin an extra large j
casket. This will be placed in
side another and both will be per
fora ted, in order that if any poi
sonous gases exude from the body
they may make their escape and be
absorbed by the soil. The inter
ment is to be made in a clay soil.”
A HOSPITAL FAKER.
The physicians at a number of
the local hospitals are mystified,
says the Philadelphia Record,
over the actions of a German
named August Hohme, who is un¬
doubtedly the most artistic hospi¬
tal beat who has ever worked the
game in this city. He has the
remarkable power of running his
temperature away up above fever
heat, and has been known to get it
as high as 114 degrees. In addi¬
tion to this he can spit blood at
will, and has other equally useful
ways of working upon sympathies
of the soft-hearted persons.
Hohme was brought into the
nineteenth district station house
on Thursday evening by officer
Carr. He was picked up on the
street in a tainting condition by
the policeman, and conveyed to
the station house in a wagon. Up¬
on recovering consciousness he
was suffering from Bevere internal
injuries, and began spitting blood.
Seeing that the man was a German,
the officers sent him off to the
German hospital with many mani¬
festations of sorrow at his deplor¬
able condition.
Scarcely an hour had elapsed,
however, before an ambulance re¬
turned to the station house with
Hohme inside. It was noticed
that he had no difficulty in walk¬
ing up the steps this time, al¬
though he had to be carried down
when he left for the hospital.
With the alleged sick man was a
note to the sergeant from Dr. G.
H. Hughes, of the German hospi¬
tal staff, saying that the man was
an impostor, and had been dis¬
charged front that insti' cion on
July 21.
Hohme was locked up in a cell,
and the police started out to in
vestigate his case, It was found
that he had worked nearly all the
hospitals in the city by his eccen¬
tric methods. At the German
hospital it was said that by some
strange means he would work his
temperature up. and on one occa¬
sion the instrument registered 114°
under the armp’t. In ordinary
cases 110° is regarded as fatal, and
by careful watching the doctors
found that he worked his temper
ature up by artificial methods
when he thought the instruments
were about to be applied. Greatly
mystified, the physicians us^d
every effort to make him tell the
secret, but the strange patient was
obstinate, and absolutely refused
to divulge the trick.
About a week ago, Hohme was
admitted to the University hospi¬
tal, where he was recognized as
having formerly worked his little
game. The staff there determined
to adopt extreme measures to gel
rid of him, and diagnosed his case
as kidney trouble, telling him that
an operation would be necessary.
One of the young doctors was dis¬
patched for the instruments, and
when Hohme canglit sight of the
keen-edged knives he evidently
thought the game had gone far
enough. Loudly protesting that
his kidneys were all right, and that
he felt ever so much better, he beg
ged them to postpone the opera¬
tion. But they paid no heed to
his entreaties, and began sharpen¬
ing the instruments. This was
too much for Hohme, and with a
wild yell, he sprang from his couch,
and, before he could be stopped,
jumped out of the window, and
went tearing down the street at the
top of hi* speed.
Experiences of a similar nature
were related at St. Agnes’
other hospitals where the German
had worked his games. This evi¬
dence was submitted yesterday,
when Magistrate Devlin committed
him to the house of correction for
vagrancy, N ■ sooner did Hohme
hear the sentence than he was
seized with a violent fit of cough¬
ing and began to spit blood, Dr.
Loder, the district surgeon, was
hastily'summoned, and declared
that the man was in no condition
to be sent to the house of correc
tion. After considerable parley, in
which Dr. Loder maintained that
he could not be mistaken, the
matter was compromised by send
ing the man to the alms house,
where he could receive treatment
at the Philadelphia hospital.
For If'ir»t-ClaH» Job Work
THE TIMES
«TuHt Wont be Equaled.
COURT HOUSE BURNED DOWN.
Albany, Aug. 9.—The court
house of Worth county, situated
at Isabella, the county site, was
comptetely destroyed by fire this
morning at 2 o’clock, and great
excitement prevails in consequence
of the universal belief that incen¬
diaries are guilty of the burning.
All the county records, includ¬
ing the school commissioner’s
books, were lost, with the excep¬
tion of some papers stored in the
safe, and two books belonging in
the office of the clerk. The total
insurance amounts to $3,000, a
part of whieh covers the building
to its full value.
there i. no the
guilty parties, but vigorous meas
ures are to be institured for the
purpose of running them to the
ground.
The agitation of the question of
removing the court house to Syl¬
vester has long stirred the people
of Worth, and no*v the non-romov
alists lay the crime at the door of
the leaders en the other side of
the question. The removal men
claim that the opponents of re¬
moval, feeling that they were los
iuggroundas the question grew more
complicated, and, as the property
was fully covered by insurance,
fired the court house in order to be
given an opportunity to accuse
the removal men of the crime.
The more probable suspicion is
that it was either tired by land
sharks, in order to destroy certain
deeds, or else by the friends of
some criminal to kill some written
evidence. The county jail, which
stands very near the court house,
had a pretty close call, and three
negro prisoners were terribly
frightened and alarmed the village
with their yells of terror.
This is the third time Worth
county’s court house has been de¬
stroyed since 1881.
SENSATIONAL SUITS.
Atlanta, Aug., 9,—F. \V. MiinJlf
a stockholder and real estate in¬
vestor, who is well known as an
exceedingly active church and
Young Men’s Christain Associa¬
tion Worker, being one of the
leading lights in the latter, is a
defendant to a sensational suit filed
in the clerk’s office of the superior
court today. Miller is charged
with having defrauded an ignorant
negro contractor out of $3,000 by
making changes in the specifica¬
tions by which Charles Scott, the
contractor, was building a number
of houses for him. Scott cannot
read. Several days ago Scott had
Miller arrestedjor obtaining from
him by fraud a deed to $5,000
worth of property. Scott had
signed the deed, not knowing what
it was. When arrested Miller,
who had the deed recorded, agreed
lo cancel it, and this settled this
part of the case. In the bill filed
today Scott’s attorney refers to
Miller as one in whom his client
had great confidence because he is
a great church member and Sun¬
day school and Young Men’s Chris¬
tian Association man, but “who
covers his fraudulent dealings un¬
der the cloak of religion and
veneers his dishonest conduct with
a pious garb.”
The Right* of • Pastor.
An unusual question came up recently
before the officers of a Methodist con¬
gregation in Rochester, lad. The pastor
of the church was opposed to spiritual¬
ism. He attacked it from his pulpit
with, as it were, both the sword of the
Lord and of Gideon, according to the
report He censured spiritualists in no
measured terms, and hinted of dark do¬
ing in dark circles. The spiritualists
of Rochester felt outraged. There are
now a million spiritualists in the world,
and a considerable number of them are
found in every town and village. Often
they are among prominent citizens, as
happened in the Rochester case. The
editor of the Rochester paper is an out¬
spoken spiritualist, and his fellow be¬
lievers naturally found their spokesman
in him through the columns of his
paper. The result was a fight It cul¬
minated finally in the pastor publicly
announcing that certain Methodist
ladies who were spiritualists would be
dropped henceforth from the roll ef
membership in his church. The outcry
was then greater than ever.
May spiritualists, for the reason that
they are spiritualists, be dismissed from
Christian church membership? Further,
has the pastor the right to expel mem¬
bers from a church for this reason?
Here are two important questions,
VOL. 2-NO. 12.
COTTON MANUFACTURINI IN THE
SOUTH.
The Boston Journal of Commerce
says that there is a good deal of
sense in the following from The
Textile Recorder, Manchester, Eng¬
land.
“The manufacturers of the north¬
ern states in America are beginning
to experience much the same sort
of feeling which English cotton
manufacturers have had towards
the growth of Indian cotton spin¬
ning. The whole of the spindles
in the southern states are a mere
fraction of those in the north, hut
they are sufficient to cause the
owners of the latter considerable
trepidation. A fifty-four hour law
is being suggested in Massachu
be ; ng ma(le
“We venture to express an opin¬
ion that in all this there is a spice
of foolish panic. The capacity of
the southern mills is at present,
and is likely to be for some years,
very limited, being confined to the
cojarser counts which can be readily
spun by the labor available. The
organization aud skill necessary
for the proper manufacture of the
bettor classes of goods cannot be
cultivated like a weed, but require for
as much careful treatment
many years as it does to produce
the better grades of cotton itself.
“That the project of bringing the
mills near the cotton fields has in
it something at once romantic and
appearently practical may be
granted, but the temperature of a
cotton-growing district is not nec¬
essarily the best adapted for cot¬
ton spinning. The amount which
is saved by proximity to the raw
material is not necessarily an un¬
mixed advantage, and there are
many cases which can be cited to
show this. A selection often wants
to be made, and this is sometimes
a difioult thing if only the material
from a particular section is at
hand, at any rate there is uo doubt
that the transfer of the manufac¬
turing from the northern to the
southern statos will take a north¬ long
time, but that iu the interim
ern spitjners will find it necessary
to alter their methods so as to
produce finer yarns, leaving the
coarser qualities to their southern
epmnoitors.”
Our New and v ^o«land CCY*
petitors are doubtletW .floods,
asserting that it will take a long
time for the cotton mills to be
transferred to the south, but our
Manchester contemporary is de¬
ceiving itself in comparing cotton
manufacturing in the south to cot¬
ton manufacturing in India. In
1880 the south consumed less than
200,000 1 ales of cotton. In 1890
the consumption had increased to
over 500,000 bales.
It will doubtless take a long time
for the transfer of cotton manu¬
facturing from the northern to the
southern states, but our eastern
and English friends deceive them¬
selves in supposing that there is
anything in the temperature of
the cotton-growing section against
successful and profitable cotton
manufacturing. It is only a ques¬
tion of time. All that are needed
are capital and skill. The natural
conditions are not against the
South which has the advantages
of sun, material, climate, water
power and coal. Of coarse it will
take time to transfer the seat of
cotton manufacturing to the South,
but that it, is coming we have no
more doubt than that the Savan¬
nah river empties itself into the
Atlantic ocean .-Augusta Chronicle.
STEAM ENGINE STOLEN.
Sylvania, Ga., August 10.—A
very strange and unusual case of
stealii g has been recently reported
here. In the spring of the present
year a steam engine and boilers
were levied on under a judgment
execution, and sold at public out¬
cry to the highest bidder, the firm
who sold the machinery bidding it
in through their attorneys.
In the meantime they have been
looking for buyers and the ma¬
chinery remained where it was
about one mile from Sylvania. A
few weeks ago some one passing
discovered that the whistle was
missing, aud in makiug some in¬
vestigation he ascertained some of
the other parts were gone. The
matter was reported, but little at¬
tention being paid to it, the ma¬
rauders continued their depreda¬
tions upon the old machihery till
there is nothing left except the na¬
ked boiler, the engine and boiler
attachments having been literally
carried off piece by piece.