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.A.-i au -A-iivertisins Medium 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.