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Farm Labor in Houston.
From all sections of the county
I we are informed that there are not
enough farm laborers to supply the
| demand. Of eaurse there are many
farmers who have all the “hands”
Colonial Government Expensive.
Democracy is correctly opposed to
colonial government, because it is
directly antagonistic to; our federal
constitution and the principles for
which our forefathers fought in the
they need, but in every neighbor-' revolutionary war.
j-no.H.noDGES. Editor and Publisher j hood there are some farmers who; There are other reasons for oppo-
j have been “short” of labor since the sition to colonial government, and
beginning of the year.- j one of these is given by our Wash-
Were we to judge by the number. ington correspondent, as follows:
L...... . . . n nn j of negroes who come to Perry every j “Judging from an article by Rob-
file °at the office oE^>or Washinsrton cor- Satoday afternoon, we wonld un-j ert T. Hill, who has made a careful
respondent, E. G, Siggers, 918 F. Street, hesitatingly say there ought not to;study of the subject, Porto Rico
__ _ — ’ 1 n ” u ~ may "well shrink from being kept un
der a permanent colonial govern
ment, as the islands of the West In
Perry, Thursday, May 28.
i’eapuuuDui;, T\ n
N. W., Washington, D. C.
be any scarcity of labor.
But wd have learned to our dis
gust that a large number of negroes
in a community does not always
mean an equally large number of
farm laborers. On the other hand,
A thousand bales of cotton were J we have learned that there is an in-
destroyed by fire in Selma, Ala., last creasingly large number of negroes
Seven new railroads are now in
course of construction in North Car
olina.
in Houston whose purpose seemingly
j is to work no more than is absolute
ly necessary to earn enough to
eat and wear.
It seems, therefore, that the scar
city is because of the disinclination
to work, and their unreliability, rath
er than an actual lack of numbers.
'Recently this writer has been pro-
| voked by negroes promising to work,
and then failing without excuse or
I notice. In several instances these
violations of promise were by ne
groes who had been regarded as re-
I liable.
Rumor says the Brunswick & Bir- If this conditions continues, our
mingham railroad will be built farmers will have to protect them-
through Eufaiila Ala., citizens of selves against the lack of farm la-
that city having subscribed $80,000. borers, and their unreliability. The
method may be the use of labor-sav-
Thursday.
In West Virginia, Kentucky and
Ohio an earthquake shock was dis-1
tinctly felt last Thursday,
It is said that $8,000 was recent
ly paid for 32 English Berkshire |
pigs for Vanderbilt’s farm at Bilt-
more, N. C.
Southern farmers will not realize
a full measure of profit in their bus- j
mess until they utilize the labor-sav-j
ing implements at their command.
in g plows, planters, cotton choppers,
cultivators, etc., or it may be through
a change in the system of farming.
At any rate, the shiftless, unrelia
ble negro should not be permitted to
jeopardize the farming interests.
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Confederates in Northern Graves.
From New York it is reported that
a rival of the Morgan steel trust is j
in process of formation. The capital
of the new combine is said to be i
$200,000,000.
The manufacturers of cotton duck
have joined forces by means of a big
corporation with millions of capital,
and several Georgia mills are in the On this subject our Washington
combination. | correspondent says:
“The war department has awarded
While there are one million cot- I contracts for the removal of the
ton spindles in operation in Georgia, Confederate dead from the cemetery
there is profitable room for many at the Soldiers’Home and other lo-
more. Only six states operate more cal graveyards to the National Cem
spindles than Georgia.
The new building of the New
York Stock Exchange will be built
of G-eorgia marble, and this material
is gaining popularity steadily be-
cause of its superior durability and j pj 0 ^
beauty.
etery at Arlington, where they will
be grouped on a beautiful plot of
acres. The graves will be arranged
within a circle surrounding a mound
upon which will be placed flowers
and shrubbery, the remainder of the
being planted with similar
Atlanta political agitators say
Georgia’s public property fund will
be the basis of the chief issue in the
next Georgia campaign, and that
Hon. Dupont Guerry will be a can
didate for governor.
The late speculation panic in the
New York stock exchange caused
many failures in London, England,
in Washington and other cities of
the United States. Only the “small
fry” suffered fatally in New York.
There should be some process of
the government that would squeeze
all the “water” out of the great man
ufacturing and commercial stock
companies. Then the immense pow
er of great combines would be ma
terially curtailed.
, Cuba’s convention delegates to the
United States report to the conven
tion in favor of the demands of this
country concerning the relations be
tween the United States and Cuba,
as set forth in the Platt amendment
adopted at the last session of con-
growth, including, trees native to
Southern soil. A bill appropriating
the money necessary for the removal
of the bodies was passed by congress
some time ago and the work would
have been carried out last fall, had
it not been for some opposition that
was aroused in the South. Accord
ingly, the removal was postponed for
several months, to allow time for the
list of the dead to be published in
the South with the statement that if
the friends of any particular person
desired to take their dead elsewhere,
they would be at liberty to do so.”
Two companies of Georgia state
troops will go to Andersonville on
national decoration day, May 30tb,
and co-operate with the sheriff of
Sumter caunty in preventing disor
der. For many years it has been the
custom of rowdy negroes to go there
in large numbers on this day, and
engage in all manner of disorder,but
good order will be maintained this
year. Several northern governors will
deliver addresses.
dies, beautiful and healthy and fer
tile as they are, have been reducec
almost to absolute ruin by that sort
of management. As Mr. Hill points
out, there are eight European colo
nial governments in the small group
of islands composing the Lesser An
tilles. Each of these groups, with
the average area of an American
county, has an administrative esfab
lishment. as large as that of an
American state, and each official
draws a salary from two to five
times as great as that paid the av
erage American public servant. The
expenses and. revenue of Jamaica,
for instance, are exactly the same as
those of the state of Texas, which
has seventy times the area and five
times the population of this British
dependency. The population anc
wealth of the islands are not snffi
cient to support more than one
small and efficient administrative
force, but they are taxed to support
eight governments, for places must
be made for political favorites anci
younger sons who cannot be cared
for in their native lands. Porto Ri
co has already had a taste of this
the result being evident already in
the misery that exists there.”
Weather conditions now do not
warrant such effusions as th« follow
ing, written last week by a Hollins
head correspondent of The Home
Journal: .“Poets, philosophers and
their kin, like a little nonsense now
and then. Our Uncle Sam certainly
has a large bureau for ever so many
to view, and they seem to have seen
the same thing for the last three
weeks when they looked in the south
side of the mirror, and that was
fair to-night and. to-morrow.’ It
almost makes one wish that ojar very
dear uncle had no place to store his
garments,and then he or his servants
wouldn’t have occasion to look at
that bureau and mirror, so much.”
Many women have been re-
proaced for living for the sole ob
ject of entertaining. No one
doubts that such an aim is petty
and narrowings but it is equally
certain that it is a woman’s duty
to understand The Art of Enter
taining, and this forms the sub
ject of an attractive and useful
article by Lady Jeune in The
Cosmopolitan for May.
Fifty thousand machinists, chief
ly in the east and middle west, quit
work on a strike last Monday. They
demanded a nine-hour day with the
same pay as had been given for ten
hours, and among other things an
agreement to submit future differ
ences to arbitration.
From the Hawkinsville Dispatch
and News we learn that “Hon. G. Y.
Gross of Wilcox county will be in I
On Tuesday of next week the old
members of the Adelphean and Phi-
lomathean societies of Wesleyan Fe
male College will meet in reunion at
the college, and a most interesting
program will be presented. Wednes
day evening the visitors will be giv-
the next race for congress from the
•third district. He is the present J on a reception by the Macon mem-
" ‘ bers of the societies. All old mem
bers who desire to attend are re
quested to write to Mrs. J. B. Ccbb,
Macon, Ga.
^representative of Wilcox, and is one
of that county’s wealthiest and most
influential citizens.”
The United States Supreme court
has sustained the Supreme court of
Georgia in the decision that a city
can levy tax on its own property
when that property is leased to an
other corporation, or individuals.
The case in question was carried up
from Savannah.
For the ten months just passed,
the exports from the United States
doubled the imports in value. In the
month of April the total value of the
expvots was $120,780,590, while the
imports amounted to $76,750,381.
With such a balance in our favor,
there doesn’t seem to be any need
for a protective tariff. „
We have received a copy of the
United Confederate Veterans March,
composed by Theo H. Nortlirup and} Thursday, on account of - the se
published by O. K. Houck & Co., of nous illness of his wife. She ia re-
Memphis, Tehn., especially- for the | covering, though it whs expected on
reunion next week. Competent (nit- j Friday and Saturday that she could
ics commend this march as superior &ot live,
music, admirably adapted to the
President McKinley discontinued
I his tour of the west at San Francisco
purpose of its creation, and destined
to become quite popular. %
Organization vs organization seems
to be the strike case.
The Pan-American Exposition at
Buffalo, N. Y., was formally dedica
ted last Monday. Citizens of nearly
every country of the world were in
the parade.
Andrew Carnegie has donated £2,-
000,000 to the universities in Scot
land.
—Mr. Josiah Bass, one of Hous
ton’s prominent citizens, writes
as follows: “After trying various
remedies, without obtaining any
benefit, I was cured sound and well
by Mncalee Chill Stop. It is the
best remedy in.existence for chills,
fever and malaria.” Every bottle
guaranteed. It costs you nothing
if it fails to cure. Sold by drug
gists at 50 cts. Manufactured by
H. J. Lamar & Sons, Macon, Ga
GEORGIA, Houston County.
A. D. Skellie, administrator of the es
tate of J. G. Visseher,.deceased, has ap
plied for. dismission, from said trust.
This is therefore to cite all persons
concerned to appear at the Angnst
term, 1901, of the court of Ordinary of
said county and show cause, if any they
have, why said application should not
be granted.
Winess my official signature this
May 6,1901.
SAM T. HURST, Ordinary.
FASHIONABLE OLOTHlNS
F0R MEN MS B0YS.
SPRING 1901.
We are ready with our complete stock of
Spring. Suits from ....
Clothing for
$7.50 to $25.00.
Orders by mail carefully filled and
satisfaction guaranteed.
Jno. C. Eads Co.,
MACON, GA.
It’s Foolish
to take chances with an un
certainty. It’s wise to inves
tigate where everything is in
your favor. Our store pro-
uides she best clothing you
can have, at the best prices
you could find. There is ev
ery reason why yon should in
vestigate and be safe in the
inspection.
BURNETT & GOODMAN,
Third Street, Macon, Ga.
CALDER B. WILLINGHAM, JR.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Crockery, Stoves, Lamps AND House-
Furnishing Goods.
A COMPLETE LINE OF CRINAWARE
TRIANGULAR BLOCK, MACON, GA.
Hitting the Nail on the Head
Is what you do every time
you buy your
Lumber, Sash,
Doors,
Mouldings,
Blinds,
Trimmings
and all kinds of mill work and builders supples from our
superior stock. Builders and contractors will find that
:hey get a superior grade of lumber and workmanship in
their line at lower prices than they can get elsewhere.
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Phone 187.
T31JLRTIIS <Sc
FORT VALLEY, GA.
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Sash and boor Co..
-DEALERS IN-
Mantels, Paint, Lumber,
Lime, Cement,
Builders’
Hardware, Etc
NO. 457 Third Street. Macon, Ga.
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