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- — 'v-tMMs ;; r - . PRICE, SI.SO A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Published Every Thursday Morning. Jno. H. i to D GUD 8, Editor and Publisher .i.'.y itt L * Perry, Thursday, May 8. Which? That’s the question. Comptroller Wright is refusing to accept the tax returns of all rail roads that show any decrease in val uation. • — Labor strides may occupy much • attention in the coal and iron re gions and in the large cities within the next several weeks. fr 4* Fob taxation the Central of Geor gia Railway property is valued at $10,932,684, an increase of $144,626 over the valuation of last year. At Dallas, Texas, the general con ference of the Methodist Episoopal Church South ss now in session,with about 300 delegates attending. Capt. R. P. Hobson, of Santiago harbor fame, contemplate entering politics as a candidate for state sen ator fron the 32d senatorial district of Alabama. * Archbishop Corrigan, one of the most distinguished Roman Catholic prelates in the United States, died at his home in New York city last Monday night. —• ♦-•-4 Arthur Price, convicted in Bibb Superior court of murder—killing Mrs. R. J. Rowland, an aged white lady—was hung in Macon last Fri day. He confessed his guilt. W o « Hon. Amos J. Cummings of New York, one of the ablest and most faithful democratic congressmen, died several days ago. He had been in continuous service since 1887. Those who trust in the republican party to ‘•bust” the trusts, have ex ceedingly slender foundation for their trust. This might be termed trust without faith in a faithless irul The Supday School Institute of the South Georgia Conference will conclude its session at Dublin May 8th, The Central favored the con ference with very low passenger rates. At Macon next Saturday the Grand Counoil Royal Arcanum of Georgia will oonolude its session, begun Wednesday. Round trip tick ets over the Central for 1£ fare— minimum rate 75 cents. Op social interest to the young people of this section, is the author ized announcement that on June 28th Miss Louise Frederick of Mar- shallville will be married to Hon. J. E. Hays of Montezuma. The first Cuban congress convened at Havana last Monday. On May 20th President Palma will be inau gurated and United States control will be formally transferred to the government of the Cuban Republic. Notwithstanding the earnest pro test of the business organizations* firms and citizens of Savannah • against the appointment of a negro as collector of customs at that port, President Roosevelt reappointed De- veaux. Friday, May 9 th, will be Valdosta Day at the Interstate and West In- diau Exposition at Charleston, S. C., and the Plant System will sell round trip tickets for $2.60. It is said at least 1,000 Valdosta people will be in Charleston that day. — Last week Admiral Schley was enthusiastically received and enter tained in Tennessee and Mississippi cities, fhe enmity of the navy de partment and of the republican ad ministration has not in any degree lessened the esteem of the people for Admiral Schley as the chief of the naval victors at Santiago. >~o-. The parent who permits or re quires his boys to stay at home dur ing the school term is derelict in parental duty. Education is a pow erful factor in business life. With out it the full measure of success cannot be attained. Boys who do not acquire a fair education will as men occupy the lower positions in busi ness life. Congressional Politics. The proceedings of the United States congress, house and senate, are making record of one of the prettiest games of politics ever plac ed before any people. The republican majority is large enough for- all party purposes, and the first purpose of all republican representatives and senators is that there shall be no legislation calcula ted to affect that majority unfavora bly in the coming election. Pitted against this purpose is the demo cratic desire to make such record as will cause the people to so vote that the democratic minority may be changed to a majority in the next congress. Strauge as it may seem, the dem ocrats have succeeded in placing the republicans into a defensive attitude on all questions involving party pol itics. In all the discussions of array and navy affairs, involving Cuba, Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, with the numerous investigations of offi cial conduct of officers and men, the democrats have been aggressive and the republicans defensive. On tariff questions, involving re ciprocity with Cuba, the republicans have been forced to defend them selves against the charge of cham pioning the demands of the corpo rations against the interests of the people. The same is true of the ship subsidy bill. In the investigation of oharges of cruelty in conducting the war in the Pailippines, the democrats have placed themselves in the attitude cf aggressive searchers after truth in behalf of humanity, the republicans acting as if they were paid attor neys for the defense. In all efforts to defeat the absorb ing greed of the trustB that arbitra rily control prices contrary to the interests of the people, the demo crats have been in close alignment with the people, while the republi cans defend the trusts and deny the allegations against them.' So far the democrats seem to have the best of the argument on their side, though the republicans get hII the legislation they demand in tie name of the party. The showing now is decidedly fa vorable to the democrats, and the hope is strong that in the November elections enough republican con gressmen will be displaced to give the democrats a safe working ma jority in the next House of Repre sentatives. If this proves a correct prediction, the ehances of electing a democratic president in 1904 will be very much increased. i . m>* Parties from beyond Montezuma say the work of grading the Atlantic & Birmingham road between Mon tezuma aud Oordele is going on with astonishing rapidity. The line is divided into sections, under charge of different contractors, each working toward the other. It is said that at the present rate, there is no doubt that trains will be running in to Montezuma by September 1, and into Oglethorpe very soon thereaf ter.—Macon County Citizen. Concerning the selection of a site for the proposed Presbyterian school within the bounds of the Macon Presbytery, the Americus Herald of last week says: “A committee ap pointed by the Macon Ppresbytery to select a site for the Presbyterian College were in Americus on a tour of inspection. After looking at the grounds here, they will visit Oor dele, Abbeville, Thoinasville aud Co lumbus. Americus hopes to get the College.” *-•-* Andrew Carnegie is credited with saying that there is no other desti ny for the United Kingdom but an nexation to the United States. That, “She must look across the Atlantic to the children of her own blood and finally enter the Union as six or eight states—Scotland, Ireland and Wales, one each, and England di vided into two, perhaps three,” In a lengthy letter to the citizens of South Carolina, Senator McLau- rin declines to enter the democratic primary campaign of that state as a candidate for i’e-election. He de clares that the primary in South Carolina has been prostituted and perverted into a political machine, and that Senator Tillman is the dic tator of that machine. Thid action is regarded as a formal withdrawal from the democratic party. . . ■>" ■ . — Choose the best hl'ways. Spice in the Campaign. In a speech at Forsyth last Satur day Col. J. M. Ten-ell changed his tactics somewhat. Heretofore he has spoken entirely of his record and his platform, but on this occa sion he paid his respects to Col. Guerry in lively style. He did not mention Guerry’s name, but iu denying the charges against himself, he spoke of “anoth er candidate for governor, the would- be reformer,” and in criticising the methods of that candidate he used the following expressions, and others of like character: Vile slander, with out reference to truth, statements maliciously false, low level, changes front to catch voteH, malicious and false, malicious insinuation, feeds his ambition on misrepresentation and Blander, a falsehood out of whole cloth, dirty politics, blackguardism and abuse. He said the would-be reformer voted against a local option bill in the senate, and now poses as a pro hibitionist to catch votes. In reply Mr. Guerry says he has never indulged in any abuse, and is surprised at Terrell’s “bitterness and recklessness.” He says his record in the senate, as the journal will show, is consistent with his present decla rations, and asks Mr. Terrell if he did not serve as attorney for a les see of convict labor while attorney general. There have been circulars against Terrell campaigners, and salty criti cism of these circulars by the Ter rell campaign manager. If music in the campaign is con sistent, rag time selections might be in order. Let the procession proceed, with the band playing, “Hot times in the old town to-night.” - Votes, not claims, make a nomi nation. . — o . The G. S. & F. Railway Co. re cently contracted for 676 freight cars, to cost $460,010.90. Low Rates via Central of Georgia Railway. Improved Order of Red Men, Americus, Ga., May 13-14, 1902. Tickets will be sold at rate of a fare and a third on the Certificate plan for the round trip (minimum rate 76 cents) from all ticket stations in Georgia. State Convention Grand Lodge K. of P., Valdosta, Ga., May 20*21, 1902. Tickets will be sold at rate of one fare for the round trip (mini mum rate 50 cents) from all ticket stations in Georgia, May 19-20, with final return limit May 23,1902, Grand Commandery Knight&Tem- pla of Georgia, Savannah, Ga., May 14-16, 1902. One fare for round trip (minimum rate 50 cents) from all ticket stations in Georgia for in dividuals. One cent per mile trav eled for bands in uniform, twenty or more on one ticket. Tickets oia sale May J2-13, with final return limit May 18, 1902. Grand Lodge I. O. Q. F., Atlanta, Ga., May 27-29, 1902. One fare for the round trip (minimum rate 50cts) from all ticket stations in Georgia. Tickets on sale for afternoon trains May 26, all trains May 27, and for trains scheduled to arrive at Atlanta during forenoon of May 28, with fi nal return limit May 30,1902. Georgia State Educational Asso ciation, Tybee, Ga., June 19-21, 1902. Tickets one fare for round trip (minimum rate 50 cents) from all ticket stations in Georgia. Tick ets on sale June 17, 18, 19, with fi nal return limit June 23, "’902. For further information ask the ticket agent. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will bo pleased to loarn that there is at least one dreaded disease that scienee has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is tho only positive oure known to tlia medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu tional disease, requires a constitutional treat ment. Hall’s catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of tbo disease, aud giving the pa tient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The prpprietors have so much faitn in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address. F. J.CRKNY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. j - - 25 PER GALLON. - - iSend for Private Price List and mention this :Paper. ! Write: WINSTON DIS. 00., Winston, N. 0. | LOWEST PRICED WHISKEY HOUSE; SMTSB EVM'BF 0MT You use this Machine in plowing corn middles The best on the market. I also sell Reapers, Binders, Mowers, Rakes; in fact all of D. M. Osborne’s Harvesting Machinery, and Harrows of every description. I make the best Flour and Meal on the market. If you want anything I sell, write me and I’ll come to see you, A. J. HOUSER, Eva, Ga. Houston People who Need Shoes are hereby notified that Mr. J. Henry King is again with the STRONG SHOE CO., 368 Second Street, MACON, GA., where he will be glad to see and serve his friends. Mmm Qanmm will receive prompt and careful attention. WE PROPOSE TO MEET THE DEMAND FOR Good and Stylish Shoes. In style, quality and price we propose to give satisfaction in Shoes for Men, Women and Children. If the kind or size you want is not in our stock, we’ll take your order and have it promptly and satisfactorily filled. KNOX HYGIENIC SHOES FOR MEN, The Shoes for Comfort, furnished to order. Unequaled for comfort, as they are made to fit the feet. If you want SOLID COMFORT in Shoes, get a pail at the SEIFERT SHOE STORE, FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA. We Aire Beady With our Spring liii3 of CLOTHING!. Everything New. Send us your orders or call to see us. Subscribe for ti>3 Home Journal. MACON, GEORGIA.