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SI SHITE CAUGHT,
Queen of the Mountains.
We find the following in last Wed-
nesday’s Constitution:
, “Dr. F. W. McRae of this city, one of
the leading physicians of the South,
having very recently undergone an
operation for appendicitis and needing
the very "best advantages possible for
recuperation, selected for that purpose
Porter Springs, Ga., and is now up
there with his family rapidly improv
ing, and will probably be able in a
week or two to resume his practice
fully*restored to health.”
As the old saying is, “the proof of
the pudding is the chewing of the bag,”
and that is especially true in this case.
It is quite a compliment * to Porter
Springs for a distinguished physician
like Dr. McRae, when broken down in
health to select it above all other
places as the one to restore his health.
The crowd at the “Queen of the
Mountains” is building up earlier than
usual and the current is decidedly
that way.
EPWOKTH LEAGUERS
Hud a Splendid District Meeting
Here.
The Gainesville District Epworth
League Conference t held at the First
Methodist church in this city last Fri
day to Sunday was one of the most
enthusiastic religious conventions eyer
held m Gainesville.
Preparations were made for a great
meeting. Sixty loyal members of the
local organization and 20 more of the
juniors went heartily and unanimously
to work to make the meeting a success
and District Secretary J. O. Adams was
indefatigable in his labors to this end.
He proved himself a consecrated Christ
ian worker and an able organizer and
leader. ; ;v ,
Owing to an inauspicious combina
tion of circumstances the attendance of
outside delegates was not as large by
half as expected, there being only about
80 'representatives of sister leagues
present. But those who came, came in
the right spirit. The church was beau
tifully and artistically decorated with
emblems, colors and floral displays and
all the leagriers and their friends
proudly wore the badges and colors of
the society.
The opening exercises Friday night
were excellent. The music with or
chestral accompaniment was good, the
addresses of welcome by Messrs. Walter
Hosch, J. W. Oslin, and Sidney O Smith
were hearty and welcoming and the re
sponse by Prof. T. H. Gifbert of Pender
grass. .
. The sunrise prayer meeting on the
College campus Saturday morning was
largely attended and was an edifying
occasion. vAn so with all- the speeches,
addresses, essays, discussions and mu
sic—they were good. The annual-ser
mon Sunday morning bv Rev. Ford
The i^o factory is now about ceraa*-
pleteck and the machinery is in place -
and ready for-operation. The country
will saon ,be cooled off from our li&fcla*
frigid zone institution.
Captured in Rabun County Last
Monday.- •' '
The capture and delivery of Si Smith,
the murderer of Hon. W. B. Bell of
White county, to the sheriff of this
county on Tuesday was the news event
which proved the theme of discussion
on the streets.
Friday last Messrs. Tom Bell, Tom
Bryson and Henry Towery of this city
left for Habersham county armed with
search warrants empowering them to
thoroughly examine the premises of
some 16 or 18 houses of the relatives of
Smith whom they had strong evidence
to believe were somewhere harboring
1 the murderer.
The second house searched was that
of Smith’s father. The party had an
inkling that the fugitive was very like
ly concealed somewhere on the place
and resolved to leave no corner unex
amined. The house was scoured twice
but the searchers were not satisfied.
They noted a suspicious space between
the shingles and the ceiling 6f a shed
room abutting upon the main body of
the building. The walls were examin
ed and a heavy box of grain weighing
about a ton was removed revealing a
hole in the partition scarcely large
enough to admit the passage of a man’s
body. Inside was seen a pallet-on the
floor. Henry Towery thrust his head
into the aperture and demanded the
•surrender of Smith whom he saw
crouched in the corner. •
Smith quietly gave himself up at once,
seeing that resistance could but pro
duce more trouble.
The party carried the prisoner, to
Clarkesville despite the protestations
of his triends and at the direction of
the circuit Judge, who deemed the
Habersham jail unsafe, the captive was
brought to this city on the vestibule
Tuesday afternoon and lodged in the
Hall county jail. Fully 500 people met
the’Bell boys, squads and prisoner at
the depot and jail.
The awful crime with which Smith is
charged is known to all *rar readers in
all its horrible details. And the large
rewards offered for his apprehension
and delivery and the constant hut
hitherto fruitless efforts to find him
It is a source of
The last touches of the trowel have
been added ■ to the new Mundy & Prior
building at the corner of Broad, and
Bradford streets.
No Cause for Alarm-
The foUowing report from the state
board of health of South Carolina gives
the statistics of the smallpox epidemic
of that state, which was of a much
more malignant type than that ; whioh
has appeared in Georgia: _
“Dr. Richard H. Lewis, secretary of
the State Board of Heallh, has com
pleted his special report on the small
pox. The first case occurred at Wil
mington, January 1, 1898, and' from
that time to May 1st there were 616
cases in the State. There were 17
deaths. * The greater number of cases
originated in Virginia and South Caro
lina, and the disease is * worse in the
rural sections of northeastern North
1 Carolina.
This should he reassuring to our peo
ple. It is all over the country. A few
years since when smallpox was so
preyaleht in Atlanta, that city had
under treatment, according to the re
port of the Board of health, 556 pa.
tients with only nine deaths. (Governor
Candler has had application Jfor vac
cine virus and expert physicians from
nearly every county to aid in stamping
out this disease as it has appeared in
every part of the state, jhere has not
been a single death reported so far in
the state on its account. With this
mild form our people should not be
alarmed but aid in all reasonable ways
the authorities m crushing it out and
restoring confidence among the-people.
There is no cause for alarm and less
danger of death than in any known
contagious disease. -
The Modern Beauty
Thrives on good food arid sunshine,
with plenty of exercise in the open air.
Her form glows with health and her
face blooms with its beauty. If her
system-needs the cleansing action of a
laxative remedy, she uses the gentle
New trial refused.
Tom Chapman, who was tried and
found guilty of arson at the last term
of the superior court of Hall county,
was given a hearing for a new trial at
but it was refused
Mr. J. H. Hunt has closed contracts,
we understand, for the inside work and
furnishing, seating and scenery for
Hunt’s Opera House at the cor^ey pf
Washington and Bradford. It will be
‘ready for the next season and already
several attractions have beep hooked
for the early fall.
Winder, Tuesday,
Claud Estes, of Macon, represented the
defendant, and Solicitor General W. A.
The hearing was
Charters the state,
before Judge Russell, of the Western
Circuit, owing to the fact that Judge
Estes was disqualified. It is likely
that the case will go to the supreme
court.
More than fifty small cottages of three
and four rooms have been erected in
the city since the first of the year.
And others are going np now. The
demand for such houses, is great in
Gainesville-.
Put up Sign Boards.
' Our county commissions have had
painted mile posts and sign hoards
prepared for all public roads iu the
county, and the district commissioners'
have had them put up in their proper
places throughout the county. At
their last regular meeting Monday the
county commissioners decided to offer
a standing reward' lof $10 for informa
tion sufficient to convict any person or
persons who 'may knock down, deface
or in any mariner destroy any sign
board or 1 mile post in the county.—
The new cotton oil mill is now as
sured beyond a doubt and the erection
of the plant on the site-selected near
the Air Line depot will be begriri
shortly,
Mrs. W. S. Williams has a neat six-
room house in course of erection on her
lot on Sycamore street. This is the
second house of similar size she has
built in this portion of the city this
year.
The painters are haying a season of
busy work just now. Two or three
store fronts and a number of residences
over the city are receiving their atten
tion arid are looking improved in ap
pearance in consequence... ' ’
Dr. Charlie McAllister is building a
commodious cottage at the corner of
Green and Athens streets. The frame
is up and work is progressing. It will
be a five room house. *
A Siege of Five Years.
“My mother has been troubled* with
rheumatism'for five years and used
nearly every kind of medicine, hut
with very little relief. 1 After taking
a few bottles of Blood’s Sarsaparilla she
is well. What this medicine has done
for my mother I believe it will do for
others.” Cabbie Stummer
Mrs. J. C. Graham Dead.
Mrs. J. C. Graham, who spent the
winter of 1897 in the city at the Ar
lington, died at her summer home at
Seabright, N. J. last Tuesday, after a
lingering illness. * She was the mother
of Mr. G. H. Graham, who is a guest
at the Arlington. Her remains were
interred at her old home at Selma, Ala
have been published,
gratification not only to the friends of
the murdered man and his family, tout
to all lovers of law and defenders of
justice that Smith has been captured,
and that n such a quiet and orderly
manner that he shall have a fair and
inli hearing at trial.
Barnett
Shoals, Ga.
. Hood’s Fills give strength even while
their cathartic qualities are at work.
Easy to take.
At Grace Episcopal.
Rev. Mr. Page will preach at the
Episcopal Church at the morning • hour
Mr. and Mrs. DuPre went to Gaines
ville to-be present at the wedding of
Miss Anna Coiner of that city, a sister
of Mrs. DuPre, to a Mr. Quarles of
Washington, which occurred this week.
—Dahlonega Nugget.
A Narrow Escape
Thankful words written by Mrs. A*da
E. Hart of Groton, S. D.: “Was taken
with a bad cold which settled on my
lungs; cough set in and finally termi
nated in Consumption. Four doctors
grive me up, saying I could live but a
short time. I gave myself .up to my
Sayior, determined if I could not stay
with my friends on earth, I would meet
m y absent ones, above. *My husband
Sunday. He is an excellent preacher
and all are-cordially invited to attend
the services andhearan able discourse
HUNT’S 0PER&H0USE
and pleasant Syrup of Figs, made by
the California Fig Syrup«Co. only.
Work is Going on—Will be Ready
Soon—Troupes Engaged.
An opera house ui keeping with the
growth of ’ Gainesville has been
a pressing demand for the past few
years. Last year an effort was made
to organize a stock company and’ erect
one, but it proved futile. We are now
to have it, Carpenters are at work eon
the Hunt opera house. J. H. Hunt the
proprietor, says the building will be
completed before the jail season opens.
It is said that no other opera house in
Georgia, except the Grand in Atlanta,
has anything equal to this. It will be
brilliantly lighted by electricity and
heated by hot air from two furnaces.
Mr. Hunt says the interior of the opera
*■ ’ ‘ • m ' * - i' V ^ ^ ' . • ’
Notice.
The Southern Express Company wiU
sell to the highest bidder for cash on
July 18, 1899, in the building formerly
occupied by the post office at Gaines
ville, Georgia, about 500 unclaimed
To be sold without reserve.
hack of his head. On using Electric
Biters, America’s greatest. Blood and
Neppve Remedy, all pain soon left him.
He s^ys this grand medicine is what his
cduptry needs. All America knows
that it cures liver apd kidney trouble,
purifies the blood, tones up the stom
ach, strengthens the nerve, puts vim,
vigor and new life into every muscle,
nerve and organ Af the, body. If. weak|
tired or ailing ypu .need it. Every bot
tle guaranteed, only 50 cents. Sold by
M. C. Brown <& Co.* Druggist.
c _ ms - 1 gave it a trial, took m all
bottles. It has cured me, and
thank God I am saved and now a well
healthy woman.” Trial bottles free
a t M. C. Brown & Co ? s. drug store. Reg
ular size, 50c. and $1.00. Guaranteed
0r price refunded.
Mr. D. E. Evans leaves today for a
visit to Columbus, where he intends to
inspect a dam under construction near
at city. Mr. Evans is very enthusi
astic over the prospects for success of
e electric railway scheme. , He is
everything wiU be carried
| rou gh all right, and electric ears will
f ruQ aing in Gainesville in a compar
atively short time.
o About forty whites and eleven col-
* e a PPlicants stood the teachers’
s ^ a mination Thursday before Commis-
^ R.OllPl’fcATl ■ Qccidarl /"V
packages.
See.printed list.
O. M. Sadler,! H. A. TerreU,
Superintendent. Agent.
WANTED—Boarders, by Mrs; Jane
Whitehead on East Spring street.
Dr. E. E e Dixon is in MiUedgCville,
this week. Mrs. Dixon, with her two
daughters is . visiting relatives in
Charleston, S. C.
. ' v ;
"WHO IS Women as well as men
TO « are made miserable by
BLAME? , kidney and bladder trou
ble. Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, the
great kidney remedy, promptly cures.
At druggists in fifty cent and dollar
sizes. You may have a sample bottle
by mail free, also pamphlet telling all
about it. Address, Dr. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghampton, N. Y„
house proper will cost him about $£,000,
certainly, not less -than that sum. The
steed for the trasses is to arrive here by
July 16. He will Convert a part of the
space under the gaUery into eleven
oflice rooms. He has already engaged
troupes for the next season, with dates
fixed. '
Health for ten cents. Casearets make
the bbwels arid kidneys act naturally,
destroy microbes, cure headache, bil-
ousness and constipation. All drug-:
gists.
• All ladies cordially invited to corner
Pine and-Davis streets. Best fitting
and lowest prices of any'dress-maker in
town. Mbs. Lou Ferguson.
Near Southern depot. ‘ 7 -l?
Have vour barber work done at my
shop. Sharp razors, clean towels, best
barbers. |gi| Lee Parnell, Barber.
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