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The Georgia
Official Organ City of Gainesville
Gainesville Ga„ August 31, 1901
The Atlanta News is running a
prize mystery story entitled: “Who
Stole the Depot?” Any. thief who
would steal Atlanta’s depot would
be sur-prized at the mysteries the
thorough dissection of his swag
would reveal.
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And now, beho’di there is an
other Richmond in the field. The
Hod. Pope Brown has formally
announced his desire to step into
the shoes of the “One-eyed Flow-
boy” as chief magistrate of the
sovereign state of Georgia. He
declares that he is the candidate of
clique or faction, and on the
question favors local op
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A late bible conference m In
diana decided by an almost unani
mous vote that.“hell is hot and
the sinner will sure enough burn,
and, to make this decision more
binding, condemned all “cuckoo
preachers” who lack the nerve to
dish up the old-fashioned brim
stone doctrine for fear of wound
ing the sensibilities of some mem
bers of. their congregations.
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, At a recent literary sympouium
at Harris Lythia springs, in which
Joel Chandler Harris and James
Whitcomb Riley were the central
lions, the creator of the quaint
old “Uncle Remus” and the maker
of homely Hoosier verse gravely
discussed, not rythm or the ele
ments of true poetry nor the eth
nological side of the negro ques
tion, but the relative merits of
each man’s ownparticular brand
of chewing tobacco!/ Shades of
William Shakespeare!
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Diplomatic relations have been
severed between Prance and Tur
key because of a dispute between
President Loubet’s government
and Abdul Hamid over a matter
ot indemnity of long standing
amounting to some two millions
and a half of dollars^ The Gas
cons talk mercurially of war, and
the Sick Man of Europe laughs
ironically and declares that he’s
“not skeered” a bit by- the French
man’s bluff and wants time to fix
a positive date, when—wily old
creditor that he is—he will make
fresh promises of settlement and
fix a new date.
Rome during these delightful
moonlight nights he might engage
in the destruction of a few surplus
felines that are just now making
night hideous by their yeowls.”
And if this layout of “big game”
is not sufficient inducement to
the mountain lion slayer, let him
visit Gainesville and take a hunt
for our nocturnal dog-killing
nigger-scaring giasticutis.
The man with a fancy for sta
tistics, who keeps a record of the
brutal crimes against womanhooc
committed by negro brutes in al
parts of the country these davs
will have a history of the last gone
mop th which will appal and alarm
even the staunchest ainong that
rapidly diminishing army of ne
grophobites who declare that the
black man is the equal of the
white in all things.
The octopusian steel trust, by
the sheer force of money power
seems to be beating its striking
employes into submission. The
reports from Pittsburg and other
centers of the war show daily in
creased gains by the corporation
With many of these workmen
who are battling for what they
believe to be th£ right, the clog
of a family of little ones, who
must have bread or perish, holds
them hard and fast in the clutches
of ""their plutocratic masters.
The commander of the British
forpes in South Africa, Lord Kit
chener, whose stereotyped “I re-
A melancholic young man in
Atlanta went out on the lake at
Lakewood the other night, and,
lying down in his boat, swallowed
a dose of bedbug poison. When
found, the reporter tells us, the
self-murderer was just on the edge
ot the other shore and was prompt
ly hustlod to the hospital, where
the doctors declared it as thejr
belief that he could be saved. It
must be queer bedbug poison that
they sell in Atlanta, for the kind
you buy about here is keenly rel
ished by the bugs, who thrive aud
grow fat on it, and, like little
Oliver Twist, cry for more.
Anent the prospective visit of
Vice-President “Teddy the Terror”
to the empire state of the south,
the Griffin News suggests that
while there are no coyotes in that
neighborhood, Mr. Roosevelt could
find “several dogs that we would
be willing for him to shoot at.”
The Rome Tribune widens the field
of opportunity by saying that if
the vice-president “should visit
gret to report” messages to the
war office have somewhat damp
ened the ardor of maitial Britons,
who have long boasted that a
British army was invincible, might
gee a pointer on the art of war
from Pitcher Pitman of the Qum-
cy (Florida) baseball team, who
in a match game at that place the
other day threw the ball with such
force and accuracy that it killed
the man at the bat stone dead.
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The Atlanta Constitution, in a
very labored and humorously pe
dantic discussion with the talented
editor of the Macon Telegraph
over the statesmanlike qualities
of Candidate-for-Governor Tur
ner, renders the dogmatic decision
that megalomania, or “big-head-
edness,”has* no place in Georgia.
How about the man who is elected
J. P. and N. P. for the first time
and is immediately addressed by
his fellow-citizens as “judge,” or
the cross-roads lawyer who be
comes a “colonel” the day he is
admitted to the bar?
A dispatch from New York in
forms us that Mrs. Carrie Nation
has invaded Greater Gotham with
the intention, as she declared to
Police Commissioner Murphy, of
inaugurating a campaign of “hat-
ation” in the metropolis. The
commissioner refused to answer
the volley of impertinent ques
tions she fired at him, and advised
her to go back to Kansas and look
after her husband. When the
smasher asked if he thought she
was crazy, he made the significant
rejoinder: “If you violate the law,
madam, I will have you locked
up.” This is no idle threat, either,
and Mrs. Nation will learn that to
her sorrow if she commits any of
her vandal acts m New York city.
The first blow ot her “hatchet”
will be the signal for her arrest, a
commission lunatico de inqueren-
do will investigate her mental res
ponsibility, and she will find her
self where she should, have been
months ago—safely restrained at
the female lunatic asylum on
Blaokw^l’s island.
BIG FERTILIZER PLANTi
WILL PROBABLY b6 LOCATED
IN GAINESVILLE.
The Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company
to Establish a Factory that Will Give
Employment to Many Hands.
Agents of the great Virginia-
Carolina chemical company, which
controls nearly all of the cotton
seed oil mills in the southern
states, have been quietly negoti
ating in Gainesville for some time
past, looking to the location, by
he great corporation which they
represent, of a large fertilizer man
ufactory in this city which will
give employment to many hands.
These agents refuse to discuss the
matter, but there is a well-defined
rumor to the effect that a deal is
practically consummated which
will give the company the owner
ship of a twenty-five acre tract of
land, o*vned by Judge J. B. Gas
ton, near Lathem & Son’s abba-
toir,the consideration being $1,000.
The plat is admirably situated for
the purpose, being contiguous to
both railroads "and easily reached
by a spur track,
This Schley-Sampson-Crownin-
shield-Long-Maclay-Evans-Shaf-
ter dispute gets more complicated
every day. Before we are through
with it the militant part of our
government will be the laughing
stock of every civilized nation.
If, as an officer in the navy, Ad
miral Schley has been done an in
justice the department should and
no doubt would right the matter
without any fuss or feathers. The
dramatic appeal to the people for
“vindication,” supplemented by
the usually false and misleading
hurrah of the yellow journals, is
a puerile play for gallery applause
and beneath the dignity of a great
sea-soldier.
Texas—or that particular sec
tion of the Lone Star state situ
ated in the vicinity of Beaumont
has been in the throes of agony
over a threatened Noah’s deluge
of oil, which threatens to engulf
the country “for miles around,”
the town’s greatest oil-gushing
well, which has “broke loose” to
that uncontrollable degree that a
submarine diver in full armor has
been employed to try and shut off
the flow of the lubricant. Verily
this story reads like one out of the
experiences of the worthy Baron
Munchausen, and yet so marvel
lously rich are the hidden resources
of this great country of ouis that
it is more than likely an “o’er true
tale,” not strong enough in the
telling to do the subject full jus
tice.
The
pernicious niggers
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m Ala
bama to the number of seventy-
five have held a secret convention
ann resolved to adopt drastic
measures to defeat the ratification
of the new constitution. Like4J»e
three tailors of Tooley street, of
blessed memory, they will issue an
address to the other negroes and
sign themselves, “We the People
of Alabama,” but it is very doubt
ful if their wordy fulminations
will amount to anything. The ne
groes in Alabama, like the negroes
elsewhere in the south, are begin
ning to learn that politics don’t
my, and that the black man who
wants to succeed m the world and
elevate himself to a position where
le will command the respect and
confidence of the white man must
eschew this airy snare and delu
sion and stick to the^corn field and
the cotton patch.
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WE ARE OFFERING
Great Bargains in
Special sale of remnants and short lengths, embracing a great * |
of weaves and colors in novelty dress goods, m lengths from 3 to 6 Jv y ■
Just the goods you want for girls’ school dresses and ladies’ wrapper-Tand
tea jackets, and this is Just the time to bnv them.
6 pieces 29c quality at 20 cents. 5 pieces 65c. quality at 45 cents.
8 pieces 50c. quality at 39 cents. 3 pieees 69c. quality at 49 cents
A pieces 50c. quality at 35 cents. 4 pieces 39c. quality at 30 cents,
8 pieces 49c. quality at 35 cents.
EMBROIDERY BARGAINS.
Big lot short lengths in medium and fine qualities to go at cost and
less. Don’t fail to see these, and also our lace bargains.
MATTING BARGAINS. \
[ 34 pieces—-iome whole pieces, and some in short lengths, all to go
at cost and less.
SHIRT BARGAINS.
Men’s fine Madras negligee shirts. New goods and pretty colors.
$1.00 value for 75 cents. 50c. value for 65 cents.
Special prices on Underwear, Hose. Suspenders, Collars, Cuffs and
Neckwear.
STATIONERY • ^
Newest things to be had in box papers, in white, pink, bine, layen-
der, green and red at 10c., 15e., 25c., and 50c. Examine this line
and you will find the prices much less than you have been paying.
GROCERY DEPARTMENT.
Special values in staple and fancy goods.
Postell’s ‘‘Elegant” Flour, the best the world affords^ sold excln-
sively by us.
5
14 Main Street.
Phone 9.
JUST ARRIVED
BOX STATIONERY.
Latest Styles. 5c. per Box and up.
•NEW PICTURES!
On Mats in
Colors and Black
5c. and 10c.
and
Photograph Frames-
One Cabinet Opening to Four.
20C.J
2 5 c -> 35 c ->
60c.
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