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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. no 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 tion.: / -■ 1 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. - - Or-—-•/ , 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! O- * 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. '■ : ~ °— \ 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 ■ • 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. - . i ■ • :■ .• : 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. SPECIALS * 7* _, tm . Spangled Crepe Tissue, Box: S * ery, Clieap Books, Pictures tp- Campbell’s Y ou Cannot do Better th#* 1 Bead “The Cracker, I