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d easssaeasasE easasasasasaiCffiaiiagj | News-Herald I |ano Constitution, I | 12 Montiis-$1.25. | ltnacHacii>fatnrgigggßssgggß^sio^ssJss^gg^&sssis3 THE OWIXTiKTT HEHAED, ) THE LAWKKNCKVIUE XEWB, i CODSOlldltfld JID. 1, 1898. K»tabli»he«i in 18»3. ) NEWS-HERALD s:tm !«-:»•--}. s. 8 ;?! x s i»&(i[f si?> »}»S«kU* WeSlpy Journal | S o- J a p r 5 |; ® »oS* F S |T | |f|P li §'? ? c g)§ » pv j a sional act of seeking notoriety. The combatants were separated before any damage was done. The farmers, merchants and bankers of Troup county will hold a meeting at Lagrange on the first Tuesday in October for the pur pose of organizing and taking steps Jp increase the price .of..nottgl) the direction indicated by Hon. Pope Brown in a recent inter view. Rev. A. J. Moncrief, the young divine fiom Fort Valley, who was called to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church at Lagrange some weeks ago, has accepted the call and will take up the work there Oct. 1. Macon is threatened with an egg famine. It is said the long dry spell around that section’ caused the hens to quit laying. Aguinaldo literally means Chris tmas present. In Connecticut clockmakers give employment to 8,000 persons. The population of India in creases at the rate of 8,000,000 an nually. The finest emeralds known are said to be those belonging to the Spanish crown. In the vicinity of Norfolk, Va., about 1,500 acres are devoted to the culture of radish. It is estimated that two-thirds of the male population of the world use tobacco. One hundred and nine thousand locomotives are at present running in various countries. A sensible husband said to his wife: “Susie, don’t spend a cent with merchants who don’t adver tise. ” The wife, who was a busi ness woman, replied: “You old goose, I learned better long ago than to go where I was not invited. You would be an old bachelor now if you had not invited me to be your wife. Catch me going to a store without an invitation; I guess not.” Sour Stomach a« After I wti Induced to try CAiCA* BETt« I will nertr be without them In the house. My liver was in a Tery bad shape, and my head ached and I had stomach trouble. Now. since tak ing Caacareu. I feel lino My wife has also used them with beneflcial results for sour stomach, joi- KKhHLIMQ. Iflll Congress Bt., tit Louis, Mo. TAAOE MAM* Pleaiaot. Palatable. Potent. Taete Goa). Do oSaNeVer Sicken. Weaken, or Gr.pe 10c. *sc.Soc ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... BUM,, la •*! caHV' ttle|..»ei"»l l"'“ > - 111 un VA B | A gold and guaranteed t»y all drug- NO-TO-BAC giauto CIJJUCTuDacco Habit. THE NEWS-HERALD. gg? jT ssgog. « g. -y i 0 , i'i-s°l-sfoi. 3 |-®l £ .sr“p§s:i?H s !=.!!2'oSlis! S s- >• f T I == = ?S?L ;* -i 1 i i,; i ? S i- s W '§»»»«; „ r E. o =• ? :Js:!. 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Bailey, assistant secretary. A few words of kindness by the president, and the convention ad journed until 9:00 a. in. tomorrow. SUNDAY MORNING, 9 O’CLOCK. Called to order by the vice president. Prayer by G. W. Jacobs. First lesson by the vice-presi dent. Lesson by the president, 20 minutes. R. A. Tribble, 15 minutes. Recess 15 Minutes. Called to order after recess. Lesson by W. F. Robertson, 80 minutes. The president 20 min utes. Intermission 1£ Hours for Dinner. Called to order by the president. Lesson by the president. R. A. Tribble, 20 minutes. Bay Creek class called for the next convention. It will meet with that class, at Bay Creek church, the second Sunday and Saturday before in August, 1900. Union singing at the Methodist church at Loganville the second Sunday in May, 1900. Also, at New Hope church the second Sun day in June, 1900. Recess 15 Minutes. Lesson by A. C. Rawlins, 15 minutes. Lesson by the president 10 min utes. Last lesson by the vice presi dent, 30 minutes. Resolution of thanks —Resolved, That the thanks of this conven tion be and are hereby extended Ito the Haynes Creek class and | community for their kindness and hospitality. And also be it re solved, that we extend Our thanks to Miss Ara Kilgore for the use of ! her organ. G. W. Cowsert, presi dent; J. D. Pruett, secretary. Dismissed by the vice-president. G. W. Cowsekt, I’res’t. J. D. Pruett, Sec’y. Suffrage in the Island of Ne groes, in the Philippines, is to be conferred on male inhabitants 21 years old, able to read English, Spanish or Visayan, or owners of SSOO in reality, or renters of SI,OOO in realty, with residence in all cases of one year in the district. From the Wiregrass. Wilcox, Ga., Aug. 29. —After i several mouths’ silence, I attempt !o give a few briefs of the South Georgia lumber business. Having been in touch with the •usitiess of the Southern Pine Co’s, t ram road for some time, I want to give the readers of The News- Herald a word about its work. Spendii g a few nights with one of my patrons, I asked him how much oats it took to f-ed his mules one day. Ho said, “Fifty bushels and fifteen hundred pounds of hay.” This man lives in a car box on the tram road of the Southern Pine Co., aid keeps seventy-five head of mules for the Company. These mules are used to draw logs to this road, which carries in daily to Hazelhurst about,2so logs, which are whole trees, from 80 to 75 feet long. The mill cuts the logs as fast as the train brings them in, and cuts 50,000 feet of bill stuff, 10.000 laths, 9,000 shingles and 8,000 each of barrel heads and stavep. There is a planing mill in connection, and all the machinery is run by one engine. The work men soldom lay their hands to a stick of limber. Some of the lum ber sawed is 75 feet long, and is carried from the saw and placed almost entirely by chains, each saw and machine feeding the next in this way. The Hazelhurst mill is now working about two hundred meu, one hundred at the mill and one hundred in the woods along their railroad, wV eh now extends twen ty-two miles into the country. \ h Company has five such mills at work. I must say that from the middle of JunTs to the middle of August Coffee county had no running streams, except the Satilla River, and it dried up in the northern part of its course. The dr}' weath er has badly injured the crops. We are now having rain, and it is thought the potatoes and ribbon cane will be redeemed. Fodder pulling began here in the middle of July, and was about fin ished by the middle of August, Cotton picking Is now tli« ouljf work on the farm, unless a man has stubble to turn, or clearing for a new crop. If anyone wishes for a more minute detail of any particular industry in this section, I shall be pleased to give it at some future time, provided such a one will ad dress me personally. J. A. Mewborn. A Little Beggar Girl Charms the Hero of Manila. Naples, August 31. —A slender, graceful girl of 11 years today pleased Admiral Dewey by singing and dancing for him. She is one of the family of street musicians. The family came alongside the Olympia in a small boat when Mr. Iddings, first secretary of the U. S. Embassy to Italy, and some other American diplomats were visiting the Admiral. When the pretty child came to the gangway the officer on deck went to Dewey. “There is a strict order, sir, against permitting any musicians to come aboard,” he said. “Do you wish to make any exceptions ?” “These orders, these orders,” ex claimed Dewey,laughingly. “Yes, let them come on board.” The child’s blind father played the fiddle, her brothers and cous ins performed on other musical in struments. Her grace, beauty and poverty at once appealed to the Admiral, as the needy and the striving always do. “Isn’t she pretty: isn’t she a quaint little thing ?” he exclaimed, as she came dancing toward him. She courtsied, seized the Admi ral’s hand and tried to kiss it. He plucked his hand away, saying': “No, no, no, my child.” He add ed smilingly, “Why will these peo ple eat garlic; custom of the coun try, eh ?” The girl danced and sang, the party emptied their pockets of small silver to her. When she went away she had around her waist a band of ribbon one of the officers gave to her which bore in gilt letters, “U. S. S.Olympia. ” Cuba and Porto Rico used to buy annually $5,000,000 worth of shoes of Spanish manufacture,and a clumsy article they were. A much better grade of American shoe is selling iu Che island now for fifty per cent. less. A San Francisco millionaire has the crodit of paying the largest surgeon’s fee on record for a suc cessful operation for appendecitis. Thirty thousand dollars was this tidy sum, representing one man’s gratitude to his physician. LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1899. ABOUT MAN-EATIN3 LIOJTS. Trick? cf the Savage Beaate in Their Na tive Jungles. When lions become man-eaters these inert aud treacherous brutes take no unnecessary trouble to catch meu. and while human be ings are plentiful, none of them undertake perilous enterprises or proceed on any hazardous expedi tions. They know what to do and where to go, that prey may be pro cured with the least amount of risk or exertion. Such a lion is well aware of who tends this corn field or that rnealie patch . He has informed hunself of how many men accompany the village herds, where any outlying camps are sit uated, aud how they are guarded. There is no route by which travel ers proceed or traffic is carried on that such animals have not stud ied, with reference to the facilities for attack they afford and their own bodily powers. If otherwise good strategic positions present natural difficulties the lion not only considers how these can be overcome, but perhaps practices his part beforehand. At all events, he has been watched while engaged in exercises that can only be explained in this way. So puny a creature as a man is when unprovided with effective implements for offense stands lit tle chance against such a foe—an assailant having forty times his strength, backed by marvelous ac tivity and ail intense passion for carnage. Under these circum stances savages can only shut themselves up or assault their en emy in large masses. On the oth er band, those precautions taken 'by a murderous lion might not seem to compoit with that bold and often reckless temper attrib uted to this species. But such a discrepancy has no real existence; it only appears when a judgment is mado without taking all the facts into consideration. This an imal’s intelligence is developed in man-eaters to its highest point, together with an organic stealthi ness of nature and proclivity to ward unexpected attacks and strat agems fully accounts tor every thing a lion does in the way of guarding against failures. In Kansas, since 1859, every year endiug with the figure 9 has been a great corn year, while every year ending with a cipher has shown a failure of the corn crop. An exchange says: A hot poker game was played in a Denver sa loon one night between a China man, a cowboy and oue of the leading doctors. The Chinaman held four aces, the cowboy held a gun and the doctor held an in quest on the Chinaman. The Frankfurter Zeitung has brought together a number of facts showing that there is at present in Austria a remarkable growth of clerical influence and multiplication of monasteries. At the principal hospital in Vienna forty nurses were discharged the other day, and replaced by nuns. The Thomasville Times says: Nellie Martin, who was convicted on Wednesday of stealing 15c, was sentenced to the penitentiary for three years. But Capt. Oberliu M. Carter, U. S. A., who stole sl,- 600,000 nearly five years ago and was convicted unanimously by a court of 14 brother officers, is still at liberty, enjoying the luxuries of life in a fasiotiable New York club and is drawing full pay from the army. The Atlanta Journal sees good times ahead for the Univerity of Georgia. It says: There is a good reason to believe that the University of Georgia is about to enter upon a now era. Its pros pects seem to be better than they have been at any time for many years. The election of Waiter B . Hill as chancellor has not only giv en universal satisfaction,but seems to have consolidated the friends of the University in an enthusiastic movement to enlarge its popiflari ty and advance its interests. W. H. Council, the well-known I negro educator, says: “Colored men of the north make a great mistake in abusing the south. Let the south alone and look to your own neglected opportunities and correct your own wrongs. You are driven from nearly every de cent wage earning position, whip ped from the hacks and drays, shop doors shut iu yours faces, labor unions united against you and the friendship and sympathy of your hitherto white friends slipping away from you. We of the south thank you for strong sympathy, but, my friends, do not forget your-elves. ” The Kentucky Campaign- The campaign iu Kentucky is surprising nobody. A very lively campaign full Of personalities was expected, and expectations are be ing realized. Mr. Goebel, the dem ocratic candidate for governor, is striking from the shoulder, and ho i 9 hitting some tolling blow-s He knows the records of most of the public men of the state. He seems to be particularly well post ed in respect to the lives, both public and private, of the leaders of the bolting democrats, and he is tolling the people what he knows. If he continues the kind of cam paigning in which he is now en gaged, he will have trouble of a very serious kind on his hands be fore the campaign is over, unless the character of Kentuckians has undergone a very great change within the last few years. Some of the leaders of the bolt ers are presented in a light that makes them appear to be anything but good citizens. They had prob ably forgotten they were so vulner able when they .began their at tacks upon Mr. Goeble. The main fight that Mr. Goebel is making, however, is against the Louisville aud Nashville Railway. It seems to be understood that he and that corporation are sworn enemies. He is known as a law yer who takes damage cases against railroads, and he has won gome big verdicts against the Louisville and Nashville in cases of that charac ter. Besides, he ig the author of several laws which, in the opinion of railroad people, bear very hard against railroads. Mr. Goebel has been againgt the railroads for years, aud now the railroads are against him. This fact, however, will not hurt him with the voters. It will help him. The democratic factions appear to have forgotten that there is a republican ticket. They are too busy paying attention to each oth er to take much interest in what the republicans are doing. If they are not watchful while they are quarreling, the republicans will elect their ticket. Even when fhenT'is harmony in their ranks the democrats have not a very great advantage. The republicans therefore have a fair chance to carry that state. —Savannah News.' Marietta Journal: Twenty-two new cotton factories have been chartered in North Carolina this year. All of this makes for the direct benefit of the southern far mer. The Athens Banner says: Clark county juil contains more prison ers just now than ever before at one time. Seventeen men are in jail, the largest number since the jail was built. Houston Home Journal: The Houston hay crop will be unusual ly short this year. Doubtless this will cause an increase in the area devoted to oats and other small grain for winter pasturage. Covington Star: Good beef cattle always command good prices and ready cash in this market, or anywhere else. And they are much more profitable than 5 cts. cotton. Auythiug good to eat wijl, as a rule, always find a ready pur chaser. Marietta Journal: Cedartown is on the road to prosperity. Cot ton factories are being built, and now the Cherokee iron furnace has been sold to a wealthy compa ny and will soon be turning out 200 tons of pig iron per day. The mineral lauds between Cedartown and Cavo Springs have been bought up and it is anticipated that a railroad will be built. Lake Park Democrat: The far mers of the west are quite pros perous because wheat and corn has for a few years brought fairly good prices. If cotton could be taken out of the hands of so many middle men, and also, if a less acreage were pjanted, perhaps the prices would also get better. At the preseut condition of the mar ket the only remedy for the far mer is more diversified tanning. Washington Gazette: Race troubles that sometimes disturb other sections of the south would be altogether unknown if the wis dom were shown which marks the characteristics of the two races in Wilkes county in their relations to each other. The superiority of the while race here is fully recog nized and our white people show their superiority iu dealing justly and kindly with the negro Buffalo’s new Union Railroad Station, to cost $6,000,000, * 8 to have a waiting room 80x285 feet, said to be the largest iu the world. A Dark Pago in Our History. The Richmond Times resurrects a copy of its issue of June 8, 1865, and reprints therefrom the follow ing which originally appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “That Jeff Davis was in irons was well known about Fortress Monroe the day before the first, telegram of the affair appeared in the luquirer, The next day it was the universal topic of conver sation here and at Norfolk. Of ficers of the fort made no secret of it. The government intended uo secrecy iu the matter. Gen. Miles had been furnished with discretionary orders, to-wit: To put Jeff Davis in irons if ho deetn ed such a course necessary. ‘The course was deemed neces sary. Davis was put in irons, and the Inquirer simply anuonnced a piece of news before any other paper, which it has often done before, hence all the outcry. For the information of all concerned, we wish to iterate that .ikkkrrson DAVIS IS IN IRONS, THAT THK IRONS ARK GYVKB, AND THAT HE RESISTED THEIR PUTTING ON. “It is certain, notwithstanding the Herald’s indignation over what it was pleased to call ‘a Philadelphia story,’ that the pris oner was heavily manacled one day last week, and so remained un til yesterday afteruoou. During the day he was ironed Davis stead fastly refused food, eating each day nothing but a bit of bread, and yesterday Dr. Cravens said plainly to the authorities that un less he was relieved from the shack les the prisoner would not live two days. In consequence of this rep resentation the irons were re moved late yesterday afternoon, and then Dr. Cravens is reported to have further expressed the opin ion that unless Davis was allowed more fresh air than he could get by constant confinement in his cell he would not live ter. days.” Much has been said within and without the United States about the magnanimity of the conquer ors at the close of the civil war, and not without reason in some particulars, it must bo confessed. But. in the treatment of the ex president of the fa'len Confedera cy the very opposite of magnani mity wsb displayed. The above account instantly suggests the cru el treatment of Dreyfus on Devil’s Island, and yet those very news papers that viewed witn satisrac tion the slumeful spectacle of an august if fallen foe in irons and his life threatened as a result of the indignity have for months been pouring out vials of wrath upon the brutal treatment of a French officer accused of betray ing military secrtts to the enemies of his country. No true American of today can fail to look back up on this Fortress Monroe episode with regret and shame. —Macon Telegraph. Two persons die every secoud. Sound moves 748 miles per hour. A rifle ball moves 1,000 miles per hour. English colleries employ 885,000 people. Germany has about 25,000 phy sicians and surgeons. There are 9,000 cells in a square foot of honey comb. British India now has 140 col leges and 17,000 students. The Transvaal has seventy-four gold mining companies. The Spanish are among the most charitable people on earth. Women among the ancient Greeks seldom appeared iu public, A man in Belmont county,Ohio, has a dog addicted to tobacco and beer. The largest brass and copper mill in the world is at Waterbury, Conn. Great Britain buys more than 20,000 horses in the United States every year, It is proposed to build a canal to connect the Wisconsin lakes. The price of medicine iu Prus sia is regulated by the state, a new price-list being published every year. Iu Berlin the pawnshop is a roy al aiid philanthropic institution. Any profit that is made is spent in charity. About 10,000,000 feet of birch wood will be sent this year from Maine to England and Scotland 1 for spools. The aucient Incas kepi their records and accounts by means of many-colored yarns called quipus. A new woman’s club is to be started in London, to which no one under six feet in height will be admitted. A writer iu an English magazine declared that the real average En glishman is a workingman earning a week. The Cotton Situation. No question more seriously af fects the south at this season of the year than the condition of the cotton crop and the probable course of pric, s for the staplo. Not very long ago Mr. H. M. Neill of New Orleans, who is the representative of English cotton buyers, made the prediction that the crop now coming into market would be a record breaker, and pricee at once took a tumble. It is true that Mr. Neill on eeveral occasions has closely approxima ted the crop in his estimates, but it is equally true that he has on other occasions missed it by hun 'dreds of thousands of bales. So it may fairly be said that as an estimator of the cotton crop Mr. Neill is not infallible. Opposed to him this year is nearly every other authority, in cluding the United States agri cultural department. Taking a consensus of opinion of all the authorities, except Mr. Neill, it appears that there has been a de crease in cotton acreage of from 5 to 10 per cent., and that the crop will be short of normal by not less than 20 per cent., perhaps more. The Telegraph ricently printed advices from all over the cotton belt, and with hardly an exception they reported the crop in bad con dition in some instances showing that not half an average yield per acre could be expected, and the most, significant feature of these advices was that the heaviest loss es were reported from the great cotton producing districts of Tex- In the face of all this it is dif ficult to seo on what facts Mr. Neill bases his prediction for a phenomenal yield this year. Another thing which is of inter est in this connection is the fact that the consumption demand for cotton is abnormally great, and that the product of the mills is being readily sold at prices much out of proportion to the cost of the raw staple.' The statement has been made, that the present range of prlcSh tor manuractufed cotton warrant the payment of 8 cents a pound for the raw cotton. It is not within the province of the Telegraph to advise its cotton growing readers what to do with their crops. Its duty is performed when it lays before them the facts of tho situation as nearly as they can be ascertained. Whether it is the best policy to sell or hold must be decided by the meu who own the cotton.—Macon Tele graph. Bather a Good Bake-Off. Mr. P. J. Moran, in an article in the Atlanta Constitution, says: “As an illustration of the manner in which the farmers of the coun try have lost heretofore, it is only necessary to repeat a statement re cently made by Mr. Hester, ofNew Orleans, that out of an annual cot ton receipt of 1,800,000 bales in that city over 87,000 bales were made up out of samples which had been ruthlessly plucked from the bales by the men who handled them, which should have gone in to the parishes of Louisiana.” Not the least merit of the American Cotton Company’s Roundlap bale is that besides its other economies it prevents this unjust tribute from being levied on the farmer Anstria is the country most len ient to murderers. In ten years over 800 men were found guilty of murder, of whom only 28 were put to death. Electricity has been applied to the manufacture of glass. A pot of glass can be melted in 15 min utes that by the old process would require 80 hours. It is now estimated that the loss occasioned by the recent floods iu Texas amounts to $18,000,000, one third of which sum represents the cotton destroyed. It is reported from Washington that the United States Navy De partment has under consideration the housing of sailors while on shore similar to the system of European countries. German locomotive factories number 18, and have a capacity of 1,400 locomotives per year, part of which output is exported. It is said that do A merican locomotives have yet been introduced iuto Ger i many. 1 June bugs were thick iu parts of 1 Germany this year. At Brody schocl children lately gathered i tweuty-five and a-half hundred weight from a sixteen-acre field. Some one has figured out it, means 1,270,000 June bugs. News-Herald I and lournal BEMI ' I 3 JUUI WEEKLY, g Osaly $1.25. ilAlClflff. MpHlnnlfnnlla.nl 1m .■/..iC RIV'l 'll -’ If? VOL. VI—NO 46 Intereiting Paragraphi. It is reported that the capacity of the VVestinghouse air-brake plant iu St. Petersburg, Russia, is to be doubled. Queen Victoria pays over $1 a pound for her tea. which is bought at a small shop in the West End of London. The total number of women over eighteen years old employed in the factories and workshops of tho British Islands is about 50,000. It is said that the productive ca pacity of labor-saving machinery at the present time is equal to a hand working population of four hundred million. In view of recent railway acci dents the French minister of pub lic works has decreed that all trains must carry requisites for prompt surgical aid to the injured. The enrollment of second term of the summer school of the Mis souri State University has reached 259, an increase of 140 over the attendance of last year. The construction of a cigar box may seem to be a very simple mat ter to the novice, but tho box pass es through 19 different processes before it is ready to receive the ci gars. Electricity has supplanted steam on the railroad from Milan to Monza the oldest railroad in Italy. The bricklayers of Vancourver have struck against the employ ment of Chinese as mason tenders, A statement in a Western rural newspaper says that an editor was shot through two lungs and a glass window. A large dog and a horse had a fierce battle at Hackensack, N. J. a few days ago, in which the latter came off victorious, the dog being killed. Theatrical posters must have the approval of a committee of the city council in Hartford. Philadelphia is tho first city to propose that cutters and bobsleds should bo provided vit.h Umm. It was stated in a London police court recently that eight or nine shillings a Say can be made by , begging. An examination made lußoches ter of the eyes of 1,005 school chil dren showed that 252 had defec tive vision. France has kept 200,000 tons of coal stored at Toulon since 1898 to be ready iu case war should break out. The old-fashioned game of back gammon is now all the vogue at the swell clubs of Philadelphia and New York. The wool on the back of a sheep is a shepherd’s barometer. The curlier the wool the finer will be the weather. The constant labor of four per sons for an entire year is required to produce a Cashmere shawl of the best quality. Among birds the swan lives to be the oldest, iu extreme cases reaching three hundred years; tho falcon has been known to live over 162 years. Experiments seem to show that a large ocean steamer going at ten knots an hour will move more than two miles after its engines have been stopped and reversed. A man-eating shark, fourteen feet long, weighing 1,700 pounds, was captured, together with her brood, in the Fairhaveu Canning Company’s tish trap at Cherry Point. Valuable discoveries of amber have been made in British Colum bia, which, it is claimed, will bo able to supply the pipe-makers of the world with amber for one hun dred years. It is proposed in Fairhaven and New Whatcom to pass an ordi nance taxing bicycles. The pro ceeds from the tax will be used in building a boulevard between the two cities. It is proposed to import several thousand Chinese direct from Chi na to work on the coffee planta tions of Southern Mexico. The crops are suffering, owing to a lack of native labor. i Fielding T. Lee, of Chicago, is the owner of a curious old clock, ] f about eight feet high, which was f an heirloom in the family of the 1 late Dr. McGranahan, of Peoria, i It t dars a record of having been . repaired in 1775. Mr. Lee has re* t, cently had it repaired, and it is in good running order.