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VOL. IV.
Johnson & Evans,
CENTREVILLE, GEORGIA.
We will make a change in our business Jan. Ist.,
and from NOW until that time, in order to reduce our
immense stock will sell you goods
Cheaper Than You Can Buy Them Anywhere.
Being connected, as we are, with four business houses, enables us to buy goods in larger quanti
ties than other merchants and therefore we can buy cheaper and sell cheaper than the ordinary
merchant. Our store room is 44x78 fee Land is chock full. See us before you buy; we can and will
save you money.
Furniture.
We tiave recently built a house for
Furniture 18x40 feet, and have it
full of nice Furniture. Anything
you want in this line we can fur
nish yon at extremely low prices.
Chairs from $2.50 a set to $5.00
Oak Rocking Chairs 125 to 200
Bed Steads 125 “ 500
Bed Springs 175 .. . “ 200
Mattresses 150 “ 250
Nice Oak Suits 12 50 “ 1750
Nice Bureaus 350 . “ 400
Nice Dressers. ... 450 “ 600
Oak Center Tables 75 “ 125
Oak Dressers . 600
Hats and Shoes.
When it comes to Hats competitors
are away behind —they are simply
“not in it.” Big stock to select
from —one hundred different styles
Fur Hats, $1 50 kind for $1 00
“ “ 125 “ “ 75
“ “ 250 “ “ 185
Children’s Hats from 25c up to 75
Boy’s “ “ “ “ “ 100
Men’s Wool “ “ 35 “ “ 100
Our Motto: “QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS.” Highest Market Price paid for
Country Produce. We also buy cotton. Bring your cotton along and we will pay you the market
price for it, and sell you goods cheaper than you ever bought them before.
JOHNSON & EVANS, Centreville, Ga.
Its
Superior ity
Over Most
Is
Admitted
By All.
MANUFACTURKD BY
Everett Piano Company,
BOSTOIsT, MASS.
MARKETED BY - -
THE JOHN CHURCH CO.,
CINCINNATI. NEW YORK. AT LANTA. CHICAGO.
ATLANTA ADDRESS-99 I’EACHTRKE ST.
Eiseman Bros.
We begin the Pall and Winter Seasons of 1897-98 with a
stock larger and richer than ever before We made pur
chases long before the tariff question was settled, and are in
position to sell Clothing, Hats and Furnishings even less
than the prices that ruled last year. The following quota
tions are proof:
Men’s Suits from $5.00 up.
Men’s Overcoats from $5.00 up.
Children’s Knee-Trousers Suits from $1.50 up.
Children’s and Boy’s Overcoats from $1.50 up.
Boy’s Long Trousers Suits from $4.00 up.
You’ve known us as the originators of Clothing economics
and fair, open, plain-figure, one-price dealing. Per over thir
ty years this house has stood for honest methods. In order to
serve you better and cheaper, we manufacture all the Cloth
ing we sell, This policy saves you the middleman’s profits.
No other house in the South does it
Eiseman Bros, 15-17 Whitehall.
No Other Store in Atlanta—ls-17 Whitehall St.
GAINESVILLE IRON WORKS,
1 GAINESVILLE, GA.
Pulleys, Shaftings, Hangers,
Couplings, Flanges, Collars, Etc.
Stamp Mills,Saw Mills,Cane Mills.
Repairing a Specialty.
Gearing, Mill Machinery, all Kinds of Iron and Brass Cast
( ings and Steam Fitting Supplies.
ESTIMATES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION.
Iv. VI. BRAND,
gVEBETf
J>IANQ.
The Lawrenceville news.
As to Shoes, all we ask of you is to
look at our stock and we will con
vince you tt at we are the oues to
buy your fall ft+roes from.
Men’s Good Brogans $ 90
“ Best “ 1 00
Boy’s Brogans 75
“ “ 65
“ “ 90
Our $2 25 Men’s Shoes going at 1 85
“ 175 “ “ “ “ 158
“ 300 “ “ “ “ 250
1 125 Ladies’Gondola Shoes 100
“ 150 “ “ “ 115
Clothing, Jeans, Etc.
The best and most complete line
ever brought to this market, and
25 per cent, cheaper than you ever
saw the same goods sell at.
Our SB.OO Suits now going at $ 6 50
“ 12 50 “ “ “ “ 10 50
“ 100 “ “ “ “ 300
“ 500 “ “ “ “ 400
Youths’ and Boy’s Suits any size anil
price you want.
Youths’ Suits from 85c to $2 50
Boy’s “ “ 200 “ 500
Also a nice line of Overcoats
from $4 00 to $9 00
Its
To The
Best Is The
Boast
Ol Its
Friends.
Buying Jeans as we did, we can sell you as
cheap as our competitors can buy. To
see our jeans and price it means to buy.
Dress Goods, Etc.
We can’t say enough about them to make
you realize how cheap and nice they are.
You will have to see them. We guar
antee to show you the best line this side
of Atlanta. Best prints from 4c to sc.
Standard checks 4c to sc.
Groceries and Hardware.
Our Hardware, Tinware and Crockery ware
is complete. Also oitr Grocery stock.
Nails from 33 to 50 pounds for $1 00
Granulated Sugar 18| pounds for. 1 00
Arbuckles’Coffee 11c per pound.
10 pounds Good Green Coffee 1 00
9 “ Full Cream Cheese 100
5 “ Tobacco 100
3 “ Soda 10
8 “ Salts 10
8 “ Pepper 25
4-qt. Coffee Pot 10
10-qt. Tin Buckets 9
M. S. CORNETT’S
New Livery,Sale aMFeedStables.
With a commodious new brick
building I am better prepared
than ever to handle stock.
First-Class Accommodations.
First-Class Turnouts.
First-Class Saddle and Harness Horses.
Prices to suit the times. Give me a call when you want
liver}’. Careful drivers, and polite attention to all customers.
<JOHN 11. SHACKLEFORDS
The Old Reliable Jeweler on The Hill, ,CL S,
LA WREN CEVILLE, GA.
Fine Gold, Gold-Filled and Sil
ver Watches at Prices that will
make your head swim—they are
so cheap.
If you want a Piano or Organ at Manufacturer’s Prices see me.
Big Stock of
Jewelery and Useful Household
Articles, Clocks, Etc.,
arriviug for the fall trade.
Repairing Neatly and Promptly d/, vV
Executed at Cut Prices
4/ v. Only First-Class Repairer this
side of the Large Cities
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 15, 1897.
Penal Island Plan No Go.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 12.—1 n dis
cussing the penitentiary problem
Governor Atkinson said that there
is considerable opposition being
manifested to the proposed penal
island plan, and as a result, Mr.
Hewlett Hall, author of the bill
now before the sub-committee,
will probably move to have that
feature entirely eliminated when
the committees meet here again
on Friday.
This opposition, it is stated,
comes from the sea island cotton
growers of this state, who fear
that if an island colony should be
established their business would
be seriously injured by competi
tion, in the growing of the long
staple. The annual crop of sea
island cotton is only about a quar
ter of a million bales, the gover
nor thinks probably less. If the
state’s convicts were put to work
raising the long staple, he esti
mates that they would raise at
least 100,000 hales, adding this
amount to the regular crop and
reducing the price accordingly.
Sea island cotton, the governor
says, is the only crop that the con
victs could be profitably worked
at upon an island and the farmers
know this. Whatever is said be
fore hand about growing other
crops they realize that 111 the
end a penal island colony means
long staple cotton cultivation al
most exclusively, and hence they
are beginning to raise their voices
against such a plan It was ex
pected that south Georgia would
support the penal island plan, but
since opposition is centralizing
there, Gov. Atkinson thinks that
scheme will be counted out of the
deal.
English News of Klondike.
Whatever may be the chance of
fortune digging in the new dig
gings in the Yukon river, there
can be no doubt of the desire on
the part of the proprietor of the
leading and most luxurious hotel
at Klondike to make things com
fortable for his guests, says the
London Telegraph. The following
arc rules and regulations of con
duct at the establishment: “Board
must be paid in advance; with
beans $25, without beans sl2. Salt
free, no extras allowed, potatoes
for dinner, pocketing at meals
strictly forbidden. Gentlomen are
expected to wash out of doors and
find their own water. No charges
for ice, towel-bags at the other end
of the house. Extra charge for
seats around the stove. Lodgers
must find their own straw; beds
011 the bar-room floor reserved for
regular customers. Persons sleep
ing in the barn are requested not
to take their boots off. Lodgers
must arise at 5, a . m.; in the barn
at 6, a. m. No fighting at table.
Anyone violating the above rules
will be shot.”
Tlie Philosopher’s Stone.
Edward C. Brice, the Chicago
man who claims to be able to make
gold out of grosser metal, has
formed a company with a capital
of $75,000, and is getting up a
gold factory. He says he will pro
duce gold from antimony at the
rate of $2,800,000 worth a year.
It will be remembered that when
Brice applied for a patent for his
process the government demanded
a demonstration of gold making
before the issuance of the patent.
This demand was refused and
some experiments were made with
the formula by mint experts with
out success. Mr. Brice claims that
he can make a dollar’s worth of
gold at a cost of 65 cents or less.
If he has, indeed, discovered the
long-sought philosopher’s stone—
an achievement the world will
steadfastly refuse to believe until
it has more substantial evidence
than the assertion of an enthusi
ast —he will become, as Sam Jones
would say, the most prominent
man in all the earth.
Qualifications For Postmasters.
From the New York Post (Independent.)
To appoint a negro as postmas
ter in a place where the people
who patronize the office object to
colored officials is as great a mis
take as it would be to name a
Chinaman for such a position in a
city like Sail Francisco. The man
selected as postmaster in any place
should be the man who is obvious
ly best fitted to serve the com
munity m capacity to its sat
isfaction. If any aspirant for the
place is offensive to most of those
who send and letters, that
fact should be cq
consideration of Ir'fl B^T^Jth
- iimOTB
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Tragedy 111 a Ballroom.
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 14. —
Near Greenville, Butler county,
last night, at a country dance,
while Sidney Duarf was dancing
with Miss Ekof, William Ekof
brother of the young lady, ap
proached and ordered his sister to
leave Duarf, alleging that the lat
ter had circulated slanderous re
ports concerning her.
Duarf denied the charges and
Miss Ekof expressed her belief
in Duarf’s innocence and refused
to obey her brother. Ekof then
begaii to abuse Duarf and a gener
al quarrel ensued between the two
men.
Duarf finally called Ekof a liar,
whereupon the latter snatched
out a pistol and shot Duarf
through the heart, the man dying
at the feet of the murderer’s sis
ter, who fell in a faint over his
body.
As Ekof started to dash out of
the room he was seized by M. L.
Hutton a friend of the murdered
man, who attempted to arrest him.
A struggle ensued between the
men, which ended in Ekof shoot
ing Hutton in the abdomen. Hut
ton died an hour later.
As Ekof rai: from the hall sev
eral of the dancers fired shots at
him through the darkness, and a
trail of blood indicated that he
was wounded, although he jumped
on a horse and escaped. A posse
has been organized and is in hot
pursuit with dogs.
Indignation over the affair is
higli and a lynching may result if
Ekof is caught, Duarf and Hut
ton were hoth prominent young
planters.
The two murders occuired in
full view of 100 dancers and oth
ers gathered in the hall.
Fatal Snakes and Beasts In India.
From the London Daily News.
Wild auiinals and snakes in
India seem to kill more human
beings than ail our punitive ex
peditions taken together. The sta
tistics of the loss of human life
and cattle by wild animals and
venomous snakes in the central
provinces of India have been is
sued. Although the totals show
some decrease from those of last
year, the number of deaths is ap
palling. Snakes killed 1,133 per
sons last year and wild animals
201. The number of cattle slaugh
tered was 8,757. The man-eating
propensities of the tiger seem to
be on the increase, although 328
of them were killed during the
twelve months. Each man-eating
tiger seems to be able to dispose
of a considerable number of hu
man beings in the course of a year.
It is reported that the killing of
one man-eating tigress brought
down the number of persons killed
in the district from twenty-two to
three. Wolves also have become
so destructive that a special re
ward has been offered for their
skins. From the study of the
habits of the animals it has been
found that the hyena has been
a very much maligned animal.
Formerly a reward was given for
its destruction, as it was supposed
to kill live animals; but expe
rienced authorities assert that it
lives on carrion alone. The chief
commissioner is making enquiries
in order to ascertain whether some
other animal has not been con
fused with the hyena.
He Knew Beans, Anyway.
At Centerville, Ky., the other
day, says the Richmond Times,
Capt. J. R. Hindman, nominee of
the sound money democracy of
that state for the position of clerk
of the court of appeals, got into
an argument with a silver man,
who claimed that good prices did
not prevail.
“Why, don’t you admit that
wheat is high?” he was asked.
‘•Yes,” he answered.
“And are not cattle high?”
“Yes.”
“And is not tobacco high?”
“Yes.”
“Is not corn high?”
“Yes.”
“Are not sheep high?”
“Yes.”
Are not hogs high?”
“Yes,” drawled the silver man,,
“but green beans is selling awful
low; a farmer sold me a peck for
a dime to-day.”
Mr. Winston Smith, of Pelzer,
S. C., when a child, had both arms
mutilated in a gin, necessitating
amputation. He has grown to
manhood and married It
that with Ins *tubb> urju*g£
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Warning toTax Collectors.
Comptroller General Wright
wants every tax collector in the
state to collect his taxes and turn
them in. He will take no excuses
for delay. In an official letter
which has sent to all collectors he
says:
“The legislature empowers and
requires me to cause the taxes to
be collected by the 20th of Decem
ber next, and upon failure of any
tax collector to do so, it is made
my duty to issue fi fas against
against each and every collector
who has failed to settle his ac
count, and to place said fi fas in
in the hands of an officer for col
lection. I shall therefore obey the
law, and it is strictly enjoined up
on you to give the public the no
tice required by section 934 of the
code, paragraph 6, at as early a
day as practicable, in order that
the people may have ample op
portunity to pay their taxes, so
that you can settle your account
with this office at the time required
bv law.
“Taxes are a necessity and must
be paid, and it is much easier to
collect them before than after
December. The law requires the
payment of taxes before any other
debt (see code, section 812). I
therefore urge upon you the neces
sity of so arranging your dates and
appointments that you may be
able to collect the taxes during
the months of September, October
and November. I now forewarn
you that the law relating to de
faulting collectors will be strictly
and rigidly enforced, and the se
curities on your bond notified if
your settlements are not promptly
made.”
Bride Swallows Strychnine.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 8. —Only
a few months ago Dr. John Hall
brought a young wife to Craw
fordsville. With her ac
complishments and 4Vaces she wth.
her way into the hearts of the
people.
She put on her hat yesterday
and went down the street, meeting
several friends and chatting gayly
with them.
She stopped at the drug store,
told the clerk that she wanted two
ounces of strychnine with which
to kill rats.
She received the package opened
it and, exclaiming, “goodby,” took
the whole dose. In a minute she
was iu mortal agony, writhing
upon the floor in horrible convul
sions.
The cause of the suicide is a pro
found mystery, and it is believed
that the young wife was temporar
ily insane.
Lorenzo Dow’s Courtship.
Numberless anecdotes are rela
ted of the eccentricities and char
acteristic acts of Rev. Lorenzo
Dow, the famous itinerant Metho
dist preacher, says the Youth’s
Companion. Mr Collins relates
that when he was a widower he
said to the congregation one day
at the close of his sermon : “I am
a candidate for matrimony; and
if there is a woman in this audi
ence who is willing to marry me I
would thank her to rise.” A wo
man rose very near the pulpit and
another in a distant part of the
house. Mr. Dow paused a mo
ment, then said: “There are two;
I think the one nearest me rose
first; at any rate I will take her
for my wife.” This woman was
in good standing and possessed
considerable property. Very soon
after this eccentric wooing she be
came Mrs. Dow.
Henry McDaniel, aged 72 years,
was convicted of manslaughter in
Covington, Ga., recently and sen
tenced to eight years in the peni
tentiary. In the fall of 1895,
Riley Stewart, a young farmer,
was building a fence on the line
adjoining the McDaniel farm. Old
man McDaniel and his son, Hugh,
came up and ordered Stewart to
move it back a foot and a half. A
bitter quarrel ensued and Hugh
McDaniel stabbed Stewart to
death. The fence line had been
in dispute for over 20 years. The
son, had already been tried and
convicted of manslaughter. He
is serving a twelve year sentence
in the penitentiary.
An exceptional train service
to be put on shortly.
is one
The Price ol Cotton
Cotton is not being pushed upon
the market. Hence the price is
advancing.
Ihe impression has been, and
still is, quite general among cot
ton men that the price is much
below what it ought to be, and it
would not be surprising if mid
dling cotton commanded, seven
cents before December 1. The
cotton growers, however, must be
their own judges as to whether it
is wiser to hold cotton than to
sell it at oce* We recall that at
the beginning of the season the
belief was that the price of cotton
would rise. When it fell there
was surprise, because, as far as the
most astute observers could see, the
prevailing conditions favored a
rise.
It looks now as if the spinners
have begun to think they haveile
layed long enough ir hefting-their
supply of cotton. They don’t re
gard it as probable that the price
will go any lower. We may reas
onably, expect therefore to see a
considerable advance in it.
Opinions differ as to the size of
the crop. The reports, however,
favor those who predicted that
the crop would not be nearly so
large as it was thought, in the
early part of the season, it would
be. The farmers keep pretty well
posted now-a-days, and the fact
that there is a tendency to hold
back cotton for a better price
does not excite surprise.—Savan-
nah News.
Horrible Story From Holland.
Rotterdam, Holland, Oct. 14.
A man named Gustave Muller has
t
surrendered to the city police, con
fessing the murder of his wife and
child. As proof of the truth of
his confession he produced from
his pocket four human ears.
The police, on searching his
house, found the two bodies. Sub
-.nr.'jiyitly he confessed that he
had also killed his parents, muti
lating their remains in
fashion.
He'also made the astonishing
statement that he had similarly
disposed of fourteen other wives
whom he had ma.ried in various
parts of the world.
Put a Hole Through His Head.
Elliott City, Md., October 14.
William Timmons who shot and
killed his wife’s step-father, Wil
liam Hinton, fatally wounded his
wife, Elizabeth Timinous, and shot
Mrs. John Hinton'in the shoulder
near Ednor, Montgomery county,
yesterday, was found dead today
two miles east of here.
There was a bullet hole through
the right side of his head. Mrs.
Timmons and Mrs. Hinton were
sent to Washington for treatment.
The former died at 8 o’clock to
night. Mrs. Hinton will recover.
Uncle Sam Has Plenty of Gold-
Assistant Secretary Vauderlip
recently received a telegram at
Washington from a leadiug ban
ker in New York, asking upon
what terms the government would
receive a million dollars or more
in gold from San Francisco, and
upon receipts of the telegraphic
notice of its deposit issue curren
cy against it in New York. The
assistant secretary has replied in
effect that the government is not
in need of gold.
Killed His Wife By Mistake.
Columbia, S. C., Oct. 14.—Ben
Hutto, colored, laid in wait for a
negro man last night near his
house.
He fired four times at the first
person who walked by. It was
his wife.
She was killed instantly. Hut
to fled.
One feature of the Topeka, Kan
sas, “prosperity” festival worthy
of especial mention is the honor
that is being paid to a factory
girl, a Miss Whitney. She is said
to be very pretty. Kansas City a
short time ago held a festival, at
which neighboring towns and
cities were invited to be repre
sented by “maids of honor.” Chil
liclothe elected Miss Whitney as
its “maid of honor,” but the social
400 of Kansas City debarred her
from taking her place in the pic
ture, declaring her occupation a
barrier. She was immediately in
vited to become the “Queen of La
bor” at the Topeka festival, and a
special train was sent for her. Ar
r *nng at. the Kansas capital, she
1 Tlie governor and city
* night. Was that «m|age-aud-f our j
I»ic«l at His PQB^l
Mathieu Donzelot is JH
membered in Paris as
most faithful and couragea*
who ever served a paper
porter, says an exchange.*
assignment and what beCIH
is told by Monsieur Trimmi
"Petit Journal.” I
One day a riot was apprell
and Donzelot was sent to isl
theon to report the
quarter. Already the Hgß
v:ng, and the
:nu t'> tear up
barricade them.
One of Donzelot’s frienl
him as he was running bjl
said to him: “ What are yJ
ing here? Run and save yon
Donzelot made no repM
again his friend urged«
leave so dangerous a
*--! am not felfeJ
said ; “but as you are goiiwj
take this copy along withal
the paper; you will save msl
An hour passed and tbel
dor was at its height. Thl
had already begun to clasi
ously with the authoritiesj
denly the Garde N&tionale ■
volley, and Donzelot fell, hisl
pierced by a bullet. A si
rushed up to him. ]
“You are hurt?” he asked!
“Yes,” replied Donzelot,!
ously I think. I cannot u|
pencil.”
“Never mind your pemM
turned the surgeon sharply.>!
question is to save your life!
“Don’t be in a hurry
Donzelot, quietly. X*"'Cail|
his own duty. Miq? car l!
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tlio mother picks iJHHH
be the best.
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most del irate of all *|HH
generally of r pearly kHkI
tone. The animal, onMj
dent family, is only
long, making the Bkin, H
sidered, very valuable, m
Rabbit fur is widetjofl
though the value
is trifling. The
lection is etmrinoiis. ■MB
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yearl\, while
stated to average 30,.
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poem, and the incident in M
itself so strongly on my m l
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I was about half way 1
when my mother came iijjfl
a young friend had come
the afternoon and tape ■
me. In great distress
out, ‘Oh, mother, canst
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