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For the Cash : NEWS and Atlanta Weekly Constitution $1.25 Per Year. NEWS and Journal SI,OO. Now’s the time to Subscribe. Take Your County 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 .. . .. y. ’• ? -*■? 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£ .'tV i j 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! the story and yptffq.2s a <1 Here, w•* . .. , I r fl^i d, G’. bi si the ti . c .3 f jj ,n and get one 01 tad FREE. || askwbr barbed wire i , Dr. Tichej^j , go and XigeiW ty feet in leng|Jh em befc the latter dimar mean teen f-et from the tip oi t !nur horns. SpBHB eighteen to twenj^yj The golden Central Americai is tUM bird in the world, jJ eights of of an iinVh tail, and ; ts wing's an inch. It is only agfl • yUJe A man w< • 1 ) ’*' : ng pi: ■-As A# I to lot the 111' * fljlllllll pies clioom tlnur^B tlio mother picks iJHHH be the best. Chinchilla fur is (V 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 Ibdgmio yearl\, while stated to average 30,. Mrs. Rose Hardwick who wrote ‘ iu'cvv ADi^B Tonigli'.’" Hvefit], a§li !' ' ’:ti . sty.,, HHBj ggj ■i jQ I- .TT. : "Ver since 1 was HHHj mother did not up V writing. One dav I went to my room. I ha studying the historic perioi I poem, and the incident in M itself so strongly on my m l 1 felt impelled to write a« 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 hlll e whi 1 e? ’ My nph u : I was solving •■'