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OCILLA, UEOllGIA.
IRWIN COUNTY PUBLISHING CO.,
Proprietors.
As the mothers' congress lias given
rise to a mighty demand for a fathers’
•congress, it is evident that the small
boy will have to go into the congress
business himself unless lie Is to lose
his liberties altogether.
If every cigarette in tlfe wfirld wore
destroyed human morals would sensi¬
bly improve. Undertakers will tell
you that when the body of a confirmed
cigarette smoker is enbalmed it turns
green. This shows that the poison
does not stop at the lungs, but sat-
urates the entire body.
Our Chicago man is clamoring for
the coinage of a silver seventy-five
cent piece. He claims that it “would
stimulate trade,” as a purchaser
would not be so much impressed by
the cost of a thing when he could pay
ope coin for a seventy-five-cent arti¬
cle, as he is when he continues .0
hand out a half-dollar and a quarter-
dollar for that article.
Fashionable New York City has
abandoned to a vety great extent new-
fasliioned door bells and substituted
old-fashioned knockers. The older,
the more battered and unsightly the
knocker is, the higher price it com¬
mands. Shrewd manufacturers are
pandering to this fad by getting up
Imitations of these antiquities. In ap¬
pearance they are more antique than
the originals.
Tt is queer how many works are
^published treating tbe novel histori¬
cally. The books may be said to show
the general interest in fiction, but
here is the world running over with
novels, novels innumerable, of which
no man or woman, even if a profes-
-sional reader, can read more than a
■small part Are novels so many that
■conscientious persons can only read
about them? It is a practice common
In many branches of knowledge, and
sure to commend itself to the com-
fortable soul.
It is not too much to say that by
the death of Stephen Crane one of
the young American writers of most
promise has gone. His literary per¬
formance often exhibited poor taste
and that particular kind of affectation
known as overstraining; but it showed
signs, none the less, of real and virile
genius. Mr. Crane’s later work was
not marked by his early crudities and
in the “Wkilomville Stories,” for in-
stanete, in Harper’s Magazine, his
touch is as delicate and his thoughts
as keen as Mark Twain’s. Even
though Kiplingesque at times, his
spirit was distinctly American. In the
great mass of labored fiction and con¬
ventional authorship of fo-day, one
pauses at the name of Stephen Crane.
Hypnotism has jrown vastly in
vogue in the last fifteen of twenty
years. The causes of its phenomena
and the forces which regulate and
control them are as little known aa
ever, but this does not bar its ac-
ceptance as a form of social amuse¬
ment, nor its exploration by thought-
less youths and greedy charlatans,
whose only object is to gain a little
cheap notoriety, or wring a living
from a credulous populace, It has
been forcibly demonstrated, however,
that men of sound judgment and ex¬
perience are required to make success¬
ful and safe operators, and it is just
as logical for tlie law to license this
profession and Impose rigid restric¬
tions as others involving a tedious
course of study and preparation,
thiuks the Atlanta Constitution.
What may be termed a novelty
characteristic of the times was made
the feature of a club dinner of rail¬
road officials in New York City the
other uay. Of this club, Senator
Chauncey M. Depew is president, but
owing to the pressure of public du¬
ties in Washington he was unable to
be present and preside. There was a
time when such a circumstance would
have prevented the Senator from mak¬
ing an address to the gathering.
Times have changed, however, and
conditions have changed with them.
By tlie aid of telephone receivers
placed at eacli seat the diners were
enabled to listen to a speech addressed
to them by their absent president, who
was talking at a distance of over 225
miles. The incident is a striking one
as illustrative of tlie extent to which
the progress of invention lias broke*
down the barriers of space.
A rousing campaign year is upon ns.
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now. We’ll give you the news.
WAK1NC AT NICHT.
(Mien 1 wake up alone at niglit Or else this noiso like whirring wings,
I feel as if I had no eves; That dies with the first streak of light,
t stare and blackness stare with nil my might. lies. May All be the sound of baby things,
But only round me growing, growing, in the nignt.
[ listen for the faintest sound. Children, Or and little kitty-eats and pups,
And, though l strain with either car. even buds and flowers.
The dark is silent all around; Daisies, perhaps, and buttercups.
It’s just if I could not hear. All growing in the midnight hours.
as
But if I lie with limbs held fast And yet it seems of me a part,
A of sound like eigh— And nothing far away or queer—
sort comes a It’s-just the beating of my heart.
Perhaps the darkness rushing past, That sounds so strange as I fie here!
Perhaps the minutes passing by;
I do not know why this should be;
Perhaps That keep the thoughts all in people’s heads. When sight, darkness hid the world from
Wait till they’re so quiet Sleeping the their day, beds, I feel ail is but
in that gone me—
Then rustle out and fly away! A little child and the black night.
—Mabel Dearmcr.
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e LAIIENCE eight been ing home Clarence’s years. after ARNOLD My an guardian, father absence was com¬ and had of
he had lived with us all his life up to
the time ho took a notion to travel all
over the civilized, and not a small por¬
tion cf the uncivilized world.
I had just been telling my kindred
spirit, pretty Jessie Mason, how we
expected Clarence on the morrow, ami
wound up by giving a description of
him in the following manner:
“He is awfully jolly, good-natured,
ever so handsome, flirts desperately
and a perfect tease.”
I watched to see the effect of my
words upon Jessie. She opened wide
her big, brown eyes and looked at me
with a most comical expression 'of
countenance.
Now, in most things, Jessie and I
were very much alike. Whenever
there was any mischief afloat we were
the leading spirits. We moved in a
fun-loving circle. We were forever
romping and carrying on in a manner
very unbecoming our years—at least so
said our long-faced, vinegar-visaged
friends of the bilious temperament, of
whom we always steered clear. But
then, people will talk, you know, and
perhaps it were better to talk about
Jessie and me than to talk about oth¬
ers who couldn’t stand that sort of
thing as we could. But they talked
about me more than Jessie, for I was
nearly four years older than she, 3Dd
of course my conduct was more of an
outrage on their bilious dignity.
Neither Jessie nor I ever thought of
those four years between us. We
loved each other dearly and were in¬
separable companions, She looked at
me now with those wondrous brown
eyes, exclaiming:
“Good gracious, Maud, you’re inter¬
ested at last! I have-often wondered
what sort of a man you intended to
marry, and my disappointment is
great. Why, the man you are going
into eestacies over is the fac simile
of the young men in our set, who,
you say, are very well to pass the time
away with, but to marry, as the song
says, you don’t feel inclined,” laughed
Jessie.
“Nopsense,” I said, feeling a little
annoyed that Jessie should put a
wrong construction on my words.
“I’m not interested in Clarence—that
is, not in the way you mean. I like
him, and I want you to set your cap
for him. You must fall in love some
time, you know.”
“And so must you,” laughed Jessie;
‘so I’ll wait until you set me an ex¬
ample,” and the scarlet creeps from
her cheeks to her temples as she looks
out of the window.
“Then, perhaps you’ll have to wait
forever. Mother says I’m cut out for
an old maid,” said I, lightly.
“My dear Maud, you’re no more the
pattern of an old maid than the old
man in the moon is. Tell your mother
she’s a false prophet.” I,
“I don't know that she is,” said
laughing. “I’m nearly 23, and mother
thinks it is preposterous for me to
have arrived at such an age without
being married. She keeps telling me
that my sister was married at 17 and
I keep telling her That poor Marion
has regretted it ever since. But then
she says that marriage is a lottery
and every one cannot be expected to
be satisfied with their drawing, and
I suppose mother ought to know. Dear
me! we’ve lost sight of what we were
talking about, Clarence Is ever so
much nicer than any one we know,
Jessie.” love
“Then, why don’t you fall in
with him yourself, Maud?”
“Fiddlesticks!” said I, impatiently.
“I don’t want him.”
“What keeps Charlie standing down
there?” said Jessie, jumping up.
“We’ll talk about Clarence another
time, Maud,” and Jessie was on the
■ balcony and down on the lawn like
a flash.
I stretched my neck and caught
sight of Charlie Morse down by the
gate. Jessie's blushes
• “That accounts for
when slio looked out of the window a
while ago.” I thought. “I wonder If
she cares for him? I hope she docs
not.”
As I watched Charlie and Jessie on
the lawn together, I thought Charlie
Morse was just such another as Clar¬
ence Arnold. I fell into a thoughtful
mood as I watched them. Jessie’s
words came back to me. Why
couldn’t I love Clarence Arnold my¬
self? Why, Indeed?
I never was In love, Never could
fall into it and out again like other
girls. Goodness knows I was willing
enough, but I couldn’t'for the life of
me. They called me a flirt, b'ut, as I
said before, people will talk, you
know—there’s no shutting their
mouths—but 1 wasn’t really—that is,
I never meant- to flirt. I treated all
the really nice young men I was ac¬
quainted with alike. Never accepted
invitations for places of amusement,
drives, etc., from any one in partic¬
ular. Was always a great favorite
with the young men of our “set;” but
then, they were extremely young—
that is, a few of them were my own
nge and all the rest younger. I treat¬
ed them all patronizingly, They
hadn’t any sense yet, and that ac¬
counted for me being such a favorite—
at least I could not help thinking so
—for all the older heads fought shy
of me.
Well, they sny all girls think about
matrimony more or . -ss. I guess I
must have thought less about it, for I
never thought anything about it until
now. And now that I did give It a
thought, I examined the subject thor¬
oughly and became convinced that my
mother's words were-true. I was cut
out for an old maid. It was strange,
too. There were men whom I wor¬
shiped from afar—but what was Jhe
use of talking—they were likely to re¬
main afar.
So I saw no help for it. In a few
years more I would be laid upon the
shelf, but my thoughts didn't stop on
the shelf, they carried me down the vis¬
ta of years, and Psaw a woman with a
face looking like vinegar! Why my
ideas of the poor, persecuted sex,
knowa as old maids, are associated
with vinegar I cannot tell. Bnt I did
see that woman’s face, and it did look
like vinegar; and she had with her
the two institutions of old maiddom—
a eat and a parrot, and that woman
was I.
Suddenly my hands flew to my sides
and tears rolled down my cheeks.
“For goodness sake, Maud, what
are you laughing at?” said Jessie, en¬
tering the room, followed by Charlie
Morse.
“Ob. Jessie,” I cried, “if you could
only see the picture tnat I saw just
now you would laugh, too.”
Next morning I came down stairs
rather late.
“Here comes Maud now,” I heard
my mother say. “My dear,” said my
mother to me, as I entered the break¬
fast room, “do you know this gentle¬
man?”
A man between thirty and thirty-
five years, very tall, with great, wide
shoulders, his handsome face bronzed
and bearded, rose to meet me.
I looked at the gentleman and shook
my head slowly in answer to my moth¬
er’s question.
“So you don’t remember me,
Maud?”
The bronzed gentleman laughed as
he spoke, showing his teeth and eyes
to advantage—and why didn’t I know
him at once? It was Clarence Arnold.
What a mistake I had made when
speaking of him to Jessie! I lost sight
of the fact that I wasn’t quite fifteen
when Clarence went away, and he
was four or five-and-twenty, and I
never thought about, the intervening
years. I expected to see Clarence as
he left us, about feur-and-twenty still.
“Goodness me alive!” I exclaimed,
on the impulse of the moment, “I
thought you were ever so much young¬
er.”
“Did you, indeed?’ he said, smiling,
but there was such a grave expression
In the black eyes that were always
dancing with merriment in those days
gone by.
I looked over at Jessie. She was
looking straight at me, and as soon
as our eyes met we both burst out
laughing.
Clarence’s grave black eyes were
still upon me. Of course he didn’t
know what we were laughing at, and
it must have looked charming. But,
then, that was what I always did. I
laughed when I ought not to laugh,
said what I ought not to have said,
and I came to the conclusion long ago
that there was no help for me.
People said I hadn’t a spark of com¬
mon sense. Now, I begged leave to
differ with them—that Is, in my own
mind, for I wouldn’t satisfy them to
discuss tlie question openly. I thought
I was very sensible, only somehow I
never could show it like other girls.
Now, I saw at once that Clarence
was different from the young men
with whom I was constantly sur¬
rounded. He bad sowed his wild oats,
and that was tlie sort of man I ad¬
mired. But, then, it was no use for
me to let my thoughts run in that di¬
rection, for Clarence must have
formed liis opinion of mo at our first
meetiug, and forever after, I supposed,
like all the rest of tlie sensible men,
he would wish me well—at a distance
One evening shortly after Clarence's
arrival we girls had onr heads to¬
gether plotting mischief. I, as usual,
had the leading amice. Clarence and
my brother Tom were present We
didn’t mind them, as they were part
of tlie family.
“Maud, don't take part in such fool-
Ishness. You ought to have better
sense.”
That was what Clarence said to me
when he saw a part of our nonsense.
His grave, black eyes were upon me,
ami be spoke very seriously, I thought.
Well, peyhapa I ought to have better
sense, but what business was it
Clarence Arnolu’s? Why didn’t he
speak to Jessie, in whom he
to be so highly interested ?
Yus, Clarence was interested in Jes-
sie and she -was interested in him, bnt
then I ought to have been satisfied, for
didn’t I advise Jessie to set her cap
l'or hint?
I looked up at Clarence when lie re¬
proved me. He was so earnest that
I felt like withdrawing from the mis¬
chief at once. But I didn’t withdraw.
I went straight on. dragging the oth¬
ers after me. I felt dreadful with
those black eyes upon me. Why l
persisted In the mischief I cannot tell,
except it was as brother Tom said,
out of a spirit of downright pure euss-
eduess.
One day, about a week after, we
three—Clarence, Jessie and I—were
standing on the porch. Jessie stood
between Clarence and me. Somehow
Jessie always came between Clarence
and me. Now, I only just mentioned
that, but I hope no one will think
I was jealous of Jessie. Why should
X he. Didn’t I recommend Clarence
to Jessie?
To be sure I did, but somehow I
very often forgot that of late.
Charlie Morse came strolling up the
path. My heart jumped with delight.
Strange, wlint delight I took lately in
Charlie Morse’s coming. Clarence
went down to meet him, leaving Jes¬
sie and me on the porch.
“Good gracious!” I thought to my¬
self, my delight vanishing instantly.
“Charlie Morse might just as well
have stayed at home If It is Clarence
that Is going down to him.”
“Isn’t Clarence handsome?" said
Jessie, speaking more to liefhelf than
to me, while the pink In her cheeks
grew pinker.
“Oil! I think he’s awfully brown,”
said I. Of course I hud to say some¬
thing.
“But that is from exposure,” said
Jessie, smiling. “One of these days,
Maud, his face will bo as delicate in
tint as your own.”
“MayUfe it will; but I don’t know
anything about it,” I said.
“Maud,” and Jessie's blushes grew
deeper, and her eyes wandered to
where Clarence and Charlie were
standing. “ire asked me to marry Mm.
I wanted to tell yog first, you know ”
If a thunderbolt had descended on
my head I could no* have been more
surprised. A cold tremor ran over
me. Jessie must have noticed bow
strangely I behaved. I tried to com¬
pose myself by thinning indignantly
of Clarence Arnold's indecent haste.
Think of it, he was only two weeks
in our house when lie proposed to Jes-
sic.
“Well,” I said as soon as I could get
my breath, “he ought to have sent you
hls photograph and a proposal before
he arrived himself, he was hr such a
hurry.”
“Whom are you talking about,
Maud?”
“Clarence Arnold, of course.”
“O? but Clarence Arnold doesn’t
happen to be the one tlmt proposed
to me. It was Charlie Morse, and I
accepted him. Maud, for I know .you
always liked Charlie,” and Jessie
laughed outright.
Something nqar my left side gave
another great bounce. Yes, it was
true what Jessie said, I always ».iked
Charlie, and I was so glad she accept¬
ed the dear fellow.
A year has passed away since then.
Charlie and Jessie were married long
since, and they are on a visit to our
house now. I sit in the window watch¬
ing them out upon the lawn, just as i
sat and watched them a year ago.
Only that time my watchful eyes were
accompanied by thoughts of an old
maid.
Well, you knjpv mother said I was
cut out for an old maid, but I never
think of that now. Strange, I never
bother my head about the old-maid
business any more, and guess why I
don’t? Oh! but it’s a conundrum.
You’d never guess It if I didn’t tell
you.
“Because I am Clarence Arnold’"
wife.”
Mayflower* on Cape Co-1.
At Cape Cod, and not far from
where former President Cleveland has
Ills famous summer home at Buzzard’s
Bay, the inhabitants have an odd oc¬
cupation. When the first fragrant
buds of the trailing arbutus, or May¬
flower, appear on the hillsides of the
big cape the woods are fairly alive
with men, women and children, all In
search of the delicate flowers. They
are not out collecting because they are
charmed with the early blossoms, nor
do they wander through the woods
plucking wild blossoms for their health.
Their industry is strictly commercial,
for tlie Mayflower is a favorite in New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and other
large cities Of the East, and every
spring tlie woods are stripped of them
and they are packed in moss and
shipped to town, where they are sold
at high prices.
So regular is the demand for the
dainty, waxlike blossoms that profes¬
sional flower hunters make a business
of searching out the secret blooming
grounds of the arbutus, stake out tlieir
claims as they would take up mining
claims every spring, and wait for the
blossom harvest. Gathering Mayflow-
ers has become one of the important
Industries of Cape Cod. — Providence
Journal.
Honeymoon in a Prairie Wagon.
How is this for a Bridal trip? A
young couple went to Flagstaff, Adz.,
bought a couple of big wagons and
teams of mules, hired a couple of
teamsters and a good cook and start¬
ed south for Phoenix. The principal
wagon was roofed with canvas and
wire gauze, with every comfort, and
the trip is described as ideal. No flies
or mosquitoes, good hunting, and the
“light of love” combining with that
from moon and stars. Upon arrival
at Phoenix the wagons were sold at
an advance, and the couple proceeded
by rail to Los Angeles in search of
new adventures, They may return
via Japan and India.—Washington
Star.
GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Brief Summary of Interesting
Happenings Culled at Random.
Tlie Blue nntl Gray 11,-onion.
Arrangements for the Bine and Gray
reunion upon the battlefields around
Atlanta are progressing smoothly and
rapidly under the direction of the gen¬
eral committee, while the committee
on invitation has practically finished
its work.
From the number of favorable letters
received from the leading officers in
both the federal and confederate ar¬
mies who saw service around! Atlanta
in the ’sixties,, it is certain that the
old soldiers will 1 be able to greet their
( old commanders there o-n the 20th.
Some fine speaking is assured,, and the
occasion will be marked with evidences
of fraternity unequalled since the
war.
The managers of the reunion: desire
very much tO' secure the addresses of
the surviving children and descend¬
ants of General Hood. Anybody who
eau furnish them, with the desired in¬
formation will please do so without
delay.
Lawyers Fi'niftfe Bosinca^.
The Georgia, Bar Association ad¬
journed, its seventeenth annual: session
at Warm Springs after one of th® most
successful meetings in its history.
During the three days the associa¬
tion was in session 102 members were
present and all of the papers read
were of a high: order of merit.
The following: officers were- elected
by a unanimous, vote of the associa¬
tion:
President—0.. Warner Hill, of
! ; Greenville.
I Vice Presidents—Charlton: Battle, of
! i Columbus; John C. Hart, of Union
| Point; B. H. Hill, of Atlanta-; A. F.
Daley, of WrigUtsville; JI. ®. Burn¬
| side, of Hamilton.
Executive Committee—Btertoa Smith,
Atlanta, chairman; J. M. Terrell,
Greenville;, Bolling Whitfield, Bruns¬
wick; Lloyd Cleveland, Griffin; A. R.
Lawton, Sawannah.
Secretary—Orville A. Park, Macon.
Treasurer—2. D. Harrises., Atlanta.
*
Tlin Georgia S*«t« Agri*>«, 11 rwri*l Society,
This is an institution of the state—
one of the oldest and most useful.
The annual convention of the society
is looked forward to with a steadily in-
creasing Interest year by year. It
does any man good to get out among
his felliows, shake hands and exchange-
views on general topics, especially
those in the line of his own vocation.
Men who attend conventions are gen¬
erally conservative. They learn to be
tolerant of men who, differ with them
on farm and other topics. The society
has adopted the plan of meeting in the
growing towns of the state. This year
the meeting will be held at Dublin,
August 8th and 9th proximo. Two
hundred delegates are expected to
attend. For years the railroad authori¬
ties have generously given transporta¬
tion to the delegates. Hon. Martin
V. Calvin, the sooiety’s secretary, Au¬
gusta, Ga., is now making up the list
of delegates with a view to securing a
ticket for each over the various rail¬
roads offering the shortest route from
home to Dublin and return. We are
informed that secretaries of the county
agricultural clubs throughout the state
are very slow in sending in lists of
delegates to Mr. Calvin. This should
be done at once. The customary con¬
vention fee of 31 must accompany the
application for each delegate from a
county.
The meeting promises to be one of
the best yet held. President Brown
is making up an attractive program
that will embrace the two days’ ses¬
sion. Let every secretary send in his
report as to the delegates from his
county immediately to Mr. Calvin at
Augusta. If you delay, transportation
cannot be furnished.
State Printing; Contract.
Bids for the annual contract for state
printing have been given in and will
be opened next month. The Franklin
Printing company, Byrd Printing
company,. Atlanta Lithographing com¬
pany, Foote and Davies, all of Atlan¬
ta. and the Courier-Journal Printing
company, of Louisville, Ivy., put in
bids.
Under the laws the bids are opened
on the first Tuesday in August, and
the contract is awarded on the same
day. The secretary of state, the comp¬
troller and the state treasurer com¬
pose the printing board.
The contract made for the state
printing is usually a large one and the
amount of money paid out for print¬
ing each year aggregates nearly
$100,000.
No State Republican Ticket.
The committee of eleven appointed
at the Republican state convention in
March, to select electors for the party
for Georgia, met in Atlanta the past
■week and the following electors wera
olios on:
From the state at large—John Oliver,
of Fulton; J. F. Hanson, of Bibb.
Alternates at large, S. A..Darnell, of
Pickens; J. M. Wilkinson,of Lowndes.
From the First District—Henry
Blum,-of Chatham; 8. W Schwarz-
weis, alternate.
Second District-—J. E. Peterson, of
Clay; F. J. Boatright, alternate. ”
Third District—\Y. B. Seymour, of
Dooly; F. W. Gano, of Fort Valley,
alternate.
Fourth District—E. N. Clemence, of
Muscogee; W. H. Bagley, Chatta¬
hoochee, alternate.
Eifth District—Hugh L. McKee, of
Fulton; George H. Glenn, of Fulton,
alternate.
Sixth District—G. W. Thurman, of
Spa ding; A. F. Brumberry, of Bibb,
alternate.
Seventh Distriot—Charles A dam soli,
of Polk; W. II. Martin, of Catodsa,
alternate.
Eighth District—B. F. DeWolf, of
Morgan; \V. F. Bowers, of Mart, al¬
ternate.
Ninth District—A. J. S. Hall, of
Fannin; T. W. Scott, of Habersham,
alternate.
Tenth District—S. B. Yanghn, of
Richmond; E. 1), Srnythe, of Rich¬
mond, alternate.
Eleventh District—N. B. Cook, of
Glynn; D. E. Piper, of Irwin, alter¬
nate.
All the electors- are white mam.
Wkea Chairman Walter Johnson
called the Republican state central
committee to order the roll eali show¬
ed I®' of the 64 metaibers present.
In a brief speech Chairman Johnson
stated that the coaMj.aitt.ee had met by
direction of the state convention, held
last March, for the purpose of putting
out a ticket for state-officers.
It was the duty of the committee
not to nominate just anybody;, but to
n iminate only suitable candidates in
case they could be found.
On motion a committee of eleven
was appointed to< consider the advisa¬
bility of putting out a state ticket.
The central committee took a. recess
pending the return of this committee
with its-report. The com.mittuefiually
reported this resolution::
“Resolved, Thai in our judgment
the candidacy of McKinley and: Roose¬
velt will be best- subserved by not
nominating candidates for governor
and state house officers.”'
The report of the committee was
adopted 1 by a large majority of the
central committee. And the Republi¬
cans will put out: mo state ticket.
+• » . *
Capture «*£ A'ttscond1ii|p Clturic.
W. 0. Matthews, the- absconding
elerkof Murphy. & Paine,, in Savannah,
has been captured at Juneau^ Alaska,
after an exciting: chase across the con¬
tinent by special officers. According
to a dispatch from Seattle, Wash., he
will be sent back to Georgia,, as soon
as the customary papers have been
signed.
Vofcera*i»?' Annual lieuntnti.
The annual 1 : reunion of the Thirtieth
Georgia regiment will be held at Tan¬
ner’s church,. Clayton county, Friday,
Jtsly 27th.
Tanuers’S-ehnrch is on, the Southern
ten miles ffoioi Atlanta. The railroads
are expected to grant a, s-pecial rate.
The president and secretary of the reg¬
iment earnestly request that all sur¬
vivors who-eon possibly do so attend.
They also request that papers in Camp¬
bell, Douglas, Henry, Butts, Spalding
and Bibb, counties copy the foregoing
notice.
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Cuwfc&haw Elected Chairman.
The railroad coim&issiou of Georgina
met at the statehom® last Saturday
morning in special session to consider
the matter of a new depot at Jacks-on.
J. Pope Brown, of Hawkinsville, who
was lately appointed to the commission
in pliaee of L. N. Trammell, deceased,
was inducted into his official duties at
the meeting.
Thomas C. Crenshaw, Jr., 'of Car-
tersville, was selected chairman of the
commission to fill the vacancy created
by Colonel Trammell’s death. He
was nominated by Spencer R. Atkin¬
son.
Half of the day was consumed in
hearing the merits of the Jackson de¬
pot case, the Reeves station depot case
and considering correspondence and
other business of a routine character.
The commission adjourned to meet
again July 24th, when the foregoing
depot matters will be finally disposed
of.
Full wood Gets » Bertb.
John I. Fnllwood, who figured so-
eonspiciously in the exciting contest
over the Cedartown posloffice in 1897,
has received his reward at the hands
of the administration by an appoint¬
ment in tfc£ census office. He has been
assigned to elerioal duties in the agri¬
cultural division and has entered up¬
on his naur labors.
Ordinaries Meet On 18th.
Nearly every county in Georgia is
expected to be represented at the oon-
vention of the ordinaries of the state,
which is to be held in Atlanta on the
18th. The meeting will doubtless
consume the greater part of that day,
as considerable business of importance
is to'be transacted, At 10 o’clock in
the morning of the 18th the first ses¬
sion of the convention will convene.
ONLY TO GAIN TIME.
Loudon Official* Express Such Opinion
Regarding Chinese Edict.
A London special says: The charac¬
ter of Thursday’s China news only
tends to confirm the pessimism in
London concerning the fate of the
international colony at Pekin. Ob¬
servers see in the edict from Pekin
a id other information emanating from
Che Foo only attempts to gain time
and desperate anxiety on the part of
some one to make an apology for the
outrages committed at the capita!.
The latest news from Tien Tsin con¬
siderably intensifies the general alarm.
The lack of cohesion among the allies
and the consequent failure to make
headway render the situation there
critical.
HURTS COTTON GOODS TRADE.
Trouble* In China Affect tlie S >uth In
Export Business.
The situation in China is reflected
in the export trade in American
“brown goods,” or cotton manufac¬
tures, such as sheetings, drills, flan¬
nels and jeans, sent to Shanghai to be
distributed to the ports of the Man¬
churia district. Practically, this trade,
which means about $10,000,000 annu¬
ally to southern cotton mills, is at a
standstill.