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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1899)
The Banner Will Give Yon All The News or Conyers and Rock dale County. VOL. XXIV. PROPHET NEILL IS DISCREDITED f. Be Is Accused of Trying to Wreck the Cottoa Growers. SECRET CIRCULARS WERE USED. His Probabilities Regarding the Cotton Crop Caused Loss of Millions. A special from New- Orleans says: ‘The article in the Atlanta Consfcitu tion of November 1st, on i t Mr. Neill’s Fake," c’lgt&yUi ^ftsHrhere Mr. . Neill refiis^d tfe \f discitps and* it ot'Ho. sqy anything about will not say • whether be propoies to .tissue another., statement as to fhe’erop Modifying his former circulars as to the yield as long as that article stands. “lie attributes tho bull movement largely to Pric.e, McCormick & Co., v, ho,, he says, are deeply and person¬ ally interested in sending up the price of eotton, and claims that they have spent hundreds of thousands of dol¬ lars in sending out circulars and ca¬ blegrams on the subject of .damage to the Crops, aud he cited the case of a long telegram sent by the firm to a Mim’e dealer in Havre, in the hope of iufmencing the price sentiment there. “But the general in New Orleans, backing oufcjjfde Mr. gf the, very finan¬ small coterie '.Neill, and cially in hajf toasted in ids., prophecies is that prophet he wrecked Jiimseif as a cot¬ will ton this year, and (hat be never be able recover from the .com¬ plete cfnilure.of (sanders his estimates. The English of who confided in him because liis success in .the previous feu-years, will lose so heavily this’ season because of their trust, that they will never, believe him. again, or accept hisjjfhb&Jir ‘@h»a ia ’the . prevailing Sentiment beyf. For along timet the result was doubtful. . Mr. Neill had, so strong a bold on the' Liverpool 'market that it seemed impossible to break its belief in him, and the unfavorable reports that name in (HJHTTBlf IqitftrterS from the agricultural departments, the pa¬ tters and experts generally could not prevail against his dictum that the crop at a minimum would be 11,000,000 bales. For nearly a month the battle ltere raged, but the Neill forces have been steadily losing ground until now there is no qnestion as to the result. “The battle is won, and it is fully I recognized here that nothing that can occur will send back tho price of cot I ton to where it would have been had | Nt Homo ill’s of statement the Neill followers proved correct, keep may I down the price of eotton slightly at New Orleans and other ports, but in the interior the price is stiff. Letters I from East Feliciana and oilier parishes I show that the farmers are insisting on I 7 cents for their cotton and getting it, I as nVtteh as in New Orleans, the pur I chaser being glad to get itattliat figure I and,pay the freight to the city. I “Mr. Neill is another case of the I pitcher going too often to the well. THE PRUDENTIAL ' INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA. i John F. Dryden, President. Sr Home Office, Newark, N. J. fit- mm ASSETS JULY 1st, 1899, - $30,876,019.39. US s SURPLUS JULY 1st, 1899, -- $ 5,747,423.39. mt i; :• i WK fP* m t w >fi¥ W/ mm '•££& wmm WmmSm Si m ■ S-S*S' '- r -' FOR PARTICULARS AS TO GENERAL AGENCY CONTRACTS APPLY TO R. L. WHITE, Special Agent, JAMES O. WYNN, Manager Southern Department, Conyers, Georgia. Prudential Building, Atlanta, 6a. < The Rockdale Banner. He is the victim of his success in the last two years in his estimates of the crop. He has been engaged in this business a very long time. Of his earlier estimates little is known. He supplied them to European spinners, especially English spinners, furnish¬ ing his circulars at so much to each subscriber. In these he reported the condition of the crop from time to time with the probable yield. “W 7 hen a Bhort time ago an attempt was made to collect some of these es¬ timates for the' purpose of determin¬ ing whether they were correct or not and whether they were not almost uni¬ versally in excess of the actual yield, with the eSect of depressing the price of cotton, it was impossible to find any of these circulars. They were hot is¬ sued or published o.n this side of the water. Occasionally a circular 'foiihd its way back to this country, sent bere by a British house was'not to its agents for inquiry, but'There* sufficient data to determine whether or not Mr. Neill had proved a success as an ex¬ pert and statistician in estimating the size of the cotton crop.” DfFILERS SEYEhIlY ROASTED. SenRatlotkai. VorYvavrtert to War .(JfUcfl Fi'om Siuiftec’g Heju?<juaitcr*. The San Francisco Examiner says {hat. the most sensational report of a military board of inquiry ever sent to the war department, from that city lias been forwarded to Washington from the headquarters of Major Genera! Shofter. Tho document consists of nearly one hundred typewritten pages and contains the severest kind of crit¬ icism of the methods employed by officers in charge of the sick soldiers who returned from I ha Bhilippines on the transports Tartar and Newport on October 10. BIO Mild- IN* PROSPECT. Capitell.'-s l’nri live Fsnions Sluml» I’rop. etdv >’< uf Ciijjrluf Us N. C. A party of capitalists,Said to include the Dukes of Durham, have purchased the famous Lookout shoals property, on the Catawba river, abont fifty < miles north of Charlotte, N. C. A cotton mill to cost §300,000 will bo erected. A brAu.di railroad some twelve or fifteen miles' iu length, will l:e built to the shoals from either the Atlantic, Tennessee or Ohio, between Statesville ami Taylorsville, or tho Western North Carolina. FIRST AUTONOMOUS RULERS. Natives of Npjros Ib’.hid! nre Officially Sworn In nt I?at*o!or. A Manila special says: At Bacolor, in the island of Negros, the autonom¬ ous government of the Filipinos was established Monday. General Smith, governor of the island of Negros, ad¬ ministered the oath of office to the judge of the supreme court, who in turn swore in the governor, three judges, twelve councilman, the audi¬ tor and tho secretary of the interior. A PLACE FOR RATKRONE. Will We AppolnteA Civil Governor of Cuba by Ibo President. It was announced in Washington that Major Estes G. Ratbbone, at present director general of the posts in Cuba, will shortly be appointed civil governor of Cuba. Civil govern ors tvill also be appointed by the days pres¬ for ident. within a week or ten Porto Rico and the Philippines. Ma¬ jor Bathbone is an Ohio man. INCOME FOR 1898, - $ 17,481,875.00 NEW BUSINESS 1898, ■ $164,094,784.00 TOTAL PAYMENTS TO POLICY HOLDERS TO DATE, $ 39 , 333 , 060 . 09 . CONYERS, GA:. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1890. BOERS WELL FIXED Their Fighting Strength Has Been Greatly Underestimated. ENGLAND CONSEQUENTLY FRIGHTENED Tho Transvaal Was Much K«ltcr Pre¬ pared For a Struggle Tkan Was at First Thought. Advieos of Tuesday from Loudon state that such scanty intelligence as is filtering from the South African war front is generally accepted as re¬ assuring, although tho latter reports agree that the fighting outside Lady¬ smith on Thursday and Friday were much more severe than indicated by the official advices. There is no longer such a disposition to jump at the con¬ clusion that a crushing blow has been inflicted on the Boers, as was shown before. British contempt for the burghers has been modified by defeat. The best informed are inclined to discount the stories of the cutting up of the Boers until further confirmation is re¬ ceived. But the mere fact that Gen¬ eral White was enabled to undertake a series of successful rcconnoisances is taken as an indication that the Boer investment has been relaxed by the withdrawal of a portion of General Jonbert’s forces southward. While, however, the anxiety in re¬ gard to the immediate stress is allevi¬ ated, there is a widespread fear that the authorities are badly blundering, and may find too latq that the main expedition will prove too weak to complete its task with safety and dis¬ patch, as the Natal force lias already admittedly failed to perform what was expected of it. The confession of Lord Wolsoiey, tho commander-in-chief, ihat tho Boers were more powerful and more numer¬ ous than had been anticipated, suffi¬ ciently explains the present happen¬ ings, and the war office will hereafter have awkward questions to answer in regard to its apparent colossal igno¬ rance of the Boer strength, which, both in number of meu and excellence of artillery, is apparently a complete surprise to the British military author¬ ities. Mai! news from South Africa shows how inocurate have been the es¬ timates of the intelligence department aud. tho governmental experts. It is gleaned therefrom that a fair estimato of the forces is as follows: “About Ladysmith, 25,000; travers¬ ing Zululand, 4,000; advancing on Biirghersdorp, 5.000; Kimberley, 7,000; Mafeking, 4,-500, and on the northern transvaal border, 2,000. Exact information about the Beer artillery is lacking, but it is known that General Joubert’s detachment, before it was reinforced, consisted of 16 Krupp field pieces of the latest pat¬ tern, and two heavy Creuzot siege guns, which, but for the opportune arrival of the British naval brigade, would have rendered Ladysmith un¬ tenable. BIG DAY IN BIRMINGHAM, A Grand Military Parade In Honor of Admiral Scliley. A big military display was the feat¬ ure of the celebration in Birmingham, Ala., Tuesday in honor of Admiral Sohley. The procession consisted of the greater part of the National Guard of Alabama and a good emoro of that of Mississippi, together with the cadet corps from five colleges in the state. Added to these organizations were the Confederate Veterans, the veterans of the Spanish war, the sons of the veterans, the Grand Army and numer¬ ous civic organizations. The parade, headed by the admiral’s party, moved through the principal streets of the city, tho sidewalks of which were packed with thousands of people to the state fair grounds, where Admiral Scliley reviewed the parade and took part in tho formal opening of the fair. Tho military display was the largest and best ever seen in the state, anil contained upwards of 5,000 men. After the opening of the fair the admiral’* party inspected tho exhibits, and later held a public reception. At night an immense banquet was ‘giv§n in his honor at the Florence hotel. Sivor.n FROM FAIR SEX. ’ Chicfifco lFbnidii to Honor Generals Joe Wlreeler and jFitzluigh Foe. A Chicago dispatch says: The fame earned in the Spanish Wheeler war by Major Generals Joseph aud Fitz lingh Lee, of the United States volun¬ teer army, will not be ignored if a number of women of Chicago are suc¬ cessful in nu undertaking they have started. They purpose to preseut each general with a sword costing $5, 000, and they will also petition con gress to make them major generals of the reguiar army as a recompense for their services to tho union during the war. The movement ia to bo national. IOWA REPUBLICAN BY <U,000. They Carry the State I5y Increased Majorities. Iowa election returns come in slow¬ ly, but continue to bo more favorable to the Republicans. Governor Shaw’s (Republican) plurality, which was figured at 52,000, is now declared to be 61,000 by the Republic iu commit¬ tee, the Democrats conceding 50,000. Comparison with the vote of two years ago shows Republican gains, although the vote is much lighter than then. Bill Welcomes Nicholas. The czar and czarina of Russia ar¬ rived at Potsdom, Germany, Wednes¬ day. and were welcomed by the em¬ peror aud empress of Germany nt Wild Talk station. The most cordial greetings were exchanged. Their maj¬ esties then drove to tiro new palace. Investigations Resumed. Tho industrial commission resumed its investigation of the trusts Thurs¬ day. The day's witnesses were Messrs. J. W.Gates and Max Pam, bo1h of tho American Steel nnd Wire company. Thirteen Men Injured. A dispatch from Ellisviiie, Miss., says: On tho Laurdl branch of the Gulf and Ship Island railway, an en gine drawing a car containing a large number of mill hands van into a log¬ ging train engine Monday and thir¬ teen men were badly injured. Yellow Jack Disappears. After being tied up for several weeks by a so-callod yellow fever epidemic business in Jackson, Miss., has again been resumed at the normal standard and tho other towns have raised their quarantines. ENGLAND IS HOPEFUL __ g tor j eg Dj gas t er a t Ladysmith * Proven to Be False. GENERAL WHITE STILL HOLDS OUT - iioVr., However, u.v. the Beie«(j«*red Garrison In a Serious situation—Bnl ler Will Have Hard Task. Advices from London slate that an immense weight was lifted from the public mind by a brief official dispatch published Monday morning, by which the continental stories of disaster at Ladysmith were proved to bo false, although the dispatch itself releived the anxiety of the more timid in an¬ other direciion, as it indicated that General White, instead of act wholly on the defensive, as it is held in many quarters he ought to do, persists in making sortios and risking another Nicholson’s Nek disaster. Generally, however, the cherry tone of tho dispatch showing that there is no anxiety at Ladysmith ns regards the ability of the beleaguered garrison to hold its own, lias hnd an excellent effect on the country. From tho fact that General White is able to tune the offensive and shell a Boer camp it seems that Ladysmith is not so closely besieged as was supposed. Not much importance, however, is attached to tho shelling of the Boer laager, as the war office Iirr no confirmation of the story that the Orange Free Staters’ camp nt Beater's lias boon raptured. Were this true, it might havo consid¬ erable effect on tho future attitude of the Orange Free State, which is not so directly concerned in the conflict ns the Transvaal. The movement of Boers into Capo Colony is beginning to awaken British fear that they have greatly underesti¬ mated the forces they will have to meet, and that even Geuoral Bubers’ task may not lie so easy as anticipated. It is becoming apparent, that nil the British calculations, based on the loyalty of the population, are hope¬ lessly at sea or there has been a very serious leakage of Dutch sympathizers from-Natal and Cape Colony. Other¬ wise thero is no accounting for tho large force* of burghers reported from all directions. The war office, conse¬ quently, is being urged to havo more troops in readiness for all possible de¬ mands. Advices from other parts of South Africa are distinctly unpalatable and everything points to a critical situa¬ tion in Natal and the northern por¬ tions of Cape Colony, likely to grow acute until General White is either re¬ lieved or decisively defeated. Nobody dares to think of capitulation. Rather than that he is expected in the last re¬ sort, if Ladysmith becomes untenable, to mako a desperate effort to cut his way through the Boers back into low¬ er Natal aud to join bonds with the garrison there, which is now almost certain to lie reinforced by tho first arrivals of the army corps from Eng¬ land and to bo pressed forward to re¬ new touch with Lira. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. Mr t of Now Indu*frlen JKutablHhed the I’nftt Week. The more important of the new in- Official Organ of Rockdale Conn ty. Has l argest Circulation in The County. duSlriefc reported during the week ending November 4tli, include a S*^2g^2».“2»’SS West Virginia; eotton mills ovens in in Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina; a cotton and woolen mill in Texas; cotton seed oil mills in Mis¬ sissippi and Texas; flouring mill* in Mississippi, the Carolinas and Ten¬ nessee; furniture factories in North Carolina and West Virginia; a 250, 000-bushel grain elevator in Texas; a harrow factory in South Carolina; a hoop factory in Arkansas; an ice fac¬ tory in Florida; a knitting mill in North Carolina; lumber mills in Tex¬ as; natural gas and oil companies in West "Virginia; a navigation company in North Carolina; a peanut factory in Virginia; a shoe factory in Georgia; soap factories in Georgia nnd North Carolina; a stave factory in Georgia; telephone companies in South Caro¬ lina and Tennessee; a vehicle works and a w indow fixture factory in Texas; zino smelters, $500,000 to bo invested, in Arkansas.—Tradesman (Chatta¬ nooga, Tonu.) RECEIVERS!! tPMI Tf101 18 R<HSTEI) Fulton Comity Grand Jury Make* 8om« r»nd Hot RreonpnQndittloiii. The Fulton county, Ga., grand jury ronndly scored irresponsible persona who seek to put solvent corporations, firms or individuals into the hands of receivers ia special presentments. Tho grand jurors urge that tho Ful¬ ton county delegation in the legisla¬ ture take steps to secure reforms in the receivership laws, making a bond necessary on the part of the petition¬ ers before a court will he authorized to appoint a receiver. Another reform said to be needed is that of putting the ebunty officers on salaries. DEWEY SECURES Id CENSE. II I. Snlil Tlmt. the Wedding Will Oc cur Within a Week. A Washington dispatch says: A mar¬ riage license was issued Wednesday to Admiral George Dowey and Mrs. Mil¬ dred Hazen. The application for tho lioeuno was made by Lieutenant Hardy M. Cnld-. well, U. S. N., Admiral Dewey’s sec secretary, iu person. The informa¬ tion furnished the clerk and set forth in the license is that Admiral Dewey is 01 years old and his bride-elect 43; that, both are citizens of tho United Htatos, ami that iu the ease of each party there was one former marriage. To these statements Lieutenant Cald¬ well was required to make oath. DEMOCRATS MADE A SWEEP. They H»v© Practically fCvcryt-hlnff Their Own Way In Mavyliiful, A Baltimore special says: Unofficial returns from Baltimore city and nil the counties of the state show that tho Democrats swept, practical! everything before them iu Tuesday’s contest. John Walter Smith, Dr. Joshua Tier¬ ing and Jsidor Raynor, their candi¬ dates for governor, comptroller and attorney general, respectively, were elected over the Republican candidate by Approximately 11,000 majority. Antov Makes Contribution. A London dispatch says: William Waldorf Astor bus contributed £100 pounds ($500) to the Maidenhead branch of the national fund for tho widows nnd orphans of the soldiers and sailors killed in tho war, and for tho destitute wives and families of those now serving in South Africa. TIE PEUDENTIiii Offers all That is Good IN LIFE INSURANCE And Under the Best Conditions. NO. 44. OTIS BEGINS CAMPAIGN, ___ Troops Acting 30.0.0 Mea Are Scheduled to Close in On Aguinaldo at Once. A special to tho New York ITsTftid from Washington says: than With forces aggregating Generals. more Lawton, 30,000 fighting men Wheaton now; clos MaoArthur and are General mg in on Aguinaldo’s 5 and army. 6 the dates Otis set November as “all for commencing Hie campaign depart¬ . along the line” and the war ment has information that the program is being carried out. General Otis’ dispatches aie opti¬ mistic in tho highest degree, and the officials ore predicting that the rebel¬ lion will be crushed before tho end of the present month, and that import¬ ant, victories will be announced within a few day*. quarters that,t,he It is said in sorao hot campaign “all along the line”' mp be so great after all, and it is even charged by the Demoor:Ur. that the ad¬ ministration has arranged a great an t-e-ejection campaign for political will be inter-, pin*" poses. At any rate, it esting to watch the course of Gene raj, Otis’ campaign. the takbn Sunday MagaUnd, town General MecAr¬ by two columns of thur's division, under Colonel Smith and Major O’Brien, is a strong town situated midway between Angeles and Arnyat. is part of plan The movement a a the for the Americans to possess all country to tho southeast of Tnrlac, as the troops close iu on the capital, cut¬ ting the line of the enemy’s retieat in that direction. formed General Wheeler’s brigade is at Angeles in order tojie prepared for a general engagement. FAIR WAS UNFAIR, So Allege 01.1 Ore liter, of Georgia State ‘Agricultural Society. A dispatch from Atlanta, Gn., says: Two hundred and twelve creditors oft the Dixie stuta fair, held iu Mucon in lfiOfl—a fair in which the State Agri¬ cultural sieiety nrsisted, but bad no monetary connection with or partner¬ ship—have tiled a petition in court asking Uinta receiver lie appointed for the Georgia State Fair association. It is charged that the present fair management is a scheme to cover up the assets of tire Btalo Fair society. Judge Lumpkin ruled that the fair association may wind up tho business of tho fair now closing, may collect oil Subscriptions, duos nnd claims, nnd pay all premiums, ox pen os or liabili¬ ties, 1 ut must show cnitse on Nov. 25 why a receiver should not lie ap¬ pointed. KOHLSAAT IS PROSECUTOR. Prominent UiUuijjo Hon Indlctctl Fop Criminal Libel, George W. Hinmnn, managing edi¬ tor of The Chicago Inter-Ocean, and ■ Martin D. Maddey, John J. Ilyan, Joseph Sullivan, Richard Croak and George P. Gubbius, unio’n labor lead¬ ers, have been indiclod by the grand jury at Chicago on charges of crimi¬ nal libel and conspiracy .preferred by II. fl. Koblsant, proprietor and pub¬ lisher of The Times-Herald and Even¬ ing PoBt. The charges are the outcome of an article published in The Daily Inter Ocean October 15 last, in which Mr. Kohlsaat was called an embezzior and a defaulter, aud aernsed him of mak¬ ing false statements.
