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Is what our new firm has to begin the New Year in saying, also thanking each one for
patronage in past, and promising to continue selling goods at the extremely low prices
they have in the past. They invite one and all. Come to them for good goods and
owest prices—having only ONE PRICE for all.
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bailey dry goods company, ^egssx—^CONYERS, GEORGIA
KEEP ISLANDS,
SAVSINDIANSAN
Vonng Beveridge Makes Strong
Expansionist Speech.
MINISTRATION IS SUSTAINED
[“The Islands Are Ours, and Should
Be Held As Such”—Senator
Hoar Replies.
In tho senate Thursday, Mr. Allen,
!of Nebraska, offe ed a resolution call¬
ing upon the secretary of war for
(information as to the name of the
transports, the persons from whom
they were acquired, the prices paid
and all other information relating to
the transport service. It was adopted.
At the conclusion of the routine
business Mr. Beveridge, of Indiana,
vas recognized for his speech on ihe
Philippine question. The text of his
address was a resolution which he
offered a few- days ago, which declares
‘That the Philippine islands are ter¬
ritory belonging to the United States;
that it is the intention of the United
StateR to retain them as such, and to
establish and maintain such govern
iWiental control throughout the archi
Wigo as the situation may demand.”
It was a brilliant audience which
freeted Mr. Beveridge when he began
lowing 0 speak. Every gallery was crowded,
®«ny a fringe about the table were
members of the house of repre¬
sentatives, ear the maiden wbo had effort been in the attracted to of
te senate
'lie young Indianian. Throughout
Beveridge effort, which was very Jong, Mr.
, kls commanded the attention
auditors colleagues *f the senate and of
both on the floor of the
raamber and in the galleries. Ho
‘Poke rapidly, with notably clear
nnnciation atid at times with pas
Mnate force and dramatic fervor.
Ike attention of Washington had
wn attracted to the boy senator first
J is election, which the Republican
Politicians of Indiana had said was
impossible; I ---. next.by his action in go
Rout to the .Philippines to study
!**. f conditions there himself; then
11 by newspaper notices of a hardly
pnphmentary tleney nature which had
_ to misrepresent the young
and lastly, by his announcement
a set speech upon a live topic in
,
' test session of his service as a
.
or -
M?***™” ^ is not PPosed
“ su to
hs dv peech for a year or two after
|e*r e q Senator
Lnj Uttle for ethics. There
[tst Soviee1- ?V* 16 r 7 so Pk°more and nothing in his of
Aimo t if treatment °f his subject,
herd ° { tbe orator y ^hfo-h has
!% We 0tt a e Sl f ? 0D m tk ’ s subject opposed
itti , men to
!» tie w th/ a e ' *P l0n 8ns P i°o oli °y- side have Those had lit
to sa 7 an, of those
‘ noa e who
.7,! taken the frank open,
Nko .2,1 that sea ator this from Indiana,
teivL 0 0Di y refuse to hold out
, dependence
a-w- of
i. nd ^ Ilre » but that
!t onr Purpose to
Swn PPln •
**4.Vf Sess,on e archipelago as a
and should give its
l^Ndeth* II , R colonial government.
1 ^ 4 S ? nator Beveridge
l'2 ^ i W'noV bronght nvestigations testimony for
I l
L**hi* “7“ ° f the isIand8
7‘ftod c ? Q t e ntion that it
1
th.. 688 P ro P°sition for us
lB i 8nds : that tlj ® people
Rockdale
injury to them rather than a bless¬
ing, gave peculiar value, to his speech
in the opinion of his hearers.
At times he was quite dramatic in
his utterances, particularly when he
charged that the blood of American
soldiers must be upon those here at
home who had been instrumental in
keeping alive the insurrection by thaif
opposition to the policy of the adniin
istrafion.
Mr. Beveridge concluded his speech
nt 2:25. He received great applause
from both tho floor and galleries.
Mr. Hoar followed Beveridge and
addressed himself to the Indiana sen¬
ator with great earnestness. It would
be a base thing ho said, for this coun¬
try to strike down the young republic
in the Philippines. by
Mr. Hoar said he could prove
Otis and Dewey that there was a Fili¬
pino government. said the
Otis in all communications
president of the Philippines desired to
establish their independence. Mr.
Hoar said Agninaldo was brought over
and placed at the head of 30,000 peo¬
ple who desired independence and who
were famished arms by the United
States government.
CLVI.UK 1) BY CATHOLICS.
Independence of Roman Church la X)e
ma’nded In Philippines.
Advices from Manila state that it is
asserted on high authority that Arch¬
bishop Nozaleda conteuds in his inter¬
view with Mousignor Chapelle, the
papel delegate, on behalf of the Un¬
man church and the brotherhoods,
that the titles to all property held by
the church and the brotherhood in the
Philippines should be recognized;
that the Roman catechism should be
taught in the primary schools;
the existing religious orders should
continue to administer the parishes;
that other parishes should be establish¬
ed under the same control and
the parochi.-.l control of cemeteries
should continue.
He also lays stress in his conten¬
tions, upon the importance of
the church to administer its own
fairs without state interference, upon
the necessity of a regime that will
antee the liberty of the church,
the desirability of European clergy,
the establishment of a new college
the instruction of native priests and
the continuation of indirect
tions for the maintenance of
and clergy, and upon the
of maintaining the system of
fees, including revenues from births,
mar riages, 1 funerals, dispensations
apostolic indulgences.
In addition Archbishop
advises the continuation of the church
control of pawnshops ami certain
signated hospitals and schools,
gether with the establishment of
special form of parochial actual
tion exacted by the
in the Philippines. Finally be
a plea for the continuation of the
ent missionary work of the qhurch.
NEWSPAPER REORGANIZED,
Atlanta Constitution Piles Deed of
No Chance In Management.
“The Atlanta Constitution
ing Company,” of Atlanta, Ga.,
filed a deed in the office of the
of the superior court of Fulton county,
conveying to “The Constitution
lishiug Company,” Atlanta’s
newspaper and all its assets,
tho building at the corner of
and Forsyth streets, the plant,
chises, etc. $475,000
The consideration is
cash and half a million dollars of
common stock of the new company.
The deal is simply the transfer
the old company’s property to the
company in furtherance of a
za tion with a bond issue of
au d a preferred stock issue of
000
The Constitution recently
its plan of selling 8350,000 of
mortgage sinking fund five per
gold bond* and $150,000 of
tive six per cent preferred stock.
is announced that these securities
*11 been s old. _ .
_ _
CONYERS. GA.. FRIDAY, JANUARY 12 1900.
LIQUOR '■ FIGHT BEGUN
South Carolina Legislature As¬
sembles In Columbia,
GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE IS READ.
Initial Session Involved In a Hot Fight
Over Dispensary
Matters.
Tho South Carolina legislature met
in annual session at Columbia Tues¬
day and within eighteen minutes after
the body was called to order it was in¬
volved in a but fight over the follow¬
ing resolutions, simultaneously intro¬
duced in both houses:
First—That a joint committee, con¬
sisting of two senators and three rep¬
resentatives, be appointed by the pre¬
siding officers of tho respective houses
to investigate the affairs of the »tate
dispensary. said committee be and
Second. That
is hereby empowered to send for papers
and persons, to swear witnesses, tore
quire the attendance of all parties
whose presence shall be deemed neces¬
sary, to appoint an expert accountant
and stenographer, to investigate freely
all transactions concerning said dis¬
pensary nnd its management and to
Take testimony within and without the
state and shall have access at all times
during its service to all books and
vouchers and other papers of said in¬
stitution.
Sections 3 and 4 give the committee
authority to sit during the sessions of
the house, to apply for any additional
authority needed and request a report
if possible during the present session.
The resolution was bitterly opposed.
Its advocates declared that former in¬
vestigating committees lacked power
and were but whitewashing concerns.
The resolution was amended in the
house, giving the committee power to
punish for contempt as in circuit
courts and providing that statements
made by witnesses should not be used
against them. The committee is to
also have a marshal and its sessions
are to be open to the public.
govebnob’s message bead.
Governor Miles B. McSweeney sent
in his first message to the general
assembly. It was a paper of about
10,000 words, moderate in tone, and
being for the most part a record of
public conditions.
The governor first refers to tho
death of his predecessor and then to
the “very marked material progress in
almost every line of industry." Of
cotton mills he says:
During the past year eleven new
mills have been organized and are in
progress of construction, representing
a total capital of 83,275,000. Sixteen
old mills have been enlarged, repre¬
senting an increase of their capital
stock of 82,429,000. miles have
In railroad building, 237
been completed and in actual process
of construction. This represents an
outlay of at least 825,000 a mile, or
nearly 86,000,000, and when completed
and returned for taxation even at a
valuation of 810,000 a mile, will add
82,370,000 to the taxable property jf
the state.
In cotton seed oil mills, the lumber
and , other , branches , of . lndns- . ,
business
try there has been very marked activi
ty. time I received . com
A short ago a -
mnnication from the secretary of the
treasury at Washington, calling my
attention to a claim of the United
States government against the state of
South Carolina, andean act of congress
passed March 3, 1899, requiring him
to institute such proceedings a 16
might deem proper to collect any
which bonds or the stores, general go e ^
against this state, before anycam
the P“ Tt °* th 7, “ -..fj
. ’■"■v<“*»“• This com-
red in organizing volunteer troops for
service in the war with Spain.
A statement from the state treasur¬
er is submitted showing the state does
owe* principal and iuterest, about
8250,000 to tho national government,
b*t stating that the government is
due the state 8550,000 for money ad¬
vanced during the revolutionary war
and the war erf 1812.
SPANISH (iUNS DONATED.
The Navy Department Presents
Relics For Lieutenant Brum¬
by nemorial.
The six-inch bronze cannon that tic
fended Fort Sau Felipe, at Manila,
against the American fleet under Ad¬
miral Dewey, and which wer# dis¬
mounted by shells from the Olympia,
have been presented to tho city of At¬
lanta by the navy department to be
placed at the base of the monument
to be erected in honor of Lieutenant
Thomas Brumby.
Announcement of tho gift was made
public Wednesday morning in a letter
received by Colonel W. 1. Heyward
from Admiral George Dewey, in which
the admiral incloses a letter from Sec
eetary Long stating that the cannon
are now at Mars island, California,and
can lie seemed by the city as soon ns
desired.
The news was received with enthu¬
siasm by those interested in the erec¬
tion of a monument to the memory
of Lieutenant Brumby.
The announcement that the two cap¬
tured cannon had been presented to
the city was in the nature of a sur
pri e to those who had pushed the
matter since Admiral Dewey had been
asked to use his influence to obtain
only one of the famous guns.
The presence of the two Spanish
guns at tho base of the proposed tnon
ument will give a thrilling iuterest to
that memorial, and they will servo as
a reminder of the dangers tho lament¬
ed lieutenant faced when he stood by
the side of Admiral Dewey on the
Olympia at the capture of Mauila.
hale makes inquiry.
Demands Facts Regarding England’s
Seizure of American Flour.
Senator Hale, of Maine, created a
sensation in the senate chamber Wed
nesday by introducing a resolution of
inquiry concerning the British seiz
ure of American food stuffs in Delagoa
Bay. plainly it could be insinuated
As as
there was the suggestion in the reso
lution that the executive branch of
the government may have been derelict
in its duty to uphold the dignity of
the government and the rights of
American commerce, and coming from
the senator from Maine, the chairman
of the naval committee, and the man
who was most conservative of all sen
ators in the days before the outbreak
of the war with Spain, caused his Re
publican colleagues to wonder greatly,
TRIAL ENDS IN FIGHT.
Kentuckians Use Their Oun«, As Usual,
with Deadly Result.
News has been received of a general
fight on Otter Creek, Clay county,
Ky., in which Lige Lewis and General
May were shot and killed, and four
other participants seriously wounded.
The fight occurred at a school house
on Otter Creek, where one of the
Jacksons was on trial before a magis
trato for killing another Jackson.
BISHOP CAPERS ON AVAR.
South Carolina Prelate Criticises the
Notional Government.
. Plliann CaDers formerly
, a
j con{ede ^ te genera ] t in ’his
ifjit to Trinity Episcopal church at
Colnlnbi s c> Sunday criticised the
national government in the prosecu
tion of war in the Philippines. He
lamen ted the fact that a Christian
nation was using shot and shell to re-
HELD BACK
_
Onslaughts Kept In Check
By General White.
VICTORIES ARE CLAIMED
at Ladysmith Is Dwindling
and Troubles of Britons Are as
Aggravated as Ever Before.
Tho London war office has just pub¬
the following dispatch from
Bailor:
Fbebe Camp, Natad, Jan. 8 . —The
is from General White,
yesterday:
i i ‘An attack was commenced on my
but was chiefly against
Crosar’s camp and Wagon bill, The
enemy was in great strength and has
pushed the attack with the
courage and energy. Some of the en¬
trenchments on Wagon hill were three
times taken by the enemy and retaken
by us. The attack was continued un¬
til 7:20 p. m. One point in our posi¬
tion was occupied But by the enemy
whole day. at dusk, in a very
heavy rainstorm, they were turned
out of this position at the point of
bayonet, in a most gallant manner,
the Devons, led by Colonel Park.
Colonel Ian Hamilton commanded on
Wagon hill and rendered valuable ser¬
vice. The troops have had a very try¬
ing time and have behaved excellently.
They are elated at the service
have rendered the queen.
“The enemy were repulsed every¬
where with very heavy loss, greatly
exceeding thnt 011 my side, which will
be reported as soon as the lists
completed.”
Another London special Bays: Gen¬
eral White still holds out, or did
sixty hours ago, when the Boers, oust¬
ed from their foothold inside the
works, suspended their assault at
nightfall. England has taken heart.
The situation, however, is worse. The
beleaguered force must have expend¬
ed large amounts of amunition, which
cannot be replenished and must have
lost a number of officers and men,
which is counterbalanced, so far as
the garrison is concerned, by greater
] 0BS G f the Boers.
“General White still needs
an d the difficulties confronting Gener¬
al Buller are as great as before.
“The former’s unadorned sentences
as rea d and reread suggest eloquenty
the peril in which the town was for
fourteen hours, and how barely
big nine thousand men were to keep
from being overcome.
“The chief concern for General
White is in respect to ammunition,
Sixty-eight days ago, at the
c f the siege, his small arm ammuni
tion was vaguely described
“plenty.” His artillery then had 300
per gun. Some of the bat¬
teries have been in action frequently
since then and all were probably en¬
gaged last Saturday. His stock of
ghells, consequently, must below, and
will make it difficult for General
White to co-operate in a movement by
Buller.
The intrenchments at Ladysmith as
in a message that left a day
two before the fighting and as jus
through, are fortified hills, well
with rifle pits, and trenches
tke in I antr 7 move in sin
«e to the various poets in absolute
safety. Full rations are still served.
GEORGIA REPUBLICANS
Put Out a Full State Ticket This Fall
According to Chairman Johnson.
An Atlanta special sa^s: According issued
to the call for a state convention
Monday morning by Chairman Pro Tem
H. Johnson, of the Republican
central committee, the Bepnbli
of Georgia will take an active part
state politics this fall.
* -* *•
Official Organ of Rockdale (oiin
ty. Has Largest Circulation in
The County.
state central committee through its
chairman pro tem that candidates for
governor and other stntehonse officers
will be nominated at the state conven¬
tion, which is called to meet-in Atlan¬
ta Maroh 7th.
If the Republicans carry out their
plans it will be the first timo in a num¬
ber of years that they have put a state
ticket in the field and will bring them
more prominently into the arena of
state politics.
TRAGEDY IN MISSISSIPPI.
Throo Hen Kllleil In a Desperate Duel
With Revolvers.
Oak Ridge, Miss, a little hamlet
eighteen miles northeast of Vicksburg,
was the scene Tuesday morning of a
desperate pistol duel in which three
of the best known residents of tho
county were killed. Tho dead are: A.
D. Holland, R. S. Stephenson and Dr.
Otho Austin.
Dr. James Austin, his son, Otho
Austin, and his son-in-law, R. S. Ste¬
phenson, had been arrested on an affi¬
davit sworn out by Holland, charging
them with whipping one of Holland's
negro tenants. The trial was set for
Tuesday morning,but bad hardly open¬
ed when the shooting began.
NEW JtOAl) ORGANIZED.
Stockholders of tho C., A. and C. Airline
Meet In Athena, fl».
The Chattanooga, Augusta and
Charleston Air Line Railway Com
pany was formally organized at a
meeting of lhe stockholders in Ath¬
ens, Ga. The charter, which was
granted several weeks since, was for¬
mally accepted and directors elected.
It was stated in the meeting that
8150,000 has been spent in Charleston
for real estate and over 8100,000 in
Augusta and that a large portion of
the rails for tho construction of the
road have already been purchased.
Tho road will be built from Charleston
to Athens.
FOURTH HAY’S TRIAL.
Grind of Testimony In Morrison Case
Was Steady and Monotonous.
The fourth day in the sensational
trial of Actress Julia Morrison began
at Chattanooga Monday morning at 9
o’cloo’: in the superior court thousand room,
before Judge Estell and two
spectators. prisoner, pale and distressed
The
looking, entered the court room, de¬
claring with an attempt at a smile that
she was feeling some better than she
had on Saturday. without
The trial Monday was grind any of
sensational features, and the
testimony has been steady and monot¬
onous.
CRAIG WON’T RESIGN.
The Htate Treasurer of Tennefse© Do
cidefi to Ilohl Two Jobs.
A Nashville dispatch says: It is no>
definitely known that State Treasure!
E. B. Craig will not resign, having
changed his mind since announcing his
intention to resign some weeks ago.
He has accepted the position of
treasurer of the Virginia Iron, Coal
and Coke company, but will hold on
u state treasurer, because, it is al¬
leged, he was not satisfied with the
gentleman he looked upon ashis prob¬
able successor, the appointment being
in the gift of the governor. Governor
McMillan, however, has never said
wdom he would appoint.
COTTON GIN COMBINE.
Six Manufacturing Plants Are Now Under
One Set of Officers.
The organization of the Continental
Gin Company has been affected with a
capital of 82,000,000, and the follow¬
ing plants have entered the consoli¬
dation: Daniel Pratt Gin company,
Prattville, Ala.; Smith k Sons, Gin
and Machine companj, of Avondale,
Ala.; Winship Machine company, of
Atlanta; Eagle Cotton Gin company,
of Bridgewater, Mass.; Munger Im¬
proved Cotton Machine Manufactur¬
ing company, of Dallas, Texas, and
Northington-Munger-Pratt Gin eom
pany, of East Birmingham, Ala.
NO 52.
PULITZER HOME BURNED.
Two Women Servants Lose Their
Lives—Total Loss Is Esti
mated at About $300,000.
The handsome residence of Joseph
Pulitzer, publisher of tho New York
World, at 1012 East Fifty-Fifth street.
New York, was destroyed by fire
Tuesday, and two women servants
were suffocated or burned to death.
The total loss is estimated at about
8300,000. The insurance is 8250,000.
The victims of tho fire were Mrs.
Morgan Jellot, the housekeeper, and
Miss Elizabeth Montgomery, a gov¬
erness.
The origin of the fire is variously as¬
cribed to electric wires, the steam
heaters and an open fire. It started
about 7:30 a. m„ while Mrs. Pulitzer,
her daughters, Constance and Lulu,
twelve and fourteen years of age re¬
spectively, and Herbert, a boy of
three years, and the housekeeper and
governess were asleep. Mr. Pulitzer
nnd his son, Joseph, Jr., were at
Lakewood. There were sixteen ser
vants in the house.
Tho servants and passors-hy discov¬
ered the fire about the same time.
There was not much smoke, but tho
flames spread rapidly and were soon
beyond control. Mrs. Pulitzer got her
children together and with the aid of
their nurses got them safely to the
street. Several of the servants had
narrow escapes. partly burned
Tho firemen found tho
body of the housekeeper, Mrs. Tellett,
on the top floor. 'The body of the
governess, Miss Montgomery, was
discovered several hours afterwards in
the ruins on the third floor.
Mrs. Pulitzer, who is a niece of
Jefferson Davis, had a number. of
jewels in a safe in tho house which
was buried in the ruins.
MERELY A “TEST.”
Prloes O11 Ijondim Stock Exchange lte
spond to Stories From Kutsla.
Prices were weak at the closing of
the London stock exchange Saturday,
partly due to stories of Russia mass¬
ing troops on the frontier of Afghan¬
istan. A semi-official explanation of
these moves comes from 8t. Peters¬
burg to the effect that they were
merely to test the capacity of the Cen¬
tral Asian railroads to transport troops.
The experiment, it is added, is regard¬
ed as highly successful, as it proves
that in case of necessity, troops from
the Caucasus can reach Cushka in
eight days. ________
SON’S BODY REFUSED.
Parents Would Have Nothing to Do With
Kavixlier’s Remains.
Police Sergeant Watt, of Lynch¬
burg, father of W. W. Watt, who was
lynched at Newport News for assault¬
ing Mrs. Simpson, on learning that
his son was guilty, declined to go to
Newport News and arranged by tele¬
phone for the burial. N\ att s sister,
who is a teacher in a Lynchburg
school, also telephoned if her brother
was guilty she did not want the body
sent home, so it will be sent to the
Richmond Medical college.
PARENTS SELL CHILDREN.
Starving Millions In India Compelled to
lireak Family Ties.
Latest mail advices from India aver
that the situation there grows darker
every week. Three million people are
working on government relief work.
The sale of children by starving par
ents is becoming common, Families
are breaking up, each member shift¬
ing for himself in search of food.
CUBAN EDITORS FINED.
General Eudlow Will Not Tolerate Publi¬
cation of Fake Articles.
A Havana dispatch says: General
Ludlow has fined Ei Cubano $5 for
ma'u Tuhif office° that he struck a
in the presence of the
Spanish consul general,Senor Sagrario.
The statement was pure fined for pub
La Lucha will also be
lisbing two objectionable artic.e*.