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VOL )X
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News of the Week Gathered
From All Parts of the State.
MANY IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
J tltn T. Raiiiln Shoot* anil Kill* Colonel
Jitmii* T. Lilly lii the Bnptlat < Larch at
M<-t<:nlfo—'l wo Young White Alm Struck
by Lightning Near 'I hiiinw.lle-Hauye
Muni Die on tlie Gallow*.
Thi masvillk, Ga., Aug. <3.—John T.
Rushin, a prominent man of thi* sec- ,
tion, shot and killed Colonel James F.
Lilly mid then cut his victim’s throat.
The tragedy occurred at Metcalfe, ten ;
miles below here, during services at the '
Baptist church. As soon as he was sure
that he had completed his work, Rushin
swallowed 4 ounces of laudanum and
rushed fr m the church with the men
of the congregation in pursuit. In the
fearful panic that followed the tiring of
the first shot, a dozen women fainted
mid wore badly hurt by the others try
ing to make a hasty exit from the build
ing.
The afternoon session of Sunday
school had just begun. Colonel Lilly
was instructing one of the classes,
while near him the minister had charge j
of another. Bushin entered the little :
building and stood for several minutes
watching. Colonel Lilly, who did ih>i ■
know that Rushin was about. Thera ■
had been no threats made by either of
the men. Suddenly Rushin h eined to '
go wild with rage. He threw his hat to
the floor and pulled out a pistol. The
minister threw up his hands m warning,
crying out; “For God’s sake, man, do
not shoot!”
The panic was instantaneous. Imme
diately Rushin fired on Colonel Lilly,
who turned, being unarmed, and ran
from the building. As Colonel Lilly
ran, Rushin continued firing. Three
bullets mitered the body of the fleeing i
man, and he fell on the outside of the
building fatally shot. Rushin paused
tor u moment, kicking Colonel Lilly’s
body ami cursing. Two men attempted
to approach him. but ho ordered them
buck at the point of hispistul, mid draw
ing a razor almost completely severed
his victim’s head from his body.
Slipping the rnz >r back into his pock, t
lio continued to hold his pursuers oil,
and drunk from a bottle four ounces of
laudanum, lie Was so thoroughly nau
seated that, he was unable to retain the
poison on his stomach. From his ac
tions it was plain that he was either
deliriously drunk or crazy, lie ran from
the crowd and went to his home, half a
mile away, and barricaded himself in. ;
In his room he has a shotgun, two pis- ;
tols and a razor. Every effort has been
made to induce him to conm out, but ho ■
has persistently refused, declaring that
—-s.hi L will kill himself first.
undmibtediyfiTTzy. Rushin owed Lilly
money, and it is supposed that Worry
over it caused his mind to become un
balanced.
THE JOKE IS ON WATSON.
Uumorons Epithet Applied to Candidate
Bryan Now Applies to Him.
Atlanta, Aug. I. “Wo love you, '
Billy, but d—n your company.”
This was one of the significant signed
editorials that appeared a few days ago
in the People’s party paper edited by I
Mr. Wa son. At that tune ho wa< fight
ing for a straight “middle-of-the-road” i
policy at St. Louis, and if ho had any I
aspiration< to a place on the national
ticket he did not think, perhaps, that ho
would bo the runiiingmato of Hilly
Bryan, to whom reference was made.
Unscousci.msly, Mr. Watson’s hu
morous epithet was soon to apply to
himself md the jokemaker is now merry.
The close friendfi of Mr. Watson have
twitted him no little. He takes it good
naturedly and admits that it is the first
practical joke of the ampaign and a
good one.
“Wo love you, Billy, but d—n your
company.” And Watson is the,‘.‘com- i
pany.”
Ous Fumbles Granted » Respite.
Atlanta, July 29.—Gus Fambios will
not hang on Aug. 7, the day set for his
execution for the murder of Mr. Nobles
of Twiggs county. Governor Atkinson
has. for tee second time, interfered in
the ease of Fumbles and postponed the
< anymg out of the death sentence. The I
notion was taken in both instances on ’
account of the case of Mrs. No, les. who !
was implicated m the crime with Fum
bles. The governor has granted Fam
bles a respite until Friday, Oct. 16 next.
Baf«blowei*« Captured Ht Alapaha.
Tifton, Ga., July 28.—The safeblow
ers who cracked two safes at Alapaha,
Ga., a few nights ago. securing several
hundred dollars, have been arrested
there after a hot chase. Detectives
spotted the mon, who wore acting sus
piciously. They started to run. The
detectives gave chase and fired several
shots. While running t e robbers threw
each a bag of coin into the grass. Spec
tators saw them and recovered the bags.
A good part of the stolen money was
recovered.
One Hundred and Thirty.four Years Old.
Dublin. Ga., July 30. Mr. O. S.
VS are of L thair, Montgomery county,
has a dish in his possession which he
purchased at a sale 30 years ego. The
dish is 134 years old and has been handed
down from generation to generation as
an heirloom. It is in use everyday and
looks well.
Two Young W bite Men Killed.
Thomasville, Ga., Aug. 3.—Bandy
and Joe Cuirk, two young white men,
living in the southern portion of the
county, were struck by lightning and
instantly killed. The young men were
riding on a load of hay when the fatal
b >lt struck them.
llanye " 111 Be Hanged Friday.
Atlanta, Aug. 3.—Arthur Hanye,
•who killed Will Spinks, his friend, last
March, will be banged here on Friday,
Aug. 7, Governor Atkinson decliug to
interfere in the sentence of death I
THE CHATTOOGA NEWS.
RATE WAR STOPPED.
Simonton Will Not Allow Railroad* to
Make an Eighty Per Cent Reduo'lon.
Spartanburg, S. C., July 28.—Col
onel A. T. Smythe of Charleston ap
peared before Judge Simonton, United
States judge, at Flat R<x:k, N. C., in
chambers, for an injunction to stop the
rat-: war betwee i the Southern ra 1-
way and the Seaboard Air Line.
Colonel Symthe came in behalf of J.
11. Averill, receiver of the Port Royal
and Augusta railroad. Judge Simonton
ordered that the defendants, the South
ern railway and the Georgia, Carolina
and Northern, appear before him at
Greenville, S. C., Aug. 15, to show
cause why the injunction should not be
permanent.
It is further provided that until the
hearing above provided for and until
the fifing of any order which the court
j may see fit to make upon or after such
hearing, the Georgia, Carolina and
Northern, the Seaboard Air Line aiM
R. C. H'.ifinan, president; E. St. John,
vice pres.dent, and V. E. Mcßee, gen
eral superintendent, be restrained and
enjoined from continuing in force or
' further operation the reduction out into
effect July 17, 1896, in the rates for
freight and passenger traffic at that
time or the reduction announced* on .
July 12, 1896, aud afterwards with- ■
drawn, or from making any further or
other cut whatever in rates for either
pm senger or freight traffic, or from ■
making any change whatever, or from I
operating either alone or in combina- I
tion with ether transportation lines i
other or different rates from those in |
effect J ly 12, 1896.
j It is further ordered that the defend- !
ants, the Southern railway; the South
i Carolina railway aud Georgia railway; i
John B. Cleveland, receiver of the Port I
Royal and Western Carolina; the Wil- j
mington, Columbia and Augusta rail- I
’ way; John Gill, receive- of the Cape
Fear and Yadkin Vai ey railway; the
Southbound; the Georgia railway and
T. K. Sei tt, manager; the Central of
Georgia; the Ocean Steamship company
aud 11. M. Comer, president, are en
enjoined and forbidden, collectively or
individually, from carrying into effect
the reduction of 80 per cent from the
rate in off ct July 12, 1896.
11. S. Haines, commissioner of the
Southern States Freight association, is
enjoined from making any reduction
whatever in rates. Copies of this in
junction will bo served on all tho de
fendants at once.
TILLMAN MAKES A SPEECH.
Tlio South Carolina Senator Addresses an
I mlienco at Orangeburg.
Columbia, S. g., J y 31. Fort! ■
first, time i; 1 a year mate? Tillman
addressed a ninth ( oli.ua milieu ■
Wednesday at Graugeburg. It was the
occasion of a celebration by the Tillman
Volunteers, a company organized at the
i time of the “Darlington war,” and was
for the purpose of securing funds to re
, organize the company.
: Colonel Cobb of Georgia was the first
speaker, and made a decidedly good im
i pression. He is a strong friend of Till
man’s, having advocated his course be
fore he knew him personally. His sub
ject was “Bryan and Sewall.” As so n
ns ho announced it, A. C. Mitchell, a
leading “reformer” of that section, in
terrupted Cobb and named Tom Watson
instead of Sewall. Cobb said that while
he admired Watson he was a Democrat
i and would not support a Populist.
| Senator Tillman's sueoch lacked his
! usual snap and he showed evidences of
j his recent bereavement. He touched
i upon state politics to say the people
’ must judge candidates by their lives
and pub ic records.
I “Let us stop fighting,” he said, ‘‘and
take a rest, but we must not go to sleep.”
i WANTS MURPHY “FIRED.”
Counterfeiter George \V. Dice Says He Will
‘•'qiiea!’* on ( ertain Conditions.
Columbus, 0., July 29.—George W.
Dice, who, after Mi es Ogle, is probably
the most dangerous counterfeiter in the
United States, was received at the state
p niteiitiary to serve eight years.
Dice says he knows where ten big
j counterfeiting plates are, and that he
has $100,0t)0 of “queer” of his own
planted, all of which he will put in the
' hands of the government if John E.
| Murphy of the se-ret service at St.
I Louis is discharged.
Murphy accomplished Dice’s arrest.
Dice assaulted Murphy in court in At
lanta while ho was on trial and tried to
kill him. He says he is -writing a book
of his adventures in counterfeiting and
has been offered $2,000 for the copy
right.
Two Men Killed by Lightning,
Atlanta, Aug. I—Lightning killed
two men and seriously injured six oth
ers at Orchard Hill, a small station on
the Centra! railroad, six miles south of
j Griffin, during the reunion of the Thir
teenth Georga regiment. George Tay
lor. a farmer of Butts county, ami James
Watley, prominent citizens of Monroe
county, were instantly killed by the
flash. Dr. N. B. Drewyof Griffin, John
MeElheney of Spalding county, John
Coins, John White and Charley Caw
ley of Monroe county, were violently
thrown to the ground and seriously
shocked.
Freak of the Lightning:.
Washington, Ga., July 29. Tom
, Robinson, a negro, was killed by light
ning on Mr. G. T. Anthony’s place, four
miles from here. The negro was plow
ing in the field and when the rain came
up took refuge n ider a large pine tree.
The lightnirg struck • lie tree nd kil'. I
both the mv. e ami th nan. he inn . s
hat brim wa torn co. . iletely ff, otl . -
m ise he sh >d no si sos t. ■ cause f
his violent <. -ath.
Dieil Protestins His Innoeence.
Nashville, July 29.—Bart Green,
a negro, convicted of the murder of
Miles P. Mitchell, near Whiteville, Har
deman county, in December last, was
hanged at Jackson. The drop fell at
10:56 and life was pronounced extinct
at 11: Hi. Green protested his innocence
to the last.
A Worntui Cremated In Florida.
Jacksonville, Fla., July 30.—Near
Clearwater. Fix. Mrs. Edward Martin
used ken-eno oil iu kindling a fire. The
can exploded, the house was burned
I and Mrs. Martin was cremated.
IMPORTANT ITEMS.
News of the Week Gathered
From All Parts of the World.
An Epitome of the South.
The Dayton City hotel, at Dayton,
; Tenn., was destroyed by fire ou Tues
day.
The president has pardoned H. H.
Mallory, sentenced in Florida to five
years for robbery.
Will Wilcoxon, son of Mr. Lee Wil
coxon, about six miles from Eatonton,
Ga., was killed by a runaAvay mule.
The twentieth annual session of the
Georgia State Horticultural society will
be held in Griffin Aug. 5 to 7, inclusive.
The Hon. Josiah Levering was noti
fied at Baltimore of his nomination as
Prohibition candidate for the presidency.
L. T. Hemphill has been appointed
postmaster at Milton, Santa Rosa
county, Fla., vice John Oarlovitz, re-
■ moved.
The cruiser Montgomery has sailed
from Tompkinsville for Key West to
relieve the Maine of patrol and quar
j antine duty there.
Ten thousand visitors attended the
| carnival show iu Valdosta, Ga. It is
, said to have exceeded anything of the
I kind ever held in the state.
Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith
: will accept the invitation to bo one of
i the speakers at the Bryan and Sewall
ratification meeting in Athens, Ga., on
Aug. 12.
The United States monitor Passaic
was delivered to the Georgia naval re
serves at Brunswick Thursday for prac
tice. It was made the occasion of a
holiday demonstration.
Charles Thompson, 'white, was con
victed at Rome, Ga., of murdering Mrs.
Ann Tudor. He is a farmer. His vic
tim w i his housekeeper. Thompson
threw her in’o tlie well.
J. L. Hailey, a farmer living five
miles from Petersburg, Tenn., in Mar
shall county, cut bis wife’s throat with
I a butcher knife. He then plunged tho
knife into his own throat.
The first two b iles of South Carolina
c itton were rec ived at Charleston a
Thursday. One Avas classed as g .1
middling, weighed 467 pounds and Avas
sold at 8X cents per pound.
At Dade City, Fla., T. B. BroAvn and
J. S. Weir became involved in a diffi
culty over a difference of 25 cents in a
settlement, when Brown stabbed Weir
in the abdomen, from which he died.
Frank Cunning, Mrs. Sylverter Long
and Miss Daisy Long were drowned at
Wheeling while trying to cross the
Ohio in a scull. The current was so
strong it carried them into a snagboat.
The last brick has been laid on Sel
ma’s (Ala.) neii’ cotton mill. The glass
will be put in next week and then the
machinery. Four hundred people will
be given employment on Sept. 1 by this
new enterprise.
Dr. John H. Callendar, famous as an
expert in mind diseases, is in Nashville,
lying at the point of death. Dr. Cal
lendar was one of the government’s
chief witnesses in the trial of Guiteau,
Garfield’s assassin.
The first bale of Alabama cotton of
this season’s crop was marketed at
Selma, classed middling, and sold for 9
cents. It is 21 days earlier than the
first bale last year, and breaks the record
for early cotton in Alabama.
The papers in the case of Scott Jack
son, convicted of the murder of Pearl
Bryan, near Fort Thomas, Ky., were
filed in the court of appeals, at Frank
fort, Ky. The court is asked to grant a
new trial on the ground of specified
errors.
The movement to secure the suspen
sion of the distilleries of Kentucky for
18 months has at last been successful;
all the preliminaries were finished at a
meeting of the committee held at Louis
ville. The agreement becomes effective
at once.
Sheriff D. S. Pruitt of Lumpkin
county was acquitted of murder iu Hall
superior court at Gainesville, Ga. He
shot Johu Redmond, a notorious char
acter, while trying to arrest him ou the
thirteenth day of June, 1895, the Avound
producing death.
Foroum Troupe, Avho for seven years
had dodged Avarrants for horse stealing,
Avas killed by a sheriff’s posse near Dub
lin, Ga., in trying to escape arrest.
Troupe tried to kill one of the deputies
Avith au ax. The coroner’s jury exon
erated the deputy.
Cyrus B. Watson, Democratic candi
date for governor of North Carolina,
made his opening campaign speech at
Wentworth, Rockingham county. He
divTiSsed the p: ent condii nos is
country aud arg .‘d in favor . bim< J
lisrn, along the line of the Democratic
i national platform.
At Concord, N. C., AndreAV Harris,
alias Henry Forest, was sentenced to
ten years in the penitentiary for at
tempting murder. While on trial he
Avas recognized as Andy Harris, the
murderer of Herbert Leroy, a Avealthy
farmer of Anson county. Harris killed
Leroy three year ago and fled.
Some of the insurance companies in
Atlanta are investigating the sudden
death of Dr. Johu J. Pore of Monroe,
Ga. He was insured for $45,000, aud
died suddenly. The insurance compan
ies kueAv Avhen he was iucreasiug his
SUMMERATLLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, AUGUST 5,1806
policies that he was a nan of very mod
erate means. Now they are not satis
fied with the proofs of his death.
The Populists of Tennessee met in
convention at Nashville, and after in
dorsing the action of the St Louis con
vention a full electoral ticket was named,
with the understanding that if the
Democrats would agree to pull off three
Democratic electors the remaining Pop
ulist electors Avould be withdrawn. A.
L. Mims was nominated for governor.
Captain W. Bailey Tucker, general
manager of the Atlantic & Gulf rail
road, was shot at Orlando, Fla., by
Alfred St. Clair Abrams, prosecuting
attorney for Lake county. Tucker may
recover. Abrams was lately antirail
road candidate for the legislature in
Lake county. He was defeated and
charged that Tucker brought it about
by unfair means.
All the buildings used by the recent
Cotton States aud International exposi
tion have been sold by the trustees for
the bondholders to the Atlanta Amuse
ment company for the sum of SIO,OOO.
The buildings cost $250,000. Several
bids Avere submitted, but none made
public save that of the Amusement com
pany, Avhich is under contract to open
the grounds as a pleasure resort and
preServe the buildings.
For the first time in the history of
the Republican party of Georgia a
ticket of electors composed entirely of
Avhites Avas appointed by the state cen
tral committee, Avhich met at Macon.
The leaders of the party say that this
means a largely increased vote for the
Republican party of this state. A prop
ositiu will be made to the Populists to
fuse and elect a state ticket, though no
direct action has yet been taken looking
to that step.
Lieutenant Colonel W. H. Benyuard,
in his annual report on river and harbor
improvements in Florida, says that the
commercial interests involved in the
improvement of the St. John’s river de
mands its early completion, and fully
warrants the expenditure estimated.
An available balance of $24,000 is to be
used on the St. Augustine harbor. A
survey made in June shoAVS that the
conditions prevailing during the past
tAvo yc-i-rs as to the p sition and depth
of the northwest entrance at K y West
harbor r nains unchanged.
Notes From North, East, AVest and Abroad.
Joseph Grebler Avas killed in a bicycle
race at Lima, O.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, who Avas re
cently stricken with paralysis, is rapidly
recovering.
I’orty-two persons were killed and 43
injured in a Avreck two miles from At
lantic City.
The gold standard Democrats Avill
hold their national convention at Chi
cago about Sept. 1.
Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith
says the story that he is going to resign
is beneath the dignity of a denial.
As er Aug. 1 the Montreal street rail
way, it is announced, Avill accept no
United States silver in payment of fare.
The Denison (O.) Safe Deposit bank
has closed its doors. No statement is
made, but the liabilities are thought to
be heavy.
Tavo masked men robbed the Illinois
Central station at Walker, Mo. Agent
Campbell Avas shot and probably fatally
Avounded by the robbers.
Edmund M. Clark of NeAV York and
his companion, Henry Sanford of Co
lumbus, Mo., Avere lost in the Mojave
desert Avhile prospecting for gold.
The postoffice department, in a circu
lar letter to postal clerks, has instructed
them to take no active part in politics,
such as attending conventions, etc.
Arthur SeAvall, Democratic candidate
for vice president, stated that any man
Avho thought he would resign in favor
of Tom Watson Avas “not worthy of an
ans Aver. ’ ’
Vice President St. John of the Sea
board Air Line vigorously denied the
report that he was on the point of re
signing, as a story put out by the
Southern.
Eighteen persons Avere killed and 36
injured, some of them fatally, by a cy
clone which swept over the city of Pitts
burg. The damage to property is esti
mated at SIOO,OOO.
Captain General Weyler has issued a
decree promising to captains of war ves
sels $24,000 for each filibustering
steamer, aud $9,000 each for filibuster
ing sail vessels captured.
The steamer Bermuda, which some
months ago took an expedition to Cuba,
has been sold to Captain Charles 11.
Brown of Loudon for $45,000, SIO,OOO
having been paid down.
Louis Hart shot himself dead in his
home nt Arlin ton. N. J., rather than
give e ideuce against his employers.
Schlesinger & Bro., accused c. issuing
spurious railroad tickets.
A man believed to be insane forced
his way into the presence of the Span
ish premier, Senor Canovas del Castillo,
at Madrid, and insulted and threatened
him. He was promptly arrested.
It is announced that the building in
which the Republicans and Populists
held their national conventions is to be
used for a horse shoAv, bicycle meets and
other indoor sporting enterprises.
EA-idence tending to substantiate
wholesale charges of police corruption
in Chicago is in the possession of the
civic federation, and a movement ia on
foot to secure an investigation-of the
police department similar to the Lexow
investigation in New York.
The president has appointed Macgra le
Cox of New York to be envoy extrao
dinary and minister plenipotentiary cf
the United States to Gautemala and
Honduras, vice Pierce M. B. Young.
Peter Jackson, the negro heavy
weight pugilist, was arrested in Lon
don for being drunk and disorderly. He
was arraigned in the Bow street police
court, found guilty and fined five shil
lings.
A dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica,
says: A lite started in Port-au-Prince
on Wednesday last and burned until
Friday. More than 100 houses were
destroyed. The loss will reach at least
$1,000,000.
By an explosion of gas at the Bear
Ridge (Pa.) colliery Michael Brazil, Pres
ton Hill and William Quinn, fire boss
of Connor’s patch, were killed, and
James Mahancy of Girardville was in
jured, perhaps fatally.
The German thirdclass cruiser litis
was lost in a typhoon, ten miles north
ward of the Shan Tung promintory,
which is about 75 miles southeast of
Chee Foo, China. Ten of the men were
saved. All of the others, including the
officers, perished.
McKinley, in a speech to a visiting
delegation at Canton, 0., committed
himself on the cuixency question so far
as to say that “our currency today is
good—all of it as good as gold—and it is
the policy of the Republican party to so
maintain it forever.”
The health authorities have been un
usually vigilant of late on account of
smallpox and yellow fever reportsd’rom
Cuba. The news that yellow fever had
broken out at Vera Cruz has made the
government solicitous about watching
tho gulf ports of the United States.
The roasury department will issue in
a few days a 32-page pamph’et ontain
ing information on tho currency ques
tion designated to furnish a simple and
comprehensive answer to thousands df
questions received by the treasury de
partment relative to the various aspects
of the financial situation.
Among the speakers who will take
the st i r np f>r the Populist ticket will
be Sen dor Butler, ,-x -U uiirman Taube
neck, Eugene V. Debs, lidbert Schilling,
Senator Allen of Nebraska, Senator
Peffer, Governor Lewelling, Mrs. Mary
Lease, General Coxey and Carl Browne.
The currency will be the chief theme.
Tho London board of trade has de
cided that the loss of the steamer Drum
mond Gastle, off Ushaixt on June 16,
resulting in the drowning of 250 per
sons, only one passenger and two sea
men being saved, was due to the fact
that she was not navigated with proj
seamanlike care in view cf the prevail
ing conditions.
At Pittsburg, Ex-City Attorney More
land, who pleaded guilty to the charge
of embezzling city funds, was sen
tenced to three years in the penitenti
ary. W. H. House, ex-assistant city at
torney, convicted of aiding and abet
ting City Attorney Moreland in embez
zling city money, was sentenced to the
penitentiary for two years and three
months.
The Democratic congressional cam
paign committee has issued, as a cam
paign document, a map showing all the
states of the Union with the electoral
vote of each. The letter press explana
tory of the map claims that free silver
will carry all of the states south and
west of Pennsylvania, with a total of
830 electoral votes. New England, New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
with 117 electoral votes, are claimed as
doubtful states.
After deliberating 19 hours the jury
in the case of Dr. J. C. Hearne versus
M. H. DeYoung and J. F. Bunt re
turned a verdict allowing the plaintiff
SIO,OOO and costs. The action was
brought to recover SIOO,OOO in conse
quence of an article written by Blunt,
the San Diego correspondent of the San
Francisco Chronicle, and published in
that paper Aug. 18, 1894, which Hearne
alleges implicated him in the murder of
Amos J. Stillwell, at Hannibal, Mo.,
Dec. 29, 1888.
The sugar bounty claims, aggregating
$5,000,000, will now probably be paid
without further delay at the rate of
about 64 cents on the dollar of claims
filed. Secretary Carlisle has approved
the decision of Commissioner Miller
against allowing three claims aggregat
ing about $15,000. These claims were
filed by General John O. Scanell, Frank
Webb and Walter Southon, all of Ala
bama. The ground on which they were
rejected were that the law requres that
the man who obtains the license must
also be the producer of the sugar, and
these case- did i t m eet the require
ment -of : e law
An imperial ukase has been issued
stating that the czar, having personally
considered the results of the initial in
quiry into the disaster that occurred on
the Hodyknsky plain, just outside of
Moscow, on the occasion of the popular
fete in connection with the coronation
of the czar, has countermanded the or
der for a further inquiry. The ukase
declares that the Moscow authorities are
answerable for the disaster and orders
that Police Prefect Vlassovsky be cash
iered and that minor penalties be in
flicted upon the other officials who have
been found to be in away responsible
for the calamity.
IN HARD LUCK.
One Misfortune Follows Close
Ou the Heels of Auother.
It will be remembered that some
weeks ago R.C. Stotts had the mis
fortune to lose his dwelling and
contents by lire, thereby entailing
on him a very heavy loss.
However, with charactei istic en
ergy, he had gone to work to re
build, and last week had most of
the frame up, and much of the
material on hand to complete the
house.
Last Monday morning about
7.30 o’clock, Mr. Stotts noticed a
small blaze in a pile of ceiling and
flooring in the dry kiln which was
being gotten ready to use. There
were six men on the ground and
Mr. Stotts says he had no idea but
what the fire could be easily extin
guished. The spring was but a
little way off, and all hands went
to work with a will to put out the
fire, but it was not so easily to be
done. In spite of their utmost ef
forts the blaze spread rapidly and
very soon was beyond control.
There was 12,00 C feet of plank
oil the kiln which -was burned:
from this the fire spread to the saw
and grist mill, only a short way
off, and these, too, were burned. A
shingla mill, belting, and some
odds and ends were all that could
be saved.
It is thought the engine and saw
mill are a total loss, and Mr. Stotts
thinks it cheaper to buy a new
outfit than undertake to do any
thing with the old. He estimates
his loss at SIOO, without any insu
rance.
Mr. Stotts is certainly in hard
luck, and he has the sympathies
of the entire community in his
severe losses; but he is not the
kind to be despondent and give up,
but says that he will make it all
right yet
MOUNT CALM, TEXAS.
Mit. Editor:—l de.-iro to \ rite
through tho columns of your pa
per to my friends in Chattooga,
something about this part of Tex
as.
Wo have a fine farming country
here. I live on the lino of Hill
and McLeman counties. The land
is of tho black waxy kind out on
the praries, but on the creeks it is
a gray, sandy soil and very fertile
It will make from three fourths t
a bale and a quarter of cotton per
acre, and from 50 to 75 bushels of
corn. This year, however, the
coni crop is injured by tho drouth
but the cotton is as fine as heart
of man could wish. The early
planting is opening fine, and tho
farmers are making preparations
to gather it. Some cotton has
already boon sold in Waco at five
cents per pound. That seems like
a small price but a man can better
afford to take five cents her© than,
seven in Georgia, as he don’t have
to buy guano here, and it don’t
take three or four acres to make a
bale; and then you can cultivate
as much again here as in Georgia,
for here we have no rocks to con
tend with. But when it rains it
will certainly stick to you; how
ever, if you will stick to it in dry
weather like it does to you in wet,
you will certainly made a living.
M )st people in Chattooga think
we don’t have any water fit to
drink but that is a mistake. We
have plenty and that which is good
I haven’t seen a spring since I left
Georgia, but we have plenty of
wells and cisterns, and it hrs
rained plenty since I have been
here.
Well boys, this is the place fora
man that has to rent land, or who
owns a poor farm in Chattooga.
He had better do like I did, take
ha.f price and come to this country,
for he can make more here and
pay half than he can on a poor
farm in Chattooga and get all. It
requires very little to feed stock
here, as there is an abundai e of
ood pastures. It is the gr test
1 ace to raise hogs that I ever saw-
They don’t die here with cholera,
so we have meat to sell, instead of
having it to buy. It is worth 5
cents per pound now.
I am better pleased with Texas
than I expected. I haven’t had t->
pay any doctor bills yet.
Well, Jim, if you and Dave are
for free silver I will have to vote
for you. lam Democratic if lam
in a Populist county. I will vote
for Bill Bryan also, for the Bryans
are hard to beat.
Success to the editor and the
1 Democratic party. M. W. Bi. v \x.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
IW fewde?
Absolutely pure
FOUND GUILTY
And Sent to the Penitentiary For
Life.
Charles Thompson, of near
Floyd Springs, was tried in Floyd
superior court last week for the
murder of Ann Tudor his house
keeper, and the jury after being
out only a short time, returned a
verdict of guilty witharecommen
dation to mercy. He was accord
ingly sentenced by Judge Henry to
life imprisonment.
It will be remembered the wo
man’s dead body was found in an
old well, some distance from
Thompson’s house. Thompson
first stated that he had, at her re
quest, helped her to commit sui
cide, as slwwas tired of living.
Later, ho charged a man named
Durham with the crime, claiming
that he was innocent.
Condensed Testimony.
Chas. B, Hood, broker and man
ufacturer’s agent, Columbus, Ohio,
certifies that Dr. King’s New Dis
covery has no equal as a Cough
remedy. J. D. Brown Prop St.
James hotel, Ft. Wayne, Ind., tes
tifies that ho was cured of a cough
of two years standing, caused by
lagrippe, by Dr. King’s New Dis
covery. B. F. Merrill, Baldwins
ville, Mass., says ho has us *d ana
r commendc .1 it and invar knew 1
it to fail and would rather have
it than any doctor, because it al- (
ways cures. Mrs, Hemming, 222
E. 25th St., Chicago always keeps
it at hand and has no fear of croup !
because it instantly relieves. Free
Trial Bottles ’t 11. 11. Arrington’s
Drug Store.
i
Mess's Brice and Thomas have 1
appealed t'o a United States court
in behalf of one of their railroads
to prevent the others from des
troying themselves by making an
80 per cent cut in rates.
A Valuable Prescription.
Editor Morrison of Washington,
Ind., Sun, writes: “You have a
valuable prescription in Electric
Bit’ers and 1 can cheerfully recom
mend it for Constipation and Sick
Headache and as a general system
tonic it has no equal ” Mrs. An
ino Stehle, 2625 Cottage Grove
ave. Chicago, was all run down,
could not eat nor digest food, had
a headache which never loft her
and felt tired and weary, but six
bottles of Electric Bitters restored
her to health and renewed her
her strength. Prices 50c and sl.
*Get a bottle at 11. 11, Arrington’s
Drug store.
Gus Fambles, the negro accom
plice of Mrs. Nobles, has been re
spited from hanging on August 7 .
Birmingham has a new soap fac
tory, thoroughly equipped and on
a good financial basis. It com
menced operations on July 28.
POOR DIGESTION leads to ,
nervousness, chronic dyspepsia and
great misery. The best remedy is
HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA.
Johnny Jameson had arrived at
his eighth birthday, and thought
it would be real nice to write his
pap, and this is the way he began :
“My Dear Papa—Whenever I am
tempted to do wrong, I think of
you and say, ‘get thee behind me
Satan.’ ”
Since 1878 there have been nine
epidemics of dysentery indifferent
parts of the country in which
Chamber! . n’s Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Amedy ;.s used with
' perfect nice -9. Dysentc :y, when
epidemic, is almost as severe and
dangerous as Asiatic cholera.
Heretofore the best efforts of the
most skilled physicianshave failed
to check its ravages, this remedy,
however, has cured the most ma
lignant case, both of children and
adults, and under the most trying
conditions, which proves it to be
the b st medicine in the world for
: bowel complaints. Fur sale by H
11. Arrington druggist, Summer
ville, Ga.
News Notes.
There is an epidemic of dipther
ia at Paint Kock, Ala.
George Shattuck, of Bronco,
Walker county, died last week of
typhoid fever.
Jacob Deck, of Rock Springs,
Walker county, lost his barn, in
cluding a large quantity of corn,
oats, etc., by fire last Monday. Or
igin of fire unknown.
Robert Garrett, the noted rail
road man of Baltimore, is dead.
When wear begins to exceed re
pair in your body you are going to
fad sick. The signs of it are loss
of flesh, pa’eness, weakness, ner
vousness, etc. The repair needed
is food. You think you eat e
nough, and yet you feel that you
wear out mere tissue, energy, nerve
force, than your food makes for
you. The difficulty is that you do
not digest enough. And this is so
serious it is worth sitting down
seriously to think about. If you
can’t digest what you eat, take a
few doses of Shaker Digestive Cor
dial. The effect of it will be to
increase your flesh and make you
I'Oel stronger. You won’t fall
sick. Proof that it is in control
of your repair apparatus. Its easy
enough to test this for yourself:
Take a few bottles of Shaker Di
gestive Cordial.
Sold by druggists at 10 confs to
$1 00 per bottle.
Not what we say, nut
what Hood’s Sarsaparilla Docs,
that tells the story of its merit ami suc
cess. liemember HOOD’S Cures.
She was a smart and pretty girl.
She wrote (he advertising for a
large dry goods concern in town.
Her mind used to run so much
upon her business that ono day
when she wrote to her lover to
moot her at home that night, she
unconsciously added as a post
script, “Come early and avoid tho
rush.”
Merit wins and that is why
Hood’s Sarsaparilla holds tho fl
biding confidence of tho public.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla is known by
the cures it has made. It is the
One True Blood Purifier.
Hood’s Pills cur l liver ills, con
stipation, jaundice, sick headache,
biliousness. 25c.
Ed Sherman, colored, was knock
ed down by a switch engine and
decapitated at Avondale on Moi\-
duy night. Ho was attempting
jump on a moving train and did
not notice tho engine on the other
track.
Henry C. Smith, of Birmingham,
a colored lawyer who was appoin
ted consul to Santos, Brazil, has
been recalled on the ground of gen
eral incompetency. A very largo
number of complaints are register
ed against him.
Tutt’s Pills
Cure All
Liver Ills.
Twenty Years Proof.
Tutt’s Liver Pills keep the bow
els in natural motion and cleanse
the system of all impurities An
absolute cure for sick headache,
dyspepsia, sour stomach, con
stipation and kindred diseases.
“Can’t do without them”
R. P. Smith, Chilesburg, Va.
writes I don’t know how I could
do without them. I have had
Liver disease for over twenty
years. Am now entirely cured,
iTutt’s Liver Pills
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