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Georgia Senatorial Muddle, It appears that The Atlanta Daily Constitution is trying to stampede the Georgia legislature and prevent the election of Gov. Atkinson to the United States sen ate by picturing the doubt of elect ing another Democratic governor. Where, oh where, is that recent Democratic majority of over fifty thousand votes? Is it possible that Atkinson is the only Demo crat in Georgia that can be elected governor? Where is that grand and pure old Christian soldier, statesman and gentleman, Gen. Clement A. Evans? Georgia would honor herself and her people by electing him governor, and there is but little doubt that he would carry the state by over one hundred thousand majority, and thereby obliterate the political factions of the state. There is in Georgia a large num ber of voters that were not satisfied with the defeat of Gen. Evans two years ago, and there is nothing that would so much allay political feelings at this time as giving the old general that he so much de serves. It would be an honor to him for the service he has given his state and people. If Atkinson is the choice of the people of Geor gia for United States senator, give it to him, as there is certainly plenty of material in Georgia for a worthy governor. A Georgian. —Chattanooga Times. That ’Scursion. The excursion train that return ed from Chattanooga last Friday night was loaded with toughs and drunk men, if all accounts be true. Swearing and shooting seems to have been the principal amuse ments on the return trip, and as a result of this playful disposition on the part of some of the excur sionists about half of the passen gers occupied the space between the seats and the floor. One very large, fat negro woman undertook to crawl under a seat, but her huge proportions prevent ed this, and she sat in mortal ter ror at the idea of exposing so much surface to the flying bullets. It is said that a well known Summerville man tried to crawl into the stove, but failing in this he got under the edge of it and hugged the floor very affectionate* ly. Another man, so it is said, had bought a quart of whisky in Chat tanooga to carry home to his wife to be converted into camphor. Somehow in the me'ee the bottle was broke and the contents lost- It is supposed a stray bullet did the damage. At LaFayette a battle ensued between the occupants of the car and outsiders. Rocks and pistol balls flew promiscuously and the car windows were wrecked. This occurred at other points along the line. It is reported that one man was killed and two or three others seriously wounded but the report is discredited. It is said that the space between the seats was covered three deep with passengers who were hiding from the brick bats and the bul lets. It seems to have been a reg ular drunken pandemonium, and a disgrace to all concerned in it. Some of those who got off at Summerville stopped at, or abou the Hinton bridge on their way home and had another drunken row, greatly to the disturbance of some of the residents near by. The cars were pretty badly wrecked, so far as windows were concerned, and it is said that the railroad authorities have offered a reward for the guilty parties. The conductor was run out of the cars and took refuge in the mail car. He finally telegraphed to Rome for the police to meet the car there and arrest the rioters, but it seems that most of them got off before reaching that point. Land for Sale. Eighty-three acres, six miles west of Trion, with large six room brick dwelling, good barn and tenant house, good water. For full information call on J. D. Story, Valley Store, Ga. VALLEY STORE, GA. Prof. C. C. Bennefield has re turned from Tennessee. Mrs. W. 11. F. Rhyne visited her mother, Mrs. J. M. Hawkins of Dry valley, recently. Mr. Gus Agnew who has been stopping with Mr. Robert Henry, returned to his home near Alpine last Saturday. Mr. Woodlee of Tennessee, is vis iting his wife who is spending the winter with her father W. H. Ben nefield, Sr. Mr. Hardy Fitts made a flying visit to Trion Sunday. Miss Fannie Hammond visited two of Dry valley’s fairest girls, Misses Salena and Joanna Hawkins last Sunday. W. 11. Bennefield, Jr., will soon move to Tennessee. We are sorry to give him up, but our loss is Tennessee’s gain. Mr. Henry Young of near Sharp, Ga., got very seriously hurt at Hammond mill one day last week by a horse kicking him in the mouth. He is doing very well. Prof. Welch’s school will com mence the first Monday in Novem ber. Let us all start our children and make the last term the best. Farmers are holding their cotton till after the election hoping for a better price. Mr. C. A. Cameron, of Sharpe, Ga., was visiting in our burg re cently. Success to the News and its many readers Prince. CENTRE POST. Preaching last Sunday night at Chattooga church. Mr. John Day gave a cotton picking one day last week and a party at night which was greatly enjoyed by the young people. Mr, Jerome Clarkson and family returned from Texas one day last week. Hope he thinks better of Georgia now. Eugene Clarkson has declined the idea of going west but still goes east. Atticus Clarkson and sister were the guests of Miss Flora Thurman recently. Some sickness in our burg. Dr. G. W. Simmons seems to be very busy of late. Jack Sims will move soon to his place near Sharpe. Trinity prayer meeting has been changed from night to the after noon. Chattooga Sunday school seems to be prospering. Lottie. TRION NEWS. Rev. H. J. Adams P. E. preached at the Methodist church Sunday night and held the regular Quar terly conference Monday night. Miss Carrie Hill spent several days of last week at Chattanooga. Mrs. A. W. Shropshire of Rome, spent Sunday with relatives at this place. Mrs, Woodall is quite sick with pneumonia. Mrs. Dedman continues quite ill. Also Mr. John Buckalew. Mr. G. B. Myers spent Sunday with Mr. Scott Myers of LaFay ette. Miss Nannie Henry visited Trion Sunday. Mrs. Archer and family spent Sunday with relatives in the coun try. P. W. Alexander was in the city Saturday. Mrs. G. D. Espy spent Friday afternoon at Trion. Mrs. A. L. Dalton, of Summer ville, visited Trion Friday. Messrs John Cain and Nat Rich of Summerville, were visi ting at this place Sunday. Miss Nettie Espy is spending sometime at Summerville, the guest of G. D. Espy. To Late Candidates. Quite a number of those who an nounced in the News as candidates for office have failed so far to settle for the same. Our terms for these an nouncements are strictly cash, and we must insist that these accounts be set tled at once. We will publish a list soon of all who have paid, and we hope we won't have to omit any names from the list. Please attend to this at once. We need the money and the term* we <4*ll, LYERLY, GA. Tomorrow is election day. Hur rah for Bryan and Sewali. Mr. A. S. Williams returned home Friday from Macon where he had been to represent the Ma sonic lodge at this place. Bro. Glazner preached an excel cent sermon yesterday to a large and attentive audience. Mr. Albert Dover, of Gordon county, rpent a few days last week with his grandfather, Mr. 11. S. Dover, of this place. Misses Gussie Wheeler and Lula Johnson spent last week with Mrs. M. E. Vann. Messrs Mallie McLeod and Mar shall Smith went to Trion Sunday. How did you find ’em boys? Quite a number of our young people attended quarterly meeting at Raccoon Sunday, among them being Misses Annie and Ellen Strain, Annie Bell Lee and Wind sor McLeod. Dr. Joe Pennington is in our city today. Nobody sick and nobody mar ried and as nothing has happened I have nothing to write. M. Ladies’ Wraps. We have just received a magnificent assortment of Ladies’ Capes. Elegant plush and Beaver goods and are pre pared to surprise you with low prices. Do not fail to call and see them, it means money to you. Hollis & Hinton. TELOGA, GA, Rev. W. L. Head preached at the Baptist churcb Saturday and Sun day. He will serve the church as pastor next year. Prof. B. F. Loyd of Rock spring, and Miss Lena Miller, a. charming young lady of near LaFayette, paid a brief visit to relatives Jtere last Wednesday. Mr. Spergin, who we mentioned last week, returned last Saturday from Tennessee, but failed to bring with him his better half. He says the good woman is sick and will remain in Tennessee for sometime yet. We sympathise with Mr. Spergin in his disappointment and hope the good lady may soon be restored to health. “Ben build a fire in the parlor. Jane trim the. parlor lamp and get everything in readiness; my best beau will be here at 6 o’clock. Valley Girl. The Deacon and the Billie Goat. Mary had a billie goat With whiskers on his chin, And when he got his dander up That goat could butt like sin. He followed her to church one day, And walking down the aisle Assumed an air of gravity That made the people smile. The deacon tried to drive him out Which raised old Billie’s ire, He chewed his cud right viciously And both his eyes flashed fire. He stood upon his hinder legs And fetched a mighty bleat That to the deacon sounded like The trumphet call of fate. Then all the congregation rose, No time had they to lose, For Billie kept the racket up And cleaned out all the pews. And then he took a header and The deacon would have fled, But Billie struck him in the rear And stood him on his head. Th.e deacon called him evil names In language harsh and then To every savage epithet The Parson cried “Amen!” —Montgomery M. Folsom. Subscribe for the SUM MERVILLE NEWS. Eight pnges. $1 per year. Local Bill, Notice is hereby given that a bill will introduced at the next session of the Georgia Legislature entitled an act to establish a pub lic school system for the town of Raccoon Mills, Ga.. and for other purposes. Oct- 19th 1896. A. T. Powell, J. M. Wyatt, Recorder. Mayor. It is your privilege to save money by examining our stock of Ladies Wraps: you will readily see where and ’ how this can be done. Hollis & Hinton, —-- - ■ See naw legal ads in thio issue. VANITY OF LIFE. Joe Johnston in The Atlanta Journal. Not long ago I s'ood on the edge of a sidewalk to await the passing of a funeral train. I was in a hurry and am willing to confess that I was impatient at the slow ness of the solemn procession. At I length the last vehicle went by and 1 I walked on towards my destina tion.! Half way up the block and the Alack hearse and the closed i carriages had left my mind and I ' was thinking of other things. Afterwards I thought about the incident and came to the conclu sion that when I died and my body was borne along, there would be men on the edge of the sidewalk ’ where I had stood; men would walk up the street and forget the scene as 1 had done; men would I wait restively for the train of death Ito move by as I had done; and I that when the lust carriage had crossed the obstructed footpath, the madding throng, banked up unwillingly against the procession, would look after it a moment, and then forget it forever. How small a figure one man cuts among the multitude. The sharp report of death rings out on the ears of the myriad army, the stricken one falls, the ranks close in, the great God gives the order to move on, and on the morrow a comrade may ask, “Where is he?” sigh, mingle with the marching millions and forget, and that is death. Here was a young man yesterday lying dead in a room at the Kim ball house. He had come down to the city to mingle with the crowd that was doing the business of pol itics. In that business he had been greatly successful, and his friends had sent fer him to help them. He had just passed two score years and already had been highly honored and of his people had only to ask to receive. He had quit the exhilarating pursuit of ambition, and with a full share of honors had retired to private life. I saw him mingling with the scrouging crowd, saw how he was sought, how his favor was courted, how the ambitious watched his movements, how the envious cov eted his influence. He had carried hope to hearts of a hundred and gone to his room, had bidden his friends a happy good night. In the early watches the sum mons came, and when the sun had risen and set, his place was among the innumerable caravan. He merely looked into the tearful eyes of his loved ones and left them. Hardby the room where lay his clay, not yet in the chill of eterni ty, I stood and looked down upon the men he had so lately left. The continuous hum of loud conversa tion floated up to where I sat. They whispered and laughed and talked and drank. They cajoled and begged and scorned. They nudged and hustled and gesticula ted. Ambition pursued its relent less sway. It had done so all day when he lay dying. The lights in the big dining room shone down upon the tables and men and wo men and children talked and laugh ed, and song floated up from the bright parlors, and even where I sat, the eager face and knotted brow shifted swiftly by, uncon scious, if not uncaring of the pres ence of death. Who in all the world could have told as he watch ed the multitude that one of them, one of the best and brightest of them, had quitted them forever? And when you and I depart, the ranks will close up, the order will be given to move, the columns of humanity will still stand compact I as before, and the day is over. And yet there are a few hearts today which feel a void as vast as the infinity to which George Brown has returned. These hearts are few indeed, but a single tear fallen from the eye of love is worth every! crown that was ever wrested by ambition’s hand, and to the wit-! nessing spirit of the dead outweighs the mightiest tribute of honor. When we look upon this army of mankind, when we see what lit-' tie difference is made when one of the rank is fallen, it is no wonder we aak, what sort of a life is thia 1 wh lead? Is the reward worth th* ’ WE.GAN’T Please Ej/eiy One But we do please 95 per cent of the people who come here looking for cheap cloth= ing. A WELL DRESSED MAN Is not necessarily a man who spends a great deal on his clothes. Come in here any time y<jni will and see if the money we save you is not as honest in your pocket as it would be in the hands of those who charge you more. A FEW SAMPLES OF WHAT WE SELL Black Clay Worsted Suit, fine sateen lining, regular price sls, Our price, $8.50. Clay Worsted Suit, regu lar price, sl6, our price, $11.50 Suits made of all Wool filling goods, regular price, $7.50, our price $4.00 Fine Cheviot suits, regular price, sl2, our price SB.OO Black Cheviot suits from $4.00 to SIO.OO DO YOU WEAR PANTS? If so you can’t do better than to buy them from us, There is nothing cheap about ours except the prices. Ask to see our Pants at $1.75 per pair, regular price. $2 50. Pants well made and will wear well, regular price $2.00, our price $1.50. Fino Hairline Casimere Pants, regular price $6.00. our price $4.00. Low prices, of which we have given you a few samples, prevails throughout our large stock of clothing. We pay cash for our goods when we buy, and get all the discounts. That is the reason we can afford to make them cheap. CLEGHORN & HENRY. pursuit? Is the game worth the playing? Not, indeed, unless, in life, there are hearts that love, and in death, there are hearts that b ! eed. Year’s Support, GEORGIA, Chattooga county. To all whom it may concern: Mrs. M. A . Walters, widow oft . P. Walters, late of said county deceased, has applied to the undersigned for year’s support for hereselt and minor child from the estate of said O. P. Walters, dec. This is to notify all persons interested, the next of kin and creditors of said deceased, that said application and return ot ap praisers will be passed upon at this of fice on the first Monday in December next Witness my hand, this Cct. 22nd 1890. John Mattox, Ordinary. Road Notice, GEORGIA, Chattoga county. To all whom it may concern : Vll per sons interested are hereby notified that if no good cause is shown to the con trary, an order will be granted hy the undersigned'on the 13th day of Decem ber, 1896, establishing a new road as marked out by the road superintendent ot th? 940th road dint, appointed for that purpose, commencing at the sopth line of Ben au,d JojTn Percy's laud, running south through the lauds of Turner Per ry, William Caldwe-.1, Z. D. Perry, Jos eph Hawkins and James Cargal, cross ing the Dirttown and Haywood public road at the pond on tlte mountain, run ning south through the lands of J. N. Cheney. Mrs C. A. Al en, G. C. Garri son, Ben Mathis, M. M. Wright, Wm. L .Selman and John Dunwoody to the Chattooga and Floyd county line near P. M. Story’s, Sr, This Oct. 3lst, 1896. Jo N M attox < 'rdinary. Application Administration To all whom it may concern: J. F. Maples has applied to the undersigned for letters of administration on the es tate of Alfred Maples, late of said coun ty dec, said letters to be granted to said S. F. Maples or the clerk of the superior court or some other tit and proper per son. The said application will be passed upon at my office on the first Monday in December, 1896. Witness my hand and official signature. This Oct. 20, 1896. John Mattox, Ordinary. Notice to Debtors and Cred itors. All persons having demands against the estate of Pheribe J. Bass deceased are h'-reby notified to render in tneir demands to the undersigned according to law, and all persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment. Tli is Oct. 31st, 1893. T. J. Simmcns. Adm’r., of Pheribe J . Bass, dec. Sheriff’s Sale. ' GEOR 3IA. Chattooga county. | Will be sold to the highest bidder for I cash before the courth«>usr door in ■sp.m merville, said county, within the legal hours of sale, on the first J uesday'in December, 1896, the following described p eperty, to-wit: Fifty acres of laud in lot No. one h ndred and forty-nine, in 25th district and 4th section of said county, beginning at a point in Dry creek, where original south line crosses s?id creek, thence north 5 degrees, east 133 I poles to stake; thence w- st 48 poles to stake; thence south 5 degrees; west 133’poles to original land sine; the.ice east to beginning point, containing 40 acres; also ten acres east of this tract and neare center on which dwelling is located as described in homestead of W. B. Kilgo on said land. Sold as the prop erty of W. B. Kilgo to satisfy a mort gage tlfa issuing from Chattooga Super ior court, G W. Mills, aiministrator et al vs. W. B. Kilgo. This Nov. 2, !;<*>. J. C. Pkx* , Sheriff. TAX NOTICE, I will be at places on the days be low for the purpos<ndi»X-collectings State and County Taxes fbFHme year 1896. Trion Oct. 26 McWhorters’s store “ 27 Menlo “ 28 Foster’s store “ 29 Lyerly “ 80 Seminole Nov. 2 Coldwater “ 8 Kartah “ 4 Haywood “ 5 Subligna “ 6 Gilreath store “ 9 am. Hammond’s mill “ 9 p m. Sawmill at Boyles “ 10 Chelsea “ 11 Alpine “ 12 Foster’s store “ 13 Lyerly “ 16 Chattoogaville “ 17 Holland’s store “ 18 Weather’s store “ 19 Silver Hill “ 20 Gore “ 23 Tidings “ 24 Reuben Johnson’s “ 25 William Salmon’s “ 26 am. C. B. Atkins’ “ 26 pm. Subligna “ 27 a.m. New “ 27 pm Raccoon mills “ 80 Clemmons’ mill Dec 1 Trion “ 2 McWhorter’s store “ 3 Menlo “ 4 Foster’s store “ 7 Lyerly “ 8 Seminole “ 9 Coldwater “ 10 Kartah “ 14 Haywood “ 15 Subligna “ 16 Hall & Clements store “ 17 Roberson’s store “ 18 am. I will be in Summerville every Saturday until Dec. 20, when ray books will close. Please observe the days and dates and come for ward and settle promptly and save cost and trouble B. L. KNOX, T. C. C. C. Notice to Debtors and Cred itors. All persons having demands against the < state of L. 11. W illisms, late of t hatt<>< ga county, deceased, are hereby notified to render in their demands to the undersigned according to law, and all persons indebted to said estate aro required to make in; Hied salt’ payment. This Get. Soth, 1.-Gl. C P. H i’. shams. kdininist ralur of JL. R sVilUate» f de*