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AFFAIRS OF STATE.
Treasurer Bob Hardeman Says
the Tax Rate Will Have
To Be Increased.
Most of the statehouse officers
have completed their annual re
ports and submitted them to the
governor. All of these contain
valuable information as to the
workings of the different depart
rnet ts of the state g .vernraent.
One of the most valuable sug
gestions is made in the report of
Treasurer Hardeman in which he
recommends important changes in
the laws governing the banks of
the state. Ho wants to put the
state banks on the same footing
with the national banks. When a
national bank examiner finds that
a bank is in an unsound condition
he takes charge of its affairs and
winds up the business so that there
will be as little loss as possible to
the depositors.
Colonel Hardeman wants the
same thing done in Georgia, and
in his report he recommends that
the general assembly shall pass a
law authorizing the state bank ex
aminer when he finds a bank is
unsound to take charge of it and
wind up the business so that the
expensive litigation following the
appointment of receivers shall be
avoided.
In the report of the treasurer he
shows that if the appropriations
for the coming year are the same
as for the past two years, and if
the added expenses for the year
are to be met the rate of taxation
will go over five mills. There is
money to be raised for the new
code, for the military and the par
don commission as well as for the
indigent soldiers. This will make
the appropriations for the year
fa’l about $250,000 short and to
meet them the tax levy must be
increased.
Colonel Hardeman’s report
shows that there was on hand in
the treasury on the Ist of October
an actual balance of $275,000.
The report of State School Com
missioner Glenn, which was com
piled by the commissioner and his
assistant, Mr. Walter Woodall, is
-the most comprehensive document
of the kind ever issued from that
office, The commissioner says the
state of Georgia has assumed to
educate the children and therefore
the parents have stopped paying
tuition which makes the present
school fund entirely inadequate
for educating the children in the
rural districts. As a remedy be
proposes a local tax in each
county to supplement the school
fund.
Commissioner Glenn compares
the criminal records with the
school records and shows that in
1895 a number of counties in the
state spent two or three times what
they spent for educating their chil
dren in convicting criminals. In
this connection he gives the value
of school houses in 111 counties
outside ;of the cities at $589,771.
In the same counties the value of
jails is $601,572.
The commissioner recommends
that the law as to teachers’ insti
tute be changed so as to make bet
ter provision for institute work.
He suggests that the law be made
so that these institutes instead of
lasting a week shall last a month.
He thinks it would be a good idea
for the state to employ four men
who understand this business to
conduct these institutes instead of
depending upon soms one picked
up at random.
He shows that the negro is rap
idly rising in the scale of educa
tion appreciating what has been
done for him, but to make his ed
ucation complete some industrial
feature should be added to the ne
gro schools.
A new school enumeration is ad
vocated as a number of counties
in the state have more pupils en
rolled than are given in the cen
sus.
The report shows that there are
now 7,253 common schools in the
state and 310 under the local sys
tem. There are 7,982 teachers in
the common schools, and 939 iu
the local schools. The average
salary paid the common school
teachers is sl2l a year, and the av
erage paid the local school teach
ers is $505 a year. The report
contains the minutes of the last
meeting of the county school com
missioners of the state as well as
of the State Teachers' Association.
Croup Quickly Cured.
Mountain Glen, Ark. —Our chil
dren were suffering with croup
when we received a bottle of Cham
berlain’s Cough Remedy. It af
forded almost instant relief.—F.
A. Thornton. This celebrated
remedy is for sale by 11. 11. Arring
ton .
The Stranger at Bad Creek,
One day a stranger rode into
Bad Creek on a bronco and dis
mounted in front of the Black Ea
gle saloon, where there was a crowd
of men, and asked for the City
Marshal. Joe Haynes had just
been appointed to that office, and
a law had been passed against
promiscuous shooting.
“What about this now law?”
asked the man, as he confronted
Joe.
“It’s agin’ ehootin’, and h?s got
to be obeyed,” was the reply.
“Ar’ you the critter as will see
it obeyed?”
“The same.’ 1
“I don’t believe you are hefty
’null!”
“Then try me on !”
The stranger pulled his gun and
began shooting in the air, and Joe
pulled his gun and commanded
him to stop. At that they turned
loese on each other, and the shoot
ing was declared the quickest and
the straightest of any ever seen in
the west- It was bang! bang!
bang! and then both were down
and hadn’t 10 minutes to I’ve.
They were lifted up and laid al
most side by side, and Toni looked
at the stranger for a long minute
with a puzzled expression on his
face and then said :
“Stranger, we’re going over the
divide in company. What name
shall I call you by?”
‘•Bill Haynes,” was the reply.
“I had a brother Bill once, but
he was killed at Cheyenne.”
“That was a mistake, Tom, I am
your brother Bill. I knowed you
as soon as you drawed your gun,
but it was too late, Tom, I’m—
I’m—”
“Lemme take his hand,” said
Tom to the men about him, and,
when he had been moved nearer
and Bill’s hand laid in his, he
pressed it and whispered :
“Billy, old boy, if I’d only known
who ye was!”
“It’s all right, Tom,” was the re
ply, “I heard about the law and
the new city marshal, and I wanted
to try his nerve. Has it come
night, so quick?”
“Aye! it’s night. Hev I got your
hand, Billy? That’s it—hold to
me tight, and we’ll walk together,
I’m sorry, boy, but —”
And both were dead, with hands
clasped and the murderous pistols
lying around them, and when the
crowd broke up, each man went
away on tiptoe, as if fearful that
his steps might arouse a sleep
which could never be broken until
the trumpet’s call. —Detroit Free
Press.
Electric Bitters.
Electric Bitters is a medicine
suited for any season, but perhaps
more generally needed when . the
languid, exhausted feeling prevails
when the liver is torpid and slug
gish and the need of a tonic and
alterative is felt. A prompt use
of this medicine has often averted
long and perhaps fatal bilious fe
vers. No medicine will act more
surely in counteracting and freeing
the system from the malarial poi
son. Headache, Indigesiion, Con
stipation, Dizziness yield to Elec
tric Bitters. 50c and SIOO per
bottle at H. H. Arrington’s Drug
Store.
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Carl Faeltix, Director.
Founded i n 1553 by VQV V
giving full information.
Fraxk W. H alk, General Manager.
PECULIAR in combination, pro- :
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SENSATIONATGADSDEN.
CLrges of Jury Bribing In An
Important Law Suit.
A big sensation was developed
last week at Gadsden in connec
tion with the trial of the noted
case of Danforth and Armstrong
vs the Tennessee A Coosa railway.
It seems that the railway in
question was indebted to Danforth
& Armstrong, contractors, in quite
a good sum, for work done in build
ing the road. They brought suit
and gained a heavy verdict. The
supreme court sent the case back
for a new trial which resulted in a
still larger verdict. Again this
verdict was reversed by the higher
court, and last week when the case
came up again it was developed
that Thos. W. Wofford Sr., and
Thos. W. Wofford, Jr., had with
the assistance of a bailiff of the
court made an effort to corrupt the
jury. When the jury was assem
bled the judge questioned them as
to the truth of the charge and a
bout half of them admitted that
the two Woffords had made repeat
ed attempts to interest them on
the side of Danforth & Armstrong.
These facts having been develop
ed Wofford and the jurymen im
plicated were put under bond to
answer further investigation and
the bailiff was discharged.
The affair has caused great ex
citement in Gadsden as Wofford is
county commissioner and a prom
inent Populist leader in Etowah
county.
Mr. Armstrong, one of the par
ties to the suit died recently in
Rome.
The Fixed Jury.
Gadsden, Ala., Oct. 29—Com
missioner T. J. Wofford, who yes
terday was caught tampering with
the jury in the case of Danforth
vs the Tennessee and Coosa rail
road, was brought into the city
court today and made to show
cause why he should not be sum
marily punished fox contempt. He
made an exparte statement sworn
to in which he pleaded ignorance
and no intention to do harm.
Judge Disque raked him over the
coals in good fashion, fined him
SSO and sentenced him to impri
sonment in the county jail for a
period of five days,
Solution of the Negro Question.
It has recently been announced
that the negroes of the south are
turning from land tenure to wage
earning. Not on the plantations.
The movement is from the planta
tioLs to the mines and still more
to the towns. One million negroes
are already in the towns of the
south above 4,000 in population,
and this, it is predicted is the first
long step on the way to the cities
of the north. A vast urban prole
tariat is about to bo created. The
black belt is to be vacated. The
black emigrant will pass out, and
the white immigrant will come in.
This through no compulsion. The
b'ack tenant farmer is a failure.
He seeks to better his condition.
He is capable only of mere muscle
work. The mines want him, and
Stillmore the cities want him;
hence, the north wants him, for in
the north are the great cities. The
line of least resistance for the col
ored man lies away from the plan
tations, partly for social, but main
ly for economic reasons.
Thus by a voluntary and econo
mic displacement and diffusion of
the negro the race problem of the
south will be solved and a new
agricultural black belt will be se
cured. No new race problem will
be given to the north, because in
no one place is the negro likely to
reach a dominant percentage. The
negro in anything under 12 per
cent diffusion will create no race
difficulty. Moreover, the negro
is best levelled up industrially and
otherwise when he has the maxi
mum of contact with the white
man’s higher standards. So this
change is best, not only for the
south, but for the negro and the
only thing required is “laissez
foire.” —Yale Review.
DOOR DIGESTION leads to
■ nervousness, chronic dyspepsia and
great misery. The best remedy is
HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA.
The Penitentiary Report.
Some unusually interesting fig
ures are given in the report of
Principal Keeper Turner of the
penitentiary department- Previous
reports have all given an increase
of convicts from the beginning of
the lease up to last year. There
has been a total increase of 1,194
■ from the beginning of the lease up
Ito last year. This report shows
that there has been a decrease
from last year. Instead of 2,424
the number in the penitentiary
last year, there are now 2,857.
This decrease is attributed to the
bill passed by the last legislature
by Judge Hall and Mr. H. A. Jen
kins reducing a number of offenses
from felonies to misdemeanors.
Last year 635 prisoners were re
ceived from the jails in the state
for the penitentiary. This year
there have been but 511, 124 less
than for last yeer.
Judge Turner has prepared a ta
ble giving the number of convicts
by counties in order to show how
they would be disposed of if they
were put to work on the roads of
the state. Fulton leads the list
having 244. Bibb has 121; Rich
mond, 46; Chatham, 176; Dough
erty, 40; Chattooga but two, Towns
and Murray none.
Richmond county has a juvenile
reformatory and the figures show
that the county has the smallest
prison population in the state for
a county having a city.
Judge Turner has another table
showing that there are in the pen
itentiary 547 convicts under 20
years of age. The figures in this
table show that a man if he lives
beyond the age of 25 without being
a criminal is not apt to become
one. The bulk of the criminals in
the penitentiary are between the
age of 16 and 25. Between these
ages there are 1,578 prisoners. A
list of these prisoners is suggestive.
There is one aged ten, one at ele
ven, six at twelve, eight at thir
teen, sixteen at fourteen, thirty
three at fifteen, seventy-nine at
sixteen, ninety at seventeen, one
hui Ired and fifty-four at eighteen,
one hundred and fifty-nine at nine
teen, one hundred and sixty-two
at twenty, one hundred and nine
ty-nine at twenty-one, one Hundred
and eighty-one at twenty-two, one
hundred and sixty-nine at twenty
three, one hundred thirty-six at
twenty-four, and one hundred and
seventeen at twenty-five. After
this the number steadily decreases
until up to the fifties, when there
are very few.
Among the prisoners in the pen
itentiary there are three hundred
and seventy-five murderers; eight
hundred and seventy burglars; two
hundred and fifty-six who attempt
ed murder; two hundred and twelve
in for larceny; one hundred and
thirty-eight for manslaughter;
eighty-one for assaults on women,
and seventy-eight for attempted
assaults.
The Best for Children.
‘T believe Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy is the best for children I
ever used. For croup it is une
qualled. It is a splendid seller
with us. —T. M. Eckles, Gh. G.,
Manager Wampum Pharmacy,
Wampum, Pa.” When used as
soon as the first symptoms appear,
that is as soon as the child becomes
hoarse or even after the croupy
cough has appeared, it will prevent
the attack. The mothers of croupy
children should bear this in mind
and always keep the remedy at
hand. It is also the best medicine
in the world for colds and whooping
cough. For sale at 25 and 50 cents
per bottle by H. H. Arrington.
C, S. Boyd, the so-called lum
ber king was jailed at Sycamore
last Monday in default of SI,OOO.
He was charged with swindling
and obtaining money under false
pretense. t
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.
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Cuts, Bruises, Sores, LTcers, Salt
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quired It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money re
funded. Price 25cents per box.
for sale hy H.H. Arripgton.
KNICKERBOCKER, TEXAS.
Editor News : —I have been
wanting to write to the people of
Chattooga through the columns of
your paper for some time, but have
been unable to do so, until recently
but have been afforded opportuni
ties to write to my friends person
ally, but during the last two weeks
have not been able to do anything
except write to my friends and
listen to the patter of the rain, as
we have had a continual wet spell
which has been very destructable
to the present crop, and has pro
hibited them from being gathered,
although the people of this coun
try do not depend on farming for
a livelyhood ; although those that
do have to resort to irrigation in
order to succeed, on account of our
seasons as we have a wet and dry
season; wet in the fall and winter,
and dry in the spring and summer;
although this does not mean that
we do not have a good country, as
it is chiefly a stock country. In
stead of hearing the busy hum of
the latest improved farming im
plements, you can hear and see the
lively cow-boy and in his jovial way
which expresses the freedom of his
vocation and with an air that ex
presses that he is monarch of all
he surveys he rounds up his large
herds that are fattened from our
extensive prairies and rolling hills
from which he expects to receive a
large reward. This is not only a
cow-man’s home, but a sheep
man’s paradise, as this country is
adapted to sheep-raising, as its
vegetation and water facilities
cannot be excelled anywhere in the
west for sheep, and our climate is
always mild so that very little food
i« required to carry any kind of
stock through the winter, but with
the exception of stock raising; as
a health resort you have far the
superior country as you all areabio
to raise everything for home con
sumption while we depend on oth
er countries for our home use.
Not only can we boast of our ex
tensive prairies and abundant
grazing resources. Not only can
we boast of these things, but as to
the people we have the most gen
erous-hearted I ever met.
Our school facilities are excel
lent, but Christianity is in the
back ground. There are very few
professors, but the light of Christ
is being shed abroad slowly but
surely. Our country has more or
less poor law officials, like all oth
er countries, we have men in office
that are afraid to force the law;
they allow Sunday descreation in
all manner of ways, from the small
boy with the base ball bat, to the
man that follows the plow for a
support, including the sportsmen
with all his game, such as race
riding, bird hunting, and fishing.
We would to God that men should
only be allowed to hold office that
has the love of God in their hearts.
The people are very much wrought
up over our coming election. Mc-
Kinley will be well supported in
this county, the majority of votes
will be from Mexicans. Bryan
will be well supported throughout
Texas by men that are for the
common good of their country and
their selves.
For fear the space in pour paper
will not permit, I will conclude
by saying if the men of west Texas
were as good as the women, it
would be a glorious country, for
without them all Christian insti
tutions would be a complete fail
ure. Eugene E. Foster.
Owing to over-crowding and bad
ventilation, the air of the school
room is often close and impure,
and teachers and pupils frequently
suffer from lung and throat trou
bles. To all such we would sa\,
try Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
For cou ffis, colds, weak lungs an I
bronchial troubles, no other rem -
dy can compare wolL it. Says A.
C. Freed Superintendent of School’
Prairie Depot, Ohio: ‘-Having
some knowledge of the efficacy of
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, I
have no hesitation in recommend
ing it to all who suffer from coughs
lung troubles, etc.” For sale I y
all druggists.
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