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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS. VOL X Easy to Take asy to Operate Are features peculiar to Hood’s Pills. Small in •ize, tasteless, efficient, thorough. As one man Hood’s said: “ You never know you __ have taken a pill till it Is all ! I B a ■over.” 25c. C. I. Hood & Co., B | g Ct Proprietors, Lowell, Mass. ■ ■ ■ ■ War The only pW» to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla. -*—LA... * • How the North Views Us. 1 rom a Northern Paper. It is a mistake for the southern elates to depend upon the north and west for products that they can raise themselves . There is a com munity in Colorado that supports itself by furnishing potatoes to the south, and every year the south consumes tons upon tons of pork that the north supplies at a hand some profit. In the meantime the southern planters continue to en cumber their fertile lands with cotton crops that keep them poor. The south is cotton poor, but your proud southerner would rather starve amid his unsalable cotton bales than rise to wealth and pow er by breeding the ignoble mule or engaging in the plebeian hog in dustry. How to Cure a Severe Cold. A few weeks ago the editor was taken with a very severe cold that caused him to be in a most misera ble condition. It was undoubtedly > a bad case of la grippe and recog nizing it as dangerous he took im mediate steps to bring about speedy cure. From the advertise ment of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and the many good recom mendations included therein, we concluded to make a first trial of the medicine. To say that it was satisfactory in its results, is put ting it very mildly, indeed. It acted like magic and the result was a speedy and permanent cure. — The Banner of Liberty, Liberty town, Maryland. The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by 11. H. Arring ton. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. Two gentlemen of Marshallton, Va., who for convenience we will cull Mr. A. and Mr. S., met one day and agreed to swap horses. “I’ll tell you what, John,” said Mr. A., “if you get the best of the trade you shall bring me two bush els of wheat to bind the bargain, and if I come out best I’ll do the same by you, eh?” That’s a go,” said Mr. 8., “and I ‘low you will bring me the wheat.” “That’s as it may be,’ retorted Mr- A . “But let it be agreed, them that a week from this afternoon the one that’s best suited, be it you or me, shall give t’other two bush els of wheat.” The week passed, the day came, and, as luck would have it, Mr. A. and Mr. S. met on the road about midway between their respective homes. “Where to, John?” cried Mr. A., as they stopped tc chat. “To your house with two bushels of wheat,’’replied Mr. S. “Well, now, that’s good,” re marked Mr. A., “for lam on my way to your house on the same er rand ; This horse you let me have can't be beat.” “Just what I think of this nag,” retorted Mr. S., and then they bad a hearty laugh and separated after exchanging wheat.—Youth’s com panion. Principal Keeper Turner, of the penitentiary department, is engaged on the list of discharges for April. About forty convicks who have served out their terms, will b© discharged next month, ADVERTISING IS THE LIFE OF TRADE.===WHY DON’T YOU TRY IT, AND.SEE? NOT ENOUGH FOR ALL. Three Thousand Will Have To Wait. CIRCULAR LETTER ISSUED, Telling When New Pensions Will Be Paid.—Other Information. More than threw thousand new applicants for pensions will be dis appointed. Commissioner of Pensions Rich ard Johnson says there is not enough money to pay all the new applicant for pensions in the class es made eligible by law. Only 125 of 600 new applicant for invalid pensions can be paid, and only 600 of 3,500 new applicants for indi gent pensions will get the money- The commissioner is deluged with letters of inquiry, and has found it necessary to make the public statement which fol lows : Dear Sir—ln answers to inquir ies as to when new pensions claims for 1897 will bo paid, the following statement is made : “It is estimated that not more than 125 new claims can be enroll ed under the invalid law (Act 1897). There are now pending of these about 600 applications, and it is hoped by the first of May to dis pose of them and pay out all that fund. “About 650 new claims can be paid under the indigent law (Act 1894), and more than 3,400 new applicants are now of file. It will probably be September before they can be disposed of. No precise date can, however, be fixed as new applications continue to come in— though claims fi’ed after the ex amination begins will be deferred until those at that time on file are disposed of. “Notice will be given the ordina ry so soon as the claims are dis posed of. “Payment of enrolled pensioners of all classes (that is, those paid in 1896, is practically over for 1897’.’ —Atlanta Journal. The Shakers have made a great hit. Their Digestive Cordial is said to be the most successful rem edy for stomach troubles ever in troduced . It immediately relieves all pain and distress after eating, builds up the feeble system and makes the weak strong. The fact is, foods properly di gested are better than so-called tonics. The Cordial not only con tains food already digested, but is a digester of other foods. Food that is not digested does more harm than good. People who use the Cordial insure the digestion of what food they eat and in this way get the benefit of it and grow strong. The little pamphlets which the Shakers have sent druggists for free distribution, contain much in teresting information on the sub ject of dyspepsia. Laxol is not a mixture of drugs. It is nothing but Caster Oil made palatable. Southern Baptist Convention, Willmington N. C., May 6th to 14th, 1897. Reduced rates via Southern Railway. For the occasion of the meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention at Wilmington. N. C., May 6th to 14th, 1897, the Southern Railway will sell tickets to Wilmington, N. C., and return, at rate of one first class limited fare for the round-trip. Tickets will be on sale May 3rd to 7th inclusive, good to return fifteen days from date of sale. For further information address any > agefit of ths Southern Railway, SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, APRIL 7, 1897. ELDER’S BEQUEST. Left a Piece of the Noose to His Mother. Watkinville, Ga., March 31. —A portion of the rope that en circled the neck of the negro, George Elder, who was hanged here Friday, was, by his special request, presented to lis mother. He advised her to keep the grue some relic in a conspicuous place and to constantly remind his lit tle brothers of his fate, and to warn them against the bad con duct that led him to the gallows. Gov. Atkinson has offered SIOO reward for the capture of the ne gro, Jno. Spratling, who attempted to assault Mrs, Clarence Maxey, of this county. Sprattling was caught and jail ed here, but removed to Athens for safe keeping. He escaped from the Athens jail once and was recaptured, but escaped again with five other prisoners from the same jail in January and has been at large ever since. It is thought that he is probably in hiding near High Shoals, in this county, where he lived when he committed the crime. Jack Griffith, colored, who kil led another negro in this county last summer, has never been cap tured, and it is reported that he is running a blind tiger in the upper part of the county. So it is high ly probable that the gallows will be resorted to again here before long. Condensed Testimony. Chas. B, Hood, broker and man ufacturer’s agent, Columbus, Ohio, certifies that Dr. King’s New Dis covery lias no equal as a Cough remedy. J. D. Brown Prop. St. James hotel, Ft. Wayne, Ind., tes tifies that he 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 he has used and recommended it and never knew 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 at H. H. Arrington’s Drug Store. IN WYOMING. In Many Places the Snow is Ten Feet High. Laramie, Wyo., April I.—The most severe snow storm in twenty years has struck this section, doing immense damage to cattle and sheep. Business here is practical ly suspended, yesterday even the daily papers were not issued. On the main streets the snow in places is ten feet high, while residences on the outskirts are in some places completely buried by the drifts. All freight trains on the Union Pacific have been suspended for the past forty-eight hours, Tom Watson’s Mule Killed. The ford on the Lexington and Watkinsville road at Shoal creek has become so dangerous since the recent rains that it has been for the present abandoned. There have been some very narrow es caped from serious accidents lately and a|mule belonging|to Tom Wat son lost his life the other day.— Oglethorpe jEcho. Injures the Populists. Speaker Reed will not recognize the “Pops” in the House. He has bunched them and classed them with the Democrats. They asked for recognition on the various com mittees, but will not get it. Speak er Reed’s view is correct from our way of looking at.—Effingham County News. An Ohio temperance society con verted the only saloon keeper in town, bought out his plant and de stroyed it; FLOODS IN THE WEST. About 4,000 Square Hiles Under Water. THE DAMAGE INCALCULABLE. Many Lives Lost And The Property Damage Is Immense. Memphis, March 31. —Tonight Gunnison, Miss., Rosedale and a dozen other small towns are under water. The whole country, as pre dicted last night, will be inundated. The water is spreading over the territory from Perthshire, Miss., to a point ten miles north of Vicks burg and back from the river thir ty or forty miles. Already the loss of cattle has been enormous. The corn that was planted and growing is under the water, and the prep arations for cotton planting were well under way. The plowed earth will be swept into the Yazoo and thence into the Mississippi. It is difficult to estimate the loss. A thickly-settled country,contain ing an area of about 4,000 square miles, dotted with farm houses, negro cabins and small villages, will be flooded. Labor will become demorrlized, and negroes cannot be secured in sufficient numbers to cultivate the crops when the water subsides. The Yazoo and Mississippi Val ley railroad will have 150 miles of track under water before the flood is over. Yet the loss of human life so far has been very small. Not a half dozen people have been drown ed in the delta, and probably a doz en on the Arkansas side south of Helena. The floods which have prevailed in the St. Francis basin for two weeks haqe claimed prob ably no more than fifty victims, all colorew. On the Arkansas side the levee from Helena to Arkansas City to night is as full of holes as the out er Wall of a fortification after a seige. A thousand men were at work on the levee when the crash came. For a moment a thin thread of wa ter began to trickle from the inner wall of the embankment. Exper ienced levee men saw the danger and cried out a word of warning and laborers rushed back, and in five minutes a gap fifty feet wide and six feet deep was torn in the wall of earth. The break grew un til it is now several hundred feet wide. This crevasse is ten miles below Helena and the water rush ing through it will destroy a dozen splendid plantations and may back up to Helena. Memphis, March 31. —A heavy rain fall, accompanied by a strong gale from tho west, is adding to the horror of the flood situation 150 miles below Memphis in the Mississippi delta. Four breaks are each letting in a stream as large as the Ohio river at Cincinnati or the Hudson at Albany and this trem endous outflow’ has caused a fall of only one-tenth at Vicksburg, im mediately below the last break. The rain and wind will probably cause more breaks. The river is now like an inland sea, and this afernoon a telegram from a point below’ Rosedale, Miss., announced that great waves were pounding a gainst the levees and that at fre quent interval the water tore it self loose from the main channel and dashed over the embankment. This being true there will in all probability be more crevasses be fore morning. All the forces of , nature are against the people. The rainfall increases and the wind intensifies the danger. If the wind was from the east it would • mean little, but the gale is blow ’ing from the west. HAS BEEN NOTIFIED. His Services Will Not Be Need ed After April 15. Washington, March 30.—Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, consul-general at Havana, has been notified by ca ble that his services will not be needed after April 15. The notice from the state department came nominally in the form of a leave of absence beginning at that date, but it is understood both bv him and the department that his suc cessor will bo on the ground at that time. Gen. Lee expects to come back to this country at once. Tired, Nervous and weak men and women find new life, nerve strength, vigor and vitality in Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which puri fies, enriches and vitalizes the blood. Hood’s Pills are the favorite family cathartic, easy to take, easy in effect. 25c. Common Sense. We are no pessimist. Oji the same general principal, therefore, that we are unwilling to admit that the world is growing we are not going to deny that, up on the whole, the world is getting smarter. But in this day of general ad vancement on all linos of rapid de vancement on special lines, we think we can see accumulating ev dences which go to prove that this gjod world of ours, or the human race inhabiting it, is running be hind on common sense. The good old-fashioned common sense, such as the everyday people of former times were supposed to have been born with, is getting to be so very rare indeed that it is no longer common. The world is full of men and women too, who are smart on cer tain lines and have sense of an un common sort; but the man of all round common sense qualities seems to be less numerous than formerly. It may be because we have so many specialists and gen iuses ; geniuses have never been re garded as practical in ordinary business matters. Between the specialists and geniuses, there ap pears to be a surplus of men who are very smart, and yet haven’t e nough common sense to accomplish anything. There is getting to be more ’and more room in the world —and in the most advanced portions of it — for the pra'tical men of common sense. —Albany Herald. 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, Indigestion, Con stipation, Dizziness yield to Elec tric Bitters. 50c and SIOO per bottle at H. H. Arrington’s Drug Store. —Ten million dollars worth of Georgia marble is now being used in the construction of three fam ous buildings. The state capitol of Rhode Island, Cathedral of St. John and St. Luke’s hospital, New York. The supply is inexhausti ble, and in a few years the marble quarries of Georgia will be the big gest mono y producing industries in the state. Some men would rather win a dollar on a wager than to earn five at honest labor. The man who tries to drown his troubles, always seems to think that they are located in his stom ach. ROYAI |H (fioYAL Fol POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for its great leavening strength and healthfulness. Assures the food against, alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap brands. Royal Baking Powder Co. New York. THE CHANDLERHORROR. A Thousand People Homeless Without a Thing in the World. Guthrie, O, T., April 1. —It de velops tonight that the loss of life in the Chandler cyclone has been greatly overstated. Only fourteen persons, it is now stated, are known to have met death in Chandler, and in addition to these, three were killed in the country north of town. Fully 200 persons were in jured, fifty or sixty of them being seriously hurt, and four or five will surely die. In the country north of Chand ler John C. Kyle and two chidren were killed. A thousand people are homeless and half as many without a thing in the world. Help on a large scale is needed. Lawyer John Dawson and Edgar De Moss, the barber, who are numbered among tkedead, were eating supper in Wallace’s restaurant when the tor nado came up and the bailing col lapsed. Dawson, who loft a wife and two children at Alma, Neb., was in stantly killed. Do Moss was pin ioned by his right arm, but was not injured. He cried for help, but no one could reach him through the fire. He bogged for someone to cut off his arm. but the horror-stricken crowd was com pelled to see him roasted to death. An Essay on Journalism. A bright little boy who attends one of the city public schools was told by his teacher a few days ago to write an essay on “Journalism,” and the next day he handed in tho following: “Journalism is the science of all sorts of journals. There is a heap of kinds of journals . Journals is good ’cept when they is hot jour nals, and then they is’awful. My ma, she takes a fashion journal what is always full of pictures of old horrid maids with the Ugliest dresses on I ever saw. The fash ion journal is a heap gooder than * the hot journal ’cause the hot journal stops the train and the fashion journal starts it. The fashion journal don’t stop nothin’ but the broken window light and pa’s bank account. “There is sheep journals and hog journals and brass journals, too and pa has got a journal down town at the store and writes things in it about folks he don’t want to forget. Then we had a woman ’t cook for us named Sally Jo urnal. She was the funniest journal I ev er saw. She was a bald-headed journal. “They ain’t no more j mrnals that I know of. “P. S.—l forgot toj say that a man what puts grease on the car wheels is called a journalist.” An exchsnge says “a bicycle club of women in bloomers broke up in a row the other night in Kansas City.” Evidently they are more honored in their breeches than iu their disturbances. No. 5