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VOL X
OFFICER
KikhED.
Went After a Moonshiner
And Was Shot.
OCCURRED NEAR CENTER.
A Deputy Sheriff Killed By Ill
icit Whiskey Sellers
In Alabama.
Centre, Ala., July 14. —Houston
Webb, a special deputy sheriff,
was killed at 10 o’clock today by
Joo Simmons. Webb in company
with John Williams, another dep
uty, went to arrest three of the
Simmonses, who have be-in operat
ing a blind tiger.
Webb went to the dwelling house
and Williams to another building
some distance oil'. Hearing re
ports from guns in the direction of
the house Williams ran to the
scene and when he got there Webb
was down and three of the Sim
mons crowd, heavily armed, stood
noai by, and ordered him oil. He
camo back here for help. Webb
lived only a few minutes. The
murderers escaped.
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News Notes.
Gus Hyatt, alias George Hall,
who was arrested in Kansas City
Mo., a few days ago, confesses that
he was one of the gang that hold
up and robbed the L. & N. express
train near Calera some three
months ago Hyatt confesses to
other robberies.
A little daughter of William
Peeks at Alexis, Cherokee county,
had her right arm broken and her
elbow dislocated by falling from a
fence a few days ago.
There has been more western
corn sold in Collinsville this spring
than ever before in the history of
the town and still the demand from
the farmers is heavy.—Collinsville
Clipper.
About 1,500 bushels of wheat
wore shipped to market from Val
ley Head, Ala., last week.
The teachers’ Institute of Cher
okee county, Ala., will meet at
Maple Grove July 16.
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children was sick with a severe
bowel trouble,” says Mrs. E. G.
Gregory, of Fiederickstown, Mo
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A man's finger in the stomach
of a large catfish was what John
Vincent, a colored fisherman,
found several days ago while pre
paring his fish for supper. John’s
appetite had been whetted up to a
considerable extent at the thoughts
of crisp, brown fish on his table for
supper, and his mouth fairly wat
ered as he busily cleaned his fish.
The finding of this finger, however,
destroyed his appetite, and the en
tire lot of fish were thrown away
The finger, while lacerated, seemed
to be well preserved, with the nail
and all intact. The catfish in
which the fit ger was found, was a
large one and was caught on the
South Carolina side several miles
down the river. The fish evident
ly got hold of the body of some
man.who was drowned and nibbled
off one of his lingers.—Augusta
News
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS.
GOOD BIRD STORY,
A Humniing Bird Attracts Much
Attention at Indian
Spring.
Indian Springs, Ga , July 13.
On Saturday evening last a party
out walking at the Indian Springs
holiness camp-grounds found a
nest of the smallest of birds, the
humming bird. It was brought to
Indian Springs depot and placed
in a show case, a distance of one
and a quarter miles. On Monday
evening the mother bird arrived at
the depot and Hew continually un
til the ease was opened and then
the beautiful little bird darted in
and on its nest and seemed as gen
tle as could be. The bird sat on
its nest all Monday evening and
still remains. It was witnessed by
several hundred people.
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Spain’s Desperation.
Not long ago, just after declar
ing that the war in Cuba was prac
tically over, General Weyler said
that he needed 40,000 more troops
in order to suppress the insurgents.
A still more remarkable statement
comes from General Arolas, who is
on General Weyler’s staff. He says:
“To conquer the revolution in
east Cuba General Weyler will re
quire 200,000 soldiers more and it
will cost $200,000,000. If Spain
can a fiord all this then we may
make this campaign regardless of
the yellow fever and the heat. If
not, we will wait until next win
ter.”
It is not to be supposed that Gen
eral Arolas exaggerates the situa
tion against Spain and his declar
ation that the rebellion cannot be
suppressed without the aid of 200,-
000 more troops is almost tanta
mount to a confession that Spain
cannot suppress it all.
If 200,000 men in addition to the
large army Spain already has in
Cuba are required to cope with the
insurgents they are far more pow
erful than General W&yltr has been
telling us they were. It is practi
cally impossible for Spain to put
200,000 more troops in the field.
The armies she is now supporting
in Cuba and the Philippines are
draining her coffers as fast as she
can fill them. She has been driven
to desperate expedients to raise
funds, paying high rates of inter
est and mortgaging her prospective
receipts from customs duties.
The conduct of the war in Cuba
on the part of Spain has been from
the first a series of costly blunders,
and now we have one who is as well
qualified as anybody to tell us that'
unless Spain can throw 200,000
more troops into Cuba the rebel
lion cannot be suppressed. The
world has no conception, until the i
war in Cuba, to what pitiful weak
ness Spain, once the mightiest and
proudest of nations, had fallen. —
Atlanta Journal.
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, JULY 21, 1897.
GEORGIA
EDITORS
Met In Conclave at Cuth
bert, Ga.
THE SALT OF THE EARTH,
The Editors Have A Happy
Re-Union—Meet Next
Year at Newnan.
Cuthbert, Ga., July 14—The
Georgia editors were tendered a
big banquethere tonight and many
prominent railroad men were pres
ent.
The weekly press association
meets at Newnan next year. W.
S. Coleman was elected president;
R. L. Moye, first vice-president;
Trox Bankston, second vice presi
dent; P. T. McCutchen correspond
ing secretary; W. A. Shackelford,
recording secretary; J. W. Ander
son, treasurer. The association
leaves-for Nashville tomorrow af
ternoon.
Dark Year For Russia.
London, July 15.—The Daily
Mail’s correspondent at St. Peters
burg says:
The harvest prospects in central
and south Russia are growing
worse and worse. Continuous
rains are destroying the hay crops
while the exceptionally poor beet
crop in Podollen has practically
ruined the sugar industry.
The crops in some of the Baltic
provinces also have suffered heav
ily from rains, and a significant
sign of the gravity of the situation
is the fact that an unusually se
vere censorship is exercised' over
ne.vs concerning it. There is ev
ery likelihood that the present
will be one of the darkest years in
Russian history.
The greatest yoke of cattle ever
seen in this country is owned by
J. D. Avery, of Buckland, Mass.
They are named Joe and Jerry.
Their age is eight years and their
measure ten feet in girth. They
stand seventeen hands high and
their measurement from tip to tip
is fifteen feet eleven inches. There
is not a difference of ten pounds
in weight between them, and the
two together tip the scales at 7,300
pounds. They hold the world’s
record for one pull, having drawn
11,061 pounds of stone, leaded on
a dray, on a level, just eight feet
in one draw. They are models of
symmetry in build, are extremely
kind and docile and beautifully
colored. The best of care is devo
ted to them, one man spending
several hours every day in groom
ing and cleaning them.
Southern Senator.
Washington, July 13.—-The south
ern democrats in the senate arc com
bining to fight the tariff when it is re
ported back to the senate.
The conference committee yester
day, having definitely decided to taka
cotton bagging and cottton ties off the
free list and restore the house sched
ule, Senator Bacon, on whose motion
cotton ties were put on the free list,
said: “We intend to do everything to
defeat the conference committee on
this point. If the republicans do not
yield, we will keep their bill hung up
indefinitely, for we have the combina
tion to do it.’
A drummer lost the diamond get
ting of a ring m a chicken coop at
Americus, a chicken quickly put fit in
its craw, and the drummer bought the
enure coop and killed the chickens, to
get his diamond.
A unique celebration by negroes of
Atlanta, was a water melon duel, the
plan being to see which crowd could
destroy the most within a given time.
The melons gave out before the con
test euded.
The Distribution of Wealth.
A distinguished New York pub
licist, Mr. Thomas G. Shearman,
has issued a tabulated statement
of the distribution of wealth in
the United States which is of ab
sorbing interest. The table is as
follows :
Average Total
Families Wealth. Wealth.
70 $37,500,000 $2,625,000,000
90 11,500,000 1,025,090,000
180 8,000,000 1,440,000,000
135 6,800,000 968,000,000
360 4,600,000 1,656,000,000
I, 2,300,000 4,036,000,000
6,C00 1,000,000 7,500,000,000
7,000 650,000 4,550,000,000
11, 375,000 4,125,000,000
16,500 230,000 2,220,000,000
16,500 165,000 2,722,000,000
50,000 100,000 5,000,000,000
75,000 60,000 4,500,000,000
200,000 20,000 4,000,000,000
1.000,000 3,500 3,500,000,000
11.620,000 11,082,000,000
13,620,000 $62,082,000,000
It will be observed here that the
population of the United States is
divided into 13,000,000 families,
and that the wealth of the United
States is estimated at $62,000,000,-
000. If there were anything like
an even distribution of the wealth
of the country, it is plain that each
family would own about $4,750.
But the distribution is the reverse
of even , and what is chiefly no
ticeable about it is that a very
small proportion of the people
own a very large proportion of the
wealth. Seventy families each
own $37,500,000; tnese are multi
millionaires of course, and each of
these seventy families owns as
much as 37,000 families of the class
that works at manual labor for its
living!
“An astounding consideration
this is—that one family of the
most plutocrat class should own
as much of the country’s wealth
as 37,5000 families of a less favor
ed class,” says the New Orleans
Times-Democrat. “And the strik
ing character goes through the en
tire list. So small a number of
persons as 100,000 own one-half
of the country’s entire wealth as
the remaining 72,400,000 persons
a distribution which doos not im
press one greatly by its evenness,
even if it be fair enough. -As
much as 75 per cent of the wealth
is owned by 4 per cent of the pop
ulation, and as will be seen, there
is therefore only 25 per cent of
the wealth remaining to be divi
ded among the other 96 per cent
of the population.”
“The area of the United States
is 3.025,600 square miles; with A
laska it is 3,602,990 square miles,
equal to the area of Europe, with
Italy and Turkey excepted,” writes
William George Jordon on “The
Greatest Nation on Earth,” in the
July Ladies’ Home Journal.
“Texas, its largest state, is two
hundred and twelve times the size
of Rhode Island. Texas might in
vite every man, woman and child
now living in the world to settle
within its territory, offering to
each individual a plot of ground
forty-nine and a half feet by one
hundred feet. The state would
not be really crowded, for each in
dividual would have four times the
space taken by each person in New
Turk City. England, Ireland,
' Scotland, Wales, Italy and Portu
gal could be transplanted to Texas
and there would still be room for
a good-sized promenade where cu
rious Americans could walk whi'e
studying this bit of Europe. Three
of tne cattlo ranches of Texas cov
er as much territory as the Sand
wich Islands, which we were to an-1
nex four years
The fie- y?
call# x z u e “
Blgii-.ureZ s- -22- «Tery
ANOTHER
WONDER
Proposed Tower in Com
memoration of Great
er New York,
HIGHEST KNOWN BUILDING.
Will Surpass All Previous
Efforts of The World’s
Greatest Engineers.
William J. Frye has drawn plans
for a proposed tower to commem
morate the consolidation of
greater New York.
The proposed tower, which is to
be 2,140 feet in bight, would be in
most respects the most wonderful
structure in the world.
The Eiffel tower in Paris is 984
feet in hight, less than half of the
proposed observatory tower for
New York.
The tower is to be twelve-sided
and built of steel. The lowest
portion will be 300 feet in diameter
and will be flanked by four pavil
ion buildings, giving the structure
§ base of 400 feet. The outer walls
will be of cement, having wire cloth
imbedded within that material.
Internally, the tower will be a
labyrinth of steel columns, gird
ers, beams, plates and other shapes
in steel, no particle of wood being
used in construction or finish, and
when completed will be a white
tower, absolutely fireproof.
Directly in the center will rise a
tube twenty feet in its outward di
ameter, and ten foot in its inner
diameter, extending up to and in
through the dome roof. The in
side of the tube will be smooth
and sightseers may enter through
doors on the ground floor and look
up through the tube, ten feet in
diameter and 2,140 feet in hight
Electric cars with reserved mot
or power of compressed air will run
spirally around the 100-foot cen
tral area, making a trip to the fifth
floor from the top, about a two and ]
a half miles ride. From this point
to the top visitors will be convey
ed in an elevator.
This proposed tower is to be
built within the next three years,
and somewhere up on the bights,
where there is a firm, rocky foun
dation. The promoter and pro
jector of this great scheme is E. C.
Townsend. —New York World.
Making a Mau.
Exchange.
Every man is self made, as well as
God made. Every man is as much of a
man, and has many good qualities as
he himself determines. “Whatan ideal
man I could create, if only I had the
power to combine in one man the best
things I see in some of the best men I
know!” said a young man. But he
has that privilege and that power.
Does he admire the fact and winning
courtesy of one man, the intensity and
tireless energy of another, the balance
and good judgment of another, the ap
parently inexhaustible knowledge of
another? Does he turn in strong dis
like from one man’s bruskness and lack
of courtesy and polish, from another’s
irritability, from another’s easy-going
slowness, from another’s carelessness
aad lack of method! It rests with him
as a child of God to bring into his own
life, by tireless study and practice,
those characteristics he so admires in
others. It is in his power, to keep
out from his own life by equal vigi
lance and prayer, those things that
seem to him to lessen another’s use
fullness. Our heavenly Father has
given us a place in thu world. He
al our best.
can euabla us to g.ow
into of the only perfect
AJan the world has ever known.
Mrs. Enoch Jones, imprisoned for
shooting her husband, has made up
with him, and he refuses to prosecute
her, and she will be released. Thev
agreed to separate.
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JOINT PROPOSAL
Presented by France and United
States to England.
London, July 15. A joint proposal
of bimetallism was presented today on
behalf of the United Statesand France
at a conference held at the foreign of
fice between Baron de Courcel, the
French ambassador, representing
France; Ambassador Hay, Senator
Wolcott, former Vice-President Ste
venson, Olsen and Paine, representing
the United States; Lord Salisbury, Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor of
the exchequer, and A. J. Balfour first
lord of the treasury, representing Eng
land, and Lord George Hamilton, sec
retary of state for India, representing
India.
The proposals, after some discus
sion, were taken under advisement,
and the British cabinet will givct- its
answer at a subsequent conference. * .
i-t is reported this evening that an
international conference will be sum
moned to meet in the United States,
with great Britain participating. All
the delegates will be uninsti ucted with
regard to the ratio, although it is well
known, of course, that the United
States favors 16 and France 15 1-2 to
1. According to today’s report, Eng
land’s participation would mean In
dia’s. There is a prospect of some
concessions as to the Bank of Eng
land’s reserve and silver certificates.
Sent to Hoke Smith.
Atlanta, July 15.—Ex-Secretary
ot the Interior Hoke Smith has receiv
ed from United States Consul Parker
at Birmingham, Eng., a request for
the left hind foot of a graveyard rab
bit, to be placed in the Pitts Rivers
museum, of which Prof. E. R. Tyler
is curator. Tyler, it seems, is an au
thority on superstitions, and has re
cently received an American buckeye
charm against rheumatism. He needs
a rabbit foot to complete the collection
and Mr. Smith is a-ked to supply one
that has actually been worked by a be
liever in the charm.
“They do say that every American
is a born inventor,” said the patriotic
gentleman. “My husband,” said a fat
lady, “is an exception. He uses the
same old excuses for being out late
that I used to hear my father use.”
The Verdict: “WorFt you try the
chicken soup, Judged asked Mrs.
Small, of her boarder, n6t noticing that
he had gone beyond the soup stage in
his dinner. “I have tried it, madam,”
replied the judge. “The chicken has
proved an alibi.”
‘•An editor’s duty.” an exchange
says, “is to speak of his town as the
loveliest place beneath the blue arch
of heaven. Speak of a deceased citi
zen as a ‘fallen oak’ when he died of
jimjams. Call a man a prominent, in
fluential citizen when you know he is
the best poker player in town. Speak
of a street Arab as a bright-eyed youth
on the road to fame; a big footed, new
ly married woman as a beautiful and
accomplished bride. Call a man who
has a few dusty bolts of calico and a
soldier’s blue coat a prosperous and
experienced dry goods merchant; call
a .awyer a leading light, of whom the
profession should be proud,’ when you
know him to be on ordinary pettifog
ger.”
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