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VOL X
PAPERS
STOLEN.
Solicitor Wright’s Desk
Robbed of Bill of In
dictment.
BRIDGES’ DOCUMENTS GONE
Raised Checks and Other
Evidence have Myster
iously Disappeared.
Rome, Ga., July 27 —The big
gest sensation of years was sprung
upon the people of Rome this
morning when Solicitor General
Moses Wright announced to the
court that someone had entered
his office last night and stolen all
the papers, including the bill of
indictment in the celebrated
Bridges case.
The case of W. M. Bridges was
called yesterday morning in the
superior court, and a continuance
was asked by the defense. This
was overruled by the judge and
the trial proceeded.
Solicitor Wright took all the
papers, including the bill of in
dictment and the raised checks
and locked them in his desk last
night.
This morning when ho opened
the doors of his office he noticed
some confusion among the furni
ture and upon opening his desk
his suspicions were aroused by the
confused pile c.f papers he had
carefully assorted last night.
The news flew over the city like
wildfire, and it has been a long
time since Romans have been so
excited. The trial the people have
been demanding for more than two
years seemed abouj to break down
but the solicitor foresaw what
might be the result if the trial was
not carried on, and began search
for grounds by which ho cou'd le
gally go on.
There was a copy of the original
bill of indictment which was taken
from the solicitor's desk, and when
court was called to order this
morning these copies of the mis
sing napers were offered as suffi
cient grounds to go on. After
lengthy arguments by both sides,
Judge Henry ruled in favor of the
state.
A similar occurrence to the one
that happened in the solicitor's of
fice last night took place in this
county once before. The people
demand an investigation, and de
mand that the loose manner in
which a certain class of criminals
are, and have been dealt with in
the courts of this county be aban
doned.
The people are very much stirred
up and demand a trial of Bridges
at once.
The Grandest Remedy.
Mr. R. B. Greeve, merchant of
Chilhowie, Ya., certifies that he
had consumption and was given
up to die, sought all medical treat
ment that money could procures
tried all cough remedies he could
hear of, but got no relief; spend
many nights sitting up in a chair;
was induced to try Dr. King's New
Discovery and was cured by use
of two bottles. For past three
years has been attending to busi
ness and says Dr. King’s New Dis
covery is the grandest remedy ever
made, as it has done so much for
him and also for others in bis
community. Dr. King’s New Dis
covery is guaranteed for Coughs.
Colds and Consumption. It don't
fail. Trial bottles free at Arring
ton's drug store.
The Savannah Press says the fin-t
bale is a little late, but it promises to
by very numerous.
Ihe best thing about the gold craze
is that it will kill off a lot of good-for
nothings and settle a new country.—-
New York Press.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEW
RUCKER MAKES BOND.
He Will Take Charge Os The
Internal Revenue Office
In Atlanta.
Washington, July 28. —Rucker
made his bond today and will leave
for home ready to assume the ro'e
of internal revenue collector on the
31st.
I learn that during the last in
terview Rucker had with the pres
ident, the latter urged him to be
very prudent and to do all in his
power to prevent his deputies from
running counter to the prejudices
of the white element of the state.
He suggested to Rucker the ad
visability of not appointing anv
negroes to positions which would
bring them in contact with the
white people as 'arresting officers.
Rucker assured the president that
ho would do all in his power to
please the people of Georgia and
to reflect honor upon the adminis
tration.
Rucker was secured the partial
promise that the surveyor will be
appointed in August.
It is always gratifying to receive
testimonials for Chamberlain’s
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem
edy, and when the endorsement is
from a physician it is especially
so. “There is more satisfactory
or effective remedy than Chamber
lain’s Cholic, Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy,” writes Dr. R. E.
Robey, physician and pharmacist,
of Olney, Mo.; and as he had used
the Remedy in his own family and
sold it in his drug store for six
years, he should certainly know.
For sale by 11. H. Arrington.
Big Mills to Close Down.
Boston. July 27.—Hon. T. Jef
ferson Coolidge, treasurer of the
big Amoskeag cotton mills, of
Manchester, N. H., one of the larg
est plants of the kindin the world,
says, regarding the shutting down
of the mills, which was announced
yesterday:
“We have made up our accounts
for the first six months of the
year and find that we have made
no money and have not moved our
goods, so I have ordered the mills
closed for the month of August, at
least.’’
The dividends of the Amoskeag
mills have been reduced during the
past 12 months. The closing of
these mills affect about 6,000 op
eratives.
To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money.
Suggestions To Housekeepers.
You will find that a solution of
ox-gall, in the proportion of one
pint of the gall to two gallons of
warm soft water, as good a cleans
ing agent for your carpet as the
patent cleaners that cost twice as
much. The latter do good work,
and make a carpet look new and
bright, but they cost a little more
than the old-fashioned prepara
tion.
When willow furniture gets dus
ty, scrub it thoroughly with a stiff
brush, warm water and a white
soap. If it has been tinted, or col
ored, use clear water, and the brush,
and dry in the shade. The natu
ral colored willow is whitened by
being in the sun after it is cleaned. |
A poultice should never be made
thick or heavy. Its w sight oppres
es the patient. It should be fre
quently renewed, for when it be
comes cold a poultice is more fre
quently an injury than a remedial
agent. The virtue of a poultice is
most potent when it is warm and
moist, Yet it must not be so moist
as to drip, or it will cause great
discomfort to the patient.
C.&JSTOTII.A..
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COINTV, GEORGIA, AUGUST 4, 18,-7.
STATE
STORIES.
Short Items of State And
General News.
BATCH OF PASSING EVENTS,
What The Busy World Is Do
ing—Short Paragraphs of
Interest.
Georgia peaches are netting
$1.25 per crate of three pecks.
A Georgian has declined an of
fice; he is Albert Foster, of Atlan
ta.
A Cherokee county gold mine
has been sold to Northern gentle
men for $15,000.
The Bartow grand jury has re
turned 33 true bills, mostly cases
of whiskey selling.
The murderer Perry, of DeKalb
county, has been sentenced to hang
on the 18th of August.
The United States will establish
a military post near the Alaska
gold fields.
Thu courthouse of DeKalb coun
ty which is located at Decatur,
will be removed from that place
to Stone Mountain.
Hon. W, E. Walker a prominent
farmer, of near Hephzibah, was
stricken with paralysis while at
work in his field.
A primary is to be held in New
ton county on August 6, to nomi
nate Hon. R. U. Hardeman’s suc
cessor in the legislature.
Judge M. W. Beck granted a new
trial to Taylor Delk, charged with
the murder of Sheriff Gwyn of
Pike county.
John Tyler Cooper, of Atlanta,
convicted of embezzlement and
who was out on bond pending an
appeal to the Supreme court, was
arrested and placed in jail last
week. x
Several days since Mrs : Marcel
lus Ernest, who lives near Cyrene,
Decatur county, gave birth to a
nine pound daughter, and mother
and child are doing well. Mr.
Ernest, the father, is only 16 and
his wife is only 13 years of age.
Prominent citizens of Atlanta
are being sharply criticised for in
dorsing the application of Rucker,
the negro who was yesterday ap
pointed collector of internal reven
ue. It is supposed that on these
indorsements more than on any
other ground, the President, in his
ignorance of prevailing conditions
here, made the appointment. Cur
rent comments on the subject are
warm.
“It’s no joke” when we say that
Dr. Tichenor’s Antiseptic is super
ior to anything offered “the dear
people” as a dressing for wounds,
burns, bites and stings of insects,
poison oak, etc. It’s cleanliness,
pleasant ordor and quick cures
makes it universal favorite where
ever known. Sold dy all up to
date druggists.
Educate Tour Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money.
Tom and Ben Killian were in
dicted by tho grand jury for mur
der in the second degree. They
are the two who had a pitched bat
tle with the Galloways at Crudup,
DeKalb county, Alabama, in which
Jean Galloway, the youngest son
of T. C. Galloway, was killed and
his brother Charles was badly
wounded. Ben Kilian was also
shot, and for a while it was thought
that he would die. The trouble
originated over the A. G. S. near
Crudup The Killians were work
ing the road's property and the
Galloways tried to drive them off.
The trial is to come off Sept. 3d.
UNDER A NEW NAME.
01dC.,R. & 0. Becomes The
Chattanooga, Rome And
Southern.
The old Chattanooga, Rome and
Columbus railway, sold to the
bondholders recently, has at last
been reorganized under the name
of the Chattanooga, Rome and
Southern, and in a short while the
rolling stock of the company will
bear the above inscription in glow
ing colors.
As predicted in The Times sev
eral weeks ago, C. B. Wilburn,
former traffic manager, has been
made general manager and presi
dent of the new company.
The Chattanooga, Rome and
Southern has just purchased a
large grain warehouse at Rome,
Ga., which will be converted into a
freight depot. It is understood
that the new company will at once
make a number of extensive im
provements.—Chattanooga Times.
Wanted —Everybody to go to
his druggist and get a bottle of Dr.
Tichenor’s Antiseptic, the most
wonderful healing compound of
the nineteenth century. Money
returned if it fails to give satisfac
tion after fair trial. Heals Wounds,
Burns, etc., like magic. Pleasant as
perfume and does not stain the
clothing. 50c.
Gold.
There seems to be no sound in
all the world more allurring and
agreeable to the average man than
that round, rich, full-toned sylla
ble, “gold.” See how it has stirred
the country from the rigorous
northwest to the Florida keys. It
is drawing thousands of souls from
comfortable homes and general
climates to the hardships, suffer
ings, perils and privations of ice
locked Alaska. By train and team
and bicycle they are hastening to
the ocean ports of the Pacific
northwest, there to crowd every
departing steamer —an eager, for
tune-seeking company. Fifty
years nearly since ’49, and how
plain it is that half a century
makes no difference in the charm
the yellow metal has for the sons
of men. Some will see their dreams
of sacksful of the precious stuff
come true, some will bring back a
burden of disappointment, and
some, alas, will leave their bones
where rolls the glacier-chilled wat
ers of the Yukon. But why talk
of comfort or think of perils when
gold, gold, gold is to be had for
the picking up ! True, it is to be
had in cabbage gardens and pota
to patches and day’s labor, but
such finds are too slow and sure to
suit the restless, adventur spir
it of the fortune hunter.
“Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
Molten, graven, hammered and rolled;
Heavy to get and light to hold;
Hoarded, bartered, bought and sold,
Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled,
Spurned by the young but hugged by
the old,
To the very verge of the churchyard
mold.
—Detroit Free Press.
Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy always af
ford prompt relief. For sale by
H. H. Arrington.
Experts estimate the cotton crop
of Texas this year as equal to the
crop of 1894, which was 3,114,000
bales. The crop of the state in
1880 was 803,642 bales of 440
pounds each. So the crop this
year will be about four times as
much as that of seventeen years
ago. This will help to explain the
lower price of cotton now, as com
pared to prices in the days of much
smaller crops.—Chattanooga
Times.
To Care Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
If C. C. C. fail t 9 cure, druggists refund money.
DREADED
SIDALLPOX
Twenty=Eight Well De
veloped Cases Near
Birmingham.
OTHERS ARETUSPECTED.
The Epidemic Has Been Con
fined Largely to Carbon
Hill, a Suburb
Birmingham, Ala., July 27. —
There are now twenty-eight cases
of smallpox at the pest house on
Red Mountain, two miles from this
city. The twenty-eigth case was
developed this morning and was
immediately sent to the mountain
There are about ton suspected cas
es also at the camp of detention on
the mountain, but none of those
have yet shown eruption.
The most vigorous measures are
being put into force by the health
and city authorities to stamp out
the disease and prevent its further
spread. As soon as a suspicious
case is found, it is hurried out of
town, the bedding where it came
from burned and the premises dis
infected. At a joint meeting of
the Jefferson county medical socie
ty and citizens held last night, the
situation was reviewed and it was
officially proclaimed that the dis
ease is smallpox, there having been
a conflict of opinion among medi
cal men up to this time.
State Health Officer Dr. W. H
Sanders, of Mobile, told of the his
tory of the cases that had prevail
ed in different parts of the state
and said that the measures being
taken here to stamp it out are so
thorough as to render quarantine
needless.
The citizens of Bessemer held a
meeting last night and raised the
quarantine which that town has
had on against Birmingham for the
past week, the mayor having visit
ed this city and found things in
satisfactory shape. The physicians
from Montgomery who came here
yesterday and investigated matters
reported against any quarantine
measures.
A Cullman delegation did like
wise today. The only quarantine
now extant is that of Pratt City, a
suburban town.
There is little excitement here
and business moves on as usual.
The authorities have the epidemic
under full control and expect to
soon have it stamped out complete
ly. Vaccination has become gen
eral.
The epidemic has been confined
almost entirely to the negro min
ers of Carbon Hill, a suburb.
Lyons Will Be Appointed.
Washington, July 28. —The ap
pointment of Judson Lyons was
expected today . The postmaster
general took Lyons’ papers to the
white house yesterday and discuss
ed to the case with the president.
It is understood that Mr. Gary has
withdrawn his objcections to Lyons
at the special request of the presi
dent, who said that the Augusta
negro had to bo taken care of and
that there was no other place he
could find for him.
This case is one of those which
will be settled during the presi
dent’s vacation. Mr. Pruden said
that a number of appointments
would be made while the president
was away and that the names of
the lucky ones would be given out
from the white house as usual.
Dr. Burton Waid declares there is
one infallible sympotm indicating
whether oue is sane or not. Let a per
son speak ever so rationally and act
ever so sedately, if hjs or her thumbs
remain inactive there is no doubt of
insanity. Lunatics seldom make use
of their thumbs when writing firaw
ing or saluting.—New York Press,
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Punishing Georgia.
From the Savannah News.
Why should the president have
chosen Georgia as the state in
which to set up his shining exam
ple of the party’s love for the black
race? The president knows that
there is in this state a strong feel
ing against the elevation ot black
men to important offices. In some
other states —in Ohio for instance
—we have been led to believe that
t his feeling does not exist so strong
ly ; would it not, therefore, have
been better for the president to
give a black man a big office in
Ohio? Os course neither tho pres
ident, nor Senator Hanna, nor Sen
ator Foraker, would object to hav
ing a negro internal revenue
collector in Ohio. Probably there
would not be any objection to one
in that office in Massachusetts But
there is in Georgia a sentiment a
gainst such things. However, pro
tests would probably be useless.
It is said the president is fully de
termined to set up his example
somewhere, and since Georgia is
not a McKinley state, a little hu
miliation for her is probably deem
ed to bo about the proper thing. It
is to bo hoped, now that Rucker
has been selected, that tho proba
bilities of negroes being put into
big postoffices and port collector
ships have been dimished.
■ II -
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Hood’s Pills are easy to take,
easy to operate. Cure indigestion,
billiousness. 25c.
The South’s Progress.
There is no question as to tho
South’s wealth of natural bounties,
says the Augusta - Chronicle. She
has the raw material in greatest
abundance and at the least cost
for the chief industries in tbeNi w
England and the middle states, in
dustries that have done so much
to enrich these sections and to
make their people prosperous.
If our mining and manufacturt
ing interests are developed as they
should be, and if our farmers will
produce their own food supplies a
glorious future awaits the South .
In agriculture and in manufac
tures, the South is blessed with a
bundant natural advantages, which
if properly utilized, are bound to
give her power and wealth.
The increase in exports from
Southern ports means a great deal
for Southern development. It is
the substantial evidence of South
ern progress. Only a few years
ago the export business of the
South was handled through the
North Atlantic States.
As the Record states the fact
is that Southern ports, for the
year ending June 3<)th have dis
tanced all others not only in the
percentage of increase, but in the
actual increase.
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