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VOL X
BETTER
DAYS.
Are Now At Hand For
The Southern States.
FARM, MINE AND FACTORY.
Prominent Railrod Official
Gives A Roseate Resume
Os Existing Condi
tions,
Ti*t a brighter dlyis at hind
for the south is shown in a hun
dred different ways, but one of the
most important contributions to
the testimony on this point is fur
nished by J. S. Barbour Thompson,
assistant gereral superintendent of
the Southern railway. Mr Thomp
son lias just returned from a tour
embracing South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee
and a part of Kentucky. He said:
“While it is true that in S' me
sections the corn crop is short, and
the fruit and melon crops, which
are confined to a limited area, wore
not a success, still taking cotton,
the staole product of this section,
the outlook was never more favor
able and unless some very unex
pected and decided change occurs
this crop will be a vvy largi one
The wheat crop in Tennessee and
Kentucky is the largest in many
years, and the prices are better.
The hay crop is a good one. The
yield of nil other farm products is
likewise good, and the prices of all
on the advance. Planters appear
to be in better condition than they
have been for years
“The cotton mills are all run
ning on full time and are doing a
good business; some of them, on
account of the large amount of
business they are doing, are exhaus
ing their stock of cotton on hand.
The lumber interest is improv
ing, and the demand for lumber is
greatly on the increase. The iron
and coal interest are doing well
Some furnaces'which have been out
of blast are arranging to go in again.
Engagements are already made for
exporting during the next few
months large quantities of iron
which have been sold abroad.
While, on account of local troub
les, a few of the coal mines are
closed, the mines as a whole in the
Tennessee, Alaamba and Kentuck
y districts are being worked to
their full capacity, and almos* all
of them report that their orders
daily exceed their ouput, Many
companies are making arrange
ments for increasing their output,
and new mines are being opened
up.
“There seems to boa very decid
ed improvement in the establish
ment of new enterprises, such as
the building of cotton compresses,
oil mills, cotton mills and large
plants for the sawing of timber and
the manufacture of its product.
“Indeed through this section the
people are in bettor spirits, and
consider the outlook most favora
able. The indications are that
the transportation lines of the
south will find themselves taxed to
their utmost to move the business
during the greater part of the next
twelve months. Most of these
lines have been, and are now, mak
ing prep for the movement
of this business. All of the freight
car equipment is being put in
proper condition to be used to the
best advantage. One cannot trav
el through this section of the
country, observe for himself the
general condition of the crops and
the times and converse with the
people, without being convinced
that a very decided improvement
is going on and better times are
expected; indeed, these better
THE SUMMERVILLE NE
times are now at hand, and will
continue to improve.
“There are a thousand evidences
of this—the standing crops in the
fields and the gathered crops in the
barns and warehouses, the busi
ness which is actually moving,
the factories and furnaces which
arc running and the many indus
tries which are being developed and
built up.”
GEORGIA. CONVICTS.
Investigation Shows That the
Prisoners Are Abused
In Many Ways.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug 20. —Special
C mmis-ioner Phil G. Byrd, who
was appointed by Gov. Atkinson
I Inst spring to investigate the condi
tion of the county misdemeanor
convict camps of the state, today
filed his report at the Gov irnor’s
office.
Epitomized, the report is as fol
lows: Robbing convicts of their
ti me allowances for good behavior:
forcing convicts to work from
fourteen to twenty hours a day;
providing them no clothes, no
shoes, no beds, no heat in winter,
no ventilation of single rooms in
summer in which three score con
victs sleep in chains; giving them
rotten food; allowing them to die
when sick for lack of attendance;
outraging the women; beating
to death of old men too fee
ble to work; cheating the state.
The report gives names, dates,
places, and is the truthful account
of the special commissioner’s trip
to the camps. The twenty-five
county camps inspected contain 1,-
167 convicts, of which 3 are white
women, 101 are white males, 75 are
colored females, and 988 are color
ed males.
“My boy came home from school
one day with his hand badly lac
reated and bleeding, and suffering
great pain,” says Mr. E. J. Schall,
with Meyer Bros.’ Drug Co , St.
Louis, Mo. “I dressed the wound,
and applied Chamberlain’s Pain
Balm freely. All pain ceased, and
in a remarkably short time it heal
ed without leaving a scar. For
wounds, sprains, swelling and
rheumatism, I know' of no medi
cine or prescriplion equal to it. I
consider it a household necessi
ty.” The 25 and 50 cent sizes
for sale by H. H. Arrington.
Deacon Hasbeen (laying down
his paper) I have just been read
ing that alcohol will remove grass
stains from the most delicate fa
bric. Mrs. Hasbeen (severely) —
There you go again, Janson, trying
to find some excuse! Just remem
ber that you have no grass stains
in your stomach. —Puck.
Dr. Tich tier’s Antiseptic is the
most wonderful healing compound
offered the public. For abrasion
of the skin, laceration of the flesh ;
burns by flame or steam, hot me
tal, rope-burn, sun-burn; ring
worm, “poison oak,” etc., it is pre
eminently superior to anything.
Only 50c a bottle by all “up to
date” druggists.
The New Jersey minister who
employed a phonograph to lead
his congregation in prayer has been
[ “seen” by a Kansas Sunday school
superintendent, who conducted the
services of his school by telephone
, the other day.
DliHHer NUBiAN TEA cures Dyspep-
| luHlVlv sin, Constipation and Indi
gestion. Regulates the Liver. Price, 25 cts-
Damage to Cotton Crop.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 25.—-Com
missioner Nesbitt, of the Agricul
tural department, who has travel
led over a large part of the state
within the past few weeks, reports
that the heavy rains have done
great damage to the cotton crop in
. southern Georgia.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA. SEPTEMBER 1, 1897.
STATE
STORIES.
Short Items of State And
General News.
BATCH OF PASSING EVENTS.
What The Busy World Is Do
ing—Short Paragraphs of
Interest.
Mayor Collier of Atlanta' has de
creed that negro dance halls must
go-
The game law of Georgia allows
doves to be killed from Aug. 15 to
April 1.
Mrs. W. L. Scruggs, of Atlanta,
died Monday 7 from injuries receiv
ed in falling from a train.
Eldridge Casper, of Jackson
county, committed suicide because
his sweetheart died.
A prohibition campaign is on in
Hancock county. The election
will be held on Sept. 7.
The gold mines around Dahlone
ga have been pronounced richer
than the Klondyke and the quartz
can be mined for 30cts a ton. Now
for a rush.
Eighty thousand dollars has
been paid out for wheat raised in
and around Adairsville, besides
leaving over 20,000 bushels waiting
for a rise in the market.
Eugene E. Love was brained with
a rock by C. R. Womble, promi
nent farmers of Talbot county, on
last Sunday. Love, a married
man, had decoyed off Womble’s
daughter.
Bud Fuller, of Woodbury, Ga.,
who abandoned his little crippled
child in the woods near Atlanta,
has been arrested and bound over
for trial. If guilty no punishment
is too great for him.
Dr. King’s New Discovery
for Consumption.
This is the best medicine in the
world for all forms of Coughs and
Colds and for Consumption. Ev
ery bottle is guaranteed. It will
cure and not disappoint. It has
no equai for Whooping Cough,
Asthma, Hay Fever, Pneumonia,
Bronchi tis, La Grippe, Cold in the
head and for Consumption. It is
safe for all ages, pleasant to take,
and above all, a sure cure It is
always well to take Dr. King’s New
Life Pills in connection with Dr.
King’s New Discovery, as they reg
ulate and tone the stomach and
bowels. We guarantee perfect
satisfaction or return money.
Free trial bottles at Arrington’s
Drug store.
Regular size 50c and SI.OO
GEORGIA PEARLS.
Beds of Them Said to Exist
In the Vicinity Os Rome.
Rome, Ga , Aug. 25. —Since the
discovery of pearls in the Arkan
sas lakes the pearl hunters of
North Georgia are going to work
with renewed interest. The rivers
and creeks around Rome are filled
with pearlbearing musse's, which
are shell-fish like clams, The
Smithsonian institute sent Prof.
Ellsworth Call here a few years
ago to study these mussels.
Not long ago a pearl was found
near here valued at S6O. Joe Veal,
a well-known jeweler, said today
that fishermen and trappers some
times bring him a spoonful of
pearls. Most of these are found in
the holes of muskrats, coons and
other animals which leave the
shells and imbeded pearls after
eating the fish.
Everybody Says So.
Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won
derful medical discovery of the age, peas
ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently
and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cleansing the entire system, dispel colds,
cure headache, fever, habitual constipation
and biliousness. Please buy and try a box
of C. C. C. to-day; 10,25, 50 cents. Sold and
guaranteed to cure by all druggists.
GEORGIA STATE TAX.
Only 5.21 Mills, or 52 Cents
on the One Hundred Dol
lars.
Atlanta, Aug. 24. Gov. Atkin
son and Comptroller-General
Wright, in pursuance of law, have
fixed the tax rate for the year 1897
at 5.21 mills, or 52 cents on the
SIOO, as against 4.56 mills last year
the amount contemplated by the
legislature was 6.21 but they ap
propriated $400,000 less to the
school fund f0r!897 than for 1898,
and the tax rate has been reduced
accordingly.
I The official levy does not separ
ate the levy for pensions, but it in
cludes it in that for general pur
poses. By calculating it appears
that of the 3.45 mills for general
purposes nearly 1 50 goes for pen-
. sions.
This rate on the tax returns of
$410,000,000 will bring a gross rev
enue of $2,136,100.
Deducting $149,527, the cost of
collection, the net revenue from ad
valorem tax this year will be sl,-
986,573. This is less than two
thirds the total revenue of the
state, which exceeds $3,000,000
The rest of it comes from the
$420,000 rental of the Western and
Atlantic railroad, about $200,000
from special taxes, half of which
amount is on liquor, the $25,000
from convicts, the $200,000 from
poll tax and about $200,000 from
miscellaneous sources, including
inspection fees on oils and fertil
izers, interest from state deposito
ries, interest on stocks held by the
state insurance fees and the like.
The state spends about two
thirds of its revenue on schools and
pensions, $580,000 on pensions and
about $1,400,000 on the common
schools and the higher institutions.
In round numbers she will spend
this year $1,000,000 for purposes of
government and $2,000,00 for
schools and pensions.
It Saves The Croupy Children.
Seaview, Va. —We have a splen
did sale on Chomberlain’s Cough
Remedy, and our customers com
ing from far and near, speak of it
in the highest terms. Many have
said that their children would have
died of croup if Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy had not been giv
en. —Kellman & Curren. The 25
and 50 cent sizes for sale by H. H.
A rrington.
In a Prohibition State.
Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
The rapidity with which crops
are growing down his way now
brings from a West Franklin man
this story : “I knew a man once
who planted some airly cowcumber
seeds. While he was a plantin’ of
'em he felt sunthin’ growin’ round
his legs. He looked, and I’ll be
gosh flabbergasted if it wasn’t
them vines a growin’ and a twist
in’ round him. He put his hand
in his pocket for a jack-knife, and
found a cowcumber that had gone
to seed. He yelled for help, but
before any one could reach him the
vines had choked him ter death
Farmin’ ain’t alius a healthy oc
cupation.”
If your bicycle becomes frighten
ed and relieves itself of your a
vordupois apply Dr. Tichenor’s An
tiseptic immediately (not to the
bicycle) but to that part of your
anatomy most feeling affected by
the law of gravitation. You’ll be
delighted with the result of the ap
plication.
The papers give an account of a wo
man who did not speak in fifty years.
The question is whether or not the
woman was dumb, or whether the age
of miracles is being revived.
0-A.OTOH.XA.
The fee- , 9 _ —- ..
CONVICT
QUESTION
Plan Which Principal
Keeper Turner Has
Formulated.
HAS MAN YJOjl PLICATIONS
And Will Require Much Pa
tient Work and /Thought
To Adjust,
Mr. Walter G. Cooper, in the At
lanta Journal, gives the following
brief synopsis of the plan which
Principal Keeper Turner has out
lined for the final solution of the
convict question, and which is
given below. It contains some
striking suggestions and will be
read with interest.
The convict lease system of Geor
gia, which began under bayonet
rule with the hiring of 200 convicts
by General Roger of the United
States army, then provisional gov
ernor, to William A. Fort and Jos
eph J. Printup, and was fully inau
gurated by the leasing of the whole
penitentiary to Grant, Alexander
& Co. by Governor Bullock, and
subsequently continued and amel
iorated in the present lease by a
Democratic administration, will
soon terminate and he succeeded
by a better system upon a home
made plan.
Principal Keeper Turner of the
Georgia penitentiary has completed
that part of his report which treats
of the disposition of convicts at
the expiration of the present lease
and his recommendations, if a
dopted by the legislature, will make
a radical change in the penal sys
tem and provide within five years,
out of the earnings of convicts a
permanent penitentiary, where the
prisoners may be safely kept and
so employed as to bring the state
an income.
These recommendations are made
after conference with the governor
and are concurred in by him. Both
gentleman have given much
thought to the subject and have
visited a number of penitentiaries
in various states. Mr. Turner has
studied the systems of all the states
and bis report will contain an an
alysis of all these systems.
Mr. Turner’s idea is that the
lease system should be abolished,
but that it should be done gradual
ly, in such away as not to involve
the state in heavy expense for the
support of the criminal class. Tg
this end, he proposes separating
all the females, boys under 17 and
infirm or diseased convicts, with a
reserve of 180 able-bodied men to
begin work on the permanent pen
itentiary. These are to be placed
on a tract of land, 5,000 to 7,000
acres in extent, which shall become
the permanent penitentiary of
the state. He proposes that the re
maining convicts, about 1,800 able
bodied men, shall be hired for five
years, the state reserving the con
trol, feeding and guarding of them
The proceeds of their hire, above
the expense of maintenance, are to
be used in building the penitentia
ry plant.
And this plant is to include mills,
factories, brick yards, founderies
and a farm, with places for the wo
men to make clothing and the boys
to make shoes and farm imple
ments.
The tract is to be seletced in a
convenient and healthful locality,
with deposits of clay, quarries of
stone and a stream with ample
water power. The 180 reserved
convicts and juveniles are to make
brick, quarry stones and otherwise
advance the work of construction
while maintaining themselves on
the farm, and the women are to
make clothes for all convicts, while
ws.
Royal makes the food pare,
wholesome and delicious.
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Absolutely Pure
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
the net hire of the other 1,800 will
furnish funds to complete the pen
itentiary plant within the five’years
of the lease. At the end of that
time the state is to take all the con
victs into her own keeping, and with
such a plant, will easily make them
self-sustaining and a great deal
more, and the surplus can be added
to the school fund.
With this plan for the disposi
tion of the convicts, Mr. Turner
will recommend several radical
changes in the discipline of the
penitentiary.
The lash is to be abolished and
'more humane methods of contrbl
substituted. The graded system
of Illinois will be recommended.
There are three grades in this sys
tem and the convict enters the sec
ond or middle one. If he behaves
badly he is degraded to the first
grade; if he does well, he is elevat
ed to the third.
The parol system will also be
recommended, In this system, as
adopted in other states, the court
fixes indeterminate sentence, with
a short and long limit. If a con
vict behaves well he is released on
parol at the end of the short period.
He is required to report regularly
and give a satisfactoiy account of
himself until the long limit has
been reached. If he behaves well
he remains free. If he violates
the conditions of the parol, he is
arrested and brought back to the
penitentiary. Experience has
shown that the graded system,
with its alternative of degradation
or elevation indicated by different
clothes, and the parol system, with
liberty dependent on good conduct,
are both productive of good results
in the reformation of criminals.
Mr. Turner will advocate also the
classification of convicts, separat
ing those guilty of offenses involv
ing moral turpitude from those
committed in the heat of passion
and separating juvenilesand fe
males from other classes.
Practice Economy in buying
medicines as in other matters. It
is economy to get Hood’s Saarsa
parilla because it contains more
medical value than any other —100
doses one dollar.
Hood’s Pills are the only pills to
take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Cure all liver ills.
Shipping Cotton to Spain.
Bryan, Tex., Aug 25.—A cotton
firm purchased 235 bales of Brazos
bottom cotton today and shipped
some to Barcelona, Spain the first
shipment to that county ever made
direct from Texas.
Did You Ever
Try Electric Bitters as a remedy
for you troubles? If not, get a
bottle now and get relief. The
medicine has been found to be pe
culiarly adapted to the relief and
cure of all Female Complaints, ex
erting a wonderful direct influence
in giving strength and tone to the
organs. If you have Loss of Appe
tite, Constipation, Headache,
Fainting Spells, or are Nervous,
Sleepless, Excitable, Melancholy
or troubled with Dizzy Spells,
Electric Bitters is the medicine
you need. Health and Strength
are guaranteed by its use. Large
bottles only 50 cents at H. H. Ar
rington’s drug Store.
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