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VOL X
COTTON
DAMMED
It Is Cut Off At Least 25
To 40 Per Cent.
AND IN SOME SECTIONS MOSE,
Bools Opening Rapidlv—
There Will Be NoTop*
Crop.—Damage
Great.
The crop bulletin issued last week
by the United States bureau is the
most discouraging of any issued for
months past.
To cotton growers the report is
especially hard, as the report states
th it the cotton crop has been irrep
arably damaged to an extent of 25
per cent.
The general weather conditions
during the past seven days have
been very detrimental to growing
crops, and the condition of cotton
has deteriorated very much since
the last issue of the bulletin. The
bolls are opening so rapidly that
it is impossible to pick it fast
enough. The top crop is almost an
assured failure, as the plant is
shedding so rapidly. The cotton
crop for the state will not exceed
75 percent of the average. There
is great difficulty in obtaining
enough hands - Fodder pulling and
haying are about over, and both
fodder and hay have been saved in
very good condition. A good deal
of corn has been gathered and a
large yield is reported. Pastures
and all growing crops are badly in
need of rain, but cotton would bo
injured in the event of much rain.
The general outlook is not nearly
so encouraging for cotton as it was
a week or ten days ago.
Northern division.
During the past week dry and
warm weather has prevailed and
has been very detrimental to crops
in general and cotton in particular.
The condition of this crop has de
teriorated very noticeably since the
last report. The young cro[ of
bloom and bolls has been largely
cast off in most sections. The dry
and warm weather has caused cot
ton to open prematurely, and so
rapidly that the pickers are far be
hind. In some localities cotton
has shed everything but the grown
fruit and the leaves are as red as
they should be in October. The
yield of the crop is variously esti
mated at from 60 per cent to 80
pec cent of an average; it is safe
to say it will not average above 75
per cent. Fodder pulling has been
pushed ahead during the week, and
many farmers have finished this
branch of their work. Late corn is
veryjgood, but is needing rain ex
cept in some bottom land. Fall
gardens are at a standstill and are
suffering materially from the ef
fects of dry weather. Considerable
hay has been cut and saved during
the week in very good condition
Pastures have failed very much
during the past two weeks. Pota
toes and peas have been badly dam
aged by drought. Turnips have
made little or no progress during
the week, and will be seriously in
jured unless rain falls very soon.
While rain would be very beneficial
to all crops, it would do no more or
less damage to open cotton. Sugar
cane is being made up, and the
yield is generally good.
Middle division.
The weather in the middle sec
tion of the state during the week
has been favorable to farm work,
but most detrimental to growing
crops. Cotton is opening very rap
idly and is being picked as fast as
possible and some are ginning.
This crop has been seriously dam
aged by excessively dry weather, es
pecially the late crop,' There is
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS.
little or no fop crop. In some
counties about one-half of the top
crop has been picked. The yield
will not be over 70 per cent of the
average as a rule, and in some sec
tions 65 percent is a conservative
estimate. Early corn is being gath
ered and the yield is large and good.
Under the favorable conditions a
large hay crop has been saved dur
ing the past week or ten days.
Pastures are fairly good, but are
showing the ill effects of the dry
weather. A few watermelons are
yet being marketed. Scuppernong
grapes are still very plentiful and
of good quality. Sugar cane is
doing well and the stand is good,
though the acreage is not large.
Stock is in good condition and do
ing well. Peasand potatoes, as
well as most other crops, are need
ing rain. Turnips have made no
improvement and are needing rain
very badly. A few farmers have
sown rye during the week. Muska
dines and wild berries are abund
ant and are ripening.
Southern divisions.
Throughout the southern coun
ties the weather has been dry and
warm, with considerable wind.
There have been a few light but
widely scattered showers. Cotton
is nearly all open and is being pick
ed and ginned as rapidly as possi
ble with the limited number of
hands available. Cotton promises
a very light crop. It is next t»
impossible to secure enough hands
for cotton picking. In a few coun
ties where the season has been fav
orable an average crop of cotton
will be made, but the average for
the southern division of the state
will not much exceed 75 per cent.
Corn is being gathered and is veiy
good. A large crop of hay has been
cut and saved in tine condition
during the we?k. Cane is suffering
seriously from the dry hot weather.
The sweet potato crop is excellent
in a few localities, but most fields
need rain. Fodder about all in
and was saved in good condition.
Gardens are poor as a rule and are
badly in need of rain. Pastures
are generally good, but would be
greatly benefitted by good soaking
rains. Cane and potatoes are fair,
but have not made much progress
during the past ten days on ac
count of dry weather
J. B, Marbury,
Section Director, Atlanta, Ga.
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Henry Demas, one of the most
rabid and notorious negro politic
ians in the state of Louisiana, has
been appointed by President Mc-
Kinley to be naval officer of the
port of New Orleans, second in im
portance to the colectors office.
Demas belongs to an unscrupulous
gang of negro politicians and his
appointment has raised a howl of
disapproval. It is hard on the
Democrats, but it is serving the re
negade sugar planters who went
over the Republican party a short
while ago, just right.
His Injuries. Were Fatal.
Gadsden, Ala., Sept. 14.—John
Farrer, a young and popular flag
man on the Chattanooga Southern
railway, died here tonight from in
juries received here yesterday. He
1 fell from the top of a car across the
track, and made a supreme effort
to save himself by trying to roll off
the rail. He succeeded in getting
nearly clear, when the wheel caught
his leg, tearing all the flesh off from
the hip down.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 22, 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.
The Eagle and Phenix mills at
Columbus are running day and
night to fill orders.
There is a town in Georgia that
has only had one wedding in five
years. That town is Fort Gaines.
Louisville has invested SIO,OOO
in improvements and $12,000 in a
new railroad within the last sixty
days -
Hancock county had her election
Tuesday on the whiskey question,
mder the local option law, and
goes dry by between 272 and 300
majority.
It is supposed to be a certain
fact that the Chattanooga, Rome
and Southern railroad will survey
a branch road from Bremen to
Bowdon. Work will begin on the
survey at an early date.
Judson Lyons, the negro who
has been an applicant for the pos
ition of postmaster at Augusta,
has withdrawn from the race, and
it is said will be appointed register
of the treasury.
It is said that smallpox has
broken out in Birmingham in a
more virulent form than ever, and
the authorities in Washington
have been appealed to for help to
stamp out the disease.
When your stomach begins to
trouble you, it needs help. The
help it needs is to digest your food,
and, until it gets it, you won’t
have any peace. Stomach trouble
is very distressing, very obstinate,
very dangerous. Many of the
most dangerous diseases begin with
simple indigestion. The reason is
that indigestion (not digestion,
not nourishment) weakens the
system and allows disease germs
to attack it. The antidote is Sha
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druggists, price 10 cents to SI.OO
per bcttle.
Battleship Indiana Damaged.
Halifax, N. S., Sept. 14 —Dur'
ing the recent docking of the bat
tleship Indiana her bottom bulged
under the forward turret. The dam
age is really very serious and will
require extensive repairs.
The Bridgeport broom factory
will resume operations shortly.
The fine for ringing the fire bell
at Tuskegee without cause is SSO.
Old People.
Old people who require medicine
to regulate the bowels and kidneys
will And the true remedy in Elec
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not stimulate and contains no
whiskey nor other intoxicant, but
acts as a tonic and alterative. It
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bowels, adding strength and giving
tone to the organs, thereby aiding
Nature in the performance of the
functions. Electric Bitters is an
excellent appetizer and aids diges
tion. Old people find it just what
they need. Price fifty cents per
bottle at H. H. Arrrington’s.
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JUSTIFY DISCRIMINATION.
0. R.&. S., Answer To A Chat
tanooga Company’s Charge.
Nashville, Sept. 14.—TheChat
' tanoogo, R ome and Columbus rail
way today filed with the railroad
commission its answer to the com
plaint recently made against it by
the Chattanooga Coffin and Casket
company. The defendants justify
the discrimination in shipment of
coffins on the ground that first
class rates must be charged on
: coffins shipped out of Georgia un
der the rules of the Southeastern
Freight association, while fhip
' ment of the same goods within the
state of Georgia come within the
second-class rate clause.
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A Cheerful Woman.
“What a blessing to a household
is a merry cheerful woman—one
whose spirits not affected by wet
dlaysor little disappointments—
one whose milk of human kindness
does not sour in the sunshine of
prosperity ! Such a woman in dark
est hours brightens the house like
a piece es sunshiny weather. The
magnetism of her smiles and the
electrical brightness of her looks
and movements infect every one.
The children go to school with a
sense of something great to be ac
chieved ; the husband goes with
a conqueror’s spirit. No mat
ter how many people annoy and
worry him all day, far off her
presence shines and he whispers to
himself, “At home I shall find
rest!” So day by day she literal
ly renews his strength and energy.
And if you know a man with a
beaming face, a kind heart and a
properous business, in nine cases
out of ten he has a wife' of this
kind.
Southern Cotton Mills.
The report on the cotton season
of 1896-97 made public by Secre
tary Hester, of the New Orleans
Cotton Exchange, the day after
the close of the cotton season, has
added much to the reputation of
that gentleman as a statistician
and an authority on cotton . It
has been widely quoted and no sec
tion of the report has been more
generally noticed than that which
deals with southern cotton mills.
Mr. Hester does n«t attempt, in
his report, to conceal the fact that
southern mills have felt the dull
times He admits thatcomplaints
have been heard of narrow margins
detween the cost of raw material
and the price of the manufactured
product, but he shows that the
conditions existing in the south
are very propitious and that the
cotton milling industry has stead
ily advanced, regardless of the ob
stacles in the way. Mr. Hester
says:
“As a whole there is a cause for
satisfaction at the general results
of the year’s showing. In face of
two successive seasons of trade de
pression and uncertainty the cot
ton spindles of the south have in
creased in round numbers 675,000,
or say 21 per cent, while the ag
gregate of the bales consumed is
greater by 180,000, equal to 25 per
cent aud the tendency is toward a
further material increase in the
immediate future. No surer or
better indication could be afforded
of the substantial basis of the
industry.”
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THE WAR.
IN CUBA
Liberal Spanish Leaders
Takes A Gloomy
View Os Situ=
ation.
CARLIST TROUBLES AT HOME
Spain Seems About To
Lose] Phillipine Islands,
Also,—War Is Spread
ing.
Senor Sagasta, the Liberal lead
er, in an interview on the subject of
the Cuban insurrection, says that
the uprising, instead of dying out,
is spreading considerably.
In addition Senor Sagasta says
the situation in the Phillipine is
lands is serious. He also asserts
that the Carlist propaganda in
Spain cannot be viewed with in
difference, and expresses the be
lief that a reconcilation between
the political parties in Spain is
impossible as long as the Conser
vatives are in power.
In conclusion Senor Sagasta
says:
“In my opinion the cortes will
not meet but if they do meet,
their existence is ephemeral.”
The Sun’s Cuban advices are very in
teresting. The villages of Los Melon
es, Mejia and San Pedro, west of Las
Tunas and close to the Juraco-Moron
trocha, have been taken, with lit tie re
sistance from their small forts, by the
insurgent vanguard of Gen Calixto Gar
cia who is reported as moving rapidly
toward the trocha. Intense alarm is felt
in official and military circles in Ravan
na about the success of Garcia’s artille
ry and his effective use of dynamite
guns. A breaking of the trocha by the
Cuban leader acting in combination with
Gen. Gomez, which was reported by the
Spanish commander of Las T unas to
be Garcia's intention, is considered
here to be the last blow that Gen. Wey
ler could stand. After that the recall
of the captain-general would be a ne
cessity to the Spanish government.
Another alarming report is in circu
lation today that the strong Cuban for-1
ces are moving eastward, on the impor
tant town of Holguin, which is no bet
ter fortified than Las Tunas was. The
excitement is as great in the capital as
when Gomez and Maceo invaded the
province of Havana in December 1895,
and Gen Martinez Campos was recalled.
The criticism of Weylcr increases
hour by hour, as news comes of the a
larming situation of the east. The Ga
ceto Ofieial prints a decree, published
on Friday at Madrid, forbidding the
press, under severe penalties, to repro
duce or comment on, or even mention
any criticism against the Spanish army
in Cuba. The press censor has had
heretofore control of the news sections
of the local papers hut with regard to
editorials there was some leniency, in
the belief that no editor would risk the
wrath of Gen. Weyler. Now the decree
explicitly condemns any remark about
the army as “a military crime,” which
means at least a deportation toChafar
inas.
The war is as hot as ever in all the
provinces at the same time. In Santa
Clara province, near la Vega Santa,
the Cubans captured on Friday a valu
able Spanish convoy. All along the
highroad by which the Spaniards were
to pass the insurgents had prepared
ambuscades. At the given moment a
volley was fired into the ranks of the
Spanish, and the order of “al matche
to” was given. The Spanish column,
surrounded, engaged bravely in a hand
to-hand fight, but after an hour they j
abandoned the convoy to the insurgents.
Itis Known that the Spanish losses were
heavy, aud among them many officers,
though the exact number is not repor
ted.
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Os New York —Active
Steps.
New York, Sept. 14.—A special
to the Journal and Advertiser from
Washington says: It is now evi
dent that the government is get
ting ready to deal with Spain vig
orously. The board of officers of
the naval intelligence bureau has
had a conference as to the scheme
of naval operations to be adopted
in case of war with Spain. A plan
which was worked out in detail
some time ago was discussed, and
alter a few alterations necessary
to bring it up to date, this plan
was approved.
At the first signal of acutal war
the powerful North Atlantic squa
dron will rendezvous within strik
ing distance of Havanna, while the
four naval reserve ships of the A
merican line-the Paris, New York
St. Louis, and St. Paul—will re
ceive their armaments as cruisers
and will proceed to Spain to watch,
the operations of the Spanish fleet,
track it and warn the American
naval commanders in advance of
its movements.
LYONS IS PLACATED.
W ill Accept the Office of Register
of the Treasury.
Washington, Sept. 14.—Post
master-General Gray offered Jud
son Lyons, the Augusta negro a
superintendency in the postoffice
department this moving if he
would withdraw his claim to the
postoffice in his city. Lyons de
clined and it has been decided to
offer him the registership of the
treasury, which, if done, Lyons
will accept. This is the place now
held by J. Fount Tillman, of Ten
nessee, and for which there is a
big scramble among the most
prominent colored men all over the
south.
Many people from the north
west will settle near Anniston and
plant vineyards.
The Iron Mountain aud ecu
Pacific,
Is the only line out of Memphis
that runs through cars via Little
Rock, Texarkana to Dal las and Ft.
Worth without change. We also
have Pullman Tourist sleeper via
the “True Southern Route” to Los
Angles and San Francisco without
change.
If you contemplate making a
trip West, kindly drop me a line
and I will mail to your address
free of charge map and book of the
State you wish to locate, also send
you illustrated book on Het Springs
which is under the direct supervis
ion of theU. S. Government.
Address, A. A. Gallagher,
221-ts Southern Passenger Agent,
103 Read House, Chattanooga
Tenn.
Plainfield, Ohio, August, 1896.
All reports I have heard from
Dr. Tichenor’s Antiseptic are very
favorable. The people seem well
pleased with it, and I have used it
myself with very gratifying result.
I B. B. Woodward.
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