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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. Dr. Tichner’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. 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. 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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.” Rich red blood h the foun dation of good health. That is why ' -flood's Sarsaparilla, the One True Blood Purifier, gives HE ALT He 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. Everybody Says So. 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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. 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