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VOL X
YEhliOW
FEVER.
It Continues to Spread
And Gives Cause For
fluch Alarm.
IT IS SEEIOUSAT EDWARDS.
One Death In Texas From
The Yellow Scourge—
Houston Quarantines.
Houston, Tex., Sept. 22.—Thos.
Lovejoy, a newsboy 13 years old,
died with fever today at Beaumont
and the people are wild with fright
and are fleeing to the woods to es
cape the scourge.
The little fellow was a newsboy
and handled New Orleans papers,
and it is thought he contracted
the fever from that source.
The death of the Lovejoy boy at
Beaumont this morning has caused
somewhat of consternation in this
city. The town is rigidly quaran
tined. A number of health officers
met here today for a conference
on the situation.
In New Orleans.
New Orleans, Sept. 22.—The
official record in the board of
health office tonight at 6 o’clock
showed a total of twelve cases si nee
yesterday evening and two deaths.
The new cases are for the most
part widely scattered, and several
of them at least do not seem to
have the outcome of local infec
tion. It is apparent that the mi
crobe brought over in baggage from
Biloxi and Ocean springs are still
incubating, and that many more
cases are to be looked for. The
system of quarantine and sanita
tion in vogue here is unquestion
ably showing good results, and
whatever spread there >s of sick
ness is confined to houses in which
yellow fever already exists, or in
premises immediately adjoining.
RAPIDLY SPREADING.
Nothing But Frost Can Stop the
Disease.
Edwards, Miss., Sept. 22. —The
disease is rapidly spreading, and
while it is regarded as a mild type
yet it is feared it will become more
malignant owing to the cool weath
er now prevailing. We have more
than a hundred families inside our
lines unaffected, with a total of
500 souls aud indications are that
nothing but killing frost can allay
the disease.
Dr. Parnell has applied to the
Howard association, of Vicksburg,
for more help, doctors and nurses.
The sisters of mercy, five in num
ber, from Vicksburg, with Father
Prendergast, are doing noble work,
for which our people are exceed
ingly grateful.
Health means a perfect condi
tion of the whole system. Pure
blood is essential to perfect health.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla makes pure
blood and thus gives health and
happiness.
Hood’s Pills are the favorite
family cathartic and liver medi
cine. Price 25c.
It is rumored that as soon as
work ia begun at Bull Sluice, the
Southern Railway Company will
change the gauge of the Roswell
branch to a standard, and make
numerous other improvements.
Yes, the governor is right; the
man who appointed this negro as
postmaster at Hogansville is parti
ceps criminis, an accessory before
the fact, because he knew the ap
pointment would be offensive to
this people, aud it was made be
cause it would be offensive and with
the intent and purpose of humilia
ting them.—Athens Banner.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS.
JAPANESE TROOPS
LANDIN HAWAII.
AccordingTo Stories Told
By A Steamer’s Passen
gers.
San Francisco, Sept. 22.—1 f the
stories told by the passengers and
crew of the steamship City of Pe
king, which arrived here from
Hong Kong via Honolulu on Tues
day evening, be true, a state of af
fairs exists in Hawaii which de
mands the attention of the state
department. When the City of
Peking arrived at Honolulu the at
tention of the other passengers on
board that steamer was attracted by
the remarkably symmetrical move
ment of 174 Japanese steerage pas
sengers who were disembarked. Al
though classed as laborers, their
well drilled and military appear
ance was too palpable to escape
observation and occasioned consid
erable comment. The Japanese
were apparently under the com
mand of a veteran sergeant and
divided into squads of twenty un
der non-commissioned officers.
During the voyage a military
discipline was observed which cre
ated comment among the other
steerage passengers and the steam
er’s crew, and many conjecturers
were hazarded as to the meaning of
their being shipped to the islands.
It was generally believed they were
sent to the islands for the purpose
of forcibiy resisting annexation if
necessary. Rumors of the pres
ence of the mikado’s soldiers are
not new on the islands, and it is
said that over 1,000 well drilled
m*en have already been landed
there, and about 4CO veterans
of the Japan-China war are
expected upon the next steam
er,
CONVICT QUESTION.
State Senator Shropshire Outlines
His Plan.
Rome, Ga., September 21.—Be
fore leaving Rome for Atlanta,
whither he went to attend the
meeting of the senate penitentia
ry committee, Senator Shropshire
said:
“I don’t know that a better plan
can be suggested for taking care of
misdemeanor convicts than our
present system legally executed.
That is, put the misdemeanor con
victs on the public roads, as Floyd
county does —which is legal and
all right. In those counties where
there are not enough convicts to
justify this, send them to those
counties that have misdemeanor
camps, just as Chattooga does
Floyd today. I don’t know of a
better plan. Really, the most im
portant matter to come before the
committee will be to devise a plan
for the caring for our felony
convicts’ The twenty years lease
of these convicts will expire in
April, 1899, and we must begin to
prepare for taking care of them. I
think that the best plan that
could be adopted injcaring for our
felony convicts is to select some
centrally located spot and locate a
penitentiary. Let the state work
her own criminals. I don’t believe
that they should bo feasted on the
luxuries of life, but that they
should be treated humanely, and
as criminals, having to endure the
penalty of their crime. These
criminals can be worked on a farm
or at making brick, or as stone
masons, etc., and they will not
come in competition any more
with free labor than they do now.
If the state should have an over
abundance of convicts, let them
be rented to individuals or corpo
rations to work, provided it be
done under the supervision of the
state. I mean, let the state sup
ply the guards, food and raiment
and in fact, have the oversight and
be responsible for her own con
victs.”
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 29, 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.
Judge John I. Calloway, late of
LaGrange, Ga., died at his home
in Cuerc, Texas, September 12.
It is likely SIOO,OOO will not pay
for the new buildings in Jackson
this year.
Major W. E. Hyatt has beenap
pointed postmaster at Douglas
ville.
Mr. G. R. Turner, one of Doug
lasville’s oldest citizens, was strick
en with paralyses last Saturday.
Jess Humphrey, who escaped
from the Douglasville jail last
spring, has been captured at Fort
Payne, Ala.
The town of Pepperton, built up
around the Pepperton mills, in
Butts county, is applying for in
corporation.
Phil Gary, a negro burglar, was
shot by the police in Macon last
Thursday while trying to enter a
house. He will recover.
B. Silar, a fireman on the Geor
gia railroad, fell from his engine
at Haddock’s station and fc was fa
tally injured.
Mr. James Tweedy, of Madison
has suddenly recovered his power of
speech, after being dumb for eight
months.
Mr. J. H. Lane has the largest
gourd that has been raised in Heard
county for many years. It meas
ures 4 feet and 10 inches in circum
ference, and is still growing.
J. M. McSweiny, aged 54, com
mitted suicide in Atlanta last
Tuesday by shooting himself
through the head with a pistol.
11l health is supposed to have been
the cause.
At a meeting of the directors of
the Acme Brewing company, of
Macon, a 4 per cent, semi-annual
dividend was declared. The di
rectors ordered the brewery en
larged and $75,000 will be spent
in this work during the fall.
William Moore, a negro work
man, wt'S killed last Wednesday
while at work on the new county
jail in Allanta. He was engaged
in placing an iron beam on the
fourth story, when he missed his
footing and fell to the ground be
low, causing instant death.
A mun in Cartersville purchased
the gallows on which a man was
hanged and built a hennery of the
lumber. He has never had a
chicken stolen from it, and it is
said that the colored brother won’t
go within a block of it, if he can
possibly avoid doing so.
The Crawfordville Democrat has
a small egg, an exact image of a
lizard egg, that was found this
week in the white of a hen’s egg.
The hen’s egg was natural in every
other respect; and this small,
grape like shell egg was floating
about in the white.
The Lexington Echo says the
South may have an occasional
lynching bee when a brute assaults
a fair woman, but never in this
section have workmen contending
for fair compensation for their la
bor been shot down by the score.
Charles R. Reid, who killed L.
W. Halstead at a circus in Macon,
on the alleged ground that Hal
stead insu.ied his wife, has been
tried and convicted of involuntary
manslaug iter and sen tenet d to
i three years imprisonment in peni
tentiary.
WHAT WOODFORD
TOLD THE DUKE
Offered Uncle Sam’s Good
Offices in Settling Cuban
Troubles.
Madrid, Sept. 22.—The corres
pondent of the Associated Press
here learns upon high authority
that the much-discussed interview
of Saturday last between the Uni
ted-States minister to Spain, Gen.
Stewart L. Woodford, and the
Spanish minister for foreign af
fairs, the Duke of Tetuan, was
merely preliminary. Gen. Wood
ford represented to the duke the
gravity of the condition of Cuba,
and requested in behalf of the Un
ited States that Spain should find
a method of speedily ending the
war and giving justice to the Cu
bans. He offered the good offices
of the United States in effecting a
settlement of the Cuban troubles,
which practically gives Spain an
opportunity of gracefully ending
the war. If she does not embrace
it within a reasonable time, notice
will be given that the United States
must interfere, though Gen. Wood
ford has not said so yet.
Spain cannot expect the aid of
European powers, as the United
States ambassadors have ascertain
ed that all the European countries
except Austria recognize that the
interests of the United States just
ify the latters interference in Cuba.
Austria, in this matter, is influen
ced by the relationship between the
two dynasties, the queen regent of
Spain being an Austrian archduch
ees, but it is not likely that Aus
tria will take any part in the ques
tion beyond possibly making a di
plomatic protest against the inter
vention of the United States.
The True Remedy.
W. M. Repins, editor Tiskilwa,
111., “Chief,” says: “We won’t keep
house without Dr. King’s New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds. Expei i nent with many
others, but never got the true rem
edy until we used Dr. King’s New
Discovery. No other .e.nedy can
take its place in our home, as in it
we have a certain and sure cure for
Coughs, Colds, Whooping Cough
etc.” It is idle to experiment with
other remedies, even if they are
urged on you as just as good as Dr.
King’s New Discovery. They are
not as good, because this remedy
has a record of cures and besides
is guaranteed. It never fails to sat
isfy. Trial bottles free at Arringtons
Drug Store.
Mrs. Olie Hamby, of Cobb coun
ty, an aunt of Judge B. F. Cock,
of Coweta county, is a remarkable
woman in many respects. She is
the twenty-sixth child born to her
parents, and although Judge Cock’s
junior by two years, is his great
aunt. Her father was twice mar
ried, which accounts for her being
younger than her nephew. Mrs
Hamby had seven brothers who
were Baptist preachers, and six
nephews engaged in the same call
ing. Her descendants now num
ber seventy-seven, all of whom are
robust, both in body and mind.
By industry and economy she has
accumulated a considerable for
tune, and her children will each
receive a comfortable dot when
she dies. Judge Cock paid her a
visit not long since, it being the
first time they had met in three
score years.
Dr. Tichner’e 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.
PERFECT and permanent are the
cures by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, be
cause it makes pure, rich, healthy,
life and health-giving BLOOD,
Ripans Tabules cure biliousness.
> CONVICT
QUESTION.
1 The Matter Refered To
A Splendid Com
mittee Who Will
Report.
I “ ‘
COMMITTEE WILL DRAW BILL
And Submit It To The
General Assemby
When It Convenes,
Atlanta, Sept. 22. Governor At
kinson, before leaving for North Car
olina put members of the joint peni
tentiary committee on notice that he
would veto any bill looking to the
perpetuation of the lease system.
This was a pledge he made in a
speech accepting the nomination for
governor, and he proposes to keep it.
The convention was requested to
make this a plank, but failed to do so.
The governor laid down the plank in
his speech of acceptance and will abide
by it.
The sentiment of the general com
mittee is largely against the lease sys
tem.
The general joint committee, after
the reading of Mr. Hall’s bill embody
ing the suggestions of the governor
and principal keeper, with some en
largement, and after further discussion,
adjourned to meet October 15, and hear
a bill to be drawn in in the meantime
by a sub-committee of nine, live from
the house and four from the senate.
This bill is to be drawn by October
and mailed all members of the commit
tee. The sub-committe will sit at the
capital, beginning at 5 o’clock this af
ternoon, and hear argument and plans
to enable them to draft a bill.
The sub committee is composed of
the following gentlemen:
From the Senate—Phil Cook, 11. F. '
Dunwoody, Wesley Shropshire and
Alex. Atkinson.
From the House—llewlette Hall, J.
L. Boynton, W. A. Dodson,T. B. Fel
der and C. C. Thomas.
The general joint committee at 1:15
adjourned to meet October 25th at 10 J
a. m. and hear and act on the bill drawn 1
by the sub-committee. ]
The Shakers of Mount Lebanon,
a community of simple, honest,
God-fearing men and women, have
prepared the Shaker Digestive Cor
dial for many years, and it is al
ways the same, simple, honest, cu
rative medicine that has helped to
make the Shakers the healthy,
long-lived people that they are.
The Shakers never have indiges
tion. This is partly owing to their
simple mode of life, partly to the
wonderful properties of Shaker
Digestive Cordial. Indigestion is
caused by the stomach glands not
supplying enough digestive juice.
Shaker Digestive Cordial supplies
what’s wanting. Shaker Digestive
Cordial invigorates the stomach
and all its glands so that after
awhile they don’t need help. As
evidence of the honesty of Shaker
Digestive Cordial, the formula is
printed on every bottle. Sold by
druggists, price 10 cents to SI.OO
per bottle.
Third Pigeon From Andree,
Copenhagen, September 20.—A
dispatch received from Hammer
fest, the northernmost town of Eu
rope in Norway, says the whaling
ship Falkeu has bought the third
pigeon dispatch from Professor
Andree, the aeronaut, who left the
island of Tromsoe in a balloon on
July Uth last, in an attempt to
cross the poplar regions.
The message brought by the Fal
ken reads:
“July 13, 12:30 p. m.—Lati
tude 82 2 north longitude 12 5
east. Good voyage eastward. All
well.”
Aauotn punjaj swtfSrup ‘ajno 01 '0 'O 'O JJ
JO °ol ■OTiaßiU'eo Apnco siaiisosßO
■UMIOj u<H3Bdn«uoa OJU3 ox
Ripans Tabules cure liver troubles.
I Royal makes the food pare,
wholesome and delicious.
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POWDER
Absolutely Pure
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
FIRE AT COLUMBUS.
Another Georgia Town Swept By
The Flames.
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 22 —One
of the most disastrous fires which
Columbus has suffered since the
burning of the Rankin house block
twenty years ago, occurred last
night, when the lumber yard, the
sash, blind and door factory, to
gether with the Southern railway’s
freight depot went up in smoke.
In addition to the factory and
depot, two Louisville and Nash
ville freight cars, loaded with cot
ton, were consumed. The loss to
Butts & Cooper and the Southern
railway will aggregate $60,000, it
is estimated. Butts <fe Cooper
plant and stock were valued at
over $20,000, on which there was
only $3,500 insurance.
The property destroyed was all
that was on one block, but at
times the buildings across the
street caught and there was immi
nent danger of the fire spreading
over a large portion of the city.
There was a hard wind blowing
at the time and it was impossible
for the firemen to check the flames
which gained such quick headway.
The fire broke out at 10:15 o’clock.
Plainfield, Ohio, August, 1896.
All reports I have heard from
Dr. Tichenor’s Antiseptic are very
favorable. The people seem weH'
pleased with it, and I have used it
myself with very gratifying result.
B B. Woodward.
TALIAFERRO, GA.
Rev. Mr. Smith filled his regular
appointment at Poplar Springs
Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. Thomas Cordle died at his
home in Rome Saturday and was
buried Monday at South Carolina
camp ground. The bereaved fam
ily have the sympathy of the whole
community.
The little infant child of Mr.
and Mrs. R. L. Worsham is quite
sick at this writing.
Miss Hattie Hix, who has been
visiting friends in our community
for the past two weeks, returned
to her home near Gore last Sun
day.
Miss janie White, of Silver Hill
spent Sunday with Miss Nona
Stephenson.
Miss Hester Vaughn spent Sun
day with the Misses Anderson.
Miss Annie Sparks returned
Wednesday from Trion, where she
has been visiting relatives.
Mr. E. W. Harrison, of Lyerly,
will leave the latter part of this
week tor Florida, where he will
make his home for the present.
Mrs. Walker of Atlanta, is visit
ing friends and relatives in our
community.
Success to the News. Ben Hur.
Milton A. Smith, who was com
missioned postmaster at Anniston
on Sept. 19, 1893, has telegraphed
his resignation to Washington.
He recently sold the Daily Hot
Blast at Anniston and resigned in
order to be in Chicago by Oct. 1 to
give his attention to a literary
journal which he has established
1 there;
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