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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. roym > 081 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; No. 30