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MRS. LONGSTREET RESIGNS.
Givss Up The Position of Assist
ant State Librarian of
Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga, Oct. 28.—Mrs
Gen. Longstreet his tendered her
resignation as assistant state li
brarian.
The resignation is to take effect
Oct. 31. Her successor in that
position has been named, although
this appointment—it is given out
tt the executive departmoot—is
only temporary. She is MissJew
ett, of Columbus.
The resignation was a surprise
to Mrs. Longstreet’s former op
pm-mt, as well as her friends
Many of the latter did not. think
she would continue in the race for
the first place, now that she has
married, but nobod}’ had any in
timation of a purpose to resign
that which she had held. This re
signation means, of course, that
she is no longer to be considered
as in the list of candidates for the
office of state librarian.
Indeed Mrs. Longstreet is now
in favor of the reappointment of
Capt Milledge to that place, and
has given the captain assurances
of her hearty support, with one
proviso—that there is no woman
in the race. If there is no possi
bility of the appointment of a wo
man, she will receive the indorse
ment of the author of the Dortch
bill.
It is Bad.
Very bad policy to neglect symp
toms of trouble in the kidneys. If
allowed to develop they cause
much suffering and sorrow.
Bright’s disease, diabetes and drop
sy owe their great prevalence and
fatality to neglect of the first
warning symptoms. Dr. J. H.
McLean’s Liver and Kidney Balm
is a certain cure for any disease or
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Apparently Spreading.
Mobile, Get. 29. —Six new' cases
and one death and three recoveries
was the repoit today. After the
report was published another
death occurred, that of Policeman
J. T. Roberts reported for the first
time today among the new cases.
Robert had been off duty four
weeks. It was generally thought
that he had consumption. The
fever was a final development.
Pains in the small of the back
indicate a diseased condition of
the kidneys. Owing to the danger
ous nature of the diseases which
attack these organs it is important
that measures should be taken to
remove the trouble before it has
become too firmly fixed. Prudence
would suggest the prompt use of
Dr. J. 11. McLean’s Liver and Kid
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Cotton Warehouse Full.
Our cotton warehouses are as
full of cotton as they can stick,
and even the street leading to one
of them is full. The mill ware
houses are also full. The low pri
ces have caused many to hold their
and the mills have taken
Vffvantage of the depression and
laid in good stocks. —Rome Ar
gus.
HOME SEEKERSEXOURSIONS
Via St. Louis & Iron Mountain
Route.
The following Home Seeker’s Ex
cursions have been arranged for
the famous Iron mountain Route.
Ono fare for the round trip, plus
$2.00.
Tickets on sale Nov. 16th, Dec
7th and Dec. 21st.
Tickets to be good from starting
point only on day of sale and to
require continuous passage to the
first point in home seeker's excur
sion territory, being go >d thence to
point of destination within limit
of 15 days from date of sale.
For further particulars apply to
A. A. Gallagher, T. P. A.
103 Read House,
Chattanooga Tenn.
The Industrial South.
Statistics lately gathered by the
laud and industrial department of
the Southern Railway Company
show that there are in the southern
states of Kentucky, Tennessee,
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia
the Carolinas and Virginia, com
pleted, 431 cotton mills, 3,451,-
631 spindles and 90,168 looms, be
sides seventy two knitting mills.
Os these, 249 cotton mills and thir
ty-seven knitting mills are on the
line ot the Southern railway These
mills have 2.304,367 spindles and
66,561 looms, being two-thirds of
all the looms and spindles in oper
ation in the south east of the Mis
sissippi. This makes the Southern
the great cotton road of the south
and the country, and enhances the
interest in its exhibit of cotton and
goods from its territory. In 1890
the total number of spindles in the
states named above was 1.533,250,
making the increase in seven years
about 120 percent. When the in
dustrial department of the South
ern railway was organized in 1894
the spindles along the line of the
road were 1,402,191 and the looms
39,884. In three years’the increase
has been 992,176 spindles and 26,-
677 looms, or 67 per cent in the
former and 70 per cent in the lat
ter. There is now 52 per cent more
spindles on the line of the road
than there were in the whole south
in 1890. The woolen mills of the
eight southern states touched by
the Southern railway number
eighty-eight, and are situated as
follows: Alabama, two: Georgia,
five; Kentucky, eighteen ; Missis
sippi, one; North Carolina, thir
teen; Tennessee, twenty-five; Vir
ginia, twenty-four. About fifteen
of these mills are also cotton or
knitting mills. Os the total, near
ly one-half are located on the line
of the Southern railway, and these
include most of the largest ones,
Cotton Experts.
Now the experts are figuring upou
the cotton problem and are puzzling
their feather-brains to account for its
low price. They cannot understand
why. with 560,000 bales less than the
visible supply of cotton in the United
Slates at this time last year aud with
•296,000 less in Europe, making a defi
ciency, as compared with the visible
supply of last year of nearly 1,000,000
bales, middling cotton in New York
should be sealing for 1 3-4 cents less
than a year ago.
If the man who manipulates the cot
ton after it is made, had half as much
common sense as the men who make
it, they would not be long in realizing
what it is that keeps it down.
The destruction of half the money in
the world, by the demonetization of
silver has made the people who use cot
ton goods too poor to buy them.
The consumer not being able to buy,
the manufacturer canno' sell his fabrics
when manufactured. The manufactu
rer not being able to sell bis goods is
consequently not able to buy the cotton,
and would be a fool to work it up if he
was. The manufacturer not a
ble to buy, of course the producer of
cotton cannot expect to get anything
for it.
If the crop was <o fall short 5,000,-
000 bales it would not affect the price,
only in a speculative sense. There is
no market for cotton goods, because
there is no money to buy them with,
and without a market for cotton goods
there can be no market for the raw
cotton. The cotton spinners of Lan
cashire, England, say that the demon
tizat.on of silver in India has destroy
ed the market for these fabrics, and
they do not want cotton at any price.
This is the long and short of it.—At
lanta Commercial.
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THE FENCE QUESTION.
What Some of the Leading Far
mers Safe to Say.
In regard to the proposition of
Mr. A. J. Lawrencesuggesting that
a law be passed making three
barbed wires a lawful fence the
following persons have expressed
themselves as follows:
R. W. Tedder, Joe Dendy, Frank
Dodd and M. A. Kellett, on the
Wheeler farm, favor a wire fence
but think four wires better than
three. Douglas and Arthur Wheel
er favor “no fence,” but would
much prefer a wire fence to the
present system.
“We want moie fence and better
fence,” says T. K. Weathers, T. B.
Aiken, J. P. Bouchillon, J. W.
White, Lem Aiken, Steve Merritt,
Sam Dean, Colins Williamson,
Simpson Vanpelt and James Huck
aby. These farmers live near Tu
lip and are not at all uncertain
about what they want.
“A wire fence would be a great
protection to farmers living along
the line of the railroad. Give us
the change,” say J. J. P. Henry, J.
M. Maliicoat, J. E. Henry, J. P.
Henry, D. P. Henley, R. L. Evans.
W. W. Hanson of Broomtown
valley says: “lam in favor of
the three wire fence. I lived two
years where that kind of fence was
used.”
“Our district held an election
today on the fence question and
voted 133 for stock law and 80 for
fence,” says John A. Jones of Dirt
town district.
“The farmers need all the help
they can get. We wou'd be glad
to have cheaper fencing,” says
Walt Smith.
“In regard to the fence question
in my community, the people here
stand 35 for fence and 2 for no
fence, and one of the two is not in
favor of the wire,” says W. R. H.
Maddox, of near Trion.
“We the undersigned oppose the
proposition to make three wires a
lawful fence.” Signed by D. A.
Hemphill, W. A. Sitton, E. E.
Thacker, C. Ivl. Sitt >n and R. A.
Hemphi'l.
Says Capt- M. P Dill, of Goie:
“I cannot see what earthly use we
can have for a three wire fence.
All I have to say to Mr. Lawrence
is to go to work aud vote the stock
law, under the law as it now
stands.”
The Fence Question,
Editor News. —There is not
room enough on a postal card for
me send in my vote on the fence
question, as A. J. Lawrence sug
gests, and I believe there are a
great number of voters in Chattoo
ga county in the same fix. There
fore I suggest that he postpones
the election for a time until he
procures and presents to the citi
izens of Chattooga statistics from
at least a half dozen different
counties in Georgia that have the
no fence law in force, showing the
actual existing conditions in those
counties covering a period of ten
years, the last five years they kept
up fence, ane five years without
fence.
Let these statistics show wheth
er the population was greater with
or without fence, and whether
more acres of land were cultivated j
without fence, and whether there
i
has been an increased yield per
acre under the no fence system.
Also state what per cent of the
farmers own and what per
cent are renters; also what is
the value of the farm stock owned
by these two classes of farmers
under the fence system, and under
the no fence system; and also is
there a greater per cent of the poor
class of children in school now
than when they had fences; and
has there been a greater or less
number of convicts sent up for
theft from those counties; how
many more cows stand tied to a
stake, panting from the heat of
the sun and. thirsting for water
than when fences were kept up;
what was the number and va'ue of
the hogs and cows raised in those
I counties in the last five ypars of
fence law and the five years of no
fence.
The above are only a few of the
many questions involved in the
| fence question which Mr. Lawrence
’ accidentally overlooked. Bring up
the facts as they actually exist in
those c muties having no fence,
and place them before the people
of the the county, and then they
vill be ready to vote, and be in
better position to make an intelli
gent decision. E- m. Griffitt.
Trion, Ga.
THE
An Eastern Cotton Manufactu
er’s Admittance of the Advan
tages of the South.
Philadelphia, Oct. 28. —At to
day’s session of the New England
Cotton Manufacturers’ association
a large number of technical papers
were read. One of the most im
portant was by Arthur Barkinson
of Providence, R._ T ., on “The Man
ufacture and Export of Cotton
Goods,” during which he said: “It
is well known that southern manu
facturers, with the present condi
tions, can- undersell or compete
easily with the eastern mills on
medium and coarse fabrics, and
the future looks dark for New Eng
land. The facilities of manufac
turers have been so increased that
in many lines of goods the exist
ing manufacturing establishments
can produce a vast amount more
than the United States can con
sume, and it seems likely that each
year will cause stagnation for the
industry and of course the usual
stoppages of mills during certain
periods. As a result of this con
tinued competition in certain lines
of goods for the home market, the
prices are low, wages are low, and
tariff legislation can not help mat
ters for the merchant. The job
ber is bound to buy in the cheap
est market, and that means that
southern looms will be engaged a
head, and the New England mills
must take what is left.”
Sore Throat.
In a letter to
K* N Dr. Hartman,
J® tsq da’ed Dec. 27-
JsU th ’ 189G ’ Geo ‘
T a. Blanchard,
_ of Washington,
Ga , writes:
/ il'' / “My throat had
7 been in the
,VRP/V habit of get
‘ '' ' ting sore every
year for the last twenty years, and
if any medical skill did me any
good it was so little I did not know
it. Two years ago my wife was
down sick two months, tried two
doctors, but the case was a stub
born one of female trouble. I found
in Pe-ru-na not only a good, safe
remedy for sore throat, but one for
weakness and nervous prostration.
I quit the doctors and purchased
a bottle of Pe-ru-na, and in three
days after my wife got up and she
has been going ever since, and I
have not been bothered with that
bad sore throat. It used to last at
least fifteen or twenty days. Since
we have used your medicine my
wife has not lost a single day, and
she has gained over fifty pounds.”
In a later letter, july 22nd, 1897,
Mr. Blanchard writes: “All of the
sickness we have in the family is
when we cannot got Pe-ru-na. We
people in the South think Pe-ru-na
is a God-sent blessing. I recom
mended Peruna to friends of mine
that had asthma and one bottle
cured them. Whenever Pe-ru-na
is used it speaks loudly for itself.’’
Dr. Hartman, the original com
pounder of Pe-ru-na, has a recent
book on chronic catarrh which will
bo sent free by The Pe-ru-na Drug
M’f’g Co., Columbus, O.
Ask your druggist for a free Pe
ru-na Almanac for 1898.
Situation Unchanged at Selma.
Selma, Ala., Oct. 28. —The fever
situation is unchanged. New cases
were reported at the meeting of
the health board this morning,
aud no cases are under treatment.
The thermometer stands at 76 at 1
p. m.
i All fear of an epidemic has
passed, but business is dormant.
Two freight trains are run to Bir
mingham junction every day., but
no passengers are allowed on
them. All ether trains are aban
doned.
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stantly adding new styles to our
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BAD AT NEW ORLEANS.
The Plague Flourishee, Aided by
the Warm Weather.
New Orleans, Oct., 28.—-Today’s
record of new cases and deaths has
not worked any material change
in the yellow fever situation, which
while not as bright as it might be,
is not regarded by the board of
health officials as alarming. In
the matter of fatalities the unfav
orable weather militates against
the patients, though, in compari
son with the esses under treatment
the death rate is not considered
excessive. The first reports re
ceived this morning at the board
of health indicated that the situa
tion was improving somewhat, but
later it appeared as though the
day would be a record breaker in
the matter of new cases. There
was a lull, however, and the situa
tion remains unchanged.
Everything is being done to iso
late the new cases. It is not
thought that the disease has been
spreading among children aged 4
to 14 years. The board of health
officials have more work than they
can attend to, and the disinfecting
corps cannot fumigate premises as
rapidly as is desired.
The girl who expressed so much
sympathy for the farmer because
of hir cold job of harvesting his
winter wheat, is equal in agricul
tural knowledge to the one that
expressed a desire to see a field of
tobacco when it was plugging out.
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The Fence Election.
GEORGIA, Chattooga county:
Chattooga Court of Ordinary
setting for county purposes, Octo
ber 22, 1897. It appearing to the
court that an election was ordered
by the undersigned on the sth day
of October 1897, to be held in the
940th district G. M. said county on
the 21st day of October, 1897, sub
mitting the question to the quali
fied voters of said district in ac
cordance with sections 1772, 1773
1774, 1775 and 1776 of the Code of
1895, volume one, of for fence, or
stock law; and the returns of said
election having been made to the
undresigned in terms of the law,
and after examination of the same
by the undersigned :<s required by
law, it is ordered and adjudged by
this court that said election resul
ted in favor of stock law, to take
effect in accordance with the above
recited sections of th 3 Code of
Georgia April 22, 1898. This Oc
-1 tober 22, 1897.
John Mattox, Ordinary.
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