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VOL XI
THE BRIDGES CASE.
Will Probably be Tried at an Ear
ly Date.
Floyd Superior court convenes
the third Monday in January and
as this will be a regular term it
will probably last several weeks.
Among the important commer
cial cases that will be tried is
State vs. W. M. Bridges, Floyd’s
ex-county school commissioner.
Mr. Bridgss was tried ones and
convicted, but the Supreme court
reserved the lower court and was
tried a second time. This resulted
in a mistrial and now he will ap
pear before the court for a third
trial.
Spain’s Greatest Need.
Mr. R. P. Oliva of Barcelona,
Spain spends his winters at Aiken,
S. C. Weak nerves had caused
severe pains in the back of bis
head. On using Electric Bitters,
America’s greatest Blood and
Nerve Remedy, all pain soon left
him. He says thisgrand medicine
is what his country needs. All
America knows that it cures liver
and kidney trouble, purifies the
blood, tones up the stomach,
strengthens the nerves, puts vim,
vigor and new life into every mus
cle, nerve and organ in the body.
If weak, tired or ailing you need
it. Every bottle guaranteed, only
50 cents. Sold by Arrington Drug
Co.
The A. K. & N. Railroad officials
offer SI,OOO reward for proof to
convict the party who turned the
switch at Knoxville which caused
a wreck and the death of Engineer
Wilson.
If Irritable, Out of Sorts, Depressed
n Spirits, have a Dull Headache, take
a few doses Dr. M. A. Sim mi ns Liver
Medicine for quick relief.
Dr. R. A. Moseley, of Birming
ham, has receivf d his appointment
as consul genei al to Singapore.
Hood's Pills cure nausea, sic kheda
rche, biliousness and all liver ills.
Price 25 cents.
A former master of Ely work
house, in England has just been
admitted as a pauper inmate to
the institution over which he for
merly presided. Such an incident
is said to be without precedent
although Dickens anticipated it in
Oliver Twist in the fate which he
provided for Mr. Bumble.
If Gloomy and Nervous, and looking
on the dark side of things, take a few
doses of Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver
Medicine and the gloom will disappear.
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.
The Best Salve in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Sal-
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tettet
Chapped Hands, Chilbins, Cornr
and all Skin Eruptions, and posi
tively cures Piles or no pay re
quired It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money re
funded Price 25 centsper bottle.
For sale by H. H. Arrington
These are Facts.
The average passenger wants the
shortest, quickest and cheapest
route. If you Contemplate a trip to
Arkansas, Texas or Indian Territo
ry, and wil kindly drop me a line
stating your destination, when
you wish to leave, and how many
there will be in your party, I
will take pleasure in naming yon
the very lowest rates also call on
you in person and explain the ad
vantages of my line.
Your best route is via Memphis
and the Iron Mountain, it is the
only line that runs through cars
by Little Rock, or Texarkana,
Longview, Marshall, Mineola,
Big Sandy, Dallas and Ft. Worth
without change. Elegant vesti
buled chair carson all trains.
Descriptive matter furnished
in any State free upon applica
tion.
Address
I. E. Relander,
Traveling Passenger Agent
108 Read House, Chattanooga,
Tenn.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS.
NEWS NOTES
FROM GEORGIA
Items of Interest Gather
ed From Our Exchanges.
PANORAMA OF PROGRESS.
The Oldest Edition—The Best
Paper—The Convict Hire
And Other Items.
Tom Watson declares he is out
of politics.
Os the state convicts 938 are
mariied man and 1,290 single.
Dr. J. C- Avary will retire from
the Atlanta board of health.
Editor W. W. Wilson, of the Bu
ford Plow Boy, has been elected
mayor of his town.
The Marietta Journal has enter
ed upon its 32d year. It is one of
the best weeklies in the state.
Georgia will receive a clear gain
of $153,420 per annum for hiring
out her convicts when the new
lease gets into effect.
Congressman Brantley has 5,000
packages of garden seed for distri
bution among the people of the
Eleventh district.
The acts of the session of the
Georgia legislature of 1898 are now
in press and will be on sale in a
few days. It is a book es 324 pages.
A Lowndes county man has
made SBOO from a twenty acre
grass patch. Many a Georgia far
mer has lost more than that on a
larger cotten field.
The Cartersville Baptist church
at a conference held recently, vo
ted to call as pastor Rev. Alex W.
Bealer, pastor of the Fifth Baptist
church of Atlanta.
Editor C. F. Douglas, who has
edited the Thomaston Times for
the past four years, has gone to
Douglasville, where he will take
editorial charge of the New South.
The oldest country editor in
Georgia is John Bartow Gilbert, of
the Stewart County Hopper. He
has passed his three score and ten
and is still doing excellent work.
Mr. Scott, state entomologist of
Georgia, will soon begin a war of
extermiuatien on the San Jose
scale, which threatens to destroy
the vast peach orchards of Georgia.
The picture of General Toombs,
which has been hanging on the wall
in the rotunda of the state capitol
has been moved to the hall just in
front of the public library. It
takes the place formerly occupied
by the picture of Governor John
son, the latter having been moved
to the library door.
The town of Washington and
the Mary Willis library have each
received $5,000 from the executor
of the lamented Francis T. Willis.
These are half of the legacies left
by the noble benefactor. The oth
er half will be received later.
To subdue Nervous Irritability,
Neuralgia, Hysteria, St. Vitus’ Dance,
use Simmons Squaw Vine Wine or
Tablets.
“One day Billy and Sammy was
playin’ by a mudhole, and Billy he
said: ‘Now, Sammy, le’s play we
was a barnyard; you be the pig,
and lie dewn and waller, and I’ll
be a bull, and beller like every
thing.’ So they got down on their
hands and knees, and Sammy be
got in the mud and wollered, while
Billy bellered like distant thun
der. Bimeby Sammy he cum out
muddy you never seen such a mud
dy little feller —and he said: ‘Now
you be the pig and let me beller.’
But Billy said: ‘I ain’t a very
good pig ’fore dinner, and ittle be
time ’nuf for you to beller when
yer mother sees yer close.”
For Overworked girls and Feeble
women, Simmons Squaw Vine Wine
or Tablets are nature’s greatest boon.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, JANUARY 18, 1899.
TROUBLE IN PHILIPPINES.
Rumor That an Unfriendly Power
Is Backing Aguinaldo.
Washington, Jan. 10.—(Special)
—lt developed today that McKin
ley is well satisfied that some for
eign power is behind the defiant
attitude of Aguinaldo. It is said
that information in the possession
of the administration is definite
enough to indicate that Aguinaldo
is getting substantial assistance
from an unfriendly power. Every
body has pretty strong suspicion
as to which nation is meant, but
the officials are not giving vent to
opinions of that character. The
latest suggestion in regard to the
strengthening of Dewey’s fleet con
templat ;s the dispatch of the De
troit, Montgomery and Marble
head to Manila. The department
will ask Dewey if he wants them.
Two dispatches were received from
Otis today, but no advices from
Ilioilo was included. New instruct
ions were sent Otis.
“Don’t Disturb My Bones.”
Chattanooga, Jan. 10. —A mys
terious voice has been heard to is
sue from the foot of a high preci
pice of Lookout mountain near
Attalla, Ala., and a few nights ago
a party out hunting tried to en
large a hole where their dogs had
located something and at the sec
ond lick heard a voice suy in start
ling tones, “For God’s sake boys,
don’t disturb my bones.”
The men were at first mystified
and dazed and doubting their ears
renewed their efforts with ths drill,
whereupon the voice repeated the
warning more audibly and threat
eningly than before. Terrorized
by the second warning, so distinct
ly heard, the men threw down
their drill and ran home, where
they related their terrifying ex
perience. The report spread ra
pidly, but was not believed until
yesterday when a party of men
went up to investigate. They soon
returned thoroughly convinced,
they themselves having heard a
strange voice seeming to come
from the hole in the rock.
All day long great crowds from
Attalla and surrounding country
thronged to the place until by
night hundreds had visited the
scene of the mystery. Many theo
ries have been advanced as to the
origin of the sepulchral-like voice
but it still remains a deep mys
tery.
His Life Was Saved.
Mr. J. E. Lilly, a prominent
citizen of Hannibal, Mo., lately
had a wonderful deliverance from
a frightful death. In telling of i
he says: “I was taken with Tyt
phoid Fever, that ran into Pneu
monia. My lungs became harden
ed. I was so weak I couldn’t sit
up in bed. Nothing helped me.
I expected to soon die of Consump
tion, when I heard of Dr. King’s
New Discovery. One bottle gave
me great relief. I continued to
use it, and now I am well and
strong, I can’t say 100 much in its
praise.” This marvelous medicine
is the surest and quickest cure in
the world for all Throat and Lung
Trouble, .Regular sizes 50 cents and
SI.OO. Trial bottle free at Arring
ton Drug Co., every bottle guaran
teed.
A new post office was establish
ed in a small village out west, and
a native of the soil was appointed
postmaster. After a while com
plaints were made that no mail
was sent out from the new office,
and an inspector was sent to in
quire into the matter. He called
upon the postmaster, and stating
the cause of hie visit, asked why
no mail had been sent out. The
postmaster pointed to a big nearly
empty mail-bag hanging up in a
; corner, and said : “Well, 1 ain’t
sent it out yet ’cause the bag ain’t
I nowhere nigh full yeti”—Harper’s
I Bazaar.
NO WINTER
EXAMINATION.
For Teachers This Year--
Will Wait Until
Next Summer.
GLENN’S ANNOUNCEMENT
Will Please the Country School
Teachers Especially—Pres
ent License Good
Till Spring.
State School Commissioner
Glenn will not have any winter ex
amination of applicants for license
to teach in the public schools.
The last examination was held
in June, 1898, and since no license
is granted for a period of less than
one year, none of the licenses gran
ted can expire before June of this
year. Commissioner Glenn has a
bandoned the plan of holding win
ter examinations, for the reason
that in many sections of the state
comfortable quarters of sufficient
size to accommodate the applicants
cannot be secured, and for the
further reason that in many of the
rural counties applicants for li
cense would have to take long
rides over bad roads in rough
weather in order to touch the point
at which examinations would be
held.
It is necessary, in the nature of
the case, that the examination
should be completed in one day,
and owing to the shortuess of the
winter days many of the applicants
would have to travel considerable
distances and would be placedata
disadvantage as a result of the
hurry which would be necessitated
by the shortness of the time which
they could spend in the examina
tion loom.
Since the lowest grade of license
granted is good for a period of one
year the annual summer examina
tion makes ample provision for ev
ery applicant to undergo the nec
essary examination in order to se
cure a license to teach.
In cases cf special emergency,
the law provides that the local
school authorities of any county
may give a special examination
upon which a license good only
until the next examination may
be issued.
Nerves must be fed on pure, rich
blood. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the
best nerve tonic. By enriching the
blood it makes the nerves STRONG.
Where “Grip” Started.
Washington, Jan. 17. —The ob
servations made by the Marine
hospital service and the reports
received by Surgeon-General Wy
man show that the prevailing in
fluenza ®r grip, which is epidemic
in many cities and towns through
out the east and south, started in
Turkey and Asia Minor about the
middle of November, and spread
westward, following the establish
ed lines of transatlantic travel.
In response to a request sent out
two weeks ago by the Marine hos
pital service, the surgeon-general
has received reports from health
officers in about thirty cities re
garding the extent to which the
grip has spread among the popula
tion. The reports describe a ser
ious situation in some places, the
sickness being as severe and exten
sive as it was during the general
epidemic in 1889-90. In some ci
ties the authorities regard the dis
ease as contagious and have taken
public precautions accordingly.
Miss Alice Palmer, Wadley, Ga.,
writes: Have used Dr. M. A. Sim-
Liver Medicine 20 years. It is
| the best re yspepsia, Sick
Headache, sour stomach, Indigestion,
; Billiousness and Constipation I have
ever u- ed. In my opiaion it is much
I belter than the Medicine put up by
Zeilin, and Black Draught, which I
' have used.
RpXU KSS
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
MILL CONTRACT SIGNED.
Atlanta Firm Will Build Aragon
Cotton Mill at Rockmart in
Polk County.
The Aragon Cotton Mill, which
is to be erected near Rockmart,
Ga., will be bsilt by William Ben
sei & Co, of Atlanta, to whom the
contract was awarded last week.
The mill will cost about $400,000,
and will employ 600 bands.
The mill will be located on prop
erty formerly owned by Colonel J.
L. Waddell who recently sold it to
tho New York Cotton company.
The company proposes to make
this one of the largest Brills in the
south. Work will be begun at onoe
and the building will be hurried to
comp letion.
t To relieve Mental Worry, cure Do
pondency and give Refreshing S locos
use Simmons Squaw Vine Win e
Tablets. ,
May Carve Up Persia.
London, Jan. 17.—Some concern
is manifested in the foreign office
at the recrudescence of Russian
activity in Persia and it is evident
that trouble is expected in that
connection. For years past the
Russian and British ministers have
been ceaselessly intriguing at Te
heran. The old Shah used toplay
the Sultan of Turkey’s game of
setting the entire diplomatic corps
by the ears, but the present occu
pant of the throne lacks the nerve
to resist the alternate menaces vud
cajoleries of the Russians, with
the result that the Shah’s sover
eignty in the provinces adjoining
Russia is now little more than
nominal.
Russia’s latest move is tho de
mand of a concession to build a
railroad right across Persia from
tho Russian frontier to tho Indian
cean, which, in British opinion,
would be only a prelude to the an
nexation of Eastern Persia. This,
if the traditional policy of this
country is maintained, would be
resisted by force of arms. Tho
immediate fear of the foreign of
fice is that if the Shah, at Eng
land’s bidding, should pluck up
courage and refuse the railroad
concession, Russia will find a pre
text for a declaration of war n
gaiust Persia which would sot the
entire East ablaze. The only al
ternative in view at present is an
Anglo-Russian compact for tho
partition of I’ersia and there is
some reason to believe that an in
direct proposal to that effect has
actually been made by the British
government recently.
Tho main objection to such a
solution of the difficulty is that a
Russian outlet to the Indian ocean
means the establishment of Rus
sian ports on England’s main road
to India, which is utterly opposed
to the British foreign policy of two
generations. One thing is certain
and that is that if Russia cares to
force the pace which she seems
| disposed to do, the days of Persia
as an independent power are num
bered.
It is evident that Lord Salisbury
had Persia in his mind when he
made his famous speech last au
. tumn about “decaying monarch
ies” although nobody gave the mat
ter any thought at the time.
Learn to say “bo” when a dealer
offers you something “just as good”
in place of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. There
can be no substitute for America’s
Greatest Medicine.
No. 44
RAILROAD
CHARTERED
Chattanooga Rapid Tran=
sit Co., Will Build To
The Coal Fields.
GEORGIA AND TENNESSEE
Capitalists Will Build The New
Line Which Means Much For
the Development Os Wal
ker County.
The Chattanooga Rapid Transit
Company was granted a charter
last week by Secretary of State
Cook and work on the now road
will be commenced at once.
Tho company is organized by
Georgia and Tennessee capitalists,
and the capital stock is $125,000,
which it is said will be increased
to a half million as soon as the a
mouut is needed.
The granting of the charter will
mark a now ora for Walker county
and the mining interests in that
part of tho state. The road, which
will be operated for freight, will
also be used as a pleasure resort
line and will run through the mil
itary park at Chickamauga, the
Georgia end of the road being at
Rossville.
The primary object of tho road
is to make accessible the mining
districts in the north western part
of the state. Heretofore, in order
to reach Walker county and the
Dade coal mines, it has been nec
essary to go quite a long distance
out of the way, costing much more
in transportation and causing a
considerable loss of time.
Morning Sickness, or Nausea from
Pregnancy,dispelled by s n n
Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets.
The Negro Driven Out.
St. Louis, Jan. 10.—(Special.)
—For half a century Calhoun
county, Illinois, has not had a bank
or negro withiu its doors. Recent
ly it was decided to establish a
bank at Hardin, the county seat.
The contract for the building was
let to an Alton firm. Among tho
employes they took with them to
Hardin was Samuel Washing
ton, a negro. As soon as ho ap
peared on tho streets Sam was or
dered to leave the place on pain of
death. Saturday evening a mob
arrived with clubs and, provided
with ropes, started out determined
to lynch Washington. The nogro
fled, pursued by the mob until tho
Illinois river was reached. With
out hesitation he plunged into the
stream and swam to the other
shore. The mob stood on the
bank howling and cursing as they
saw their intended prey escape.
Washington walked all night in
his frozen clothes arriving at his
home in Alton Sunday night al
most dead.
Manila, Jan. 10 —(Special) -At
the instance of Aguinaldo impor
tant conferences was held last eve
ning by the commissioners appoin
ted by himself and Otis. Aguin
aldo’s representatives were Gen.
Flores, Col. Aquillss and benor
| Tores. The Americans were Gen.
Hughes, Col. Smith and Lieut.-Col
onel Crowder. The commission
met for the purpose of arriving at
an understanding of the ioient,
aim and desires of the Filippinos
and the Americans, and them was
a frank discussion.