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VOL XI
Obituary:
God in his Providence
has seen fit to visit our
church and take one of our
brightest jewels unto himself.
Sister Owings was born Jam 15
1848, and died Dec. 12 1898. She
was converted at 12 years of age,
and afterwards united with Pleas
ant Grove church”’ She was uni
ted to William Owings in marriage
Nov. 22nd 1866.
Jesus said: Igo to prepare a
place for you, and if I go and
preparj a place for you. I will
come again and receive you unto
myself, that where lam there ye
may be also. Death is the only
gate through which we can enter
into that home.
As it was God’s will to take un
to himself this good Christian just
when he did, though we are una
ble to see why she should have
been called away from the home,
and from our church, just at this
time, yet we know that it was for
the best for we are taught that
“all things work together for good
to them that love the Lord.” Let
us therefor with humble submis
sion bow and say “Thy will be
done.”
Sister Owings was a true Chris
tian and was highly respected by
all who knew her. As a neighbor
she was excelled by none. No
home so humble but she found
time to go and administer unto the
needs of the sick in the tenderest
most sympathetic and Christ-like
way.
How sad it is to see a mother
taken from her children, but we
know our Heavenly Father is full
of love and mercy, and will watch
over and protect them, and we
have the blessed assurance of be
ing united again. As a wife she
proved to be a helpmeet in the
truest sense of the word, more
than willing to do her part, and
encourage her husband in all of
his laudable undertakings. Sym
pathetic, affectionate as a mother
always ready to make sacrifices to
deny herself for the sake of her
children. The interest of her
children seemed to be the great
burden of her heart while she so
patiently bore her afflictions await
ing as she said for the Lord’s will
to be done, ready to go when the
summons came. In this state she
would tenderly call and caress her
children and request that they go
to the Sunday school, wanting
them to be instructed in the way
of truth and salvation. Then we
would say to the bereaved children
and broken hearted husband to
“weep not as those who have no
hope,” and strive to emulate the
worthy example of their dear
mother and companion, to endeav
or to make their peace calling and
election sure by trusting in the
Lord Jesus Christ, and then at the
last be found like her, waiting and
watching for the blessed Jesus.
Whereas it has pleased our
Heavenly Father to remove our
sister from our midst, be it resolv
ed that the community has lost a
good neighbor the home circle a
faithful wife and loving mother
the church a faithful servant.
Resolved 2nd.that a copy of
these resolutions be sent to the
Summerville News for publica
tion, and a copy be furnished the
family of our deceased sister, and
a page on our church book be ded
icated to her memory.
Mrs. Mary Wright, j
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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS.
GEN. WOOD
REPORTS
To the Senate Committee
on Foreign Affairs.
SANTIAGO AMERICANIZED.
He Gives an Estimate on the
Number of Men Necessary
to Enforce Order.
Washington, Jan. 21. —Gen.
Leonard Woed, military comman
der of the Department of Santi
ago, was before the senate com
mittee on military affairs today.
He gave a detailed account of his
operations in the province and in
the city of Santiago and aleo gave
his estimate of the military force
necessary to maintain order on
the islands. On the latter point
he expressed the epinion that the
7,000 men now in the province of
Santiago shovld be continued, but
that after a time 5,000 would be
sufficient for the service. He con
sidered, however, that a military
force would be necessary to the
maintenance of order for some
years and said it should be suffici
ent to effectually and quickly
check any trouble before it could
gain headway. This remark ap
plied to the island as a whole and
he thought as many as 50,000
troops should be sustained
throughout Cuba. With proper
precaution and tact he did not
anticipate trouble, and he believed
that the insurgent forces would
rapidly disintegrate in all parts of
the island. Santiago had been a
great stronghold of the Caban in
surgents under Garcia, but they
had now practically disbanded.
Outlining his mode of governing
the province, he said he had made
no appointments to office except
upon the recommendations of
Cubans and that he had in all
cases put them upon their honor
in making such recommendations.
He had shown absolute trust in
them in all matteis, going among
them always unarmed and leaving
the books of the administration
open always to their inspection.
He had Cubans in all departments
and his private secretary had at
one time been a member of Go
mez’s staff. Thue they always
knew how their money had been
expended and knew just what he
was doing as their governor. Gov.
Wood said that his first effort had
been to encourage the people of all
the towns to establish self-govern
ment and he had been especially
zealous in having them elect the
local officers, open schools, estab
lish courts, build roads, etc., and
in cases where they did not have
the money for these purposes be
had aided them by making contri
butions for the general fund. This
system was entirely different from
the old one under Spanish rule,
when all the collections were for
warded to Havana and never came
back, only 16 per cent, revenue
being devoted to local issues. He
bad found the people especially
jealous of their rights in this re
spect and the recent public meet
ings and protests against sending
their revenues to Havana, was due
to this feeling.
Gen. Wood spoke especially of
the establishment of schools and
the building of roads. He said he
bad 6,000 men making roads, and
that he was getting many schools
started. Replying to a question
from Senator Hawley he said the
people were anxious for the sepa
ration of church and state in edu
cational matters and that they
seemed to want to be like the
Americans in this as well as in
other respects. Speaking of San
tiago city, he said the collections
mainly of the customs have been
sufficient to pay all the expenses
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, JANUARY 25, 1899.
and leave a balance of $631,000
which he meant to devote to
cleaning .out the harbor. This
(harbor, he said, had an accumula
(tion of ten feet of filth and with
this removed he believed the city
would be as healthy as any Amer
ican city.
SENATOR CLAY’S AGE.
Year in Which He Was Born not
Stated in Congressional Di
rectory.
Washington, Jan. 21. —Does any
one know Senator Clay’s age? The
senator does not; or if he does, he
refuses to tell it, In tho congres
sional directors Mr. Clay’s biogra
phy appears as follows:
“Alexander Stephens Clay, of
Marietta, Cobb county, Georgia,
was born Sept. 25, , on a farm
in Cobb county,” etc.
It is evident that he knows the
day on which he came on earth,
but it does not appear that he
knows the year, if he does, he
has perhaps held it for a sufficient
reason.
Senator Clay is a young man—
very young, although he looks
much older than he really is. His
friends who knew him in Georgia
say his reason for declining to give
his age was perhaps that he was
not quite beyond the constitution
al age for senators —35 —when e
lected.
This, however, is merely a sur
mise.
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Tablets.
The present regular army costs
$24,342,231 each year, while the
regular army as provided in the
Hull reorganization bill will cost
$82,053,665. That is a mere trifle
however, compared to the sums
paid each year by the European
nations in supporting their armies
—lowa State Register.
The Deadly Grip.
Is again abroad in the land. The
air you breathe may be full of its
fatal germs! Don’t neglect the
“Grip” or you will open the door
to Pneumonia and Consumpti on
and invite death. Its sure signs
are chills with fever, headache,
dull heavy pains, mucous discharg
es from the nose, sore throat and
never-let-ge cough. Don’t waste
precious time treating this cough
with troches, tablets, or poor,
cheap syrups. Cure it at once with
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During tho last six months of
1898 seventy-six cotton factories
were either begun or projected in
the South as follows: Alabama 4,
Florida 1 20, Mississippi
1, North Carolina 24, South Caro
lina 22, Tennessee 3, and Virginia
1. The New Orleans Times-Demo
crat observes: “Aside from the
good results accruing to the South
from the establishment of new in
dustries, these cotton mills will
exert a good influence on the low
price of cotton, If the South uses
up most of its cotton in its own
mills, leaving less for export, the
price is likely to be better main
tained. The . establishment of
new cotton mills in the South is
one of the most sensible sugges
i tions of a remedy for the present
evils affecting cotton, and particu
larly the low prices of that staple.”
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FERTILIZER
SALES OFF.
Sales About Half What
They Were Last Year.
FOUR CENT COTTON
The Main Cause of This Slump
—A Decrease In Cotton
Acreage This Year,
Total fertilizer shipments this
season, 60,597 tons.
Total same date last season 122,-
000 tons.
These figures tell a tale of revo
lution in agriculture forced by the
streets of the times. Four cent
cotton has more power than all
the logic of all ths newspapers to
reduce the cotton acreage.
The sales later in the season are
expected to raise the proportion
somewhat, hut manufacturers do
not expect the trade to exceed
two-thirds of that es last year.
The sales of tags by the depart
ment of agriculture show that so
far the shipment of fertilizers in
Georgia this season are less than
half the tonnage that moved up to
this time time last season, and the
January shipments up to the 18th
are little mere than a third of last
year’s movement.
The fertilizer business has been
growing since the department
record began in the season of
1874-’a and with now and then a
check, consumpiion has gone up
ward with leaps and bounds.
The only marked exception to
this heretofore was in tho season
of 1894-’5, when it dropped one
third. Since then the sales have
steadily increased and tho season
of 1897-’8 showed the enormous
consumption of 424,081 tons.
The fertilizer season begins in
October and continues until May,
but the bulk of the shipments
move in January, February and
March. The shipments include
fertilizers of all kinds and cotton
seed meal used for fertilizing pur
poses.
The shipments of fertilizers in
the season of 1897-’Bup to January
18th, 1898, amounted to 103,500
tons. This season up to January
18th, they aggregate only 45,744
tons.
Cotton seed meal shipments in
the season of 1897-’8 up to Jan
uary 18th, were 18,500 tons. This
season, up to January 18, they aro
only 14,853 tons.
Says God Cured Her.
Fond du Lac, Wis., Jan. 21. —
Mrs. Lydia Platt, aged 40 years,
who has been suffering the last
twenty years with what physicians
agreed was an organic and incura
ble disea e of the spine, and who
has been confined to her bed the
last four years, arose Friday and
walked. Better still, she has been
walking ever since, and claims she
is absolutely free from all pain.
She attributes the woaderful cure
to God. Local physicians long
ago told her there was no earthly
hope for her, and the physicians
of the Preabyterian hospital of
Chicago told her, after she had
spent seven weeks there was to
await a slow death. She says she
prayed, conversed with God, and
asked Him for information. Fri
day she prayed longer than usual,
and was rewarded by a total dis
appearance of pain. She then
arose, dressed herself, and walked
' downstairs. Her housekeeper,
1 Katharina Hale, was so astounded
' that she fell in a faint. The next
j day, Mrs. Platt walked a distance
of twelve blocks without pain or
I fatigue. She says it was only
necessary to give her soul unre-
I servedly to God. Mrs. Platt is
j highly educated, and a member of
’the Presbyterian church.
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TWO NEGROES KILLED.
Mob Near Lynchburg Lynch Two
Bad Characters.
News reached Chattanooga yes
terday afterneon of a double
lynching at Lynchburg, Moore
county, eight miles inland from
Shelbyville, Tenn.
The victims were two young ne
groes about 18 years of age named
George Call and John Shaw. Each
man has an alias attached to his
name.
It appears that the negroes have
been bad characters for a number
of years, committing a number of
robberies and depredations in and
about Lynchburg. Recently they
robbed several houses in the com
munity and were whipped by
white caps. They failed to com
ply with tho admonitions of tho
white cappers and remained in
the county.
Night before last another homo
was broken open, and tho crime
traced to the negroes. A masked
mob secured a long rope an 1 went
to tho home of the negroes on
Tuesday night with tho intention
of lynching them both. They
pleaded for mercy, but were taken
to one of the most prominent cor
ners of the town and speedy ar
rangements were mads to hang
them. Tho rope was adjusted
about the nock of ono of the ne
groes, when he secured a knife
from his pocket and cut it. See
ing this act several of the mob
fired upon both negroes, killing
them instantly. Their bodies were
buried in ono coffin yesterday,
having been viewed by a coroner’s
inquest, which returned a verdict
that they had come to death as
the result of gunshot wounds in
flicted by parties unknown. Both
of the nogroes had been in the
penitentiary.—Times.
Farmers and Living.
The conditions of farmers is us
ualy taken as a test of the prosper
ity of the country. While the
Ledger is not much given to ad
vising farmers, it feels an interest
in them for this reason.
Reading from the weekly papers
we gather that the farmers of Ala
bama are more nearly out of debt
than ever before and in that way
are better off. They have less
money than for years, but they
have learned to do with less. Then
too, they have not been able to
go into debt and what they have
in their barns is their own.
All in all the farmers of Alaba
ma are better off, but they are
not doing as well as they could.
Tons of western beef and pork are
sold in the state every year. Thou
sands of chickens, turkeys and e
ven rabbits are imported from oth
er states, and until this is stopped
our farmers may know they are
not making all the money they
should.
I Another year will find them still
better off. Os course the farmers
who are already begging credit
from the merchants are not count
ed in this article and do not count
much anywhere.—Birmingham
Ledger.
A Western paper publishes the
following notice: “Lost or strade
from the scriber a sheep all over
white —one leg was black and half
his body—all persons shall receive
five dollars to bring him. He was
a she goat.”
No. 45
ENTOMOLOGY
BOARD
Holds an Important Busi
ness fleeting at Macon.
SAN JOSE SCALE DISCUSSED.
It Is Thought By Some That the
Law Enacted Recently Is
Unconstitutional.
Macon, Jan. 18.—The state
board of entomology wont into
session at noon in the parlors of
the Hotel Lanier. Hr addition to
thd board, composed of State Ag
ricultural Commissioner Stevens,
President Bookmans, of tlio State
Horticultural Society, and Presi
dent Popo Brown, of the State
Agricultural Society, some twenty
fruit men, representing the indus
try in the state, were present and,
by permission of the board, will
participate in the discussion on
the different points.
Mr. Beekmans, immediately af
ter the board went into session,
raised the point that under the
act of the legislature it would bo
very difficult for the board to op
erate. Ho said that in the opin
ion of good lawyers whom ho had
consulted the act was unconstitu
tional and that its provision in
terfered with the interstate com
merce. He said that the board
would have .to work as best it
might, but that it would find no
small amount of difficulty. He
appealed to Mr. J. M. Stubbs, of
Dublin, for confirnjn.ticu of what
he had to say. Mr. Stubbs said
that it was undoubtedly truo.
The discussion over that point
took up some time, but it is very
evident that the board has troubles
ahead of it. The board adjourned
at 1:30 until 3 o’clock this after
noon, when the discussion of the
various points will be taken up.
The principal work before the
board is to take some acticn on
the eradication of the San Jose
scale from tlio orchards of the
state. Fruit growers present ssy
that its ravages have been under
estimated and that the situation
is very serious, indeed.
IM ER VES must be fed on pure, rich
■■ blood. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the
best nerve tonic. By enriching the
blood it makes the nerves STRONG.
What Every Town Has.
Every town has a liar or two; a
smart Aleck; some pretty girls;
more loafers than it needs; a
woman or two that tattles: an
old fogy that the town would be
better off without; men who stand
on the street corners and make re
marks about the women; a man
who laughs an idotic laugh every
time he says anything; scores of
men with the caboose of their
trousers worn smooth as glass;
men who can tell you about how
the war question should be set
tled; the weather, and how to run
other people’s business, but who
have made a dismal failure of
their own.
Miss Alice Palmer, Wadley, Ga.,
writes: Have used Dr. M. A. Sim
mon’s Liver Medicine 20 years. It is
the best remedy for dyspepsia, Sick
Headache, sour stomach, Indigestion,
Billiousness and Constipation I hav
ever used. lu my opiaion it is much
better than the Medicine put up by
Zeilin, and Black Draught, which I
have used.