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County News. VOL. IV. TEACHERS TO WAIT Georgia State Treasnrer Refuses to Honor School Warrants. MATTER COES TO THE COURTS Friendly Test Case to Be Made By State Officials of a Long Standing Contention. Georgia’s state treasurer, Mr. Park, refuses to use the public property fund for the purpose of paying the school teachers of the state and tiding over the deficiency in the deficiency in the treasury, and Governor Candler asserts that the teachers shall be paid, and that he will endeavor to make the state treasurer pay them as soon as it is possible to do so. Treasurer Park made the announce¬ ment Friday afternoon that he would refuse to honor the school warrants by borrowing from the public property fund, and immediately preparations were made looking to bringing man¬ damus proceedings against him, and suit will be filed before Judge Lump¬ kin in the superior court of i'ulton county. The matter will, of course, go to the supreme court which ever way it is decided. In any event it will be six or seven weeks before the public school teachers of Georgia get their money. The supreme court cannot assign the case for hearing before May 20th, and it will be at least a week or ten days before a decision can be secured from that body. and This means that the merchants the boarding house keepers and others to whom the nearly 9,000 teachers in Georgia are indebted, will have to wait that much longer for their money. Treasurer Park says he did not finally decide what be would do until t o’clock Friday afternoon. In the Meantime the warrants for the school teachers, amounting to $247,000, were waiting in the office of the comptroller general. Comptroller General Wright had declined to countersign them, as he is required by law to do, until he had been advised of what the treasurer would do, Kuowing that the situation was waiting on his decision, Treasurer Park took steps to determine what he would do. At the dinner hour Friday he went to meet Washington Dessau, of Macon, who had already given an opinion contrary to that of the attor¬ ney general, and with him he had a final consultation. Upon his return to the capitol Treas¬ urer Park called on the comptroller aud asked him what he intended to do about the warrants. “If you are going to refuse to pay them,” said the comptroller general, “it will only be necessary for me to countersign one. That is enough for a test case.” “But I would not refuse to pay one of them,” the treasurer replied. “I have about $77,000 in the treasury which I cau use for that purpose, and I would not refuse to pay them until that is paid oat.” The comptroller general said he' could not decide that point. He did not know whether the governor would care to pay a few of them and leave others unpaid. Treasurer Fark said he would see the governor, and he did. “I have determined to pay them all or none,” was the decision the treas urer got from the governor. “Then I shall pay none of them,” was the conclusion the treasurer reached. Governor Candler stated that he did not intend to select any of them for payment at this time; when one was paid all mast be paid. This decision was reported to the comptroller gen eral and he declined to countersign a portion of the warrants. Thus the matter will go directly into the courts, Heavy Snow at Knoxville. The heaviest snow of the year be gan falling in th^ vicinity of Knox ville, Tenn., Friday night about 6 o’clock. It is the first time in years that snow has fallen this late in April, The change in the weather from a spring to a winter day was very sud den. OLD VESUVIUS STARTS UP. Long Silent Volcano Again Begins Ac - tire Pyrotechnic Business.. A New York World dispatch from Paris says: Mount Vesuvius is again in a state of active eruption and many people, , scientists, students and the serious, including American tourists, are leav ing Paris by every train for Naples. The first signs of disturbance were observed a week ago, when for three days columns of smoke issuing rapid¬ ly from the crater in great volume towered high above tbe volcano. Then came occasional rains of the cinders, sometimes sprinkling the country for several miles around. Now lava is to run. JESUP. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, APRIL 26. 1901. BANK OFFICIALS SUICIDE. Defaulting President and Cashiei End Their Fliserable Exist¬ ence Together. Charles Brown and E. L. Canby, president and cashier respectively of the First National bank of Vancouver, Washington, which was closed Satur¬ day by the comptroller of the curren¬ cy, committed suicide Saturday night two miles from the city, by shooting themselves with a revolver. Their bodies were found Sunday morning lying together in a small clump of bushes about one-half mile north of the Columbia school, which is situated on the outskirts of the town. They both used the same weapon, and Canby evidently died first, as the revolver was in Brown’s hand. It is evident that Canby put the muzzle of the revolver in his mouth aud blew the top of his head off. Brown then took it and shot himself in exactly the same way, falling over Canby’s body. The fact that Brown’s bicyole and an umbrella belonging to Canby were found a short distance out of town led to the belief that the two bank of¬ ficials had taken their lives. Early Sunday morning a searching party started out aud alter several hours’ hunt the bodies were found. Friday evening, Canby, upon being told by Bank Examiner Maxwell that the bank would not be permitted to open Saturday, went out in the yard behind the bauk and attempted to shoot himself. His revolver failed to explode, although all five chambers were loaded. After failing to shoot himself Canby went back into the bank and he and President Brown left together, the latter taking his re¬ volver. When Examiner Maxwell confronted the bank officials with the shortage of $81,000, which he pad discovered, both men admitted their guilt. It i admitted that Brown and Canby had been speculating in stocks. Beside Brown’s body there was found a pack¬ age containing $25 and a note Baying that the money belonged to his daugh¬ ter. Upon Canby’s body the following brief nofe was found: “My Dear Wife—I feel what I am about to do is for the best. Forgive me if you can and try to live for our dear children, God bless you all. Good-bye. Maxwell, Ned.” While Bank Examiner who is now in charge as receiver, has made no official statement, it is known that the bank has loaned a large sum of money on insufficient security. Ac¬ cording to his report to the comptroll¬ er of the currency there is a shortage of $81,000 in the bauk’s accounts aud it is understood that a considerable portion of this was loaned to Brown and Canby on their personal notes. About a year ago the bank reduced its capital stock from $100,000 to $50, 000. At that time about one-half of the so-called bad assets was “charged off.” KICHARDS MAKES REPLY. Declare* That Carter Hr* Made Many False Statements In Flea. j j A General Washington Richards special filed says: in the Solici- Uuit tor ed States supreme court Saturday a reply to the motion made by the coun set of Captain Carter, to strike from the files of the court as “irrelevant and scandalous” the solicitor general’s brief in opposition to Carter’s motion to be admitted to bail pending the de cision of his appeal in his habeas cor pns proceedings. that he went Mr. Richards denies outside the record iu the case, aud as serts that he always tries to observe strictly the rules of the court requir ing counsel to confine himself to the facts of record in the discussion of a case. He sets forth that Carter’s ap plication for bail is supported by af fidavits of physicians to the effect that the prisoner’s health is impaired, and this, Mr. Richards says, is not only entirely outside the record, but is false. Mr. Richards slso says that Carter’s counsel went outside the recoid in tbe appeal case in averring that Carter is an innocent man and wants to be re leased in order to be tried in the crim inal case in Georgia. He adds that to demonstrate the falsity of this last j statement it was necessary for the so licitor general to state what the gov eminent has done in prosecuting the indictment against Carter and others in the federal courts of Georgia. UNITED STATES JUSTIFIED. Decision in Russian Susar Case Announc¬ ed By Classification Board. The board of ci vssification of the Urited States general appraisers at . j New Y'ork announced a decision in the Ru88ian BQgar cage -Friday. The hoard, by a majority vote, holds that j the United States government was jn J s t;g e< j in imposing a countervailing dut Qn Kngsian j Boers Ambush Britishers. j Lord Kitchener, in a dispatch from j Pretoria under date of Thursday,says: j Ninth “I regret Lancers to report have that been a party ambushed of the and Lieutenant A. McDonald and wounded.” CROP NOT AFFECTED Cotton Killed By Cold Wave Will Soon Be Replanted. TEXAS ONLY STATE TO ESCAPE Some Localities Report a Scarcity of Seed For Replanting—Out¬ look Not Discouraging. The Atlanta Constitution in its is¬ sue of Tuesday morning says: It may safely be said that the recent cold snap, though of unusual severity for this season of the year, will not mate¬ rially affect the cotton crop one way or the other so far as results are con cerned. Severe cold, even after a good por¬ tion of the crop is above ground; may mean moro work for the farmers, but it does not mean a reduction of the size of the cotton crop. This is a les¬ son that history teaches. In May,1898, nearly a mouth later in the year than the cold spell just pass¬ ed, the temperature went ju3t as low as on this occasion, but the cold spell was of shorter duration, However, the cotton had advanced considerably further than is the case in April, and far more damage was done. Notwithstanding this, the cotton crop of 1898 was the largest in the history of the south—11,200,000 bales. So far as the ultimate results are concerned, therefore, it may be said that this year’s late cold snap, though it may have damaged aud destroyed considerable sproutting cotton, will not materially affect the result. The chances are that as much, if not more, cotton than was destroyed will imme¬ diately be replanted. possibly The only difficulty that can intervene this year might be the scarcity of cotton seed, but it is not believed there will be any material trouble on that score, though in some sections the farmers are quite appre¬ hensive. Reports received Monday night from all of the cotton growing states, and the indications from these are that the young cotton has in many instances been killed by the cold. In some sec¬ tions, however, the damage was slight and replanting will not be necessary. The reports from Georgia show that considerable young cotton has been damaged or killed in the southern part of the state where that planted early was above the ground. The majority of the crop, however, is not yet above the ground, so it will be seen the dam¬ age will be comparatively small. Cot¬ ton planting has been generally late this spring, and the damage is far less than it would have been had more of the seed been put in the ground. Some damage has been reported from Alabama, but as a whole it is slight, because, as in Georgia, so little of the crop is yet above ground. In Alabama it is said about one-third of the crop has been planted, and only about one-third of that is above ground. Thus in that state only a part of one-ninth of the young crop will need to be replanted. Advices from Tennessee state that the cold snap will affect early planting and in a few instances will necessitate replanting; but it is stated that it is too eariy to say that the crop has been materially damaged. Mississippi reports somewhat more serious damage to the young crop than the other states. Much of the youug cotton there has been killed out, while the ground has been so cold as to prevent proper germination. Consequently much of the seed put into the grounl is not yet up. Texas, the greatest of all the cotton planting states, reports no damage to the crop. Heavy rains early in the season prevented early planting; con¬ sequently there was little or no cotton up when the cold snap came along. Reports from that state indicate that very little if any replanting will be necessary. holds true of The same practically planting in Arkansas as of Texas. The that state was late and the cold did little or no damage. FBUIT LITTLE DAMAGED. Reports from all of the fruit grow¬ ing sections of Georgia, indicate that the recent cold snap has not material¬ ly damaged the fruit crop. The greatest interest is felt in Geor¬ gia peaches, a crop that is worth some¬ thing like a million dollars or more annually, but np to the present time the almost universal verdict is that they are practically unhurt. Some scattering reports indicate that there has been damage they to |he fruit in a few sections but may grow out of the fears that the unusual cold weather naturally created. State Entomologist W. M. Scott is of the opinion that it will be several days yet before it can be told what the exact effect on the fruit crop will be. It will take the warm sunshine of a day or two, he says, to develop just what damage the cold did to th%grow ing fruit. FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST. The stiltau has appointed a commis¬ sion of ministers to devise measures to counteract the agitation of tlic party of Young Turkey, whose members aro again active. Nine different languages and dia¬ lects are used in the text of the new Austrian bauk notes which are design¬ ed by Alender Hedegues, the eminent Hungarian artist. Iu 1864 Great Britain possessed only 551 journals, of which 14 were issued daily. Now there are no fewer than 2,448 newspapers aud 2,446 mag¬ azines, making 4,894 in all. The famous observatory on the Wee berg, near Gotha, once the scene of the labors of the famous astronomers, Euckel, Zach and Lindeuau, was de¬ stroyed by fire recently. It is contemplated to issue a new coin from the French mint of the value of two and a half centimes, It would be principally for the use of very poor persons, who would be able thereby to buy the equivalent of a farthings worth. Fools Are Not All Dead. Among the public servants who are worried by foolish questions the su¬ perintendent of mails iu the postoffice gets his full share. One of his visitors last week was a man who said to the deputy who answered the call at the window: “I am going out of town today aud want to get a letter to my brother, who is on board the Majestic, aud she is not due until Wednesday. I don’t know where be will stay in New York or where he will go from here. Can you help me?” “Certainly we can,” said the clerk “A mailboat goes to meet the steamer, and if you address your letter properly and put domestic postage on it it will be delivered all right.” “But how shall I address it—where shall I send it?” “Address it ‘John Smith, passenger on board incoming steamer Majestic, due in New York December 12.’ That will reach him.” “No city? No nothing?” you.” “That’s all—just as I told The man thanked the clerk and went away, and came back a little later with an addressod letter in his baud. “Say,” he said to the clerk, “about tl^it letter. I’ve addressed it and stamped it all right, but the mail’s name isn’t John Smith. How about that?”—New York Tribune. UNPARDONABLE. “No, I never shall forgive him.” said eld Mr. Sllmington, referring to the young man with whom one of his daughters had eloped. ‘‘The die Is cast!" “But,” said the friend who bad gone to intercede in behalf of the lovers, "you must admit that his character is good, that he stands high in busi¬ ness circles, and that his habits are excellent. Most men would be proud to have such a son-in-law.” “I admit all that. Still, I shall never forgive him.” "Why not?” “Because he took the youngest and prettiest one in the bunch. Why did not he run off with one of her older sisters, confound him!” — Chicago Times-Herald. AN EASY MATTER. "The reason some men don’t get along happily,” said Mr. Meekton, "Is that they don’t know how to manage a wife." “You know this?” was the skeptical query. thing “Certainly. It is the simplest in the world. All you have to do is to say ‘yes’ whenever she wants any¬ thing and always let her have her own way.”—Washington Star. NOT HER WAY. "I suppose th’at woman orator spoke her mind freely on the subject?” "Not much. She demanded half of her $50 in advance before she went on the platform.”—Philadelphia Bul¬ letin. Slemiiiid lor More Battleships* When the Secretary of tho Navy recently demanded more battleships, Congress favorably, con and " sidered his recommendations several authorized the construction of power¬ ful warships. Protection is what our sea ports require, and fortifications will not ade¬ quately supply this. Defense against all dis¬ orders of tne digestive organs, such as dyspep¬ sia, constipation, biliousness, rheumatism and nervousness, is adequately afforded by that efficient remedy, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. Try it. Don’t worry. A gnat of trouble may evolute into a camel of calamity or an ele piianl. of woe. _ _ Each package of Putoam Fadeless Dye colors more gopds than any other "dye and colors them better too. Sold by all druggist*. The British Government will be asked for $45,000,000 to-start the construction of thirty-three new war vessels. The man who writes the prettiest love letters seldom makes the best husband, _ A Month’s Test Free. Racine, If yon Wia.. have Box'148, Rheumatism, for six write bottles Dr. Shoop, of his Rheumatic Cnre, exp. paid, fiend no money. Pay $5.50 if cored. Visitors to Mount Vernon, the home of the Father of'His Country, have tbe choice of two steaahaaU routes* from ^Washington—electric car.or .—a Plant System. PASSENGER SCHEDULES. Arrivals and Departures at Jesup, Ga. Departures. in Effect Mar. 20, 1901. For Savannah and points North, East and From Savannah and points North, Northeast. and Northeast. Train No. 24 Leaves . 6 45 a m Train No. 23 Arrives , 3 47 a m “ •• 38 “ . 3 40 p m if 53 . 6 27 am ft 32 if , 11 25 a m 35 if . 9 10 am ft ill 3 05 p m i f 31 ft 11 40 a m[ . 3fi if 10 45 p in " 37 . 12 15 pm if f f 78 C f 11 4U p m 33 If 4 40 p m Waycross and points South, West, 7 25 ft 6 50 p m For West, Southwest and Northwest. From Waycross and points South, Train No. 2S Leaves . 3 47 a m Southwest and Northwest. “ 53 0 27 a m Train No. 24 Arrives....... 6 45 a m i f 11 35 9 10 a m “ 38 3 40 p m i i “ 81 11 4u a m “ 32 if 11 25 a m f f “ 37 12 15 p m “ 30 f C 3 05 p in “ 33 f f 4 40 p m f “ 36 if 10 45 p m f f “ 25 f f 6 50 p m “ 78 11 40 p m “ 15 4 30 p m For Jacksonville and points South. From Jacksonville and points South. Train No. 13 Leaves 5 30 a m Train No. 16 Arrives 4 09 p m Solid train Cincinnati to Jacksonville. Solid train Jacksonville to Cincinnati. Trains 24, 36, 78, 32,23, 13, 53, 35, 33 and 25 are daily. Trains 15, 37, 31 are daily ex, cept Mondays. Trains 30, 38 and 16 are daily except Sundays. Peninsular and Occi¬ Connection made at Port Tampa with I . S. Mail Steamship of dental Steamship Line for Key West and Havana, leaving Port Tampa Tuesdays, days and Sundays at 6 30 a. m. through trains making local stops, and sched¬ For further Information, car service, ules to other points, apply to Station, A. W. STRIPLING, Ticket Agent, Passenger J. H. POl.KEMUS, Traveling Pass. Agent. B. W. WllENN, Passenger Traffic Manager, Savannah, Ga. Illustrated playing cards can be secured at 25 cents per deck upon application to agents of the Plant System. WHOLE FAMILY SLAIN. Path cr ami Five Children Horribly Butchered By Two Tramps. A cable dispatch from Chartres, France says: This community has shocked by the brutal murder of five children and their father, a farmer named Briere, residing in the neigh¬ borhood of Chartres. Two tramps entered the farm house Sunday night and killed four girls, aged respectively 14, 11, 5 and 4, and a boy 7 years old, with knives and cudgels, while they were in bed and apparently asleep. Briere returned while the murderers were robbing the house. They heard him cuter the court yard, attacked him aud after a desperate struggle left him dead with four wounds iu the head. The murderers then escaped with 1,600 francs and a number of objects of value. AGUINALDO IN NEW QUARTERS. Captive Filipino Leader is Transferred to a Privato Kesldence. A Manila dispatch says : Aguinaldo has been removed from the Malacan ang Palace to a private residence, No. 56 Solano street. The guard placed over him has been modified. General MacArthur informed the representative of the Associated Press that the effect of Aguinaldo’s address to the Filipinos would undoubtedly be beneficial. Aguinaldo composed his address without assistance. The original was in Tagalog. It was afterwards trans¬ lated into Spanish. JUDGE INSTRUCTS JURY. Testimony In tlie Ripley Case at Frunk fort Is Summed Up. At Frankfort, Ky., Thursday, Judge Cantrill delivered his instructions to the jury in the case of Captain Gar¬ nett Ripley, the Goebel assassination suspect, and argument of the case was begun. The instructions are practically the same as those given in the case of Caleb Powers. The first holds that the defendant must be found guilty if the charge that Ripley conspired with Taylor and others to procure Goebel’s death, as alleged, has been proven to the satisfaction of the jury. BOERS CAPTURE SUPPLIES. I'hey Swoop Down Upon a Train Load of Cattle and Coal. Advices from Cape Colony state that a train loaded with cattle and coal was captured by the Boers near Molteno Friday evening. The locomotive es¬ caped and ran to Stormburg and re¬ turned with troops, who found the train on fire’. A couple of natives were killed. The train hands had been stripped and then released. Charged With Embezzlement. A. J. Schrotz, a boookkeeper in the First National Bank of Birmingham, was arrested in Pittsburg, Pa., Thurs¬ day night by United StateB Marshal Leonard, charged with the embezzle¬ ment of $35,000 of the bank’s funds. Big Tanning Plant Burned. The tanning plant of the A. Platz Leather company at Racine, Wis., was destroyed by fire Friday. Loss, $100, 000. Insurance, $75,000. “ SOFT SOAP” FROM WOODRUFF. Commissary Contends That Affairs at Manila Are Satisfactory. Commissary General Weston, at Washington, has received a cablegram from Colonel Woodruff, chief commis¬ sary at Manila, in which he says: “Do not permit scandalous reports to worry you. Affairs in the subsist¬ ence department of the army are ad¬ ministered honestly and to the satis¬ faction of officers and troops.” NQY48. ANARCHIST BA1)LY WANTED. Whole World Is Notified to Watch Out For KouiangnoU. A Berlin cable dispatch says: With reference to the statements cabled from the United States of a plot said to have been concocted against Emperor William and other European rulers by anarchists iu Argentina and New Jer s ®y» a representative of the Associated Press ascertained in a reliable quarter that the Berlin police presidency is sued an order April 6th for the arrest whenever or wherever caught of the alleged anarchist, Rodolfo Romang noli, alias Romalisso, alias Langwick Mueller. 1 The order simultaneously requested all inland and foreign authorities to assist in apprehending Romangnoli. Photographs of the alleged anarchist, with a minute description after the Bertiilon method, were furnished for identification. GASPED IN COFFIN. Supposed Corpse Showed Signs of Life During Funeral Services. Mrs. Frank Marlow’s funeral ser¬ vice was being conducted at her late home at Merrimack, Ala., Thursday afternoon, when to the great astonish¬ ment of all persons present, the sup¬ posed corpse gave a gasp and showed every sign of returning life. Relatives sent for a doctor, who examined Mrs. Marlow, found her body warm and discovered a feeble pulse. For an hour and a half the physician worked with her in an attempt to bring the woman back to consciousness, but she eventually died. JURY REARS PATRICK CASE. They Consider Charge of Murder Against New York Attorney. Friday the grand jury at New York took up its consideration of the charge of murder against Albert T. Patrick, who is accused of having caused the death of William M. Rice. The principal witness of the day was Charles F. Jones, the former valet and secretary of the dead man. Other witnesses in the grand jury room were Charles Wetherbee, the clerk in Swenson & Sons, bankers, Professor Witthaus and John R. Potts. PEKIN PALACE BURNED. Von Waldenee Headquarter. In Chinese Capital Destroyed by Fire. Field Marshal von Waldersee re¬ ports that the best part of the winter palace at Pekin was destroyed by fire Wednesday evening. Gen. Schwartz kopf met his death in the fire, the cause of which is not explained. He adds that the French and Japanese troops gave the most prompt assist¬ ance. The field marshal and the other officers lost nearly everything. TRANSPORT FROM MANILA. The Garonne Arrive* at ’Frisco With Sol¬ diers of Twenty-Sixth Infantry. The transport Garonne arrived at San Francisco Saturday from Manila via Nagasaki and Honolulu. On board were 1,000 men of the Twenty-sixth volunteer infantry. This regimenthss seen seventeen months service in the Philippines and was raised at Platta bnrg, N. Y. Most of the men are from New York and Massachusetts and saw service during the Spanish war. SNOW IN KENTUCKY. Heavy Rains Cause Freshets Which Ren¬ der Many Families Homeless. A heavy snow storm raged through¬ out eastern Kentucky Friday. Two days’ heavy rains preceded the snow storm and brought on freshets in Pow¬ ell’s valley, which rendered twenty families homeless in that section. There was two inches of snow in Yel¬ low Creek valley and it was a half foot on the mountains.