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BRIEF LOCAL ITEMS.
Events of a Week Epitomized In
Curtailed Paragraphs.
Honorable Fred Foster, of Madison,
was in our city last Thursday.
Col. E. N. Harris, an old citizen of
Atlanta, died on last Wednesday.
The preparatory arrangements for
the State Fair are going on now in
good style.
The survivors of the 30th Ga. Regi
ment had a happy reunion at Doug
lasville yesterday.
How about a reunion of Georgia
veterans next fall? We have not
heard of it from Savannah yet, since
the Charleston reunion.
Our lawyers who are readers of The
Georgia Record are requested to give
items of news about the courts and
cases of interest in any way.
The Methodist Conference of the
North Atlanta District held a meeting
on Thursday. Bishop Candler pre
sided. About fifty delegates were
present.
Veterans of “the Blue and the
Gray 1 ’ are specially requested to give
us items of news about camps or re
unions or picnics. Let us have mat
ters to go on record in The Record.
-Honorable Daniel Pitchford, died at
his home in this city, on last Wednes
day. He was 87 years old, and had
been a citizen of Atlanta nearly forty
years. He was a native of North Car
olina.
Mrs. Lizzie Gray, of Hawkinsville,
Ga., died in this city on Thursday.
She was the mother of Mrs. Luck, the
wife of Policeman Luck. The body
was carried to Campbell county for
burial.
Daughters of the Confederacy are
specially invited to use the columns
of The Georgia Record for announce
ments of meetings, programs, and per
sonal notices. Make it your medium
for the record of events.
Readers of The Georgia Record are
requested to furnish us with items of
local interest on any matters, as mar
riages, births, deaths, meetings, re
unions, sociables, or anything of in
terest in your vicinity.
Mr. Walter Bennett of this city,
partner in the firm of Bennett Print
ing Co., and Miss Willie Irene Tan
ner, were married in this city last
- Wednesday evening The bride is a
niece of Hon. G. H. Tanner, the pop
ular clerk of our courts.
Mr. Dan Cary, well known in our
city, as a writer on the Constitution,
and a friend to Confederate veterans,
left the city this week to enter upon
editorial duties on the “Times,” news
paper at Greenville, 8. C. We extend
to him our sincere good wishes.
Mr. Lucien L. Knight returned
this week from an extended tour to
the North and East. He is held in
very high esteem by our veterans, and
all wish him a happy way of life. We
do not know of any young man more
sincerely loved by veterans than is
Lucien Knight.
Mrs. Azilee Webster and Master
Earle Webster of this city are visit
ing friends in Rome and Floyd county
Georgia. Their friends here wish for
them a pleasant visit and safe return
to their home, to husband and father,
who is our esteemed comrade and
friend, Mr. George A. Webster.
Capt. Walter Payne, of Milledge
ville. the Clerk of Court of Baldwin
county, was in our city several days
this week, attending the convention
of delegates of a benevolent associa
tion. He is in splendid appearance
as to health, and cheerful in spirits as
always he was since we first knew
him thirty-seven years ago.
“The Blue and the Gray” is the
title of a very interesting book re
cently published by Col. J. P. Austin,
of Atlanta. Col. Austin was a brave
Confederate officer, and was in the
service from the beginning to the elose
of the war. He was with the cavalry
service, under Gen, John H. Morgan.
He gives us a very entertaining ac
count of the scenes of the service, and
relates many incidents never before
published, which are truly of historic
interest. It is a very interesting
book.
The Georgia Record has been sent
to several persons who have not yet
sent us the necessary subscription
price. We desire to continue the pa
per to all, and all are now requested re
spond with the one dollar at once, to
send the paper one year. You will be
pleiWted with it after we get well un
der way. If you fail to see the good
that may be in it, take the failure to
yourself for your own account. We
will try to do our part in the way of
getting out the paper. Our solicitor
will call on readers in the city next
week. Pay him and let The Georgia
Record come to you.
The Georgia Record of last week
discussed the matter of the franch'ses
of the electric car lines in the city,
and suggested the idea of having the
companies to pay a roya’ty on income
for the benefit of the city, also as to
making arrangement for the city to
own the lines. On last Wednesday,
within a week from our discussion, we
observe a proposition from Mr. Joel
Hurt was made to the council to share
with the city the profits of his elec
tric lines, and suggested the eventual
ownership of the lines by the city.
We are moving along in the right
direction, pro bono publico,
A motion for new trial was heard by
Judge J. H. Lumpkin this week in
the celebrated will case of Mrs. Mary
G. Thurman against Mrs. Florence
Underwood. Mrs. Thurman entered
her caveat to the probate of the will
of Dr. Thurman, when it was
offered before the Court of Ordi
nary. The caveat was overruled
and the will was allowed by the ordi
nary. Appeal was entered to the supe
rior court. Tiial on the appeal came
on last year. During the trial one of
the distinguished lawyers in the case
died suddenly. He was Judge Mar
shall J. Clarke. The trial continued,
however, and a verdict of the jury was
in favor of Mrs. Thurman. Motion
for new trial was made. Since the
trial and verdict, another one of the em
inent lawyers, Hon. Nat. J. Hammond,
has died. The case is still living and
moving in hands of other lawyers, and
will probably go to the supreme
court. The record of the case is about
1,200 pages of typewritten matter.
On last Tuesday the Southern
Industrial league held a conven
tion in this city. Governor Candler
made the address of welcome to the
delegates. Major J. F. Hanson, of
Macon, made an address, which was
well received and applauded.
Mr. F. B. Thurber, a merchant of
New York of great wealth and exten
sive wholesale trade, sent a letter to
the Southern Industrial League con
vention. He did not attend in per
son. In his letter he gave a lecture
to the southern people on their ways
of business. Amongst other things
he said:
“The Southern people are warm-hearted
and impulsive and this temperament some ■
times leads them into making mistakes ;they
‘go off at half cock,’so to speak, and often
take action on important questions which,
with further study, would not betaken.”
We may not quite understand the
cold, calculating methods of Mr. Thur
ber, but we would not exchange the
genial warm-heartedness of our
southern men and women for his style
of disingenuous methods, as suggest
ed by his letter, for all the wealth of
all the Thurbers and his ilk,
in the world, and we would rather
have the nature of sincerity by an im
pulse, than to have the style of an
adroit calculating trader. Let our
southern people retain their character
for being warm-hearted and impulsive,
rather than yield it to the schemes of
avarice, or to give up their warmth of
hearts to the cold, chilly, calculating
methods of selfishness. Avarice and
selfishness may flourish by such ways
as suggested by Mr. Thurber, but
true business principles are not suffer
ing in the south by the warm-hearted
ways of our southern business men.
WEST END NOTES.
Miss Mamie Culberson is spending
a few weeks at Smyrna with her friend,
Miss Susie Taylor.
Mrs. J. H. Latimer spent last week
in Rome, Ga., visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Adel Latimer-Bale.
Mrs. M. E. Harrington has return rd
to West End, after a very pleasant
visit to her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Lon
gino, at Smyrna, Ga.
Mrs. R. L. Foreman and children
have returned to their home in West
End, after a delightful stay of several
weeks at Tallulah Lodge.
Mrs. Frank Baker, who has been
spending some time with relatives and
friends in Dahlonega, has returned to
her home on Oglethorpe avenue.
Mrs. Hebert Dean, of Gainesville,
Ga., spent last week in the city visit
ing her friends, Mrs. W. H. Haralson
and Miss Kate Jackson, on Oglethorpe
avenue.
The friends of Dr. and Mrs. Wyllys
Rede will be sorry to learn of the seri
ous illness of their little son, Kenneth,
at Atlantic City, where Mrs. Rede bad
gone to spend the summer.
Mrs. A. J. Dawson, mother of Mr.
F. J. Spratling, No. 161 Lee street,
left the city last Thursday for a short
visit to her grandson, Mr. James Hook
Spratling, of Lithia Springs.
Mr. J. M. Mayne, of McCall’s Sta
tion, purchased, this week, the pretty
cottage recently occupied by Mr. Os
car Parker, on Beecher street, and will
move into West End about September
Ist.
Mr. W. E. Thomas,of West End,and
Miss Addie Mayne, of Hapeville, were
married on Sunday, July 23rd, at the
Methodist Church in Hapeville, Rev.
A. E. Seddon officiating. Mr. Ernest
Seddon acted as “best man,” and Miss
Carrie Thomas, sister of the groom,
was maid of honor. The happy
couple are at home to their friends, at
No. 202 Oak street, West End. ,
Mr. Arthur R. Rodgers, a foreman
with the Southern Bull Telephone
Co., left the city on Ttairsday last to
superintend the construction and re
pair of the lines from
Opelika to Tuskegee, Alabama. Mr.
Rodgers is one of the youngest men
in the employ of the company and it
is an evidence of the confidence which
they have in his ability to discharge
his duty faithfully and well. Mr.
Rodgers took a large force of hands
with him, and will secure others when
arrived at Opelika.
A Yankee Sword.
We have now before us in our office
an old mutilated sword which has
about it an interesting history. It
was shown to us by Captain Ed C.
Murphy, who is a well known citizen
of Atlanta. During *L'e 'civil war
Captain Murphy was retailed from
his command by the Coi ederate gov
ernment, for duty in the armory here,
for the manufacture of swords, fire
arms, shot and shell. i Captain Mur
phy was an expert mechanic, and his
skillful service was of special im
portance then to the Confeder
acy. In his duties he came
in contact with many interesting inci
dents. Just after the battle of Mur
freesboro, Tenn., many of the wounded
men of both armies, Confederates and
Federals, were sent to the hospitals in
Atlanta. Captain Murphy was engag
ed in having them properly eared for
when they were taken from the train.
A kinsman of his wife was among the
Confederate wounded. Another sol
dier was an officer of the Federal
army, wounded and captured. He was
put in the old church hospital on Jen
kins street. In his ministrations to the
wounded prisoner he became interested
and contributed to his comforts and
gave him substantial refreshments.
The prisoner was wounded in his hip.
He had been permitted to bring his
own sword with him. He gave it to
Captain Murphy. The scabbard was
broken by a minie ball. Captain
Murphy had a record of the prisoner
and his name, but when Sherman’s
army came, the papers were taken,
and he has forgotten the name of the
man who was the wounded prisoner.
Capt. Murphy would be glad to learn
something of the man if possible,
and requests that papers give
notice of this matter, and
make inquiry. Information is wanted
for the purpose of commu
nicating with the soldier, and to re
store to him the sword. Northern
papers are requested to give notice.
Information may be sent to The Geor
gia Record, Atlanta, Ga.
Reunion of First Georgia Cavalry.
Editor of Georgia Record.
The annual reunion of the surviv
ors of the First Georgia Cavalry Regi
ment was held at Newnan, Ga., July
25th, 1899. After a sumptuous din
ner, prepared by the good people of
Newnan and Coweta county, the regi
ment was called to order in a business
meeting. The roll was called, and
about seventy-five answered to their
names. A record was made of those
who have died since last annual re
union, which shows a very small per
cent of those present last year.
J. L. Cobb, of Atlanta, was elected
assistant secretary, Jule Wynne, of
Rome, being secretary. Lieut. George
A. Webster, of Atlanta, was elected
president; Dr. J. W. Taylor, of Luthers
ville, vice president.
Rome, Ga , was unanimously se
lected as the place for the next reun
ion of the regiment, on July 25, 1900.
Each survivor is earnestly requested
to attend at that time and place.
Deaths of members should be reported
to Secretary Jule Wynne, at Rome, Ga.
Send a paper to the following: J. L.
Cobb, 55$ East Hunter, city; Geo. A.
Webster, 42 Hood street, city; Ed
Cox, city; J. J. Morrison, Decatur,
Ga.; Jule Wynn, Rome, Ga.; Lieut. J.
W. Taylor, Luthersville, Ga.; W. W.
Cavendor, Newnan, Ga.; H. W. Haney,
Newnan, Ga. Member.
UNFAVORABLE TO MRS. MATBRICK
Secretrary of Knglfah Home Office Will
Not Recommend Koya! Clemency.
In the house of commons (London)
Monday, Mr. Michael Davitt, member
for South Mayo, asked the govern
ment if, in view of the fact that the
conduct of Mrs. Maybrick in prison
had been uniformly good, the home
office would not recommend royal
clemency in her case.
Sir Matthew White Ridley, the
home secretary, said that he was un
able to hold out hope of exceptional
treatment of Mrs. Maybrick.
NEW COTTON RATHS
Ab Fixed By South Carolina’s State Rail
road Commission.
The South Carolina state railroad
commission Wednesday made public
its new standard tariff of cotton freight
rates, which becomes effective August
25th. The tariff provides for a reduc
tion of from 25 to 35 per cent on the
present rates, which was established
when the state was producing not
more than 400,000 bales of cotton.
This is said to be the lowest local cot
ton freight tariff of any now in opera
tion in the United States.
Real Estate For Salo
The tracts, lots, and parcels of lands
as stated below are for sale, cheap for
cash, or will exchange for available
merchandise at reasonable prices.
The land lots indicated will be sold
with special warranty of title, with
plat and grant, with the original
“beeswax” seal:
No. Dist. Sec. Acres. County.
942 2 3 40 Paulding.
124 7 2 40 Fannin.
90 1 81 Rabun.
118 26 2 40 Gilmer.
57 11 1 40 Union
137 19 3 40 Paulding.
308 10 1 160 Union.
650 16 2 40 Cobb.
718 16 2 40 Cobb.
719 16 2 40 Cobb.
885 16 2 40 Cobb.
887 16 2 40 Cobb.
915 16 2 40' Cobb.
958 16 2 40 Cobb.
843 16 2 40 Cobb.
646 17 2 40 Cobb.
16 17 2 40 Cobb.
17 17 2 40 Cobb.
86 17 2 40 Cobb.
1090 17 2 40 Cobb.
267 20 2 40 Cobb.
1006 16 2 40 Cobb.
514 15 2 40 Cobb.
567 15 2 40 Cherokee.
584 15 2 40 Cherokee.
585 15 2 40 Cherokee.
638 15 2 40 Cherokee.
639 15 2 40 Cherokee.
640 15 2 40 Cherokee.
641 15 2 40 Cherokee.
642 15 2 40 Cherokee.
255 13 2 160 Cherokee.
102 21 2 40 Cherokee.
101 1 2021 Troup.
731 19 3 40 Paulding.
72 3 3 40 Paulding.
501 3 3 40 Paulding.
880 2 3 40 Paulding.
1175 18 3 40 Paulding.
13 18 1 160 Pickens.
246 6 1 160 Chattooga.
708 18 2 40 Polk.
981 21 3 40 Polk.
7 26 3 160 Murray.
1012 12 1 40 Lumpkin.
314 11 1 40 Lumpkin.
697 11 1 40 Lumpkin.
573 5 1 40 Lumpkin.
830 11 1 40 Lumpkin.
148 8 2 160 Fannin.
629 3 4 40 Floyd.
643 18 2 40 Douglass.
8 3 490 Wayne.
95 3 490 Wayne.
96 3 490 Wayne.
151 3 490 Wayne.
200 3 490 Wayne.
J 173 3 245 Wayne.
160 2 490 Wayne.
J 75 2 245 Charlton.
{XI 17516 25} Upson.
}x} 11112 25} Taylor,
j 368 28 125 Early,
i 113 16 1 80 Union.
} 175 16 1 80 Union.
815 14 1 40 Forsyth.
398 5 1 40 Dawson.
157 11 2021 Henry.
104 19 2 40 Cobb.
901 21 2 74 Cherokee.
One city lot, 27x93, on Woodward
avenue, in Atlanta, Ga.
Three lots, 50x150 feet each, alto
gether being Nos. 14, 15 and 16, on
Mt. Zion avenne, in the village of Mt.
Zion, Carroll county, Ga.
One lot, No, 114, in block 17, in
Montrose Park, Montrose county Col
orado.
Six acres on Satterfield Ford road,
5 miles from Greenville, in Greenville
county, S. C.
Three lots at Montreal, on G. C. &
N. railroad, DeKalb county, Ga.
One lot 52x120 feet, on west side of
Violet avenue, Atlanta, Ga.
1,100 acres; 700 hammock, 400 up
land, in Screven county, Ga. This is
a fine place, divided by the Georgia
Central railroad, 50 miles from Savan
nah. Railroad station on the place; good
location for country store. Splendid
situation for factory for staves and
cooperage works. Enough good tim
ber on the hammock land to pay for
the place three or four times over.
Investors are invited to examine this
place.
1.149 acres on west bank of Savan
nah river, in Effingham county, Ga.,
grant of 1784, and descent of title to
present owner.
1.150 acres on Satilla river, in Cam
dem county, Ga., grant from state,
and deeds on record for 100 years
back. Good title, by descent to pres
ent owner.
1,150 acres on. St. Mary’s river, in
Camden county, Ga. Grant and deeds
on record 100 years back. Good title,
by descent to present owner.
430 acres on west bank of Savannah
river, in Screven county, Ga. Deeds
on record since 1827. Good title, by
descent to present owner.
All of these lands are available for
agriculture, stock raising, mining,
or timbers. Some few of the lots in
north Georgia are in the hills, but
they have the advantage of being sit
uated in the finest section of country
for minerals. Several of these lots
have been examined, or, as the essay
ists and miners would say, have been
prospected, and found to bear fine de
posits of gold, silver, iron, copper and
marble. The state of Georgia is de-
veloping some of the finest mineral
resources in this country, in ceal, co
rundum, gold, silver, copper, man
ganese, and other minerals,and marL-'e,
also a variety of the finest timbers for
all sorts of manufactures of wooden
wares and furniture. The state is
noted for its salubrious climate, and
its remarkable adaptability for all kinds
of agricultural products, fruits and
vegetables. Some of these lauds, now
offered, are as fine as any in the world
for fruits and cereals.
A prominent real estate journal, the
“American Land and Title Register,”
recently used a paragraph under the
head of “Investments and Specula
tions,” and it impresses me as being
so appropriate, that I quote it here as
follows: “Real estate is the thing,
above all others, that furnishes a field
for investment that is absolutely safe
md profit bearing. It is the material
interest itself, and it cannot be de
stroyed by bad management, extrava
gant methods, competition, casualty,
dishonesty in management or legisla
tion. Its value eannot be depressed
by any of these causes. Investments
in real estate, judiciously made, can
not fail to be profitable. If you want
to get rich, buy real estate aud know
what you are getting; if you want to
gamble, buy stocks and let some one
else know what they are giving you."
I desire to sell these lands as soon
as possible, and they must go at low
prices, very low for cash, or on easy
terms and long time with 5 per cent
interest, as purchasers may desire and
prefer. Persons desirous of investing
money for future profits by enhance
ments should examine these offers at
once. I have other lands, which I
will sell on good terms and low prices.
In writing for information about any
of these lands, refer to them by the
number, district, section and county,
and enclose two stamps, 4 cents, for
reply. Robert L. Rodgers,
ts Attorney at Law, Atlanta, Gs»
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COBnECTED WEEKLY. —30
Groceries.
Roasted coffee, Arbuekle $ll.OO, Lion
and Levering *IO.BO-all less 60c
per 100 lb cases. Green coffee choice llo; fair
9c; prime Sugar standard gran-
ulated, New York 5.80. New Orleans 5.75.
New Orleans white do yellow
Syrup, New Orleans open kettle 25®>40e.
mixed 12)4@20c; sugar house 28@35e.
Teas, black 50@65e; green 50@65c.
Rice, head 7J4<>; choice 6%@70; Salt, dai
ry sacks $1.25; do bbls, bulk $2.00; 100
$2.75; ice cream $1.25; common 65@70e.
Cheese, full cream 11c. Matches,
65s 45c; 200s ®1.30@1.75; 300 s $2.75. Soda,
boxes 6c. Crackers, soda cream
6c; gingersnaps 6c. Candy, common stick
6J40; fancy 12®13e. Oysters, F. W. SLBS@
$1.75; L. W. sl.lO.
Flour, Grain and Meal.
Flour, all wheat first patent, $5.00. second
patent. $4.40; straight, $4.00; extra fancy.
$8.90; fancy, $3.80; extra family, $2.85.
Corn, white. 54c; mixed, 53c. Oats, white
45c; mixed 39c; Texas rustproof 40c. Rye,
Georgia 85c. Hay No. 1 timothy largo
bales 80c; Meal, plain 523; bolter'
46c. Wheat bran, large sacks S2e;
small socks 82c. Shorts 95c. Stock mon);
85c. Cotton seed meal 90c per 100 bushels
white crowders $1.60 (® $1.75; common
white $1.25@1.40: Lady *1.25@1.50. Grits
$2.90 per bbl; *l4O per bag.
Provision*.
Clear ribs sides boxed 5%c; clear side.
5%C; Ice-cured bellies B><c. Sugar-cured
hams ll®13c; California 6%0; breakfast
bacon 10®12Uc. Lard, best quality 7)40; sec
ond quality 6J*@6>4; compound sc.
Cotton.
Market closed steady; middling 5 9-16.