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Oub fellow citizens of city and
county are manifesting a lively inter
est about matters for public welfare.
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Gonernob Candlbb has given out
an interview of a prepared purpose,
or purposely prepared, concerning a
bill before congress to operate as a sort
of legislative injunction to restrain
the shipping and sale from one state
into another of the products
of convict labor, and the governor
wants to except the convict
labor of Georgia. We do not agree
with the governor in the reasons he
assigns for such exceptions or exemp
tion. We would prefer to see our con
vict labor entirely eliminated from any
competition with free labor in any in
dustry. Take convicts out of the in
dustries and private enterprises of
our people, ( .and the SIOO,OOO which
he says the state realizes annually,
will remain with |the'people, and free
men as free laborers will benefit of
that much and more. Take the 2,000
convicts out of competition, and
free labor will have a new im
petus and revived energy. Idle men
will not be so numerous. Private or
individual competition will be stimu
lated in various ways. Instead of coal
being doubled in price, it may be re
duced one half. Let the state lessees
turn their money and attention to the
promotion of individual or partnership
enterprises, and pay good wages to
free labor, and we will soon observe
the advantages of such course of com
petitive industries and enterprises, as
the production of naval stores, lumber,
coal, and brick, and agricultural pro
ducts. The question might be sug
gested then, “What shall we
dojß'ith the large and increasing num
ber of State convicts? We say work
them on public roads, and put all the
roads in the State in splendid order for
travel. Let all male persons within
certain limits of age be obliged to pay
a specific tax for road duty, and apply
that tax to support of the convicts or
penitentiary.system, in like manner as
certain taxes are now applied to public
school funds, and it would not be a
great while before we should see and
realize the benefits and good] results
of such course. These suggestions are
merely outlines of what might be said
in favor of such plans.
REPUBLICAN DEMOCRACY.
It seems that some of the so-called
Democratic expansion theorists and
political trimmers are trying to make
a flank maneuver to capture the Re
publican party, or, in other words,
they want to use the Republican thun
der, and call it the roaring rule of
Democracy.
ELECTRICAL BALL.
We had the pleasure of accepting
an invitation to, and of attending, the
reception and ball tendered by the In
ternational Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, at the Federation of Trades
Hall, on last Thursday evening. It
was a very enjoyable social enteitain
ment, given by the members of the
Electrical Workers’ Union. The hall
was filled with the of
many gentlemen and elegant ladies,
and those who came to enjoy
the pleasures of an evening [un
der the divine direction of the god
dess, Terpsichore, had their full en
joyment in “tripping the light fantas
tic toe, ”in the quadrilles and mazy
waltzes, under the strains of delight
ful music by the orchestra. Every
body seemed to be happy as the even
ing went along, and until the “wee
sma” hours of morn. Here’s to the
health, happiness and good luck of the
electrical workers.
THE CHILDREN OF T<JE CON
FEDERACY,
Under the direction of Mrs. C. F.
Rice, held a very interesting meeting
on last Thursday afternoon at the club
room in the Grand. Miss Mary Con
nelly is the presiding officer of the
“Children of the Confederacy.” A
good work is being done in this line
amongst the children of Confederate
veterans, teaching them in the matters
of history concerning the cause and
the struggle of the Southern Con
federacy. Mrs. C. H. Mitchell pre
sented a sketch or history of the
flags of the Confederacy. Music
and songs were rendered of
“Star Spangled Banner” and “Dixie.”
Captain O. P. LeVert rendered a fine
recital as a tribute to Confederate
soldiers and statesmen. Judge Robert
L. Rodgers was called upon by Mrs.
Rice for a short talk, and he gave a
few remarks to the children, and then
presented to them for their library
two copies of his history of the Con
federate Veterans’ Association of Ful
ton county. The occasion was one of
pleasure. Our best wishes for the
“Children of the Confederacy.”
“ ANTI-TRUST LEAGUE.”
A report appears in the press, of a
meeting, or convention, or conglomer
ate conclave of sinister enthusiasts in
Chicago this week, for conference on
the subject of “Anti-Trusts.” The
developments of the conference show
that the gang there were a lot of dis
appointed or disgruntled political sut
lers, in a masquerade or pretense of
patriotism. They resolved that they
were the “Anti-Trust League” of
America. When the masks were re
moved by a few'old hackneyed speech
es of sophistry, memorized in
sopohmoric style for the occa
sion, it was discovered that they
were simply some of the same old gang
of free silver and free hash, free
ticket advocates. They resolved that
for their wishes and purposes they
thought that the government ought to
own everything on or in the earth,
free trade, free trees, and free silver,
and furnish them with free money and
free homes. A curious assembly they
were, as a combination of themselves
against all other combinations and cor
porations, with a “whereas.” This
conference believes in the principle of
“equal rights to all, with special privi
leges to none.”
Ah! ha, so say we all.
HORTON LAW IS NO MORE.
New York Legislature I «eg a Bill to Stop
Prize Fighting In the State.
The bill repealing the so-called Hor
ton law, which permits boxing matches
in New York state, was passed in the
assembly Thursday, the vote standing
92 yeas to 36 nays.
The bill has now' gone over to the
senate, where it will be considered by
the codes committee.
ATLANTAM ARK ETS.
CORRECTED WBEKLT. — 7
Groceries.
Roasted coffee, Arbuckle $12.80, Lion $11.05
-—all less 50c per 100 th cases. Green coffee
choice He; fair 9c; prime B*®9c. Su
gar, standard granulated, New York 5%.
Syrup, New Orleans open kettle 25(8)40c.
mixed 18@20c; sugar house 28(8)35c.
Teas, black 50/®6sc; green 50(8)65-’.
Rice, head 6%c; choice 5% @6. Salt, dai
ry sacks $1.25; do bbls, bulk $2.00; 100 3s
$2.75; ice cream $1.25: common 65@70c’
Cheese, full cream 13%c. Matches, 65s
45(®55c;200s $1.50(8)1.75; 300 s $2.75. Soda,
boxes 6c. Crackers, soda 5%0; cream
6%c; gingeranaps 6c. Candy, common stick
6% c;’fancy 12@14c. Oysters, F. W. $2.20.
L. W. $1.25.
Flour, Grain and Meal.
Flour, all wheat first patent, $4.90; second
patent, $4.25; straight, $3.90; extra fancy
$8.70; fancy, $3.60; extra family, $2.85.
Corn, white, 52c; mixed, 50c. Oats, white
40c; mixed 36c; Texas rustproof 40c. Rye,
Georgia SI.OO. Hay., No. 1 timothy, large
bales, 90@95c: No. 1, small bales, 90c;
No. 2,80 c; Meal, plain, 50c; bolted 45c. Wheat
bran large sacks 90 c; small sacks 90c. Shorts
sl. Stock meal, 55c.Cotton seed meal $1.05
100 pounds. Grits $2.75 per bbl; $1.30 per
per bag.
Country Produce.
Eggs quoted at 12/8 13c. Butter, Fan
cy Jersey, 17%c; choice 10@12%c, dull;
fancy Tennessee 13 8)15’; choice 12X^15c.
Live poultry, in demand; hens 24@ 26c;
spring chickens, largo 16@18c; medium
14%<8)15c, goodsale. Turkeys, live, 8(8;10clb.
active demand;—-heavy demand for dressed
poultry—dressed turkeys 10(©12 cents.
Hens, 10(8)116; fries, 11%(©12%C; broil
ers, 12%c. Quail, B@ioc, Ducks*
puddle, 22%(8)25c; Peking 25(8 30c.
Irish potatoes, 85(®90c per bushel.
Sweet potatoes, white yams 55(a>60c, pump
kin yams 75@90c. Honey, strained 6@7c-. in
comb 9(a) 10c; Onions, 70c@75c per bu.;
$2.00/®2.25 per bbl. Cabbage, New York
Danish 2c lb. Carieston stack, green, 2@
2%c. Dried fruit, apples 6@7c; peaches
108)110. Figs 7@7%c; prunes peeled
peaches 20(§?22%.
Provisions.
Clear side ribs, boxed 6%c: half ribs
rib bellies 6.00; ice-cured bellies B%c.
Sugar-cured hams 11(8) 13%c; California Bc,
breakfast bacon 10%(8)12e. f.ard, best quali
ty 7%c; second quality 7%@7%0; compound
sc.
Cotton.
Market Closed steady; middling 8 1-16 c
WOLCOTT GIVES WARNING.
Senator Says the Abandonment
of Bimetallism Would Be
Fatal To Republicans.
The final week’s discussion of the
pending financial bill was begun in
the senate Monday. The speakers
were two Republicans, Mr. Elkins, of
West Virginia, and Mr. Wolcott, of
Colorado, and one Populist, Mr. But
ler, of North Carolina.
Mr. Elkins advocated the passage of
the pending senate measure in a brief
but forceful argument. Mr. Wolcott,
chairman of the international bimetal
lic commission of 1897, spoke for many
Republicans who adhere to bimetal
lism and his speech, earnest and elo
quent, was received with unusual at
tention. Mr. Butler advocated the
adoption of his amendment providing
for an issue of paper currency by the
government.
A.house bill for the preservation of
tbe frigate constitution was pacsed,
the measure providing that the ship
should be restored as nearly as possi
ble to its original condition.
The following bills on the general
calendar were passed:
To construct a road to tho national
cemetery at Dover, Tenn., at a cost of
$11,500; to carry into effect two reso
lutions of the continental congress
to be erected to the memory of Gen
eral Francis Nash and William L. Da
vidson, of North Carolina, appropriat
ing SI,OOO for each; to encourage en
listments in the navy by providing
successful applicants with an outfit
valued at $45; to authorize Hon. A. 8.
Handy, at present minister of the
United States to Greece, Roumania
and Servia, to accept the decoration
tendered him by the shah of Persia;
to authorize the following naval offi
cers to accept orders aud decorations
tendered them by tbe government of
Venezuela—Rear Admiral W. T.Samp
son, Captain H. C. Taylor, Captain F.
A. Cook, Captain C. D. Sigsbee, Cap
tain F. E. Chadwick, Captain C. F.
Goodrich, Commander W. W. Mead,
Commander M. J. H. Dayton, Com
mander F. M. Symonds and Comman
der C. C. Tood.
BEFORE JUDGE TAFT.
Application For Injunction of Kentucky
Election Commissioners Is Heard.
In the United States circuit court of
appeals at Cincinnati, Monday after
noon, Judge W. H. Taft heard argu
ments for over Nours on the ap
plications for injunctions against the
Kentucky stab r-.tvdof election com
missioners and/the contestants for the
state officers offier than governor and
lieutenant governor.
The large courtroom was unable to
hold all who came to the federal build
ing for admission. Very many of the
visitors were from the Kentucky side-
The plaintiffs were represented by
Bradley, Wilson, Sweeney and Yost,
all of Kentucky. The defendants were
represented by Scott, Hendrick, Hager
and Maxwell, the latter being a mem
ber of tbe bar of Cincinnati and the
others of Kentucky.
After the conclusion of the argu
ments, Judge Taft advi'ed counsel
that he would announce his decision
so far as the court having jurisdiction
in the cases concerned at 2 o’clock
Wednesday afternoon.
A TELEGRAM FROM BULLER.
General Notifies Field Marshal Roberts of
His Bad Plight.
The war office at London has re
ceived the following dispatch from
Field Marshal Lord Roberts, dated
from the Moddar river, Sunday, Feb
ruary lltb:
“I have received a telegram from
Buller as follows, dated Friday, Feb
ruary 9:
‘ “It was necessary after seizing
Vaal Krantz to entrench it as the
pivot of further operations. But I
found after trying two days, that owing
to the nature of the ground that this
was impracticable. It was also exposed
to fire of heavy guns in positions from
which our artillery was dominated. It
is essential to troops advancing on
Ladysmith by Harding or Monger’s
drift to hold Vaal Krantz securely,and
accordingly we are not pressing the
advance by those roads, as I find we
cannot make it secure.’ ”
Ransom Holds Cotton.
Ex-Senator M. W. Ransom, the big
gest cotton growing North Carolinian,
is still holding 1,( 00 bales of tho pres
ent crop. The rise has so far netted
him about $5,000.
ROBERTS OFFERS AMNESTY.
Transvaalers and Free Staters Have
Chance to “Give Up.”
A London special says: Lord Rob
erts has caused to be distributed in
the towns bordering upon the invaded
colonial territory an invitation to Free
Staters and Transvaalers to go into the
desert, offering them good treatment
and a restoration to their farms on the
British occupation of republican ter
ritory.
The manifesto guarantees that those
bringing horses can sell them. For
eigners will have their passages paid
to Europe. Colonial rebels are advised
to surrender in preference to being
taken prisoners.
CASH OFFERED JUDGE
Attempt Was Made to Up Mon
tana Justices.
BIG SENSATION IN THE 'CLARK CASE
State Supreme Court Judgeg Appear an
Witnesses Before Senate Investi
gating Committee.
Highly sensational testimony was
developed Thursday in the investiga
tion by the senate committee on privi
leges and elections of the election of
W. A. Clark to the senate from Mon
tana.
Judge Hunt, a Republican member
of the Montana supreme court, testified
that bis family physician, Dr. Tracy,
had made what he (the justice) regard
ed as attempts to have him consider a
SIOO,OOO bribe to favor Lawyer Well
come, one of Mr. Clark’s attorneys, in
the disbarment proceedings against
Wellcome.
The witness did not, directly at
least, connect Mr. Clark with this
bribery proposition, so the latter’s
counsel, ex-Senator Faulkner, moved
to strike the whoie testimony from the
record, but did not succeed. Witness
said he did not make the matter pub
lic because he felt too much humiliat
ed over the proposition and also be
lieved that Dr. Tracey did not realize
the enormity of his offense.
The committee held a night session
at which Justice Piggott, also of the
Montana sepreme court, testified con
cerning remarks made to him on two
days when Dr. Tracey had interviews
with Justice Hunt.
Justice Piggott’s statement was that
Mr. Clark’s leading counsel, Mr.
Corbett, had come to him and while
apparently under great excitement said
he had just been Advised by Mr. J. S.
M. Neill, of Helena that the supreme
court could be unduly influenced in
the Wellcome disbarment proceedings,
wanted to know if it w-ere true and
spoke denouncing any such attempt.
Piggott had informed counsel that
he never would hear of such an at
tempt upon him (Piggott), for he
would kill any one coming to him with
a bribe offer.
Mr. Corbett spent two or three
hours talking with the justice on this
occasion and the former said Mr. Neill
had said to him:
“We can get the supreme court.
They will come high and the scheme
will have to be capitalized for about
five millions.”
WILL ASSIST NATIVES,
Says Chamberlain, In Came the Boers In
vade Zulnland.
A London special says: In the house
of commons, during the course of a re
ply to the question relative to the
probable Boer invasion of Zululand,
the secretary of state for the colonies,
Joseph Chamberlain, said That the gov
ernment had decided that if the native
territories were invaded by the Boers,
the natives “will be encouraged and
assisted in every way in defending
themselves. ”
Mr. Chamberlain’s reply confirmed
the reports of the invasion of Zululand
and showed the consequences could
not fail to be serious throughout South
Africa, as the alarm and unrest of the
Zulus was bound to spread to the Natal
natives. The colonial secretary also
said that the Natal ministry had noti
fied the homa government that it could
not any longer be responsible for the
peaceful attitude of the Zulus, as the
invasion ot their country was contrary
to a tacit compact that the natives
should not be dragged into the war.
“THERE ARE OTHERS.”
Minority Stockholders May Brine Suit
Against Millionaire Carnegie.
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch says: Al
though the suit which H. C. Frick filed
a few days ago to break the binding
force of the “ironclad” agreement
and recover from the Carnegie Steel
company, limited, the market value of
his holdings in that concern, is the
main line of attack opened by the anti-
Carnegie adherents, the minority
stockholders, who are lined up against
the policy of Mr. Carnegie, it is said,
are certain to follow it up with the
suit attacking the validity of the coke
contract of the Carnegie company with
the H. C. Frick company.
“GO AHEAD,” SAID TAYLOR,
Rump Legislature Inform* Him That Ii
Is Ready For Business.
Monday was another day of un
broken calm in Frankfort. Tbe Re
publican members of the legislature
met at noon and appointed committees
to inform Governor Taylor that the
legislature had adjourned at London
and was convened at Frankfort to
transact such business as might come
before them. The governor acknowl
edged the message by saying “go
ahead.” Both houses then adjourned
until Tuesday. There were nine mem
bers in the senate and twenty-eight in
the house.
A Mere Formality.
“Yes, sir, I have come to ask you
for the hand of your daughter."
“For Isabel’s hand?”
“Yes, sir. It is a mere formality, I
know, but we thought it would be more
pleasing to you to have me go through
with it.”
“What’s that? A mere formality?”'
“That is what I said—a mere for
mality."
“And may I inquire who suggested
that asking my consent to my daugh
ter’s marriage was only a mere for
mality?”
“It was Isabel’s mother, sir.”
“Oh! Then I have nothing more to,
say.”—Collier’s Weekly.
One Woman’s Aim.
“The evidence,” said the judge,,
“shows that you threw a stone at this
man.”
“Sure,” replied Mrs. O’Hoolihan,
“an’ the looks av the man shows more
than thot, yer honor. It shows thot
Oi hit him.
The Mystery of Dust at Sea.
It la a puzzling fact that the decks of sailing'
vessels show dust at night, even if they be
washed in the morning, and no work Is done
during the day. This is like Indigestion,
which creeps on one unawares. However It
comes, the only way to cure it is by the use o?
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, a remedy which
never tails to cure dyspepsia in all its forms,
as well as prevents malaria, fever and ague.
Fools Not AU Extinct.
In spite of the prevalence of newspapers and
coroner's inquests people are still turning on
the gas and trying to blow out electric lights.
“A Thread Every Day
Makes a Skein in a Year."
One small disease germ carried by the
blood through the system will convert a
healthy human body to a condition of in
validism. Do not wait until you are bed
ridden. Keep your blood pure and life-giv
ing all the time. Hood's Sarsaparilla
accomplishes this as nothing else can. ,
Hit Great Work.
A Chicago man, who has written a
book, was telling about it the other
day to a friend who had once done him
a service.
“By the way,’ said the author, “I
would be delighted to give you a copy
of my work, if you care for it.”
“I should be more than pleased to
have It,” wxs the reply, “especially If
you will write your name In it.”
“All right. There’s a book store
just around the corner. If you will
accompany me we will go there and
get it. I don’t happen to have a copy
In my office just now.”
After they had stopped to glance at
some of the new things in the book
store the author hailed a clerk, and,
pushing his chest out very far, asked
for the novel that he had written.
• “Yes, sir,” the clerk said. “We have
It around here somewhere, I believe,
but you are the first one who has ever
asked for a copy, and it may take me
some time to find it. Wouldn’t some
thing else do just as well? We have a
great many better books at the same
price.’’—Chicago Times-Herald.
A
Women
have been relieved of
female troubles by Mrs.
Pinkham's advice and
medicine.
The letters of a few are
printed regularly In this
paper.
If any one doubts the
efficiency and sacredly
confidential character of
Mrs. Pinkham"a methods,
write for a book she has
recently published which
contains letters from the
mayor of Lynn, the post
master, and others of her
city who have made care
ful Investigation, and who
verify all of Mrs. Phdk
ham’s statements and
claims.
The Pinkham claims are
sweeping. Investigate
them.
THIRTY YEARS OF CURES
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