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VOL. XII. i 7 x F* FIRE DESTROYS TOWN Loss From Flames at Rawhide, \ : Nevada, Over $1,000,000. OVER 3,000 ARE HOMELESS Volunteer Fire Department, Aasitted By 500 Miners, Worked Heroically to Save the Place. Rawhide, Nev. —Three thousand people homeless, a score or more in jured, and a property loss of over $1,000,000, is tlie result of a disas trous fire which started in Dr. Gard ner’s office, located in the Rawhide Drug Company’s building. Fanned by a gale the fire swept rapidly south <*n<t ..act to iinlioon avenue and up Rawhide avenue to within titty yards of the People s hospital. Over a ton and a half of dynamite was used in the demolition of build ings, which in a measure stayed the flames' progress. The volunteer fire department and 500 miners worked heroically, but on account of the In flammable construction of the build ings they were swept away like tin der. In a short time the business por tidon of Rawhide was a smoldering ruin, the flames being finally checked south of Balloon avenue. Among the first buildings to go was Collins’ hardware store, which con tained two tons of dynamite that ex ploded with -a terrific rip, hurling •burning planks and boards a great dis tance, setting fire to numerous build ings simultaneously. The scenes were similar to those at the fire at. Goldfield in .Inly, 1906, and at Cripple Creek in April, 1596. Many people were injured >by flying debris. A famine was feared, as all the sup ply houses and grocery stores were wiped out. A subscription list was started, and in a few minutes over $5,000 was raised and a relief train started from Reno, carrying food and bedding, All the mining towns of the state came quickly to the assistance wf Raw hide sufferers with cash contributions. San Francisco Mining Exchange at once sent a contribution of SSOO. A partial list of the heaviest loser*- follows: Fir st Bnrik of Bank of Rawhide. "iv. -.s-Times building, Miz pah Mercantile Company. Nevada Meat Market, the Northern Texas, Richards, Marks & Co., Nevada Club, Downer Hotel, Kelly’s dance hall. The fire destroyed the hoisting works of the Bluff Mining Coompany, Grutt Hill properties and the Grutt business office, the loss on these amounting to SIO,OOO, which is the extent of damage done the mining properties. Plans were well under way for a reconstruction of the town before the ashes were cool. The Press-Times and Rustler news paper offices were saved, although the machinery of the news plant was destroyed. TRADE BOOMING IN MANY LINES. - - an ln Activity in **-*j. 1 ” Washington, D. C— Notably increas ed activities in a number of lines.-of • Industry in the United States are shown in the July report of the bu reau of statistics of the department of commerce' and labor, which has just been issued. There is a con siderably heavier live stock movement reported for the seven months end ing with July than for the correspon ding period of either of the two im mediately preceding two years. Grain receipts for July increased over thg preceding month and also over July of last year. Lumber and coal move ments, as well as the production of iron, continue to show marked ad- j vances over the preceding months of the year, although the total is still below the heavy figures of July. 1907. More than 70 per cent of the report ing car associations show gains over the preceding months of the current year. Live stock reports at seven inte rior primary markets aggregated 2,- 784.193 head. With returns from forty-five leading cities the building operations for July shelved improvement, a small gain over the remarkably large business of July of last year being reported. Packing house products, receipts of southern pine at New York, pig iron and other productions showed gains over the preceding month. Coal and coke traffic over seven eastern coal carrying roads during July, 1908, aggregating 9.961.996 tons, was far in excess of the preceding months’ totals, though still nearly 3,- 000,000 tons below the like shipments for July, 1307. Tliv increase over tlio June figures is largely due to the 1.- 000,000-ton increase in shipments of bituminous coal. FATAL FREIGHT WRECK. Engine Rolled Down an Embankment Scalding Fireman. Macon, Ga. —Tom Turner, an extra fireman, was scalded to death, and Engineer T. C. Benett and Conductor J. J. Rhodes Were severely injured when the engine of an extra freight on the Southern railway jumped the track on a siding -at Scotland and turned down a steep embankment. A rail turned on the siding while some cars were being moved. When the en gine left the tracks all the men on board jumped except the fireman, who was scalded to death under the heavy wreckage. Conductor Rhodes was brought to the Macon hospital. The other injur * od persons were taken to their homes. FOUR MEN SUFFOCATED. Fire In Fore Peak of British Bark Puritan. Botson, Mass.—Succumbing to the deadly fumes of burning pitch and oakum, deep down in the fore peak of the British bark Puritan, four sea men were suffocated and a fifth was partly overcome. The dead are Har ry E. Oslen, Carl Morsen, Peterson Beck, George Sunblade. The fire, which caused only slight damage, le supposed to have been j paused by •pontaneoua combustion. , The Miler tjfuntv Libera! . ' - ' -biHnia'r’ 1 ' 1 Hod OF POLITICAL INTEREST. Before a large audience in Brown auditorium of the Ohio Northern Uni versity at Ada, Ohio, Professor Aaron S. Watkins was officially notified of his nomination as the candidate for vice president by the national pro hibition party. In his speech of ac ceptance Professor Watkins declared that the saloon is doomed in the Unit ed States. Collar makers employed by a man ufacturer at Galesburg, 111., sent Wil liam Jennings Bryan a collar for Mr. Bryan's mascot mule. Every man in the shop took part in making the col lar. The Bryan democrats of Baltimore are organizing a company to start a morning paper. The bolt of the Sun leaves Mr. Bryan out of the morning j newspapers in Baltimore and the Bal timore papers cover Maryland. A socialist speaker in New York I got so eloquent recently in telling 1 about the awful condition of the work ing man that one of them who was listening to him tried to commit sui cide on the spot. General Jacob S. Coxdy, who led | the army of unemployed men from his home in Ohio to Washington fourteen years ago, has anounced that he in tends to work for the populist party and for the election of Thomas E. Watson during the presidential cam paign. Jay W. Forrest of New York, chair man of the national committee of the people's party, has established south western headquarters for the populist organization at St. Louis. According to Chairman Forrest the populists will poll one million votes in November. E. W. Chafin, prohibition candidate for the presidency, in aspeech de livered at Spokane, Wash., said that one of the first things he would do after Inauguration, should he be elect ed. would be to clean up the District of Columbia. He said Washington was one of the vilest cities in the world. The political situation in New York state has been jolted by the announce ment that Governor Hughes was kiss ed "by a striking blonde," after his speech at a county fair Just w..**r ! the brunette influence will be AbroWn is an open question. Exhausted bv ton speeches, Eugene V. Debs, candidate for president on , .He socialist ticket, arrived at Kan | sas City on his red special from Des- ■ Moines. Mr. Debs was greeted by a crowd of a hundred or more social ists. Outside of a few reporters Mr. Debs refused to see anyone. To the newspapermen, Mr. Debs said that he was contemplating taking his red special from Omaha, Neb., to Birming ham ,Ala., to campaign for the strik ing coal miners there. It was decided and announced that Judge Taft with his family would ac cept the hospitality of his brother, Charles P. Taft, when he goes to Cin cinnati at least for the.first few weeks of the campaign. Scores of republican spellbinders received a shock when Frank H. Hitchcock, the national chairman, an- I nounced that in the present'campaign Ino salaries will be paid to speakers. Expenses will be allowed, but the fat salaries which were paid in the cam- I palgns of 1900 and 1904 will be kept lin the Jreasi>rv for other and more I urgent IJr yan visited St. Paul, Minn., I and delivered several speeches in ■ which he expressed himself as being ! satisfied that Governor John A. John son of Minnesota, his leading rival . for the nomination before the Den ver convention, will loyally support him in the coming campaign. After long debate, the Central Fed erated Inion, which is the central or ganization of the labor unions of New York City, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, adopt ed a resolution pledging support to the democratic ticket. The independence league appeared ■ for the first time at the recent elec- I lion in Vermont, and polled about 1,- I 900 votes, while the prohibition and socialist vote remained about the same. In an open letter to friends in Tex as William Jennings Bryan makes an appeal to the Catholic vote. He pre faces his statement by references to reports alleged to have (been circulat ed in the present campaign to the ef fect that he was not and never had been disposed in a manner toward Catholics. This Mr. Bryan denies, ' and while declaring he is a member of the Presbyterian church he says he includes many Catholics among his dearest friends. “My gracious! It used to be that I when I said a thing was to be done, I that, settled it. But it does not seem I to be that way now. In these words, | to a recent visitor to Sag amore Hill, President Roosevelt show ed that he chafed under the defiant attitude of the leaders of the republi can state organization on the ques-1 tion of renominating Governor Hughes for governor of New York. Henry Waterson, editor of the Lou isville Courier-Journal, has given out a letter from Bishop Walters calling on negroes to vote the democratic ticket to secure fair treatment. W. J. Bryan will write each week until election a letter to be sent to every precinct democratic club in the country, giving advice and suggestion as to the campaign. The democratic national committee on college clubs organization includes the following southern members: F. H. Weston, South Carolina; H. H. Wallace, Athens, Ga.; M. T. Ormand, Alabama; A. A. Murphree, Florida; Luke Lea, Tennessee; C. Irving Carey, Virginia; R. E. L. Saner, Texas; Josh ua W. Herring, Maryland, and J. W. Swartz, Oklahoma. The organization of the eastern de-1 partment of the democratic national j committee has been completed and National Chairman Norman E. Mack has officially announced that National Committeeman Robert*. S. Hudspeth, of New Jersey, had been chosen vice eSeuntn or eenjrauioo eqi jo uuuiJißqa the democratic campaign in the east. The democratic national commit tee has decided to establish an anti trust bureau in New York. William ■ H. Black has been made head of the bureau of statistics and William Hoge ■ the chairman of the commercial trav eler!’ bureau. COLQUITT, GA., WEEfepAY, Jj TEMBER 9. 1908. SECRET PRICE IS FIXED By Farmers’ Union For Cotton Crop of 1908-09. PRESIDENT BARRETT TALKS He Saya Union Has Adopted Plans Which Will Insure Prosperity to Cotton Growers. Fort Worth, Texas. —The issue be tween the cotton producers of Amer i ica as represented to the Framers' j Union, and those to whom he sells hi;* 1 staple was formally joined when the | national convention reached its deter i ruination with regard to a selling price | and methods of marketing. ■When President Barrett of the Far ' mers’ Union was asked for a state ment concerning the prospects for the coming autumn, as affected by action taken, he said: “We have formulated plans, which, sis followed closely, will insure the cot ton growers of the south the most ( prosperous year in their history. We | have learned from the experience of the past few years, and you can as sure the commercial interests of the south that the Farmers’ Union is pre pared to do its part in guaranteeing the material welfare of the section for the forthcoming twelve months. "Our rank and file now know their strength and their weakness/ They are going to make the mos,- of the one, and be watchful of the other, if every member of this union does not obtain a price for his cotton this year commensurate with its value and his labors, it will not be because plans have not been laid carefully, scrupu lously and painstakingly to that end." The adjustable scale of prices fixed for the crop of 1908-99. the concen tration of the power of disposition In a few hands, and the close alliance with spinners, together with arrange ments foi withholding cotton from the market in such quantities and at such times as the situation dictates, all conspire to place the plans of the union on a businesslike basis. It is the opinion of the highest officials of I the union that the steps taken at the j convention this year will inaugurate : a new era in the matter of securing a full money return for the backbone crop of the southern states. As President Barrett expressed it, “each one of the many million people in the south dependent upon the pro duction of cotton in its innumerable phases will have reason to look with gratitude on the wisdom of the dele pn»os to this convention before the union shall have again been called Into annual session.” Much controversy, it is understood, arose over the price to be fixed, one faction favoring 12 cents and another 14 cents. The discussion at times be came so heated and -bitter that it was feared the delegates would come to blows, but President Barrett and oth er cool heads succeeded in allaying threatened trouble. When the matter finally came to a vote a 12-cent mini ■ mum proposition was defeated, but a | resolution was adopted providing that the price fixed which could not be as- I certained. shall be in force only for i.WrJy national handling com- Slower it. as the size of'the crop tnen I seems to justify. Tim following officers were re-elect ed: Charles S. Barrett, Georgia, presi dent; J. E. Montgomery, Tennessee, vice president; R. H. McCulloch, of Arkansas, secretary and treasurer ; directors: W. A. Morris, Alabama; T. M. Jefferds, Oklahoma; I. N. McCol lister, Louisiana. _ FEDERAL EMPLOYEES WARNED. In Regard to Participation in Polit ical Campaigns. Washington, D. C.—A note of warn ing against federal employees resign ing to participate in political cam paigns with the expectation of possi bly leentering the service is sound ed in a statement given out by Ibe civil service commission defining Its attitude. Inasmuch as the issuance of a cer tificate is discretionary with the com mission,” says the letter, which is signed by President John R. Black, "no certificate will be issued in any case where the party seeking rein statement resigned with a view to •running for office or indulging in a degree of political activity which would be prohibited if he,had remain ed in the service, afterwards having failed in his candidacy, or having in dulged in the contemplated political activity, seeks reinstatement.’’ AGED WOMAN CREMATED. Gadsden, Ala.—Mrs. Elizabeth Mc- Neal, aged 75 years, and her invalid daughter-in-law, Mrs. Joe McNeal, aged 50 years, were burned to death I in a tire which destroyed their home on Lookout Mountain, eight miles north of this city. Government Cotton Crop Report. Washington, D. C. —The crop report of the department of agriculture I shows that the average condition of ■ the cotton crop on August 25 was 76.1 • per cent of a normal. This compared with 83 on July 25, last; 72.2 on Aug ust 25, 1907; 77.3 on August 25, 1906; and 73.9 the average of August 25 con ditions for the past ten years. Fears For Safety of Ship. San Francisco, Cal—Gravest fears are entertained for the safety of the British steamer Aeon, which cleared : from this port for Sydney and has not yet arrived here. The steamer Lord Sefton, of the same ine, has arrived at Auckland and reports no sign of the Aeon. $500,000,000 In United States Vault! Washington, D. C. Uncle Sam, | enriched $500,000,000 by the provis ions of the Vreeland-Aldrch emergen cy currency measure, has so much money on hand that he cannot wait I for the construction of the new vaults in the treasury building, but has rent ed storage vaults in the Union Trust building and placed relays of armed guards both inside and outside of the tanking offices, to protect the millions of dollars awaiting the call of an emergency that may never material ize. SEVEN PEOPLE n . Summer Vi.itor. are L*.J whlk Bnating at Deer Is! t j Deer Isle, Maine.- Bummer visitors out of a par,,. o£ tcn w „ rG drowned by the s_foot 5 _ foot I sloop in Penobscot ii this ' island. The drowned ?’. ice Torro, Washington ' A.' M : s .. Eleanor Toro c ■ Miss Kellog, Baltimo , logg Baltimore; Mrs. s . e ( * raw ley, Philadelphia- Mu Ellzabetll Evans, Mount Holyoke lrv sachusetts; Jasop A i Hutchins, ot Bangor Those I c ta „ Haskell, Peer Isle, /r. > teggor Edwar(J Crawley, Philadelphi usuand of Mrs. Crawley; Hear f E M( Holyoke, brother of M / Ellzabelh Ev . ans. w With captain Sam. . Ha koll the patty of light-hearti t* umm , e started out for a T ~l obs cot Bay The wtnd wa ;bi; S()U ,, V west and squally. « , gI wag of the open” variety. J v It had no deck . . , . .'tv w rd and no cabin, and i. contai. ballast as ■ ’ he parl , y , °, f ten , W d ’he boat down quite heavily, J -, a laiu llas kell, an experienced d 101 ln lhese waters, tboughhhat tig, ft would be veil balan'i. 1 , )(5 had scarcely been. g* e an h the wtnd freshened i A- ~ sloo rhe U o°e V eXts d f’- 'r'A-yupon AH the party*— . d hi , gh on he weather snk , , cut through the wave»‘ r £, r al most coming over *.ne .^ les on the 1 lee side, when Captai" 1 a shout of warning g o Tng to tack and then the tiller Jue. at. this momen i , . high up on a wave, /j . boa ‘ roae the full brunt of the. ’M 1 ” , her to usually heavy gu 1 /', d ~A- n and in a twinkling went over on her beam ends, anti th. party of ten were thrown into th, « ,ter. For one brief moment fit was every one for one’s self. W<ig.,ted down with their water-soaked doilies and chilled through by tlw' '-U water, the women were unable to keep j selves afloat. Some grabbed the , person nearest ther by lie neck and in some instances til, . had gont down together, clasped ,li ach oth er’s arms. » The three men*in the tender found that they were almost id ir ipable of giving assistance in th. r ,at as if they had been in the vit Os the rest of the pft but two were in sight and the - >at was headed for them. Theyp re Lutie Kellogg and Miss Evans ' ley were unconscious, and althouy'i be rescu ers worked vigorously o et ’hem all efforts to restore life fa The bodies were taken ashor • SAVED FROM INSTAN f DEATH. A. L. Banks Lassoed is He Was Go ing Over Pr e. . San ' Bernardino, (al —Archie L. Banks, a prominent r*si. fnt of Phil i adelphia, was saved ” liom instant death by William log, rs of New York, in a most remark Ole manner in the mountains near h re. A party of fourXlfemo A r of London, William R ~ »rt Shea of New York i the' San’ 'Tieiuffi’airatf“ .0” Banks horse slipped f down an embankment Mnrt a prec ipice. At the very br ,ild grapsed a small bush, which w to give i way under the. strain, 'lie iere was the swish of a lasso ai t’ mperiled man fpund himself nr “d by ; rope, thrown with u: n g aim 1 ■ Rogers. With the ex< >i i of a few bruises and a severe t vous sho. k I Banks was uninjured SEVEN MILLION 4mEN.. Council Now Said to i ve That Mem bership—Opens Geneva Geneva, Switzerland rThe .nterna tional council of woi. u, wl • h was organized by America (worn, i at the Chicago world’s fair / L- 93, and whose membership to* L about 7.000,- 000, representing all parts of the world, met her?. Till work of the council was prcliminr. ' to the great congress, of women i be held next year at Toronto, Cat la. The Amer lean delegates presen yere Mrs. Kate Barrett, the vice ? sident of the American council, and rhe Rev. Anna Shaw. WOMAHiLLS iuSBAND. Says He Was Meat to Her and Abused ter. Jonesboro, Ark. —Mt. A h Pickett shot and killed her ausb; L a well known resident qf JcJesboro, because, she alleges, he was .Lean to her and abused her.” Mrs. Pickett escaufl with her step father, a prominent farmer, but both were arrested latet Mrs. Pickett confessed. ANTI-BUCKET HO? LAW. It Is Effective in N w York—Will Aid Regular iitchange. New York City.—The so-called anti bucketshop law wh.fh was enacted by the legislature thi jyear and approv ed by Governor Hithes has been put into operation in Lis city. Charles H. Badeau, presid Jit of the Consoli dated Stock exchr.tee, said that as a tesult of the ne law the exchange expects a considt able increase in business. He sai that numerous in quiries had been hade since the pas sage of the law ay .bucketshop men to secure .direct i presentation on the consolidated exchange, but that all such efforts had peen fruitless. OVEIA SfiOROWNED. British 3ark Arazon Wrecked—Six Bodies W*hed Ashore. Neath Wales. -The Britishh bark Amazon, for Iqu jue from - Port Tal bot, ha been wiicked near the latter port. >nly five but of her crew of thirty-t o were laved. Six bodies alreadj have been, washed ashore. It is eared all the rest of the crew of the A oazon were drowned. The bark was iriven ashote during the night of tl I storm and soon be came a total w®ck. EXTRA SESSION OF LEGISLATURE PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE. The house having adopted the Hol der convict lease bill presented it to the senate. The upper house killed all the original sections of the Holder bill and substituted in place the dlt ferent sections of the “skidoo" bill. They then passed it and returned it to the house, who refused to accept It as amended. A system of parole and conditional pardon for |£e Georgia penitentiary was passed by the house when the bill providing for this by Mr. Persons of Monroe was passed unanimously, 133 memibers voting. The bill provides . for all convicts except those convict ed of two or three certain crimes, to receive the advantages of a parol*? and conditional pardon, but. it is pro vided that each convict shall serve the minimum sentence prescribed for the crime of which he was convicted. Mr. Persons made an interesting speech and p good impression on the other members of the house, and sev eral announced that they had changed their minds on the subject. As Mr. Slater of Bryan lau-i pointed out it gives the poor man -the man w; . rtt money or political influence—a chain to redeem himself and have hope for the future. The bill was by unani mous consent transmitted immediate ly to the senate. The house of representatives pass ed the Wise "near-beer” tax, by a vote of 99 to 32. A tax of S2OO is placed on dealers and SSOO on manu facturers of imitation beers " The provision <Jf the bill limiting the amount of alcohol the imitation beer may contain to one one-half per cent was defeated q-p, nat<- is conin»i*<*»a to n tax ot SIOO on dealers and SSOO on manu facturers of imitation beers, but it is not appreliended that the two I houses will experience a great deal of trouble getting together on the ques tion. The bill passed by the house pro vides that the funds derived from the tax shali go to support the convicts.. The >lll by Mr. Perry of Hail tn stop the convict lease system I.' amendment to the state constitution at the termination ol the present leases, March 31st next was lost by a vote of 116 to 39. The bill not hav ing received the requisite two-thrids majority of 122, required for amend meats to the constitution, was there- IN THE SENATE. Emasculated in proposed executive features, but otherwise intact, the substitute to the Felder convict bill, known as the ‘'skidoo” or “23” bill, was passed iby the senate by a vote of 33 to 10. The bill is one of the most compre hensive ihqt has yet been offered in solution of the question that is troub ling the state, one of its most inter esting features being th • levying of an Income tax. The provision abolishing the pris on commission and creating in its place a hoard of control, Consisting of the governor, commislsoner of agri culture and atteorney general, was stricken from the substitute. The provision f r an income tax of one-half of one per cent on all ii>- .iff posed. *x o*':, was reduced *roi’.> <m</ )A ! dollars; the tax of ss'bj on m n : * turers of imitation beads remain*... un changed. An amendment requiring the mcm bers of the prison commission to give all of their timi » the discharge of their duties was passed. The es’setnial details of the substi tute follow The stats has direct supervision of all felony and misdemeanor convicts. The misdemeanors may, however, be worked by the counties. The lease system terminates on the night of March 31, 1909. The money derived from the hire of convicts in" the meantime shall be set aside as a prison fund. The money already appropriated for * the support of the prison department is made immediately available. The money derived from the imita tion beer tax shall go into the fund to maintain the convicts. The felony convicts now hired out to lesses and used by the counties shall be givemt over to the commis-; sion on April 1, 1909. The commission may, in its discre tion, purchase one or more farms. The convicts shall be divided into gangs or squads, and, under the su pervision and management of the state, shall work in the several coun ties of the state upon the public roads or other public works. The work to be done in the respec tive counties shall be apportioned by the commission in proportion to pop ulation. The material used in road improve- ’ ment shall be furnished by the coun ties for which the work.is done. The action of the directors of the Savannah board of trade in abolish- < ing the grades of C and A of rosins, < amounts to’a decided innovation in ’ the naval stores world. Ever since s naval stores have been marketed < there have been three low grades, A, I B and C. They have in recent years < been bunched together so far as quo tations a?e concerned and some of I the foreign buyers have been kicking : recently that when they bought low ’ grade rosins they got more A’s than * anything else. To overcome this ob jection it was decided to abolish en tirely the A and C grade and bunch . the rosins that have been placed un der one or the other of the three low- * er grades as B's. It is expected this will stop the kicking of our English ; and German cousins. ,: How badly in need of a place for working the misdemeanor convicts of 1 Savannah. Chatham county is, was shown when there were so many prls- : oners in jail that some of the cells 1 bad to be occupied by more than one 1 person. There were almost two hun- 1 dred and fifty prisoners in jail re- 1 cently before the police court sent its quota there. This class of prisoners do not work but remain in Jail as an , expense to the city. The city and the , county are now preparing a plan by ’ which it is proposed to work the city convicts on the county farm, near the city limits* j Vicious and long term men shall Hie held on the farm or farms. None of the products of the farms are to be sold in competition with free labor. The convicts are to raise such products as will be used by the state institutions and road gangs, also the convicts shall make tools, machin ery, etc., such as will be required by the road gangs. The money for the purchase of the required land and the road equipment will be taken from the special prison fund, to be accumulated as indicated. STATE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. Beal Brothers bottling works at Monticello werre entirely destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire is un known. The loss is estimated a' $4,000, with SI,OOO insurance. Contract was awarded for a juli in Polk county, Georgia, that will cost nearly $20,000, and for the building of a $50,000 fertilizer factory a' I'lird* '.* . G-a. Meigs enjoys the distinction of bar ing a bank whose deposits have doub led In the year 1908, notwithstanding that the vear was ushered in amid i sadly troubled busint l Owing to tlr*- *, ing July and August, ..*■ couui. . , In Hancock county will not be over 60 per cent of last year's yield, a t cording to estimates of close observ ers of the crop. W B. Spence, who attempted to commit suicide at Columbus, by cut * ting his throat with a razor, and who i is in the hospital for treatment, is im ■ proving slowly. His physicians say he will recover. The city of Hartwell held an elec tion to determim whether or not the city should hav* pt 'h . 's, re ; suiting in a large vote, and . four against public schools. The Georgia and Alabamma Indus trial Index says: "Anotb ■ ing testimonial * ,f " ,e superiority and growliu popularity ot southern mar ble Is found in the beautiful Girard building, which has just been com pkH * In Philadelphia, Os Georgia marbl* it is, within and without, and it is regarded as one of the hand somest structures in the Quaker me tropolis. While the New England marble is soft, white and beautiful, it absorbs readily the smoke and im purities of a great city. The marble found in the hills of north Georgia | being of a harder and more crystal line formation is non-absorbant and is regarded as peculiarly adapted for j construction purposes in large cities." Fourteen fires occurred in Macon during the month of August, while in August, 1907, only nine alarms were answered by the Macon fire depart ment. During the past month only one bad fire occurred and that was Huhn’s hardware store early in the month. The other fires were *mj' ones and the damage done amounted to very little. J. A. Bagwell of Lawrenceville, Ga.. has bought the Marietta Courier. Mr. Bagwell recently sold the Gwinnett ; County Journal, of which he was edi , tor and came to Marietta. One < the most successful revivals ever held in .’'b’?',. "oosa lias just been ( over ' • ’ bT ' “ Ba i t,Bt v.-.-re adqpu -■ u*.L * ..:C ami prciosion ol faith Ihe :>’•finance of baptism was .ad.: . jred to the new members at the T; llapoosa river and one of the largest crowds ever In attendance upon any occtuion was present it being estimated that there were two thousand people at the river.. The resignation of Judge J. H Mar tion of Columbus of the superior courts of the Chattahoochee cir'-uit, which was sent to the governor some time ago, took effect, and Honorable S. Price Gilbert, who was apponted by the governor to succeed him, was sworn in, Judge William Redd, of the ordinary’s court of Museogee county officiating. At the same time that . Captain Gilbert was sworn in as judge he vacated the office of solici tor general of the circuit court and Honorable George C. Palmer, who had ■been appointed by the governor to succeed him, was also sworn in as so licitor general. Judge Martin retires with the confidence, esteem and good will of the people of the entire cir cuit and the new officials enter upon the discharge of their duties under most favorable auspices. More than $6,000 was subscribed in Savannah for the relief of the Augus ta flood sufferers. This is the largest amount raised in any city. Heavy contributions were made on the floor of the Savannah cotton exchange. The American Naval Stores company sent the Press fund SSOO, and Spencer H. Shotter, chairman of the board of the same concern, sent the Morning News’ fund, a similar amount. In a determined effort to rid the city of blind tigers the city council of Albany has offered a standing re ward of SSO to any citizen, policeman, sheriff or deputy or any other city or county officer who will supply in formation, with evidence to convict, of the operation of any blind tiger. The permits issued by the building inspector of Atlanta shows that dur ing the month of Auguts just closed there were issued permits aggregating over a third of a million Collars, or to be exact $389,305, a clear gain of $46,633 over the month of Aug., 1907. With this appreciable increase the total increase for the eight months of 1908, over the same number for 1907 is $226,026. The total for the year 1908 up to date being $3,796,573, as against $3,569,547 for last year Three delegates from Waycross have been appointed by Governor Hoke Smith to attend the Internation al Tuberculosis congress, which will convene in Washington, D. C„ Septem ber 21st to October 12th. The ap pointees are Professor E. A. Pound, superintendent of the etty schools; Dr. J. L. Walker and Dr. R. P. Izlar Shellman cotton receipts for the season of 191)7-418 were 11,434 bales. There was received here during Aug ust, this year, 2,000 bales of new cot ton, which breaks all records of pre I vlous years. IS <l. COTTON GROM Heaviest tn Years ? ,:cord Reports From Gver ? ESTM H*«vy * * n ' to S C> Short. (*f th*- -1* 1■ - * y ■ a half till ■ ■ a ”- i: * duct! n l:ii ’ * vi* ' hundred ■ ta too 11 i ing one and a qua t* : lortunity to * ! Macon; 11* rd ' have ad*- > ai ■ situati*.and the-. . ly alarmed at the *. have r**c ; d. Out of the .46 -v.'iii--- .. ”1' wo is the cotton crop lor.'.iiiua "’ good this year as her other 141 ennnti ■■ Aom 10 r* • < ‘ •’ ‘The heavy rains, which w-*r< 1 era! throughout the state two or three weeks ago. followed by the exceeding hot weather, accounts for the damage." said Commissioner Hud son. "The two excesses—too much rain and too much heat—caused the cotton to shed its young bolis and squares to such an extent that every acre of farm land in Georgia was lit eraliv covered with them. "The damage is greatei this year Ilian ever before in my ku vledgc,” he continued, "and the worst of It is that it is now too late to offset or counteract the damage. Tli ? crop is made, and it is the shortest in the history of the state in recent years.” WILL NOT CLCSE COPPER MINES. Attorney General Gives His Reason For Not Enforcing Injunction. Atlanta, Ga -In a statement relat ing to the liisi-tcuce Os the people of Fannin ccnntj that tne uucktown copper mines be closed at one*, in order to abate the nuisance arising from the fumes of ..moke and gas. Attorney llenera! John C. Hart has set forth the-'leasoiis * by he has not enforced the injunction secured by the state against those conlpaiiles. vhe injunction’v. gS to go Into I fee onlj after reasonable time had I been allowed the mines aaate Ta I nuisance compl ’tied of *t*'’ th spot t about $1.000,00<: msk'lliag ’’t phuric acid chan ' ■■ to •01 ,ert th fumes ::i. s-p- u.irn ■ ■ a.;. “The compani* .. est effort to eorri-ct the evil. . ~h plained of." <aid tre :>>tcrt r - tl. "and it it. only 'a les-n n . '*: - * ; til the cause of tn • v ii-.Mi.i- wfi be entirely removed ! * i *' w these companies *.-,i* m*-:.i* . ,;.-s of a million dollr:. ***'.• . ! Georgia Tb*'-, a** M i 'in'. * 'i state th*' itlpb' ' - * from the fume reduction in tin i ■ ■ *■: the farmers of the s’.,- I have nM-i.-l to insist tba' take care ot tb.“- turn* ■ ' ’ ■ they are Itov 1:1 ■ ■ fort to do *, -i ing.” 17 INSURANCE U ,E Failed to File S- ’ ments as Re : Atlanta, Ga. fire insurance ■cn have failed to cm n * law. which requlr the governor sen and. as a result, red from doing bu for the balance * they resume, they .* i be required to tal>< out Teh companies are: Tb ■ tan Fire insurance Con , York; the United Stan s surance Company of N ■ Great Western Life It pany of Kansas Ci'l tectlve Association Mass.; the South Atl ancc Company of Ri< General Acciderr ration of Perth, Sec politan Surety York; th*' United Ann Accident In -: . adelphia, Pa Accident Insurant ver. Col.; the A: Association of Aila. Insurance Company las. Ga., the Great Sou dustrial Association of Bi'-m.: Ala.; the Mutual *.* Insuratn* :■- pany of Cordele, y . eflt Industrial Lif ’’C vannah, Ga.; I lion • * : tion of Savannah, G;., $334,000 iNCßt,i>r. ' Dougherty County’s Tax Returns Show Big Increase. Albany, Ga.—When the tax retu* « of Dougherty county were finally con solidated it was found •bet th* In crease over 190 v amounted *o a **-iai of over $334,0011. which s ■ lieved be the largest percentage of increase shown by any county of the state. The total foi the county is a little less than $6,000,000. The colored tax payers of the coun ty show a falling off in property r«- turned of sl7,<W-