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PflISB, S1.50A YEAS, tti AEVAMOE.
Published Every Thursday Morning.
Jno.H. HODGES. Editor and Publisher
Perry, Thursday, February 19.
Georgia fruit growers are now on
■“the anxious seat.”
A first CLASS battleship is said to
•cost not less than $7,500,000.
Tub next Georgia state fair will
l)e held at Maoon, in Ootober next.
Commissioner Merritt will send
to the oounties this week funds to
pa A the January salary of the publio
eclrool teaohers.
Among the assets of an Atlanta
bank is published this item: “Cask
due from other banks and the U. S.
treasurer, $1,851,918.99.
Snow and sleet ooiered the west-
■ern states last Sunday, there being
also wind storms in Tex^s, Oklaho
ma and Indian Territory.
At last the difforenees between
England, Germany, Italy and Ven
ezuela have been referred to The
Hague tribunal for settlement.
.At Columbia, S. O., to-day an ap
plication for bail will be heard in be
half of Ex Lieutenant Gov. J. H.
Tillman, who shot and killed Editor
Gonzales several weeks ago.
At the state oonviot farm near
Miltedgeville last Friday .500 bales
of cotton were sold at auction, Of
the total, 9.97 cents per pound was
paid for 800 baleH, and 9 40 cents
for the bulunoo.
At Mercer University last Thurs
day Ex-Gov. Oandler delivered an
address on v “The Early Days of
Georgia," the ocoasion being the
annual oelebration of “Georgia" day
at the University.
In Atlanta last week the Georgia
Stato Agricultural Society decided
to hold the stale fair at Macon this
year, the citizens of Macon agreeing
to furnish the park and $16,000 to
defray the expenses of the fair.
Without exception thole who con
trol trus's are of the opinion that an
ti-trust legislation now “would be
hurtful to tho business interests of
the country." Undoubtedly this is
.an unadulterated trustful opinion.
Dr. J. L. M. Ouruy, the foremost
\ man of the south in educational af
fairs, manager of the Peabody and
Slaton funds, died at Ashville, North
Carolina, last Friday night. He was
born in Linooln county, Ga.,in June,
1825.
In response to u recent inquiry as
to the probability that he would be
a candidate for the presidency, Hon.
Grover Cleveland gave an evasive
answer, saying, in substanoe, that
anything from him in that connec
tion would not be interesting to the
people.
A mild sensation has been created
in Congressional oiroles by the pub
lished statement that the annual ex
penses of the white house have been
increased from $25,000 /to $60,000,
on account of the recent expensive
changes in the house and its ap
pointments.
At Uniontown, Pa., all employes
•of the H. C. Frick Coke Company
-and their families will be vacoinated
by order of the manager. In this
order 300,000 persons are affected,
and $10,000 has been spent for vao-
eine virus and fifty physioians en
gaged to do the work.
Glanders has appeared among the
horses in Troup county, and farmers
have applied to the state depart
ment for a veterinarian. Commis
sioner Stevens was unable to render
•the desired assistance, as the depart
ment has no veterinarian on the
staff, and no authority to employ
one.
On Lincoln’s birthday the senate
committee on oommerce refused to
.. -recommend the confirmation of Dr.
Crum, the negro appointed by Pres
ident Roosevelt to be collector of
the port at Charleston, S. C. As a
rebuke to the president, this is
tough, but to the people of Charles
ton it is just and proper.
The Great and The Small.
The attitude of England, Germa
ny aud Italy toward Venezuela in
their determination to force the
payment of debts alleged to be due
their subjects, evidently is based up
on the assumption by those powers
that might makes right. The just
ness of the demands has never been
acknowledged by Venezuela, and no
proof has been submitted, yet force
was used, destructive violence com
mitted, and the foreign commerce of
Venezuela stopped. The strong has
coerced the weak, aotion that should
be universally condemned.
Certain questions have been re
ferred for settlement to The Hague
tribunal, and the blockade of the
Venezuelan ports by the allies has
been abandoned. Of the agreement
our Washington correspondent says:
“Minister Bowen ha? brought to
a successful oonolusion the negotia
tions with Germany, Great Britain
and Italy, add has secured for Ven
ezuela as favorable terms aB could
be expeoted. The greatest triumph
of Mr. Bowen’s diplomacy, however,
lies in the fact that he has forced
Germany to show her hand and
demonstrate to the world that, in
her alliance with Great Britain, she
was actuated solely by selfish inter
ests. Oash payments were demand
ed by each of the allies, and Mr.
Bowen suggested that they name
the sum they thought proper. All
named a cash payment of $27,500,
including Count von Quadt, who
was then acting {or Germany. As
the prospeot of a peaceful settlement
beoame more definite, however, Ger
many instructed her ambassador to
withdraw her agreement and de
mand the full amount of the claim
named in the ultimatum to Venez
uela. This waB done, and had the
other allies followed suit a settle
ment would have been impossible,
but in the interest of peaee Great
Britain and Italy adhered to their
original agreement,and by the terms
of the protocol just signed they get
$27,500 each, while Germany! gets
$847,000, nearly thirteen times as
much as her partners in the transac
tion. Baron von Sternberg urged
hia government to modify this de
mand,but to no purpose, and Minis
ter Bowen confidently predicts that
Germany’s rapacity means doom to
her trade in South America."
The presidential booms now be
ing promoted will be serviceable at
least in attracting attention go men
as well as measures, and in extend
ing the time of “a campaign of edu
cation." At this juncture it is im
practicable to determine who will
best fit the democratic situation
when the active campaign begins.
Certain it is the democratic cause is
right, and the main purpose should
be to bring about complete harmo
ny among all who are opposed to re
publican misgovern men t and class
favoritism. Whoever is beat equip
ped to command harmony is the
man the democrats should nominate
for president.
On February 22nd the fourth an
niversary of the Georgia Industrial
Horae, five miles north of Maoon,
will be fittingly observed. If the
weather permits the exercises will
begin at 2:30 p. m., at the Academy
of Music. As founder and manager
of this benevolent institution, Rev.
W. E. Mumford has done, and is
doing, a great work, and he should
receive the cordial co-operation of
all Georgians who are able to con
tribute. While no oolleotion will be
taken during or after these anniver
sary exercises, we are safe in saying
that voluntary contributions will be
thankfully received.
In introducing the bill to pension
ex-slaves, Senator Hanna was cruel
to the negroes as well as hypocriti
cal to the entire country. He has
created the hope of living at the
government expense in the minds of
the ex-slaves, while he knew that
such> a bill could not be enaoted into
law. Suoh a bid for political favor
froin such ignorant people is Con-
temptable. As to the hortfal effects
of such a law it is not necessary to
allude.
Gen. William Booth, founder of
the Salvation Army, was in Atlanta
last week. The Oonstitntion says a
Georgia woman has donated to the
“Army” a thousand acres of land in
the southern part of the state to be
used fqr the establishment of a colo
ny of poor people from large oities.
Certainly this is charity of the right
sort.
A New Federal Department.
A new department of the federal
government has been created by
congress, and soon there will be an
other member of the president’s
cabinet.
Of the new department the asso
ciated press report says:
“The new department of com
merce bill passed by congress pro
vides for another cabinet officer and
places under his control the follow
ing bureaus, most of them by trans
fer from other departments:
“Bureau of corporations, bureau
of labor, the light house and steam
boat inspection service, the bureaus
of navigation and of standards, coast
aud geodetic service, the immigra
tion service, the ehippingveoramis-
sion, bureau of statistics' of the
treasury department, bureau of for
eign commerce of the state depart
ment, census bureau and fish com
mission.
“By the terms of what is . known
as the Nelson amendment, authority
and power is given the new bureau
of corporations to require specified
returns from large corporations, and
provision is made for publicity as to
their affairs to a certain extent."
Ready to Accommodate
All Who Need
Caskets, Coffins, Undertakers’ Supplies.
My stock is being received daily, and we are, ready to
sell at the Cater Store.
Everything new. Prices right.
R. L. Marchman,
SPeir^r, Q-a,.
After being in publio session for
more than three months, the^au-
thracite coni strike commission has
completed its hearings. Several
hundred wi loesses were heard, both
sides of the controversy being given
full opportunity to present their tes
timony. Last Friday the arguments
were concluded, and on Thursday
the commission will begin at Wash
ington the work of reviewing the
testimony and making a “verdict.”
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At Trentor, N. J., a coal products
trust was incorporated last Friday,
with an authorized capital of $16,-
000,000. Capitalists of New York
and New Jersey are the incorpora
tors, and the charter authorizes
them to mine coal, ore and miner<|
aid, the manufacturing the same, .tfy
construct railroads and operate
steamship lines.
At Havana last Sunday four hun
dred Americans observed the fifth
anniversary ofjtbe destruction of the
Maine. No official feature was at
tached, the exercises being purely
memorial.
Last Saturday the Evening Tele
gram published an interview with
Hon. W. J. Bryan, in which the Ne
braska statesman-editor is quoted as
saying, in part: “I have said on
many occasions that I am not and
will not be again a candidate for re
nomination, and you cannot make
that statement too emphatic."
Deafness Cannot be Cured
bv local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
muv iuuu 10 umy uni
way to cure deafness, and that Is by constitu
tional remedies. Deafnoss is caused by an in
flamed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflam
ed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect
hearing, and when it s entirely closed deafness
is tho result, and unless the inflammation can
be taken ouji and this tube restorod to its nor
mal condition, hearing will be destroyed forev
er, nine cases out of ton are caused by catarrh,
wliloh is nothing but an inflamed condition of
the mucous surfaces.
Wo will give One Hundred Dollars for any
ease of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can
not bo cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free.
Address. F. J. CHENS & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 76.
Hall’s Family Pills are tne best.
WARREN D. NOTTINGHAM.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
355 THIRD ST. MACON, GA.
Will praotioe in the several courts,
Federal and State.
Speoial attention given to causes in
the courts of this cirouit.
H. A. MATHEWS. A. C. RILEY.
MATHEWS & RILEY,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA.
Practice in all the Courts.
Loans negotiated and Land Titles
abstracted. Collections on all points.
Security Bonds furnished.
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JEWELEB,
Perry, Ga.
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