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THE AVTLMTNGTON MESSENGER, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3, 1899. lit iiatered at' the Postofflce at Wllmlng- n, N. C. a second class mall matter. TIB DAILY MESSENGER, by mail, ct year, $7.00: six months, $$3.50; three vontha, $L75: one month, 50 cents. rflE SEMI -WEEKLY MESSENGER t o 8 page i' 'irs), by mall, one year, r. ; &Lx mnr.uj, 50 cents, in advance. ;FRlOAY, NOV. 3, 1899 ' HOW LONG? The wiseacres are discussing just how long the British war upon the Boers will last. As one power Is an hundred times strong', r than the other it might be supposed without violence that the bi?- dog would devour the little dog in a week or a month. One man in Lon don predicts a six-weeks' war and the final squelching of the brave Boers. But a South African traveller and hunter, Mr. P. C. Selous, takes another view al together. He thinks it may extend to a year and a half. The British New York Evening Post says: "He scouts the notion that Boer marksmanship has deteriorated, and certainly the list of British killed and wounded at Glencoe and Elandslaagte goes far towards giving that idea its quietus. On the other, hand, a British officer of long experience contends that the rifle is not to be the deciding weapon in this war, and that therefore Boer skill with small a.ms, no matter how great it may be, will not count as much as is commonly thought. It is artillery fire, with three times the range of the rifle, that is to be the de termining factor." The last i3 the probable view. Two armies- of equal bravery, skill and weapons may be opposed. If one has a plenty of Maxims and other modern ar tillery it can destroy the other not so armed. The Boers, according to the British reports of .losses, have been well nigh wiped out. But they still fight and kill and compel retreats. But Buller has arrived at Oape Town and will soon be in command. He is repre sented as a fierce fighter, believing in killing, and he will wipe the earth with the unfortunate Boers. He would do well to keep out of range of the en emy's rifles. Mr. Howard Ciagett, oSan Francis co, is in New York. He spent several years in the Transvaal and knows the country and ithe Boers. He does not believe in the grit of the Boers. He thinks if defeated in one battle they will give up the fight. He looks for the British campaign to begin in another way from the present that they will work into the Orange Free State from the south along .the rou'te of their railroad. He says, and it is worth con sidering now if his view, should prove to be incorrect, as given in the New York Tribune: "I hardly think the English have any intention of trying to enter the Trans vaal by .way of the Tongue of Natal and the Transvaal. They may, of course, but if they do it will be an al most suicidal plan of campaign, as in those mountain gorges a few can with stand the many, and to win them the entire way will have ,to be marked with the corpses of English dead, and from the mountain sides will run streams of Tommy Atkins's blood. Once through the mountains and on the veldt of the Transvaal the fight will be over, and the Boer republic a thing of the past. The veldt is a rolling country, closely resembling that of Belgium. Th field of Waterloo looks like a scene from the veldt of the Transvaal." "SHUT HIM OUT." r4 confederate veterans of Virginia ha-, e no use for John Fiske.' s "History of the United States", to be used in the schools of that state. They have re solved against it and in plain 'words. Fiske is an able, scholarly New Eng land author, but like all his people he is a partisan against the south. The "Grand Camp" in Virginia, through the chairman of the committee on history, declares that Fiske is "an advocate seeking to secure pardon for the wrong doings of his own section by persuading the 2orld of the guilt of ours; by con vincing all who read or study his book that in defiance of all reason, because of the wrong of slavery, we argued be fore the war and fought in it, not from conviction of duty or loyalty to our con stitutional rights and those of our chil dren; not even from ulted and out raged manhood, but simply to hold the negro In possess5.." Fiske, like many others, really kno S.but little of the real greivances of th. south or he ig nores them purposely. The report calls upon "the veterans to use their influ ence to prevent the use of Fiske's book both in public and private schools." That is right, shut out forever all such unfriendly, one-sided, ignorant and ma licious books. They are false. to history and hurtful to truth. MR. 1IRITT OX OXFORD ASYLUM. Mr. John T. Britt, the owner of the Oxford Ledger, has made a statement relative to the Masonic Asylum matter in which he mentions that an investiga tion made relative to a negro being em ployed in the asylum to instruct the girls satisfied the Masons that the re port was erroneous. He made the statement in good faith, believing it to be true. He says that "the fact still remains, as is shown by the Report of the "committee, that the negro woman was employed to do the same work -which the girls were doing and received Tier instruction from the same matrons the girls did, and in the same room with them and on the same work the assis tant matron had begun and would have finished had not she been sick. By re ferring to the Crews' woman's testi mony you will find this to be substan tially correct, and in that particular sense she was occupying Miss Tucker's place until the work she had already In hand was completed." - He also has something to say of Miss Bemis, a northern woman invested with "dictatorial rule" in the asylum, and who is no favorite with the Masons and people not Masons. His words are: "Be that as. It may, there is no deny ing the fact that the public, both in and outside of the Grand Masonic Fra ternity, whose glorious work is to take care of the widows and orphans iu which the Puulic Ledger joins hands, looks with suspicion upon the present administrattion of the beloved Orphan Asylum because the real head Is a northern woman and not a Mason of course, whose methods are not in ac cord with southern Ideas, and this same fact has been, the cause of much friction in the Grand Lodge of Masons of North Carolina." He is not a Mason but he would help the ancient order he honors. He asks why could not the Manager Bemis "have sought out a widow or daughter of a Mason, of whom there are plenty to be found, and given them the work when she found out that the girls could j not keep up with the work instead of continuing the colored woman even af ter attention had been called to it?" The Masonic asylum is a public insti tution helped by the state with a $10, 000 yearly appropriation. Its affairs be long to the public. Its management should be satisfactory. HOME FOLKS. There is a row threatened at Mount Holly over the rescuing of a negro prisoner by a negro mob. Defying ar rest and inviting war will possibly brirrg forth legtimate results. The majesty of the law must be upheld in spite of the negroes, who defy. The Moore County Tribune, published' at Carthage, by. Mr H. A. Foote, starts off well and promises to be much the best paper ever published in that county. From the number of "Judges" we see mentioned from time to time in the state newspapers the crop must be abundant. Many of them are new names to us, but that is possibly "to confess yourself unknown." v We can but wonder what some of them are "judges" of. HKEVITIES. Democrats are beginning to talk of carrying Nebraska. But will they? The Pennsylvania railroad company, and New York Central have ordered be tween them 13,000 new freight cars to cost $12,000,000. Bryan is hard to head off. He replied in Kentucky in this wise: "If you ask me why the republican party does not destroy trusts, the an swer is, 'Remember now thy creator.' " The Chicago Chronicle publishes a timely cartoon. John Bull and Kruger are in a big fight each armed with huge daggers and axes. Skulls surround them. In the rear of each naked negro savages are sitting looking on in amaze ment. The motto is "An object lesson in advanced civilization for Afrikan" ders." A cottoji steamer at New Orleans takes out 28,000 bales. Judge Tarvin thinks Goebel will go in. Hon. A. F. Vandeventer, of Arkan sas, has been canvassing Kentucky, and says Goebel will beat by not less than 35,000 majority. Bryan is to make 66 speeches in Ne braska in seven days. And still the gold bugs swear he is dead. The Boers fighting for country, for independence, for liberty have again administered to the gallant British another terrible drubbing. They have magnified their performance at Majuba Hill and shown that they know how to conduct war in a way to win. English pride is again lowered, and they will cry out more than ever for vengeance and destruction. When the great Brit ish force reaches the scene of war the tide of victory will turn, for an army of nearly 100,000 brave fighters can over come less than half that number. Hon Carl Schurz, equal in ability to any republican living, and superior to all with the exception of perhaps a half dozen leaders, the foremost man of the Germanic race in America, is an ardent, bold antagonist of the craze for imperialism in our land. He speaks against it with eloquence and power. He writes against it with his usual clearness and force. In a letter dated 23rd October, 1899, he expressed his op position to imperialism, and declared it was "more dangerous than free sil ver," thus accentuating his gold bug horror of bimetallism and imperialism. He concludes with the declaration: "I am of the honest conviction that the greatest danger that now threatens the republic is imperialism. I believe that it is our highest patriotic duty to set aside all party interests and do our best to avert this danger." Mark Hanna, the leprous, is being properly handled at Columbus, Ohio, by travelling salesmen, who held a meeting, 140 being present. They adopt ed resolutions charging that Hannaism has increased the prices for staple com modities. They say this has been going on for eighteen months by and through the action of trusts. They say that the increase is on the articles used in every household, thereby increasing the work f salesmen while impoverishing the onsumers. We give this from the res olutions: "Whereas by comparing prices of 1899 as against those of 1S3S we find an ad ance of from 50 to 150 per cent, in every household necessity; and Whereas the Hon. Marcus A Hanna, the political godfather of the republi can party, takes great pleasure in de claring trusts a good thing; therefore Resolved, That we denounce the re publican party as the mother of trusts, and pledge our best efforts to. defeat Hannaism at the polls in November 7. 1399." HONORING A TItUE AND'XOBLE JIEROE. Atlanta was visited with areat sor row when Dewey failed to turn up. It is happy and rejoicing once more, over the flattering prospect that equally as great a hero and victor will soon be there, the great naval commanderand fighter. Rear Admiral Schley, -who is so hated and persecuted by the McKlnley gang of incapables at Washington. And all because he won the great fight at Santiago, and earned the very laurels that the said gang "have outrageously attempted to filch from him and place them upon the envious and small Samp son, who was not even so much as in the fight. Atlanta will duly honor the good democrat born in Maryland, who rescued the explorer Greeley in the frozen north, and destroyed the Span ish fleet at Santiago. In the Atlanta Journal of 2Sth ult, there are Interesting sketches at some length the history of the great victory over Cervera, and the "Story of the Eventful Life" of a Maryland boy who started at 16 year3 of age at Annapolis, twenty years later received the starv ing survivors of a most hazardous Po lar expedition, performed the unexam pled feat of destroying an entire fleet, and is rear admiral now. He was born in 1839. His first naval fight was in 1862. In March 188S he was made a cap tain. We quote from the sketch: "In 1889-91 he was in command of the unarmored steel cruiser 'Baltimore,' during the difficulties in Chill, arising from the murdering of two of-his crew and the wounding of some thirty-six others by a mob in Valporaiso. He was also commissioned to sarry to Sweden the remains of John Ericsson, the fam ous inventor, for which service King Oscar awarded him a gold medal." He was ordered to the command of the Brooklyn in February 1898. Here is more of the enlightening sketch: "It was on May 19,189?, that he was ordered by Sampson to blockade Cien fuegos, at which it was thought by Sampson that the fleet of Admiral Cer vera had secreted itself. "On May 20th, another order from Sampson says: "Schley should hold his fleet off Cienfuegos. If the Spanish ships have put into Santiago they must come either to Havana or Cienfuegos to deliver the munitions of war which they are said to bring for use in Cuba. I am, therefore, of the opinion that the best chance to capture these ships will be to hold the two points, Havana and Cienfuegos, with all the force we can muster.' This was his official order. It was Schley who in being ordered to Santiago by the navy department, discovered the Spanish fleet there on May 29th. There it remained completely block aded by the American fleet until July 3rd. At.' 8:45 on that tremendous day Sampson signalled from his flagship: 'Disregard movements from the commander-in-chief.' He then steamed eastward to Si boney." Read that and remember what fol lowed. Here we see that Schley was the first to discover the Spanish fleet on 29th May, where it was blockaded until 3rd July. Sampson signalled to Schley "to disregard" his Sampson's movements. Schley was in command then, and what followed? The world knows the magnificent fight by Schley and his ships and the unparalleled vic tory. Now read one more: "The peo ple have crowned Schley as the victor. The Brooklyn was the nearest to the Spanish ships at every stage of the ac tion, and was the most injured of all the American ships. She was struck twenty-seven times and her chief yeo man was killed by a shell while stand ing near Commander Schley. He was the only man killed in the battle." The Spanish officers said that they feared Schley and his ship more than any other vessel of the fleet. While the McKinley set have damned him and Sampson has been consumed by "green envy," he has been much honored by the American people who know a true hero. The sketch gives a view of the "blushing honors" that have befallen him. Read this: "During this period of rest he was invited to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Richmond and other cities where he was banqueted and feted and praised for the stupend ous work of the fleet under his com mand at Santiago a victory which finds no parallel in all the history of naval warfare. "Honors were heaped upon him. On December 22d, last, he was presented with a magnificent jewelled and gold sword by the people of Pennsylvania in the 'Temple' at Philadelphia. On Jan uary 29, ,1899, at Carnegie hall, New York, he was presented by the Royal Arcanum with a superb jewelled sword in the presence of the governor of Maryland, many naval officers.and four thousand of his brothers of the order. On February 29th, at a banquet given in his honor in Baltimore, Commodore Schley was presented with a gold med al, set with jewels, by the people of Maryland, the governor making the presentation." SOME PUZZLING STATISTICS. The saloon statistics are unreliable and unsatisfactory we suppose from some we see given in the north. The department of labor publish statistics from 140 cities of 30,000 population and upwards. They are curious and absurd almost. The figures, if reliable really, are very disturbing to theory that sa loons make drunkards and cause law lessness. The New York Evening Post says of the statistics and the light on the drink habit: "For example,. Springfield, Mass., Manchester, N. H., and Utica, N. Y., have each, about 60,000 Inhabitants. Utica is under the Raines law, Spring field under the high-license system of Massachusetts, and Manchester under nominal prohibition. The New Hamp shire city has no legal saloons, while Springfield has 47 and Utica 252. But Manchester has had 1,456 arrests for drunkenness during the past year, while Springfield had 1,431. Still more re markable is the record of only 765 ar rests in Utica, or only about half as many as in Springfield, although there are more than five times as many sa loons. Almost as anomalous is the showing of only 3S3 arrests in Dayton, O., with 400 saloons and 85,000 people, while Hartford, Conn., with 77,000 peo ple and but 218 saloons, reported 2.460." There is something wrong in the figures. Why should drink be worse In effects in one town than In another? Why is it that Hartford whiskey is so much more disturbing than Dayton whiskey? Is it not really owing les3 to the whiskey drunk than to failure to arrest the drunkards? One town-arrests regularly and promptly while an other town shuts its eyes and sees noth ing. We remember that Judge Merri mon, one of the most upright of Jurists, gave It as his experience that 95 per cent of the crime in his courts were caused by. drink. SIMONTON'S DECISION IN THE FERTILIZER MINIMUM CAR LOAD CASE POWER OF THE COMMISSION To Kesrulatw Hallway Kate AYhcro Charter Was Granted since- lt8 Sus tained -The Reasomiblcnes of I In duct Ion In thl Case i:eferrol to K. S. Martin Same Question to be Heard lu State Courts as to I .V. II roads Char tered Prior to 1 80S. (Special to The Messenger.) Raleigh, X. C, November 1. The opinion of Judge Simonton in the case of Mrs. Virginia B. Matthews, of New York, stockholder in the Carolina Cen .tral railroad, against the North Caro lina corporation commission, was filed here today in the office of the clerk of the circuit court. This is the case argued before Judge SimorJlon at Asheville. involving the right of the corporation commission to reduce Che minimum on carloa 1 shipments of fertilizers from fifteen to ten tons. Judge Simonton decides that 'the commission has authority to regulate ra'tes for the railroads and therefore, the rightt to make reductions. The question as to the unreasonable ness of the rate fixed by ithe commis sion is referred by -the judge to E. S. Martin, special master. Ex-Judge Shepherd, standing master, appearing as counsel in the case, is disqualified in this case. Mr. Martin is ito inquire into the rates prescribed for carriage of fertilizers and all facts bearing thereon, and specially as to 'their rea sonableness, with leave to report any special matter. This leaves the case open for some time to come. The most significant feature of Judge Simonton's opinion is this sentence: "No issue can be decided by affidavits with any degree of satisfaction." This statement leads strongly to the belief that Judge Simonton will appoint a special master in 'the railway taxation cases, which were so elaborately ar gued at Asheville and in which there were a mass of affidavits. A leading lawyer, when asked the effect of Simonton's opinion in the Matthews case, said: "Judge Simonton holds the corpora tion commission has the right to fix reasonable rates, where the charter was granted since 1868, notwithstand ing there is a provision in the char ter that the power shall vest solely in the board of directors. In this case ithe judge holds that 'the act creating the corporation commission is an amendment to the chai'ter of the Car olina Central. It is further held that the Carolina Central was chartered in 1881." The same questions involved in the Matthews case come up in the case? of the Raleigh and Gaston and Ral eigh and Augusta Air Line railways nexlt Saturday in Wake superior court. Bath roads- appealed from the decision of 'the corporation commission reduc ing the minimum on fertllizers; Belli roads were incorporated prior to 18GS, and counsel for Ithe railroads say they will win. Nine chapters of Daughters of the Confederacy today sent through Mrs. John W. Hinsdale, to Mrs. Armstead Burwell, of (the Charlott- chapter, treasurer of the sitate society, $284 for the love and sympathy fund for Mrs. Stonewall Jackson. The Henderson chapter has raised $700 for this fund. Cantains of all state guard compa- i nies today received telegraphic invita- I lion to attend the celebration in honor of Rear Admiral Schley at Atlanta next Saturday, all captains to be guests of that city. The state treasurer has received a letter from A. G. Ricaud, of New York, saying he does not believe the Ameri can Banknote Company intends to print the penitentiary bonds. He ad vises the treasurer to have the work done elsewhere. American Cotton Company Iu smltli fleld. (Smithfield Herald.) Mr. W. M. Sanders, some time since, leased and installed a roundlap cotton press here, anfl operated the same for several weeks. In a short time, how ever, he discovered that to fight public opinion and to antagonize the best in terests of the people was truly an up hill business Accordingly he notified the American Cotton Company to re move their press and announced his in tention to cease the manufacture of the despicable round bale. Some correspondence ensued between Mr. Sanders and the company with the result that a few days since the entire plant, gins, engines, presses, etc., was conveyed by him to the American Cot ton Company for a cash consideration of $4,000. We congratulate Mr. Sanders for having sold out, and we. welcome the influx of capital which the American Cotton Company will, necessarily, put in circulation in this community. We hope that the concern will spend $50,000 hare, and It would not be charitable to wish it to lose more than half this amount. For the past two years we have heard people speak of their "undying opposi tion' to trusts and extortionate combi nations of capital. They now have an opportunity of "carrying their talk Into practice." It is not necessary to visit New York or New Jersey to find the enemy, he is here within reach, where the public can strike him directly. It is not at all necessary to employ the devious and costly and unsatisfactory method of legislation to cripple him. The enemy has invaded your country, has pitched his camp, and with dollars as his bullets, is attempting to capture the favor of the public. He has invited battle with you, and has placed him self in a position where every cotton raiser In the county can strike him. It remains to be seen if all tnis talk or "opposition to trusts" is "blow" or business. Which Is it? In some communities of the south where an attempt has been made to introduce the roundlap bale, the farm ers have held mass meetings and adopt ed resoltlons pledging their Individual opposition to the system. Why shouldn't the farmers of Johnston county do th same? Troy Examiner: "We heard, and heard it straight, Hon. Ellas Hurley was dead. We wrote, an appropriate article, savin cr manv rood things about ihim. But he Isn't dead: and It Isn't right to say anything good about a live man fio the article doesnt appear. DEATH OF D K. McDUFFIE. Fayetteriilp LowsOneof Her I,euilnff CItUens. The Fayetteville Observer of October 31st says: "Dr. W. C. McDuffie, who has long been lingering on the threshold or death, passed away net his residence on Russell street at 12:43 o'clock today. Dr .McDuffie was one of the most distinguished physicians in the He was president of Che State Medical Association in 1SS5. and since the or ganization of General Parker's brigade of United Con federate Veterans, has been surgeon on General Parker's staff. Dr. McDuffie's place in the commu nity will not be filled. He represent ed a nera that is pas. But it will be long before the recollection of his splendid qualities as a man and a cit izen, of his genial presence, of his kindly speech and lender heart. pa?ses from among us. Dr. McDuffie was born In Cumber land county on the lath day of Febru ary, 1S23. and was therefore in the 71st year of his age at the time of his death. He was the youngest of five children born to his parents. Archibald and Rebecca G. McDuffie. His brotn er, Mr. Jamts R. McDuffie. of Johnson, liberty county. Georgia, is the only surviving member of his family. an:l was with him at the time of and for several days previous to his death. Of his own family there survives him his two daughters and one son. Air. E. B. McDuffie. of Philadelphia, Mrs. Nash Bunting, of Wilmington. und Mrs. Mm. Glover, of this city, the lat ter two having been with the doctor during the entire period of his Illness and the former visiting him from tin: to time at short intervals. His esti mable wife passed to her rest three years ago, and since that time two of his sons. W. C, Jr.. and Dr. Archie McDuffie and two of his sitters and one brother have died. ki:tchum-siii:iaiji nuptials. Mr. Isaac E. KetchunnofJacksoiivIlle, Married to Miss Sallte M. shepard Yesterdar. The marriage of Mr. Isaac Edward Ketchum. of Jacksonville, N. C, to Miss Sallie M. Shepard, was solemn ized yesterday at 1:30 o'clock at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. T. J. Pratt ,No. 15 North Seventh street. Rev. A. D. McClure officiated. Miss Sallie M. Shepard is a sister of Mrs. T. J. Pratt and has scores of friends in this city. The groom is the register of deeds in Onslow county, and there is not a more popular young man in that section. The bride and groom left on the 2:25 train yesterday for Jacksonville, where they will re side. Mrs. Shepard, mother of the bride, accompanied them. Chamberlain's Pain Hulaa Cures Oth ers, Why Not You ? My wife has been using Chamber lain's Pain Balm, with good results, for a lame shoulder that has pained her continually for nine years. We have tried all kinds of medicines and doctors without receiving any benefit from any of them. One day we saw an advertisement of this medicine and thought of trying it, which we did with the best of satisfaotion. She has used only one bottle and her shoulder is almost well. Adolph L. Milieu, Mancheshter, N. H. For sale by R. R. Bellamy. DIt. STRANGE IN RALEIGH. The News and Observer Highly Com pliments and Publishes iu Full His sermon There Sunday Nlht. The Raleigh News and Observer of yesterday refers in a very complimen tary manner to the sermon delivered oX the Church of the Good Shepherd last Sunday night by Rev. Robert Strange, D. D., rector of St. James' church, this city. Dr. Strange, as Messenger read ers are aware, is in Raleigh attending the jubilee and cornerstone laying cere monies now in progress. In speaking of the sermon, The Observer says: "At night a very able, eloquent and appropriate sermon was delivered by liev. Robert Strange, who was the sec ond rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd. His text was from Romans 1:16-17: 'For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; as it is written the Just shall live by faith.' Dr. Strange spoke with out note or manuscript. His voice was clear and his pronunciation distinct. Seemingly wrapped up in his subject, he at times was very eloquent and al ways logical." Following this comment The News and Observer publishes the sermon al most in full. Mrs. Davis Elected Matron. Mr. N. Jacob! returned yesterday, from Goldsboro, where he was in at tendance upon a business session of the board of trustees of the Odd Fellows' Orphan Home. He told a Messenger representative yesterday that the board elected Mrs. Bertha Davis, of Golds boro, matron of the Home. She is thoroughly qualified for the position and familiar with the management of such an Institution, having been con nected with the Home for the past eight months. She has already entered upon the duties of her new position. Sunday School Worker lleud! County Sunday school convention in stitutes under the auspices of the North Carolina State Sunday School Association will be held as follows: Duplin county, KenansviUe, Satur day and Sunday, November 11th and 12th. Pender county, Burgaw, Wednesday, November 15th. New Hanover county, Wilmington, Thursday and Friday, November 16th and 17th. Brunswick county. Southport. Satur day and Sunday, November 18th and 19th. Columbus county, Whiteville, Wed nesday, November 22nd. Sampson county, Clinton, Saturday and Sunday, November 25th and 26th. The purpose of these meetings is to Increase interest and stimulate and help to better work In the Sunday school and to reorganize local associa tions as a means to this end. All in terested In Sunday school work are urged to attend and help to make the meetings successful. Meetings begin at 10:30 a. m. J. W. BRYAN. Field Secretary North Carolina. State Sunday School Association. Clinton Democrat. We regret to an nounce that Mr. E. Mann, a well known merchant at Turkey, has been lorced to ' make an assignment. A CLEAR HEAD: good digestion; sound sleep r a line appetite and a ripe old age, , .ire some of the results of the use of Tutt's Liver Pills. A single dose will convince you of their wonderful effects and virtue. A Known Fact. An absolute cure for sick head ache, dyspepsia, malaria, sour stomach, dizziness, constipation bilious fever, piles, torpid liver and all kindred diseases. Tutt's Liver Pills New Crop Raisins 2000 1500 100 2000 5000 1000 1200 4000 G500 2400 4500 6300 180O 100 100 POUNDS L. L RHSINS. POUXSS LOOSE RMSINS. BARRELS BL0W!t APPLES. POUNDS MIXED NUTS. C.C. NUTS, NEW CROP. POUNDS GRSTED C. C. NUT. BUSHELS NEW PEANUTS. 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Other feud cases have been postpon ed from day to day on account of ab sence of witnesses, who refuse to at tend court and testify against the feud ists, believing, they say, that their evi dence against the warring factions would imperil their lives. I'rojrmninie ofSchley'M Knturtiilmtieii la Atlanta. AiilarJta, (la., November 1 Th recep tion committee to arrange for the en tertainment of Admiral Schley during his visit here next Saturday and Sun day, have completed the programme of events. Saturday morning the distinguished guest will visit Governor Candler and. be presented to (the general asembly in Joint session. The military parade in his honor Mrlll march, through the streets and Admiral Schley and mem bers of the commiutee will go In car riages do the auditorium ait Piedmont park where he will be welcomed by i&,uoo people. In the afternoon a luncheon will, be given at nhi Piedmont Driving Club and In the evening the Capital City Club win entertain him. Admiral Schley will be the truii of the Itoyal Arcanum on Sunday. Llpton and the Muunrock ofTfor Kuropo. New York. November 1. Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht Shamrock started down the bay on her home voyage to Green ock at 14:30 o'clock a. m. Sir Thomas Lipton sailed today for his home in England. He received a surprising tribute of the esteem In which he is held by a great many peo ple. In a kind of triumphal march through several downtown streets, a great reception at the American Line pier where he went on board the St. Louts, and a series of informal recep tions from thousands of people, lie also received word of the presentation of the loving cup which will be ready by Christmas for him. 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