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MORI ION bdcst Reductio ot. ST BARGAl small Whitehall Sfcl guaranteed lan Real Estate I Investment Como I the company, bean I I January ana July. lnan the cost 4 re year straight increasing the i i and Investment euga Zmathoriap, GIBSON INJURED. kg of the Injured To Be Postponed for Iveral Months. A throughout the south if I WILL BE IKDIOfH Charge of Muraerinf I THEY CANNOT RAISE Electric Railways Are Boud by Contracts.

TO ASK ONLY FIVE CENT FARES Speculation aa to the Amounts the Railroad Will Offer Families of Victims in the Late Wreck. within the past few days there evidences that Macon might street railroad Imbroirlto over The anticipated trouble arose In the grant lnK of a right of way to the Macon and Indian Spring Electrical Railway to Central City park, and the city officials have expressed their determination to prohibit the road charging for transfers to the solldated, for the past year or so. has park fqom certain parts of town, and some of the aldermen have said recently that they would see to it that nothing must he charged for transfers, especially during Macon and Indian Si.nr.e iva Cat Mayor Price was looking after the wtlfar if the contract is enlViv.d The Consulidal The Value of Lives. the Knights of Pythias train of the dec thirty six ts against railroads, would be about rty one years. His wife is dead and only child survives him, a boy about four to effect a settlement outside of tht nder the law it may be doubtful if Mr i dependent upon him, and If a test decision might be made or rendered on itherrTwill not seek avail kself of Up iv the njured in the liberal and conservative plrit.

The Report Examined. Yesterday afternoon Messrs. C. B. Wil ngham, William Lee Ellis and Sam Alt layer, the Buh eommtttee appointed from ose.

made a tho'rough and complete ex mination of the report of the city treas rer. Mr. Tinsley. as to the receipts and faithful performance The contractors agree wers for $100,000. Thej He i J10.000 to to complete the system within the price, they will doubtless not lose ig for they will do the bulk of the 1 amount to more than the contract city for the main system.

What Will Hoke Dof ee. Mr. Smith left for afternoon before the concluded under the Mr. Sparks's side has clc The first witness for the Wednesday will be Major J. rhe testimony of Ctshier J.

the the s. Mr. Hoke Smith luhjeeted Mr. Cabaniss to a rigid cross sxaminatlon which he stood splendidly. His inswers were remarkably clear and did Mr.

Sparks's cause much good. Sunday in Macon. All the churches were largely attended this morning and tonight. Perhaps the nost powerful sermon of the occasion was delivered tonight by Rev. Dr.

Monk, His Mull. The i din, At o'clock a. m. Rev. W.

B. Burke delivered an address on "China," which was specially Interesting In, view of the outrages recently perpetrated rles in that country. Rev. 8. L.

Morris lectured tonight at Tattnall Square Presbyterian church on "Riding Through 8emaTla to Galilee." A House Wanning. The new engine house of the Macon tire department, which Is now general headquarters, will be christened Tuesday afternoon and night in a very entertaining manner. The doors will be thrown open for public inspection of the handsome building and the firemen will give an exhibition of the programme they perform thorough" trained horses will also go through their part. The afternoon hours o'clock. The night 'clock.

lng driven rapidly, and si ie pleading in great distrei occupant of the vehicle i Personal and Social. and Florence Hlnes Mrs. J. F. Hanson and Miss Fannie Han Price, the popular cotton are spending the Bummer it Marietta.

The family of Mr. W. F. Combs will in returned from Barnesville. Mrs.

Da is Howes, who has been vi lng her father in Effingham county, 1 Mr. J. N. Tailey left this afternoon oi short visit to Mount Airy. Mr.

George W. Sims is in AUanta ot visit to his son, who is doing decorat work on the exposition buildings. Mr. T. R.

Pomeroy has gone to Loi Newsy Notes. An alarm of fire sounded last night in their Impatience to get to the HOPE TO SELL. The Plant and the Southern Systems Possible Bidders. Waycross, September 7. (Spectal.) The Waycross Construction Company, the original builder and promoter of the Way cross Air Line, has called a meeting for road.

The conpany's purpos is obvious in view of the fac Southern railway and Plan PARTNERS FALL OUT Brogsdall and Sanford were partn restaurant and differed in a sett Brogsdall claiming that Sanford town, was" arrested and Jailed here today for selling whisky in Putnam county. He will be taken to Eatonton for trial. Put POWDER AND DYNAMITE Explode with Terrific Force at a Fire in Adairsville. Adairsville, September 8. (Special.) The toolhouse of the Georgia Mining and Beauxite Company was burned last Friday night.

It was also used as a warehouse for powder and dynamite. It was very fortunate that the company only had two apart 'agons from being destroyed the eardT'for miles. The loss is considerable. is all taken. The Tates of Tate, ar largely interested, and Mr.

Tobe Tate, i brother of Hon. Carter Tate, will be cash leading citizen of ElliJav will president The bank building, vaults THE CONSTITUTIOISr; tATLAffTAi MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 9, 1895 TURNED THE TABLES A Rough Experience in the Sand Mountain Region. TWO DESPERADOES ARRESTED And Escape After Getting Their Cap tives in Their Power and Robbing Them. Rome, September News reached Rome today of a thrilling experience of parties In pursuit of four escaped prisoners in the Sand mountain coun As the story goes one night last week four prisoners escaped from Guntersvllle Jail.

They were Bill Bell, changed with the murder of Constable Childers, John Stanford, the slayer of Wes Mitchell, and two others charged with burglary. So soon as the authorities learned of the 220 East Pine The I led ixhibited will i and Cornered in the Dungeon. Some of the others kept on and came up with a couple of prospectors who were rambling about the mountains and told them of the escape. The prospectors were from East Tennessee and their names were Hawkins and Bazemore. ShorUy after parting company with, the down into a deep and secluded valley known as the Dungeon, because of Its Inaccessible cliffs and gloomy interior.

There and while theading that Jell and Stanford. They and showed fight when aroused by A Reward in Sight the prospectors Stanford point where they could A Desperate Fight Jriffin, ran up with a stick lolmes finally Jerked loose. stick from the negro and struck splitting the Ain inty exhibit of prodw Johnson of indus Too Young for Arrest. Further particulars of the killing Will Totten by Parson Tucker, rear Ce a load of wood. Tuck.

who De He Jumped out and his brother and another boy drove on. He attacked Totten, who plunged a knife into his body. He fell in the road and died before his brother could get back Land for the Home. Judge Max Meyerhart, worshipful master of Cherokee lodge, and Samuel Funkhous er, a real estate man. have secured a donation of thirty acres of land containing a magnificent site, for the proposed Masonic At the meeting of the grand lodge the widows and orphans of deceased brethren is raised, they will be able to offer this donation as an inducement.

The land is located within a mile of the courthouse, and is admirably situated for such There is much enthusiasm on the part of the Floyd county Masons on the subject of the home, and they are very hopeful of securing its location here. Changes at the Armstrong. Dr. Marshall has given notice that he will retire from the management of the Armstrong hotel at the expiration of his lease, October 1st. Already there are a number of persons who have signified their think of trying their fortune at the Arm The building was erected by a stock company during the boom days of 1818, and has changed hands, so far as the management is concerned, several times during the seven years that have succeeded.

It was a losing Investment for the stock holders, who have never realized anything out of the venture except the consciousness that Rome has a first class hotel building. The managers, however, have inderstood that considerably To Qo to China. The first bale of cotton of the season, grown by Elihu Griffin, of Etowah county, Alabama, and shipped by Herzberg of Gadsden, was received by the Simpson Grocery Company Saturday. They sold It to the Harvel Cotton Company for 9 cents. Its weighed 510 pounds, and classed low middling strict.

The Harvel Cotton Company In turn sold ed to China. Like Old Times. The Floyd County Veterans' as completed thj plans for the He country to. Chickamauga. I They will 1 8.

Mosely, adjutant of the and march to the ford of the Chattooga river the first day, and will go into camp The next day they will march to Rocky Springs, in Walker county, and camp within four miles of the Chickamauga battlefield the second night. There they will leave their teams while they are attending the exercises on dedication day. DOWN LAURENS. "close on the heels of the fugitive the Tie Shot the right side Just un the shoulder, going entirely through the Against the City Court The grand Jury did, at the riTclty court for the county upon the people in this manner, hout their consent, Is not only an in lce, but a crime and burden to our peo We, the undersigned citizens and tax is believed the petition was got populists. The Teachers' Institute.

enlightened th lights ago was by the THEY WANTED TO SIGN. Issued Friday night. The secretary of the populist state a to sign the call for that convention, 1 would not ask us to do so. Populists go to the convention, however, and eh their interest In the movement." State Treasurer Worth, populist, sa; "I think well of the movement and exp. to attend.

I think Senator Butler will i If the would Exhibit for the Exposition. sterday Geologist Holmes and his nt, William S. Ashe, completed great photograph of the particular tree exhibit illustrates North5 Carolina's typl great tabernacle and a town like Grove, N. J. Killed by a Falling Tree.

Near Thermal, Rutherford county, a fall. He public charities was Dr. Charles Duffy, of g. Reports from sixty great deal Charged with Murder. Ellijay, September S.

Sheriff W. H. Foster arrested Harris Bramlett, of Murray county, who is charged with, the murder of Henry Worley, and lodged him in JaU at this place last night Shooting Affray in Gilmer. ElllJay, Ga, September (Special. Nathaniel Smith shot Joe Ray through the thigh at this place Friday night Ray is doing well.

Smith has disappeared. Boy Murders Boy. Montgomery, September An extraordinary killing occurred at Gaylesvllle yesterday. Parson Patton. a nine year old boy, subbed to death Will Tucker, a thirteen year old playmate.

A barlow knife was the weapon used. Tucker died three minutes after he was cut The boys quarreled about some trivial plaything, when Patton, In anger, drew his knife and stabbed Us boy friend several times in fatal places. He will be tried for OUT TO THE FAR WEST General Passenger Agent Morse Talks of Kei Schedules, AN IMPROVED TRAIN SERVICE The Louisville and Nashville Is Causing Some Delay in the Deal. Other. News of the Road.

There seems to be some hitch In of the railroads Interested in sh schedules for a double daily passe service between the northeast southwest by the way of Atlanta lsly the looking to lmpro With the exception of the Louisville and Nashville all the roads have agreed to the proposed figures for the new schedules and all that is delaying the adoption of them is the sudden turn of this road In refusing to agree. But It is believed that the Louisville and Nashville will i planned. squi that the othe The roads Involved are the Southern, the Atlanta and West Point, the Louisville and Nashville and the Southern Pacific. The Southern and the Southern Pacific are working to get a splendid service through between the northeastern cities trying to definitely close with the other roads for the ules, talks Interestingly about Chicago and St Louis. This ought to be an easy task.

If the other roads will cooperate In the task it will soon be accomplished. "The Southern railway has come to the front with admirable enterprise and is willing to meet all the new schedules we wish to establish for the benefit of the line through the south from New York to the far west. The Southern Pacific and vantage to the people of the south if they are finally adopted. I think the Louisville and Nashville will Join In the work and do its full part to make the movement a success. The Louisville and Nashville people, perhaps, are afraid that by building up this line through Atlanta.lt wilr detract blizzard strickei ery passenger we can get down here does i country that much good, bringing it recognition as the most desirable re for homeseekers in the country.

These passengers frequently stop off the south, and the Southern Pacific is very cessful in every particular." DEATH OF MR. WEEMS NISBET Prominent Business Man of Milledge ville Dies of Consumption. Milledgeville, September 8. (Speclal.) his brother, A. D.

Nlsbet. in this city, today, at 12:03 o'clock. Five years ago Mr. Nlsbet was in active business here with seemingly a long life before him. Born friendship.

But consumption had even then marked him for Its victim. Laying down the confining work of the store and leaving his home in middle Georgia, thi I higher latitude of change proved very beneficial to hirr restoration. After a tin elt strong enough to go back to wc he store. This step proved fatal. Some four weeks ago be returned luffered a chill from eating a plate sherbet, which day sleep of a Mr.

Nlsbet was a deacon in the Presbyterian church and, until his health failed, that communion had no more faithful and zealous adherent The funeral will occur from the Presbyterian church tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock Weather Forecast for Today. North Local showers in soutt outheasterly winds; warmer in lor. Generally fair; Pair In western, local showers eastern portion; southeasterly winds. Alabama, Mississippi and Gen are not able to bear." The Store's Closed rhich they Until 10 o'clock, then the great sale begins, proprietor. and desiring tall variety The mercantile e.

cutlery, all win go under aercllesa hamm lusekeepers will find this a great oppor tunity securing Bargains. The two stores are full from basement to garret, valued at 187,008. Ladies are specially requested to attend this sale. Stores for rent, fixtures for sale. Sales daily from 10 a.

m. to 10 p. m. a 1 Established 1870. Our patrons have the benefit of our.

psrlor skill and long experienc. in specialty. Hawkes' glasses, from Us ginning, have had a most now sold from ocean to ocean. ThnGlams are Never Padiftt Snectncles Renaired and Made as Good AS New. A.

K. HAWKES Manufacturing Optician, 12 Whitehall St. 1 OPIUM AND WHISKY HABITS CURED, 1 By B. M. WOOLLEY, M.

Office Whitehall St, Atlanta, Newnan, March 22, 1895. Dr. M. Woolley, Atlanta, Ga. I now welgf cne hundred and forty six pounds and an in better health than I have been in years.

I advise all persons In the morphine habit to try Dr. Woolley. He car surely coure you as he cured me. P. M.

McELROY. ic n. S. March 18, lM5 M. Woolley, AUanta, Ga.

forgotten you, I never will for I am satisfied i have saved me from a ve. I do not understand the gocd work. drunkard'! Of our Clothing is that artistic something that distinguishes it from the cheaply made clothes that have "ready made" stamped skmHr upon every ungraceful angle of tne'r make up. Ours are Tailor made Clothes at ready made prices. jfpf Stewart, Cole Callaway, 26 Whitehall Street.

WOMEN AND WHEELS Dr. Hawthorne Again Has a Word to Say THE OPINION OF DR. WINSL0W "Week Kneed Freachers Will Want To Eetract Some Things," Says Dr. Hawthorne. he has not been idle.

The Are of Ms while the doctor has been casUng about or fuel. Not only has Dr. Hawthorne been study ng the question from the standpoint of ihysieal results, but he has been accumu ating the opinions of world renowned At the medico legal congress, i ust adjourned, there were a larg famous physicist Among the number was Dr. Forbes wins low, the famous London alienist. Dr.

Winslow expresses himself very strongly against cycling by women. Dr. Hawthorne has clipped Dr. Winslow's opinion, and In requesting its publication has this to say for himself: 4 i "The bicycle compani carefully the I of world wld suaded that they light in regard to I the intry only purpose in calling attentloi evU effects of bicycle riding by to produce a sensation and adva elf. desire The Constitution to print testimony of Dr.

Forb itly held in good ladles who ar the medico legal congrei York city. If 1 the wheel wUl kneed preachers who will want t. Dr. Winslow's Opinion! The foilowing is what Dr. Wins according to an article in The World: disapproval of women bicycle is most positive.

No woms ever be allowed to exercise in that It Is dangerous to health and it "The physical nature of woman denunciation of the i the demonstrations I I of the facts. From this results of wheeling. Horseback riding pro strous results and temptations as does the Icycle. but not to so marked a degree. xlst when the causes for their develop rcises are too violent for the physical con esires.

brought sn to public attention now, how much lore attention wiU they demand in the ext generation! "Moral perversion is alarmingly on the icrease. No one who practices medicine an dispute that fact. I have no hesita ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. GEORGIA. FULTON By viiv tue of an order of the court of ordinary ot said county, granted at the July term, lfflt tober.

1895. within the following property of Emily Hunnicutt. 53, fronting fl feet on street and running idred (100) feet, with one Emily Hunnicutt dated to trust deed made by Ai to secure a loan of six hundred dollars, 1 dated June 5, 1894, the trustee agreemg that loan paid off: Also a tract of land in tha.1 mincing on "the west side street west side of Lee street forty five (46 iront, two hundred and four feet, SSfc SereoT ing debts and distribut THE G. A. 'S OFF TONIGHT.

The Atlanta Camp Will LeaTS Louisville in Solid Phalanx. of the Grand Army of the Republic will leave for Louisville to be pi twenty ninth annual held there this week. They will arrive at tomorrow and will march immediately to their ters, whieh will be In the Hoteombe Mis sion building, on Jefferson sti Commander L. B. Nelson will carry a The University's Hew Com Montgomery.

September Governor Oates has announce while in Washington he arranged detailed for duty at the University of A United" States and will stay I giving them' of I be one of the cipllnarians ii James BoyUes the barracks with the SOCIETY GOSSIP. Miss Florence Reid Adams, of I iccompanled by Mr. George W. Aoams. 1 vas at the Kimball Saturday nlgnt.

nne eft yesterday morning bride left a Islands. Mr. and Mrs. Davis several weeks on their bridal in this clt car Davis, who irth. business.

Mr. Davis is one of the iest men in the state and a practi iness man. Miss Myitis McDonald, musician of Augusta, Is visiting her in, Mrs. E. Crane, 3S1 Capitol avenue.

Miss Avis Mrs. Max D. Batts has returned frost 1 sit to the mountains of north 1 M. Hill, ot Chicago, Mr. and Mrs.

G. B. Glide, of are spending a few days at the 1 TBS LOCAL FIELD. The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Young Men's Christian Association has secured on. "Woman's Suffrage" Thursdayi evening Atlantians have the Ions of Mr.

Straton On the merits of this produc on he won a splendid reputation. 1 Will Stewart and Adolphus Brooka. 1 two small negroes, yit re arrested last night for stealing greenbacks from Misvl r.e money was i Attending Campmeeting. AoairBviue, ua, September A great many people are in the Morrison camp meeting fr All the vehicles from the stables have engaged for two weeks..

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