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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1895
Page
1
The Great Vestibuled Limited route of Southern Railway's Atlanta to Charlotte-Amrlins division is listed with passenger train details. Officials including WA Turk, H Hardwick, and local agents in Atlanta Washington DC and Alexandria are named. The notice schedules first Saturday and fourth Saturday monthly gatherings across multiple districts with named local PNPs and JPs.
General directory items list officers and contact names while church directory notes services third Sunday and prior Saturday, missionary services fourth Sunday at 11, Sunday school times, prayer meeting Wednesdays, and pastor names. Also includes arrival and departure of Cleveland Mails and judiciary details with court schedules and officials.
The document lists county officers including W. B. Bern Ordinary L. Brown Sheriff and others such as clerk tax collector treasurer tax receiver surveyor coroner and county commissioners. It also details justice courts with district numbers second first and third Saturdays monthly and names of justices of the peace and assistant justices.
Reports from across the South show mild effects from warm weather on farming and fruit regions. New mills are forming, with Lockhart Mill and others planning large capital ventures, plus numerous textile, oil, and canning operations in Georgia, Texas, North and South Carolina, Arkansas, and Kentucky.
A delegation of colored men visited New York City Hall on Saturday to urge that Fred Douglass remain in state on Tuesday. They requested the body be placed on a catafalque in the governor's room for viewing before burial. A delegation was appointed to go to Washington to represent New York colored people at the funeral. Mayor Strong granted permission for Douglass to sit in state at City Hall on Tuesday.
Philadelphia reelected city leaders in a decisive Republican sweep on Tuesday. The ticket led by City Solicitor Charles J. Warwick and Charles J. Robey won mayor and tax receiver posts, with Pattison and Bonnafone representing Democrats. Police magistrates, councilmen, and school directors also went Republican by wide margins.
Market report lists corrected prices for groceries and country produce in Atlanta. Items include sugar, syrups, coffee, rice, flour, cereals, and dairy products with stated bids and quantities, plus poultry, eggs, butter, cheese, potatoes, onions, cabbage, and lard. Local cotton market notes closing values. note odd typos but retains key entities and prices.
A preacher extols the glorious gospel over modern theology and secular reform, contrasting childlike faith with higher criticism. He denounces scholasticism, urges living the gospel in daily life, and imagines a heavenly coronation where Christ is crowned by nations and saints. A brief note follows about the Boston Miss lumbermen meeting forming a large regional association.
The Senate opened with 11 o'clock sessions as Jones of Arkansas announced the silver bill would not be pressed this session to avoid an extra session. Higgins argued against the Walcott resolution while the Indian appropriation bill moved forward. Later, quorum was checked,credentials presented, and a Mexican obsequies resolution approved. The house debated pensions, naval items, and the Hawaiian cable funding, continuing through a busy week of votes and appropriations.
A collage of brief comic exchanges and witticisms from several newspapers including Harlem Life Boston Bulletin Cincinnati Enquirer Puck Inter-Ocean Good News Detroit Free Press Chicago Inter-Ocean and Indianapolis Journal. The snippets feature editors judges poets girls and everyday banter about ghosts pockets wheels and footwear.
The report lists nutmeg hickory as the strongest native wood and tama yack as the most elastic. It notes Fiscus aurea has low density, blue wood of Texas and Mexico has high density, pomegranate and lignum vitae are very heavy, cork is very light, and 413 woods exist across states. Sixteen woods sink when well seasoned, mainly from arid NM, AZ, and NV.
The France horse count reaches 3,000,000, 600,000 fewer than Germany. About 5,000,000 horses are in town work, 700,000 to 00,000 in military use, and the rest in agriculture. Urban work grows as omnibuses and trams expand, Paris rising from 70,000 horses before 1870 to 120,000 now.
Wyoming and Montana cattlemen report the beef crop will be twenty five percent larger this year than in 1894, predicting improved supply. The claim notes a gain over 1805 figures and frames the outlook as favorable for markets.
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