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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1895
Page
4
Artificial marble production dominates the trade with durable, indistinguishable patterns produced by chemical processes. A Southern States Magazine dispatch notes 40,000 acres sold to a colonization company near Mobile, Alabama, aiming to farm and settle western settlers with a nearby town.
The Savannah Riflemen won the prize at the Sea Girt shooting contest in New Jersey. South Georgia weddings loom as fall expositions approach. The Madison libel suit against Orth Stein of The Looking Glass at Atlanta is settled. Dalton Argus favors removing elections from the legislature. Valdosta merchants push for better freight rates. Monroe and Ellaville bank plans move forward. Confederate Soldiers home sale hurdles rise. Clarke county exhibits for the Cotton States Exposition near ready. Rome expo advertising expands with folders and signs. Legal notes cover Chatham county election authority and conspiracy cases. Weather notes report mixed crops with ongoing rains. Littlefield pardoned after a long case. Mercier and Rowe face perjury indictments in Myers case. Gate City Guard withdraws from a planned Atlanta exposition parade.
In Atlanta a dispute erupts as Fifth regiment officers argue the Guard cannot march with army units citing penal codes and a 1893 disbandment order by Governor Northen. They reference state law barring unenlisted groups from bearing arms or parading in cities without a governor's license and threaten to test the matter in court.
The Atlanta Journal notes a model cotton crop by George W. Truitt of Troup County at the exposition grounds. Truitt, famed as Georgia’s top cotton grower, improved abandoned land to yield 15 bales on five acres in 1885 and plans to harvest 300 bales from 400 acres this year, with surplus grain and seed for sale.
Governor Atkinson emphatically refuses the pardon for Alfred Lord Beresford citing a six year penitentiary sentence for forgery and lack of good behavior. The refusal notes defenses and questions of marital influence while dismissing any claim by relatives seeking property control. Weather and crops report August rainfall with cotton ball drop but corn prospects improved. northern areas dry with fodder and grain harvest underway.
A long fragment lists diverse curiosities and measurements from the world of science and culture. It mentions snail tongues with many toothlike points, global raven distribution, age estimates of Earth, frog respiration limits, chess history, wasp lineage growth, gold beating effects, Earth's equatorial velocity, the size of a gold dollar’s film, a sacred flag in Constantinople, population-born baby lines, a Brazilian diamond claim, a misengraved plate on a five dollar silver certificate, and a misspelled word on the note.
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