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ATHENS ARRAYSUBSCRIPTION BATES Oo« .....................mHix months...................i'hre« months.................RAILROAD SCHEDULE,NOBTH BOUND,For President : WILLIAM McKINLEY,of Ohio.Fob Vice-President:THEODORE ROOSEVELT,of New York.REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKETFOB BEP R BURNT AT IV S/ E. W. RIGGS.FOB sheriff :SAM C. WILLIAMSREPUBLICAN STATE TICKETFor Governor:HON. JOHN A. STEELE.Of PoJt»t County.For Secretary of State:JOHN PORTER,Of Ccosa.For Treasurer:HON. B. M. LONG,Of Walker.For Auditor:J. C. SWANN,Of Randolph.For Superintendent of Education:J. J. ABERCROMBIE,Of Lauderdale.*For Commissioner of Agrioulture:JOHN B. SHIELDS,Of Walker.For Attorney General:CHARLES D. ALEXANDER,Of Etowah.• 9 AiUiii «A .iu contact either m a business or social way the feeling In favor of McKinley is stronger now than it was four years ago, I but report the exact truth as It appears to me. This county of Kings forms the borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, and contains about a million and a quarter of population. It is normally Democratic by about 15,000 majority. McKinley carried it in 1896 by 32,253 plurality and the State of New York by 268,825 plurality. The gold Democratic vote in Kings County was 3709. If a conservative man like ex-Supreme County Jratiee Van Wyck, of this county, is nominated for Vice-President at Kansas City and the Chicago platform modified so as to assure the dropping of the 16 to 1 issue, it may make a difference of 10,000 votea in this county in favor of the Democratic Presidential ticket, but not more. In the event of an out-and-out Bryan-ite being named for Vice President on a reaffirmed Clilcn' ’itforni. New York State will, in i lginent, give McKinley over three hundred thousand plurality and Kings County’s quota. will not fall far short of 40.000votes.—William Berri, in Brooklyn Daily Standard Union.li. ti.vn.rxjin a thin wooden lw coverings were each traditional ml tape, wl which contained the CO of the measure, to which t affixed his signature, w with n sliding top so that could he easily removed.~-»lc bounties in the form 6t rebates to shippers employing American vessels. In 1856 Louisiana’s Legislature passed an act paying $6 per tou bounty on all ships exceeding 100 tons burden built In the State. A report made tp the Legislature of Alabama as far back as 1828 showed that her citizens .contributed $1,800,000 a year to get their cotton to Europe, and contained the query, “If this amount must he paid, why should it not be paid to our own cifikeus?’’ No wonder a score of years later Alabama’s Legislature passed an act granting a bounty of $4 per ton on all steamers built within that State.At Charleston, in 1889, Robert Y. Hayno discussed the subject before a commercial convention held in that city, in which he said that Southern and Southwestern States were producing nearly three-quarters of the domestic exports of the UnSn, although importing not to exceed one-tenth of the foreign merchandise entering the United States, and that foreign commerce was causing cities of other States to flourish while Southern cities were falling into decay.” Lieut. M. F. Maury,famous for his invaluable olds Vo mariners upon the oceans, was impressed with the immense benefits Southern States would derive from the establishment of steamship lines between Southern and European ports. For many years he urged the investment of Southern capital in such lines, showing the great and growing power her rich foreign commerce was giving tc New York Ht*d deploring the fact that the South was missing Its opportunities to share therein. He saw for Norfolk, Virginia, possibilities of development which have never been realized, but which It seems possible are likely of fulfillment through the growing scarcity of European coal and the inevitable dependence of the world in the future for the greater part of its ccal supplies upon the United States.In our trade with other American republic* Maury saw advantages even greater than those possible through our commercial intercourse with Europe, and he was never done urging upon the people of the South the wisdom ofgenerously encouraging American maritime development through the establishment of steamship lines to the West Indies, Central and South America. He advocated n ship canal across the American Tsthmus and predicted enormously beneficial results to our trade and shipping to follow.Away back m 1858 the Assembly of Virginia Incorporated a' $50,000,000 steamship line under the name of the Atlantic Steam Ferry Company, tmt which failed to carry out its designs because of the sectional differences between the North and South. Thj scheme involved the immediate eon s;ruction of four ships of the Greal^ IEastern class,to regularly run between Southern and European ports. Theh great value as auxiliaries to cur miii tary sources were then clearly point ed out, as well as their usefulness a*During the past year the University of Pennsylvania received endowments amounting to $900,000; but Washington University, St. Louis, had already received this year $3,000,000, and the endowment is an unconditional one.A fine of $ 1 .V0 has been imposed on Mr. Roberts of Utah, convicted of having one wife more than the law allows. This puts polygamy out there on a cash basis, and the price tixed for a plural marriage cannot be called high.The loss of human life*In the United States in twas greater, wording tgiven in the Monthly Went;than in any preceding yea*statistics have been coifnumber of persons killed/who suffered Injuries f\death resulted was 562. uuher of others who receivedvarious degrees of severitOf the fatalities, 45 per eein flu* open; 34 per cent., inIer cent., under trees, and 0 iIn barns. At least a dozen iswere killed either in the net of stping clothes from a wire clothes-llor from coming in proximity theretoduring a thunder storm. JThe two new battle ships jnst authorized nr** to 1)** named the \ irgiuiu and Rhode Island, the three armored cruslers the Maryland, Colorado andSouth Dakota, and the three* H.ooo tonprotected cruisers tin* St. Louis, Milwaukee and Charleston. With our eighteen battle ships, six first class armored cruisers and four new monitors we have already used op tho names of twenty-seven States, which would have been twenty-eight 4 we had not violated the rule In the case of tin* Kearsnrge. At our present rateof building the remaining seventeenStates will bo used up in three years, and then we shall have either to admit some more States or to change the law that regulates the naming of our ships.Under the French law a girl may not marry until she is - er fifteen years old, and a man u d he is more than eighteen. Men under twenty-five and women under twenty-one must have the consent of their fathers und mothers.In Texas, Mississippi and Georgia the convict lease system has lieen varied lu favor of convict farms operated by the State. This has resulted In profit to the State without appreciablyInjurious competition against privateagriculture.Caban Postal Affairs.Recent developments lu the Cubaa postofflce troubles show* that the retrenchments made by Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General Bristow were imperatively demanded by Postmaster-General Smith some months ago, when he ordered that a system of reform should be Immediately commenced In order that the expenses might then he reduced. President McKinley had ordered both the Director-General of Posts and the Governor-General of Cuba to obtain the approvalof the Postmaster-General upon allrequisitions wldch showed a deficiency le postal management there. While reports have been made monthly tothe Governor-General, not a single report ever reached Postmaster-GeneralSmith, so in January last he began to Investigate matters on his own account, finding that the expenditures were far In excess of the receipts. He then ordered retrenchment, but was not obeyed.England is looking up neV names for Its Boer conquests. “Chamber Ininia” and “Rohertsland” are suggested by tho 8t. James’s Gazette, which, however, would prefer something made up from the name of the future ruler of England, Edward VII.The Tennessee State Board of Health has adopted resolutions declaring tuberculosis a contagious und infectious disease, und directing that all inmates of State institutions afflicted with it be Isolated In rooms or wards set aside for such patients.Now is the time when the life saving crews at the various seaside resorts must be alert, for fools will persist in going beyond the breakers and the life lines, just to show how nervy” they are. They take their lives In their hands when they do this, and then yell for help.iera who can be see their gates early in saatDing and “rubtThe Hartford Telegram disousses the proposed adoption of the metric system by this country at some length and says: “The United States now have a decimal system of money, and its market convenience should teach Americans the value of the decimal system wheiever numbers enter or calculation is involved.” The Telegram ventures the prediction that “before the expiration of many decades the United States Congress will prescribe the use of the metric system throughout the United States.”to give advice to theirThe slums and diypi of our cities get the very best young men of the race- Hundreds of them find their way into these places of vice and immorality to every five who go to our ohuroheeThis is a sad pirtcre but it is none theCroker and Wealth.Mr. Croker grows quite effusive in his discussion of the aggression of wealth. This Is the same Mr. Croker whose son recently purchased a $4000 bull pup.NOTICE.Land for sale near Lax, in number of acres to suit the purchaser. On easy terms. Title good. Apply to I. Z. Moore, Lax, Ala. tfHe Sees His Finish.Jerry Simpson, who has had considerable experience in the art of getting out from under shaky things, has just retired from Pouulist journalism.More Irish potatoes and garden seed at Henderson's than any house in town. tfFor a hair-out or a shave, call at my “barber shop/' opposite the depot Satisfaction guaranteed; prioes to suitthe times, A trial asked.tf Jj. T. Tatuob.Myth leal.A secret alliance with England hasbeen nicely arranged in the minds of the Democratic orators—for campaignpurposes only.We are in the lead ou Irish pots ss and oats, Sam Henderson Go
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Athens, Alabama, US
Fri, Jul 20, 1900
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