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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1893
Page
2
In this May issue short items report the Atlanta & Florida railroad sale for 509,900 dollars and other state affairs. Macon plans street paving, Oregon Governor Pennoyer’s public stance, and references to the World’s Fair progress. Notes on Georgia lynchings, Worth county embezzlement indictments, Redwine bank defalcation, and a Douglasville gaming incident are included.
Ten desperate convicts planned a breakout by loading improvised bombs into gas pipes, drilling holes for fuse, and using shotgun nails and dynamite. They attacked guards with burning fuses, but guards fired a volley, injuring five and recapturing the escapees after an explosion injured a guard. The men showed ingenuity in weapon manufacture.
A British merchant touring the South tells the Washington Post he is astonished by the vast territory and limitless resources, noting rapid factory growth, enterprising people, and a swift rise in northern capital shaping the region within the past twenty years. He observes smoke from factory chimneys and the bustling machinery, contrasting with old ideas and slaveholding past.
The New York Commercial Bulletin highlights capital exiting Kansas as land lenders close shop and state boards depart for Colorado or Oklahoma. Populist rhetoric derides property rights, deterring lenders and investors who seek secure rights. The piece warns legislatures against destroying capital and insists the populist experiment yields the same outcome as Kansas.
The piece condemns Georgia Supreme and Superior court judges for earning meager wages. It notes Superior court judges receive 2090 annually and travel costs cut further into family support. It cites Judge Miller of Macon’s death as linked to pay, contrasts with three thousand dollars for Georgia’s three Supreme Court justices, urging legislature to ensure fair pay for the state’s judicial servants.
An editorial urges humility as wealth can vanish quickly. It cites a New York bread theft case and the fall of Henry Hugh McCosh, once A T Stewart’s ally, who died in a New York alley after squandered fortune and drink. The piece notes how sober or foolish, virtuous or vicious, outcomes shift, urging compassion.
The passage argues fortunes vary with luck and flaws, noting even the shrewdest may fall from grace while the reckless prosper a moment. It concludes that a good name is the universal possession, earned or lost by conduct, and lasting beyond wealth.
College promotes a free mail course of forty lessons in double and single entry book-keeping and commercial arithmetic. No diploma fee. Applications to Prof. F. J. Vanderberg at 302 304 306 Delaware St Leavenworth Kan. Georgia Dooley County notice for Martha A Peavey estate administration seeks letters from S. D. Peavy. hearing set for first Monday in June 1893. dated May 1.
District listings show multiple 1893 Do lly County sales by order of the Dooly Superior Court. Properties include town lots in Cordele and Dakota, stock in trade, and various mortgages and tax levies against W A Shingler W E Smith Mrs Amelia Harper M W Westbrook C A Brooks H O Rackley F P Jenrett J W Burke Co J J Jenrett Cordele Guano Co A J Woods N Moye and others. Sales occur at the courthouse on the first Tuesday in June 1893 within legal hours.
Georgia Dooly County public sale to satisfy a deed backed debt. Homer O Rackley and Mary Bellerby are named with parcel details including South half of lot 45 and a one acre tract in the SE corner of lot 57 in the First District of Dooly, totaling 102.5 acres. Sale set for the first Tuesday in June at the Vienna court house with cash payment required.
Tax sales for Dooly county Georgia list several parcels to be sold on the first Tuesday in June 1893 for delinquent state and county taxes from 1889 to 1893. Lands include Lot 100 in the 13th district, portions of lots 125 135 137 in the 6th district, and all but 50 acres of lot 155 in the 6th district. Levy by J W Roberts deputy sheriff, notices dated February 27 1893.
Guardian James S. Morgan seeks leave from the Superior Court to sell the south half of land lot 250 in Worth County Georgia for reinvestment. The move aims to benefit ward Rossie Morgan with a more productive property yielding higher revenue. Hearing set in Americus on May 27, 1893. notice dated April 24, 1893.
The notice details Pullman Buffet Sleeping Car service from Florida and South Georgia to the World's Fair with connections via Union Depot Nashville and Macon. It lists vestibuled limited trains to Chicago Washington Philadelphia and New York, through sleepers to St. Louis and Kansas City, and night train accommodations from Macon and Palatka with connections to Atlanta Augusta Athens Milledgeville Montgomery Savannah and other East North South destinations. H Burns and A C Knapp, Trav Pass Agt, Traffic Manager Macon Ga.
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