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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26
Total Valuation of Real and Per-
SOnal Property
For the Year 1S07-A Decrease of
1897 ,OSS in the Assessment this
Year Compared to Last.
Maury is Fifth to the Wealthiest County
i'm the State, With Property Worth
SS,O7T, 05O-Davidson Leads
.he List.

A tabulated statement of the tax
aggregate for 1897 has been COM
piled by Comptroller Harris.
The total assessed valuation of all
property, real and personal in Ten
nessee for 1897, is $3ll,075, 545, as
against 1912, Az, 1888 for 1895, being "a
decrease OF 81 1897 ,088 in the assess
ment of this year as compared to
last.
The total valuation for this year,
classified according to divisions, lis, in
East Tennessee, 8T,035 1923; Middle
Tennessee, $l34 1921, 440; West Ten
nessee, $89, 4l2,276.
The largest valuation shown in
any county is Davidson, the wealth
lest counties coming in the follow
ing order, Maury being fifth:
Davidson-308, 63l acres, So, 487, 100;
&c, 483 town lots, $30005, $50; other
property, 8,456, 800; total $40, 949, 4S0;
State tax, $l40,S48,44.
Shelby-456, 466 acres, 1888, 1888 4;
%, 700 town lots, $29,0l0,S00; other
property, $4,696, 306; total, SAL $780,
889; State tax, 1923, 1872. 66.
Knox-322, 1868 acres, $685., $50;
IL, 455 town lots, Sill, l46,960; other
property, 1854 500; total, $l8,6l7 $3.50;
State tax, $55,8S2.l7.
Hamlton-227 397 acres, SO, 632, 085 (;
24.O5O town lots, $ll,4l9,6S5; other
property, $2,478, APO; total, $l7 $50, 10;
State tax, $52 1921.
Maury-377, 1858 acres, $5,344575;
2,298 town lots, $l,63l ,725 other prop
erty, $l,l0l $50; total, $8,O77 800;
State tax, $24, 233.85.
Montgomery 330, 466 acres, 50 1854,
1856; 280I town lots, $500 $40; other
property, 1851, 40; total, SCAT $50;
State tax, $40, 432 .05.
Rutherford-372, 406 acres, $f,52l,
400; ,065 town lots, 81 1862 10; other
property, $779,370; total, $6,363 $40
State tax, $l9,090.62.
Obion-35l $50 acres, $3.50, 100; p
437 town lots, 81 ,0l9,265 other prop
erty, $685. ,249; total, So, 455, 223; State
tax, 1886 81.
Wiliamson-348, 297 acres, $4,l5G,
$40; 7O2 town lots, 1898, $50; Other
property, 1854, l0l; total, So ,279,S4O'
State tax, Sl5,S39.50.
Giles-357, 482 acres, So, 1881 500; 6T;
town lots, 1886, S64; other property
$6O5, S54; total, $4,446,4l3; State tax
$l3,339.24.
Some of Maury's near neighborS
are taxed as follows:
Lawrence-3Sl6 $50 acres, 1915, l4O
/, 495 town lots, $l67 ,534; other prop
ETY., $63,664; total, $l,l77,34O; State
tax, SO, 532.02
Lewi5-lG7,O17 acres, $407, 563; 81
town lots, $3.50 other property
$43, l45; total, 1852, 1888; State tax, ST.
357.l4.
Hickman-407,8 1927 acres, 81, 467 ,505
124 town lots, sos, 100; other property
$2l6,S9O; total, $1,74O,5l5; State tax
$5,22l54.
Marshall-229, 467 acres, 81, 483,67l
532 town lots, $269,O35; other prop
erty, $20l ,2O6; total, $2,953,9l2; State
tax, $S,S6l ,73.
Perry-275,S24 acres, $729,530; IN
town lots, $27,34O; other property
$127, 22l; total, 1881, 099; State tax
$2,652.29.
Wayne-473,767 acres, $799, 563; 30
town lots, $4,000; other property
1862 ,3O7; total, 81, l32,770: State tax
$3,4l3.3l.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26
GEORGIA EDITORS PLATFORM.
Thinks Lynching a Religious Duty-Tht
south Was Right in the Sixties.

south Was Right in the Sixties.
ATLANTA, Novem Der 2l.-The an
nouncement of Mr.. Benj. M. Black
burn, editor of the Daily CONNER
cial, of this city, that he is a candi-
date for the Democratic nomination
to succeed Col. Livingston in Con-
gress from the Atlanta district,
brings out a new platform, which
will excite considerable attention.
After declaring in favor of the ex-
treme interpretatIoh'of the Chicago
platform he adds to it this:
II am in favor OF lynching brutes
for the usual crime, because / be-
lieve that it is our religious duty to
keep our homes pure and undeflled
/ believe the South was right in tn g
sixties, and that the sentiment OF
her people will sustain me to-day.
am opposed to any system that gives
brutal and cOwsrdiy sycophants the
right to shoot down innocent labor.
as was lately done in Pennsylvania. !"
Many other ideas of like character
are promulgated. %
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26
ON A FLYING LOCOMOTIVE.
An Engineer and a Fireman Engage in "A
Deadly Encounter.

An Engineer and Fireman Engage III a
Deadly Encounter.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA, Nov. l9.-On
a freight train dashing southwark
over the Louisville d Nashville
Railroad at the rate of thirty miles
an hour late last night one of the
most thrilling encounters ever re-
corded in fact or fiction occurred.
Two mer, one black and crazed
with drink, the other white and con-
scious of deadly peril, engaged in a
life-and-death struggle in the cab of
flying locomotive, which ended in
the death of the negro and the most
miraculous escape from the same
fate by the white man.
When train No. %, southbound d,
left here last night at I0:l6 O'Clock,
Engineer E. P. Bishop and Fireman
Wiley Craig, colored, occupied the
locomotive cab. About twenty min
utes later a few miles below the city
the negro was lying dead beside the
track, and the engineer, bleeding
from a dozen knife wounds, was
alone in his cab.
Soon after the trains departure
and when two miles from the city
Bishop told the fireman to stir up
the fire. This angered the negro
and springing from his seat. he drew
are vOlver and suddenly and without
warning fred shot point blank al
the engineer. The bullet missed the
engineer, who struck the revolver
from the negro's hand just as the
latter was about to fire a second
shot. ..-
Craig, now crazed with rage, in.
stantly drew an ugly knife, anC
grasping the engineer by the shout
der, pulled him from the box anC
began to cut him across the breast
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26
THERE WERE AIS DEATHS

During the yellow Fever Epidemic, Out
of "A Total of 1880 Cases.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-Accord-
ing to the last weekly report issued
by the Surgeon General of
the Marine Hospital service, Civ
ing the returns up TO the 18th
inst, there had then appeared
during the yellow fever epidemic in
the South total of 4,2S9 cases, of
which 446 had proved fatal. OF the
total number of cases, 1917 were re-
ported from Louisiana, 1925 from
Mississippi, 74O from Alabama, so
from Tennessee, l6 from Texas, 4
from Illinois, 3 from Georgia and
each from Florida and Kentucky.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

1t is yet almost a year till nomi-
mating conventions will be held, but
there are number of Democratic
aspirants spoken of at present as
available gubernatorial material,
most prominent among these being
e. w. Carmack and Benton Nc
Millin.-Savannah Courier.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26
!, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2e, 1897.

darkey, IT am a Southern gentle
man. MY home is in the South. [
have wife and children there and
cannot take an oath TO the Federa'
government. 1 will not disgrac
my wife and children" Cuffy j.
still prisoner.
no BE Continued
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

j. NJ. Thirswend, of Groesbeck. Tex,
says that when he has a spell of indi-
gestion. he takes two of DeWitts Little
Early Risers at night, and he is all right
the next morning. Many thousands of
others do the same thing. Do you?
A. B. Rains. ly
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

The war has been over thirty two
years, but, nevertheless, there are
now nearly 100000 names on the
pension roll, and 100000 claims are
awaiting adjudication.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

The disappearance of the yellow
fever was celebrated in Baton
Rouge, La, and several other towns
by torch light professions and
thanksgiving meetings.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

Brainy and brilliant med" Car
mack, who whaled your Uncle
Josiah Patterson in 1896 until the
aforesaid Josiah had the thumps, is
in the list of gubernatorial proba-
Observation-Disclosures News Journal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

The next session of the Middle
Tennessee Medical Association,
will be held at Dixon next May. The
Association met at Murfreesboro
last week.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

MAURY is fifth to the wealthiest
county in the State, those coming
ahead of her being Davidson,
Shelby, Knox and Hamilton, in the
order named.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

THE memorial services over the
late Senator Isham G. Harris, were
held in Memphis Sunday. An i'm
mense crowd gathered to do rever-
ence to the dead statesman.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26
WHAT OTHER PAPERS THINK.

Out-Of-Town Papers Express Their Opin-
ions on COlumbia's Election.
The anti-reformers in the NUM-
cipal election at Columbia won by a
vote of twenty-six. The trouble is,
when it comes to test of this kind
morality and good government VS..
the saloons and the devil in general
the former element wont turn out in
full force and work with earnestness
for the end desired, while OH the
other side every man puts in full
service.-Lewisburg Sentinel.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

MONDAYS American devoted more
than two columns to DR.. Kelley S
sermon in McKendree church Sun
day on Hall Gaines Christian. -"
The large auditorium was crowded
beyond its seating capacity.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

MIR. BRYAN is going to Mexico to
make careful study of that coun-
try's financial system.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

West VIRGINIA's ex- Secretary of
State, w. T. Chiffon, is short in his
accounts 100000.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

LAST Saturday was great day on
the gridiron. Yale played Prince
ton at New Haven, and the latter
went down in defeat, and Harvard's
hopes were blighted at philadelphia
by the boys of the Keystone State.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

FIRE destroyed the Dyersburg
State-G Gazette office and three other
buildings adjoining it last Monday
morning.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

Small pill, safe pill, best pill. DeWitt's
Little Early Risers cure biliOusness,
constipation, sick headache. A. B.
Rains. ly
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26
NEWS AND COMMENT.

MRS. HARRIET TIFFANY, wife of
the famous ieweler, of New York, is
dead.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

We stake our reputation as an
Isaiah and Jeremiah on the state
ment that e. w. Carmack will be
the Democratic gubernatorial nomi-
nee and will be elected, t"o.-Troy
News Banner.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

THE Standard Oil Trust now has
charge of the gas light privileges Of
Greater New York and will at once
set to squeezing the people. The
milk trust has just been organized
and an advance of % per cent has
taken place in the cost of milk to
the consumers.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

The biggest raid on wildcatters
ever made in East Tennessee was
made on Wednesday night of last
week in Polk county. The revenue
officers captured three men and de-
stroyed enough homemade corn
Juice to float a small steamer.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

The Interior Department esti-
mates the total Indian population of
the United States, exclusive of the
New York Indians and the five civil
lied tribes, at 1l7,178, located on III
reservations, embracing 33,4O4,837
nnrnc
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

Ed Carmack has intimated that
''Barkis is willin'" if the Democracy
of Tennessee desire him for Govern
or.--Gibson County Journal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26
CARMACK FOR GOVERNOR.

If Ned Carmack runs for Govern
or the next summer will be hot
Knoxville Journal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

THE war "reminiscences, headed
Echoes of the Past" from the diary
of Captain Andrew j. Campbell, are
attracting so much attention and
such general interest among our
readers, that we will make it fea-
ture of our first page hereafter, be-
ginning with this issue.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

Columbia's city election this year
was an exceedingly warm one and
eliminated last Tuesday in the
Anti Reform ticket being elected
by small plurality. Columbia will
probably be "a wide open" town
again when the new regime begins.
Like her only rival, Greater New
York, Columbia has emphatically
endorsed the "To hill with Re-
form platform. "-Giles County
Record.
The "headlinern on the Memphis
CommerciaI-Appeal took the "Peo-
pies Party" of Columbia, to be the
Populist Party, and thus heads the
dispatch giving the result of the
election:
"POPS CAPTURE A TOWN.
columbia Mayor and Aldermen are
Elected by Them"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

A TERRIBLE duel with pistols took
place in Waco, Texas, last Friday,
and as a result w. A. Harris, a we'll
known citizen and insurance man,
and his brother, Editor ]. w. Har-
ris, of the Waco Times Herald, are
dead, and Col. G. B. Gerald, prom
inent lawyer, is seriously injured
The two Harris brothers and Col.
Gerald met on the street, and, after
exchanging a few words, began fir
ing at each other. Gerald killed both
of his antagonists aud himself re-
ceived shot in his wrist and one in
his hip. The trouble grew from the
attacks in Branh's Iconoclast on
Baylor University, Editor Harris
taking the side of Baylor and Gerald
defending Brann. Gerald was tried
and exonerated on the ground that
the shooting was done I'm self defense.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

THE Dingley law as a revenue
producer is proving to be miserable
failure. The deficit in receipts and
expenditures of the Government fer
this fiscal year has reached the
enormous amount of $45,OOO,OOO, and
the deficit for this month alone will
be more than $l0,OO0,O00.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

ONE of the worst fires in the histo-
ry of London occurred last Friday,
destroying property worth $25, OOO,0 900.
1t was started by an explosion, and
when 1t was pronounced under con-
troll, had swept away one hundred
and fifty warehouses and badly
damaged number of historic struc-
lures.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-26

columbia Mayor and Aldermen al
Elected by Them"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-03
CHAPTER 1911. F. NO. 656.

AN ACT to prevent persons from request
ing or soliciting the placing of the
name of any one upon any jury list.
Be it enacted by the Legislature OF the
State of Minnesota:
Section l. 1t shall be unlawful for any
person, directly or indirectly, to solicit
or request any officer charged with the
duty of preparing any jury list in this
state to put his name or the name OF
any other person on any jury list pro-
vided for under any law of this state.
Sec - 1t shall be unlawful for any
person or officer charged by any law of
this state with the duty of preparing
any Jury list or list of names from which
any juries are to be drawn to place on
said list any name at the request or So
licitation, direct or indirect, of any per-
son.
Sec. 8. Any person whose name shall
have been placed on any list of jurors
at the request, solicitation or suggestion.
direct or indirect, of himself or any other
person, except the officer or officers
charged by law with the duty of prepar-
ing such jury list, shall be thereby dis
the term or terms of court for which
such list was proposed and such
disqualification may be inquired into
on a challenge for cause, and II made
to appear the challenge shall be allowed.
Sec. 4. Any person violating any of
the provisions of this act shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and upon con.
viction shall be punished by a fine of
not less than ten O0) dollars nor exceed
ing one hundred 900 dollars or by i'm
prisonment in the county Jail not less
than ten (10) days nor more than ninety
900 days, or by both such fine and impris-
onmenr.
Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after it's passage.
Approved April 23 1897.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-03
CHAPTER s4s-H. F. NO. sO7.

AN ACT 10 amend section 153 of chapter
of the general laws of 1893 the same
being section 15S of the general statutes
of 1894 relating to elections.
BE it enacted by the Legislature OF the
State of Minnesota:
Section l. That section one hundred ana
fftv-three 053) of chapter four % OF the
general laws of the State of Minnesota
for the wear eighteen hundred and ninety
three GS93). the same being section one
hundred and fifty-eight Q0S) OF the gen.
eral statutes of eighteen hundred ana
ninetv-four QS9N. be and the same Is
hereby amended so as to read as follows:
sSec. 153. One copy of the returns pro-
vIded for in the last preceding section
shall Except in cities having over twelve
thousand d2OOO inhabitantS) be carried
bv one of said judges, to be chosen by
lot if not otherwise agreed upon, ana De
liVered TO the sail county auditor at ms
office and the other copy shall be DENY
cred TO the clerk of the town, city or VII
laga wherein said election district is To-
Gated. NJ,
And in case of any town. city or village
election the returns thereof shall be so
certified, attested and delivered to the
clerk of such town, city or village.
In all election districts, excepting I'm IN
cities having over twelve thousand Q20Oo2
Inhabitants, the judges OF election snall
cause TO be made out and filed with the
county auditor at the same time and IN
the same manner as other returns, sum-
mary statement of the votes cast for each
person baloted for and the office Tor
which such person received sucn votes,
which statement shall be filed by such
county auditor and shall Immediately
therea fter be open to public inspection.
Sec > This act shall take effect ana De
In force from and after its passage.
Approved April %, 1897.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-03
CHAPTER 356-H. f. NO. 621.

AN ACT to reimburse certain physicians
for expenses paid by them while men,
bers of the estate board of medical eX-
aminers'' in attendance upon regular
meetings of said board.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section 1. That the sum of eight hun
bred and eighteen (S1S) dollars is hereby
appropriated out of any money in the
state treasury, not otherwise appropriat-
ed, to reimburse DR.. A. c. Wedge of AL
bert Lea, in the amount of two hundred
(20) dollars; DR.. F. c. Bowman of Du-
luth, in the amount of one hundred and
ten Q10) dollars; and DR.. w. D. Finn of
Redwood Falls, in the amount of two
hundred and twenty-three (223) dollars;
and DR.. D. F. Collins, in the amount of
two hundred and eighty-five (2S5) dollars;
for expenses paid by them respectively
in the above amounts while members of
the state board of medical examiners in
attendance upon the regular meetings
of the said board, held for the examina-
ton of applicants for license to practice
medicine in the State of Minnesota, as
provided for by statute.
Sec. 2. That the state auditor is hereby
directed to draw his warrant in favor of
the persons named, or their respective or
ders, for the amounts named above
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after it's passage
Approved April %, 1897.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-03

pora ton shall not exceed the sum of
twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,0 00). to.
be divided into shares of the par value of
not less than ten dollars ($1O) per share;
and said corporation can commence bust
ness whenever twenty per cent (20%) of
the capital stock is subscribed and paid
for.
Sec g. Any corporation organized under
the provisions of this act, shall, on or be-
fore the Both day of December of each and
every year make a report to the dairy
inspector of the State of Minnesota. or
such officer as may at any time. by law,
be given the supervision of dairy pro-
ducts; such report shall state the name
of the corporation the principal place of
it's business, the location of its creamery
or creameries. and the number of pounds
of butter or other dairy product manufac-
tured by such corpor ation during the pre-
ceding year.
Sec. 4. Such corporation may amend its
articles of incorporation within the pur-
view of this act. at any general stock
holders meeting. or at any special meet
ing called for that purpose upon ten QO)
days notice given to the stockholders.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage.
Approved April 23. 1897.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-03

occupant of the land upon which logs or
timber were cut in cases of trespass, or
when the logs or timber were cut or car
ried away without the consent OF such
owner or legal occupant.
Sec. g. That section fourteen qq OF
said chapter eighty-nine 800 of said laws
of eighteen hundred and seventy-slX
QS76), be and the same hereby Is re-
pealed.
Sec. 4. That said chapter eighty-nine
$50 of the said laws Of Minnesota 1or
eighteen hundred and seventy-slX (lSi6),
be and the same is hereby amended by
adding thereto the following section, VIZ;
Sec. 16. Nothing in this act contalneu
shall be construed as giving to, any con
tractor. or sub-contractor, or all contract
ors and sub-contractors of any work
combined. a lien upon logs or TIMBER ior
an amount greater than the contract price
of doing such work. as fixed by the con
tract thereof between the owner or Such
logs or timber and the original contract.
or; and in the computation of the amount
of lien to which any contractor, contract-
ors sub-conuractor or Sub-contract0rs,
are entitled under the provisions or TINS
act. deduction shall be made OF the
amount of all liens of laborers Tor work
done uDon such logs or timber.
Sec. : This act shall take effect and De
In force from ard after its passage.
Approved April :;5, 1895 QS9D.