The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-18
SOUTHERN NOTES.
Clippings Here and There from the
NcwsDapcrs of Dixie.

ROME, GA, December b.-Robert I.
Hargrove, banker of Rome for more
than a quarter OF q century, and well
known citizen. committed suicide az
Kingston last night His body was found
this morning about S o clock in room
I'm the Hotel Victor. Beside his bed was
an empty sixty-grain bottle OF morphine.
lie left no letter Of explanation.
The car SO of lhe suicide is supposed TO
have been financial troubles For some
time he has been very dependent be-
cause Of poor collections. The affair Is
great saock to his many friends here.
He leaves d wife and one grown son.
Major lack Hargrove. OF Naycross, is
his brother.
A dispatch from Macon (Ga) says: The
Rev. sam Small. chaplain of the Third
Engineers. has drawn upon himself the
wrath of many MethOdists by giving a
BAH in the regimental mess hall Sam
small who Is almost as we'll known as an
evangelist as sam Jones. began his min
isterial career under the jurisdiction OF
the Southern Methodist Church. When
he went North 90 live he connected him
ser with the Northern branch or the
church and now is a member OF the
Conference of Colorado.
Small is Exceedingly p0p"ar with the
officers and men of the Third Engineers.
ana be determined 90 arrange a social
dance Extensive preparations for the
,f-.ir were entered into and the CHAP
fain.s daughter. Mrs. Lola Smail-Jack-
som who has just returned from bileI
career on the stage, had charge Oh the
decorations
Tho dance was a pronounced success
brt when the Methodist brethren heard
of II they were much paincd IL Is NOT
probable however. that Ohdplain Sn''''
r.ur eu4er by their censure as the peo-
plo here are liberal in their sentiment '.l.
ana willing 10 allow the soldiers any
pleasure within the bounds OF reason
"a. o-o fotd bv our Richmond corre-
.-,,.,5ert ,bat "a prominent Virginia Re
n,hlic,n. who IS "a close friend Of Presi-
dcnt NrcKinlcv's." viii try 10 secure the
,,aesspe bv Congress Of bill providing
that the General Government SHAH sup
mort tbe Confederate soldiers homes IN
Inc south. that there are such homes IN
nearly AN the Southern States, support
cd bv tho local governments, and that
.ro ooorogate cost OF their support
could amount 20 less than $4,000 year.
MAI is a practical proposition. 1t is only
etorf efcD from the tOnlederates VINO
ar. daod to the Confederates Fho are
dving for lack Of proper care, and one
stem after these homeless and helpless
ones to those who served with them in
the struggle which illustrated American
valor we do not not know that Presi-
dent Mckinley is get quite prepared Tor
sd wide an application OF the policy OF
cvuansion as these suggestions would
Indicate but he has a great opportunity
10 make himself and his administration
Observation-Disclosures News and Cou-
rier.
Tho state Of Alabama Is coming TO the
front IN the fields of industrial develop
ment so rapidly that many have 10
very large extent forgotten the great
Agricultural advantages IL possesses and
40 not as much as they should appre-
ciate the good that has come, that is
coming and that viii come from the till
ing of some OF the most productive soil
OF the union.
There is 10 one thing that more strik-
inelv illustrates the revival among the
farming classes than the recent move
ment towards raising wheat again.-Bir-
mingham News.
The work Of surveying lands IN and
near the Everglades, especially the ISL
ands In the eastern part, which the In