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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20

The prospects of the new cotton crop
are beginning TO excite interest That the
indications are towards a smaller crop
may be seen in a comparison of quotations
for future deliveries. "A week ago"
says the New Orleans Times-D Democrat,
'Januaries were selling five points below
Mays; two weeks ago the discount amount
ed to as much as twelve points" The
positions are coming more closely together.
The Times-Democrat points out that phe-
nomenally wet weather prevails TO the
eastward of the Mississippi, while there
Is a deficiency of moisture throughout the
greater part of Texas. These facts make
a perfect season a condition precedent 20
the production of a crop that would make
figure beginning with a look right 10
anybody outside of a mad house"
Weather, however, is not the only mat
ter to be considered; there are the ques-
lions of acreage and fertilizers. on these
latter points a circular issued by p. D.
Daffin & Son of this city says the firm
has reliable information indicating that
the shipments of fertilizers this season
will not be over IS per cent. of the ship
ments Of last season. if indeed it reaches
60 per cent. The sale of inspection tags
from the state agricultural department UP
to the present time has been so per cent
less than for the corresponding period of
last year. This is conclusive evidence of
a large decrease in fertilizer sales. as
every bag of fertilizer sold in Georgia
must have an inspection tag on it to make
the sale legal. Again" says the Daffin
circular, "the low price of cotton the past
fan has ruined that class of farmers known
as renters and, finding 1t impossible TO
obtain actual necessities Of life from the
country merchant, he is compelled to hire
himself to the larger planters, who are
IN a very little better position. The re-
suit Of all this will be the retiring of the
renter farmer from raising cotton on his
own account, and, as they constitute a con-
siderable class in this section of the South
the reduction in acreage from this source
e-one viii be considerable The larger
painters viii not be able 10 increase their
acreage as most of them are in debt from
the past year, and are in no position 10
OBTAIN necessary additional supplies"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20

The recent Congress authorized the con-
Etruction of forty-eight vessels for the
navy. as follows: Six sea-going battle
ships, four monitors, three armored cruis-
ers. six protected cruisers, sixteen tor
pedo boat destroyers, twelve torpedo
boats, and one gunboat for service on
the great lakes. The battleships are
10 be monsters. Three of them are
% cost 100000 each exclusive of arm
or and guns, and three others are to cost
s4,O0 900 each. The limitation by Congress
of the price to be paid for armor plate
will hardly affect these vessels, as it will
be some time before they viii be ready for
the plate, and a subsequent Congress will
be depended upon 10 make provision for
supplying it for them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20
A Good word for Him.

The New York World has had a great
deal of fun with Senator Hanna, after its
own fashion, both pictorially and edito-
rally but occasionally 1t says a good
word for him, as witness the following
from its Washington correspondent:
Senator NJ. A. Hanna was walking down
a corridor of the Arlington when a little
shabbily dressed woman, partially veiled
addressed him.
1T this Senator Hanna ?"
Yes madam. What can do for you?''
he replied.
well, Mr.. Hanna. I-er-I want you to
help me get place in the census Office
1 am not from your state-I live in Iowa
but 1 understand you can get anything
you want from Director Merriam. And
do wish you would help me. A word from
you will get me a place. and have taken
the liberty of asking you to help me. 1 do
not like to hold you up in the corridor, but
/ have been trying for three days to get a
chance to speak with you. have a sick
husband and two children depending on
me for support and am so much in need
of employment Now won't you help me"
The remainder of the sentence was spolk-
en- amid sobs.
Really, madam" said Hanna kindly.
II don't see how can help you. 1 have
thousand and one people from nv own
state constantly asking for employment.
and I am unable To get places for them
However, If you will come
to my office In the rnor,,
ing will see what can do for Won"
With this the little woman wiped AWAY
her tears, and thanking the Ohio senator
profusely for his promised favor, she hur-
riedly departed.
That's what have to 60 through with
every day" said the senator to a renor-
ter who had seen the meeting. IAN inter
view like this is heartreading."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20

The Filipino insurgents are armed with
Mauser rifles, the range of which is 1000
yards. The American volunteers are armed
with Springdelds, the range of which ,s
100 yards. II becomes necessary. there
fore, for the American volunteers to act
upon the advice Of the Spartan mother to
her son who complained that his sword
was too short-"add step 10 it," The
Americans have to make up the deficiency
Of their guns with their pluck and daring
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20

Great Britain gives some of her war
vessels names which are calculated to in
spire possible enemies with awe and re-
spect. But when the aforesaid possible
enemies read that the Terrible is in
ternaliy weak and that the "Invincible"
is always breaking down and needing as
sistance to get from one place to another,
they are no doubt inclined to smile.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20

Is it possible that some of those corre-
spondents who formerly served Spanish
newspapers are now sending dispatches
from Manila to the American papers? Some
of the stories of great victories which are
being received from Manila read very
much like stories printed a year ago in
the newspapers of Madrid.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20

How beautiful and heecy was the
heavy fall Of snow Just after March had
been ushered in with sunshine and
warmth"
Yes, 1t looked very much as though the
lion were shaking all the wool off the
lamb."-Detroit Free Press.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20

Even little Denmark is going to make a
grab in China. so it is announced. China
self against marauders. and the great
Powers, being greedy themselves, are not
in a position to deny the smaller Powers
a few of the scraps.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20

1t is proposed that there shall be a great
flag display at the Charleston reunion of
the Confederate veterans. A circular let
ter has been sent out from headquarters
to all department, division, brigade and
camp commanders 10 gather as many Con-
federate flags and banners as possible. to
be used upon that occasion. A safe de-
pository for the flags viii be arranged at
Charleston
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20

The question of the number Of sponsors
and maids of honor that may attend the
reunion of the Confederate veterans has
been settled by the general commanding.
Each organization may select as many
maids of honor as it pleases; with the dis
tinct understanding. however, that the
reunion committee at Charleston viii only
entertain and provide for one sponsor and
one maid Of honor from general, department
and division headquarters, as the expense
for the entertainment of a larger number
would be too great for the reunion com
mittee to bear" All Of the others, how
ever. will be heartily welcomed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20
CURRENT COMMENT.

An article on the editorial page of the
New York Press (Rep.) says: THE negro
soldiers from the Middle West have shot
wild volleys al the white people of the
South wherever they happened to remain
Ions enough to get drunk. In one place
they wounded thirteen men, women and
children. We could hardly expect the
whites to remain oelm under the circum-
stances. Gov. Gambler is quite right in
his statement to the editor of the Press
The negro troops are responsible for the
recent race troubles. With a uniform on
his back a niger is a fiend carnate
when not subjected to the strictest mill
tary discipline"
The Richmond Dispatch Oem) says:
"Win the Democratic party in 1900 pre-
sent a united front to imperialism? That
is, will the Democratic masses have been
aroused 10 full sense of their obligation
and full appreciation of the difference
between Democracy and imperialism or
what is the same thing, Mckinley Repub-
licanism? 1t is for their leaders to say
If the answer is TO be in the affirmative,
no time should be lost in organizing for
the campaign of 1900 stirring the people
up to their duty, and making the issues of
the coming contest so plain that he who
runs may read
The Montgomery Advertiser Dem) says:
THE question of Gen. Andrew Jacksou's
nativity is again being discussed.
late writer insisting that he
was born in Ireland. Ireland is
a good place to be born in, but II
Jackson was born there he could not have
been a constitutional President and-what
are you going to DO about It? He may
not have been President de jure, but he
was about the 'defactotest chief execu-
tive the country ever enjoyed"
Georgia should go into the nomenclature
of The navy ahead of Rhode Island The
Springfield (Mass) Republican Qnd)
says: 1.-The Rhode Island Republican
convention calls for a battleship to be
named the Rhode Island. because the state
was "the birthplace of the America navy"
Rhode Island may be the birthplace of the
navy. but the colony Of Georgia commits
stoned a warship against British commerce
as early as July 10, 1775. Can Rhode ISL
and beat that?'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20
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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-02-02

Of the l. @. h. r. Co., in Memphis,
which would make him lawyer for
that railroad company, and Judge
Cooper rendered his resignation to
accept that offer His resignation
was accepted and ex-Gov. Lowry re-
quested me to let him procure the
return of the resignation to me, and
to investigate the eligibility of Judge
Cooper for reappointment, which [
did, and on investigation l found
that Judge Cooper was ineligible, not
being a resident of the district from
which the appointment was to be
made, having ceased to vote at Halle
hurst, but voted in Jackson. I do
not think it a reflection that the
railroad company regarded him as an
incorruptible judge, nor do 1 think it
reflection that he accepted employ
ment by the railroad company as an
attorney.
When the question Of the liability
of the Y. & NJ. V. R. R. Co. for taxes
was presented to, and decided by, the
Supreme court, the most Incorporate
denunciation of that tribunal was ut
tered. 1t was denounced as highway
robbery, and, of course, the Supreme
court was, therefore, robber.
The Commercial-Appeal of Mem
phis, in milder tempered article, Of
December Both, 1898, which reads
like the production of an able lawyer,
to correct my information that the
l. G. railroad carried loaded cars
earring revenue while the empty
! ones mourning expense were
carried over the Y. & NJ. V. R. R.,
concludes with this utterance: The
Illinois Central people have not only
been liberal, but lavish in their in
vestments in Mississippi, and the
state should keep faith in every par
ticular, yielding whenever there is
any doubt" There is no doul t.
But if there were doubt, why
should the state yield its taxing
sovereignty over the l. G. R. R. Co.
because of doubt? The rule is that
where there is doubt exemption from
taxation is denied, because if you ex-
empt one person from taxation others
must pay his taxes for him, and it is
abhorrent to natural right to make
one person pay another's taxes, and
especially whenever that OF er is
much ADLER to pay taxes. Thi rule
of doubt is applied to the widd who
supports her orphan children With
the labor of her hands, and Why
should it not be applied to the G.
r. r. Coz
Take this lawyerly written edi-
torial of a paper, outside of the
state, that is enlisted for the railroad
against the collection of its taxes;
and the fact that the railroad direc-
tors rejected settlement advised by
its ablest general counsel, and the
fact that it is fighting with the Bit
terness never before known in this
state, the Governor who dared to re-
comlosnd TO the legislature the re-
peal Of statutes that were and are be-
ing prosutu5ed to the delay of Just,
equitable and awful taxes, and the
fact that their attorney, Mr.. Smith,
! selected to oren the campaign, de-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-02-02
T. V. MCALIsTER,

Notary Public.
Did ever the genius of Islander
descend to deeper degradation? The
false ex parte affidavit Of an litter
ate, ignorant negro sought to bias,
the reputation of the Governor, and
to reflect shame upon every citizen
OF the state. An effort to cut
through the honor and good name OF
The state in order to strike chief
executive who will not bend to the
old levee ring with its defaulting
treasurer and absconding treasurer,
and the Y. & NJ. V. R. r. Co.
And yet this is the man who pre-
faced his insinuations against mo
with the expression, "It is with pain
and regret that l say it. Yet this
is the man selected to open the cam
paign against me, not for the State
of Mississippi.
received this paper and affidavit
on the evening of the 9th of Deem
Der, after supper, but l was not will
ing to say that even the spirit Of
malice had sunk so low, on the afa-
davit alone Ct an ignorant negro, sup
ported though it was by the palpable
circumstances, and / wrote the next
day to DR.. Harris letter calling his
attention to what Sutton had sworn
as to the manner of his possession Of
the paper, and inquiring Of him iii
Suttons statement in reference to
the way in which the paper came
into his possession" was true, and
what, if anything" he "had to do
with the paper" l will read to you
his reply. Here it is;
MoNT HELENA, Miss, Dec. 30, 1898.
His Excelency, Governor of Missis-
sippi, Hon. A. J. McLaurin:
I Dear Sir-I have your letter Of the
28th inst, wherein you advise me
that George Sutton went to Vicks-
burg last Monday, bearing a type
written form of affidavit, with alleged
instructions from me, communicated
through some third party, to sign the
same before magistrate, and that l
gave him or caused to be given him
his transportation. You then ask
whether Sutton's statement of the
way in which the affidavit reached
him be true, and what, if anything,
1 had to do with the paper. For an
swer 1 have to say that Sutton's
statement, so far as it relates to me
or to my concernment in the matter,
directly or indirectly, is untrue.
Your mention of a clerk has led me
to refer the letter to my son, with
request that he examine his clerks
and submit memorandum of any
thing known to him or coming to
him from clerks relating to the mat.
ter. 1 enclose his reply, which l
hope you may find satisfactory. His
statement is fortified in one point
Chat touching the matter of trans
portation) by memorandum from
Mr.. West, bookkeeper, which | en-
close. By today's mail shall send
your letter to Hon. M. f. Smith,
with request for information for your
use. as to how he obtained the facts
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-02-02

eo~.--.-S, vncI &c Sd
of this recommends
legi .at1rs paid no
ever TO this recomm
mar other paluable
and yoU can SEQ that
attempting to decoy
ton away, the real is.
the payment of their
They say they are ]
that the men who are /
their attorneys, and
nothing to do with it.
of Caesars followers S.
he could have Pomp;
while at dinner, if {
done, Caesar replied
nave done that and
known it,.
iet ul examine Mr..
meng tA- no sttent
the recommendation
the statutes 1,url1
found on tho jnqut
that the Railroad coul
per cent in one year o
construction.
A bill was introduce
to repeal the statutes
corporations committe
journal, 1898, p. 100.
without recommended
1t was made special
day, p. 254. 1t was
the same committee p.
ported again by the
recommendation that
3O4-5. 1t was again
order, p. 3l1. 1t was
of % TO s, p. 1888.
and indefinitely postI
10 to IS, o. Sal.
will make such a sta
of a record what credt
his statements mad
conjectures whore
Let us examine the
M. V. r. r. Co., to
ia Sation.
Mr.. Smith is sho
he claims, | wanted {
take the case out of {
courts by repeating Il
case is decided by til
against the claim {
now the Mmphis APP
the Railroad company
like article mention
the case out of the co
is no federal question
place for it to go exec
of politics. aud accm
ney of the Railroad
lected-not by the sil
tation hereto pen t
"some figures furuis
full, painstaking an
man. " So more tina
part in the preparat
Listen here to the
"While it is usually
to assume that tn
correct conclusions c
this case possesses S.
ties, p" etc. There is
if the rule which sol
exemption from tax
q laborer, mechanic
tradesman or mere
applied to the Y &
pany it is peculiar.
if a farmer is requir
but if the J & NJ.
is asked to submit t
it is peculiar Ava
Iiarities!
RAILROAD
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-02-02

H. J. McLaurin, and that for his SER
vices as his attorney that he paid Mr..
McLaurin one hundred and ten dol
lars ($llO) that after his son was
convicted and sent to the peniten-
tiary he secured the services of Mr..
ii. j. McLaurin to petition for his
pardon, and agreed to pay him fifty
dollars for this work; that his son
was pardoned, and that he is yet due
the fifty dollars.
That Walter McLaurin never knew
anything whatever about the matter,
nor did he have anything to do with
it except one day in Jackson, where
he affian+ had gone tc nresent his
petition to the Governor, he met
Walter McLaurin, whom he knew
whom he lived in Sharkey county,
and that said Mr.. McLaurin asked
him what he was doing out there,
and when he told him he (affiant)
| asked him to help him, and Mr.. Wal
ter McLaurin told him that he had
better see Mr.. II. J. McLaurin, and
had nothing further to do with it.
Affiant further states that he isran
ignorant negro and cannot read, and
that the attached blank affidavit was
handed to him by Mr.. Dewess, q
| clerk in the store house on the
Helena plantation, in Sharkey
county, which is owned by Mrs. Geo.
G. Harris, and is managed and con-
trolled by DR.. George G. Harris, and
that he was told by Mr.. Dewess that
DR.. George G. Harris had instructed
him to deliver the paper TO him with
his transportation to Vicksburg, and
that there he was to meet Mr.. Murray
F. Smith, and that he was to 90 with
Mr.. Smith before a justice of the
peace and make affidavit to said at
tached paper and deliver it to Mr..
Smith. That on the train coming
down from Rolling Fork for this pur-
pose he fell in with two colored
friends and showed them the paper
and asked them to read it to him and
that they did so. That he realized
at once that the facts stated in said
attached paper were not true, and
! that the impression intended to be
made thereby was false. And that
on the advice and in the company Of
said friends he carried the paper and
gave it to Mr.. r. l.. McLaurin and
explained the circumstances to him,
and that after same was fully under.
stood all around this affidavit was
voluntarily made to set out the true
state Of facts as to this whole mattr..
Affiant further states that never
did either Mr.. H. J. McLaurin or
Walter McLaurin promise him a
pardon for his son, or that they
would get him pardon, but Mr.. He
j. McLaurin did agree to get up a
petition and assist him as best he
could in the matter.
Witness my signature this, the
26th of December, A. D. 1898.
GEORGE X SUTTON.
mark.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-02-02

he Governor Discussed State Issues From His Point Of
View Replies to the Speech of Hon Murray F. Smith
And Makes Some Sensational Charges Some Afiida-
Wits. Talks About Levees and Lobbying An
nounces His Candidacy For the United States Senate
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-02-02

w Illnesses
A. H. BOOTH,
+. N. SCUDDER.

Sworn to and subsc
this, the 1Uun DAY or 4
1898.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-02-02

This paper, you will notice, is
neither signed nor sworn to.
George Sutton on the same even
ing made and attached to this type
written paper the affidavit which l
will now read to you, and which is as
follows:
STATE OF Observation-Disclosures Co.
Personally appeared before me T..
V. McAllister, notary public, In
and for the city of Vicksbprg, in sssd
county and state, the within named
George Sutton, who, being q ny
sworn, deposes and says: That he Is
the father of Jerry Sutton, and that
the said Jerry Sutton was convicted
of manslaus liter in the circuit court
of Sharkey county and sentenced to
the penitentiary for a term Of years !;
that his son was defended in he OR
cult court Of Sharkey county By Mr.,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-02-02
Respectfully,
j. ]. CONAN.

Walter McLaurin stated to me that
he does not remember George Sutton;
and H. j McLaurin, to whom
wrote about the matter, writes me, in
substance, that he defended Jerry
I, who was charged with muir
which creed to nav
with 1t. interest
The Springfield herald., 1899-07-14
Monthix Ac,c;ounts.

Having things Charged" as it is
called, or. in other words, running
monthly accounts in stores, has, un-
doubtedly, its dangerous side. 1t lies
in the fact that it is misleading; in
that it is far more difficult to realize
what one spends if the amount is not
Immediately paid than # the cash were
given at the time of the transaction.
At the saiiie time, good deal depends
on the woman. Her financial problem
is not so simple when she "charges"
things as when the amount of money
actually spent passes at the time from
her hand. In that respect accounts are
delusive. Almost Invariably, when
they come in, they are larger in amount
than was thought or calculated at the
time. But this is experience, and, man
or woman, we learn better by expert
ence than by any theory or rule.-La-
dies Home Journal.
The Springfield herald., 1899-07-14
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