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'fflXpAV. SEPTEMBER 14, 1506.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN-
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The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
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Let Us Learn to Banquet Better.
We havo not learned as yet to banquet In the South
in the prudent and progressive way.
We live In the land of hospitality, and the spirit
of fellowship and comradeship flows naturally from the
Southern heart and hand. For all that, wo banquet In
Dixie not wisely but too well—and too long.
The great banquet of Thursday night closed about
half-past 1 o’clock, which was at least two hour*
later than It should hnvc closed. Our friends In the
Xorth, who banquet much oftener than wo do, and par-
» tlcularly In the Inrger cities of Boston and New York,
where there are from ten to fifty banquets every night,
have long since learned the wiser and better way.
In these cities It Is the custom to begin every ban
quet not later than 6:30 In the evening.
Then after the first three courses the first speaker
la Introduced. The waiters enter the hnll with the next
course, only after the speaker has taken hla seat. A
speaker la then sandwiched between every course, with
the waiters held carefully In the dining room, until he
concludes. Then at the end, the last two or threo speeches
•re heard ovei the coffee and cigars, and Invariably
every banqueter la enabled to bo nt home and In bod
before the clock strikes the hour of midnight.
There la great wladom In this plan and It should be
adopted everywhere. Business men who are engaged
in banqueting until 2 o'clock In the morning are scarcely
fit for vigorous business or contact with their follow
men on the succeeding day. It la a weariness to the
flesh which la scarcely compensated by the Joy to the
spirit apd to the stomach on the evening before.
There la no reason In the world why wjo should not
adopt this system In Georgia. It the men know that a
banquet begins nt 6:30 they will ninke It n point to be
there, and by following rigidly this custom until tho
people become accustomed to It. we will establish n sys
tem of social festivity out of which wo may receive
mental and physical enjoyment without physical weari
ness or Injury on tho following dny.
■ The Georgian cordially urges upon tho next banquet-
era In this city to Inaugurate the system of beginning
their festivities at the hour of 6:30 nnd arrange to havo
them close by 11:30 In the evening.
The Woman Who Would.
There la a woman out In Cleveland who, haa not only
discharged all the manifold duties which could possibly
devolve H|>oii a wife nnd mother, but ahe haa dono so
many things which are supposed to lie exclusively in the
sphere of a man that she has attracted considerable at
tention.
Before her marriage she was on the stage, so aho
begins the list »f her accomplishments by being a fairly
good actress, although ahe lias devoted her attention In
recent years to something very different. Sho has made
her own clothes, those of the two-year-old baby and of tho
two boys who are largo enough to go to school. Sho lma
made her own hats. She does beautiful fancy work, such
as Battenberg laco nnd "frillies." Sho paints on chlnn
and glass.
All of which may bo feminine enough, albeit few wo
men would care to undertake so much. But teat was
only tho beginning with Mrs. Kvelyn Johnson.
It certainly la no part of a woman's work to shave
her husband nnd cut his hair, but aho was thereby en
abled to save a few dollars of the family funds every
month, so she did not hesitate to do thnt, too.
And yet even thnt was but tho beginning.
She dug the cellar, sho Inld the foundations of the
house, she shingled the root, Rhe painted tho house, she
put r- he eaves nnd spouts, ahe laid the atone walk,
ahe bt..;i tho stone steps, she built the chimneys, she
built a ten-feet fence, she papered and reflntahed tho In
terior of the rooms, and now ahe la preparing to build u
new concrete house, from top to bottom.
When she gets through with that she thinks that In
all probability she will take a little rest, but she Is not
certain.
Mrs. Johnson does not suffer with "nerves." She Is
as happy as the day is long. What kind of a man her
husband Is has not been given out. At any rate her ex
ample has set all the people In the neighborhood to work,
beautifying and improving the premises, nnd It Is to be
hoped that If her lord and master was not doing his part
before, he has at last waked up and caught the fever ol
Industry along with the rest of the community.
This Is u marvelous record, hut It is not one which
we would advise any. woman to Imitate to the full extent.
It is rather more than any wife and mother should at
tempt. but It at least serves as an Inspiration to any wo
man who thinks her lot In life is hard.
She says that when she gets the new house built,
she Is going to put the children in some good boarding
school and then start out "to raise our station lu life. I
want to leave something good for the children when I
die."
And therein lies the explanation of It all. That ahe
will accomplish what sho sets out to do Is certain. "She
will leave tho children something good when she dies,"
II it la nothing more than the noble example she has set
theta.
Ar.J behind all her marvelous energy and achleve-
OUR PLATFORM-"The Georgian stands for Atlanta’s Owning its own gas and elec
tric light plants, as it now owns its water tuorfys. Other cities do this and gel gas as low as 60 cents,
With a profit to the city. This should be done at once. The Georgian believes that if street rail
ways can be operated successfully by European cities, as they are, there is no good reason why they
can not be so operated here. But we do not believe this can be done now, and it may be some years be
fore we are ready for so big an underlaying. Still Atlanta should set its face in that direction NOIV
menta lies that mother Jove which explains while It glo
rifies It all.
The Gas and Electric Monopolies Are
Contrary to Government.
The private monopoly of public utilities la distinctly
a violation of the constitution, and In opposition to the
whole theory and plan of our government.
If this is a strong statement we will proceed to
prove It.
The right to tax a free people la confined exclusively
to tho government which they hare erected for them
selves. The [lower of taxation is a government func
tion. It was never Intended to be exercised by any pri
vate Individual, or by any small coterie of private Indi
viduals. It la an Inalienable and Indispensable right of
free men to be taxed only by tbe government under
which they live.
Now we submit to tbe candid Intelligence of a free
and thoughtful people that^ when their public utilities,
providing tbe commodities and the absolute necessities
of public life, are given into the hands of one corpora
tion which has no competition, It gives that corporation
In logic and In law as distinct and arbitrary a right
of taxation as the government enjoys.
When John D. Rockefeller with his Standard OH
monopoly desires to recruit any loss that he may have
sustained In charity or In speculation, he arbitrarily
and without permission, or without any other reason
than his sovereign will, puts an additional penny or
haii penny upon the price of oil and In one sweeping
week replenishes by an hundred fold the pockets and tho
coffers that he has emptied in an ostentatious charity,
or depleted In an unwise Investment. In other words
he taxes the people tthout their consent and without
governmental authority or any other authority than his
own sweet will to enrich his own pockets and to In
crease his own revenues.
The tax of 1 mill is felt enormously by tho people of
a state or n republic. But the (ax of 1 cent arbitrarily
levied by tho autocratic Rockefeller upon a standard
of necessary products, Is a burden of larger meaning
and an outrage of more glaring illegality.
It Is the same way with our gas and electric plants
hero. When their dividends do not suit them, when
the yearly Income of the company Is not as much as they
think It ought to be, this private group of Individuals
who hnve secured out of the apathy and Ignorance of our
earlier forefathers the superb ffanchlses of the gas and
electric trusts, simply go to work, and without reference
to the Inws or to the statutes of the state or city, with
out reference to the conditions of the times or the
financial state of the people, arbitrarily and Insolently
levy s tax of 1c, 2e or 10c a thousand feet upon ths peo
ple, Just as It may lio necessary to Justify their financial
ends. i
Nothing can be clearer, nnd no man who runs can
fall to read that tho exorcise of the monopolist over tho
nssontlal services which private Individuals carry with
tbe power to tax the Individual Is absolutely In violation
of the letter and spirit of tho Constitution. This much
ought to be understood.
But wo assert another fact of equal Import—that
these syndicates who enjoy tho monopoly of public
commodities nnd necessities not only violate the theory
of our government In taxing the pcoplo contrnry to the
constitution, but they add an additional strain to our
a.vatem of government by taxing these people without
giving them the right to repreientation. This Is the oth
er principle which runs ns clear as a silver bell In tlia
earlier shibboleths which made this government. "Tax
ation without representation is tyranny."
So rang tho cry of the earlier colonists who flung
tho heroic claims of thetr rights Into the teoth of the
English government, and which wrested this vast re
public from the monarchy of Knglund. It la tho cry that
In all ages has rung ns freedom's protest against the
Injustice nnd the wrong of taxing any people who have
no representation In the laws that govern them.
In the stato and general government each citizen
has nn Interest. He is a partner to the extent of hla vote,
and he Is represented by the full capacity of hla ballot
and hta Influence In popular elections.
But In the private *Rlonopolles the speechless and
helpless people who are taxed are absolutely voiceless
against tho cold. Insolent vlolutlon of the constitution
nnd of tho government, which alone onjoya the power to
tax, and which does not under Us own laws, dare to tax
those who are not represented In the government.
Apply this reasoning then to our own present condi
tions under the nrbltrnry j>ower with which these gas
and electric monopolists work in Atlanta and else
where, and without saying boo to a single citizen or a
taxpayer, they can raise their rates, which means to In
crease our taxes, and they do not even hear with
any degree of common courtesy or patience the protests
of the people who are being taxed, without authority and
without representation, and who have not up to this
time done mure than simply offer a indite protest against
the existing conditions.
This Is the basis ti|>on which we need and abso
lutely require a municipal ownership league In Atlanta.
We want to take away from private Individuals the right
to tax a great free people—the right to tax them at all
without the consent of the government, and above all
things the right to tax them without representation In
the taxing power.
If there can be found a more unanswerable argument
for municipal ownership, we cannot conceive It In rea
son or In logic under the terms and spirit of our Amer
ican constitution.
For Information of the Outside World.
The Georgian's attitude of fairness toward all pub
lic questions Is causing Its opinions to be sought by
thoughtful people, not only at home, but in the larger
cities.
Late on Sunday afternoon the following telegrams
were received by the editor of The Georgian:
Hon. John Temple Gravea, Atlanta Ga.—The
Post Is exceedingly anxious, as Indicated by message
to yog today, for a statement from you on the situ
ation. What caused It; what the probable effect will
be, and anything, however vigorous, you may desire
to say on the subject. Can you not accommodate
us? We consider It timely and Important Just now.
Please answer.
THE WASHINGTON POST.
New York, September 23, 1906.
Hon. John Temple Graves, Atlanta, Ga.
The World would appreciate a telegraphic reply
from you on tbe duty of the hour In repressing race
riots and what you believe to be the best way to
prevent them. THE NEW YORK WORLD.
Chicago, September 23. 1906.
John Temple Graves, Atlanta, Ga.
Will you kindly give us the situation in At
lanta tonight In 500 words? *
THE CHICAGO EXAMINER.
And to these Inquiries from three of the greatest
newspapers In the country, the editor, under pressure
of time, returned to each of these papers tbe appended
reply, which, read on Monday by nearly 2,000,000 readers,
serves at least to enable our friends In the East and
the West to realize the provocation under which this
people acted, and to understand our Southern situation
as they evidently have never seemed to understand It.
It Is Just as well to give the same answer to the readers
of The Georgian from the editorial page of the paper:
Editor New York World:
The Atlanta race riot Is due to the cumulative
provocation of a series of asaults by negroes upon white
women, which. In number, In atrocity and In unspeaka
ble audacity, are without a parallel inthe history of
crime among Southern negroes.
There have been 11 assaults or attempted assaults
within the past seven .weeks. Of these fiends only four
have been apprehended and seven have escaped scot
free, and are now at large'In the community.
Eight of these assaults have been In broad daylight,
and in most Instances In the open atr within a atone'a
throw of other residences. One assault was attempted
at 9 o'clock In the evening In the brilliantly lighted
parlors of a city residence. Two have been attempted
almost within twenty feet of the man of the house, the
criminals escaping before the man could reach them.
In almost every case the woman victim has been brutally
mutilated and disfigured.
And the entire eleven monstrous efforts, five success
ful and six unsuccessful, have been made right in the
city nnd suburbs of Atlanta, the capital of the New
South, the center of trade, tradition and politics, the
heart of our civilization, with a white population nearly
twice as large as that of the negro.
It'Is uttsrly Impossible to reach an explanation of
this tidal wave of crime. Whether It be due to the lust
begotten by the sultry and torrid weather, whether It be
due to the remarkable Increase of the cocaine habit
ameng the negroes, whether it has been stirred by the
revolutionary harangues of a local newspaper; whether
It has come from the frequenting of low liquor dives on
Decatur street In which are exposed the pictures of nudo
white women, or as Is more likely, from all these causes
combined, it Is certain that Atlanta nor any other South
ern city has ever passed through such a horrid carnival
of the unspeakable crime as during the closing weeks of
the present summer.
The city has oeen at high tension for six weeks
past. Public meetings have beon addressed by tho most
conservative citizens. Our county police syatem has
been quadrupled, 250 deputy sheriffs have been put on
duty and most of the Decatur street liquor dens have
been closed. A fortnight since I led a movement, to
compel the negro editors, preachers and teachers under
threat of a practical boycott, to cease spending all their
breath and energies In the denunciation of lynch law and
to preach with nil their ransomed powers hell and dam
nation to tho rapist. They responded loyally, and for
the first time since we have had a race problem - the
whtto man has had tho full nnd hearty co-operation of
tbe respectable negroes In the suppression of tho
rapist.
And yet. In Bptte of this extraordinary Improvement
In conditions, the rape of white women hna multiplied In
nppntllng fashion.
It has been a reign of terror for our Georgia women.
There !b not a white* woman In the region of Atlanta
who has had a tranquil day or night within this period.
The white women have been trembling prisoners in their
homes, and their husbands, sons and brothers have been
held In the necessity of guarding them unceasingly.
There are few men who dare to leave their families
after nightfall—either to attend public meetings,
pay a social call or to worship in the churches of their
choice. The whole section has been In a state of siege
and apprehension which has been growing more and
more Intolerable.
Every thoughtful citizen has realized that Atlanta
has been sleeping upon a volcano for weeks.
Under these conditions Saturday afternoon was
drawing to a close. There had been an attempt at rape
for eac« of the three preceding days right In the heart
of the city. Thp regular afternoon editions of the city
papers came out on -time without an addition to the
grewaome record, and people breathed easier.
Half an hour later an afternoon extra appeared an
nouncing that there had been four rapes attempted In
awtft succession u tthln the hour, two of which -had been
successful. Another paper issued an extra, and in one
short hour the populace of Atlanta was In a frenzy of
excitement. By seven o'clock the first crude and Im
promptu organization was formed. And from seven
o’clock until an hour after midnight Atlanta pasted
through the throes of a riot which has had no approx
imation In Southern history.
The ltd of the volcano was pff at last.
Monstrous things were done In the name of retalia
tion. Old and young negroes, negroes good and bad,
Innocent and guilty, were cut and slashed and killed. To
every plea for mercy was shouted back the fierce re
sponse, "You had no mercy on our women and we will
have none on you.”
Six negroes were killed and more than thirty in
jured. The press dlapatchea have told you of It.
To the tranquil readers of The World, looking on at
a great safe distance, it seems an awful outrage agatnat
civilization, and no thoughtful citizen falls to deplore
and condemn it. But If one of you who read had lived
for one week with the dear women of your household
under the shadow and terror of this crime, you would
have found at feast an explsna-lon fpr a lawless revolu
tion which cannot be legally or morally Justified.
Do you ask me how this riot can bo rebuked and
this mob made Impossible for the future? I will answer
you frankly that It is likely to occur again.
The silliest man In the South Is the tlme-Berrlng
statesman who declares "that there Is no race problem,
and the question, if left alone, will settle itself." The
race question ts more Impending and threatening now
than it has been In twenty years. The tension is sharper,
the antagonism deeper between the races. The hope
of a permanent agreement has slender foundation.
The horror of Saturday has doubtless left a blot on
our civilization. Every good citizen in Georgia will de
plore and condemn the indiscriminate slaughter. I fer
vently deplore It. But the outraged people had tried
every known remedy and failed. And It will undoubtedly
clear the atmosphere and keep the negro tn order for five
years to come. They are already assuming a different
tone. There may be sporadic lawlessness, but the back
bone of Insolent aggression Is broken for a time, and
there wilt be fewer outbreaks, and more of tranquillity
for a long season. The men It will save In the future will
outnumber ten times the men who were killed on Sat
urday.
The present riot Is at an end. The city Is quiet to
night, the streets are cleared, the military on guard, tho
negroes are whipped and humblo, and there Is no dan
ger apprehended anywhere. But the trouble may pos
sibly be reopened with anothor wave of lustful crime
next summer. Whenever there is provocation there will
be the mob. The newspapers of the North crucified me
for saying this at the New York chautfuqua In 1903. I
ask you If the statement has not been vindicated by
events.
It Is demonstrated now that lynch law does not
entirely deter the rapist.’ He Is wilting to die for the
having of hie desire. But It is a vent to outraged society
and but for the mob there would be ton assaults where
there Is one.
Wrong? Yes. Worthy of all condemnation? Yes.
But the fact remains It Is here, and hero to stay.
Wo are Btudylng rape now In the Gouth as the scien
tists have studied yellow fever and smallpox. We aro
looking for the germ. Maybe we shall find tbe "Stego-
myia Fnsclata.' But until we do the most law-abiding
section of the entire Union In everything else, will con
tinue In the old-fashioned way to lift tho blood red ban
ner of the mob to protect tho lives and chastity of our
women.
How can you help ua? By giving two paragraphs
to tho denunciation of rape where you give ono to
lynching.
What la the ultimate end? Separation of the racqs—
the only possible logical, Inevitable solution. These two
opposite antagonistic races can never live together In
the same government under equal laws—never.
Help ua to separate.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
I GOSSIP
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
New York, Sept. 24.—A student of
Darwin’s "Origin of Species," at eight
years, a regularly matriculated fresh
man of Tufts College at U, Is the re
markable record of Norbert Weiner, of
Medford. Maas. It may be eald that
Master Norbert was born In Missouri.
Young Weiner's short career haa been
a shining example of physical health,
as well as of mental training, and al
though he speqds a great deal of time
reading scientific works, he enjoys hls
outdoor exercise as much as any of hls
young neighbors with whom he plays.
When the boy was but a year and a
half old he had complete control of the
alphabet, being able to recite It in
either direction. At the age of 3 he
could read and write with perfect ease
the ordinary lessons taught In the drat
grammar school grades, and at 8 was
found studying the Darwinian theory
and also various books by Huxley, Ri-
bot nnd Haeckel.
Norbert Weiner was born at Colum
bia, Mo., November 26, 1894, while hls
father wae connected with the Missouri
Stale University. Soon after the boy’s
birth tho family moved to Cambridge,
Mass., where the father took up his
work at Harvard.
The boy’s father Is Leo Weiner, as
sistant professor of Slavonic languages
at Harvard, and It was the Intention of
hls parents to send the lad to Cam
bridge to echooi. Last year, however,
the college authorities refused to admit
him. He is without doubt the youngest
college student in the land.
A nest of hornets caused the sudden
ending of a football game among the
pupils of the Watzeslng public school
at Bloomfield, N. J., and at a result
nearly all the playera yesterday were
nursing swollen faces and hands, white
one Is unconscious. Henry Wllberg
“downed" the ball In the center of the
hornets’ nest and before he could rise
to escape the stings, the reet of the
players were on top of him. Then the
hornets became busy with the rest of
the players and kept It up until the
teams dashed wildly away.
It was learned today that Rosemund
Downs, the 17-year-old bride of
Nathan A. Downs, 80 years old. has
been granted a divorce by-Justice Jay
Cox. The plaintiff claimed she was un
der legal age when she wae married to
Downs, who was a widower living at
Riverhead.
Mrs. Downs testified that she mar
ried the aged man on March 26. 1905,
without the consent of her adopted
father. The latter also testified to the
same fact, and further said he had
not since agreed to the marriage.
No defense was entered by Mr.
Down, although It had previously been
published that the differences of the
couple had been settled by the payment
of 610,000 by Mr. Downs to hls wife. It
Is said, by one close to Mr. Downs that
he gave her an even 31,000 in settle
ment.
While arrangements are being made
today for the burial of James Amber-
cromble Burden, whose body lies nt
hla mansion, 908 Fifth avenue, social
and business friends of the dead mll-
flondlre recoil the quarrel of 20 years’
standing between him nnd hls surviv
ing brother, 1. Townsend Burden, thnt
was patched up only three years ago.
The quarrel started over royalties of
630,000 paid to James A. Burden on a
machine for making horae-ehoee, In
vented by his father, the late Henry
Burden,
Mrs. Benjamin Knower, who has been
greatly missed from the ranks of the
■octal set all summer, will salt short
ly for home, from Europe. Much of
her time has been spent In Paris, where
her daughter, Miss Margaret Camp
bell Knower, was married last week
to Vlcomte Alain de Huznnnet. The
wedding at the Church of St. Pierre dc
Challlot was a brilliant affair, and
represented the American colony's up
per crust of Paris.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
New York, Bept. 24.—Here are some
of the visitors In New York today:
ATLANTA—J. M. Brown, J.‘ E. Wayt,
F. K. Aram, M. Benjamin, H. C. Black
ley, Mian Dun woody, R. L. Foreman, Q.
P. Hardy, C. H. Johnson, F. T. Max
well, D. B. Osborne, Mies H. Tllllng-
hast.
F OU WILL Never Move Unless You Take the First
Step. Take It Now—Become a Member of “The
League.”
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP LEAGUE
APPLICATION BLANK.
I hereby make application for membership In the MUNICIPAL OWN
ERSHIP LEAGUE.
I favor the ownership of a ga* and electric lighting plant by the city
of Atlanta.
Remarks:
Date 190..
Occupation
Note.—Cut out and return to THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
DELEGATES SELECTED
TO COTTON CONVENTION
Speclnl t4> The Georgian.
Anniston, Ala., Sept. 24.—In accord
ance with the request of President Sey
mour, of the Alabama division of the
Southern Cotton Aaaoclatton, the fol
lowing have been selected as delegates
to the state convention at Montgomery
on Tuesday: Walter L. Jones, An
niston; Marion Whiteside, White
Plains; T. 8. Gray, Gray ton; Richard
Johnson, Duke; T. L. Harvey, Alex
andria; D. McEachem, Peaceburg; L.
F. Greer, Choccolocco; James W.
Hughes, Iron City; G. W. Eichelberger,
Oxford; T. D. Bynum, Bynum; Captain
James Crook, Jacksonville; F. M.
Formby, Piedmont.
Farmers Organizing.
Mpeclal to The Georgian.
berry county, four of them having been
organized by State Organizer Mahaf-
fey during the past week. Great j n .
terest'ls bejng manifested In these or
ganizations by the farmers.
HIGH FREIGHT RATES
CAUSE PLANT TO MOVE.
Special to The Georgian.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 24.—The
DeLoach Milling Company has pur
chased a site of 40 acres at IJrldge-
port. Ala., where It will erect a plant
to cost about $120,000, which will em
ploy 1,000 men. The company will re
move from Atlanta on account of the
freight rates. It will manufacture nbr
Iron. The plant will be In operation
about Junuary 1,
FOUND HIS SKILLET
AFTER FORTY YEARS.
Special tt> The Georgina.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 24.—After
having been burled forty-four years In
the ground 4>n Missionary Ridge, John
G. Lindsey, of the Sixtieth North Caro
lina Confederate regiment, found the
selfsame skillet w hich he used to cook
hla "grub while encamped on that his
toric battleground. He came here a
week ago and through curiosity went
to the spot to look for the skillet, and
to hls utter surprise found the cooking
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
SEPTEMBER 24.
24.—‘The
Schooner Stripped of Sails.
H|H>4-lnl to Tin? Georgian.
Brunswick, Ga., Sept.
schooner Francis C. Tunnel!, which was
sighted a day or two ugo by the steam
ship Frederick, with her sails blown
"••ay. was loaded at this port with
•sstles by Brown & Co. When th-
Tunnel! was ready to sail the weathe
1876—Hell Gnte, Hallett’e I
tiff. .
1889—Falsa Cook, F'Dgllali poetess, died.
Horn 1817.
1901—Csnlgoss, nsmusln of President Mc
Kinley, convicted of murder lu first
degree.
1904—Collision on Southern railway nenr
Knoxville, Tenn.; serenty killed, l;'-»
Injured.
ALBANY, CAIRO l GULF
BY, SEEKS CHARIER
New railroads In Georgia are almost
us common as new banks. Saturday
Secretary of State Phil Cook received
application for a charter for the Al
bany, Cairo and Gulf Railway Com
pany to run from Albany, Georgia, to
St. Joseph's Bay, In Florida, on the
Gulf of Mexico, a distance of about 180
miles.
The period of incorporation la to be
for thirty years and the capital stock
ts $200,000, half preferred stock and
half common. The road will run
through Dougherty, Baker, Mitchell
and Grady counties In Georgia, and
Gadsden, • Liberty and Calhoun coun
ties in Florida.
The principal office will be In Cairo,
nnd the Incorporators are \V. B. Rod-
denbery, W. A. Walker, W. 8. Wright.
W. C. Jones. J. P. Malloy. O. T. Davis,
Lcford, J. M. Sasser, " "
Newberry, S. C., Sept. 24.—Farmers' wlT.. , y lo , the "‘eather Wright, Cairo; Samuel W. Smith. L. Fi.
union, continue lo be formed New- not to tea*v. a R f%T H-^'n.^ 1 *