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The Atlantic & Gulf Railroad.
Ono of the most impottant mr-as
tircs which will come before the Leg
islature is the extension ol’the above
named road. We are glad to see
that the attention of our people is
being directed to this work, and the
magnitude of the interests involved.
We do not believe in the policy of
giving state aid to every enterprise
that may be presented to the minds
of our legislators; and over no branch
ol the financial department of the
government ought our representa
tives to keep a more watchful eye
than' lending the credit of the state
to corporations. This aid judicious
ly bestowed, can bo made an impor
tant auxiliary in developing (lie re
sources of the country; injudicious
ly, it is a fruitful source of pecula
tion and crime.
Would giving aid to the A. it G.
11. It. so as to enable the corporation
to extend its line to Pollard, he ju
dicious? We think that it i3 emi
nently wise and proper.
The Htatc is ono third owner in the
road, audit is but a provision to se
cure the investment already made,
and to insure a handsome return for
the outlay in the future. It is not
then for the exclusive benefit of one
section of the state, hut for the gen-
eral good. There is then no greater
impropriety in rendering proportion
ate aid,to the A. &G. 11. U. than the
State Road.
Resides, the extension of the road
so as to connect it with the lines lead
ing to Mobile, Montgomery and oth
er points west, with the Atlantic
coast, is now all that is needed to
make the A. it G. R. R. pay a good
dividend. Tjnlil f Bin, in. we
may expect to see the stock depre
ciate in value. It is then a matter
of first importance to the stockhold
ers to have the road extended, and
to do this, the credit of tho state is
necessary. The people are interest
ed in this bi’l; let them before the
legislature assembles give such in
structions to their representatives
as will induce them to give a favora
ble decision upon the merits of this
call for aid. Because Bulloch has
robbed the treasury, is no reason
why you, the guardians of the inter
ests of the state, should refuse all
aid.
It is not charity that the A. & G.
R. R. and the people of South Geor
gia ask for, but only justice, when
they say extend this road in order to
make the connection complete.
We feel assured that the members
from those counties through which
the A. &G. R. R. passes, will leave
no just means untried to further this
measure.
The School Fund.
In answer to many inquiries rela
tive to the School Fund of the State,
we annex several paragraphs from
the circular of lion. J. G. Orr, State
School Commissioner, of October
last.
The County Commissioners are of
ten interrogated concerning the
status of the Fund, and it would be a
work of considerable magnitude to
answer personally all the questions
which are asked, and explain the
condition of the System in our midst.
The following will serve to throw
some light on the subject:
“On account of the unsatisfactory
condition of the State school finan
ces, and the provision of the school
law which required the schools to be
kept up six mouths in the year, 1
have continue 1 to discourage the!
opening id'schools sever since mv!
entrance into office in January last.
I soon ascertained that there would
be no St ate S dtool Fund for disiri
bution this year, and I doubted
whether the grand jury of any coun
ty would authorize the levy of a lo
cal tax sufficient to keep the schools
in operation the required time. My
advice still is to attempt nothing in
the way of actual school work for
• he remainder of t lie year.
The general school law, while it
has some serious defects, i-, never
theless, a great improvement upon
preceding legislation upon the sub
ject. it give s, beyond all doubts of
construction, one half the monthly
payments made by the lessees of the
Western. & Atlantic Railroad to I lie
school fund, effectually arrests the
use of that fund for other than school
purposes, and secures the application
of the whole of it to its legitimate
uses. Under its operation, we shall
have for distribution, by the first of
July next, about $275,000 to be used
for ttie support of the schools of
1873,”
In obedience to the suggestion ot
the State School Commissioner, the
Board of Commissioners in Liberty
County declined to establish any
schools during the year 1872.
The latest information is contained
in the following circular addressed to
the County Treasurers:
Dkpaiitm knt of Education, )
Atlanta, Ga., December 22, 1572. $
To the County Treasurer of
County :
Dear Sir—l take pleasure in an
bouncing to you that there is now
ready for distribution SIOO,OOO of the
fund raised from the tax authorized,
by “An Act to provide for the pay
ment of the debt duo Jo
school officers who did service under
the Public School Law in the year
1571,” approved August 10, 1 t 172.
The distributive part of your county
is , for which a warrant will be
drawn in your favor by the Govern
or,unless there exists one of !hc three
following legal bars to immediate
distribution :
1. If there has been no return of
Iho enumeration of the school popu
lation of your county, there can be
no distribution under the law,
2. If the amount of the school debt
in the county has not been reported
to this office, there can be no distri
bution till that report is made by the
proper officer.
3. If the debt reported is less than
the pro rata going to the county,only
the amount of the debt can be drawn.
In the first two cases the whole
pro rata, and in the last excess of it
over the debt will remain in the
Treasury of the State to the credit of
the county.
In all other cases theyhole amount
may be drawn.
For the distribution of the fund af
ter it reaches the county, I give the
two following rules as,in my opinion,
deductible'from, the provisions of the
law:
1. Eacli County Commissioner will
be entitled to receive, from the coun
ty’s pro rata, an amount which shall
bear the same ratio to the entire
pro rata that his claim bears to the
entire school debt of the county.
2. The remainder must be appor
tioned among the sub-districts in the
proportion of the number of children
in each between the age of six and
twenty-one years, and must then be
paid out to lawful claimants in pro
portion to the amounts of the sever
al claims.
When any County Treasurer can
not attend in person to receive his
warrant and dr|t\v Ihe money thefir-i
on, the same nsy-be donfdby'‘■exe
cuting to somejpnea power ot attor
ney to represent him,
Whether the ;warrant iapplied
for in poison Mby an attorney in
fact, (he County Treasurer must be
inderitified, as Ach, by a certificate
over the signature and bearing the.
seal of the Orilliary of his county.
GlitavusJ. O iip,,
State School Commissioner.
The question most pertinent to
the times—isWlo is elected
The populate a of the world is put
down now at llsT ,000,000.
The total number of interments
iu Laurel Grov s Cemetery', Savan
nah, for the j ast year, i r:eluding
both white and solored, is 1 OGG.
Gen. Jno. B, Gordon was in Sa
vannah last we‘>k attending a meet
ing of the Coin puttee on Immigra
tion, appointed jby the Georgia State
Agricultural Ss£iety.
A terrible collision occurred on
the Macon an_3 Western Railroad
causing the deajth of seven negroes
and the wounding of many others.
The accident is attributed to the
carelessness of engineer.
Prompt measures were immediately
taken for the arrest and conviction
of h i guilty party.
The State Agricultural Society
meets in Augusta second Tuesday
in February.
The revolutionists in Cuba, are ac
tively engaged, J.nd there it no pros
pect of an early
Bout well will probably succeed
Sumner in the ij. S. Senate.
. JQm
for the last month is $168,430,780.
The English historian, James An
thouy-Froude, wlio has been leetu
ring for some time past in New
York, has returned to England.
$250,000 worth of diamonds were
destroyed by tiie fire iu the ITii'th Av
enue Theatre last Wednesday.
The Mississippi River aDove St.
Louis is still blocked with ic€.
Hamilton, a town on the new rail
road in process of construction from
Columbus to Chattanooga; hirs given
b'r b to a newspaper called the Ham
ilton Visitor.
Gov. Caldwell of North Oarolina
was inaugurated Wednesday, Janu
ary Ist.
North Carolinafroedmea celebrat
ed Emancipation day.
5,523 vessels arrived at tlie port
of New York during (he past year.-
Of these 2,076 were American, and
2,115, British.
If it is true that miseiy loves com
pany, then some folks who were can
didates last week have their desires
gratified, if they didn’t get elected.
The Atlanta Sun, of which. A. H.
Stephens is proprietor, has reduced
its subscription price to eight dol
lars. N. B. The subscription of the
H. G. remains the same—onl.y ONE
dollar a year.
Gen. Gartrell has withdrawn from
the Senatorial contest.
ihe cold during Christmas week
was almost without a parallel in the
Northern states.
Large quantities of turpentine are
shipped from the distileries along
the line of the A. & 0. R. R.
Galesburg, 111., has had a disas
trous fire, Loss SIOO,OOO.
Tnere is some talk ofannexingthe
Sandwich Islands to the United
States.
The Senatorial race has been finr
rowed down to Gen. Gordon and A.
11. Stephens.
Kastman in Dodge County " wants
a pajwr.
The January Terfti of the Supreme
Court will beppiite a busy one;three
two cases are docketed.
13R AIXWELrLi
(MALE AMD EEMALK,)
HinesviUe, Liberty Comity, Georgia.
S. D. BRA DWELL. Principal.
Miss M. it. FRASER, Assistant Literary De
port incut.
Alr3. S. A. CALIVER, Instructress in Music.
Mrs. J. W. FARMER, Instructress n i’aint
ng nnd Wax Work.
TUITION IN LITEARRY.DEFARTMENT.
First Class pi,.")!! jr. mo.
Second Class 3,25 “
Third Class 4,00 “ ••
Clnirge* moderate for tlie otter deportments.
BOARD. FROM $ lit TO sl3 PER MONTH.
The scholastic year consists of ten months, di
vided into a SPUING and FALL Term. The
Spring Terdi begins
SECOND MONDAY IN JANUARY
and continues six months ; the Fall Term
FOURTH MONDAY IN AUGUST,
and continues four months. Pupils received at
any time during the term.
The course of Instruction is
Thorough and Practical,
comprising
ADD THE BRANCHES TAUGHT TN THE
SCHOOLS OF THE HIGHEST GRADE IN
THE COUNTRY.
Particular attention will t>o paid to the practic ,1
apji I ioAflonTi? Latin an ft Greek tea more thorough
knowledge of our own language.
Surveying, Engineering-, Practical Cheimsjy,
L'P°S ra pl'y aiid otkeruaef.it and practical sciences
will receive prominent attention.
Those desiring to St themselves for Teaching
will meet with every assistance.
Girts as well as boys wilt lie instructed in the
useful ami ornamental branches, so as to prepare
them for Lie active duties of life, uses at uoy
The Institute is fitted up with the latest and
most approved style of Furniture, and with a val
uble collection of
INSTRUMENTS and APPARATUS,
to winch additions are constantly being made.
Tiie Bradweil Institute is located in a place
which, in point- of Health and Morality, will com
pare favorably with any community in the STATE.
There is a fine MINERAL SPRING within a
few steps of the building.
Parties wishing to n-nt, lease, or purchase
houses or lobs, for the purpose of locating their
families so as to bo convenient to the school can
be accommodated on the
iJOST LIBERAL TERMS.
No pains will bo spared to make the D rad-,veil
Institute a
FIRST-CLASS HIGH SCHOOL.
It is entirely a homo institution, intended to
supersede the necessity of sending onr boys and
girls abroad to acquire finished educations, there
fore ENCOURAGE IT.
THE
BRABWELL INSTITUTE
is now incorporated, and the Princi
pal has authority to grant DIPLO
MAS or CERTIFICATES of GRAD
UATION to all regular graduates.
JtSuild up a
HIGH SCHOOL
at Home.
For further particulars address the Principal
S.. D. BRADWELL,
LLixesville, Liberty County, Ga.
NOTICE.
TiTROM and after the first cf July, the etids-r-
A? sign', and will ran a wagon Semi-Weekly from
ftridsviHctoJohnstcn's Station,No. A. it;ff. R.
R., l iving Keidtvilio on-Mondays and
and returning on Yt'cdr.e.-days and Saturdays.
IVsscngeri and fieight transported to and from,
Reidsvihe at the Allow ing rates.
Passenger* through, $ 2,00.
Freight up '§ ?tvt. 75,
“ down “ “ -, .50.
Also prompt attention and care will lie given to
ail mailable mutter either left in charge, or directed
to the care ofthc undersigned.
J. .T. EASTERLING.
June 24th, 1872.
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