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GEORGIA NEWS
IN BRIEF BITS.
Items of General Interest Gathered
From Various Localities.
Verdict For #5,000.
The trial of the suit of Mrs. Marion
Law, of Atlanta, against the Western
Railway of Alabama for $20,000, came
to an end at Columbus last Saturday.
After bing out two hours the jury re
turned a verdict for SO,OOO for the
plaintiff. It is said that the verdict
will stand.
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Model Farm It Will Be.
The agricultural department of the
University of Georgia is being worked
up to the hightest state of efficiency by
Professor Hugh N. Starnes, who oc
cupies the chair of agriculture.
Professor Starnes has set to work to
make of the university farm a model
farm indeed, and he is succeding in
his efforts. By next fall he will have
the farm in fine shape and will be
ready to utilize it thoroughly iu the
work of teaching the young men prac
tical agriculture.
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T*l*i!iotic* Lineft to Be
A conference was held in Dahlonegn
a few days ago by Colonel H. P. Far
row, now engaged in building a tele
phone line from Gainesville to Porter
Springs, and the board of directors of
the Dahlonegn Telephone company,
recently organized and incorporated
to build a line from Duhlonega to
Gainesville, which conference resulted
in a consolidation of the two lines,and
within sixty days Porter Springs and
Dalilonega will he in telephone com
munication with the world, which will
open up anew era iu these mountains.
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Itol<l I’anloncd.
Charles R. Reid, the slayer of S.
R. Halstead, who has been serviug a
three-years’ sentence in the state peni
tentiary camp at Chickamauga after
conviction in the Bibb county court
of manslaughter, has been pardoned
by Governor Candler. A strong effort
has been made for the past six months
by a number of prominent citizens of
Macon and that community to obtain
a fSTOr&bl# action on Reid’s case from
the pardon hoard, and a day or two
ago the commission finished a review
of the case, recommended the pardon
of the prisoner and forwarded the
papers to Governor Candler. The
governor took action at once.
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Sword For Lieutenant Brumby.
The movement begun by a number
of his schoolmates, to present Lieu
tenant T. M. Rrumby, of Georgia, with
a handsome sword, is meeting with
great favor iu all parts of the state.
Nearly all of the states have honor
ed their living heroes of the war with
some such presentation, and it is
nothing but fit that Georgia should
present Dewey’s ling lieutenant with a
sword that will show' the esteem in
which he is held by the citizens of hit
state.
It was thought to make the amount
subscribed uniform and all of the sub
scriptions have beensl. Subscriptions
have been coming in at rapid rate from
all over the state, and it seems to ho
the desire of every one to have a hand
in honoring Lieutenant Rrumby.
It is thought that Lieutenant Brum
by will be home in the course of two
or three months, and if such is the
case the presentation of the sword
will probably be made when ho arrives
on Georgia soil.
* * *
Stato Fair Not***.
Work on the premium list of the
forthcoming State Fair is being vigor
ously pushed, and the hook will be
completed in about a week. Anybody
who desires a copy should drop a pos
tal card request for one to the fair sec
retary, Mr. T. H. Martin, Prudential
building, Atlanta. Mr. Martin will
take pleasure in sending it.
The owner of the fattest calf in
Georgia can pocket a cool two hundred
dollars by exhibiting it at the state
fair next fall, for that is the amount
offered in premiums by a couple of
private firms, for the fattest calf. Be
sides this, other substantial sums of
money will be given for fat stock of
various kinds. And it might possibly
prove a handsome investment for the
owner of tine cattle or stock of any
kind to spend a penny for a postnl
card and use it to write Secretary Mar
tin for a copy of the premium list.
Two prizes, of SSO and $25 respective
ly. are offered therein for the best pen
of fat cattle—not less than five head,
and to weigh 1,000 pounds each, and
to have been bred and fattened bv the
exhibitor.
Ihe poultry exhibit will be one of
the largest and most interesting ever
seen, not only in Georgia, but the
south. The breeding of fine chickens
lias grown in recent years to be an im
mense industry, and the time is com
ing when these thoroughbreds will
supplant the ordinary common chick
ens upon every farm. For they are to
the feathered world what the blooded
horse is to the equine family, and even
more—for the thoroughbred chicken is
hardier, more prolific and better to eat
than his mongrel brethren, and so more
valuable from every standpoint. The
Agricultural rsoclety want* io show the
farmers and thereby inaugurate among
them the fashion of raising them in
stead of the common chicken.
At a meeting of committees from
Camp Walker and Camp 159 of Con
federate Veterans, held at Atlanta, the
proposed state reunion to be held
during the state fair this fall was dis
cussed and arrangements n>ade to have
as many delegates present at that time
as possible. Chairman It. L. Rodgers
suggested that the delegates from the
two camps represented who attend the
reunion at Charleston be requested to
announce the date of the state reunion
in Atlanta and urge all delegates from
this state to he present. The com
mittee decided to confer with the state
and city commissions on the fair and
seek their co-operation nnd assistance
in making the reunion a success. On
motion of Secretary J. W. Goldsmith,
Camp A, Wheeler’s Cavalry, was in
vited to meet with the committee from
Camp Walker and Camp 159.
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C/lroular Letter To Tencheri.
State School Commissioner Glenn
has sent out a circular letter to all the
county school commissioners of the
state notifying them that the annual
examination will be held June 22d,tlie
questions for the examination to he
sent as soon as they are arranged. The
circular letter is also of interest to
teachers and the commissioners rela
tive to the payment of salaries and the
sending in of itemized accounts.
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Blk Kewaril For Smith.
Governor Candler has increased
from S2OO to SSOO the reward offered
for 1 lie arrest of Si Smith, murderer
of W. B. Bell. Thomas M. Bell has
deposited SSOO in the state bank of
Gainesville as a reward for the arrest
of smith, the citizens of Cleveland
have offered $75, and the Mason lodge
of Cleveland offers $25. This makes
$l,lOO offered for Smith's capture.
* * *
Small Comfort, For .Stockholder* of South
ern Mutual B. & I. Association.
When the Southern Mutual Building
and Loan association failed two years
ago the report of the receivers showed
liabilities to the amount of $879,208.66,
and assets to the amount of $651,-
262.58, or a deficiency in the resources
of $227,946.13.
Since the business has been in the
hands of the court there has been col
lected $127,287. The receivers have
paid out $76,827.63, leaving a cash
balance on hand of $50,459.37. Of the
disbursements, $36,395.36 was to cred
itors other than shareholders; $19,-
011.30 was for taxes, insurance pre
miums aud repairs, and $22,390.97
was for expenses, including salaries,
counsel fees, court costs and similar
items.
Whether the shareholders of the
association will get any dividend on
their stock will depend largely on the
construction of the law in the case by
the supreme court. The members
who had given notice of withdrawal,
under the terms of the assoaiatoa’s
by-laws, claim that they are creditors
and ought to be paid in full before
other members get anything. A test
case will probably be decided by
Judge Lumpkin at Atlanta May 22, so
that aud appeal may be made to the
high court.
Judge J. A. Anderson, one of the re
ceivers, stated that it was impossible
to tell now' what the stockholders
would get. He said:
“If the members who have given no
tice of withdrawal are classed as cred
itors, and my opinion is that they
ought not to be so classed, the other
shareholders will get very little, may
be nothing. If the claims of the with
drawing members are not sustained all
of the stockholders may get 25 per
cent on the amount they have paid in.
In order to make that payment it will
be necessary for us to have ou hand
about four times as much as we have
at present, or about $200,000.
A petition was presented to Judge
Lumpkin Saturday morning by Judge
Anderson aud Mr. M. A. O’Bryne, the
receivers. The petition asked that
direction should be given about the
rights of withdrawing members, the
liabilities of borrowers, the necessity
of making all the stockholders parties
and the question of securing interest
on the $50,000 on hand.
The receivers stated that their re
ceipts had been confined so far to four
states, ns follows: Georgia, $96,-
726.69; Alabama, $8,628.07; Missis
sippi, $5,818.82, and Florida, $16,-
113,42.
* * *
Hallway* Now Combined.
The last payment of the Trust Com
pany of Georgia to the stockholders of
the Atlanta Railway Company for the
the latter property was made a day or
two ago.
J. J. Spxldiug represented the stock
holders of the Atlanta fail way and re
ceived a check for the last payment.
The combination of the two systems is
now complete.
In a few days.the organization of
the new company, which will probably
be known as the Atlanta Railway and
Power Company,will he completed and
the two systems of street railway will
he under one system.
CUBAN RELIEF cn
rlalllCrS Colic> Neuralgia aud Toothao^j
m five minutes. Soar Stomach
and Summer Complaints. Price. 2*
G. W. DeLaPerriere, Winder, Ga.
ADMIRAL DEWEY
TO COME HOME.
Rear Admiral Watson Is Ordered
to Manila to Relieve Hero.
THE DATE IS NOT NAMED.
Costly Banquet Will Be Given
Great*Sailor In New York.
A Washington special The
navy department has selected a suc
cessor to Admiral Dewey to command
the Asiatic station. Orders were issued
Monday detaching Rear Admiral Wat
son from command of the Mare island
navy yard and ordering him to report
to Admiral Dewey at Manila to re
lieve that officer when he feels that he
can be spared there.
Rear Admiral Kempt, at present on
waiting orders, has been instructed to
succeed Admiral Watson in command
of the Mare island navy yard.
It was stated at the navy depart
ment that Admiral Dewey will come
from Manila direct to New York when
he returns to the United States. How
ever, it is added the admiral will not
start until the commission of which he
is a member has completed the work
it has undertaken, at least so far as it
relates to the restoration of peace to
the islands.
The reason for bringing the flag
ship Olympia to New York instead of
having her come to San Francisco,
where she was built, is said to he pri
marily because Admiral Dewey desires
to make the passage on his own flag
ship, but also for the reason that the
Mare island yard threatens to he over
whelmed with repair work as soon as
the numerous vessels of Dewey’s fleet
begin to return to the United States.
The Olympia is in need of over
hauling, being away from her home
station longer than any of the vessels
in the Asiatic fleet and has suffered
more than usual hardship during her
absence.
Costly Banquet l’roposed.
Admiral Dewey has cabled to New
York his acceptance of an invitation
to a bauquet to be given in his honor
by 100 prominent citizens.
Thirty-seven citizens already have
announced their intention of subscrib
ing SIOO for a banquet in honor of the
great admiral, and there is no doubt
that the list will be filled by the other
63 necessary to make the 100 men and
the SIO,OOO planned for.
When Admiral Dewey does arrive,
which it is believed will not be until
late in August or early September,
there will await him, in addition to
the civil celebration which will be
most elaborate, a banquet, the most
splendid ever prepared for an officer.
President McKinley and Secretary
of the Navy Loug will be invited to
the bauquet. Whether or not they
will attend is another matter.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
List of New Industries Established
the Past Week.
The more important of the new in
dustries reported during the past week
include a box factory in West Vir
ginia; brick and tile works in North
Carolina; coal mines in Arkansas; a
round bale cotton gin in Texas; a
large cotton mill in Virginia; a cottony
seed oil mill in North Carolina; two
flouring mills, a furniture factory, a
50,000 hardware company in Tennes
see; lumber mills in Kentucky, North
Carolina and Virginia; two natural
gas aud oil companies in West Vir
ginia; a SIO,OOO ochre mill in Geor
gia; a $40,000 rice mill in Louisiana;
a salt works in West Virginia; a sin
gletree factory in West Tennessee; a
woodworking plant for electrical sup
plies in North Carolina; telephone
companies in Texas, North Carolina
and West Virginia, and a windmill
company in Texas.—Tradesman (Chat
tanooga, Teun.)
BASIS OF DIVISION.
Forty-Eight Thousand Cubans Will
Get Their Pro Rata.
A special from Havana says: Forty
eight thousand will be used as the
division in fixing the shares of the
soldiers in the $3,000,000 allotted by
the United States government to be
divided among the Cuban troops.
Pfattfrrt CUBAN OIL cures
■ BWef Iwl v Cuts, Barns, Bruises, Rheu
matism and Sores. Price, 25 cents.
G. W. DeLaPerriere,..Winder. Ga
AN OCEAN DISASTER.
Thirty People Drowned By the
Wrecking of a Steamer.
Advices from Adelaide, South Aus
tralia, state that the British ship Loch
Sloy, Captain Nicol, from Clydeon,
January sth, for Adelaide and Mel
bourne. was wrecked on Kangaroo
island on April 24th.
Five passengers and twenty-five of
the crew were drowned. Four of those
on board the ship escaped from the
wreck.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
L. C. RUSSELL. E. C. ARMISTEAD.
RUSSELL & ARMISTEAD,
Attorneys at Law.
Winder, Ga. Jefferson. Ga.
W. H. QUARTERMAN,
Attorney at Law,
Winder, Ga.
Prompt attention given to all legal
matters. Insurance and Real Estate
agent.
J. A. B. MAHAFFEY,
Attorney at Law,
Jefferson, Ga.
Silman’s old office.
Winder Furniture Cos.
UNDERTAKERS AND—
—FUNERAL DIRECTOES
C. M. FERGUSON, M’g’r.
WINDER, GEORGIA.
<E>®3s>!©!S©®
Lodge No. 333, ( tv maeij Officers—N.
J. Kelly, W. M.; J. H. Jackson, S. W.;
W. L, DeLaPerriere, J. W.; J. H. Kil
gore, Sec’ty. Meets every 2d Friday
evening at 7 o’clock
J. T. Strange, N. G ; C, M. Ferguson,
V. G.; J.H. Smith, Treasurer; A. D
McCurry, Secretary. Meets every Ist
and 3d Monday nights.
RUSSELL LODGE No. 99.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
Meets every Ist and 3d. Thursday
evening in each month. W. H Toole,
C. C.; B. T. Camp, V. C.; W. K. Lyle,
K. of R. aud M. of F,; D. H. Hutchins,
Prelate; L. C. Russell, M. of E.; A. D.
McCurry. M. A.; J. J. Smith, M W.;
O. L. Dabney, I. G ; R. A. Black, O. G.
ROYAL ARCANUM.
Meets every fourth Monday night.
J. T. Strange, It.; G. T. Arnold, V.
R.; W. H. Quarterman, Secretary.
(colored).
WINDER ENTERPRISE LODGE,
No. 4282. G. U. O. ofO.F.
Meets every Ist and 3d Friday night
in each month. Dudley George, N. G.;
G. W. Moore V. G.; L H. Hinton,
Secretary,
A. HAMILTON,
Undertaker and Funeral
Director,
Winder,
EMBALMING
By a Professiona 1 Embalmer. Heaise
and attendance free. Ware rooms, cor
ner Broad & Candler sts.
DR. W. L. DsLaPERRJERE,
DENTAL PARLORS,
In the J. C. DeLaPerriere building,
ever Winder Furniture Cos. Call and
see me when in need of anything in
the lino of Dentistry Work guaran
teed.
Success always comes to those who
believe iu printers’ ink judiciously
used. Let us have your advertise
ment.
.Remember That.
Hutchins & Whitworth
Carry a Fine line 0f....
FANCY AND FAMILY GROCERIES
CONFECTIONERIES ETC ,
They also handle
Lumber, Coat, Lime, Colton Seed
Meal and Hulls ===^
which they will sell at LOWEST PRICES.
Eumrn,
The Greatest Remedy
In the World For
Burns,
Scalds,
Spasmodic Croup,
Erysipelas,
Chilblains,
Poison Oak
--and--
Old Sores.
If your Druggist or local Dealer does
not keep it, send 25 cents iu P. 0
Stamps or silver for a bottle to
MRS. W. H. BUSH,
• Winder, Ga.
Georgia Railroad.
CONNECTIONS-
For information as to Routes, schedules
and Rates, both
Passenger and Freight,
write to either of the undersigned.
You will receive prompt reply and
reliable information.
Joe. W. White, A. G. Jackson,
T. P. ’A. G. P. A.
AUGUSTA. GA.,
S. W. Wilkes, H. K. Nicholson,
F. <fc P. A. G. A.
Atlanta. Athens.
W. W. Hardwick, S. E. Magill,
S. A. C. F. A.
MACON, GA.
M. R. Hudson, F. W. Coffin,
8. F. A. 8, F. & P- A
Milledgevilla. Augouta
ALL WOMEN
Should know that the
“Old Time” Remedy,
dffffffff
13 the best for Fenisle Trouble*. Corrects a
Irregularities In Female Organs. Shou,' i
taken for Change ol Life and before Chod-Bino-
Planters “Old Time” Remedies Lave stood tne
test for twenty years.
Made only by Itew Spencer Medicine Cos., vhat
tar.ooga, Tennessee.
G. W DeLaP-irriero, Wind*.