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GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Brief Summary of Interesting
Happenings Culled at Random.
Democrat* Meet March 16.
The Georgia state Democratic ex
ecutive committee will meet iu Atlanta
March 16th.
The (late for the committeemen to
convene was decided and the day fixed
by the chairman in accordance with
the usual time of the convention. The
committee will have many important
matters before it regarding the welfare
of the party in the state during the
coming year, and much interest at
taches to the sessions.
One of the principal questions of the
mooting of the committee will be the
construction of the amendment to the
constitution regarding the nomination
of judges and solicitors of the different
judicial circuits of the stats.
Much discussion has been aroused
in every circuit of the stato as to
whether primaries for the nominations
should be held by circuits or counties.
It is hold by some members of the
committee that primaries should be
held in all the counties of each circuit
on the same day. The committee will
also decide whether these primaries
should be held on the same day as the
primaries for the nomination of other
candidates for offices of the state aud
county.
* * *
Nejrroe# Leave Atliena.
Last Sunday morniug at 3:30
o’clock, via the Seaboard, another
batch of negroes left Athens for Ar
kansas. In this lot there were about
oue hundred —men, womon and chil
dren. There were at the depot several
hundred to see these off, and many
others have the desire to go and will
leave soon. This makes about five
delegations to leave from Athens, go
ing to Mississippi, Alabama and Ar
kansas. The majority on each of
these occasions have been farm hands,
and the farmers iu this section begin
to feel the exodus.
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Frnlt Prospects Bright.
State Entomologist Scott has return
ed from a trip through south central
Georgia, where he lias been inspecting
the fruit orchards of that section and
assisting tho fruit growers in the
proper care of the trees.
Much work of preparation of this
kind is necessary to get the trees in a
shape to bear the largest crop of fruit,
and to have tho fruit in good condition
so that it will find a ready market.
Mr. Scott is devoting considerable
lie sh,)'hnM-nio I rrrtir'ttA?n a lH 1
Georgia are arranging for a convention
to bo held on April 4th. Mr. Scott
reported the San Jose scale to be
almost stamped out around Fort Val
ley.
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School Flection Return*.
A practically complete list of the
couuty school commissioners of the
state who were elected by the boards
of education in every county, after the
examination held on Feb. 10, has bceu
received by School Commissioner G.
R. Gleun. Tho election of a com
missioner for the common sohools of
Georgia was authorized in every coun
ty iu Georgia with the exception of
Oconee and the standard of require
ment by the examination prepared by
the commissioner was higher than ever
before in the state.
In two counties, Forsyth and Hous
ton, there is a contest over the com
missionership as a result of tho elec
tion; the two candidates in each coun
ty claiming to be elected—all passed
the examination.
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Cotton Aor>ni;*> Will Be Increased.
From the sale of tags for fertilizers
and the reports which have reaejied
the agricultural department at the state
capitol the acreago of cotton will be
the largest this year of any iu the his
tory of the state.
“They are planting the back yards,”
said Commissioner Stevens. “The
farmers are grubbing up the hedge
rows to plant cotton,” he continued,
“and the prospects are that the price
will go to four and a half cents and
the children will cry for shoes.
“On a reasonable estimate we have
sold 1,000,000 more fertilizer tags this
year than last year, which indicates
that the farmers are sowing every
available piece of ground they have iu
cotton. In a few days they will bo
plowing up the oat fields, where the
crop appears to be injured, aud will
plant it iu cotton.
“I have been trying since December
to persuade the farmers of Georgia to
cut down the amount of cotton they
intend to plant, but it is true they are
putting it everywhere, all they have
got they are investing iu the cotton
crop.”
These statements from Commission*
er Stevents who keeps in close touch
with the crop conditions of the state,
and as president of the Cotton States
Association of Commissioners of Agri
culture, is informed of the crop con
ditions of almost every 6tate in the
eonth, have caused acme surprise. It
lias been heretofore reported that the
cotton crop wonld not be so large as
last year, and the most liberal esti
mates havo placed it at very little
more, when most unfavorably consid
ered.
The rale of tags to date since the
opening of the season September 30,
1899, has been 3,331,986. For the
same time last year 2,387,566. The
total salos for 1899 were i, 069,553.
Upon this basis it is conservatively
estimated that the total sales this year
will reach five aud a quarter millions.
In the sale of cotton Beed meal
there are 20 4ags to a ton, and in some
brands of fertilizers there are 12 tags,
while in the greater greater number
of them there are 10 tpgs to each ton.
It is believed that the amount of
fertilizer sold in excess of last season,
as far as the season has progressed, is
about 100,000 tons, which has been
used principally for cotton fields.
May Hold Annual Fair*.
Thero is a movement on foot having
for its object the holding of inter-state
fairs in Atlanta every year, the first
one to be given some time next fall.
The movement took form the past
week when the stockholders of the At
lanta Amusement company met for the
purpose of discussing what disposition
should be made of the buildings at the
exposition park, which were pur
chased bv the conpany after the close
of the Cotton States and International
, exposition.
The Amusement company has been
losing money every year since becom
ing owners of the buildings, aud the
stockholders called a meeting for the
purpose of making some arrangements
to‘dispose of the property aud appro
priate the proceeds to the members of
I die company.
Instead of doincr that the meeting
resolved itself into an enthusiastic
demonstration for the organization of
an inter-state fair association.
* * *
Macon’# Annexation Muddle.
There is a great deal of speculation
being indulged in at present by Ma
sonites as to tho probable outcome of
the annexation movement, which was
set in motion several weeks ago.
March 9th has been set as the date for
hearing an injunction which was filed
to prevent the mayor and council from
sailing an election to decide the issue
and the event is awaited with patience
by both sides.
• * *
Brumby Fund Growing.
Subscriptions to the Brumby monu
ment fund are still reaching the office
of the association in Atlanta. It is be
lieved that within a short time the
necessary amount will have been sub
scribed aud the work of selecting and
purchasing the monument will then
assume more definite shape.
The supreme* court* of the state has
declared null and void the act of the
legislature incorporating the town of
Kirkwood. The corporation of Kirk
wood was recently completed by the
people of that thriving community
when they elected a mayor and council
aud passed a number of primary ordi
nances, but the opinion which Las
been handed down by tho court of last
resort leaves Kirkwood without its
township and the newly chosen officers
with no official duties to perform.
The decision of the court is based
entirely on the one count that the lim
its of the town were indefinitely stated
and are so uncertain and incomplete
that the intent of the legislature can
not be ascertained.
* • *
Will Celebrate Occasion.
The inauguration of modern meth
ods in gold mining in Georgia and the
Bouth on a large scale is to be notably
celebrated with the public starting of
the mammoth mill and chlorination
plant of the Consolidated Gold Mining
company at Dalilonega, May 2d and
3d. At a meeting held of the leading
citizens the movement assumed organ
ized form with the appointment of a
number of committees to take charge
of aud develop the affair on a scale in
keeping with the great industrial aud
commercial importance of the matter.
The general outline of the celebra
tion is, that on Wednesday evening,
May 2d, there will be a public meeting
at which addresses will bo made by
prominent men of this and other states.
On Thursday, May 3d, will occur the
formal starting of the mill. In tho
evening of the same day there will be
a banquet.
A large tent will be used for tho
accommodation of these gatherings.
A largo number of visitors from a dis
tance will be provided for, and many
people from the adjacent country will
swell the gathering to notable propor
tions.
President McKinley will be invited
to be present, and there are reasons
for believing that he may come. But
in case of his inability to come, the
plan is for him to touch the button,
and by electricity from Washington
start the great machinery.
Governor Caudler and other state
officials are expected to be present.
* * *
Will Leonard Hanged,
At Talbotton, last Friday, Will
Leonard, colored, paid the penalty of
the crime committed by him on Christ
mas of 1896, beiug the killing of his
wife, Nora, and her mother, Frances
Dean. Quite early the streets began
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to fill with negroes from the different
sections of the country and soon the
town was fairly packed with them,
comparatively few whites being pres
ent.
* * *
Oyster Case Sustained.
The state supreme conrt sustains
the case of the lessees of oyster beds
in Chatham county against the con
tention of a number of negro oyster
men that the leases of the riparian
property were illegal. The leases of
the oyster property in Chatham were
provided for by an act of the legisla
ture at its last session and immediate
ly thereafter a number of leases were
entered into. Tho oystermeu who
have been in the habit of makiugtheir
living by gathering oysters combined
and sought an injunction to prevent
the lessees from taking chargo of the
proper iy.
• * *
Big Bugine** Scheme.
An enterprise, the result of which
will mean much for Washington, is on
foot. Anthony shoals, sixteen miles
distant, which has a 4,700 horse power,
is to be harnessed and that power
electrically transmitted to Washington.
It is given out that the Georgia road
is at the bock of the enterprise.
* * •
Atlanta In Tenth Place.
By figures recently ascertained by
the postoffice authorities of the amount
of mail weighed at the 175 first-class
poatoffiees in the United States, At
le.nta is given the tenth place.
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