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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. • •' * 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. * * • 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. * * * 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 J. A. B MAHAFFEY, Attorney-at-Law, Jefferson, - - * * Georgia. 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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. 3 BIPANS tabbles Doctors find ■ A Good Prescription fox mankind PROFESSIONAL CARDS. U C. RUSSELL. E. O. 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