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GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Brief Summary of Interesting
Happenings Culled at Rzndtm.
Dublin To lluv Iwn Urpuli.
Tbe town of Dublin in to have two
new depot* at. I lie end r-f sixty days.
Tlie ia. 1 toad com mission a few dnys
ago directed tlio Maoon, Dublin and
Savannah railroad to prepare plana for
31 station to be erected at Dublin, giv
ing the load tcu duya in which to com
ply with this order. Tlie plana for
the station were submitted to the
commission and were approved. Work
on the station will begin at once. The
second toad entering Dublin was di
rected some weeks since to build an
•entirely new structure, and that work
is also under way.
S*am For Farmera.
The s'ate department of agriculture
has secured from the United States
botanist at Washington a supply of
pesarne plant seed, a plaut very little
grown in the United States, but one
of more than ordinary value to the
farmer. The sesame seed has been
examined fully by the state chemist,
who is satisfied that the plaut can be
produced with success in Georgia.
The principal product is the oil taken
from t : e seed. This is known iu the
market as sesame oil, used largely in
cooking and for pharmaceutical pur
poses.
The United States botanical depart
ment has placed at the disposal of the
state chembt, Johu M. MoTandless,
forty ftint packages of the seed re
cently imported from Russian Turkes
tan, and already a number of requests
have been made for samples. It has
been found that the sesame pilant can
not grow well north of Virginia, but
in the warm soil of the south, and par
ticularly of Georgia, it will thrive.
The time remaining for planting tho
seed is short, and for that reason ail
who wish to receive samples should
apply at the state department of agri
culture at once.
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Teacher
News has been received of the se
vere stabbing of Prof. W. J, Wynn, iu
Mariana, Fia. Prof. Wyun is a native
of Eatonton. A few days ago, accord
ing to the information, he punished
one of his pupils, a twelve-year-old
sou of i x-Governor W. Y. Atkiuson.
The boy had a knife concealed in his
sleeve and struck the teacher with it.
T he blade entered near the heart, pro
ducing a painful wouud. The pbysi
ciau says the escape from fatal results
was a narrow one.
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Mutt lift “Olltoifil" Ballot.
Tn a notice directed to the chairman
of every county Democratic committed
in Georgia, Vice Chairman E. T.
Frown, of the state committee, who is
acting in the absence of Chairman
dnßignon, calls attention finally to
the rules and regulations of that body
governing the ballot to be used iu the
primary of the loth.
Every ballot to be used iu the pri
mary in expected to conform to the
“official” arrangement of tho ticket
made by the sub-coramittee of the
state committee appointed for that
purpose at the last session.
The attention of the D inocrHic
committee has beeu railed to the ac
tion of several counties that have al
ready not conformed to the geueral
regulation, and the reminder of the
state committee’s rule has been given
in oiler that no misunderstanding
may exist, or no claim of such misun
derstanding be filed after the ballots
are cast on .May 15tli
Copies of the mo lei ballot prepar
ed by the sub committee were sent
several days ago to officers in each
county so that by thi time all are
aware of tbe arrangement of the ticket.
Vice Chairman Brown stilted that the
•only object of the state committee in
providing for an official ballot had
been to avoid unnecessary friction aud
insure justice to every man who is a
candidate for office.
it is understood that some of the
county committees, acting possibly
before the rule of tho state committee
had become generally known, have
prepared their ballots in various man
ners, and consequently are beyond tho
pale of the controlling committee’s
rule on tlie subject.
What action tho state oonveation will
take when it meets iu Juno regarding
any county that voted an irregular
ballot at tbe primary is not even a
matter of conjecture at this time, since
it is presumed that every county will
follow the direction of the committee.
Stale SttnUar -ciiool Conventinn,
The state Sunday school eon vent ion
At Augustn the past week was declared
to be the best yet held in Georgia.
TSu* time and piaco of holding the
next eouvention will be selected dur
ing the year bv the executive commit
tee.
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llain* Delay Cotton Planting;.
In his monthly talk to the farmers of
Georgia, issued last Saturday, Commis
sioner of Agriculture O. It. Stevens
gives the growers sound advice on the
management of the general crops dur
ing May. The article is one of the
! best compiled by the state commis
sioner, for it deals with subjects that
cannot fail to be of interest aud im
portance to the agricultural classes,
subjects on the soil aud its cultivation
in order that the greatest amount of
plant food may be at the control of
planters.
Farmers are particularly warned not
to allow the May grasses to remain un
disturbed, and by clearing off the
grass at tho very start the grower can
remain the master of the situation for
the rest of the season.
The monthly publication contains
in oddition a valuable treatise by the
state chemist on the production of
beef, butter and milk and the import
ance of the production of these sta
ples.
State Entomologist Scott gives at
leugth his remedy for curling peach
leaves, as the result of experiments on
a large orchard in Cobb.
Colton Growera* Convention.
The Cotton Growers’ convention to
be held iu Macou, beginning May 12,
has become a matter of national im
portance aud prominent men from dis
tant states will be in attendance.
Some of the largest cotton houses in
New York will send representatives
aud have telegraphed friends in Macou
to engage rooms for next Saturday.
The cotton growers have mvited bank
ers, merchants and business men to
meet with them and a number will be
there.
The farmers are taking a great in
terest in the meetiug aud many coun
ties have elected delegates. Thirty
counties heard from directly or indi
rectly will send about 300 delegates.
After carefully going over the reports
from different counties, Hon. G. ii.
Jordan, of Monticeilo, and Mr. N. R.
Hutchinson, of LaGrauge, Ga., who
are acting as a committee of arrange
ments, estimated that the convention
would have something like 1,000 dele
gates.
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Editor* Will Visit Athens.
President W. S. Coleman, of the
Georgia Weekly Press Avssociation,
has accepted iu behalf of the associa
tion the iuvitatiou of the University of
Georgia, the S ate Normal school aud
Athenaeum Club to spend the after
noon and evening of July 16th in
Athens previous to attending the an
nual convention at Elberton the next
day. The press delega es will be
shown over the university and State
Normal school during the afternoon,
and at night will be banquetted by the
Athenaeum.
Pat Kearney Pardoned j
A day or two ago Governor Candler
signed a pardou which gives liberty
once more to Patrick Kearney, the Sa
vannah citizen who shot and killed J.
YV. Wyness in that city, in April, 1896.
Pat Kearney was convicted of mur
der iu tho first degree and sentenced
to the penitentiary for life. The sen
sational trial which ended in the con
viction of Kearney was eclipsed, so far
as human interest is concerned, by the
subsequent proceedings iu which an
entirely different jury determining the
suit of J. W. Wyness’ widow for the
payment of her husband’s insurance
policy, declaring that the killing was
not murder, but the result of accident.
Thus two juries passed ou the fact3 in
the case. Under the verdiot of the
first jury Kearney was sentenced to
the penitentiary for life, w hile the ver
dict of the second jury held the shoot
iug to be accidental.
Tho policy for $5,000 taken out by
Wyness recited at length that if the
holder should meet his death at the
hands of a murderer, the policy should
be void. When the jury of the superior
court of Chatham declared Kearney
guilty of murder, the insurance com
pany refused to pay the policy, and a
suit was begun by the widow to force
the company to meet its obligation.
The facts of the shooting were gone
over agiiu at length, with the result
that the jury declared Wyness had
not been murdered, and the insurance
compauy was liable for the payment
which it was forced to make.
The application for the pardon of
Pat Kearney was argued before the
pardou board by his Savannah counsel
some days ago.
Kinbalmer. To Meet.
It is expected that there will be
fully two hundred embalmers in Ma
oou on June 6th to appear before the
state board of examiners, which meets
on that date. The visitors will be
given a reception while in the city.
Under a law passed at the last leg
iature this board was created aud the
governor given the power to make the
appointments.
It will be nocessary for every em-
Walmer in the slate to appear before
this board, pass the examination aud
secure a license before they will be al
lowed to practice the profession, lhe
law makes it a misdemeanor for any
one to practice after July Ist without
a license.
It is expected that there will be em
balmers present from every city and
town in the state aud fully two hund
red in all. Tho examinations will be
in writing, but it has not yet been de
termined what average will be required.
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(.lotting Ri'iuty For the Fair.
Preliminary steps are being taken
to put Exposition park in Atlanta in
proper shape for the coming southern
industrial fair. In about a week the
board of directors will have acted on
reports as to what changes are needed
and men will begin work at the park.
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Mills Kor WoorUtock.
Arrangements are about completed
for building a cotton seed oil mill and
a rope factory at Woodstock. This
mill and factory will be built by the
citizens of the community. There is
a rope factory in three miles of the
place, which has paid so well aud the
demands for rope being too great for
it to fill, it has been decidod to build
another at once.
PESTILENCE AND MISERY.
Cholera Now Adds Its Horrors to
the Fearful Famine Raging
In India.
The report received at London that
cholera is strengthening its deadly
hold on famine-stricken India brings
the pitiful condition of that country
more than ever to the public view.
About 93,500,000 persons, for this is
the population of the districts affected,
are sweltering their squalid existences
away amid pestilence and misery that
show no signs of abating. Hundreds
of thousands of pounds iu good British
gold, good German marks and Amer
ican coin have been thrown into the
country, but, judging from the latest
advices, all this charity is merely a
drop in the ocean.
The famine and its attendant com
plications appear to exceed iu viru
lence any previous visitations. The
viceroy, Lord Curzon, of Kedieston,
and the government are making cease
less exertions to meet the terrible
emergency, but the stupendous diffi
culties confronting them prevent the
present supplying of relief to more
than five millions. In the meantime
the native states are dotted with heaps
of dead and dying, and the roads are
crowded with ghastly bauds seeking
to escape from the stricken territories,
but who, for lack of fod and water,
mostly succumb in the attempt. One
of the most hopeless features of the
whole affair is contained in tbe state
ment of a special correspondent at
Simla, who writes:
“Ten times the total relief could
be laid in a single district without
fully describing its distress. All we
can hope for is a succession of good
years to put the people on their legs
again.”
The British districts are reported to
be so far escaping the large starva
tion aud mortality that mark the native
states. But that their condition is
not enviable is evident from the fol
lowing description sent by a Bombay
correspondent on the scene at Ahem
dabad, a city in the presidency of
Bombay:
“In an open space upward of 200
were seated, old and young, being
famine personified. The smell arising
from their filthy rags was sickening,
and had attracted myriads of flies.
Some, especially the old men, were
bony frameworks. A girl suckling
two children was ghastly to look at,
but the iittle ones, with hollow tem
ples, sunken eyes and cheeks and the
napes of their necks falling iu under
ther skulls, which seemed to overbal
ance their emaciated bodies, aud with
wisp like arms and legs, were mere
dreadful still. Many were suffering
from disease and numbers had the
fever. Those who could work were
sent on where tanks were being dug;
others were given a meal and passed
on to the poorhouse.”
This picture is from a less seriously
affected part of tho country. Tho suf
ferings in the remoter districts, where
the famiue is severe, where all the cat
tle have long since died, where the
water is precious and where cholera
has now added its dread scourge, can
well be imagined.
CULTON BACK IN JAIL.
Application For Bail Refused By
Judge Cantrill —Evidence
Was Too Strong.
A Fraukfort, Ky., special says:
At tbe conclusion of the arguments
on the motions for bail of W. H. Cul
ton, charged with being an accessory
in the murder of Governor William
Goebel, Saturday night, Judge Can
trill denied the application and Culton
was remanded to jail.
In rendering his decision Judge
Cantrill said that the uncontradicted
evidence on some of the points in the
case left the c.oort no recourse but to
refuse the defendant’s application for
bail. Cultou’s trial will come up at
tho regular September term of court.
The trials of the other accused prison
ers will be held at Georgetown. •
Off For Populist C onvention.
Senator Butler, of North Carolina;
Senator Pettigrew, of Dakota; M. C.
Gavock, of Virginia; N. W. Fitzger
ald, of West Virginia, and George H.
Shibley, of New York, headed a party
of eastern populists that left Washing
ton over the Baltimore and Ohio rail
way Saturday for Sioux Falls, S. D., to
attend the populivt national convention.
CAR MEN ON STRIKE
The Street Railways In St. Louis,
Mo , Are Tied Up.
DEMANDS OF UNION ARE IGNORED
1 lie Striker* Attack Non-Union Men.
Cara Held Up and a Number of
People are Hurt.
In accordance with the decision
reached by the St. Louis Transit Com
pany’s employes early Tuesday morn
iug a general strike was inaugurated
on the immense system at daybreak.
No cars were in operation save a few
an the Park avenue division. The
first car on the division left the shed
at 8 o’clock. The strikers at the sheds
did not attempt to prevent the crews
from taking their cars out, and they
ran unmolested until 12:45 o’clock,
when ear No. 5, of the Park avenue
division, was badly wrecked on Wash
ington avenue by a volley of stones
thrown by a crowd of men and boys.
The suburban line, many of the em
ployees of which had been on a strike
for several days, were also tied up af
ter the early morning hours. Cars
were run as far as Thirteenth street,
but when efforts were made to bring
them down town crowds of strikers
and sympathizers interfered with the
crews, and in several cases dragged
them off the cars.
At 1 o’clock Tuesday afternoon a
Park avenue cars was considerably
damaged at Eighteenth and Washing
ton avenue. A large crowd of men aud
boys was congregated there, and as
the car approached they bombarded it
with stones regardless of the fact that
several women were inside it. The
crew on the car stuck to their posts,
although the stones flew thick around
them. The company, when it found
that the cars could not be operated,
ordered them back to the sheds. Num
erous cars were stoned and the men
operating them attacked by crowds
along the streets, but the strikers de
clare that they took no active part in
these demonstrations.
The most serious personal injuries
sustained up to nightfall were received
in riots which took place on Washing
ton avenue, from Sixth to Eighth
streets. Iu one of them a boy was
shot by a non-union conductor, who
was trying to push his car through the
crowd. A motor man was seriously in
jured by a brick thrown by someone
in ike crowd. A man was shot at
Grand and Franklin avenues Tuesday
night, and another was shot near the
crossing of the suburban tracks and
Taylor avenue.
The police were powerless in the
face of the mob.
At 9 o’clock p. m., as a suburban
car was passing Taylor avenue, a big
crowd gathered. Someone in it pull
ed the trolley from the wire and this
action so enraged a passenger, at pres
ent unknown, that he drew a revolver
and fired three shots into the crowd.
Hurd Gil berth, a barkeeper, an on
looker, received one of the bullets iu
tbe arm and another in the lung. Phy
sicians pronounce his wounds mortal.
The strike is reported to have seri
ously interfered with the collection
and delivery of the mails. Six United
States postal cars were tied up during
the day.
DEMANDS OF THE STRIKKJtS.
The salient features of the men’s de
mands which the Transit company re
fused to g'-ant are briefly as follows:
“That all conductors, motormen,
gripmen and all men employed in the
sheds should be compelled to be mem
bers of tbe union; that the officers of
the union, together with the officers of
the company, shall have full power to
adjust all differences that may arise,
and that iu the event of not being able
ro agree, place the case before three
arbitrators; that any member sus
pended by the union shall be suspend
ed by the company without pay until
such time as the union requests his
reinstatement.
“That men elected to an office in the
union requiring his absence for not
more than a year shall, upon his re
tirement from his office, have his old
place with the company.
The union claims that about 3,400
men are out and thot they represent
about 90 per cent of the Transit com
pany’s employees.
TLTUILA IS OUKS.
Amerii-an Flag Ih ltlail Over Island
Amid Great Native ILJuicing;.
Advices received from Samoa an
nounce that the American flag has
been hoisted over the island of Tutnila
amid great native rejoicing aud that
the chiefs have made a formal cession
of the island to the United States.
The inhabitants of Manau, it is also
announced, request the formal hoist
ing of the American flag over that
island, which will likewise bo ceded.
Tho natives of the islands will rule
themselves under governors appointed
by the commandant of the uaval
tion.
Cures Talk
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Patagonian Floating Stones.
The surprising phenomenon of heavr
stones floating on water was observe!
.ast summer in southwest Pat agon u
by Drs. Nordenskiold and Borge i n ,
river were seen numerous clusters of
sina 11 fragments of bituminous siatg
that had been broken from thecliffs and
were floating on the water, and with a
single cast of the net 700 of them, so®
of them more than half an inch In dia
meter. wene obtained. The specific
gravity of tlie pieces was nearly three
times that of the water. The top of
the stones was dry, and when this be
came wet they immediately sank. Tin
cause of the phenomenon is somewhat
complex. Minute bubbles held by a
microscopic film of seaweed probably
contributed to tlie effect, which was
chiefly due to the repellent action o!
the greasy surface. It is suggestei
that floating stones may have playeds
hitherto unsuspected part in geology
as ocean currents may have transport
ed them long distances, forming new
strati far from the original source.
A Boy’s Revenge.
The present German Emperor, thei
a small boy. attended the wedding ol
the Prince and Princess of Wales. He
was under the charge of his two uncles
the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duk<
of Connaught. As may be expected
young William fidgeted sadly, andcoa
sequent)y received an occasional warn
ing tap ou the shoulder. But how hi
did revenge himself! Ilis uncles weri
In Highland dress, and the future em
peror slyly knelt down and bit into
their bare legs with great earnestness
Thoroughly at Home.
Jiggs-—I called to see Brassey lasi
night, but he wasn’t at home.
Biggs—Oh, yes, he was.
Jiggs—l tell you he wasn’t. B
wasn't at home all evening.
' Biggs—He was perfectly at home all
evening. He monopolized our easiest
chair and kept his feet on the piano
stool.—Philadelphia Press.
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