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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. * * ♦ 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. * * 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. • * * 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. * * * 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. * • * (.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. • • * 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 The fame of Hood’s Sir Merit won by tbe good it has and^ I'* 1 '* bls be were suffering f rom dl3 J 96 T t tb ° 59 welted wonder and adtnim, * caused thousands to reioT ‘ II moot of good health, aid lt W IU same good it has done ot J‘ pel from your blood all ' II Wlll J -strong aud vigorous. It is T , m ' U Ml cine to help you now when !“ bO(ly ci“se°U bu rJi n g °! er not sleep nights. By talrin* w 1 eoalj sap.arllla I was nom,letoly cS r T Sir ‘ Thompson, I*. O. Box 36. OaCl! e . $ Hood’s Sarsaparilla 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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