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Georgia Cullings Curtailed Items of Interest Gathered at Random. To Elect Successor tc. Judge Reese. Governor Terrell has signed an or der authorizing the ordinary of Han cock county to call an election for the legislature, to name a successor for the place made vacant by the sudden death of the Hon. Seaborn Reese. Unde-r the law the citizens of the county must be given 20 days In which to prepare for the election. • * * For Agricultural Schools. The first installment of the state's appropriation for the maintenance of tno recently established agricultural college, was mailed from tho state treasurer’s office the past week in checks of $2,000 each to the eleven schools in the congressional districts. The fund from which the appropri ation is made is that arising from the department of fertilizer inspection. Tho annual amount of the appropria tion is contingent upon tho income of this department. Other payments will be made during the year. Common School Examination. A uniform examination for all the seventh grade children of the com mon schools of the state will be held on March 2.1 This examination nas been held annually in the spring for several years past, and as an incen tive to diligence and proficiency, an attractive certilicate Is given to all scholars who make 80 per cent or over. In many counties where there are schools with only a few pupils and where certain schools have com pleted their terms the county school superintendents have arranged to com bine these with ether schools so that all the children may have an oppor tunity to take part ill this examina tion. Warrant for Absconding Ex-Justice. A warrant lias been sworn out at Macon for J. Jj*b Means, former justice of the peace, also tax agent for Bibb county, charging him with larceny af ter trust. Mr. Means, who was sup posed to he very wealthy, has left for parts unknown. It h understood that he has dispos ed of all of his property in Maoon before leaving, it is charged, that he bought goods from merchants in Ma con and shipped them to Atlanta,where ho sold them. The las; heard of him he was in Memphis, Tonn. Efforts will now he made to locate him. His family has left tho city Presentation of Gift Postponed. A Washington dispatch says: The silver service which the people ot the slate ot Georgia have prepared for the battleship which lias been named after their stale, will not be presented to that Vessel until summer To have the presentation ceremonies now it would be necessary for (he Georgia to lie several miles off the coast, and consequently they have have l etm postponed until later, when the weather conditions are likely to bo good. Tile Georgia will sail for Hampton Roals for her two days’ final trial trip and if no defects are found she will ho sent at c nee to Guantanamo, Cuba, to join Admiral Evans* fleet. • * • Money Comes for Volunteers. Governor Terrell has just received from the United States war depart ment a check for $18,i112 in part set tlement of vhe claims of the Georgia volunteer soldiers in the war w ith Spain He expects another check for $! 0,400 in a few days, making a total of $23 312 awar't.d to the Georgia vol unteers in settlement of their claims. As soon as the additional check ar rives Governor Terrell will be ready to begin the distribution of this fund to the soldiers anu officers of the First, Second and Third regiments in, tho Spanish war and to the two light hatteries of artillery. Members of these commands who have not already done so should send their present address to Judge C. G. Jones, at Cedariown, in order that the distribution may be made as prompt ly as possible. Georgia Keeps Within Law. John A. Betjeman, chairman of the executive committee of the Georgia immigration Association, tees, in the opinion of Attorney General Bona parte nothing which will interefere with the program now being worked out by the association for the induc ing of desirable immigration to Geor gia. In an interview Mr. Betjeman said: “The state of Georgia has not ex pended one cent in paving the pass age of immigrants either directly or STOP AT THIS Zettlep House, The beet $] .00 a day house in the city. 253 Fourth Street, MACON, 9-A Maa. A. L. Zkttler, Propriety** indirectly. At present we are securing good results without this. We do not believe that either in lettei or spirit has the state of South Carolina been guilty of any violation of the contract labor law. •‘The state of Georgia is acting very slowly and very cautiously and is noc taking a single new step without first obtaining full and competent advice from federal authorities” Railroads Get Off Easy. Thirty-seven damage suit3 against the Atlanta and West Point and the Central of Georgia Railway company, totaling in the neighborhood of S3CO,- 000, were settled in the superior court at Atlanta 'the past week, con sent verdicts against the railroads be ing taken for different sums, aggre gating $1,045. In addition to paying this $1,045 In settlement of the claims of the 37 parties, the defendant agreed to pay the costs of the suits, which will be In the neighborhood of $lO per suit. I At an expenditure of less than $1,500 I the railroads have wiped out claims for damages running between $250,000 and $300,000. The suits grew out of the wreck at West Fair street crossing in Atlanta the evening of June 6, 1900, when a train tearing a picnic party returning to AGanta was struck by a Central of Georgia train and a number of the passengers were seriously injured. For the month following the acci dent, the clerk's office of the superior j court was deulged with damage suits, | grownig out of the wreck, it being i estimated that over 15C suits were filed and the total sum of the dam ages asked from the two railroads ! being ovet* $1,000,000. Suits in which $5,000 damages were ■ usked of the railroads for alleged in- j juries, were settled for $lO and costs; \ some suits in which SIO,OOO damages j wero demanded were settled for as low j as sls, while $125 and SIOO wye the highest amounts agreed on for settle ment of any of the cases. ROBBIR AMI) VICTIVI BOTH SLAIN. Doubly Fatal Midnight Ousl Fought in Store Near Columbia, S. C. C. B. Green, 45 years old, and mar ried, a merchant of Shandon, a sub urb of Columbia, S. C.. was waylaid anu Killed Saturday night by Edward Marshall, who himself was killed by Gieen. Robbery was the motive. Tho shooting occurred about 11 o'clock, but the bodies of the men were not discovered until about 3 o'clock Sunday morning. When found, Green’s clothing was on fire, his body being badly charred around bis heart and side, where the bullets took effect and a roll of green backs were burned in twain. The feet of the men were less than a foot apart, showing that they faced each other when they were killed. At Green’s right hand lay a 32-csliber re volver, with four empty chambers. Near Marshall’s right hand was a 41- calibcr six-shooter, with five empty chambers, while a 38-caliber pistol, which had not been fired, was at his left hand. Under his body was a well made leather sling-shot or sand bag, having two rounds of small shot in the end. Near his head lay two bur glar’s masks, one having two bullet aoles in It, and was clotted with blood. Marshall was shot twice through the head and once through the right breast, while Green had three bul lets through his heart. The finding of the two masks and three hats leads to the belief that Marshall had an accomplice, but up to this time no arrests have been made. Marshall was 24 years old, unmar ried and the son of the manager of the large department store of J. J. Mlmnaugh of Columbia. The fact that Marshall had a pistol in each hand, it is hard to understand how he was able to manipulate the sandbag. TO CURB POWIR OF LABOR France May Be Forced to Enact Some ttlective Legislation. Tne city of Paris has resumed its normal aspect with the termination of of the big strike of electricians. All the electric plants arc working. The puolic is alarmed at the ease with which a few hundred workmen at the instigation of the confederation of 'ahor are able to throw the popu lation into confusion, and the news papers print editorials demanding legislation which will prevent work tnei engaged in supplying t public necessity from striking NEW STATUTE HURTS SOUTH Immigration Law Just Approved is Strict in Provisions. REVIEW BY BONAPARTE Old Law Admitted Wittekind Immi grants But Under the New They Could Be Excluded. A statement was issued by the de partment of justice at Washington Thursday concerning an opinion sub mitted to the president by Attorney Genera! Bonaparte as to whether cer tain immigrants landed in South Carolina last fall are legally in this country. The opinion, in effect, is that the immigrants were entitled to admission to the United States and that they are in this country legally. The opinion agrees with that render ed on the same case by Solicitor Earle of the department of commerce and labor. The statement says, in part; “It appears from statements furnish ed by the department of commerce and labor that the legislature of the state created the office of immigration commissioner and made an appropria tion of $2,000 for its expenses, for the express purpose of encouraging immi grants to come into that state. It also appears that certain private par ties made up a fund amounting to about $30,000 which was placed in the hands of Commissioner E. J. Watson, and with these resources he went abroad and by advertisements and otherwise collected a considerable number of laborers or artisans who were willing to migrate to South Caro lina, where labor, it is understood, was in great demand. “He paid the passage of these peo ple by an agreement which was after wards canceled, that they should re pay him out of their wages from em ployment he might procure for them. Under the terms of the agreement signed by the immigrants and Com missioner Watson, the latter promised to find employment for the former, but the immigrants themselves were free to reject any particular offer of employment that might be made to them. “The attorney general holds in ef fect that the original provision® of the alien contract labor law of ISBS were not repealed by the immigration law of 1903, and that after 1903, whenever passage money had been paid of any alien laborer who came to this country, under a previous con tract to perform labor here, such alien laborer was not entitled to admission into the United States. “Second —This did not operate, how ever, to include laborers in question, because, according to the construc tion placed upon the act of 1885 by the courts, it was an essential con dition to a violation of that law to perform labor, and these laborers do not appear to have been under any such enforceable contract. “Third —That although the passage of these laborers may have been paid in pursuance of an offer or solicita tion of employment, and in violation of the provision of the act of 1903, this would not render the aliens them selves liable to exclusion, as this act did not contain any provision exclud ing from admission those whose pass age money had been paid in viola tion of its provisions. “The attorney' general holds, in ef fect, however, that under the pro visions of the new immigration act which was approved by the president, the immigrants in question could have been excluded.” ROObtVlLl’S BOY btRKHJjLT ILL. Archie, third Son, is Suffering from At tack ot Diphtheria. A Washington dispatch says: Archie Roosevelt, the president’s third son, who has been suffering from diphthe ria, for a week past, had a turn for the worse Thursday; though he has rallied somewhat, his condition is se rious. STRIKERS RESORT 10 VIOLENCE. Street Car Official* in Louisville Forced to t all Od Irallic. The first few hours Monday of the strike of the employes of the Louis ville, Ky.. Railway company, which was inaugurated Sunday morning, was ma-ked by much disorder and violence. At l o’clock all attempts to run cars were abandoned for the day. Before this several people had been injured, stones were thrown througa car windows, cars were held up and tbe motor-men aud conductors routed. j DEATH CLAIMS DOWIE. Qaeer Character Who Posed as Prophet Elijah Passes Away, Dishonored, in City Which He Founded. John Alexander Dowre, self-termed i Elijah 111, and prophet of divine se lection, died Saturday at what was nuce his palace in Zion City, 111., Shi loh House. His death was lingering. The faith ful prayed until the very end that he might yet be spared. He led them continually in their supplications until at last his feeble voice ceased and he breathed his last. About his bed stood several of the faithful and one or two men who have fought him with great vigor in his last months of life. These men re pented at the deathbed; they asked for forgiveness. Some of the faithful asked him if he would permit a physician to attend him, in the hope that the life might be prolonged. “No, mv dear friends. God is calling me no Him. I am going to my reward. Call the faithful about me that they may see the end.” Word was sent to Dr. Gladstone Dowie, the son, and his mother, the other two of the family. In the hour following the struggle they had de serted him. To the last moment Dowie did not asked for either of them. He had fre quently had words with his son. there was no forgiveness. He died with a feeling of anger against them, feeling of anger against them. Dowie came to his end in the house in which he ruled the strangest city the world has ever known. He died there a poor, broken old man, shorn of his power and influence, where once he stood the leader. John Alexander Dowie, who claimed to he the Prophet Elijah reincarnated, general overseer of Zion City, and the head of the Christian Catholic Church, was born in Edinburg, Scotland, in 1847, and went with his parents to Australia in 1860. He first began to advance his doc trines in Sydney. While preaching on street corners he became so boister ous and obnoxious that he was ar rested and put in jail. He was actually driven out of Aus tralia, and landed in San Francisco in 1888. Finally, in 1892, ho thought it best and safest to move again, and went to Chicago. In spite of his previous moves, Dovvie had done well fifinancially. He always took excellent care of that end of his religion, and he was pre pared to make a great battle in Chi cago. It was in Chicago that success began to come to him. The downfall of Dowie may be said to date from October, 1903, when he, with the hosts of Zion, invaded New York. New York would not take Dowie se riously. The little red-faced fat man, hopping about on a platform, clad in gaudy robes, was taken as a joke and his audiences laughed at him. The blow to Dowie’s vanity was a severe one, and after a dismal campaign, he gave up the fight and returned to Zion. * The next scheme of the “Prophet” was a “New Zion” to be located in Mexico. He sought to establish a branch of the “Christian Catnolic Church” there, but Mexico would have none of him. The tide had set against him. Then Zion arose and asserted its independence. “The Prophet” was hurled from power and Overseer Voli va was put in charge of the city, its resources and its immense debt, to save what he could for the people. M&RO RlDiiltl) BY BUCKSHOT. Barricaded llimsult in House and Was K II • ed in Resisting Arrest. Surrounded in a house at Amerieus, Ga., and fighting to the death like a demon at bay, Bill Reese, the negro desperado who Sunday morning mor tally wounded Police Officer William Morris, was shot to pieces at seven o’clock Sunday night, his body being fairly riddled with buckshot and pis tol balls. COLOR LINE WILL NO I BE DRAWN. Coid Comfort Given While Postal Clerks on Western Roads. The post office depart ment dees not intend :o draw’ lhe color line in the matter of white and negro railway marl cle.-lis working together on the same runs Although an intimation has been given rhat white ciorks in tbe mid lie. west are pieparing to re quest f'.e detriment to effect a change so as to put rhe negroes on runs wuich will not bring them in proximity to the whites, it was given nut that nc such discrimination could or woulu be made. . WHIPPING WAS BLESSING! New Spanish Minister Says Defeat of I His Country By United States I Proved Good Thing. “My mission to the United States 1 is to help cement new ties of friend, ship,” said Senor Don Ramon Pina, ' the new Spanish minister, who arriy. ed in Washington Friday. “I have not come here to remind the American government that it defeated us in a eoniiiet, hut I have come here on a mission to help both countries live down the unpleasant past.” When his attention was called to a recent communication Admiral Dewey addiessed to a correspondent, in which the hero of Manila Bay said that that he had won his victory over the Spanish fleet by “divine aid,” Se nor Pina said: “Please do not consider me irrev erent, but if Admiral Dewey won his victory over the fleet of oar navy in Manila Bay by ‘divine aid,’ I think it must have been the god of war— the aid that iron gave him in con quering wood.” Senor Pina says his country has prospered greatly since the war, and intimated that defeat by America real ly developed in a benefit to it, rather than a disadvantage. “It caused the people to awake to the realization,” he said, “that ihey must be up and doing to keep pace with the times, particularly with American progress, and following this both political and commercial chang es have greatly improved.” Senor Pina was presented to Sec retary Root Saturday and warmly welcomed. His presentation to the president will be delayed for some time because of the illness of the pres ident’s son, Archie, RURAL MAIL ROIIItS INCKtASE. Latest Report Shows that 37,323 are in Operation at Present t.uie The report on the operations of the rural delivery service up to March 1. 1907, made public at Washington Friday by the fourth assistant post master general, shows that the total number of petitions received up to that date was 59,920, upon which 15,- 701 adverse reports have been made, and there are now in operation 37,323 routes, on -which 37,174 regular rural letter carriers are employed. On March 1 of last year there were pending 3,130 petitions. During the year 2,693 petitions were filed, malt ing a total of 5,823 petitions handled, and now only 705 are pending. Of this number 284 have been favorably act ed on and ordered established, leaving the net number of petitions pending 1,- 411. CAN RtiUaE 10 SiHVc NEGROES. Connecticut Supreme Court Decides a Suit liruuijlU on col.tr line. The Connecticut supreme court has just handed down a decision to the effect that the barbers in that state need not shave negroes. The decision was reached on an appeal from a su perior court decision in Bridgeport, by a colored man, who brought suit against a barber of that city. The barber refused to shave the negro, bis defense being that his barber shop was not a place of public accommoda tion within the meaning of the law. The supreme court upholds that con tention. Bib MZ. WON IsY GUUSRIt. Guessed Number o i Admissions to i*uria’n t ci.r And $25,000. After two years of litigation, de cision has been rendered by Judge Mcllhsnny, in the circuit court at Clayton, Mo., awarding to M. Logan Guthrie of Fulton, Mo., the prize of s2s,uvO in a conic, nr me person who entered the nearest guess to the total number of paid admissions into the world’s fair. Guthrie guessed 12,804,- 616, which was announced as the ex act number of admissions. Several other claimants appeared and pay ment of the prize was n&ld up pend ing settlement of the different claims. Guthrie instituted suit in 1905. JO bUPPdtaS lilt OPIUM VICE Ur.ce St m Makes Initial Aleve With Ccn- CuretiCi of interested Powers. The United States government has taken the initiative in inaugurating a new war cm the opium vice. Follow* ing a careful sounding of Great' Britain, China and Japan, the three countries directly intern ted. Assist ant Secretary of State’ Bacon, with the approval of President Roosevelt, has extended an invitation tc all the powers having possessions in the Fa- East to participate in a national con ference which shall devise measures for the suppression of the use .of opium.