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1118 OF GEORGIA NEWS
Imings In the State of Inter
esting Import.
Verdict For $5,000.
trial of tlie suit of Mrs. Marion
f Atlanta, against the Western
y of Alabama for $20,000, came
al at Columbus last Saturday,
ing out two hours the jury re
a verdict for $5,000 for the
t. It is said that the verdict
nd.
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JL Model Farm It Will Be.
t agricultural department of the
jSersity of Georgia is being worked
U Pthe hightest state of efficiency by
t'rc pssor Hugh N. Starnes, who oc
cup jss the chair of agriculture.
Professor Starnes has set to work to
the university farm a model
farfflr indeed, and he is succeding in
his efforts. By next fall he will have
the farm in fine shape and will be
ready to utilize it thoroughly in the
work of teaching the young men prac
tical agriculture.
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Telephone Lines to Be Extended.
A conference was held in Dahlonega
a few days ago by Colonel H. P. Far
row, now engaged in building a tele
phone line from Gainesville to Porter
Spriggs, and the board of directors of
the Dahlonega Telephone company,
recently organized and incorporated
to build a line from Dahlonega to
Gainesville, which conference resulted
in a consolidation of the two lines,and
within sixty days Porter Springs and
Dahlonega will be in telephone com
munication with the world, which will
open up a new' era in these mountains.
Pardoned.
Charles R. Reid, the slayer of S.
R. Halstead, who has been serving a
three-years’ sentence in the state peni
tentiary camp at Chickamanga after
conviction in the Bibb county court
of manslaughter, has been pardoned
by Governor Candler. A strong effort
has been made for the past six months
by a number of prominent citizens of
Macon and that community to obtain
a favorable action on Reid’s case from
the pardon board, and a day or two
ago the commission finished a review
of the case, recommended the pardon
of the -firisoner and forwarded the
papers to Governor Candler. The
governor took action at once.
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Sword For Lieutenant Brumby.
The movement begun by a number
of his schoolmates, to present Lieu
tenant T. M. Brumby, of Georgia, with
a handsome sword, is meeting with
great favor in all parts of the state. *
Nearly all of the states have honor
ed their living heroes of the war ith
son jf&aCh .presentation, and it is
n filing but fit that Georgia should
present Dewey’s flag lieutenant with a
sword that will show the esteem in
which he is held by the citizens of his
state.
It was thought to make the amount
subscribed uniform and all of the sub
scriptions have been SI. Subscriptions
have been coming in at rapid rate from
all over the state, and it seems to be
the desire of every one to have a hand
in honoring Lieutenant Brumby.
It is thought that Lieutenant Brum
by will be home in the course of two
or three months, and if such is the
case the presentation of the sword
will probably be made when he arrives
on Georgia soil.
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State Fair Notes.
Work on the premium list of the
forthcoming State Fair is being vigor
ously pushed, and the book will be
completed in about a week. Anybody
who desires a copy should drop a pos
tal card request for one to the fair sec
retary, Mr. T. H. Martin, Prudential
building, ‘Atlanta. Mr. Martin will
take pleasure in sending it.
The owner of the fattest calf in
Gnp° r gi& can pocket a cool two hundred
dollars by exhibiting it at the state
fall, for that is the amount
by a couple of
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I reunion at Charleston be requested to
announce the date of the state reunion
in Atlanta and urge all delegates from
this state to be present. The com
mittee decided to confer with the state
aud city commissions on the fair and
seek their co-operation and assistance
in making the reunion a success. On
motion of Secretary ,T. W. Goldsmith,
Camp A, Wheeler’s Cavalry, was in
vited to meet with the committee from
Camp Walker and Camp 159.
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Circular Letter To Tcacliers.
State School Commissioner Glenn
has sent, out a circular letter to nil the
county school commissioners of the
state notifying them that the annual
examination will be held June 22d,the
questions for the examination to be
sent as soon as they are arranged The
circular letter is also of interest to
teachers and the commissioners rela
tive to the payment of salaries and the
sending in of itemized accounts.
* * *
Big Reward For Smith.
Governor Candler has increased
from S2OO to SSOO the reward offered
for the arrest of Si Smith, murderer
of W. B. Bell. Thomas M. Bell has
deposited SSOO in the state bank of
Gainesville as a rewmrd for the arrest
of smith, the citizens of Cleveland
have offered $75, aud the Mason lodge
of Cleveland offers $25. This makes
$l,lOO offered for Smith’s capture.
* * *
Small Comfort For Stockholder!! of South
ern Mutual B. & L. Association.
When the Southern Mutual Building
and Loan association failed two years
ago the report of the receivers showed
liabilities to the amount of $879,208.66,
and assets to the amount of $651,-
262.53, or a deficiency in the resources
of $227,946.13.
Since the business bas been in the
hands of the court there has been col
lected $127,287. The receivers have
paid out $76,827.63, leaving a cash
balance on hand of $50,459.37. Of the
disbursements, $35,395.36 was to cred
itors other than shareholders; $19,-
041.30 was for taxes, insurance pre
miums and repairs, and $22,390.97
was fer expenses, including salaries,
counsel fees, court costs and similar
items.
Whether the shareholders of the
association will get any dividend on
their stock w'ill depend largely on the
construction of the law in the case by
the supreme court. The members
w'ho had given notice of withdrawal,
under the terms of the associat ; on’s
by-laws, claim that they are creditors
and ought to be paid in full before
other members get anything. A test
case will probably be decided by
Judge Lumpkin at Atlanta May 22, so
that and appeal may be made to the
hip:h court.
Judge J. A. Anderson, one of the re
ceivers, stated that it was impossible
to tell * now what the stockholders
would get. He said:
“If the members who have given no
tice of withdrawal are classed as cred
itors, aud my opinion is that they
ought not to be so classed, the other
shareholders will get very little, may
be nothing. If the claims of the with
drawing members are not sustained all
of the stockholders may get 25 per
cent on the amount they have paid in.
In order to make that payment it will
be necessary for us to have on hand
about four times as much as we have
at present, or about $200,000.
A petition was presented to Judge
Lumpkin Saturday morning by Judge
Anderson aud Mr. M. A. O’Bryne, the
receivers, The petition asked that
direction should be given about the
rights of withdrawing members, the
liabilities of borrowers, the necessity
of making all the stockholders parties
and the question of securing interest
on the $50,000 on hanrL
The receivers stated that their re
ceipts had been confined so far to four
states, as follow’s: Georgia, $96,-
726.69; Alabama, $8,628.07; Missis
sippi, $5,818.82, and Florida, $16,-
113,42.
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llallways Now Combined.
The last payment of the Trust Com
pany of Georgia to the stockholders of
the Atlanta Bailway Company for the
the latter property was made a day or
two ago.
J. J. Spalding represented the stock
holders of the Atlanta railway and re
ceived a check for the last payntiidtt
The
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ALABAMA SENATE PASSES BinL
REPEALING CONVENTION AC*.
BOTH HOUSES ADCPT THE MEASURE
The Anti-RepealUts - ado a Vtgor| ,u * n<T
Strong Fight, iat Were Vv
succenful. .
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A Montgomery special says: The
bill repealing jf 1 iet which provided
for the holding bf a constitutional
convention in .labama, after having
passed the hoSe last week, passed
the senate Moiuay evening by a vote
of 19 to 12, everlmember of the senate
being in his sei-and voting.
For sevf ral ys it was n foregone
conclusiorLjhi-t the repeal bill would
become aw, bit the opposition to it
was so and so aggressive
that the t _jii|fpopular anxiety did
not relax nr— — te vote was taken
| Monday nigh, rne r ihe, actual vote on
i the passage r . was 18 to 13, but
one senator e ' V| . and his vote from no
to aye in or jnsa^10ll ove a reconsidera
tion. jq. of Gc<
The anti- i^ ie coijority of the demo
cratic state ex , se a a committee met
during the obedience to the
call of Chairman Lcwe aud made one
final effort to de aatthe repeal by pro
posing the folloM-Tg to the advocates
of repeal:
“1. That the irpx p ratio state execu
tive committee i to the qualified
white voters of ti 5 sate (the question
of convention or no invention, to be
voted in primary hdd by said com
mittee, the majority vote of the white
voters in the regular dection in July.
“2. That the said committee shall
invite all white voters to participate
in said primary who will agree to
abide the result of the }rimary.
“3, That said committee shall pro
vide representation at the ballot box
for supporters aud opp.nents of the
constitutional convention ”
Several objections to thl.,proposi
tion were found. If the white people
voted against the conveition in the
primaries as the repealsts insisted
they would another special session of
the legislature would be tecessary to
repeal the act on the statute books
providing for the holding of the July
election.
The senate was in continuous ses
sion from noon until aftei.6 o’clock.
More than half the senaiers spoke,
several of the speeches being exceed
ingly able ones.
The result is a great winning for
Governor Johnston. Both of the fed
eral senators, most of the congress
men and the state committed united
in a vigorous fight against tiff execu
tive on account of his open advocacy
of repeal. Johnston is charged with
being a candidate for the United States
senate. If he is he has undoubtedly
made a great winning, as he has con
trived to line all of his opponents, or
probable opponents, up together and
win out over the combined lot of them.
PANIC NARROWLY AVERTED.
Rev. .Tones I’rediefs Sudden Heaths ?n His
Sermon 2nd a Woman Faints.
Sam Jones, in his revival meeting
at Louisville, Ky., Monday night be
came very drastic. After relating
several instances of sudden deaths in
towns in w’hich he had preached, he
said:
“There*will be deaths in Louisville
within thirty days that will startle the
town from center to circumference.
God will punish you, and the awful
words I now speak will come back to
you with shocking vividness.”
The audience sat spellbound when,
at the close of the statement, a woman
near the platform fell headlong to the
ground in a dead faint. She was taken
home in an ambulence.
Many thought the woman had fallen
dead and a panic was narrowly averted.
PROTEST FROM CHINESE.
Legation At Waiihington * I
r . wetter anir Enf< uian in the qu^
child that o^er^ethe^v
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BARTOW MAN VISITS THE CLAS
SK'AL CITY OF ATHENS.
SCENES REMIND HIM OF OLD TIMES
Quotes a Sentence of Latin as Approprliite
To Changes Old Father Time
Has Wrought. .
“Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur
in illis. ” I am now in Athens, the
Classic City, and must quote some
Latin to be classic, too, and show that
I have not forgotten my alma mater.
“The times have changed and we
must change with them,” said the
Latin poet 2,000 years ago, and this
maxim,is more striking now than .it
was then. The changes are more rap
id and more radical. Old Franklin
college, within -whose unpreteuding
walls I walked and studied and ex
panded my youthful mind, has grown
to be an university and we old men
are straining our minds to keep up
■with the new order, the widening of
mental and physical training which is
now offered to our boys.
Time was when we thought that Dr.
Church and Professors McKay, Wad
dell, Leconte, Jackson, Stevens, Hull
and Nahum Wood knew all that was
worth knowing in this sublunary
■world; when there was no higher
honor than to be a Phi Kappa or a
Demosthenian orator or to be chosen
as a junior orator of one of these
societies. Time was when to be in
love with a lovely Athens girl was in
itself a liberal education, for they
were fair to look upon, refined in man
ners and fascinating in conversation.
There were only a score or two of them
then, and they had the pick of 160
students, young men of the best families
of Georgia and her sister states, and
half a hundred new ones coming in
every year. Just think of it; what a
blessing to girls is the proximity of a
male college or a university. But by
and by there comes along a female
college in the same town or city and
then they boys have an equal chance.
My visits to this Classic City have
been few and far between. Ido not
suppose there is a soul living here now
who was here in 1834, when I first saw
the little embryo city. My parents and
my brother and I stopped over night
at the old Sledge hotel as we journey
ep from Boston to Georgia in a car
riage. We went to Boston by sea from
Savannah, but came back all the way
by land in a private carriage and never
crossed a railroad. There was none to
cross. My next visit was eleven years
later, when I came to enter the sopho
more class. Two mules at tandem
pulled our little car from Union Point
forty miles to Athens. There were
common passengers below and a score
of uncommon ones on top, for they
were college boys, and as such pre
ferred to ride high, just as college
boys do now. With what fear and
trembling we went through the exam
ination that was to determine our fate
whether we were fitten to enter or
only fitten to get fitten.
It was a thfllling and momentous
ordeal, but we survived it. What
awful majesty appeared in. Dr. Church’s
classic features and in theqnick glances
of his dark and piercing eyes. He was
from New Englanrl, and after he came
south married a sister of our Judge
Trippe, a beautiful woman and the
mother of five of the most beautiful
daughters ever seen in one family.
They were queenly. These yunkee
school teachers all mated with our
southern girls and didn’t mind owning
a few negroes any more than so many
horses or cows, especially if they came
with the wife’s patrimony. Old Judge
Warren got his that way, but it cut
him off from his yankee relations.
Nathaniel Beman was another distin
guished yankee teacher, but whether
he became a slave owner or not I hate
not learned.
My father was a yankee school
teacher, but didn’t get any slaves by
marriage. He bought some, however,
iand that created a coolness among his
[northern kindred. It took those yan
|kees a long time to acquiesce in slav
ery unless they came down south. Old
Bill Seward tried to marry a Putnam
Bounty girl who had about a hundred,
Bnd because she wouldn’t have him he
Bent back north and raised a howl
■>out slavery. Josiali Mei.ggs, another
Hpnnectirut yankee and a grandson of
■eturn Jonathan Meiggs, was the first
of this college and held bis
Hre for twelve years. T think that
§■ too, married a southern girl —a
of Governor John Forsyth. Next
Moses Waddell, an educator of
renown.
|Hs married a sister of John C. Cal
and educated him and Legare
and other notable- men
he became president. After
BHHLg had for his pupil many of the
of Georgia, in.-ln Stc
Ho-.veil f’ohh. John-
HH-ort'i- I'ierc*. an " ti.o <rs wfi •• and“
HHm- were giants in those -my-.
say there are just ic- great
but so more
' that they have b-eome
|Hr and do not attract so much '-tten-
Maybe so- -yev. msvbe so.
poet says, “T feel like one who
Heads alone some banquet ball de
parted," and so do T when viewing
Pthese classic halls and meandering in
the shade of these classic trees. All
of my preceptors save one have passed
over the river.
All my col lege-mates save pei'haps a
.dozen have followed them, and if
■Lvedenborg divined the future state
they are going to school
again in another world. Home of
them who were dear to me have left
children or grandchildren who greet
me kindly for their father’s sake.
Fond memory recalls the Churches,
Dawsons, Ferrells, Howards and Bol
ing Stovall, whom I loved, aud there
was the gentle Henry Timrod, who
was as lovable ns a timid school girl.
How often did we see him brushing
the dew from off the upland lawn
alone or taking his evening strolls
without a companion, but always kind
and gentle. AVe little dreamed that
he was even then nursing poetic
thoughts aud breathing the sweef
harmonies of nature. Poor boy. How
our hearts bleed for him when
long after we learned of his sufferings
and his sorrows.
Where now are the solid men of
Athens who gave it character and dig
nity as they moved among their peo
ple? Where is Lumpkin and the
Cobbs, the Hulls and Mortons and
Thomtises? Where the Newtons and
AI bon Chase aud John W. Burke,
whose marriage I attended? Where
is Pr. Nathan Hoyt and Dr. Reese
and Dr. Crawford Long, the discoverer
of anesthesia? Where are all the sweet
girls who sang in the choirs of the
churches and did not veil their faces
from ns as we sat in the gallery and
feasted upon their beauty? It is said
that a song outlives a sermon, and so
those sweet girl singers still live in
memory, though the preachers’ elo
quence was soon forgotten.
Aud where is old Sam, the janitor,
who rang the college bell and kept our
secrets and brought us ’possum and
'lnters and other luxuries by niglit
after the tutors had gone on their
grand rounds and all was quiet oil the
Oconee? Where is Hansel, the baker,
from whom we purchased ice cream or
cakes for our evening walks,and where
are all the pretty girls we used to meet
or passed on the way to Cohhmn? I
remember that it was here I first saw
and heard Toombs aud Stephens, Will
iam C. Dawson and the Doughertys
and Bishops Pierce and Elliott aud
other eloquent statesmen and divines.
These men were my ideals—my stand
ard of southern manhood, honor and
intellect, and it grieves me to believe
that the standard has been lowered
since the close of the civil war.
I am no pessimist, but it is easy
to see that methods and means
are tolorated now that were
not then—methods in the fo
rum, in the legislative halls, in poli
tics, in business and in the pulpit.
But still there is much good that has
come along witn tne naff and in every
town and city aud community there
arc more good men and women than
Abraham could find in Sodom. Athens
is still the central seat of art and learn
ing, of good morals and good manners,
and the pride of our state, and that cit
izen is not to be envied whose love of
learning and whose reverence for his
toric virtue does not gain force as he
ponders upon her history of a hundred
yearß.— Bill Akp, in Atlanta Consti
tution.
extra session probable.
(’resident McKinley May Fall Congress
Together Next Fall.
There is a growing belief among
prominent members of congress that
the president will call congress to
meet in extraordinary session this
fall, probably early in October.
The questions which will come be
fore the next congress for settlement,
including as they do, everything grow
ing out of our possessions acquired as
u result of the war with Spain, and
the general legislation including that
relating to currency reform, the Nica
ragua canal, merchant marine, etc.,
are of such great importance that the
president is inclined to regard it as
advisable that congress should meet
earlier than the regular session in De
cember in order to get the work under
way.
KICK AGAINST MORMONS.
CaattMiiDoga Minlater. Protest Against
Their Meeting In Auditorium.
The first public Mormon meeting
ever held in Chattanooga assembled
Sunday night in the city auditorium.
The public was invited. Addresses
were made by the two apostles who
were attending ths conference of pres
idents of the southern mission beng
held in the city.
Some little excitement has been cre
ated because of a protest made by some
of the Christian ministers against the
city authorities for allowing the city’s
auditorium to be used for this pur
pose.
REINA MERCEDES IS READY.
Kesctied Spanish Cruiser la In Condition
to Be Towed North.
A Santiago dispatch says: The for
mer Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes,
which was sunk in the channel of San
tiago harbor during the bombardment
by Admiral Sampson’s fleet, on June
6th, and which was recently raised
pumped out and brought to that ci
for repairs, left her moorings Frida
aud was towed to the center of the ha
bor in readiness to start for Newpoi
News as soou as the towboat arrive
DEWEY IN GOOD HEALTH.
Surgeon Page, of tlie Olympia, Say* A<l
miral Ih In Splendid Condition.
On the steamship City of Peking,
just arrived at Sun Francisco, from
China and Japan, was Dr. E. Page,
passed assistant surgeon,United States
navy, and surgeon on the flagship
Olympia for the past year and a half.
He makes the following statement re
gar.ling Admiral Dewey’s health:
“Admiral Dewey is in perfect health.
He lias not been more than t'Venty
aisles away from Manila since theVir.-t
day of la“t may.” \
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PRES I DEN NT APPROVES FINDING
AND MATTER IS MADE PUBLIC.
GEN. MILES SEVERELY CRITICISED..
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Qeiinntl Fagan and Other Prominent De*
partiupiit.Officer* Also Come In
For an Extensive “Roast.”
Bv direction of the president, who
approves the findings, Acting (Secre
tary of War Mieklejohn has made pul,
lie the report an.t findings of the mil
itary court appointed to investigate
the charges made by Major General
Miles, commanding the army, that the
beef supplied to the army during the
war with Spain was unfit for the use
of the troops.
The most important features of the
report are:
The finding that the general’s alle
gations that the refrigerated beef was
treated with chemicals were not estab
lished; that his allegations concerning
the canned fresh or canned roast beef
were sustained as to its unsuitability
for food as used on the transports and
as a long continued field rntion; cen
sure of General Miles for “error” in
failing to promptly notify the secretary
of war when he first formed the opin
ion that the food was unfit; censure of
the commissary general (then General
Engau) for the two extensive purchase
of the canned beef as an untried ra
tion; censure of Colonel Mans, of gen
eral staff; the finding that the packers
were not at fault, and that the meats
supplied to the army were of the same
quality as those supplied to the trade
generally, and the recommendation
that no further proceedings will be
taken in the proceedings.
The conclusion of the conrt adverse
to further proceedings based upon the
charges is as follows:
“It has been developed in the course
of the inquiry as recited in this report
that in some instances some individ
uals failed to Rerve the proprieties
which dignify high military command,
but the court is of the opinion that
the mere statement in the official re
port of the facts developed meets the
cuds of discipline, and that the inter
ests of the service will be best sub
served if further proceedings ho not
taken.”
There is more or less criticism of
General Miles in various parts of the
report. Probably the most direot, in
stance is the one which states that be
yond the criticism of officers found
elsewhere in the report, saying:
“The court finds that against none
of tlie officers commanding corps divi
sions, brigades and regiments and
their staff' officers should a charge of
guilty be brought.
“The court also finds that the major
general commanding the army had ne
sufficient justification for alleging that
the refrigerated beef was embalmed or
was unfit for issue to troops.
The censure of Colonel Mans, in
spector general of General Mile’s staff,
is based upon his failure to cull atten
tion to charges concerning the beef at
Chiekamauga contained in a report of
inspection made by Dr. (or Major) Da
ly, on the 26th of October last, in
which he states his belief that the beef
was chemically treated.
“The silence of Colonel Mans,” says
the court, “on so important a matter
as the chemicalized beef reported by
Major Daly and personally known to
himself, is most remarkable.”
The remark is also made that Gen
eral Miles’ failure to draw special at
tention to this report is “unex
plained.”
The report places the quantity of
canned ronst beef purchased for the
war by the commissary department at
6,847,174 pounds, including 350,006
which was brought from Liverpool and
other English ports.
This amount is characterized as ex
cessive and the commissary general
(General Eagan) is severely criticized
in several parts of the document on
this score.
One of the several rebukes is as fol
lows:
“Condering the little use that has
been made of this beef in the regular
army, the probability that the volun
teers were entirely ignorant of it that
its use as a part of the field ration had
never been sanctioned by the presi
dent or secretary of war, the conrt can
but characterize the action of the com
missary general of subsistence as un
warranted and reckless in that he or
dered the purchase of such enormous
quantities of food that was practically
untried and unknown, and the court
so finds. The court find* that there ia
no ground for any imputation what
ever of any other actuating motive on
the part of the commissary general
than the earnest desire to proenre the
best possible food for the troops.
“The conrt pronounces this act of
the general of subsistence a colossal
error for which there is no palliation.”
MICHIGAN HAS INCOME TAX.
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State Senate Paafte* Bill Taxing All In
come* Above SI.OOO.
The Michigan senate has passed an
income tax of one-fourth of one per
cent, on all incomes of SI,OOO and up
ward. Originally the bill applieff on-
Iv to persons, but an amen day**
makes it applj to all .cpruagtat.
w ithin the state. #
It is estimp’ ** '*•*
the hoM'
si~r I