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Epitomized Items of Inter ext
Gathered at Random.
.Arp's Letters for President.
J-i evident Roosevelt has been pre¬
sented with a copy of Bill Ai p's let¬
ters to Lincoln, the presentation be¬
ing made by Congressman Adamson
in response to the president's ex
pressed wish to road the Arp let¬
ters.
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Christmas Money for Teachers.
The December aportlonment ot the
J9(i0 state school fund was made a
few dayv i go by State School Com¬
missioner Merritt and warrants ag¬
gregating $211,099.32 were drawn upon
the state treasurer with which to
make the payments.
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Reward for Barn Burners.
Governor Terrell has offered a re¬
ward of $150 for the unknown person
or persons who set fire to and burned
the barn of Smith Brothers at Con¬
cord a few days ago. Smith Bros,
have also offered a reward of $100
for the arrest of the guilty parties,
making total rewards of $250 in this
cast;.
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Cotton Mill for McDonough.
A petition has been filed in the of¬
fice of the clerk of the superior court
at McDonough by a number of local
capitalists, seeking to be Incorporated
as the McDonough cotton mills. The
capital stock proposed is $200,000. As
soon as the charter can bo granted,
they will begin the erection of a cot
ton mill.
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Governor Thanks President.
Governor Terrell has sent a tele¬
gram of thanks and appreciation to
President Roosevelt upon his nomi¬
nation of Mrs. W. V. Atkinson, wid¬
ow of Georgia’s late governor, to be
postmistress at Newnan. It has been
generally believed for some time that
this nomination would he made, but
the official step was not taken untw
last Saturday.
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Captain Lindsey Reappointed.
I wf 'Ut‘“ • la^’o*WllllllrlfcllMll«IMl»W»% T . ,> '*^"
count| TyWif , jeu reappointed by
Governor as pension commis¬
sioner for h term of three years from
December 16, 1905.
This is the beginning of Captain
Lindsey’s third term as pension com¬
missioner, he having served six years
There were six or eight applicants
for the position besides Captain Lind¬
sey, but most of them had practically
withdrawn from the race, cutting
down the opposition.
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In Watery Grave Twelve Months.
After having been In the water for
twelve months, the body of Engineer
Elijah Pate, of Albany, who was
killed at the Columbia, Ala., draw
bridge on the night of December 20,
1904. has been recovered at Apalach¬
icola, Fia.
There were three men on (he en¬
gine which went through the open
draw bridge into the Chattahoochee
river. The remains of Fireman
Bates and Supernumerary Engineer
Dobbins were recovered after a few
wuoks, but the remains of Engineer
Pate drifted to the sea, where the
body was found. It was positively
identified and Interred at Albany.
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Contract Let for Reformatory.
The contract for the erection of the
state juvenile reformatory, at Mil
ledgeville, has been awarded to Me
Mllllan & Sons, Mliledgevllle contrac¬
tors. The cost of the building is not
to oxcede $10,000, the sum appropri¬
ated by the legislature, and a part-of
the work will be done by the state.
The prison commission and a repre¬
sentative of the firm of contractors
finally agreed upon terms after a
lengthy conference. The actual bid
of the firm was $12,900, but this was
lowered, after all bids had been re¬
jected. The bids were as follows: \V.
W. Griffin, Atlanta. $18,595; S. R.
ltaj lies, Shady dale. $21,509.32; E. B
Fitts. Atlanta. $14,369.55; McMillian
A- Sons, Milledgeville, $12,900; M. J.
Beeland. Macon, $12,767.
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Tate and Johnson Confirmed.
A Washington dispatch is as foi
lows; The senate by unanimous vote,
confirmed the nominations of Hon. F.
<\ '1 ate to be district attorney and
Bod. Walter H. Johnson to be mar
shal for the northern district of Geor¬
gia.
No republican members opposed
Mr. Tate either in the judiciary com¬
mittee or in the senate. Those who
were disposed at first to couple his
appointment with those of two other
democrats to whose nomination they j
object evidently came to the conclu¬
sion taut this would be unfair to Mr. ;
Tate, and all joined in supporting hit
confirmation when presented by Sen¬
ator Bacon, a member of the commit¬ !
tee reporting the nomination.
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Sweeping Order Against Union.
An important decision, as affecting
the right of labor unions to interfere
with concerns employing labor, was
that contained In the granting t>v
Judge Pendleton in Fuiton superior
court of an injunction against the
Atlanta Lodge No. 1 of the Interna¬
tional Association of Machinists,
brought by E. P. Kern, manager of
the Southern Iron and Equipment
company.
In the order restraining the union,
Judge Pendleton restrains it not only
from intimidation or threats, but even
from persuasion, as far as it concerns
the non-employed by the Southern
iron and Equipment company and the
organized machinists.
it also forbids members or officers
of this union from entering the prem¬
ises of the plaintiff company for ttie
purpose of intimidating or persuading
the men at work there.
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Summer School Will Be Heid.
Despite the fact that the legisla¬
ture at its last session omitted from
the general appropriations bill the
usual $5,000 for the summer normal
school at the state university at Ath¬
ens, State School Commissioner Mer¬
ritt will advise the directors of the
summer school to go ahead with it
as heretofore, in the belief that it
(A was purely an oversight on the part
tho legislature and that the omis¬
sion will be made good at the next
session.
This appropriation was included in
the budget made up by the trustees
of the state university and presented
to the general appropriations commit¬
tee, but it does not appear in the bill
as originally introduced, nor is there
any amendment relating to it that
was w r a.s either adopted or defeated.
Honors for Georgia Boy.
Lieutenant Clark Howell Woodward,
son of Colonel Park Woodward of
Atlant* has again been honored by
the navy department ot the govern¬
ment.
Lieutenant v:rn dy ’’-ft, torijaspa ’’
•• f.n, '*•«-«.rr -roe reM p
catur, now with the Asfcmc squSfefc
has been promoted to command of
the entire torpedo boat flotilla of that
squadron. The boats under his com
mund are the Bainbridge, Decatur,
Barry, Chauncey and Dale.
Lieutenant Woodward is still quite
young, having graduated from the
boys’ high school in Atlanta In 1891.
He received his commissioner as an
officer in the navy during the Spanish
Amerlcan war, through which he
served on the Brooklyn with Admiral
Schley and has since made rapid
rises.
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Plans for Atlanta Exposition.
By a unanimous vote of the com
mltteo of twenty-five prominent citi¬
zens the report of the sub-committee,
submitting a plan for the most gigan¬
tic southern exposition ever held at
a cost of many million dollars, was
adopted at a meeting held In the of¬
fices of the Atlanta chamber of com¬
merce and the actual work of rais¬
ing the guarantee fund of $500,000 has
begun.
The report provides briefly for the
holding of an exposition in 1910, the
gates to be open from April 15 to No
vember 30, and suggests the forma¬
tion of a corporation with $500,ooO
capital stock to be subscribed by the
people at $10 a share. Every large
manufacturer and employer of labor
will be expected to assemble his men
and lay before them the plan and
scope of the exposition and ask tnat
they contribute a week's wages once a
year for four years. From the city,
state, county and utility corporations
additional donations are expected,
which together with the plaht at
-Piedmont park, will aggregate $1,500
000. This added to the $500,000 from
subscriptions will give a fund of $2,
000,000 on which to start the exposi¬
tion and with this fund in hand the
United States government will be ask¬
ed for not less than $1,000,000.
Pardons For Life Term Men.
j Shell Cochran of Campbell coun
ly, who has been serving a life sen
tence in the penitentiary for the mur
der of a negro named Sterling
rhempson. has been recommended by
the prison commission for pardon,
and the case will be passed on by
Governor Terrell. Cochran was one
of the four nien indicted for the mur¬
der of Thompson, and is the only one
remaining in the penitentiary. The
crime was committed in the latter
part of 1900.
The prison commission also sent
t0 lh t governor a rteoauen lation
for or nmutation to present service or
he spate ace of Robert George of
Ooi'.gf county, cue of the famous
penitentiary Eastrjmn rioters, who has been in tlm
since 1882, or more than
twenty-three years. a young white
man was murdered as the result of
inis riot and five of the par ieipants
in the crime w are hanged.
R . 1 . Channel! of Montgomery
county, who was convicted cf murder
and sentenced to life imprisonment,
was likewise recommended by the
commission for commutatino—«a pres¬
ent service. Chanhell was depot
agent at Glenwood, where he shot and
killed ^Postmaster W. H. T hompson
boca’Useof alleged intimacj&f if Thomp
son with Channell’s wife,
In addition to the foreBdng the
commission also recommended com¬
mutation to present service in the caso
of Dave Roberts of Bartow county,
who was sentenced in 18981 to life im¬
prisonment for the murdef of a man
named Casey.
ANOTHER BILL AIMED A? SOUTH.
Measure Introduced in MB e Calls for a
Cut in Represent on.
In the bouse Thursday*Representa¬
tive Bennett of New York introduced
a bill to cut down the representation
of southern states disfranchibiment in longress be¬
cause of the of the
negro vote. The bill reduces the en¬
tire number of representatives from
386 to 351.
The several states woTild have their
delegations bama reduced io a.s ^follows: Ala¬
from nine five; Arkansas
from seven to five; Flotilla from throe
to two; Georgia from woven to six;
Louisiana from seven tnreei b fotlir; Mis¬
sissippi from eight to North
Carolina from seven tr thr/ee; Ten¬
nessee from ten to eigh-,; T/exas from
ten to eight; Virginia freim ten te
seven.
STANDARD OIL ROASTED BY HOCH.
Governor of Kansas Declares State is
Robbed ot $60,000 Every Day.
Governor Hoch, speaking at Otta¬
wa, Kas., Tuesday night at a meet¬
ing of republicans, said;
“At this time the Kansas oil field
Is yielding 60,000 Ms a day, and
fp r + hig oil TftnM’*' f Oil com
- J paying
t. paid a
t £>■ I believe® could pay $1
per rel for this c, more than it
is payiig, make #
and still a large prof¬
it. Toother words, it is robbing this
people of $60,000 a day, or $2U,oou,
000 aj year.
“We sit supinely down while we are
being robbed of enough money every
day ly this corporation to build a
hundrbd homes for the homeless, or to
rear {j great educational institution or
pay al the expenses ol the state tor
five years.”
PRUDENTIAL'S CAMPAIGN DONATIONS
And the Controversy Between Ryan and
Harrimon Revealed to Investigators.
'he testimony of United States Sen¬
ate r Drydeu, president of the Pruden
tiai Life Insurance company, that his
company made contributions aggregat¬
ing $26,000 to the republican national
committee in 1S96, 1900 and 1904, and
the evidence of Thomas F. Ryan as
to what E. H. Harriman did and
threatened to do when he demanded
that Mr. Ryan concede to him a
share lr. the control of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society last June were
the features of the Insurance inves¬
tigation at Now York Tuesday.
MANGLED in POWDER EXPLOSION.
Elv« Men Blown to Atoms at Dupont Worl
Near Birmingham, Ain.
The mixing house of the Dupor
Powder company, near Boyles, elgt
miles north of Birmingham, Ala
were accidentally blown up at 11 :c
o'clock Wednesday morning, instantl
killing five workmen.
The force of the explosion wa
fearful, and was felt for miles aroum
while the noise was heard In Bi
mingham. The victims were blow
to atoms, particles of their bodies b.
ing found In tree tops, a long di
tance from the scene of the dlsaste
many lmpioyi es Washington.
District ol Columbia Register Cor tains the
Ndcies ol 25,481 People.
The official register of the United
, States, ‘ The Blue Book," which is
about to be issued, gives a recapitu¬
lation of the employes in the differ¬
ent departments, the government prin
ting offices and the departments of
the District of Columbia, showing a
•otal of 25.4S1 persons In the service
n the city of Washington receiving
in aggregate compensation of $27.-
143.709.
C.-ir.EV.'D SCHEMES CF ANIMALS.
Crvices Which Shew They Come Pret¬
ty Close to Thinking.
They were talking about instinct in
animals. "I saw an exhibition of
gieediness and cunning by a horse,”
s-.id one of them. “There were two
old dirt wagon horses that had
stopped for the noon meal. The driv¬
er bad emptied a portion of oats into
a wheelbarrow set at the head of the
two horses, who still remained in the
traces. The horses were to eat out of
the common mess.
“Old Mr. Bay Horse, who evidently
was a veteran in the dirt wagon line
and possessor of a good appetite,
would grab a mouthful of oats and
splutter them out on the ground on
his side of the wheelbarrow. After
he had collected quite a pile on the
ground he commenced on the common
stock, and when he and his compan¬
ion had cleaned out the wheelbarrow
old Mr. Bay Horse turned to his priv¬
ate store on the ground, while his
companion, from the other side of the
wagon pole, looked hungrily on, but
could do nothing.’
“I was traveling in the mosquito
country last month,” said the other,
“and the mosquitos were terrible.
They attacked cattle and live stock
and would drive them frantic. At one
place a farmer was burning brush in
the field, and I noticed a dozen cows
and Horses clustered in the lee of the
smoke made by the burning brush.
They would move around as the wind
shifted, always keeping in the smoke
drift, where, of course, no mosquito
could live. And the animals stood
with closed eyes, too.”
A Ouarante.il Care for files,
Itching, Blind, Bleeding. Protruding Til's.
Druggists are authorized to refund money it
Pazo Ointment fails to cure in 0 to Hdays.oOe.
Celery is the cultivated variety ot the
English weed, smaliage.
Mr. Tellus, of Detroit.
Patrolman Auberlin said the pris¬
oner was a vagrant and the judge
began the examination.
“What’s your name?” asked the
,
court.
“Tellus.”
“Tell you?”
“No, Tell-us.”
Oh, I see,” replied the judge, al¬
though he looked very much perturb¬
ed and it was plain to see that he
did not see at all.
“What’s your first name?” he
ventured.
“Tellus.”
“Oh. I see. What’s your last name
ateaih.-’”' “ ’ ■ -
“Ttfilus.''
The judge pulled his mustache
very hard and glared.
“Say,” he sputtered, “why don’t
you tell us? What’s the answer?”
“Tellus Tellus, that's my full
name,” repeated the prisoner.
Then he worte it out as follows;
“Tellus Tellus.”
Tellus explained that he was a
deck hand out of work, and the
court advised him to get out and
hustle for a job.—Chicago Inter
Ocean.
To Cure a Cold lu One Day
Take Laxative Bromo QuiDine Tablets.
Druggists AY. refund money if it fails to cure. E.
Grove’s signature on each box. 25e.
Valuable dogs are often vaccinated nowa¬
days.
A Teetotaler.
A woman who not long ago was in¬
troduced to the venerable Susan B.
Anthony, asked Miss Anthony if she
was not a believer in total abstinence.
“Well,” said Miss Anthony, with a
pleasant smile, ‘‘I am a worker for the
cause of temperance; but I am no
bigot. Your question reminds me of
a story that I once heard about Robert
Bonner the publisher.
“It appears that when some ona
asked him if he was a teetotaler, he
replied: 'I should not call myself one.
I had a glass of sherry when I came
to New York in 1844.”’—The Sunday
Magazine.
A PERFECT SHAME.
"I see the Chicago packers claim
that they have been tricked and de¬
ceived by Government detectives.”
“So?”
“Yes.”
"Well, any one who would trick
and deceive a Chicago packer ought
to be harshly dealt with.”
HER SPECIALTY.
"Miss Cutting is very observing.”
“Yes indeed! She never overlooks a
flaw.”—Detroit Free Press.
TWO OF THEM.
“How do you like the chicken salad,
Mr. Kidder?” asked Mrs. Starvem.
“Oh! that reminds me!” exclaimed
Kidder “I bought a book that was to
be sent home today. Did it come?”
"Yes, the book came, but how did
the chicken salad remind you of it?”
“Well, the book is half calf.’’—
Philadelphia Press.
FAIRLY ROLLED IN IT.
"Our office boy dropped into poetry
yesterday.”
“How was that?”
“The literary editor kicked him in¬
to the waste basket.”—Cleveland
Leader.
Rifle F.ange in Church Vaults.
Lord Roberts cn Saturday descended
the extensive vaults beneath the
churchyard of St. Martin’s-in-the
Fields, Westminster, and there open¬
ed a new tube rifle range, which has
been constructed for the Westminster
City Council Rifle Club. The length,
of this curiously situated range is
twenty-five yards—the equivalent of
an ordinary range of 200 yards.
Lord Roberts said his daughter and
several cf his staff in India began
their -shooting with a pea-rifle in a
ballroom, and his staff officers devel¬
oped into extraordinary good shots.-^
London Daily Express.
FTT*b* lem-i-iae' 1 T. '~r\ A Iq qrqqrmq.
first <lav’a of "Dr. 7 Clin«*«; Great
KerveBestor^r,*2trUIbottloaml treatise free
lr.H. P. J\i t>*f. I Ul.. f PI A rob Ft..PMln.,Pa
Tbonv»s TV^e is tlie new Premier of
South Australia.
U. rr . Gr^.KX’s pnvq. Of Atlanta. G**. t *re
thf on\y T^ronsv c 'T*ecialistR in the
worhl. their liberal ofTor in advertise
Trent in another enlnmn this ojme-.
A cb'Wpn’a branch of the Xorth India
I>ib]e Society has been formed.
PUn’s Cnrftfor ronantTinPonls an infallible
medicine for couehs and cold*.—W,
Samukt,, 0' , e , io r rrova. N. T.. Feb. 17 1900.
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The railway companies of England and
Wales employ 312,000 men.
Tt<-»b cured in 30 minutes by IVoolford’s
Panit.arv Lo ion; never fails. Sold by
PrwTgis^P. Mail orders promptly filled
by Dr. Detcbon, CrawfordsviHe, Ind. $1.
land, Two bought street peddlers horse in Bradford, Eng¬
a for $11.25.
Cures Blood, Skin Troubles, Cancer, Blood
Poison. Greatest Blood Purifier Free.
If your blood is impure, thin, diseased,
hot or full of humors, if you have blood
poison, cancer, carbuncles, eating sores,
scrofula, eczema, itching, risings and lumps,
scabby, pimply skin, bone pains, catarrh,
rheumatism, or any blood or skin disease,
take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) accord¬
ing to directions. Soon all sores heal,
aches and pairs stop, the blood is made
pure and r^h, h aving the skin free from
every eruption, and giving the rich glow of
perfect health to the skin. At the same
time B. B. B. improves the digestion, cures
dyspepsia, strengthens weak kidneys. Just
the medicine for old people, as it gives
them new, vigorous blood. Druggists, $1
per large bottle, with directions for home
cure. Sample free and prepaid by Describe writing
Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga.
trouble and special free medical advice
also sent in sealed letter. B. B. B. is es¬
pecially advised for chronic, deep-seated
cases of impure blood and skin disease,
and cures after all else fails.
The earliest known cook book
printed in Venice in 1475.
AN AWFUL SKIN HUMOR
Covered fered Head, Agony Neck For Twenty-FIve xi-i. jp
Until Cured by Cuticura.
"For twenty-five years 1 suffered agony
from a terrible humor, completely covering
my head, neck and shoulders, discharging
matter of such offensivenegs to sight and
smell that I became an object of dread. I
consulted the most able doctors far and
near, to no avail. Then I got Cuticura,
and in a surprisingly short time I was com¬
pletely cured. I advise all those suffering
from skin humors to get Cuticura and end
their misery at once. S. P. Keyes, 149
Congress Street, Boston, Mass.”
The only Englishman who ever became
Pope was Adrian IV.
now’. Thu ?
Wo offer One Hundred Dollars Beward for
any ease of Catarrh that oannot he cured bv
Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him
tions perfectly honorable in all business transae
and financially able to carry out anv
obligations made by their firm.
West & Tbcax, Wholesale Druggists. To¬
Walking, ledo, O.
Kinxan & Mabvin, Wholesale
Hall’s Druggists, Toledo, O.
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act¬
ing directly upon the blood and mucuous sur¬
faces of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Piles, 75c. per bottlo. Sold by ail Druggists.
Take Hall’s Family Fills for constipation.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are annu¬
ally spent in advertising.
Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum
•nd Mullen is Nature’s great remedy—Cures
Coughs, Colds, Croup and Consumption,
and all throat and lung troubles. At drug¬
gists, 25c., 60c. and *1.00 per bottle.
FAIRY TALES.
“Tell us a fairy story, papa, tell us
a fairy story,” vociferated the chil¬
dren.
SEVEN YEARS ACO
A Rochester Chemist Found a Singularly
Effective Medicine.
William A. Franklin, of the Franklin
& Fulmer Chemical Co., Rochester, N.
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N“ M . M ‘ - - 1—way; a
exerted myself in the least degree. At
times I was weighed down with a feel¬
ing of languor and depression and suf¬
fered continually from annoying irreg¬
ularities of the kidney secretions. I
procured a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills
and began using them. I found prompt
relief from the aching and lameness
in my back, and by the time I had
taken three boxes I was cured of all
irregularities.”
Sold by all dealers; 50 cents a box.
Fostcr-Miiburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
Y., writes:
"Seven years ago
I was suffering very
much through the
failure of the kid¬
neys to eliminate
the uric acid from
my system. My
back was very lame
and ached