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GEORGIA NEWS!
Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Hay Leaver Thomasville.
Secretary Hay left Thomasville last
Saturday morning at 6 c’cock via the
Atlantic Coast Line to resume his du
ties in 'Washington. The secretary
1 renounces the climate of Thomasviiie
second to none in the south. His
health is greatly improved by lils stay
among the pines.
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Sanitarium for Hawkinsvilla.
A movement is on foot to establish
in Hawkinsville a modern, first-class
sanitarium by a certain well known
physicians of Pulaski county. The
sanitarium will be fitted up with elec
trical and modern appliances and wil!
prove a boon to the people of this
section and to Hawkinsville.
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Inspection Orders Issued.
General orders No. 2, relating to the
coming annual inspection of state
troops, have been issued from the of
fice of Adjutant General S. W. Harris.
These orders call attention to the de
tail of Major F. H. French, of the Six
teenth infantry, to inspect the Georgia
troops, and his inspection will be made
at the same time as that by "Colonel
W. G. Obear, inspector general.
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Fruit Growers to Meet.
The Fruit Growers’ Association of
the state will meet in Valdosta Febru
ary 18-19.
It is expected that the session will
be one of the largest attended in the
history of the organization. Rates of
one and one-third fare have been
granted on all the railroads. The com
mittee is already busy preparing for
them and the growers are getting their
orchards into first-class order for in
spection.
Little “Georgia Magnet’' Arrested.
Annie Abbott, the “Georgia Mag
net,” and heroine in a number of sen
sational episodes, has been under ar
rest in New York city, where she is
appearing at a theatre in a vaudeville
turn. The “Georgia Magnet” is
charged with purloining jewels to the
value of $12,000 from Mrs. F. C. Bay
ler, of vvaterbury, Conn., the home of
the watches. Her manager, Theodore
N Abbott, also well know r n in Georgia,
was arrested at the same time. Both
have been released on bond.
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More Money is Needed.
If Georgia is to have a building at
the coming St. Louis exposition, such
as has been proposed, considerably
more money than has already been
subscribed will have to be saised.
This fact is developed in a report
made a day or two ago to Governor
Terrell by the active members of the
Georgia commission for the Louisiana
Purchase exposition. This report shows
that less than $9,000 has been sub
scribed so far, while nearly $30,000 is
needed to carry out the plans in view.
The subscriptions up to the present
time have coble practically altogether
from the part of the state,
with the exception of one or two from
middle Georgia.
* * *
Call to Democratic Committee.
The state democratic executive com
mittee has been called by Chairman E.
T. Brown to meet in Atlanta on Mon
day. February 29, at 11 o’clock a. m.
The date of the meeting is compara
tively an early one. Two years ago
the committee met on March 29, a
month later, and in 1900 the meeting
wap held March 17.
When asked about the date Chair
man Brown said:
“Everybody seems anxious to know
when the committee is going to fix the
date for the primary, and there ap
pears to be no reason why the matter
should cot be settled without any great
delay.
“But my particular reason for select
ing February 29 for the meeting of
the committee is that it is the fifth
Monday in the month, a date on which
it will be more convenient for most of
the out-of-town members to be present,
because there are usually no courts
fixed for that day."
Pulaski Farmers Plant Tobacco.
The culture of tobacco on a large
scale has begun in Pulaski county. J.
T. Jones, who lives a few miles south
of Hawkinsville, is now preparing to
plant 6 or 8 acres of the weed. Ho
has already sown his bed of the long
leaf variety.
Mr. Jones has interested with him
in this project an experienced tobacco
raiser from North Carolina, who expe
rimented very successfully on Pulaski
county lands last year. Mr. Jones says
he can clear more money on eigth
acres of tobacco at less expense than
he can on fifteen acres of cotton at
10 cents average.
Other farmers around him also an
nounce their intention of taking up
the tobacco culture at once.
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Wants Change in Law.
Governor Terrell will, in his next
message to the general assembly rec
ommend that some provision be made
for legislators to serve during the in
terim which exists between October
and June, because if there should be
an extra session of the legislature, or
if the governor should die between Oc
tober, when the elections are held, and
next June, when the general assembly
meets, there would be no one to take
the governor’s place.
The constitution of the state, in par
agraph 1, section 4, article 2, says:
“Members of the general assembly
Bhall be elected for a term of two
years and shall serve until their suc
cessors are elected.”
If the legislature adjourns in June
and their successors elected next Oc
tober, then the members of the pres
ent legislature, according to the con
stitution, are out of office. If the gov
ernor should die between October and
June, under present conditions there
would be no successor, as the presi
dent of the senate would no longer be
president for reason that his term as
senator expired when his successor as
senator was chosen at the general elec
tion.
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“Cunjer” Doctor Gave Arsenic.
After making a thorough analysis of
the stomach of Sarah Mann, a negress
of Ellington, Clayton county, suspected
of having been poisoned, Dr. Edgar
Everhart, of the Southern College of
Pharmacy, of Atlanta, has reported to
the authorities there that unmistaka
ble traces of arsenic had been discov
ered.
Charles Mann, the husband of the
deceased, Bob Middlebrook and George
Shaw, all negroes, have been held in
the Clayton county jail awaiting the
result of the investigation. The Mann
woman died a few days ago under sus
picious circumstances, and the coroner
insisted upon an investigation and sent
the body to Dr .Everhart for analysis.
According to report, Mann and Mid
dlebrook were suspected of having in
duced Shaw, who pose 3 as a sort of
negro “conjure” doctor, to poison the
Mann woman. It also seems that
Shaw had been suspected of similar
practice on former occasions.
The story told by the negroes is
that the woman was suffering from
some kind of nain, and the conjure
doctor gave her a drink of whisky. Her
death followed in a few Hours. In the
qualitative analysis that followed un
mistakable signs of arsenic poisoning
were found, and the charge of murder
against the three negroes is expected
to follow. Otherwise the stomach was
found to be in a normal condition.
Does Not Affect Georgia.
The decision of the supreme court of
the United States in the case of South
Dakota vs. North Carolina, where it is
held that the bonds of North Carolina
must be paid by that state will have no
effect on the bonds which the state of
Georgia repudiated about twenty years
ago.
When the announcement of the de
cision was made it w'as understood
that Georgia could be made liable and
forced to pay the bonds which had
been repudiated by the Georgia legis
lature.
In the North Carolina case the state
was owner of a majority of the stock
in the North Carolina railroad, which
stock had been pledged as security for
bonds issued. The people buying the
bonds presented ten of them to the
state of South Dakota to be used for
educational purposes, and South Da
kota filed suit in the United States
court to collect the money for the
bonds, the North Carolina officials
claiming that they had never been
asked to pay for them.
The supreme court held in its de
cision that che railroad could be sold
to pay for the bonds. Governor Ter
rell states that the decision would not
apply to Georgia, because the sover
eignty of the state was involved when
it repudiated its bonds years ago,
while the state of North Carolina own
ed a controlling interest in the rail
road which had issued the bonds. The
bonds repudiated by Georgia were not
secured by any personal property of
the state.
REYES COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT.
Special Envoy to United States is Signally
Honored bv His Countrymen.
A private dispatch received in
Washington from Eeuna Ventura a«f
nounces that General Reyes was elect
ed president of Colombia on February
2. Gonzales-Valencia was elected vice
president.
General Reyes, who is still in New
York, said he had received unofficial
information that he had been elected
president of Colombia on the date
named.
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|ir« Constipation is nothing more i£Ll
US than a clogging of the bowels rang
and nothing less than vital stag
jk nation or death if not relieved. *
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jgj poisonous filth to remain in his I
H system, he would soon get relief, fa
H Constipation invites all kind of fl
■ contagion. Headaches, bilious- 1
I ness, colds and many other ail- I
n ments disappear when consti- I
■ pated bowels are relieved. Tiled- H
| ford’s Black-Draught thoroughly 3
3 cleans out the bowels in an easy R
I and natural maimer without the ■
§7 purging of calomel or other vio- 9
■ lent cathartics. B
M Be sure that you get the origi- a
Bk nal Thedford’s Black-Draught, M
43 made by The Chattanooga Medi- W
W cine Co. Sold by all druggists in
■ 25 cent and SI.OO packages.
Koriran, Ark., Mkt '>«, Iffftl.
I cannot recommend Tliedford’s lUack- j*
H Drauirtit too highly. 1 keep It In my house t
HR all the time ami have used it for the last fi
SB ten years. 1 never gave my children gj
ffl any other laxative. 1 think 1 could W
H never bo able to work without It
M on account of being troubled with «
constipation. Your medicine Is
all that keeps me up. wjgg.
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THE MLANTA CISmOTiONV
Great New Offer Upon SReceepts of Cotton at All
United States Ports From September Ist, 89Q3 3
to Rrlay Ist, 1904, Both inclusive.
Contest Opened Jen. 18th, 1904, Cioses April 20th, 1304.
DIVISION OF PRIZES.
For tho exact, or the nearest to the exact, estimate of tho total number of Bales
of Cotton received at all United States ports from Soptombor Ist, 1903, to May
Ist, (904, both inclusive S 2 500.00
For the next nearest estimate 1,000.00
For the next nearest ostimato 000.00
For the 5 next nearest estimate, $25.00 oach fiiR.OO
F°r the lO next nearerit estimates, 12.00 oach 126.00
For the 20 next nearest estimates, 10.00 each 200.00
For tho 50 next nearest estimates, 5.00 oach 260.00
For tho 100 next nearest estimates, 3.00 each 300.00
$ 5,000.00
Additional Offers for Oest Estimates
EVladc During; Different Periods
of tho Contest.
For convenience the time of the con
test is divided into estimates received
by The Constitution during four pe
riods—the first period covering from
tne beginning of contest to February <j
10, 1904; second period, from Febru
ary 10 to March 1, 1904; third period,
March 1 to 20; fourth period, March
20 to April 20, 1904. We will give
tho best estimate received during
each period (in addition to whatever
other prize it may take, or if it. take
no prize at all), the sum of $125.00.
The four prizes thus offered
5 1 25.00 each amount to S 500.00
Conditions of Sending Estimates in This Port Receipts Contest.
Subject to the .usual conditions, as stated regularly in The Constitution each week, the contest
Is now on. Attention is called to the following summary of conditions:
1. Send SI.OO for The Weekly Constitution one year and with it ONE ESTIMATE in the contest.
2. Send 50 cents for The Sunny South one year and with it ONE ESTIMATE in the contest.
3. Send $1.25 for The Weekly Constitution and Sunny South both one year, and send TWO ES
TIMATES in the contest—that is, one estimate for The Constitution and another for The Sunny South.
4. Send 50 cents for ONE ESTIMATE alone in the contest IF YOU DO NOT WANT a SUB
SCRIPTION. Such a remittance merely pays for the privilege of sending the estimate. If you wish to
make a number of estimates on this basis, you may send THREE ESTIMATES FOR EVERY SI.OO for
warded at the same time estimates are sent. If as many as ten estimates are received at the same time
without subscriptions, the sender may forward them with only $3.00 —this splendid discount being of
fered for only ten estimates in one order. A postal card receipt will be sent for ALL ESTIMATES RE
CEIVED WITHOUT SUBSCRIPTIONS. Where subscriptions are ordered, THE ARRIVAL OF THE PA
PER ITSELF IS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT YOUR ESTIMATE HAS BEEN RECEIVED AND 13
CAREFULLY RECORDED.
5. The money and the subscription and the estimate must come in the same envelope every time.
The estimate, the money and the subscription go together. THIS RULE IS POSITIVE.
Secretary Hester’s Figures Covering the Period of the Contest.
TOTAL PORT RECEIPTS. BALES IN COTTON CROP.
from Ist September to Ist Mnr (inclusive) i 8 merely for your information and I.
rriTT - u ersenu of following year. The period covered by this not the subject of this present contest. It is
I wn StASUB. contest. priven only ns an additional aid to an intelli
gent estimate*.
1897- 8,333.882 I 1,199,994
1898- 7.093,45 ' I 1,274.840
1899- 6.843,1 34 10,383 422
1900- 0,346,312 9,43G,4iQ
1901- : 7,218,179 10.680,030
1902- 7,373 627 10,727,559
The figures above are certified by Secretary Henry Q. Hester, of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, who will
furnish the official figures to decide this contest.
Address All Ordersto THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ga.
NEWSY CLEANINGS.
Radium was successfully used in a
recent case of partial blindness.
Target practice for the warships o?
flic United States Navy cost $1,300,000
Curing the year 1903.
Fifty years ago the English Govern
ment employed about 2000 women;
now it engages 20,000.
Mina Alix, of New York, broke her
skull and ribs looping-lhe-loop in a
circus at Madrid, Spain.
The 200 boilermakers at four of the
largest shops in Chattanooga, Tenn.,
went on strike for an eight-liour day.
Between thirty and forty scientists
to work under Government auspices
have gone to Texas to light the boll
weevil.
Scarcity of cotton lias caused the
eight mills at Concord, N. C., with SS,-
000 spindles, to run but four days a
week.
Governor Yates has filed a protest
against the Illinois State tax of fifty
two cents on each SIOU, claiming that
it is excessive.
During the year 1903 the British
mercantile marine sustained 1483 cas
ualties, of which 318 were complete
wrecks. The loss of life was 318.
After having spent more than twenty
years of his life in State Prison, Ben
jamin W. Clindbonrne, of Thoniaston,
Me., was pardoned by the Governor.
By the settlement for $40,000 of the
last tunnel claim, the New York Cen
tral Railroad has paid out for the Park
avenue tunnel wreck about $1,240,000.
During twenty-four hours one day
recently the Fire Department of Chi
cago, 111., was called on to light sixty
tliree fires, most of them resulting
from overheated furnaces.
The Board of Estimate, New Y'ork
City, authorized condemnation pro
ceedings to acquire Fraunce’s 'Tav
ern and voted $750,000 to erect a tier-’
police headquarters building.
TWO GRAND ICON SOL ATION OFFERS.
First —For distribution among
those estimates (not taking any of
the above 188 prizes) coming within
fiOO. bales either way of the exact
figures 3 1,000.00
Second —For distribution among
those estimates (not taking any of
the above 188 prizes and not shar
ing the first consolation offer) com
ing v/ithin 1,000 bales either way
of the exact figures 1,000 OO
Crand Total 37,500 OO
In case of a tie on any prize estimate tho
money will be equally divided.
Often The Kidneys Are
Weakened by Oyer-Work.
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.
It used to he considered that only
urinary and bladder troubles were to be
P traced to the kidneys,
but now modern
science proves that
nearly all diseases
have their beginning
in the disorder of
these most important
The kidneys filter
and purify the blood—
that is their work.
Therefore, when yourkidneysare weak
or out of order, you can understand liow
quickly your entire body is affected and
how every organ seems to fail to do its
duty.
If you are sick or “ feel badly,” begin
taking the great kidney remedy, Dr.
Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, because as soon
as your kidneys are well they will help
all the other organs to health. A trial
will convince anyone.
If you are sick you can make no mis
take by first doctoring your kidneys.
The mild and the extraordinary effect of
Dr. Kilmer’s Swanip-Root, the great
kidney remedy, is soon realized. It
stands the highest for its wonderful cures
of the most distressing cases, and is sold
on its merits by all PT-'iV }v ' T
druggists in fifty-cent
and oue-dollar size ftnßjiKSly
bottles. You may
have a sample bottle nomo of Swamp-Root,
by mail free, also a pamphlet telling you
how to find out if you have kidney or
bladder trouble. Mention this paper
when writing to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bing
hamton, N Y. Don’t make any mistake,
but remember the name, Swamp-Root,
Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the ad
dress, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle.
