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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1909)
TERMINAL DEAL OFF Slate Cannot Buy Land in Chat’ tanooga for W. & A. R. R. NO MONEY IN TREASURY Attorney General Hart Rules That Treasury Funds Can Be Used Only For School Purposes. Atlanta, Ga. —Georgia will not pur chase the 87 acres near Chattanooga lor the Western and Atlantic termi nals at this time, at any rate. tinder a decision rendered by Attor ney General Hart at the request of Governor Urown, it is held that the money now in the state treasury can not he used for this purpose, because this money was raised by a special tax levy lor the support or the common schools. Thejefore, unless the options on the Chattanooga property can be extend ed until the state has the money for this purpose, the deal will be oil and the chance to acquire the land will have passed. Governor Brown had doubts about the matter, and direct ed a communication to the attorney general. He staled specifically that he was anxious to comply with the request of the legislature in its reso lution if It could be done now. Gov ernor Urown says; “The legislature of 1907-08 appro priated $2,500,000 for the oommon schools ot the state for the year 1909. The state is short nearly $2,000,000 in meeting this appropriation. Under this statement of fact, would I be author ised to draw my warrant and would the treasurer have the authority to pay this $09,000 for the purchase of this vacant land which we may pos sibly need for railroad purposes ten years hence?’’ After «tatlng (he facts in the case, Attorney General Hart decided as fol io wrs: "Tlie money now remaining in the treasury ($160,000) was raised by a special tixx levy and for the support of the common schools of the state. The teachers of the state have performed the service upon the faith of that promis>e (hat it would bo paid them for their services. The teachers have ex ecuted their part of this contract and the state now owes them the money which it had pledged would be paiu them. For a subsequent legislature to divert the money and apply it to a dif ferent purpose from that which it was raised by taxation and pledged by the statu, amounts substantially to the Lnipaxr.me.iit of a contract, which is forbidden, both by the constitution of this state aud the United States. In view of theso conditions, there is at present no money in the treasury which could legally be used for the purchase of the land in question.” Under this ruling it would appear that the state cau not use the funds now on hand for any purpose other than that of the common schools, and this means a serious money situation in carrying on the necessary work of the land in question.” Under this ruling it would appear that the slate cannot use the funds now on hand for any purpose other than tlxa.l .of the common schools, and this means a serious money situation in carrying on the necessary work of the state. i MIJKKAY COUNTY PHENOMENON. S. Treadwell's Face Weaves Itself In to Marble That Covers His Tomb. Spring Place, Ga.—Slowly, as if painted by the hand of time itself, and as surely, the stern, rugged line aments of Smith Treadwell’s features are being worked In the solid mar ble that covers the tomb where for years he has slept beneath the soil of Murray county. In the massive rectangle of Geor gia marble—the world-tamed “cre ole,” of black and white —now appear with a distinctness that grows more striking with each passing year, the strong, high and bearded features of the. Murray county pioneer. It is not the stain of weather. It !s not the corrosion of time. To ail appearances, it is the gradual shifting of the fadeless black crystals that streak the eternal marble. The shifting has formed a face. The fare is mat of Smith Treadwell. The gradual appearance of the face has been noticed for the past five years. lOLQum mm heik tu fortune, JWra. Florence Horne Soon to Come J/ito Possession of $75,000. Moultrie, Ga. —Mrs. Florence Horne, wife of Jonn Horne, a farm tenant of Colquitt county, is to soon come into possession to a fortune worth $75, WOO. The property is the estate of a Mr. Wheeler of Emmanuel county, and is now involved in the courts, but attorneys for Mrs. Horne believe they have the light won. Mrs. Horne was formerly a Miss Wheeler. Her mother was a Miss Florence Meadows. She married Mr. W heeler jn Emmanuel county. She was deserted three months af ter her marriage. a child was born to her, and the deserted rnothar and child were brought into this county by the father of the former, and have resided m Colquitt and Worth for 5u years. The widowed mother secured a di vorce and married a mau named Am mons, raising a large family. Flor ence Wheeler grew to be a young lady, married a poor farmer boy and has remainod in very humble circum stances for all these years. GEORGIA NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS. Secret serviee sleuths from the de partment of Justice in Washington are bow investigating the truth about the peonage charges against Colonel James M. Smith, the millionaiie plan ter of Oglethorpe county. It is known that negroes who made the charges against Colonel Smith to the federal authorities have been interviewed by these sleuths and that a full report on the case is being secured. It is quite probable a visit will be paid C»l --ouel Smith's plantation and possibly the sleuths will call on the colonel himself. Whether or not any action against the Oglethorpe planter is tak en will depend entirely on what the men from Washington hnd out. Their report will be made to the depart ment of justice and if the facts ascer tained warrant prosecution , orders will be passed down the line to the Atlanta office. Governor Brown Is in receipt of another gourd. This time he has been favored 'by his triends in Habersnam county, and on the handle of the gourd is inscribed, "Habersham coun ty. 1909.” One of the governor's visi tors a day or so ago told him that the governnor’s gouid had made that old-fashioned drinking utensil the thing in this county. He said that the market for gourds was brisk and that they had become quite the thing, as a drinking vessel in the fashion able society of his community. A case of pellagra, the victim of which claims never to have eaten corn bread or any corn products, has been discovered in Atlanta. Mrs. Kate Barto is the patient, and she is in the last stages of the disease. Ur. Frank Eskridge, who claims to have treated many cases of the disease, says he doubted his own diagnosis and thought she might be a victim of "sprue," a disease known to the trop ics, with symptoms resembling those of pellegra. He called in a physician who has had years of experience, in the tropics and found that his orig inal diagnosis was correct. "I am convinced now,” he said, "that the di sease does not come from musty corn products.” The second flight at Athens of the aeroplane of Ben Epps and Zump Huff was not as successful as the first. The fiist uttempt at flight the machine left the ground about one foot for a distance of fifty yeards, but at the second trial the aeroplane fail ed to leave the ground. The attempt at flight was witnessed by fully a thousand people. The failure of the machine to ny is attributed to the roughness of the ground and the poor sturt received. Instead of having a trackway prepared along which the machine could glide to its start, the young men chose to make the start on the plain hillside which had more or less unevenness. The result was the machine got no start and there was much lost motion. The twisting of the machine over the uneven ground caused one of the wheels to spread aud the machine was brought to a sudden stop. The young men will have a trackway constructed at once and will enlarge the propeller blades of the machine. They were not in the least daunted by their failure and will try again in a few days. William H. Mitchell of Thomasville must serve twelve months on the chaingang. Governor Brown reached a conclusion on the famous case, ami announced that he would allow Bhe sentence of the court to stand undis turbed, thus ignoring the recommen dation of the prison commission to change the sentence of twelve months on the chaingang to a like period on the state prison farm at Miliedgeville. Atlanta’s postofflee receipts for August, 1909, are $70,691.02, an in crease of $2,474.36 over the receipts for the same period last year. This means that unless something phenom enal has happened in the Louisville er*N'ew Orleans offices, Atlanta has more than retained her proud position which the July, 1909, figures gave her, at the head of all the postoffices in the south. The figures for July, 1909, were $70,345.85, and represented an increase cf $4,510.28 over the receipts for the same period in 1908. Fire swept three stores on Broad street in Rome causing a total dam age of SBO,OOO, fully covered by insur ance. Tlie same section was visited by a $150,000 fire last January. That Major J. F. Hanson, president of the Central of Georgia railroad, will rile an answer to the suit for di vorce Instituted by his wife, was pos itively indicated. “I will file my an swer to the petition for divorce with the courts,” said Major Hanson, after saying that he did not care to discuss the matter. He had just been called upon for a statement for publication. Major Hanson returned to Atlanta, after a month’s vacation spent in the west. It was during his absence that Mrs. Hanson filed suit for total di vorce. Because no one in Albany can open its doors, the big manganese safe of the Citizen’s First National .bank, with a cash reserve of $50,000 in gold and legal tender notes, fc being ship ped by fast express to Cincinnati so that the manufacturers can open the big vault. The screw door of the safe refused to move when the usual meth ods of opening the safe were tried on it. Experts trom the Cincinnati fac tory were huFried to Albany and worked on the safe unsuccessfully for three or four days. A new safe was hurriedly shipped from the factory, and the one in which the bank's cash is locked was expressed to Cincinnati, where the door will be ground through with emery wheels and the cash tak en out. One of the officials of the bank went with the safe to Cincinnati and to be present when it is opened. PEARY ALSO FOUND POLE; Another Arctic Explorer Finds the Apex of the Earth. NEWS PLEASED DR. COOK “Stars and Stripes Nailed to the North Pole,” Lieutenant Perry Wires the Associated Press. PEARY FOUND POLE ON bTH OF ArrtlL, 1909. “Indian Harbor, via Cape Ray, N. P. —To Associated Pieos, New Yoik; Stars and Stripes nailed the North Pole. “(Signed) PEARY.” “Indian Hai bor, via Cape Ray, N. b\ —Hei non L. m icigmau, X. Y.: Pole reached. Roosevelt, safe. "(Signed) PEARY.” New York City.—Peary has suc ceeded. "Stars and Stripes nailed to the North Pole.” From out the Arctic darkness there was dashed this message which stun ned the scientific world and thrilled the heart of every layman. Front ute coast of Labiatlor, rtobert E. Peary gave to the wuriu the news that he had attained his goal in the far north', while at the same moment in far off Denmark Dr. Frederick A. Cook or Brooklyn was being lionized by roy alty tor the same achievement. Undeniably Yankee grit nas con quered me frozen north and tnere nas been created a coincidence such as the world may never see again. Two Americans planted the fiag of tneir country in tne tand ot ice which man has sought to penetrate for four cen turies, and eacn ignorant of the oth er's conquest has named within a pe riod of live days a laconic message ox success to tne waiting world. First word of Peary's success reach ed New York in a uispaieh to the Associated Press. It contained the bare announcement of his rinding tad poie. Almost simultaneously he had transmitted the news to London. Ai tne same time ho similarly advised the governor of Newfoundland. » Boui the old and the new world were thus apprised of n«s great acmevement piacticany at the same moment, and the excitement whicn lolioweu attested to tne mgn pitch of interest aroused over this climax of mans perseverance. Newspaper ex tias were rushed from the press and those who read marveled at the twist, of the universe wnich nad siiatcneu the ice mask from the norm in n manner so strange. Copenhagen, Denmark. —Copenha- gen was electrified by the report of Commander Peary s announcement mat he nad reached the North r-oie. Dr. Cook was immensely iiuerested and said: "That is good news. I hope Peary did get to me poie. His observations and reports on that region will con firm mine.” it is doubtful if history furnishes a more dramatic episode tnan me break ing of uie news to Dr. Cook that Peary had realized the goal of his life’s amuition, and repeated strug gles. Dr. Cook was seated at a din ner surrounded by explorers Amid this scene a whisper went around that Peary had planted the stars and Stripes at the pole. Dr. Cook did not permit the whis pers which came to nis ears of Pea ry s success to move him in the least. He was surrounded by correspond ents, who looked for some sign of emotion, but the explorer said, smil ingly: "1 am glad.” Asked if there was any probability of Peary’s having found the tube con taining his records, Dr. Cook re plied; "I hope so, but that is doubtful on account of tne drift.” Dr. Cook added: "Commander Peary reached the pole this year probably; while 1 was there last year. His route was sever al hundred miles east of mine. We are rivals, of course; but the pole is big enough fer two. "That two men got to the pole along different paths,” continued the explorer, "should furnish large addi tions to scientific knowledge. Prob ably other parties will reach it in the next ten years since every explorer is helped by the experiences of his predecessors, just as Sverdrun’s ob servations and reports were of im measurable help to me. I can say nothing more without knowing fur ther details, than that I am glad of it.” WILL NOT MOVE HOLY SEPULCHER. Pius X Says Relic Belongs to Tradi tion and History of Jerusalem. Washington, D. C. —Mgr. Diomede Falconio, papal delegate to the Unit ed States who recently viisted Rome, denied that Pope Pius X had set on foot a movement to move the holy sepulcher from Jerusalem to Rome. He further asserted that the pope would be the very last person to con sent to thfe change. 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