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Deadlock Hard and Fast.
The congressional convention of the
First Georgia district convened again
the past week in Statesboro after an
adjournment at the conclusion of 461
ballots without a choice. Col. Lea
Mooie sprung quite a sensation by
reading two affidavits that Mr. Shep¬
pard on the day following the pri¬
mary, thinking be had the popular ma
joiity in the district, was heard sc-v
eral times tc remark that for that
reason he should be nominated. Now
that it appears that Mr. Brannon re¬
ceived a popular majority of over
1,300 votes Mr. Sheppard refuses to
yield.
Aid For Agricultural Col!eg?c
Governor Terrell did some import¬
ant work for the new district agricul¬
tural colleges to be established in
Georgia on the occasion of his recent
trip to New York, from which he
has just returned.
While in New York Governor Ter
roll was in conference with several
of the members of the southern edu¬
cation board, and as a result of these
conferences the boaid agreed to take
up the Technological school, the new
district agricultural colleges and other
Georgia educatioinal institutions at its
next meeting, and see to what extent
it could iend them its assistance in
the work they are doing.
Not Yet, But Soon.
The battleship Georgia, wnich is
soon to be commissioned, cannot get
any nearer Georgia waters than three
or four miles off Tybco, and it will
l e the middle of December next be¬
fore she can be sent that close. This
information was brought back from
Washington by Governor Ten ell. who
has just returned from a trip East.
The Georgia draws 25 feet 8 inches,
but it is not considered safe for her
to go into wafer less than 28 to 30
feet deep. Secretary Bonaparte stat¬
ed it would be the middle of December
before tlie battleship could be sent to
Georgia.
Negroes Boycott Street Cars.
Tne Savannah Electric company is
now facing a boycott from tlie ne
groes on account of the putting into
effect of the law providing for the
separation of the whites and blacks
on the street cars, 1 -be action on
the part of the company was not
voluntary. The city council passed a
city ordinance forcing the company
to separate the races on the cars. The
negroes immediately began to walk
and leave the cars alone. In this they
are being encouraged by tlie negro
preachers and others.
State Will Appeal.
The state will file with the state
-mpreme court an appeal from the de¬
rision cf .Judge Pendleton, of the Fill
.on superior court, declaring uncon¬
stitutional the section of the general
lax act that places a two and one
half per cent gross tax receipt
ail express, telegraph and telephone
companies.
The case was brought into Judge
Pendleton’s court by the Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph company,
which declined to pay an assessment
of $30,000 made by the slate. Comp¬
troller General Wright issued an exe¬
cution of the full amount, and the
corporation decided to make a Lest
case and won out. The amount claim¬
ed by the state covers a period of
four years.
A Delayed Platform Plank.
A delayed plank in the platform o?
the democratic party, as adopted by
the recent* state convention held in
Macon, and aimed at the jug trade In
dry counties nas just come to light.
This plank, which is announced as
a part of the platform, and will so
stand, is as follows:
‘‘We recommend the passage of
such laws by the »egisiature as will
effectually protect ihe prohibition
count!33 of Georgia from the impor¬
tation of intoxicating liquors within
their borders.”
Secretary Cabaniss explains that the
reason this plank was left out of the
platform, as published, is that it was
written on a separate piece of paper,
detached from the typewritten copy
and got lost in the shuffle.
District Agricultural High Schools.
The law establishing an Agricul¬
tural High School in each Congression¬
al district is a distinct advance in
the best features of the experiment
Agricultural education, it incoiporates
being made by Miss Berry, near Rome,
thus enabling us to establish such a
school in each of the eleven Districts.
The law lequires that these schools
shall be under the general direction of
the Boaid of Trustees of the Univer¬
sity of Georgia to secure unity of plan
and efficiency.
All fees arising from sale of ferti¬
lizers, lots, etc., are appropriated for
the establishing and maintaining of
these schools. Each school will have
next year about $6,000. One Trustee is
appointed frem each county. This will
give us 146 men directly interested
in Agricultural Education and as so¬
elated with the Agricultural College.
Each school is to be given 200 acres
of laud, and buildings, etc., by the
county securing it.
I One half ci the oroceds from tin
; sale of the products of the s tep ant!
j farm, above what is consumed in the
school is to be sc: aside t • pay st i
; dents for work, thereby defraying his
expenses.
The courses of study embraces the
branches of an English education,
practical treatises or lectures on Ag¬
riculture in ail its branches, and the
mechanic arts and such other studies
as will enable students completing
the course to enter the Freshman
lure. The Faculty shall co-operate i:i
conducting the farmer's institutes and
farm and stock demonstrations in the
several counties of the district under
the direction of the Slate College
The above are the main features of
the law. Through these schools and
our new Vgrieultural College and Sta
tlon we hope to develope a splendid
system of agricultural education ex¬
tending from the common schools to
the University and in reach of every
child and every farm.
J. S. Stewart.
7 he Court of Appeals.
Justice—without sale, denial or fle-.
lav, is the proud boast of our Anglo
Saxon civi’ization. The incorrupti¬
bility of our courts is something that
the American citizen is glad to be¬
lieve in. But just now in Georgia w r e
are confronted with a situation wnich
insures the delay of justice and some¬
times effects its denial. !t has become
a phy.sicial impossibility for the su¬
preme court to decide all the cases
submitted to it. The constitution of
the state provides that all cases not
disposed of by the end of the second
term cf the court, each year, shall be
affirmed. That amounts to the denial
of justice by preventing the exercise
cf the right of appeal to the highest
court And the delay of justice is
equally apparent.
The cases returned to the supreme
court for the October term of 1905 and j
the March term cf 1906 were 1,156 in |
all. The courts disposed of 861 of
these cases Without a shadow of crit¬
icism -if the court it may be said that
not ail of these cases could receive
careful consideration, and many could
not have been considered at all ex¬
cept for an order passed during the
year, requiring a number of these
cases to be submitted upon briefs,
without oval argument. This in itself
was a hardship, necessarily imposed
to avoid a greater wrong, for the oon
atilution contemplates that every lit¬
igant shall have the right of being
heard by council.
But the cgurt had to carry over
295 cases to the October term. It Is
estimated that these eases with the
bills of exceptions in civil and criminal
cases which the law directs shall be
; peedily disposed of, will occupy the
supreme court through January, 1907,
leaving tlie consideration ot the reg
alar docket for the October term to
remaining month of the term, Febru
rny. Evidently the remidy for this con¬
dition is needed and needed at once.
Else a large number of cases must be
affirmed by operation of law without
being lieard.
The legislature has submitted to the
people for ratification at <ne fall elec¬
tions a constitutional amendment pro¬
viding for the establishment of a court
of appeals. The new court may not tur
nisli all the relief needed and the raea
ture proposed may not be satisfactory
in every part to every mind. But the
amendment has been carefully drawn
and the legislature can perfect it as
the need arises.
It is not a court for the relief of
the supreme court, though it is a
bad plan to work our justices to death,
it is for the relief of the people, for
tne furtherance of the ends of justice.
The main question is the erecting of
a new appellate court, to the end that
the cases that are appealed from tlie
lower courts may have careful consid¬
eration an i prompt settlement, and
that justice may be securad, without
delay or denial.
Entitled to Only $4 a Day.
After living in Atlanta for a week,
and “spending money like kings,” as
one member of the committee pat it.
on tlie idea that the state was foot¬
ing the bills, it naturally jars a man
somewhat to find out that he is en
titled to collect only $4 a day. That
is the experience with which the men
bers of the legislative committee, ap
pointed to investigate the affairs and
management of the Confederate Sol¬
diers’ Home, n et when they went to
collect what they thought the state
owed them. Governor Terrell immedi¬
ately a us up tne resolution under
which the committee was serving.
“Let me see about Ibis,” he said,
and when he had got through witu |
Gie resolution, he found that it an
thorized the payment of only $4 a day j
with r.o expenses of any kind. The !
governor thereupon drev a warrant I
for each member of the committee.
declare trepoff poisoned.
Terrorists Say Hated Russian Despot
Was Killed by His Cook.
The terrorists are declaring open¬
ly in St. Petersburg that the death I
of General Thepoff was the result of
poison .ietim which was administered to the j
weeks ago tn his cook.
On tho other hand, the government
has issued an official bulletin announc- j
mg that tlie cause of death was angina I
pertoriis. In any case tho rejoicing 1
<>n of the the population part of the great proportion i j
of the city at the
death of the hated Trepoff is un
disguised.
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MRS ‘ ^id defends
Former Stewardess of Georgia Sol¬
diers’ Home Routs Character As¬
sassins in Pointed Statement.
Mrs. Belle Reid, former stewardess,
was the star witness at the Thursday
morning session of the joint legisla¬
tive investigating committee at At
ianta, which is probing into past and
present conditions at ti e Georgia Sol¬
diers' Home. She was on the stand
for probably an hour, during which
time she wept copiously, denied vig¬
orously the charges that have been
made against her and swore that prior
to her employment at the home con¬
ditions were 'awiul.
While Mrs. Reid was introduced by
the trustees in rebuttal, her testimony
was quite as damaging as any that
Pas yet been offered. She swore that
when she accepted employment at the
home the place, from cellar to garret,
was filthy, t 0 o filthy to be described.
The dining room and kitchen, she said,
were vile with stench, while many of
the sleeping rooms were so filthy that
the negress who cleaned them was
forced to wear a camphor saturated
towel over her face.
In her effort to vindicate herself,
Jlls - Reicl s ave the hoirie tlie worst
black eve it has received since the
investigation was begun.
"There were maggots in tlie dining
room, maggots in the kitchen, mag
gots in the fireplaces, maggots and
filth everywhere, when I took Charge
as stewardess,” declared Mrs. Reid,
to the astonishment of committeemen
and trustees alike; ‘‘and the stench
was sickening,” she added.
“I made enemies, yes, I made a
number of enemies,’ continued the
woman, ‘‘I was in a position to incur
the enmity of some of the grumblers,
when I inaugurated a plan for con
trolling them in the dining room.”
With a show of spirit and flashing
eyes, Mrs. Reid admitted having car¬
ried a pistol during some of tlie time
she occupied the postion of steward¬
ess, and she continued a detailed
justification of arming herself.
“1 carried a pistol because I was
being constantly thrown with unruly,
impudent and drunken negroes in the
kitchen,” said Mrs. Reid, "and I used
it to good advantage too. I used it
for a bluff and it worked.
‘‘The negroes in the kitchen were
disorderly, and one had threatened
to kill another. I flashed my pistol
and warned them that I would kill
the first one who gave me any jaw,
and I would have done it too. i
would have put a ball through one
o£ thom in a minute.”
Continuing Mrs. Reid also modestly
admitted that she carried the pistol
on trips to and from home to the city.
She said she was afraid of an in¬
mate named Moses, with whom she
had had trouble at the home.
When Judge Freeman, prior to turn-
ing the witness over to counsel for
the petitioners, invited her to make
such statements as she cared to make,
the woman broke down completely,
and ft. was some time before she could
continue.
Her eyes brimful of tears and her
body shaking with emotion, Mrs.
Reid’s recital was pathetic. She said
she had been hurt by the notoriety
given her through the investigation,
and wept copiously when she referred
to the charges that have been made
against her character.
Mrs. Reid touched the hearts of her
hearers when she referred to her fa¬
ther, a Confederate soldier, and her
only brother, also a Confederate sol¬
dier, who died in the saddle, while
fighting the common foe of the south.
She spoke feelingly of the good name
and fine character of her people, and
called upon the committee to decide
if she had or could ever do anything
that would besmirch the fair name of '
her family.
ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE
Wl " H °' d Thir * y ' Slxth Annua i Re
The announcement is made by Re
cording Secretary Cornelius Cadlethat
the thirty-sixth.reunion of the Society
of the Arm y of t5 * e Tennessee will be
M « Council Bluffs, Iona, Xovc™
her 8-9, 19W. The annual address will
be delivered by General Smith D. Wat
kins - captain George H. Richmond
of Council Bluffs is in charge of ar¬
rangements.
ONLY SMALL GUARD LEFT.
Majority of Marines Landed in Ha¬
vana Oredered Back to Their Ship.
A Washington special says: Late
Thursday night it was officially an
nouneed here that the sailors who
were landed at Havana from the
American cruiser have been ordered
to immediately return to their vessel,
leaving on shore a small guard for
the American legation.
SHOT AT NEGRO, KILLED GIRL. |
Bailiff, Attempting to Make an Arrest, !
Sent Fatal BulUt Into Tent.
While attempting to effect the ar
lest of a desperate negro during tho
performance of Jones’ circus at San
dersville. Ga , Bailiff A. P. Heath fired
two shots at the fleeing black man,
one bullet penetrating tlie canvas of
the tent and accidentally Killing Annie
Alford, a 1.{-year-old girl.
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