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Fitzgerald Leader.
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
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KwrAi»i» tb SON.
Explorer Nansen says that Explorer
Peary’s big arotic meteorite is not a
meteorite at all, but merely a vast
hunk of old iron, slag and so forth. It
therefore behooves Explorer Peary to
point out the hole in the sky through
which the thing fell to the earth.
Out of over 4000 lives imperiled
along our coasts during the last year
of life-saving service only fifty-three
•were lost. That is a record that the
service has reason to be proud of. The
public does not begin to comprehend
the work of the life-saving bureau of
this country and the dangers to which
the men are at all times exposed.
The story of the charge of tho Gor¬
don Highlanders across the fire zone
at the storming of Dargai Ridge, which
has come in hit by bit from India, re¬
veals many instances of great personal
heroism, and has produced an extraor¬
dinary wave of patriotism throughout
Great Britain, At the theatres and
music halls everything which can pos¬
sibly be construed into an allusion
to the bravery and dash of the High¬
landers is rapturously applauded.
It is with feeling of sincere regret
that the Chicago Chronicle notes the
passing of the old lady. “Where are
grandmothers of tradition?” asks the
journal, “the snow-haired, white-
capped gentle women to whom as chil¬
dren we were taught all deference
should be shown? Look about you;
she is nowhere visible, Alas, the
elixir of youth, or, more properly,
speaking, an artificial mask of real
bloom and beauty, has tempted the
ageing woman to assume that which she
should gracefully relinquish, and the
true grandmotherly type, with soft
shawls, fine laces, artistic caps and a
heart in tune with the morning of life,
though the body bends under the
shadow of eventide, is gone, more’s
the pity.”
According to the St. Louis Repub¬
lic one normal pumpkin will make 100
pies. A normal pumpkin weighs not
less than fifty pounds. Five cents
will buy it in any market in the world.
There are pumpkins that weigh three
times fifty pounds, and even one of
these can be purchased for a nickel.
Why, then, should not pumpkin pie
hold a place in the estimation of the
the human family that no other pro¬
duct of the land or sea occupies? It
bridges the chasm between the mill¬
ionaire and the pauper, between the
haughty dame and the petulant scrub
;woman, between the dude and the
tramp. In a word, the pumpkin p,ie
gives that touch of nature which
makes all the world kin. The pump¬
kin is, therefore, to be revered.
Professor D. Cady Eaton, tbe art
leoturer of Yale, has just returned
from making a tour of France and
Italy. “French sculptors,” he said
recently, “are now coloring their
statues—giving them the tints and
colors the subjects had in life. Every
color is reproduced on the marble--
not exactly, because that would be too
gross and material, but an artistic ap¬
proach to the colors of life is shown
in the completed work. 'What the
sculptors use to produce this effect I
do not know. It is not paint. It is a
peculiar kind of wash, and the effect
is beautiful. This coloring of statuary
is becoming general in Europe. I
formerly thought that the Greeks did
not color their statues, but I am now
convinced that they did. Relics of
statues that had been colored were re¬
cently dug from the Acropolis, but
the colors, now exposed, are fast fad¬
ing.” _
Acoording to the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat, the practice of the econ¬
omies in the fruit-raising sections of
the West has developed a new article
of export. Until recently the orchard
owners and the evaporator managers
did not think of utilizing the cores
and the parings of apples. They oc¬
casionally Bold them to the jelly mak¬
ers or fed them to the hogs, but more
generally allowed them to accumulate
as refuse in great heaps, whioh slow¬
ly fermented and deoayed. This year,
ill many places, the parings and cores
are being saved. They are spread out
in the hot sun and dried, after which
they are packed in large sacks and
held for buyers, who gather them up
and send away in car lots. The desti¬
nation of the dried parings and cores
in theie large quantities is Franoe. It
is no secret that the refuse of the
orchards of the Missouri Valley and
Ozark country is now largely em¬
ployed in the manufacture of cham¬
pagne by the thrifty wine-makers of
the vineclad slopes of France,
(j|f| QfJJJ1 SETTLED
HOUSE PRACTICALLY AGREES ON
SOLUTION OF MAIN ISSUES.
HOPKINS BILL PASSES SENATE.
Measure to Elect Judges and Solicitors
By Popular Vote Is Suc¬
cessful.
The house, Wednesday, passed Mr.
Blalock’s bill fixing the maximum sal¬
ary of oil inspectors at $66.66 2-3.
Only 13 members voted against the
measure. This was the first victory
scored by the Blalock investigating
committee. The measure was unani¬
mously recommended by the commit¬
tee.
The house also passed Mr. Slaton’s
bill changing the method of examina¬
tion for admittance to the Georgia bar.
The bill provides that examinations
shall be held in writing, before judges
of the supreme courts, in the various
circuits. The w-ritten answers are then
sent in to the supreme court, where
they are examined without any know¬
ledge of the name of the applicant.
The house of representatives has
practically settled the convict question.
At 11 o’clock the convict catechism
was resumed. All of the main issues
were disposed of. The first question
was as follows: “Do you favor a lease
system as to all the felony convicts
under state’supervision?”
This question received an over¬
whelming negative answer. The vote
was 125 to 16.
The second question was as follows: of
“Do you favor the establishment a
farm and the erection of buildings to
care for the juveniles, women and aged
and infirm convicts?”
This question was answered affirma¬
tively. The vote was 100 to 20.
The second part of this question was
as follows, the number 5 being stricken
out, so as to make the term of the
lease indefinite:
“That the able-bodied convicts he
hired or leased under state supervision
in terms of not longer than -
years.”
This query was also decided affirm¬
atively. The vote was 97 to 26.
The third question regarding a cen¬
tral penitentiary had already been put
to the house Tuesday and snubbed.
The fourth question came up next.
It was: “Do you favor state super¬
vision of the misdemeanor convicts, at
the same time leaving the direct con¬
trol to the county authorities?”
On this there were 71 ayes and 46
nays.
The fifth and sixth queries were not
reached, the time of adjournment hav¬
ing arrived. The other two are:
“Do you want a commission elected
or appointed?”
“Do you want a principal keeper
elected or appointed?”
The senate, Wednesday, passed the
bill of Senator Hopkins providing for
the election of judges and solicitors of
the superior courts by tbe people.
The bill was adopted by a vote of 32
to 12, but not until after a hot debate.
Mr. Kilpatrick’s bill extending the
power of the railroad commission so
that it can require railroads to furnish
cars to other lines without discrimina¬
tion, and to give through bills of
lading by routes desired by shippers
was killed.
The bill by Senator Gray raising the
rank of the adjutant general to that of
brigadier general passed by a vote of
23 to 1.
Tuesday’s Routine.
At Tuesday’s session the house
passed the Dodson insurance bill, the
effect of which is to make life insur¬
ance policies incontestible after one
year. The measure was fought by
Messrs. Felder and Slaton of the Ful¬
ton delegation, but was passed by a
safe majority. The bill had been
pending since the last session.
Mr. Felder arraigned the bill as
vicious and said he would as soon
think of voting to legalize burglary.
Mr. McLaughlion, of Meriwether,
spoke in defense of the bill, He de-
nied that there was ever any rascality
on the part of the policy holders and
charged the blame of all unfair deal¬
ing to the insurance companies.
Mr. Boyd’s bill to make trespassing
on posted land not under fence was
taken up as unfinished business. Mr.
Boyd, to satisfy opposition from the
wild land counties, offered to amend
so as to make the measure refer only
to counties where the stock law is in
force. After some debate the amend¬
ment was adopted and the bill, so
changed, was passed.
At Tuesday’s session of the senate
the resolution from the house was
taken up and passed which gave tbe
use of the eapitol to the United Con¬
federate Veterans’ association for con-
vention purposes.
Four hills from the house, intro¬
duced by Mr. Meldrim, of Chatham,
were taken up and killed on the rec¬
ommendation of the committee on cor¬
porations. passed:
The following bills were
To prohibit the manufacture aud sale
of distilled spirits in the county of
Harris after January 1, 1898; author¬
izing the city of Waycross to issue
$50,000 of bonds to establish a sewer¬
age system and to pay the floating
debt of said city, provided that the
question is submitted to the people
and approved by them.
A bill by Senator Comas giving the
railroad commission the right to regu¬
late the charge of sleeping car com¬
panies was lost.
The bill of President Berner to elect
the trustees to the State university by
the people wai passed. When the hill
came up it was with a report from the
committee ou education adverse to its
passage, and with two amendments.
Thursday's Proceedings.
The house Thursday appointed a
committee to draft a convict bill in
accordance with tlio views of the ma¬
jority of the members. Hon. Hewlett
Hall, of Coweta, was made chairman
of the committee, which was composed
of one member from each congression¬
al district.
Questions put to the house during
the session developed that a majority
favored a commission instead of a
principal keeper, and the implied wish
is that the commissioner be elected by
the people.
The Blalock committee got another
set back in the adverse report of the
finance committee ou two bills, one to
reduce the salary of the state chemist,
and the other to increase the salaries
of his two assistants. The commit-
tee’s report was almost unanimous.
In the senate, Thursday, President
Berner introduced a bill which creates
a new banking system, with issues by
state banks up to 50 per cent of their
capital stock, and makes U the duty of
the attorney general to defend such
banks m the courts against all at¬
tempts to collect from them the 10 per
cent tax imposed by Federal law.
Senator Blalock’s bill to amend the
school law so that the county board of
education shall be chosen from terri¬
tory outside of that covered by inde¬
pendent school systems was passed,
This applies to Atlanta and cities and
towns which have school systems in-
dependent of the county system. Sev-
oral other measures of local interest
were passed at the session.
Friday’s Routine.
Friday’s session of the house was
spent in passing the special appropria-
tion bills reported by the finance com-
mittee. The expenses of the Carter
investigating committee and the extra
session of the legislature, amounting
to $10,697.49, were among the items
provided for by these bills.
The convict question did not come
up, everything being displaced by
the appropriation bills. Several votes
to displace these measures and bring
up the hill drawn by the committee of
eleven were taken, but without sue-
sb.
Mr. C. I. Branon’s bill putting the
county officers on salaries and abol-
ishing the fee system in counties hav-
ing cities of 60,000 population came
up in the senate Friday morning with
an adverse report from the special ju-
diciary committee and expired when
the committee report was adopted.
Mr. Copeland’s bill authorizing
county boards of roads and revenues
to condemn fifty feet where macadamized necessary
for the construction of
roads was passed. This bill is in-
tended to get rid of obstacles in the
way of the government road between
Chickamauga park and LaFayetJe.
Other bills passed were: To estab¬
lish a board of commissioners roads
and revenue for Chattooga county;
to amend the charter of Powder
Springs; amending the charter of
Smyrna; establishing the city court of
Waycross; incorporating the town of
Donaldsonville; amending the charter
of Whigham; to establish public
schools in the town of Culloden.
Quorum Hard to Get*
Almost the entire session of tho
house of representatives Saturday was
spent in an effort to secure the pres¬
ence of a sufficient number of mem¬
bers to transact business. Time and
again the speaker sent the officers of
the house scurrying through the lob¬
bies and the corridors after members
and time and again these same officials
returned empty handed. Once in a
while they would corrall a member
and deliver him in safety to his
seat in the chamber, but such an ex¬
perience was very rare. Speaker Jen¬
kins ordered a catalogue of those ab¬
sent without leave. Outside of this
nothing happened in the house worth
recording. The convict bill was up
only long enough to permit the pass¬
age of a resolution to print 300 copies
of it and to give the populists an op¬
portunity to make public for the first
time their position on the vexed ques¬
tion. Bepresentative Hogan present-
e 1 the populist bill as a substitute.
Appointments By the Governor.
Governor Atkinson sent to the sen¬
ate Thursday morning the following
nominations which were immediately
confirmed:
W. H. Griffin, judge of the city
court of Valdosta for the term of four
years from November 30th, 1897.
T. A. Parker, judge of the city
court of Baxley, iu Appling county,
for the term of four years from the
date of his qualification.
J. H. Thomas, solicitor of the city
court of Baxley for two years from his
qualification. duBignon, member of
F. G. the
board of directors of the Georgia Nor¬
mal and Industrial college for six years
from January 6th, 1898.
H. P. Lumpkin, judge of the county
court of Walker for four years from
September 8tli, 1897.
BLIZZARDS RAGE. #
The Season of Snow and Ice Inaugura¬
ted In the Northwest.
A special from Minneapolis states
that a regular blizzard is raging in the
northwest.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, reports eight
inches of snow and a suspension of
street ear traffic.
At Des Moines the fall has been be¬
tween six and seven inches. Street
car and railroad traffic is much inter¬
fered with by the drifts.
A foot of snow has fallen at Sioux
City, Iowa.
A heavy snow fell Friday through¬
out Nebraska.
SOUTH CAROLINA MINISTERS AP¬
POINT A SPECIAL DAY.
BISHOP CAPERS ISSUES ADDRESS.
Solicitors Report Bloodshed by Violence
on the Increase in the Palmetto
State.
A Columbia. S. C., special says:
Following the reports of solicitors to
the attorney general, which show that
the number of murders just doubled in
South Carolina for the last year, or
reached a total of 200, Bight Rev.
Ellison Capers, bishop of the diocese
of South Carolina, has issued an ad¬
dress to the Protestant Episcopal cler¬
gy, reproducing the resolutions on the
prevalence of murders passed the last
no' eting of the diocesan council, sup¬
plementing that with a vigorous state¬
ment, and fixing December 19th as
the day when all clergy of the dio-
cese shall preach against the crime of
murder, now so prevalent in the state,
and inviting the ministers of Christ of
all denominations to unite on that day
in upholding “the sacredness of hu-
man life and the honor of onr beloved
state.” The bishop says:
“The sin of murder is upon us.
Homicides are of frequent, distressing
occurrence, and in our judgment the
public conscience needs to be in¬
structed and the public mind aroused
to a sense of the danger which threat-
CI1S the character of our people,
“The soldiers on the battlefield,
^e officer of the law in discharge of
p; g p regC ribed duties, the citizen in
defense of his own life, may take life
without incurring the guilt of murder,
for tJiey act } )y warrant of delegated
authority of rulers who are ‘God’s
m i n i s ters’ and ‘bear the sword’ by di-
vine authority to punish evil doers,
<qgut suc p murders as have of late
on t ra ged the law of God and degraded
tlie sacre dness of life, and dishonored
the couras;e an d character of our peo-
pie, ^ can lay no claim whatever to the
nctioa of divine authority. We feel
that public sentiment needs to be
aroU sed to a higher and nobler esti-
mate c f human life. We call upon
0 ur clergy to rebuke the murderer and
to proc i a i m the law of Almighty God.”
TRIED TO EXTERMINATE FAMILY.
Beport of a Horriibie Tragedy in Halo
County, Alabama,
A Birmingham, Ala., special says:
At Warren’s store, in Hale county,
ten miles north of Greensboro, John
Singley, a wealthy farmer, was called
from his door Wednesday night by a
negro, said to be Bill Scott, who
worked about the place. The negro
said he wanted some one to aid in the
capture of a loose horse.
When about 100 yards from the
hfiuse the negro is said to have clubbed
Mr. Singley aud cut his throat with a
knife. The negro then broke into the
house and killed Mrs. Singley and the
boy, cutting tbeir throats, almost sev-
ering their heads. He then opened a
drawer stole $700, after which he fled.
Aid was summoned from Greens¬
boro. Doctors were among those who
responded, but Singley’s wife and the
boy were both dead. Dogs were car¬
ried to the scene and every attempt to
run the negro down was made.
Singley was found to be badly in¬
jured, but was able to tellthe story
and give the name of his assailant.
UNHJUE LEGAL POINT.
Nebraska’s Convict and Bondsmen Can¬
not Be Sued.
A novel petition has been filed in
the district court at Omaha, Neb., by
Joseph Bartley, ex-state treasurer,
now under twenty years’ sentence for
looting the treasury of $500,000.
The petition was an answer to the
state’s suit, in which Bartley is made
co-defendant with his bondsmen by
the state, in which it seeks to recover
the amount stolen.
The petition declares that Bartley
cannot be sued, since he is sentenced
to the penitentiary for twenty years.
His attorneys declare that under the
state law no convict can be sued. If
this contention is held the suit against
the bondsmen cannot be maintained,
since the principal must be sued with
or before sureties are sued in Nebraska.
TO DEDICATE MONUMENT.
Fifteen Hundred Pennsylvania Troop!
Will Go to Chattanooga.
Adjutant General Stewart, of Penn¬
sylvania, will issue orders to fifteen
hundred Pennsylvania soldiers for
free transportation to Chattanooga and
return, to attend the dedication on
November loth cf the Pennsylvania
monuments on the Chickamauga bat¬
tlefield.
Governor Hastings and staff will
participate in the ceremonies, along
with representatives of the national
government and the Pennsylvania
battlefield commission.
GRAIN SHIPPERS ACTIVE.
Anxious To Get In Their Work Before
Advance In Rates.
Dispatches state that grain shippers
throughout the west are making stren¬
uous efforts to buy up grain and have
it enroute to southern ports before
Monday, when there will be an ad-
vanco made of six cents a hundred on
grain between Kansas City and the
gulf. of nearly
This means an increase
four cents a bushel on the cost of
wheat at New Orleans. Every availa¬
ble car is being pressed into service.
PRESIDENT LEAVES CANTON.
A Sad Leave Takinu From Bedside of
His Dying Mother.
Sadder soenes were never witnessed
than the leave-taking of President
McKinley from his dying mother at
Canton Saturday afternoon.
The president left the city at 2:05
p. m. Shortly before the departure he
hold v, couferiucs with the doctor, who
advised that Mr. McKinley carry out
the original plan of leaving for Wash-
ington. He urged that the duties in-
cumbent upon the nation’s chief exec¬
utive were such that it was absolutely
necessary for him to bo at the white
house when congress assembled and
assured the president that no act of a
loving son or any other mortal could
do anything for the aged mother and
that she would never again be able to
recogiuize him or to recognizo his
presence or absence.
The president’s last words to the
every" family were that he be telegraphed at
station along the route as to his
mother’s condition.
Tlie president definitely arranged to
return to Canton Tuesday morning,
as soon ns he had completed his du-
ties in connection with the ojJening of
congress.
TEN THOUSAND BALES ANNUALLY.
Will lie Used by New Cotton Mills 111
Alabama.
The Indian Head cotton mills at
Cordova; Ala., within the next thirty
days will be in operation. The mills
have a capacity of 25,000 spindles and
800 looms.
Ten thousand bales of cotton will
be used annually. product of
It is given out that the
the mills will be sold in China, brok-
ers in that country having contracted
to handle the cloth made. A large
number of skilled hands will be en¬
gaged from the east and many hun¬
dreds of natives will be instructed in
the work.
Two hundred houses for operatives
are being built and the intentions are
to construct a duplicate of the mills
when these are in operation.
GOVERNOR GRIGGS ACCEPTS.
Officially Announced That no will succeed
McKenna.
« was officially announced at Wash-
™gton . Saturday, upon the retain of
the president, that Governor John W.
Griggs, of New Jersey, had been office ten¬
dered, and had accepted the of
attorney general of the United States,
which will be vacated by the nomina¬
tion of Attorney General McKenna to
bo associate justice of the supreme
Court.
It has not yet been settled when
Governor Griggs shall assume his new
office, but it is probable the date will
he about the beginning of the new
year.
IRON FURNACE CHANGES HANDS.
New Company ‘Will Put tlie Bristol Plant
to Work.
The sale of the Bristol iron furnace
at Bristol, Tenn., to the Home Iron
company for $29,000 does not repre¬
sent what the furnace really brought,
for in advance of the sale the pur¬
chasing company bought claims against
the property to the amount of $85,-
000 .
The furnace and appurtenances, in¬
cluding ore, cake, coal and limestone
on the ground,is estimated to be worth
upward of $400,000.
The company expects to put the
furnace in operation soon.
WILL BOMBARD FORTS.
Is Now Germany’s Threat Against Hay-
tian Republic.
The semi-official Post of Berlin in
its issue of Saturday says:
“Should Hayti refuse the German
demands for an indemnity on account
•of the alleged illegal arrest and im¬
prisonment of Herr Lueders, a Ger¬
man subject, sharp measures will
follow.
“We shall first bomboard the coast
forts, and if they are persistent, we
shall bombard Port-au-Prince aud the
government buildings.”
INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS.
Commissionov Forman Reports His Esti¬
mate For the Coming Year.
In his annual report to the secretary
of the treasury, Mr. Forman, commis¬
sioner of internal revenue, estimates
the reoeipts from all sources for the
current fiscal year will aggregate at
least $155,000,000, an increase over
1897 of about $8,300,000.
SILVER SUITS MEXICANS.
Report That Gold Basis Would Bo
Adopted la Denied.
The Mexican Herald denies author¬
itatively the report from Paris, pub¬
lished in London, that Mexico is mak¬
ing preparations to go on a gold basis,
and says Mexico’s finances are handled
with admirable caution and sagacity,
and whatever may bo the future policy
of the government regarding the cur¬
rency basis, there is at present no
thought of changing from the silver
standard, which is contributing to the
growth of manufacturing and other
industries.
TARHEEL DEMOCRATS
Reaffirm the ChlcaRo and State Platform
of Bast Year.
A special from Raleigh, N. C., states
that the democratic state committee
was in session there Friday and issued
an address to the voters of the state
declaring that the democratic party is
the party of the people, reaffirming
the Chicago and state platforms of
last year, declaring that William J:
Bryan is the great leader of the and party,
denouncing republican misrule in¬
viting all populists to unite with the
democrats in regaining control of the
state.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
The directors of the Georgia Pine
railway has definitely decided to build
the road on to Arlington as originally
projected. •
A movement is on foot to establish a
co-operative store or a number of them
in Macon. The plan is on the line of
socialism, and appears to be supported
by the strong sympathy of a large
number of people,
* * *
The action taken by Colonel Allen
D. Candler in announcing for the gov-
ernorship and placing his political
future in the hands of his friends has
created a great stir about tbe eapitol,
and the almost unauimous opinion is
that he will be a formidable candidate,
The work of vaccinating the inhab-
itaqts of Atlanta proceeded briskly the
p aa t week. A small army of doctors
started out armed with virus and did
not stop until every human being, in
the city was made safe from the small-
pox. They took the city by sections
and every inch of territory was covered,
* * *
Judging from the large number of
letters and telegrams which have
been received from all portions of the
south, the indications are that the at¬
tendance upon the proposed conven¬
tion of southern bankers, which meets
to discuss currency reform ou Decem¬
ber 15th in Atlanta, will be very large
aud will represent every important
city in the southern states.
Tho Cuban delegation in Atlanta has
just issued an address to the members
of congress on the Cuban war for in¬
dependence, giving an interesting out¬
line of Spain’s attitude toward the
island and what should be the attitude
of the United States toward Spain.
The local colony, consisting of some of
the most prominent Cubans in this
country, are indignant that this gov¬
ernment has not as yet taken any de¬
cided action to prevent bloodshed and
for the sake of liberty in Cuba.
Revenue Agent Colquitt hns made
his report of the work of the depart¬
ment in Georgia and Alabama for the
last month. The figures show no de¬
crease in the moonshine business, but
prove that the revenue officers are
making assiduous and successful ef¬
forts to uphold the law. In Georgia
eighty-two distillers have been cap¬
tured, fifty-nine stills and 1,538 gal¬
lons of spirits. Fifty of these stills
were found in the ninth district.
Thirty-seven distillers were caught in
Alabama, thirty stills found and forty-
one gallons of spirits destroyed. The
department is working smoothly and
raids are being made every day.
The hill of President Berner, intro¬
duced in the senate the past week re¬
pealing the 10 per cent tax ou state
banks and allowing them to issue cur¬
rency to the amount of 50 per cent of
their unimpaired capital stock, has
been the subject of much discussion
among bankers of the state. Some
a 'e in favor of the measure, believing
it would be a decided step toward re¬
lieving the financial stringency, and
others believe it would be a step in the
opposite direction. Some go so far as
to state the measure is absolutely fool¬
ish, that it is impracticable aud that the
plan could never be successfully ma¬
terialized in view of the federal stat-
utes.
The retail liquor men of Atlanta have
won a strong point before the police
and ordinance committees of the gen¬
eral council and the council will doubt¬
less concur in tho action of the com¬
mittees in submitting an ordinance
changing the liquor regulations in sev-
eral respects. The ordinance increases
the license rate from $50 to $500 for
the sale of liquors by the quart and
upward by the drug stores. The drug
stores will be required to close the
saloon parts of their establishments
"h Sundays and holidays and promptly
at 10 o’clock at night. Any violation
of the law will work a revocation of
the license and the city proposes to
closely guard the liquor traffic iu the
drug stores.
It is reported that Judge Seaborn
Beese, of the northern circuit, will
either resign from the bench or un-
dergo another investigation. It will
be remembered that Judge Beese
figured with Judge Sweat, of the
Brunswick circuit, in the famous trial
before a committee of the general
assembly last February, which was
instigated by Senator Yancey Carter.
Both judges were vindicated. Now
there other cnarges against Judge
Reese, and on top of the report of an
intended investigation comes the ru-
nun- that he may resign. The charges
are of drunkeriPess both off and on the
bench since the investigation in Feb-
ruary. It is the wish of the populists
that the investigation be brought about
by the democrats in the legislature.
Otherwise the charges will he preferr¬
ed by the populists.
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Mrs. Hannah S. Gould, who’ with
Colonel E. C. Machen built the Cov¬
ington aud Macon railroad, and after¬
wards undertook the construction of
the Middle Georgia and Atlantic, is
about to be off with 100 women’to ex¬
plore the Klondike. Mrs. Gould is
well remembered in Georgia as one of
the most daring of women. When she
first came south and interested herself
in the building of the Covington and
Macon railroad, now know as the
Macon and Northern, she not only
dedicated her money and time to fur¬
ther the scheme, but also put herself
at the head of the construction forces
and was much of the time in the field
directing personally the surveyors and
the laborers. The news of her latest
scheme is received with interest by
the people of Macon, where she re¬
sided at the time.