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+-l-++mm-|-+++-!4-++++++§ Efl*'b*-b'bim%-b-t'b***+&-+§ .Epitomized Items of Interest Gathered at Random, School Teachers Get Salaries, Some $225,000 was sent out from the state capitol for the past week for the payment of teachers’' galaries all over the state for the montn of January. " Mo e Justice Simmons Secks Re-Election. Ghief Justice Thomas J. Simmops, of the supreme court of Gorgia makes his formal announcement as a candi date to succeed himself, subject to the primary which is to be held on April 20th. . % ¥ New Bank Chartered in Burke. Secretary of State Phil Cook has granted a charter to the Bank of Met ter in Burke county. The capital stock of the new bank will be $25000, of which $15,000 hag already been paid in. This makes the two hundred and twenty-fifth state bank now in opera wtlon in Georgia., : * =% 4 Dyal Held to Grand Jury. At Hinesville a committant trial of John Dyal, formerly section foreman of the Atlantic Coast Line, charged with the recent assassination of Leon ard Murray, was held the past week. It resulted in Dyal being held for murder. The evidence against hiwm was entirely circumstantial, * % =% Historic Building to Come Down. Within a few weeks the otd building that has served Savannah as a city ex change for more than 100 years willl be removed to make way for a new city hall of modern type. The new building will be erected at a cost of $209,000 and will be five stories higa, not to mention the lofty cupola. * % * Cornerstone of Courthouse Laid. The cornerstone of Jefferson coun ty’'s magnificent new $40,000 court house was laid a few days ago with appropriate exercises. The ceremony was witnesged by a large number of citizens from Jefferson and adjoining counties, including the city and coun ty officials, and the pupils of the Loulsville High school. 1 ™ » *® Waycress Rifles on Probation. The Waycross Rifles, company F, of the Fourth Georgia regiment, has been placed on probation by Inspector General Willilam G. Obear. The in spection did not show the company to be in the best military condition, and on that account it was given 90 days to get in shape. Other companies are showing up well, so far as is known, ® % * Bonds Voted for School Building. An election was held in Nashville the past week for the purpose of vot ing bonds for a school building. A good vote was polled, with only one against bonds. A $5,000 school building will be erected at cnce. This means much [or Nashville. The citizens are highly pleased ‘over the result. : ® %* » Baggs Held for Manslaughter. The commitment trial of M. B. Baggs, for the murder of John Hunter, was heard at Bainbridge before Judge B. B. Bower. A large number of wit nesses, both for the defendant and prosecution, were examined and after all the evidence was in, Judge Bower bound the defendant over for volun tary manslaughter and fixed his bond at $5,000, which was promptly given. = * o Nurserymen to Meet in Atlanta. The 29th annual convention of the American Association of Nurserymen will be held in Atlanta the latter part of June, Mayor Howell has received a letter from Robert C. Berckmans, calling his attention to the fact that the associa tion will hold its annual convention at the Georgia capital and inviting him to make a welcome address on the part of the city. Governor Joseph M. Terrell has been invited to welcome the delegates on bchalf of the state, The association numbers about £OO members and the convention will draw several hundred delegates. The Atlan-' ta conventlon will be the second ever held in the south, and every effort will ' be made to give the nurserymen at tending a royal good time, l o L] * Fulton Standg by Clayton, The Fulton county democratic exec utive committee met at Atlanta a few days ago and changed the date of the county primary from April 14 to April 20, the day on which the state pri mary will be held. That was what the committee was called together to do, but it was merly incidental to what transpired after the committee met. There was a two hours’ wrangle, hot debates and sensation denouments which made th meeting the liveliest the committee has held in a fortnight. The wrangle grew out of a set,of reso lutions pledging Fultocn county to sup port the claimg of Clayton county in tiio senatorial race for the thirty-fifth district. Resolutions instructing Ful- | ton county’s delegates to vote for Clayton’'s claims were passad by a majority of one vote. A * % @ Pigmy Case Before High Court. The supreme court of the United States will pass on the question as to whether Vineville, formerly a suburb of Macon, Bibb county, now a part of Macon, has been legally incorpor ated as a part of that city. The Vinevllle legislation and litiga tion has become famous. It was con sidered practicallyclosed, but Attorney John R. Cooper, of Macon, represent ing J. W. Toney and others, has now secured the assent of Chief Justice T. J. Simmons, of the Georgia supreme court, to a writ of error, carrying the case to the supreme. court of the, United St#fes. Citation was also is gued directed to the mayor and alder men of the city of Macon, who are the defendants in the case, to appear belore the United States suprenie court to angwer this cause on Monday, April 4. % & % Day Fixed for Tax Returns. February 1 is made the date for tax returns this year by order of the governor, comptroller general and state treasurer. This means that all parties who owned property on Keb ruary 1, this year, will have to pay taxes on it, no matter whether, they were in continuous ownership, or bought it the day before or sold It the day after. Under the law the governor, corap troller general and state treasurer are required immediately after the first of March each year, to fix a date to which all retuurns for taxation of both real and personal property shall be referred. A "day prior to the date of the order is, of course, always se lected so that no one will be put on notice and thus given an opportunity to transfer property, or in the case ot personal property, get it out of the state. The date last year was March 15, or a month and a half later than the date scolected this time. It is custo mary to get the dates some distance apart from year to year, so that any evasion of the law on the ground of the date may be prevented. The date must always be fixed between January 1 and April 1. » * % Capitol Officials Deny Allegation. Capitol officials are discussing a gtatement that has appeared in the2 public prints to the effect that the re cent action of the state democratic “executive committee in providing that the delgates to the ‘state convention \sha]l be from among the friends and supporters of the successful candi- dates, puts entirely into the hands of the state house officers the maiter o&- the attitude of the people of Georgia on the presidency. . The particular feature of the com mittee’s resolutions which it is said permits this states “that the respec tive county committees shall, when they compile and declare the result of gaid vote, select from among the ac tive supporters of the successful can didates, delegates to the state conven tion.” It is well known that with the ex ception of one or two instances, the present state house officers this year have no opposition for rs election. The Augusta Chronicle charges, therefore, in an editorial, that the capitol offi cials have it entirely within their pow er to control Georgia’s attitude on the presidential nomination. Capitol officials state that the intl mation contained in this editorial does them an injustice. They assert that under the arrangmenf 1t is not only impossible for them fo exercise any such control, but they have no desire to do it, even if they could. ] ® » * ' To Correlate the High Schools. ' Of general interest to the people of the state is the plan recendy adopted by the State University forl correlating the educational interests, The state school commissioner has arranged a seven years’ grammar school course for all the elementary schools of the state. The university offers to accredit high schools that will give three years’ instruction above the grammar school course, under competent teachers, in the sub jects mentioned below. Students from accredited high schools will be admitted to the university on the certificate of gthe of the principal of the school. The schools will be vigited by university officials and the work ingpected and only those schools will be placed on the accredited list and be allowed to use the university in their catalogs that are doing ef ficient preparatory work., The school% accredited will have a standing en-' dorsement by the university and will thus be enabled to increase their patronage from the surrounding ter ritory. It exalts the good school and acts as an incentive for befter work on the part of other schools. The university presents the follow ing requirements for all courses: 1. English: Grammar, Composition,l Classics, 6 units. 2. Mathematics: Arithmetic, Alge bra, Plane Geometry, 6 units. 1 3. History and Civics: 4 units. | Ancient History, 2 units. } English History, 1 unit. i ~ American Histary, 1 unit, or 18 - weeks. 1 Requirements for Bachelor of Arts | Course: . | 1-3. Studies in Group 1. \ 4. Latin, 6 units, ' i 5. Greek, 4 units. 'Requirements for General Science, Engineering and Agricultural Courses for Bachelor of Science De gree: 1-3. Studies in Group 1. 4. One foreign language (either Latin, Greek, French, German or Spanish), 4 units. ' 5. Elementary Physics, 2 units. 6. Physical Geography, 2 units. _ 7. And one of the following, each 2 units. 1. Addi}ional year’s work in a foreign language,. ‘ 2. Botany. 3. Chemistry. 4. Drawing. 5. Physiology. 6. Elementary Agriculture. Schools desiring further informa tion regarding the above should ad dross, the University, Athens, Ga. —J. S. STEWART. We are ready to enter your name on our subscription books. You will net miss the small sum necessary to be ocome our subscriber. HUNDRED MILE AN HOUR TRAIN. is In Sight and Will Come on Long . s Runs. We note witn pleasure that our :pace-devouring friends at Zossen have not yet satiated their hunger ‘or space and touched the record the sther day for no less than 140 miles per hour. They seem to be overcom ing air presure rather comfortably up to the present, and we have heard nothing about the motors. failing or - the pressure caving in the front end of the car. Perhaps the doubting gen- - tlemen who figured on the motors burning out from overload at 80 miles per hour to 100 miles per hour will now be convinced that higher speers are both possible and practicable. One hundred and forty miles per hour is a decidedly hot pace, but it will more than likely be beaten before we go to press. It has taken a good many years to evolve the two-minute trotting horse, but this year we have him in triplicate, and just so it has been with electric railroading. - Once the records began to break they fairly blew up and left only small fragments. One hundred and forty miles per hour, even if not outdone by a considerable margin, still means that the hundred-mile-an-hour train is much nearer to reality than it has ever been before. That speed is quite feasible whenever it is demanded, and it is, moreover, quite high enough to meet the requirements of humanity for some little time to come.} Its real importance lies, as we have/often re-- marked, in its application to ;ong lines on which the saving of time would be material. Cutting down the running time to Flatbush or Hackensack may defer the dyspepsia of the commuter for another season or two, but it is not. commercially important. It is cut-- ting the time on long runs that counts —reducing the time to Washington to less than three hours, converting the trip to Chicago into a mere night’s. run. It is now announced that the ex periments have been conducted largely with the idea of early applica-- tion of the system to the railroad con-- necting Berlin with Humburg, distant by rail 176 miles from each other, and that an early conversion jf that line is by no means improbz:r;e. Some how the hundred-mile-ar§ our train looks nearer than it did a few months ago, and our spyglass is still trained in the direction of Germany.—Street Railway Journal. ; RATS MADE BED OF MONEY. When the Nest Was Found‘the Miss ing Bills Were All Intact. A short time ago Mrs. Mike Huller, who kecps a grocery store at the cor ner of Eighth and Elm streets, hid away where she could easily find it $76 in Dbills for use at a time when necessity or desire reqiaired it. She i thought of thieves, but not of the ro dent description, and was therefore guite particular in seecting a hid ing place. A few days later she thought she would tak: a look at her hidden treasure, with ‘he view of as suring herself that the money was where she had hidcden. it, but on going to the place hir surprise can [easil'y be imagined wlen, on placing her hand where the noney ought to have heen, she discoferad that it was. gone. Matters remained h that condition ‘up to a few days ag), when, héaring | & rat traveling arourd the house, the 'idea struck her tha, rats were the !real purloiners of ha money. Going * to work with a vim, the was not long; in ripping up two Or. three planks | from the flcor of one¢ of the rooms of ’the house, and, intituting a close gearch, was greatly dated to find that Irodents had actudly stolen the | money, packed it awgy and made a ‘lcosy bey of it, for bh it was be i fore her eyes. Everl ill was found “ntact, not a dollar fiséing. 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