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GEORGIA.
Brief Summary of Doings
Throughout the State.
Hon, Frank W. Copeland has with
drawn from the race for congress in
_the Seventh district. He declares that
the fixing of the primary for April 20th
does not give him time to make a can
vass of the district,
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Dispensaries Show Profit.
The Hawkinsville dispensary gives
out a statement showing a profit since
their last statement of $7,472.12,
The Cochran dispensary paid $l,OOO
to the county and $l,OOO to Cochran
as its first quarterly profits.
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Reunion to Be Held in Rome,
General P. A. 8. McGlashan, com
manding the Georgla division, U. C. V,,
makes the official announcement that
the reunion of the division will take
place at Rome September 14th and
16th,
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Will Make a Splendid Showing.
The department of agriculture this
vear will make a big showing for the
state. Commissioner O. B. Stevens
says the net receipts from the sale of
fertilizer tags and other small sources
will reach $60,000, which is $lO,OOO
ahead of last year’'s record. Commis
sioner Stevens and those associated
with him are naturaily quite proud of
this record, which will be the best by
£lO,OOO that the department has ever
made, i
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Vidalia Has Three Roads. l
The Millen and Southwestern rail
road was completed a few days ago to
Vidalia and connections made between
the Macon, Dublin and Savannah and
Seaboard Air Line, and is now ready
for work. . ‘
The track is all surfaced up except
the last mile Passenger trains will
te put on in a few days. This gives
Vidal'a three leading roads with good |
connections to all parts of the state. l
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Blalock for Next Senator.
There will be no fight in the 38th
senatorial district, composed of Fulton,
Cobb and Clayton counties, for the
senatorship. Hon. A. C. Blalock, of
Fayette, will be elected without oppo
sition. Hon. D. W. Blair, of Marietta,
who was to make the race from Cobb,
has withdrawn from the contest, and
what for a time threatened to be quite
a mixup among the democrats of the
three counties named is now calm and
serene,
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To Decide Contested Election Case.
Secretary of State Cook will be call
ed upon in a few days to decide a con
tested election between the towns of
Isabella and Sylvester, in Worth coun
ty. At a recent election the people of
Worth county voted to have the coun
ty site transferred from Isabella,
where it has been for many years, to
Sylvester. The people of Isabella are
complaining that the election was not
fair and as a result they have appeal-‘
ed the case to Secretary of State
Cook, who will go over the testimony
that is to be taken. Mr. Cook will
make a decision and will submit a le
port to the legislature,
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Twenty Years for Incendiary.
At Preston, Henry Morgan, charged
with the crime of setting fire to the
own a few weeks ago, was found
guilty of arson and sentenced to twen
ty years in the penitentiary.
Sidney Harrell's case was also call
ed, but on account of the sickness of
his attorney, a nol pross was entered
after the prisoner had been brought in
and the case continued.
Since the day of the fire both Har
rell and Morgan had been confined in
'the Americus jail. Both defendants
bave heretofore stood high in the com
munity.
So high was the feeling against
them at the time of their arrest that
Judge Littlejohn ordered the Americus
Light Infantry to Preston tocarry them
to the Americus jail in order to pre
vent a lynching.
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Five Years for Shanghaing.
In the United States court at Savan
nah Judge Speer gentenced Harry Ol
sen, a well known citizen, to five years
in the penitentiary and imposed a fine
of $5,000, the limit under the law. The
trial jury found him guilty of shang
haing or kidnapping Rose Smallwood,
one of eight negroes deported from
Savannah on the Russian bark Alice
to Bristol, England.
The convention is the first ever se
cured under section 5525 of the revised
statute, which provides against this
form of involuntary servitude.. In
sentencing the prisoner, the court ad
ministered a scathing rebuke, saying
that it was difficult to realize that such
'a crime could be possible in this age.
he penalty of the law was not, the
court said, adequate punishment for
the iniquitous conduct of such a reck
less man, whose conduct resulted in a
reproach in foreign land, not only of
this state, but the nation itself. 0
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- Must Pay Taxes on Dispensaries,
Despite the fact that dispensaries
for the sale of liquors which are oper
ated by counties, are public property,
Attorney General Hart holds that they
are subject to taxation by the statz,
and the county under judge Hart’s rul
ing must not only pay taxes on such
real estate as is used in the conduct of
the dispensary, but upon the entire
stock of wines and liquors carried for
sale.
Attorney General Hart rendered this
opinion recently as the result of an
inquiry from Comptroller General W.
A. Wright, who stated that the num
ber of these dispensaries throughout
ihe state is being increased all the
time, and it was important that a rul
ing should be made in this matter.
The present legislature put a speci
fic tax of $2OO on these dispensaries,
the same as is required of all other lig
uwor dealers throughout the state.
Judge Hart holds that the dispensary
should likewise pay an ad valorem on
the stock of goods carried as well as
on any real estate it might own.
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Money Raised to Build Road.
The building of the railroad from
Valdosta to the Ocmulgee river via
Douglas was made sure Saturday at
one of the most important meetings
ever held in Valdosta. Committees
from Douglas and Milltown, composed
of leading men of these places, met
to confer with the committee which re
cently made a trip over the proposed
line. The Douglas people brought with
them a proposition to the effect that
if Valdosta would build to Leliaton, oa
the Brunswick and Western division or‘
the Atlantic Coast Line, they would
raise the necessary money and build
the line from thelr town to Leliaton,
where the lines would be merged.
Valdosta had alrady subscribed $69,-
000 to the new road. This amount was
increased to $lOO,OOO at Saturday’s
meeting, and a company will be or
ganized at once to build the road. Men
with ample means and.splendid busi
ness judgment are back of the move
ment and will put their money in it.
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Yeates Goes to St. Louis,
State Geologist W. S. Yeates left
Atlanta last Saturday afternoon for
St. Louis to begin arranging the Geor
gia exhibit which is to be made at_the
Louisiana Purchase exposition. The
big show opens on April 30th, and Mr.
Yeates is very desirous of having the
exhibit ready on time,
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Education in the Wiregrass Section.
No part of our state is developing
more rapidly educationally than South
Georgia. 1 have recently spent two
‘weeks along the Georgia Southern &
Florida railway. An awakening, a
growth, a development is seen in every
industry equalling the awakening of
rature in the spring time. One feeis
the new life in the very atmosphere.
Towns not ten years old show beauti
ful homes, blocks of brick buildings,
large manufacturing establishments
and splendid public buildings. And
they are building these cities on an
intelligent basis. Marked attention is
given to public schools. Moultrie,
the capital of Colquitt county, has built
a $3,000 court house and has issued
bonds for a $25,000 school building.
They say they want the best class oi
people to settle there and to attract
this class, a city must have good
'schools free to all. Cordele is build
ing a $22,000 public school house; Adel
and Sparks in the same county have
built $5,000 buildings. Tifton has out
grown her first school, as has Vienna,
each is talking of a new brick build
ing. In Ocilla, Abbeville, Rochells,
Fitzgerald, Douglass and Arabi, the
people point with pride to their
schools. At Obe, out in the pines in
Colquitt county, Mr, Norman has giv
en $25,000 for a high school. Val
dosta, Quitman and Thomasville have
well equipped public schools. The
boys and girls are coming from the
country adjoining these schools and
are taking a more extended course
than they can receive in the rural
schools. Large boarding departmen's
are found at Arabi, Obe, Sparks, Abbe
ville and Douglas. In many cases
now, students are being content with
short courses, “bread and butter edu
cation,” as some of them call it; but
they must soon see that the more
thorough education of the high school
and college courses makes the strongar
man. Soon these young men will be
flocking to the colleges. Everywhere
the educatiopal awakening is keeping
pace with the industrial development.
The people talk education with as
much interest as they do politics and
an educational rally or speaker will
draw as large a crowd as the political
orator.
There is much money being made.
in South Georgia, and in every town
[ have visited that is growing the pub
lic schools are receiving a fair share
of the funds. Much interest was ex
pressed in the University’s efforts to
build up and correllate good high
schools.—J. S. Stewart, of State Uni
versity.
FALL RIVER MILLS CURTAIL.
Twenty Corporations to Close Two
Days a Week for Indefinite Time.
Twenty of the corporations in Fall
River, Mass., engaged in the manufac
ture of print cloths, controlling sixty
five mills, have entered into an agree
ment to curtail production by shut
ting down two days a week. The ac
tion is due to unsettled conditions in
the cotton and cloth markets
ROW IN CUBAN CONGRESS.
Disagreement Between Political Par
ties Prevents Organization, |
A special from Havana says: Thir
ty-five republicans and moderate lil
erals sat in tne house of representa
tives Wednesday, but were unable to
assemble the number necessary o
open the session, which is forty-two.
The nationalists, including Speaker
Torre, held ther conferences in th:
ante-rooms.
| JAP STUDENTS ARRIVE.
Fifteen Come Over to Work for Jap
anese Exhibitors at Fair.
Fifteen Japanese students from the
Tokio university, Japan, arrived in S:
Lonis Tuesday to work for the Jan
’anese exhibitors during the world's
fair. The students, wearing the'r mor
’tar-board caps, set up a wild cheer as
soon as they left their train at the
unfon station whenever they saw their
lnat‘.ve flag waving in the crowd
—ln the senate Wednesday Messrs.
Gorman and Clay, democrats, arraign
ed the republicans for refusing to
‘order an investigation of the postof
fice department. ~
—ln the house Wednesday Judge
Bartlett, of Georgia, showed that there
is mob lawlessness now in New BEng
land as well as in other sections of
‘the United States.
l —At the Bennett will hearing in
New Haven, Conn., Judge- Stoddard,
‘counsel for the widow, attacked Mr,
Bryan so fiercely that the Nebraskan
created a scene in the court room.
DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS.
For St. Louis Convention Establrshed
in Hotel Jefferson,
A St. Louis dispatch says: Perma
nent headgquarters for the national
democratic convention to be held July
6 were established Thursday at the
hotel Jefferson, which was formaily
opened-to the public.
Colonel John Martin, sergeant at
arms for the convention, has arranged
for telegraph and telephone instru
ments, so that direct communication
can be obtained.
SLEW GIRL AND HER FATHER.
Young Man, Balked in Elopement, En.
acts Horrible Tragedy.
A peeculiar tragedy occurred Thurs
day near Water Valley ,Miss. Ed Gam
mon, a young farmer, had made all ar
rangements to elopu with Miss Fannie
Kimsey, when her father appeared on
the scene. Gammon shot and killed
him.
Phe daughter endeavored to escape
from the scene, but Gammon also sheot
and killed her, and then made his es
cape.
LIBERTY AWAITS HOWARD.
Erstwhile Parson and College Presi
dent Will Soon.Be Released.
Judge Hammond, in the United
States district court at Memphis,
Tenn., has sustained the demurrers in
the case of the United States vs. C.
S. B. Howard, on trial under the
charge of subornatiocn of perjury.
This action of the court practically
means Howard will go free. It is ex
pected that he will be liberated in a
week or ten days.
SSENTENCED FOR SHANGHAING.
Harry Olsen Qiven Five Yearg in Pen
i and a Fine of $5,000,
In the United Btates court at Savan
nah, Ga., Judge Speer gentenced Harry
Olsen, a well-known citizen, to five
years in the penitentiary and a fine
of $5,000, the Hmit under the law. The
trial jury having found him guilty of
shanghsaing, or kidnaping, Mose Small
wood, one of eight negroes deported
from Savannah en the Russian ‘bark
Alice to Bristol, England.
STATEHOOD BILLS OPPOSED.
Minority Report FHed in House by
Tennesses Representative, .
Majority and minority views r}f the
statehood bill, recently reported from
the house committee on terripories,
were filed in the house Friday by Rep
resentatives Hamilton, of Mic‘ljigan,
and Moon, of Tennessee, respectively.
Mr. Hamilton reviews the provisions
of the bill at length and urges' the
necessity and justice of admitting the
four territories as two states. The
minority views are signed by Repre
sentatives Moon, Loyd, Robinson, of
Indiana and Thayer.
A QUESTION. 4
She—Charles, dear, bow many teeth
does a baby have?
He—l don’t know. But I think that,
after the way I've walked the floor for
the last six months ours ought to hav(
at least a hundred and fifty by thit
time.—Detroit Free Press.