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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, 5 8 N 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. s ® 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, * % - 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 ® » # 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 ® % = : 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 D. W. Blair, of Marietta, who was to make the race from Cobb, has withdrawn from the contest, and what for a time threatened to be quite a mixup among the democrats of the three counties named is now calm and serene, &« % 2 To Decide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, ® @ 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. * 2 = 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 . * = - 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. v ® = 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. ® i it 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, * s * 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.