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The Lee County Journal. M. E. TISON, Editor and Publisher. YOIL VHI " b i GEORGIA. ¢ POV Q““‘Q‘ Brief Summary of Doings Throughout the State. Gordon Fund Climbing Up. The fund being raised for a memo rial monument to General John B. Gor don has grown considerably withia the last few weeks, and the reports made at recent meetings of the associations show that the subscriptions have run up considerably over $5,000, ' & & % Mayor of St. Mary’s Commissioned. Governor Terrell has commissioned thé* new mayor and aldermen of St. Mary’s, Camden county, Georgia. The new officials are: Mayor, L. M. Vo ccelli; aldermen, J. R. Bachlott, J. F. Arnow, H. L. Long, R. Lee Buaikley and J. M. Miller. Under a spernisl act these appointments are made by the governor, : ® ® = Morris to Make Contest. Hon. N. A, Morris, of Cobb, speak er of the house of representatives,who lost the race for the judgeship of the Blue Ridge circuit against Judge Geo. T. Gober, the incumbent, by about 200 votes, according to the official count, states - positively that he intends to contest the race, both as to the vote in Fannin and that in Cobb county. He has filed formal notice to this effect with the executive committees of each of these counties, and it is said that an interesting investigation will be the result. Judge Gober has also filed a contest as to the vote in Gilmer coun ty on very much the same grounds, and this will probably be investigated at the same time. #* % Military Companies Disbanded. Four companies of Georgia state trcops have been ordered disbanded by special orders issued from the of fice of Adjutant General Harris. The companies disbanded include two col ored military organiation in Savannah, which, it is said, have never made a satisfactory showing. : Two white companies, both attached to the Third Infantry Regiment, were -also dishanded. These are Company ‘B, Third Infantry, located at Augusta and known as the Irish Volunteers, and Company C, Third Infantry, locat ed at Greensboro, and known as the Greene Rifles. The two negro companies disbanded were the Georgia Artillery and Com pany C, First Battalion, Georgia State {roops, colored, both of Savannah. s % Convict Law a Great Success. From all the information received at the prison commission the new convict law is working well. All of the coun ties which have convicts at work on the public roads seem to b 2 woil pleased with the results which are be: ing accomplished, and are highlv grat ified at the success of the plan. When the law was first passed, it was claimed that to put the five-year men and those under five-year sem tences on the public road would de tract materially from the school fuupa, but many of the counties decidad to take the convicts anyhow, believing LEESBURG, GA., FRIDAY. APRIL 29. 1904, that public roads in good coad.iion would be almost as valuable io the county as good schools, and thac lhe people, when they got good roads, would be willing to pay the additional tax for schools. ~ So far the convicts have given no ‘trouble, and seem to enjoy the open transfers of the convicts to the zoun ties as some of them are constantly being freed on account of the expira tion of their sentences. * ¥ % Cuthbert Has Line to Gulf. Cuthtert is rej»eing over the offi cial announcement of the purc..ase of the Tallahass:e. Carabell: and Georgia Railroad by the Gevigia, Florila and Alabama Railrcad. By this Cuthbert is piaced on a diract iine of only 156 miles to the Gulf of Mex: ico. At Carrabelle direct conaieetion is made with Pensacola, Mobi{'> and New Orleans steamers. At Tal'shas see, Fla., this road already givag an other connection with the Seaboard for Jacksonville and Pensacola. Be sides this, it places Cuthbert abori 20 miles nearer the gulf, over their ilie to St. Marks. It is stated that the Georgia, Florida snd Alabama will be gin the operafion of the Tallahassee, Carrabelle and Georgia at once. * % % Injunction in Sheriff's Race. The most exciting contest in the pri mary election in Coweta county la:st‘ week was that for sheriff, the randi dates being J. L. Brown, the !n-?um~‘ bent, and John H. Jones. Browl was. defeated by a small majority and on Saturday filed notice of contest with the county executive committece. To this petition Jones demurred on the ground that notice of contest was not filed within the time allowed under the rules adopted by the executive com mittee and for other reasons. The com mittee overruled the demurrer and ‘ decided to allow the contest to pro ceed. Later Judge R. W. Freeman is-I sued a temporary order restraining the execuiive committee from taking anyl further action in the proceedings and he will hear argument May 16 on a 1 motion to make the injunction per manent. : ! * %% Two Railroads Chartered. | Secretary of State Phil Cook has issued two railroad charters, one of these being to the Augusta and Elberton Railroad Company with a proposed capital stock of $lOO,OOO. This company proposes to build a line about 60 miles in length from Augus ta, running through the counties of Richmond, Columbia, Lincoln and El bert to Elberton. The other railroad chartered is known as the Chattanooga Electric Railway Company, which will build a line about five miles in length from Rosgville, on the Tennessee line, run ning out past Chickamauga Park, io a point near what is known as the Dixon House in Catoosa county. The capital stock of this company is $25, 000, and the principal office will be at Rossville, Walker county. % * % The Encampment at Gainesville. On April 11 the TUniversicy of Georgia Cadets, 180 strong, went into camp near Gainesville, for the pucpose of instruction in camp usage and ex tensive military practice. The camp was laid out hy the engineering corps. Every detail of regular military camp was carried out. There were inree drills a day, besides guard momnnt, of ficers’ school, rifie practice and zuard duty. The boys enjoyed the weex. The Danjonega boys came down for two days and joined In the sham bat tle. Governor Terrell and his staf in spected the camp on Friday. He stat ed that he had not inspected as neat or more orderly camp and that he had ‘heard nothing but praise from tho peo ple of Gainesville of the conduet of the young men. In its military depart ment the university has an exce'lent opportunity for the physical develop ment of the students. Military exer cises are regular and not spasmodie, reach all the students and not those alone who are fond of athletice, are kept within bounds and tend to de velop all the muscles systematically. Under proper training the cadet’; hody straightens, his head is held ercer, his step is firm and graceful, his shoul ders are thrown back, his chest ex pands and a manlier bearing takes the place of the slovenly gait, ronnd ed shoulders and uncertain look. The increased physical vigor result ing from military drill acts directly upon the central nervous systew, and the intellect is quickened. The mind is clearer and better prepared for the studies of the night after the in vigorating drills of the afternoon Vol untary attention becomes habitual. The soldier must attend. Mind-wandering is fatal, From concentration on the Arill to voluntary concentration of attention upon the preparation of his studizs is an easy step. Obedience and self-control b2acome second nature to a well trained cadet. Respect for authority is inculcated and the student becomes a law-abili'ng, law-sustaining citizen. The effect up on the character here is most marked for a good character is a comuictely fashioned will. Thus the habits of attention to details, of exactness and thoroughness, of executing commands and of commanding follows a voung man from the school room to thel counting house, office or factory. The university, in bringing the military feature of the institution into prom inence, is doing a great service to the state by using it as a means of phys ical training and of establishing good habits—J. S. STUART, of State Uni versity. | s 9 ' ‘ - Paying the School Teachers, State Treasurer R. E. Park is pre paring the checks for the second month’s salaries of the Georgia school teachers, and State School Commis sioner Merritt is busily engaged in the work incident to sending out these checks so that the teachers may re ceive them with the least possible de lay. This payment will amount to a total of $260,913.98. 28 0 ‘ Bankers Change Meeting Date. ~ The executive council of the Geor gia Bankers’ Association have fcund it necessary to change the date cf the meeting of the association at Loo%out Inn, Lookout Mountain, Chattancoga, ‘Tenn., from June 28th and 29th to ‘July 12th and 13th, In the schools of Rhienish Prussia a change of stockings and shoes is pro vided for the ume of sehool children who arrive with wet feet, ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY AT ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. ~ APPEAL MADE TO VETERANS. !Confederate Camps Asked to Aid in Gordon Monument Fund. President W. L. Calhoun, of the John B. Gordon Monument Associa ‘tion, at Allanta, Ga., has issued an appeal to the various camps of Con federate veterans throughout the south, to the Daughters of the Confed eracy and other patriofic societies, urging them to take prompt action in the matter of making contributions to the Gordon monument fund. The appeal is as follows: “Appeals to all the Confederate or ganizations throughout the southern states and elsewhere, having been sent out and asking aid in the movement to ralse funds for the erection of a meénument or statue at the capital of Georgia to perpetuate the memory of General John B. Gordon, the late com mander-in-chief of the United Confed erate Veterans, and one of the south’s most distinguished military leaders and statesmen, the association would most earnestly invoke the speedy ac tion of the different camps, chapters and other Confederate organizations., If the several thousand Confedera'e or the several thousand Tonfederate or ganizations will make even moderate subseriptions to this fund the monu ment can be erected. ““W. L. CALHOUN, Presiden!. “JOSEPH T. DERRY, Secretary. “E. H. THORNTON, Treasurer.” REGENTS AND VICE-REGENTS. Chosen by Southern State Delegations at the D. A. R. Congress. The southern states delegations to the thirteenth continental congrese of the Daughters of the American Revolu tion, held in Washington, have chosen the following regents and vice-regents: Alabama—Mrs. J. Morgan Smith, Mrs. Aurora P, McOlellan. Florida—Mrs. Duncan U. Fletcher. Georgia—Mrs. T. G. Sage, Mrs. Mary Ann Lipscomb. Mississippi — Mrs. Alice O. Lovell, Mrs. Egbert Jones. North Carolina — Miss Mary L. Stringfield, Mrs. Edwin L. Gregory. South Carolina—Mrs. Henry W. Richardson, Mrs. George H. Nicholls. Tennessee—Mrs. Charles B. Bryan, Mrs. Edwin Gardner. Virginia—Mrs, Eleanor W. Howard. JUDGE REDUCES VERDICT. Jury’s Finding Against Railroad Char acterized as Excessive. At Columbia, 8. C., Wednesday, when the case of Fitz William Mec- Kay against the Seaboard Air Line railroad, who was, on Tuesday, given a verdict of $25,000 for the loss of a leg, was about to be entered upon the motion for a new trial, Judge Gary reduced the verdict one-half, or $l2, 500 because, he said, it was exces sive. _ : New Hampshire now counts up 2,100 non-resident owners of summer homes. Most of them have reglaimed abandoned frwvms, They and their families, guests and employees add 20,000 to the warm weather popula tion. “The Good Old Summer Time” should be a permanexntly popular sorg in the CGranite State, NO 42