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The Lee County Journal
M. E. TISON, Editor and Publisher.
YOL, VIII.
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Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Preserved Blackberries Fatal.
The 7-year-old son of Mr. Jack Wil
lilams, at Galnesville, is dead from eat
ing preserved blackberries, which
had been put up in a can.
The berries were a little sour but
were sweetened and thought to be
all right. Several children who ate
them were made very ill.
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For Improvement of Roads.
The county commissioners of Clark,
bave received several bids of par for
the county bonds for road improve
ment, but have determined not to sell
them at these figures. They believe
they will bring better money than
that. The issue is for $lOO,OOO, and
bears 4 per cent interest.
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Fruit Growers to Meet in° Rome.
The North Georgia Fruit Growers’
Association will meet in Rome on
May 12 and the meeting will be of
much interest to the fruit growers.
A splendid program is being arrang
ed and many prominent fruit growers
will be in attendance.
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Two Rewards Offered.
Governor Terrell has recently of
fered two rewards for murderers. One
was for Alfred Moore, who is wanted
in Laurens county. The amount of the
reward is $l5O. The other reward of
$lOO is for the unknown person who
shot and ‘killed Ely Daniels, a negro,
in Webster county several nights ago.
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Williams Confirms Purchase.
The official announcement of Pres
ident Williams, of the Georgia, Flori
da and Alabama railroad, of the puw
«chase of the Tallahassee, Carrabelle
and Georgia railroad, is most gratify
ing news to the people of Cuthbert.
It is stated that the operation of th?
new road will begin at once, thus
giving Cuthbert a direct aud throusza
sefvice to the Gulf of Mexico.
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‘More Money Needed for State Building
According to Hon. Dudley M. Hugh
es, commissioner from Georgia to the
St. Louis expogition, $3,500 are need
ed to complete the Georgia building.
which is now in course of construc
tion on the exposition grounds.
Subscriptions are still being solic
ited, and it is hoped to have the money
in hand by June Ist. The building will
be competed in a few days, and the
desire of the commissioners is to se
cure enough money to-pay off all the
indebtedness as soon as the building
is finished if it is possble to do so.
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Two Tax Returns Declined.
tax on tangible property have been
Two returns for franchise tax and
refused by Comptroller General Wil
liam A. Wright, and the returns sent
back to the railroad companies whi?a
filed them for amendment.
The two railroads are the Atlan:'c
and Birmingham and the Wrightsville
and Tennille. Both railroads returned
their property at a Jower value than
LEESBURG, GA., FRIDAY. MAY 6. 1904,
it was returned for last yzar and the
comptroller very promptly refused to
a«ccept the official returns.
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Senator Bacon Goes to Cuba. :
Senator Bacon left Washington iast
Saturday for a short sea trip, com
bining rest and recuperation with
business. He goes to Cuba and will
return in ten days or two weeks. The
taking over of the naval stations in
Cuba involves some questions which
may have to be passed upon by the
foreign relations committee, of which
Senator Bacon is the ranking demo
cratic member, and Secretary Mocdy,
who goes to make an investigation of
the naval properties, has asked the
Georgian to accompany him,
It is expected the party will be gone
about ten days and Senator Bacon ex
pects to reach his home at Macon in
about two weeks.
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May Festival for Aslanta.
The $5,000 guarantee asked for
from the people of Atlanta has been
subscribed and the great May festi
val May 380, 31 and June 1, is now an
assured success. Now that the fund is
complete the final arrangements are
rapidly reaching completion and the
coming festival is certain to be an
epoch-marker in the musical history of
Atlanta and the south.
A chorus of 200 voices is meeting
twice a week, and among these are
many of the best trained voices to
be found in this vicinity. This great
chorus will be used in the support
of the great programmes of the fes
tival.
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Don’t Want the Date Changed.
General Clement A. Evans, one of
the leading Confederate veterans of
the south, is opposed to changing the
date of Memorial day from April 26th
to June 3d, as suggested by John W.
Akin in his speech in Atlanta on Me
morial day.
According to General Hvans the
United Confederate Veterans left the
question of the change with the La
dies’ Memorial Associations of Geor
gia some time ago, and while all the
other states changed the date, fho
Georgia ladies decided to stand by
April 26th,
April 26th, General Evans says, rep
resents the last of the Confederacy,
as it was on that date that General
Joseph E. Johnston surrendered the
last Confederate army. That surrender
was the last of the Confederacy, and
Georgia selected that day to commem
orate the last of the Confederacy.
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Repudiated Bonds May Cause Suit.
* Bvidences have developed of a
combination on the part of certain
holders of repudiated Georgia bonds
with a view to giving the state some
trouble because of failure to pay a
debt which legally and morally the
state does not owe.
Recently in the case of a suit
brought in the state of South Dakota
against North Carolina, the supreme
court held that it had jurisdiction to
entertain such a complaint involving
the validity of state bonds, and it was
held that a certain railroad property
in connection with which North Car
olina had issued the bonds in ques
tion, was the security for those bonds,
and that it could be held liable for
them to the extent of the value of tha.t;
security. The question of state sov
ereignty was not involved in the Da
kota-Carolina case.
As a result of the foregoing case,
however, it would seem that holders
of the illegal and repudiated Bruns
wick and Albany railroad bonds, bear
ing indorsement of the state of Geor
gia, have determined, in the event all
hope is removed of getting the state
to compromise, to transfer their hold
ings to some state which will bring
suit against Georgia in the supreme
court of the United States. At least
this is the inference from a letter
which .as just been received by At
torney General John C. Hart from a
prominent New York banker.
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Obear’s Inspection Nearly Complete.
Inspector General William ¢. Obear
has almost completed the inspection
of the state troops as required by
law, and will by June 1 have his re
port ready for the general assembly.
Colonel Obear has some fifteen com
panies which were placed on prohation
vet to inspect, and when he visits
them he will decideswhether or not
they should be continuéd on the rolls
of the state.
The military colleges at Gordon in
stitute, at Barnesville, Milledgeville,
Dahlonega, Atlanta, and other placas,
are yet to be inspected. The inspec
tions this year have been very thor
ough and the standard required by
the state laws has been stricfly enfore
ed. Companies that did not come up
to the requirements were immediately
placed on probation. Six were dropped
from the rolls altogether.
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Arranging for Legislative Session.
Hon. John T. Boifeuillet, clerk of
the house of representatives was in
Atlanta the past week, and he. and
Secretary Charles S. Northen, of the
Senate, had a conference at the cap
itol with regard to preparing a state
ment of the unfinished business of
the house and senate to be furnished
to the members prior to the meeting
of the legislature on June 22. There
are many general bills before both of
these bodies, some of them of consid
erable importance, which will have to
be acted on at the coming session. 'f
they are not considered they must
be introduced anew.in the legislature
of 1905, as no matter can be carried
over. The printed slips showing the
unfinished business of both bodies will
probably be ready for distribution in
the course of a couple of weeks.
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Insurance Men to Meet.
Augusta insurance men are making
great preparations for the meeting of
tne Georgia Underwriters’ Association,
which meets in that city May 11 and
12. There will be a great deal f
pleasure mixed with the business of
the occasion.
Russian Repulse Reported.
It is reported in Shanghai that the
Russians have had a disastrous re
pulse after two days’ fighting on the
Yalu river. The Japanese forces
crossed the river and the Russians re
treated.
George B. McClellan never delivers
xtemporaneous speeches. He always
reads from manuscripts.
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY AT ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
KORJAKS' QUEER RFVENGE.
In Russian Siberia lives a race cf
reindeer breeders called Korjaks.
These men, who are among the rich
est and most haughty of the péoples
of the cold north, bave exceedingly
violent tempers, and their strength
and wealth make them bheadstrong
and indifferent to consequences when
they wish to revenge themselves on
enemies.
They have a terrible and strange
method of doing this.
In the winter, the Korjaks seal the
small doorway into their huts with
ice and earth and let it freeze solid.’
Then the only entrance and exit is;_the |
hole in the roof of the huts, which
rermits the escape of smoke. »
Now, if a band of Korjaks feels it
g2 injured in any way by another
ber:d, the avengers creep into a vil
lage at night and clamber softly up
on the roofs. There, with snow and
hides, they close up the smoke hole
and seul it absolutely. As a result, if
the occupants have not been awak
ened by the noise, they smother in
the'r sleep. If they do wake up and
put out the fire, there is no escape
for them, for the moment they try to
climb out through the roofs, the be
siegers club them to death.
One of the richest of the Korjaks
thus killed one of his enemies, slaugh
tering the entire family, consisting of
the father, three wives and two chil
dren.
This man afterward made his deed
a subject of his boasts, and was ac
customed to tell the story at lemgth
with all the details. Nobody tried to
punish him for it, because he was
too powerful. He owns 8,000 ‘rein
deer, and with this wealth he com
mands respect from all the headmen.
These Korjaks live in great coms
fort, as compared with the other in
habitants of their bleak country. They
are .never in danger of famine, for
their immense herds cannot be de
stroayed by even the fiercest winter,
so that, no matter how mapy thou
sands of reindeer may die, there will
always be more than enough for food
and for breeding.
They have a queer way of hunting
the wild reindeer. They chase these
animals not on land, but with canoes
in the water. The hunters wait until
the herds begin to swim a river in tho
summer and then paddle among them
and kill them with spears.- s\New York
Press.
What makes Japan particularly val
unable as an exemplar for us is that
the virtues in which it specially excels
are precisely those we most lack and
need., Among our most unpleasant
traits are the worship and display of
wealth, the lack of general courtesy,
the insensibility to the charms of art,
the feverish absorption in needless
work, and the consequent inability to
enjoy elegant leisure. A Japanese
does not consider himself better than
others because he is richer; or, if he
does, he is too police to show it in his
conduct. There is 20 servant ques
tion in Japan, because the mistress
never tries to make the maid feel as
if she were an inferior being. Cour
tesy pervades all classes, and one nev
er meets with that offensive rudeness
by which some in this country fancy
they prove their ‘independenté and
equality. .
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