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The Lee County Journal M. E. TISON, Editor and Publisher. YOL, VIII. - - §GEORGIA NEWS; . fbdrddededetotdeddededeodod ot 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. ¥ 8 W 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. - ® = 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. * i &= 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. & * * 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. & & & ‘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. % 8 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. » * * * 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. * * 3 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. % % & 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. . ® = = 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. N L 3 - 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. & ) 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. - ®* = 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. . 81 NO. 43.