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v v ; GEORGIA. 4999090200 Q‘OQ“OQ‘ Brief Summary of Doings Throughout the State. Firgy Honor to Young Lady. The graduating class 01l the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dah lonega this year is a notable one. There are twelve men and one young woman -in the class, and the young lady graduate, Miss Sallie Gaillara, carried off the first honor. * £ * Little Hope Left tc Smith. Robert Smith, the condemned wife murderer in jail in Carroll county, has again been ruled against. This time it is by the supreme court, which has refused his motion for a new trial and sustained the verdict of the jury on which he was sentenced to be hanged last February. Smith shot his young bride from ambush st summer, . & =8 Hall Succeeds Revill. Governor Terrell formally appoint; ed J. E. Hall, of Calhoun, Gordon county, keeper of public buildings anc grounds, to succeed the late Colonc William T. Revill, of Greenville. Mr Hall entered at once upon the du.ies of his new position, The salary at tached to the position of keeper ™ public buildings and grounds ols $1,8C7 a year. Ed " " Lumber Plant Burned, The plant of the Higgstown Lumber Company, at Pelham, including the saw and planing mills, dry kiln and about 500,000 feet of lumber, were to tally destroyed by fire last Saturday afternoon. The fire originated in the planing mill. The less is estimated at $60,060 with insurance of $25,000. * * ® Grocers to Meet in Atlanta, The convention of the Southern Wholesale Grocers’ Association, one of the most important of the com mercial bodies which meet annually, will be held this year in Atlanta, on June 6, 7 and 8. About 50 of the wholesale grocers of the south are expected to be in attendance, and with them will come several thou sand persons from all over the south. The railroads have offered special inducements for those who will visit the Atlanta convention. * * * : White Tckes Oath. Oath of office was administered Sat urday in Judge Speer’s office in Ma con to 'George F. White, United States marshal succeeding Captain Barnes, by the judge himself, and the new official at once entered upon his du ties. The new marshal submitted a bond in the sum of $20,000, which was abundantly satisfactory, and within a few minutes after qualifying announec ed his assistants. * *® & Hammond Succeeds Gary. Hon. Henry C. Hammond, of Au gusta, has been named by Governor Terrell judge of the superior court of the Augusta circuit to succeed the late Judge William T. Gary, who died sev eral days ago. Mr. Hammond was not an applicant for the position, but he was unanimously endorsed by the bar of the circuit, and his name present ed to the governor. No other name was considered by the chief executive for the position. £ * # For Robbing the Mails. - Fred H. Hill, colored, was bound over in bond of $2,500 by TUnited States Commissioner Walter Colquitt at Alanta on the charge of robbing tne United Siates mails. ‘fhe specinc chnarge against Hiil is that he took from the mail a registarea package containing five twenty-doliar bills sent from the postoffice in kort Gaines to the depository of that or fice in Macon. For some time past articles nave been taken from the mails and charges have accumulated as time passed. I'he United States authorities believe w.nat Hill is guilty of fourteen similar ron beries of the mail. * o 3 Funds Needed for Georgia Building. Unless those who have subscribed to the fund for the Georgia build ing at St. Louis make prompt pay ment the state commissioners ap pointed to see that work through will find themselves in somewhat of an embarrassing position. | Of about $15,500 subscribed to this fund there has been paid in up to date only $7,451.62, which includes the $2,000 worth of lumber donated by the Georgia lumber merchants. There is a balance due of $8,054 on the fund subscrived, and it is said the Georgia commissioners are very' much in need of it in view of the fact that the building is being pushed to completion now as rapidly as it is possible to get it in shape. It is fully expected to have the building zom pleted by June 1. .8 ® | Georgia Railrcad Tax Case. The case of the Georgia Railway and Banking Company against the state of Georgia, in which that corpo ration resists all taxes on its prop erty except one-half of one per cent of its net earnings, came up before Judge Newman in the federal court at Atlanta a few days ago for argu ment, The plaintiffs resist the effort of the state to tax the property of the road. They claim that the road is subject to a tax of only one-half of one per cent of the net earnings, this priv ilege having been graniad by the state under a charter given the road in 1833. The comptroller, on the other hand, contends that the road is subject to exemption only on the shares in the hands of stockholders, and not on the actual property. Even if the charter exempts the property, the comptroller claims that it exempts it only to the amount of $4,200,000. *® * 3 Senator Dodd Rezigns. Senator W. P. Dodd, of the forty third senatorial district, sent his res ignation to Governor Terrell, and it was promptly accepted. The senator’s resignation ;stated only: “I hereby tender my resignation as senator from the forty-third senatorial district, to take effect at once.’ Senator Dodd, who was formerly the county school commissioner of Gordon county, was convicted several days ago of the embezzlement of school funds, and sentenced by Judge Fite to serve two years In the peniten tiary, There were also several charges of forgery against the senator, but the court permitted the one sentence of two years to cover all charges, and the other indictments will be uolle prossed. ~ After accepting the resignation, ' Governor Terell named June 1 as the date on which the election for a sen- E‘a.tor from the forty-third to succeed Senator Dodd shall be held. Prompt @action is required as the legislature - will meet on June 22. - - = Primary Returns Slow. Chairman Edward T. Brown, of the state democratic executive commit tee, has received the official returns of the primary election held on April 20th from 122 counties. Fifteen coun ities have so far failed to send in the official returns, but will probably do 'so between now and the meeting of the state convention on June Ist. There were only two state house contests, the races between Chief Tus tice Thomas J. sSimmons, of the su preme court, and Judge R. B. Rus sell and Judge J. S. Turner, chair man of the prison commission, and Judson M. Strickland. Wihile all of the returns have not yet come in, it is definitely known that Judge Simmons carried 90 counties out of the 137 in the state to 47 countles carried Dy Judge Russell. Judge Turner carried 107 counties out of the 137, Mr. Strickland carry ing 30 counties. The counties which had not made their returng to Chairman Brown up to Saturday were Cherokee, Clayton, Clinch, Cobb, Emanuel, Fannin, Hab ersham, Hall, Jones, Lowndes Lump kin Pulaski, Screven, Tattnall, Ter rell and Wilcox. = ¢ The Southern Educationzl Conference. The above named confcrence met in Birmingham Agril 26-23. Over 800 visitors were registered from all parts of the south. Reports were read by representative men of the progress 1b education during the past year. The most striking address of the week was by Dr. Walter H. Page, of che World’'s Work. He said: | “The idea which we of the south inherited was that it made no ditfer ence about the training of the mass of men provided we properly trained some men as leaders. Although it is easy to understand the advantage of training to an individual, we are just beginning to see that it is necessary also to a community that all men should be trained. Our great ask is right here—to persuade the commun ity that it is bound to train every child for the community’s own sake. We run now squarely into the doc: trine of universal training at the com munity’s expense, which is necessary in a democracy. We may empoverish the state because we are afraid of pauperizing men who are aiready so learned that can’t distinguish bunger from backache, But there stanas the stark economic fact—the state must train every child at the public ex pense, and it must train him for use fulness. It is necessary for our free dom 'that all the people be trained. It was for freedom of opinion that our fathers built the wide arch of the ranged union, Then a tyranny of thought followed the great economic error. It seems a hard lot that we who ought to have been born into the full blaze of intellectual liberty are the only English-speaking men to whom it is demied. But a change is coming and in the way that Jefferson himself in his own free thought point ed out—by the training of all the people. In this way the south wil ‘again come to her own. We, therefore. ideclare that free training and tree goninion of right ought to be ours ana. gin the words of the Declaration ot Indevendence, to secure these we mn ‘tually pledze to each other our lives. our fortunes and our sacred honor.” WENTZ JURORS ANGERED. ' Take Umbrage at Statements Made | by Father of Dead Man. The jury of inquest that rendered the verdict in the E. L. Wentz case held an informal meeting at Big Stone Gap, Va., Saturday evening, and sent a telegram to the father of the deceased, Dr. J. S. Wentz, of Phila delphia, asking wkether he had made certain statements published in recent issues of the public press. Mr. Wentz makes due apology to the jury, declaring that he did noat use such terms as were credited to him in the press dispatches. Dr. Wentz was rredited with intimating that the ver iict was intended to shield the mur lerers of his scn, who were friends of he jury. To Make Difficult the Land ing of Japanese Troops. DOCKS AND PIERS GONE New Russian Port Upon Which Czar Has Spent Over Six Millions in Building, Is Made To tally Useless. A St. Petersburg special says: Vice roy Alexieff has telegraphed to the czar announcing that the Russians have blown up the docks and piers at Port Dalny, Liao Tung peninsula, .re sumably to render more difficult a Jap anese landing at that point. Later telegrams received indicate that the whole of Port Dalny has been destroy ed by the Russians, Port Dalny, on Talien-Wan Bay, on the east coast of the Idao Tung penin sula, was intended by Russia to be the chief commercial emporium of its east ern dominions. An edict providing ior its construction was issued by the Rus sian emperor July 30, 1899, and Port Dalny, fully equipped with all mod ern improvements, docks, warehouses and railroad facilities, was opened to commerce in December, 1901, Talien-Wan Bay is one of the finest deep water harbors on the Pacific. It is free from ice in winter time and ships drawing thirty feet of water can enter at low tide without difficulty and without the aid of pilots can sail or steam alongside the immense docks and piers, where their cargoes can be loaded into railrcad cars and run di rect for six thousand miles into the city of St. Petersburg. Five large piers had been construct ed, each supplie¢ with numerous rail road tracks and immense warehouses and elevators, gas, electric lights and water, and a large breakwater was be ing constructed so that ships could iie at the piers and load and unload re gardless of weather. Diocks for foreign vessels, steam and sail, extended be tween the piers and along the shore for two miles. Trere were two #rst class docks, one for ordinary ocean steamers and the other designed to ac commodate the largest vessels of war or commerce. Over $6,000,000 had been expended on the harbor sysiem before the end of 1902, and it was estimated that the cost of completing the works would be nearly $20,000,000, but this does not in any way represent the total cost of th? erection of this great commer cial port, which with Port Arthur, dis tant dbout twenty miles, was leased oy the Chinese government from Russia in 1898. Nearly 25,000 men were employed daily on the work of constructing Lhe port and town, The total population has beensestimated at about 60,000 —mosgtly Chinese Japanese, Koreans and Russians. Explosions Explained. An explanation of the explosions “heard at Port Arthur, which led to re ports that the Russians were destroy ing their warships in that harbor, is furnished in a dispatch from St. Pe ‘tersburg. It is to the effect that the garrison at Po>t Arthur is endeavor iing to clear the harbor entrance of ithe stone-laden ships sent in by the | Japanese. 3 | In order to remove the obstruction, divers are said to have been sent down, ’ who placed charges of dynamite in po sition and succeeded in blewing away enough of the cement and rock car goes to admit the passage of torpedo boats through the channel. B — A '"grab” is never dead until it is e o .