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Epitomized Items of Interest
(Gathered at Random.
Four Hundred for University.
The University of Georgia opened
with a record breaking attendance,
over 200 new men are on hand, and
fully that number of old students
have returned, registration for this
term will go beyond the 400 mark,
establishing the record. The law de
partment will have fully fifty men.
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Cotton Goes Abroad.
Most of the cotton that hasg been
marketed so far this season in Co.
lumbus from the nelghboring sections
of Georgia and Alabama has been
shipped to Europeon spinners. Ware
houge receipts have been over 10,000
bales, and all of this but about 2,000
bales has been sold, the greater por
tion being exported:
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: L. and N. Enters Atlanta.
The Louisville and Nashville rail
road having acquired title to vast
lands beyond West End, at Oakland
City, and in the vicinity of Westview
cemetery, at Atlanta, actual work on
‘the Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern
extension into the city has begun. It
will be pushed with all possible dis
patch and it is expected that within
#, year the road will have an entrance
of its own to the Gate City.
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The Gordon Monument Fund.
The John B. Gordon Monument As
sociation is now satisfied beyond a
doubt that it will achieve in full the
object of its existnce, namely, to
build a handsome equestrian statue ol
General Gordon on the capitol
grounds.
While the entire fund necessary for
this purpose has not yet been raised,
the responses which continue to come
in, though sometimes slowly, have giv
en rise to an encouragement which
amounts to a certaintiy of the success
of the association’s plans.
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New Railroad Under Way.
It is reported in Hawkinsville that
a well-known railway contractor and
builder has been engaged to build
one of the links necessary to com
plete the railroad from Hawkinsville
to Bainbridge. A number of short
lines already exist that almost con
nect these two important points.
The road will traverse a fine sec
tion of country and will tike in the
towns of Hawkinsville, Sylvester,
Ashburn, Willingham, Carlisle, Tich
enor, Doerun, Sale City, Pelham ang
Bainbridge, only a few miles remain
to be filled in to ccmplete this im
portant through line.
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Applications for Military Companies.
Within the past ten days five Geor
gia towns have made application to
Adjutant General S. W. Harrig for
military companies. They claim they
have the material and that they need
the protection. They are ready to or
ganize companies in conformity with
the state laws, and are urgently
knocking for admission to the state
militia system.
Under the present law the number
of infantry companies in the state ser
vice is limited to sixty, and there are
now only four vacancies, two in the
First and two in the Third reg"lmen’{s.
It would be impossible, therefore, to
grant all of these requests, on ac
count of geographical location.
All of these applications will, how
ever, be referred to the state military
advisory board, which will make to
the governor such recommendations
as it sees fit. ,
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Averse to Serving on Court.
Numerous requests have been re
~celved by Governor Terrell from the
members of the courtmartial appoint
“ed by him to try Captain R. M. Hitch
to be relieved from serving on the
court. Colonel Garrard has already
been relieved on account of conflict:
) ing official duties, and Major W. W,
Williamson, of Savannah, has been
appointed to take his - place. i
~ Major A. H. DeVaughn, command
ing officer of the Augusta battalion
Lof the Georgia state troops, has also
asked to ‘be relieved from serving on
the courtmartial, declaring that it
would greatly interfere with his busi
ness. _Governor Terrell announces
that he has received a number of
other requests from members who
desire to be relieved, but that he will
hardly grant them.
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- Governor Gives Warning.
Governor Terrell and other state
house officials are exercised no little
over the possible results which the
frequency of lynchings in this state
may lead to.
It has been suggusted in various
quarters that unless lynchings were
stopped, there was a strong possibil
ity of federal intervention, either in
the shape of new laws trat may he
enacted by congress, or that the fed
era! courts would be ordered to take
the matter up and prosecute the
members of lynching mobs on the
ground that the state was powerless
to afford the necessary relief. The
governor says:
“The people of Georgia should real
ize that unless these lynchings are
stopped, there is grave danger of
their leading to the enactment of leg
islation by congress which would
take the matter out of our hands, an:
cause the offenders to be tried in the
United States courts. Of course that
would be interference with states’
rights, but a renublican ccngress
would seek to justify it on the ground
that the state courts had failed to ai
ford the remedy.” :
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Daly Suggests Prosecutions.
Judge Daly, of the middle cireuit
who tried the negroes, Paul Reed an:
Y"111- Cato, who were taken from t"
sourt room gnd burned by a mob af
ter they had been convicted and sen
tenced, was in Atlanta Saturday morn
ing, and called on Governor Terrell at
the state capitol.
Judge Daly announces that his court
will convene on the first Monday in
October, and that he will charge the
grand jury that it is its duty to in
dict the men who took part in the
burning of the two negroes and have
them brought to justice.
This announcement On the part of
Judge Daly, following the declaration
of Governor Terrell that he will lay
the entire testimony brought out by
the court of inquiry before thie grand
jury, is a very significant one, and
indicates that there will be a vigorous
effort to apprehend and prosecute to
the full extent of the law all who may
'have had a part in taking the ne
groes from the hands of the law.
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To Establish Cotton Warehouses.
The effort to establish a number
of cotton warehouses throughout the
south was given a substantial lift the
past week, when a number of promi
nent southern cotton men met in At
-1 lanta for a conference upon the sub
- ject. T
{ The purpase of these gentlemen is
to construct in large cotton centers,
~standard, up-to-date brick warehouses
- in which the producer can pldce his
product at a minimum charge for
storage and insurance, and not be
forced to throw his cotton on the mar
ket as soon as it is ginned. As a
most important part of the plan it is
proposed to organize a company with
headquarters in New York, to be call
ed the “National Storage Warrant
Company,” with a capital of $l,OOO,
000.
The purpose of this company is te
take the receipt frcm the southern
warehouse and negotiate it in the east
‘or in Europe at a very low rate of
interest for such farmers as may de
sire to borrow upon their crops.
It is conservatively estimated that
the saving to the southern farmers
from storage and insurances charges
and reduction in interest will be more
than one hundred millions per an
num.
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Railroad Commission Injioned.
The Georgia ralroad commission
and the Central of Georgia Railway
Company have been restrained from
putting into effect the rates prescrib
ed in circulars 301 and 302, issued
by the railroad commission. The re
straining order was issued Saturday
morning by Judge W. T. Newman, of
the United States court, northern dis
trict of Georgia, in Atlanta. The
commissioners and the Central of
Georgia are ordered to show cause at
10 o’clock in the morning, Saturday,
October 8, why the injunction should
not be made permanent.
Circular 301 was issued on Septem
ber 16. It makes sweeping reductions
on manufactured goods from Atlanta
to Athens, Augusta, Macon and Co
lumbus. Circular 302 was issued on
September 21 and reduces the rates
on sirup from all stations on the At
lantic Coast Line rallroads to Atlan
ta to 17 cents and to 15 cents to Co
lumbus. The Atlanta rate is the same
that obtains to Birmingham, Mont
gomery and Selma.
The applicaticn for injunction was
filed by the Central Trust Company,
of New York, which owns bonds of
the Central.
The principal allegations of the bill
are that the Georgia railroad commis
‘sica in a recent order had stated that
the freight rates within the state
were just and reasonable, but that
the interstate rates from certain
points outside of Georgia were too
high; that the reduction in circulars
301 and 302 were made for the pur
pose of forcing a reduction of the in
terstate rates,
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Courtmartial Is Postponed.
The courtmartial ordered by Gov
ernor Terrell to try Captain R. M.
Hitch and the other officers who were
at Statesboro has been postponed
from September 29 to October 10.
This postponement has been
brought about as the result of corre
spondence with the members of the
court by Colonel Anderson, its presi
der*t. Colone! Anderson has notified
Adjutant General Harris that a ma
jority of the court has agreed on Oc
tober 10 as the date for the meeting,
and that date is acceptable to the ad
jutant general. Notices to this effect
have been sent out to all the members
of the court, and their first \meecting
will be held in Savannah on Monday
morning, - October 10. Subsequent
meetings of the court, in the event it
fails to complete its work at the first
meeting, will be held as it desires.
Queer Wedding Present.
Among the Tlloongotes, a tribe of
savages in the interior of Luzon, ac
cording tn A. Henry Savage Landor,
“the wedding present given by the
prospective bridegrcom to his sweet
heart does not lack quaintness, and
consists of a human head, part of a
breast and heart, as well as a finger
or two. Unless a man can produce
these gifts he has to remain a bache
lor; but these gifts -are invariably
procured. The ‘inclined to wed’ lies
in wait in the high grass until an un
guspecting man, woman or child hap
pens to go by, who a few minutes
later is left dead upon the trail minus
the anatomical pontions ernumerated
cbeve.”
Any one who wishes to buy a town
will be interested to know that there
is ome in county Cork, Ir:zland, that is
goon to be put up at auction. It be
longs-to a count who happens to be in
ueed of ready money, !
-~ EGYPTIAN LANGUAGES.
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Forthcoming Dictionary Compiled by
" Berlin Academy of Science.
A brief dispatch from Berlin cons.
veys intelligence which will thrill the
heart of every scholar. It ,
the mear completion of Professor Er
man’s monumental “Dictionary of the
Ancient Egyptian Languages,” a Work
endowed by the Kaiser, compiled by
the Berlin Academy of Sciences and
aided in no small degree by ithe best
American erudition. Professor . Er
man, the editor, is easily the fore
most Bgyptologist of the ~world,
though he has toiled in a field where
in there has been friendly contention
for many years amoag the scholars of
France, England, Germany, Ital!‘&nfi
America. _ .
The field has been-so fertile thai
the forthcoming dictionary is crgdj_*fid,
with containing 280,000 words_ or sub
jects. We shrewdly suspect that the
cablegram has confused the Egy%tm
word with the ideogram, which is
only a picture or a pictorial symbol.
The oldest records of the Egyptian
language date back to. about B. C.,
4,000, and it did not die out as a
tongue until about three centuries
ago. Professor Erman’s great bmi:
will, of course, euibrace its long his
tcry, and the many changes it under
went. SR
In one of his own published mono
grapbs on the subject he shows how
the language of the old Egyptian ém
pire was no more intelligible to an
Egyptian of the 19th dynasiy, for exs
ample, than Latin would be i the
average Italian of the present ay.
Long after old Egyptian, the cla:si
cal tongue of the old empire, *. %
ceased to be spoken, it led an
ficial life as a learned languag: :
ing much the same part as A 0
played in medieval Europe, and was
regularly employed for religions and
monumental purposes down fo the
Roman period. Then followed the
middle Egyptian representing an in
termediate stage between the langu
age of the old and new empire. -
In it most of the old forms and in
flections are retained, but nqgi the
peculiarities of the later 'spumake
their appearance, this being the Neo-
Egyptian or popular language about
B. C. 1500-1000. It is represented by
a number of papyri containing tales,
letters and legal documents. ¥rom
about B. C. 700 to the Christian era
the language of the Egyptian people
was the demotic, about which com
paratively little is known; and it <9
succeeded by the language of
tian Egypt, or Coptic, writtes
modification of the Greek ! .
with the addition of c¢harac ¢ ...
rived from the demotic. As 2 :noken
language it perished about 3(\ iears
ago, but is still employed in ‘e rit
ual of the Coptic church.— ' liadels
phia Ledger. :
Queer Wedding Present.
Among the Iloongotes, a tribe of
“savages in the interior of LuZon, acs
cording to A, Henry Savage Landor,
“the wedding present given by the
prospective bridegrcom to hi§ sweet.
heart dces not lack quaintness, and
consists of a human head, part of a
breast and heart, as well as a finger
or two. Unless a man can produca
these gifts he has to remain i‘.fibach’e
lor; but these gifts are invariably
procured. The ‘inclined to wed’ lies
in wait in the high grass until an un
suspecting man, woman or child hap
pens to go by, who a few jminutes
later is left dead upon the trgil minus
the anatomical portions enumerated
ahove.” ‘ :
Chinese Provinces. {
A correspondent in the | London
Times says that the Chinese care
nothing for the provinces of Manchu
ria. They form no part of the eigh
teen provinces which fill the Chinese
conception of his native land, though
they gave birth to the ruling dynas
ty. This indifference- may be ‘real,
and may account for the ease with
which the Russians have overrun the
country; yet Manchuria is worth
fishting for.