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Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random,
Mill BSold for Taxes.
The Warwick mill, a small yarn fac
tory, situated near the mouth of Lake
Olmstead, has been sold under the
hammer to satisfy tax fi fas. The prop
erty was bought in for the city of
Augusta by City Sheriff Harry Mor
ris. The price paid was $7,100. The
city bought the property in order to
protect their interests, also holding
tax il fas against the property,
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Left Money to Negro Child.
The will of Charles Tutty, white,
leaves hlg estate, estimated to be
worth about $33,000, to Rosa Otto
Tutty, the 10-yearold daughter of the
testator by his colored wife, Rosa A.
Tutty, of Savannah,
The will was executed three weeks
ago, just two weeks before the old
man dled. There is no doubt that a
caveat will be filed to the will. The
testator left three sisters unprovided
for,
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Americus to Have Electric C'ara.
Americus is to have an electric
street railway system. The city coun
cil is considering a proposition sub
mitted by a Rhode Island Company
contemplating the building of a rail
way and complete electric lighting
plant, greatly improving the present
system. The proposition meets with
hearty public endorsement and the en
terprise is well nigh assured, The
company will invest nearly $200,000.
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Appeal to Commission.
Attorney General John C. Hart is
working on the petition which is to
be filed by the Georgia Railroad Com
mission before the Interstate Com
merce Commission in the interest of
the Atlanta Freight Bureau. The fact
that the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion has canceled the date of the
meeting in Atlanta on November 11th
will afford the state more time to pre
pare its case, as it is expected that
the commission will ix a later date
for the meeting. ,
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Rewards Offered by Governor.
Three rewards have just been offer
ed by Governor Terell, Two of them
are for negroes who escaped from
the Polk county jail several days ago.
Bob Maxey and Clark - Fermby are
the negroes who escaped. Maxey was
convicted of murder and Fermby of
assault with intent to murder. The
rewards for the arrest of the two
negroes is $l5O in each case.
A reward of $l5O was offered for
the unknown murderer of Grany Done,
who was killed in Wilkinson county
on October 234.
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Fatal Trestly Accident.
James P. Harison, part owner and
general manager of the Atlanta Mar
ble Company and the Herndon quar
ries, formerly a prominent citizen of
Atlanta, where he was connected with
the printing firm of J. P. Harrison &
Co., and A. C. Gaddis, superintendent
of the company’s railroad, were in
stantly killed in a railroad accident
which occurred three and one-half
miles from Ball Ground, on the branch
line of the A, K. & N.
The accident occurred at what is
known as the mill pond trestle between
Ball Ground and Nelson, when the
train, loaded with marble, fell through
the trestle, a distance of over forty
feet. '
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A Notable Trip.
The faculty and trustees of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, have extended
an invitation to the trustees of the
University of Georgia to visit that in
stitution this month and the invita
tion has been acepted. The trustees
their wives and a few other invited
guests will leave Georgia on the 16%h
of November and will be the gues:s
of the Unlversity of Wisconsin for
about a week. This is the first time
sincé~the civil war that such an ex.
periencé~of good will and fraternal
spirit has manifested by a great
institution of the north. It marks a
new era of good feeling among uni
versity people and will bring about a
better understanding between the sec
tions.
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Tifton Blaze Was Costly.
One of the most serious fires in the
history of Tifton occurred a few days
ago, beginning in the ccllar of the
Phillips-Slack building on Second
street, burning an entire block, and
spreading over to Tift block, thence
to the residence of Mayor W. W. Tim
mons, corner of Second street and
Love avenue, then to Hotel Regent,
on the opposite side of the street,
burning also two residences belong
ing to Mrs, Julia Pope, on Love ave
nue. :
How the fire originated is unknown,
though it is believed that the building
caught in the basement, where the
heating furnace is tocated, it bheing
the first day in which heat Is sald
to have been turned on in the building.
The loss is estimated at $125,000.
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State’s Responsibility for Convicts.
. Attorney General John C. Hart has
rendered an important npinion to the
prison commissioa regarding who s
responsinie lor tne escare oir a <on
vict, if a convict escapes who is re
sponsible for his recapture, and if a
convict should die should the commu:iz
sion replace the convict to the county
working the convict previous 'o his
death. Judge Hart’s reply to the pris
on commission in part is as follows:
“In the event of escape, when it
occurs in spite of the extraordinary
care and diligence of the county, it
is the duty of the state to supply the
place of such escape. The cost of re
captaring an escape should be pri
marily at the expense of the county.
The foregoing answers questions one
and two.
“The third question may be answer
ed briefly by stating, in the event of
the death of the conviet not caused
by the gross negligence of the county
authorities, but the act of God, it
is the duty of the state to supply the l
place of the deceased convict.” |
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Chapman Given Freedom, |
After just eighteen minutes’ delib
eration, the jury at Augusta, Ga., re
turned a verdict of not guilty in the
case of the State Vs. H. B. Chapmai;
charged with the murder of Henry
Videtto. on the night of October. 14.
When the verdict was announced a
ripple of applause started, which would
soon have swelled into a roar had
not the bailiffs stationed about the
court room for the purpose, quelled
the rising enthusiasm of the young de
fendant’s hosts of friends who throng
ed the court room. St
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i Road Goes Atlantaward.
The Georgia, Florida and Alabama
l railroad is making active arrangements
to extend their road northward from
l Cuthbert to Columbus and Atlanta.
| For several days their engineering
l corps has been in the field, north of
| Cuthbert, looking at the different
' routes.
' They are to go into the field for
' active work within a short while.
A deed for $1,100,000 is being recoril
ed to secure an issue of bonds to make
this extension. The paper is in favor
of the Manhattan Trust Company, of
l New York.
The route indicated in the paper is
from Cuthbert to Richland, and thence
lto Columbus and Atlanta, or from
' Cuthbert to both of these places.
Another route ig from Cuthbert, near
Spring Vale, and ihence to the Chaz
tahoochee river valley, and up this
valley to Columbus, leaving Lumpkin
and Richland to the west.
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Jefferson’s New Court.
A beautiful new court house, ele
gant and modern in architecture and
equipment, was dedicated at Louis
ville, the coumty seat of Jefferson
county, the past week.
The new structure stands upon a
spot of unusual interest to Georgians,
a spot where stirring scenes were
enacted in the early days of American
independence. A part of the walls of
this court house rest exactly on the
lines where the walls of Georgia’s
first capitol building were erected,
more than a century ago.
It wag just 100 years ago that the
capital of this state was changed
from Louisville to Milledgeville, the
former city having been the seat of
Georgla’s government for a space of
about ten years between 1794 an’d}
1804. It was the third city, chrono
logically, to have the honor of being
the capital, and during the decade of
its greatness at least one political
drama that will never pass from Geor
gia memories was enacted in and on
the lawn of the old capitol building.
That drama was the enactment of
“the Yazoo fraud,” and the subse
quent burning of every document con
nected with that memorable transac
tion.
For these reasons the dedication of
the new court house was of more than
passing interest.
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The School Center.
A careful study of social conditions
in Georgia will show that the school
must become the social and intellec
tual center of each community and
for each race. The community can
not come together on church rela
tions for these distinctions are close’y
drawn and divide the people into three
or four sects, loyal to their own de
nomination and generally lukewarm
to the progress of the ether. We caa
remember when there were as many
schools in a community as there wera |
churches, based upon the idea that
each church must educate its own
flock. In all enlightened centers three
little schools have given way to pub
lic schools, supported by taxaton in
the interests of all the children. While
not run in the interest of any sect
or class, the religious views of all are
respected and used by the teachecs |
to enforce instruction in character
building. Here the children of the
community meet on a common basis
as learners. Whether rich or poor,
Jew or gentile, Methodist or Chris
tian Scientist, landlord or tenant, the
difficulties of multiplication tables and
long division; of parsing, and sentence |
structure, and all the other barriers !
in our ascent to the temple of know
ledge must be mastered alike. We have
come to see that these problems have
nothing to do with creed. Support
ed by all for the good of all we sink
our little differences and meet on a
common level just as we have long
~done in our courts of justice.
' What an opportunity this change in
educational policy gives the teacher.
When he accepts the principalship of
a school he represents the entire cor
munity and in the management of the
‘sohools knows no factions, sects or
parties.
' University extension courses could
be arranged in many places at small
| cost. Thus the children as they grow
i up in the school and learn to love it
are not cut off on completing the
! course but are bound to it by ever
strengthening ties. Teachers have a
relationship to the community greater
! than that of merely instructing the
young. They should draw about the
school all the forces for good. They
must vitalize the ecommunity throush
the school as the center of its sociil
and intellectual life.
J. 8. STEWART, State Unversity.
SULLY HAS CHANGE OF HEART,
Withdraws Objectiong Against New
York Exchange Creditors.
A New York dispatch says: Daniel
J. Sully and three of his partmers in
the firm of D. J. Sully & Company
made & sudden change in their atti
tude towards their New York cotton
- exchange creditors Wednesday in the
bankruptcy hearing before Referoe
- Coxex :
'~ When the bankruptcy proceed...:s
were originally instituted Sully and
his four partners filed objections to
the claims of all their cotton ex
change creditors. 5 '
They now request the referee to
withdraw their objections against
these claims.
GROVER AROUSES JERSEYITES.
Ex-President Makes Ciosing Camp-ign
" Speech in Newark,
With a tribute to the strength # ¢
enthusiasm of the first voter, ex-Pras.
ident Cleveland in Newark, N. I,
Friday night began his second speech
of the campaign. He had waited ten
minutes for the cessation of the ch:ow
ing and noise that his appearancs
brought forth and for thirty-five mi:
utes after he began his address, eigh
thousand persons, crowded together on
the tan bark of a riding academy, »!
ternately listened and cheered.
CAROLINIANS ARE JARRED. =
Connecticut Party Took Negro With
Them to Supper Table.
The visit of Governor Chamberlaij-,
of Connecticut, with his staff and :is
exiort, the Governor’s Foot Guard. nas
erated a sensation because at Greens:
boo, N. C., it became known to thy
reddents that gome of the men in the
paty had, without the knowledge or
conient of the hotel proprietors, taken
& ngro with them to supper. Up te
the ime of this discovery there had
been reat cheering for the visitors.
NE¥ RAILROAD CHARTERED.
Virginii and Southwestern Railway
Ompany Heavily Backed.
The Tirginia state corporation com
missior has granted a charter to the
Virginii and the Southwestern Rall
way C(.‘?pany. The eapital stock iz
placed t from $1,000,000 to $10,6°2,
000. T§ main office of the compaay
is at Brijol, Tenn.
The pr%noters of the enterprise are
sald to b interested with lJohn D.
Rockefellerand other coal, iron and
01l men, am have unlimited capital.
DAGOES TIREATEN TROUBLE.
Italian Dock Lorers at Norfolk Re
sent BOB& Dischargec,
Extra guards o\ mariyss have been
stationed around he par]y construct
ed $2,000,000 dry qock it the navy
yard in Norfolk, W, or'gecount of
threats that had been\madewy Italian
laborers discharged j&\the B'\"fi.a
Construction Company which hi - *he
- contract for b'uil(h’ng t}K doct o
;wreak vengeance by dedroyin~ b
} buildings of tl_m companyf\ . ;
“ NINE BODIES ARE RECOVE:I =D
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| All But One of Miners Killed in Shat
| Accounted For.
. A special from Wilkesbarre, Pa.
| says: The bodies of nine of the ten
| miners who were killed at the . .chin
| closs colliery, in Nanticoke, We”nes
| day, were removed from the foot of
! the shaft Thursday. All were horribly
2 crushed and mangled by the fal'gl $e
| 1,800 feet, and the identification J#aif
| ficult. Arms and legs were to % from
i the trunks of some of the victims,
while the heads and trunks of others
were crushed to a jelly.