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GEORGIA.
Brief Summary of Doings
Throughout the State.
Georgia Awaits Immigrants.
In a recent issue of The Railway
World in an article dealing with the
“South’s Opportunities for Immi
grants,” especial attention ig called
to the great possibilities of wealth
in Georgia. The article goes on to
state that all Georgia needs for the de
velopment of her resources is a peace:
able, industrious and frugal laboring
population. ;
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‘New Commissioners for Darien.
Thomas K. Denham and William
Yot?n‘g have been appointed commis
sioners of Darien, thig state, by Gov:
ernor Terrell. Their office ig equiva
lent to being a member of a city
council in towrs whic Lave mayacrs
and councils. Owing to the great
number of negroes in Darien, it is
necessary for the governes to appoint
the officials of rhe place instead of
having elections, for if election: were
held negro officials would be elected.
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Fighting Trading Stamps,
Thirty of the leading merchants of
Columbus have signed an agreement
not to use trading stamps or other
similar devices beginning March 1 for
a period of five years. It is said that
others will sign. $2OO forfeit will be
paid for violations. The prominent
merchants are waging a relentless
war on the trading stamp. City coun
cil will be asked to impose a heavy
tax upon any merchant using stamps.
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Confiscated Property of Georgians.
Josiah Flournoy, a well-known civil
and mining engineer of Columbus,
who for a number of years resided in‘
Venczuelar, where ~he otill lias -foves
ests, states that the Venezuelan gov
ernment is proceeding to confiscate
the property of himself and associ
ates in the country and declares that
he will now appeal to the TUnited
States government for protection.
Mr. Flournoy states that the prop
erty was of little or no value until im
proved by himself and other foreign
ers. His associates are Americans,
Germans, Spaniords and Frenchmeh.
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Atlanta’s New Passenger Depot.
The new passenger depot at Atlan
ta will be opened to the public on
March Ist. Announcement to this ef
fect is made by Captain James W.
English, president of the Atlanta
Terminal Company.
In addition, Captain English an
nounces that the depot will be man
aged by a board of control, compos
©d of railroad men, and that the offi
cers of the terminal company will
have nothing to do with the station
after its completion. It will be leas
ed by the railroads.
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New Colony City Started.
Captain D. C. Weleh has recently
left Fitzgerald for the site of the new
colony, St. George, on the St. ).Izu"y‘s3
river,
A corps of survevors will follow,
and the actual work of mapping out
the neéw city will commence. This
move will be welcome to the hundreds
of investors who have bought stock
with the understanding that their
money was to be refunded if the col
ony company failed to make a loca
tion and found a city.
The site selected is on the Georgia
Southern and Florida r‘ailroa& and
the town will have the advantage of
railroad facilities from the first day.
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Southern Cultivator Continues.
, Mr. George F. Hunnicutt, son of
the late Dr. J. B. Hunnicutt, has be
cz)me the editor of the Southern Cul~‘
tivator, at Atlanta. A stock company
consisting of the childrén of thz late
editor has been formed, and his sons
and daughters will take up the work
where he laid it down. .
In the death of Dr. J. B! Hunnieutt,
the agricultural interests of the scuth
lost ome of their best and ablest
friends. He did brilliant work in be
half of the farmer, anl he was helpef®
thereto by an earnesc love for the
calling of the farmer and consequent
appreciation of his ne2ds and difficul
ties. : .
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Wants Cash for Convicts’ Board.
Lowndes county may have a scrap
with the state of Georgia over the
cost of keeping two convicts in the
county jail a little over a month.
Mary Harvey, who was convicted in
‘November of murdering her husband,
and Charles Gray, who was sentenced
for three years for stealing cotton,
lay in jail at Valdosta for over a
month, though the penitentiary offi
cials were notified twice to send for
them. The convicts were taken to
the penitentiary only a few days ago.
The cost of keeping these convicts
has been about s2o,.and the county
commissioners will try and collect
this amount ¥rom the penitentiary
;ofn’cials.
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Georgian Awarded Fortune
As the result of a favorable decis
ion just rendered by the court of
claims in Washington, A. A. Willett, a
prominent citizen of Americus, will
receive $200,000 from the government
in settlement of a case originating in
the French spoliation claims of a hailf
century ago.
Mr. Willett is one of five contest
ants, who, for years, have been prose
cuting this case, their claim being one
million dollars.
If congress acts favorably upon the
decision rendered by the court of
claims, ag it undoubtedly will, the
heirs will receive the million dellars
within sixty days. Mr. Willett’s
et SR COrSTIONOgthre - tou e otlher
heirs, reside in New York.
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Comptroller Asks a Fraud Order.
Comptroller General Wright has ta
ken steps to keep the Hartford In
surance Company, of New York, from
doing business in Georgia, his latest
move being a letter, written a few
days ago, to the postmaster general
asking that the company before men
tioneéd be prevented from using the
mails for the purpose cf transacting
its business in Georgia,
The reason for the comptroller’'s
activity is his opinion that the com
pany is an infringement on the rights
of the Hartford Fire Insurance Com
pany, of Hartford, Conn., a company
that has paid taxes and done business
in Georgia under the legal deposit for
many years.
The company which it is sought to
exclude hag paid no Georgia taxes
and made no deposit. It was charter
ed in the Indian Territory and has
headquarters in the Hartford build
ing, New York city. Comptroller Gen
eral Wright has written to the Indian
Territory officials, who replied that
the company wag capitalized at S2OC,-
000 and claimed to have $lO,OOO paid
up capital. The stationery used by
the company is said to be a practical
copy of that used by the Hartford
Fire Insurance Company.
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Governor Talks of Cotton Burning.
The Fort Gaines cotton burning
was for a time the theme of general
eonvirsation at the capitol. Some of
the officials made light of the matter,
but others thought that it showed a
serious misunderstanding of the situa
tion that, they feared, existed beyond
the confines of Fort Gaines. |
Governor Terrell was inclined to
think that reports from Fort Gainésl
had been considerably exaggerate_d——!
which, in fact, was the case—and that i
if any cotton had been burned, the de
structive idea had not been taken up‘
by any large number of pecple. He
said:
“It would be an act of folly to burn
cotton, for it costs money to make it,
and even if it won’t bring the price of
production, it should not be destroyed
and the whose cost of raising thus
lost. The better plan would be, un
questionably, to store what is now on
hand and cut the acreage way down
next year. By such means both the
cotton held over and the new short
crop could be sold at a paying price.
“I have a crop of fifteen bales still
unsold, and I intend storing it until
next year, for I believe that the pec
ple of the south will see the wisdom
of not glutting the market, and that
the proportions of next year’s crop
will be small enough to bring prices,
by the law of supply and demand, to
a figure that will net a good profit to
the farmer.”
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Two Vice Presidents Nymed,
At the meeting of cotton ginners at
Atlanta the past week, it was deter
mined to name two vice presidents
from Georgia to attend the next con
vention to be held in Dallas, Texas,
unless the place of meeting should be
changed, the two vice presidents to
gether with those in attendance upon
the meeting to become missionaries
throughout the state in behalf of the
organization. The vice presidents
named were Hon. Charles Moses, of
Coweta, and Hon, C. A. Hartwell, of
Newton,
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Oglethorpse Honored.
A Washington dispatch says: Mr.
Taft, secretary of war, announced
that he had directed a battery on the
Fort Pulaski, Georgia, military reser
vation, be named Battery Horace
Hambright, in hoonr of Second Lieu
tenant Horace G. Hambright, 22nd T.
S. infantry, who died at Fort Yates,
North Dakota, of accidental injuries
April 15, 1896.
The secretary also ordered that the
new post established near Cloud
Springs, Ga., adjacent -to Chickamau
ga Park, be named Fort Oglethorpe,
in honor of James E. Oglethorpse,
founder and first governor of Georgia,
who settled in Savannah with 130
persons February 1, 1733, and was
recognized as governor until 1752.
ROOSEVELT PRAISES CONFEDS.
Writes Kindly Letter in Answer to
Invitation of Old Heroes.
Replying te- an invitation extended
by Albert Sidney Johnson Camp Uni
ted Confederate Veterans of Paris,
Texas, President Roosevelt promises
to visit Paris on his southern trip if
possible. His letter says in part:
“Personally I had kinsmen on both
sides. Two of my mother’s brothers
fought in the confedrate service—
one, by the way, served on the Ala.
bama under Admiral Semmes, the
father of the wife of that gallant ex
confederate Luke Wright whom I have
made governor of the FPhilippines.
It was but the other day that I desig
nated the only living grandson of
Stonewall Jackson a cadet at West
Point, and have just made ‘Jeb’ Stew
art, Jr., United States marshal for
the eastern district of Virzinia.”
‘ OGLETHORPE HONCRED.
New Military Post Is Named for Geor
gia’s First Governor,
A Washington dispatch says: Mr,
Taft, secretary of war, has ordered
that the new post established near
Cloud Springs, Ga., adjacent to Chick
amauga Park, he named Fort Ogle
thorpe, in honor of James [ . Ogle
thorpe, founder and first governor of
Georgia, wko seottled in Savannah
with 130 persons February 1, 1733,
and was recoguized as governor uutil
1752, :
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POSTAL TELEG‘RAPH,S\{} :
Zffect of Cheap Rates on the
. in Australia..
Australia has 48,000 miles |
graph lines. Its mileage 104
tion to the population is ne_
times as great as that of am
country in the world, except
New Zealand. It has 3,000 t
stations for a population of
people, or one for every 1,30
The rate for messages is 12
gixteen words in town or S
servic2, 18 cents for the same
of words to a point within t
state, and 24 cents for a me
any part of the commonweal
tistics three years old snow t
and % half messages a year
inhabitant of the country wet
ing over the wires. -
Compare these figures Wwi
United States, rememberin;
though the population of Aust
less than one-twentieth of ol
the area of the country is alr
actly the same as that of the
States proper. We have 27,(
graph stations, or only one f§
3,000 inhabitants. Our wire
just about one message per |}
inhabitant. Our rates are f 1
to three times as high as |
Australia. ;
These facts are given by 1
Lusk, an Australian barrister
itician, in the current numbe
North "American Review. T
interesting enough as show{:
Australia is leading the worl
telegraph service it posses
they have a still higher intej
the fact that all of the Austra
graph lines are owned by th¢
ment, having been first bui3
states, and then taken ovei
commonwealth, along with g
service of the country.
Now Mr. Lusk tells usi,%
great system pays all its ex)
operation and maintenanc
with 3 per cent. interest on
of construction, Three per g?
not be a satisfactory returggg
investors, and therein hagg
economy the government gy
its service. But a greaté;
lies in the fact that postal’
graph services are adminis
one system, and that local |
and telegraph stations are
in the same establishment.
6,000 postoffices of Australia
also telegraph stations, an
smaller stations the postma
be himself a telegraph opera
€ago R\ecord-Herald. . £
An Ingalls Story‘i;f
Mr. John J. Ingalls, wh
ways stoical, who was not
affected by passion and whyd
fectly indifferent to pleasurz
was some years ago maki
drive in the western part o
with a companion. They
campaigning, were full of g
were wholly enveloped in t}
the desert, their broncos U
pletely fagged while we
preaching the end of a:
drive. Not a word had bet
for half an hour. Ingalls
beside his companion, hig
face, his clothing thick wil
kali dust that floated in clo
them. Clearing his thros
turned his face to the we
jestically waved his hand t
panion, and, speaking in h
teristic guttural tone, said
a magnificent Sunset.”—Eld
publican. l
Naval Medical Practi}
Faney sending a gunboaf
China Seas without a Sul‘
board! But such things us
pen. The Admiralty provid
stocked medicine chest. B
tain knew nothing of medic
had all the medicine bottled
into a big tub, and then asser
company. ‘“All the stuff is th
he, “and if any one goes sicl
have a dose of the mixture, f
bound to be something in it
suit you!”—London Mail.