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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL.
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Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
W. & A. Returns Are Raised.
Comptroller General W. A. Wright
has added $427,900 to the tax returns
of the Atlanta and West Point Rail
soad company for 1905, increasing the
total amount on which this company
will be required to pay taxes to $2,-
341,435.
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Nurserymen to Meet in Atlanta.
The annual convention of the Amer
ican nurserymen will be held in At
lanta on June 22, and it is expected
the tree growers will be in session for
‘several days. There will be visitors
from Tennessee, Alabama, Mississip
pi, South Carolina and Florida, and
the Georgia nurserymen Wwill, of
course, be well represented.
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New Line for Augusta.
Augusta is to have a new railroad
to be styled the Savannah River Rail
road company.. The line will be run
from Augusta, in Richmond county,
to Clyo, in Effingham county, a dis
tance of about 90 miles, in a generat
southeast direction, through the coun
ties of Richmond, Burke, Screven and
Effingham.
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Life Sentence for Sasser.
The jury in the Sasser case at Syl
vania rendered a verdict of guilty,
with a recommendation to life impris
onment. Some highly sensational tes
timony developed during the trial to
show that Sasser persisted in paying
attentions to the wife of the mur
dered man and stayed around the
house despite attempts to drive him
away.
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Postmaster Warren Makes Bond.
Postmaster John R. Warren of Still
more has given bond for his appear
ance May 27, when a committement
trial is to be given him on the charge
of embezzling mail matter.
Postmaster Warren was carried to
Savannah under arrest under charges
preferred by Postoce Inspector Lewis.
James Martin, one of the bondsmen,
is in charge of the office.
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Exhibit Rules Are Changed.
Important changes in the exhibit
rules of the Georgia State Agricul
tural society were made at a meet
ing of the fair committee in Atlanta
a few days ago. Rule No. 8, which
forbade any exhibitor from competing
for more than one premium, was
changed, so that an individual may
place his exhibit in a county ex
hibit and there win a premium and
also win an individual premlum. -
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Tipping Not Allowed.
The announcement is made that
no tipping will be allowed at the new
passenger station in Atlanta. The
employees of the terminal company
are not allowed to accept tips from
patrons of the railroads, and the rule
will be rigidly enforced in every de
partment of the depot. Porters who
carry baggage for passengers will not
be permitted to receive tips, being
paid their wages by the terminal com
pany. In the restaurants at the de
pot the same rule will apply and wait
ers will be required to give the bhest
service without the encouragement of
a tip. |
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Georgia Bureau of Immigration,
! Negotiations were completed a few
days ago for the establishment in At
lanta by the Atlantic Coast Line, fha
Louisville and Nashville and their al
lieq properties, of a Georgia bureau!
of industries and immigration for the
purpose of building up the territory
=hich they traverse and |scating man
o o 9ries and mills along the lines
¢, %ufeir properties in Georgia.
“Colonel Samuel C. Dunlap of Gaines
ville, a well known Qeorgian of wide !
railroad and legal experience, has'
been secured hy these important lines |
to be chief of this bureau. . |
Especial attention will be given to
securing a due share of the immigra
tion of a desirable character, not only
!{rom the foreign countries, but par
’Licu]al'ly from other states of the
|union.
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Must Employ a Warden.
After giving the matter a full hear
ing, the State prison commission de
cided that the felony convict camp lun
Jackson county has been improperly
managed, and the commission orders
the Jackson county board of commis
sioners to put the camp under the
management of a new superintendent
or warden, this to be done within
the next thirty days.
The Jackson county grand jury re
cently charged mismanagement of the
felony camp. It was alleged convicts
were allowed to go without stripes
and that at times prisoners were al
lowed to leave the camp without be
ing escorted by a guard.
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Brown Will Case Appealed.
A new and unexpected turn has
been taken in the famous Brown
will case in Atlanta. By consent of
the attorneys representing both sides,
the case was appealed to jury trial in
the superior court, “without prejudice
of a verdict from the court of ordi
nary.” ‘
The case in question is the demand
made a few months ago by Mrs. E. L.
Connally, Elijah Brown, George Brown
ang Miss Sally Brown, children of
the late United States Senator Jo
sech E. Brown, that their brothers,
Julius Brown and Joseph M. Brown,
be discharged as executors of the mil
lion dollar estate left by Governor
Brown. The allegations in this de
mand for dismissal were extremely
sensational, it being charged that the
executors were holding the estate to
gether for their own personal spite;
instead of dividing it; that Julius
Brown was habitually intoxicated;
lthat the estate was heing mismanaged
and wasted.
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Central to Build New Link.
The Greenville and Newnan Rail
way Company, with headquarters at
Savannah, has been grantgd a charter
by Secretary of State Phil Cook. The
company proposes to build a line of
railway through Coweta and Meri
wether counties, extending from
;Greenville, in the last named county,
to Newnan, in Coweta county, the line
to be approximately thirty miles in
length. :
While the name does not so indi
cate, it is believed that the proposed
road will be owned and operated by
the Central of Georgia, and an exam
ination of the list of incorporators
tends to confirm this belief. All of
them are connected with the Central
in scme capacity.
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A Call for Statistics.
President M. L. Johnson of the
Georgia division, Southern Cotton As
sociation, is urging upon the officers
of the Georgia division, the farm
ers and ctizens, the necessity of aid
ling him in securing accurate statis
tics of the reduction of the cotton
acreage and the fertilizer under cot
ton, :
This work, declares Mr. Johnson,
is of greatest and vital importance to
the present holders of cotton and will
mean thousands of dollars to them
and probably millions to the growers
?Of the present crop.
~ Blanks upon which these statistics
should be recorded are being sent
.into each county in the state, and
President Johnson is calling upon ev
ery cotton grower, every county offi
cer of the association to aid cheer
fully in the work.
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Alleged Fraud Unearthed.
The beginning of what promises to
be the biggest case that this section
of the country has ever seen, so far
as violations of the postal laws are
concerned, came into the United
States court at Augusta the past
week, when Laurenz Ross and H. C.
Reed, two men who have made their
bomes in Augusta and vicinity for
some months, were arraigned before
‘Commissioner Lane,.
The- charge against these men is
that of using the United States mail
for fraudulent purposes, and is the
outcome of a scheme whereby they
claimed to bhe able to beat the cot-
LEESBURG, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1905.
ton market, and furnish large ana
quick returns to their patrons. They
claim that they are interested witn
Danie] J. Sully.
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Work cf School Commissioners.
During the County School Commis
sioners’ convention in Macon recently, 1
the school officials strongly endorsed‘
local taxation, tramsportation of pu
pils, improvement of school buildings,
and grounds, contests for pupils,
school improvement clubs, the estab
lishment of rural high schools and
the Southern Kducational Journal.
Strong discussions on teaching ag
riculture in the schools were made by
Professor Park, Dr. White and Su
perintendent Chapman.
State School Commissioner Merritt
reviewed the work of the year, and
urged that teachers enforee strict dis
cipline and that school officials should
thoroughly enforce the school law. He
congratulated the county superintend
‘ents on another year of successful
work since the last annual conven
i tion.
‘ The display of educational work was
a feature of the convention. The dis
‘p‘.ay from Hancock county was nota
bly excellent. Manual training is be
ing taught in all the rural schools
of that county. ‘
For good reports on the observande
| of Arbor day, a circulating library has
- been awarded to the following couw
‘ties; Johnson, Twiggs, Jackson and
| Franklin. ;
COURCILMEN ARE CALLED THIEVES.
Notwithetanding Protest, Philadelphia Gas
Plant is Leased to Local Campany.
Amid scenes of disorder, unprece
dented in the annals of Philadelphia’s
legislative body, the city counell,
Thursday night, voted to lease the
city’s gas works to the Tnited Gas Im
prrovement company for a term of 75
years for the total sum of $25,000,000,
the money to be paid in various
amounts before the end of 1907.
The climax was reached when the
vote in common council was announe
ed after three hours of debate. A great
uproar was started in the gallery,
which was crowded to the doors.
| From all over the gallery came hisses
and cries of “Thieves!” The out
burst was somewhat startling to the
presiding officer, who made a vain
effort to quell it. Finally he sent for
a squad of police to clear the gallery,
which started the disorder anew. The
crowd continued to hiss and call the
ccuncilmen thieves and other names
until the police arrived end started to
clear the gallery. In clearing the gal
lery there were several clashes be
tween the police and some of the
spectators, but no one was hurt,
SYSTEM OF BONDED WAREHOUSES
Will Enable the Farmer to Borrow Money
Cheaply on His Stored Cotton.
One of the most important move
ments ever inaugurated in the south
is now rapidly taking form, and once
it is completed, the southern farmer
and cotton grower will be able, for
the first time in history to set his
own price upon his own commodities,
exclusive of the outside influences of
the Wall street “bull” and “bear.”
This is the vast honded warechouse
system, supported by the Southern
Cotton association. By this it 18
hoped to erect a fireproof warehouse
i every community in which 2,000
bales of cotton are marketed. In
this way the farmer may store his
cotton and borrow cheap money on the
receipts, holding the staple until the
price is high enough to warrant him
selling.
THE LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE
RAILROAD. |
Best Line to Confederate Vctcrans;
Reunion, Louisville, Ky., June 14- ‘
15-16, 1905 —Very Low Rates. |
Stop overs allowed at Mammoth (Ju.vra,i
America’s Great Natural Wonder, Pass
through the Historical Battle Fields. Rates
open to all. Tickets sold June 10th, 11th,
12th and 13th., Ask for tickets via L, & N.
Full information furnished on application
to J. G. HOLLENBECK,
District Passenger Agent,
Atlanta, Ga.
The Unwelcome Suitor,
The girl who wants to get rid of &
persistent and tiresome caller usually
does everything she can to show himl
he is unwelcome without openly telld
ing him so. Her performances ard
many and interesting.
First . she pleads other engage
ments.
Her next dodge is to “big brot.her":
him. o
The third scheme is to act natural,
so horribly natural that anybody but
a born idiot would take the hint.
That failing she takes to palming
him off on her family.
. Then she gives away his flowers
and insists upon her small brother
l gobbling up his chocolate creams un
der his very nose.
Next she abuses him. She makes
appointments with him and takes
pains not to keep them. She gives
his dances to some cne else. She
goes off rowing with a rival when she
' has promised to go drivng with him.
When she shuts herself up in her
room and refuses to see him the de
sired result is generaliy accomplished,
even where all other methods have
failed.
If he still comes, she can either
ask her father to hit kiwn in the head
with an axe or she can ask him why
he doesn’'t get married, so he will
have some place to spend his even
ings. Then he will either propose or
quit. If he proposes she can refuse
him,’and he is sure to come no morer
| —at least for a while.—Pittsburg Dis
pateh.
The cost of locomotives has in
creased with each improvement made
In their construction, states the New
|Yorl~: Sun. Where ten years ago the
average cost of a locomotive fully
“ equipped for service was $12,500, it is
{now $15,000, and the ‘heavier traln
-11021(1 carried by American railroads
| necessitates a higher grade of freight
locomotives, with more strength and
lless spoed than passenger locomos
tives. .
’ Old hard felt hats, which were
) valueless up to a few months ago, can
now be sold for £7 a ton, and the
market is rising. The hats are burn
ed to get the shellac, which is worth
two shillings a 'pound.
GREAT CHANGE .
From Change in Food. »
The brain depends much more on the
| stomach than we are apt to suppose un
til we take thought in the matter.
Feed the stomach sn proper food easy
to digest and containing the proper
. amount of phosphates and the healthy
* brain will respond to all demands. A
notable housewife in Buffalo writes:
“The doctor diagnosed my trouble as
a ‘nervous affection of the stomach.” I
was actually so nervous that I counld
I not sit still for five minutes to read the
newspaper, and to attend to my house.
bhold duties was simply impossible. I
doetored all the time with remecdies,
but medicine did no good.
“My physician put me on sll sorts of
diet, and I tried many kinds of cereal
l foods, but none of them agreed with
’ me. I was almost discouraged, and
| when I tried Grape-Nuts I did so with
- many misgivings—l had no faith that it
would sueceed where everything else
' had failed.
~ “But it did succeed, and yoy. dom’t
- know how glad lam that I tried it. I
feel like a new person, I have gained in
weight and I don’t have that terrible
burning sensation .n mmy stomach any
more., I feel so strong again that [‘am
surprised at myself. The street noises
that used to irrvitate me so, I never
notice now, and my mind is so clear
that my household duties are a real
pleasure.” :
Name given by Postum Co., DBattle
Creek, Mich.
There’s a reason.
Now why was this great change made
in this woman?
The stomach and the brain had not
been supplied with the right kind of
food to rebuild and strepgtlien the
nerve centres in these organs, It is ab
solute folly to try to do this with
medicine., There is but one sure way,
and that is to quit the old food that has
failed and take on Grape-Nuts food,
which is more than half digested in the
process of manufacture and ig rich in
the phosphate of potnsh‘gumaim‘d in
the natural grain, wkich qfltes with
albumen and water—the dgly three
substances that will make up the ‘soft
gray filling in the thousands of delicate
nerve centres in the brain and body.
Grape-Nuts food is a sure read back to
health in all such casges.
ANOTHER LIFE SAVED.
Mrs. G. W. Fooks, of Salisbury, Md.,
wife of G. W. Fooks, Sheriff of Wico
o mico County,
b Fvah) “
D says: “I suf
% . \‘e" fered with kid
| R oW\ ney complaint
" \{\ » o '5-‘ foreightyears.
\ “ by It came on me
]‘ < ~a=—"gradually. I
o 3 felt tired and
=N T weak, was
!. G shortof breath
= e ® || and was trou
[ S e, biea with
SN bloating after
QY W cating,and my
limbs were badly swollen. One doctor
told me it would finally turn to Bright's
disease. I was laid up at one time for
three weeks, I had not taken Doan’s
Kidney Pills more than three days
when the distressing aching across my
back disappeared, and I was soon en
tirely cured.”
For sale by all dealers. Price, 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,N. Y.
Cuba’s immigration last year was 20,000,
Three-fourths were Spaniards.
ITCHING SCALP HUMOR
Lady Suffered Tortures Until Cured by
Cuticura=Scratched Day and Night.
“My scalp was covered with little pim
ples and I suffered tortures from the itch
ing. I was scratching all day and night,
and I could get no rest. I washed my
head with hot water and Cuticura Soap
and then applied the Cuticura Ointment
as a dressing. Onc box of the ointment and
one cake of Cuticura Soap cured me. Now
my head is entirely clear and my hair is
growing splendidiy. I have used Cuticura
Soap ever gince, ind ghall never be without
it. (Signed) Ada C. Smith, 309 Grand St.,
Jersey City, N. J.” i
In the latest Zorm of hospital construc
tion there are no corners or angles in the
wall which may catch dust.
Deafarss Canndt Ba Cuenl
bylocalapplications as they cannot reachthe
tigeased portion oftheear, L'hereis only ono
way to curo deafness, and that is by consti
tutional remedies, Deafness is caused by an
inflamed condition of the mucous lining ot
the Bustachian Tube, Whenthis tube is in
flamed you have a rumblingsound or imper
fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed
Deafness is thoe result, and unless the inflam
mation can be taken out and this tube re
stored to its normal condition, hearing will
he dwtroged forever, Nine ocases out of ten
arecaused by catarrh, which is nothingbutau
inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars forany
caseol Deafness (caused by catarch)that can
nothecured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure, Send for
circularsfree, F.J. UrENEY & Co.,Toledo, O,
Hold by Druggists, 76e.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Swallow Dying Oat,
The swallow is being annihilated. As
the birds cross France and Italy going
to Africa in the fall and returning in
the spring they are mercilessiy slaugh
tered for the table aund the plume
trade, * Their numbers are visibly de
creasing.
A Short Lesson in Platitudes.
We notice that fun is being poked
at Vice President Fairbanks for the
platitudes of his speeches, of which
we seem to be in for a long series.
But we must bear in mind the simple
distinction petween the solemn and
the strenuous platitudae. Mr. Fair
banks is easily the master of the for
mer. When he says, for example, that
political parties “should stand for
those measures which ar: wholesome,”
he does it with a kind of dying fall
which inspires general gloom. But
how easy it would be for him to add
the little more and how much it is!
If he would but fiercely defy a world
in arms to challenge his statement
that “we gladly acknowledge one
country,” or threaten to thrash within
an inch of his life any scoundrel who
should question his affirmation that
“our laws must be inspired by a sense
of justice,” he might fairly hope to be
compared to Pericles, and to be listen
ed to by his awe-struck countrymen as
an avatar of cloquence and wisdom.
“1f you wish to see me weep,” says
Horace, In his famous advice to
American orators, “make your platl
t{ud-;:-'. strenc ~.rf.”
Rembrandt and Murillo. ;
“Phrouzn the eighteenth century
Dutch painters, llke those of other
countries, turned to Italy for inspira
tion; Rembrandt’s marvels of light
were forgotten or condemned by iz
norant critice: his portraits, that
search into the souls of his gubjects,
®spigsed for their “laboricus, ignor
ent diligerce.” He was neglected,
while Murillo continued to be abund
antly admired. Now, ‘however, Mu
rillo is estecmed loss highly, and Rem
brandt has heen restored to his place
ymong the glarts.—St. Nicholas
NO. 51.