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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL.
VOL. X.
Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random, i
Grays is Mads County Site. |
Jones county had an election the
past week for the removal of thgi
court house from Clinton to Grays.
Grays won by a large majority. Clin-l
ton rece.ved 60 votes, and Grays
1,400. |
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New Physician at Federa] Prison. }
Dr. A. W. Fowler, one of Atlanta’s
best known physicians, has receive‘l?
notice from the Uniteq States depa:t-i
ment of justice in Washington of hisi
appointment as physician at the fed
eral prison at Atlanta to succeed Dr.
Swann of Alabama, who has resigned.
Planters Seiling Their Cotton.
Hundreds of bales of coiton have!
been turned 'loose in Americus the
_rast few days at the advance in val
ves, many sales being made about 9
cents. Farmers who held portions oig
their crop were glad enough to close!
-ouf, and at such satisfactory figures,(
.and little cotion now remains in the!
Americus warehouses. The crop ini
the section is none too promising, |
‘many fields 'still being grassy. |
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Nearly Two Hundred Descendants.
Dudley J. Chandler died, a few days
.ago, at the home -of his son, Neal
‘Chandler, in" Commerce, at the ripe’
age of 96 years. He was the father!
-of sixteen children, nine of whom 'are,
-still living. His children, grand and
great-grand children number nearlyl
200, and most of them live in the
-‘immediate section.
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Georgia ‘Boys Pass Exams.
The academic becard of the naval
-academy at Anapolis, Md., has decided ;
that the following Georgia candidates '
‘have passed all mental examinations.!
for admission to the academy: I
G. W. Bunkley, C. M. Eider, W.
S. Pottinger, J. W. Quillian, C. Ridge- |
ley, W. S. Roberts, G. B. Strickland, !
B. W. Tye. : l
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Candidates for Carnegie Medais. |
Miss Margaret Cunningham and:
Edward W. Cubbedge, Jr., of Savan-;
nah, may wear Carnegie medais for |
their heroism in attempting to 'savei
the life of Walker Cutts, the promi
nent young Savannahian, who was |
drowned in the surf at Tybee island
some days ago. I
G. A. Campsey of Pittshurg. an |
agent, representing the Carnegie “hero
fund,” left the city a few days ago,'
after spending a time interviewing
Miss Cunningham and Mr. Cubbedge.
None would discuss the prospect of |
medal presentation, but it Is beiieved |
that Miss Cunningham and Mr. Cub-|
bedge will secure this recognition ofl
the noble efforts they put forth to
save the young man. '
i !
Judge Speer Enjoins Roads. )
Judge Speer of the United States|
-court for the, southern district of}
Georgia, In the matter of Tift et al.|
vs. the Southern Railway et al., in-!
volving the decision of the interstate:
commerce commission to the effect |
that the railrodd had no right to raise |
their rates 2 cents a hundred, handed |
down his decision a few days ago.!
He saijg in conclusion: !
“In this case the conclusions of the |
court as to the igsues involved agree!
with the conclusions of the inter-|
siate commerce -commission as ex-|
pressed by their report. !
“A decree enjoining all the respond.!
ents against further enforcement of
the rates .complained of wiil be at
once entered.”
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Bound Over for Rioting. |
At McDondigh before Justices Per
ry and Daniel, Bob Cockran, Cleve |
Sutton and Relius Hall were bound
over tq the state court on the charge |
of murder.. Lorena Hinton was bound |
over on a misdemeanor charge ang
was committed to jail. Garney Cald
well ang Will-Sue will be tried imme
diately. Pipk Simmons was givén'
his liberty. ‘
These are unusual cases, as it will
be remembered that tuese negroesl
tock a prominent part in the riot
on the Southern railway train that
was run as an excursion from Wiarm
Springs to Atlania 2nd return on the
|l7th of June.
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| Supercedeas in Tax Case. ’
! Judge Joan T. Pendleton of the civil
|branch of the superior court at At
'lanta has granted a supercedeas in
' the injunctions which he recently de
?nied in the case of the Central and
lthe Gecrgia railroads against W. A.|
| Wright, comptroller general, and tle
}temporary restraining order, holds
[gocgl until the case shall have been |
'demdea in supeme court of the state.[
| These roads soughki to enjoin the
| comptroller. general from collection of
1 $1,000,000 back taxes on $3,000,600
!worth of stock in the Western Rail
!way of Alabama, owned jointly by
'them, but on which they had never
'paid taxes into the state treasury.
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' " Cannot Change !tinerary.
! Mayord Woodward of Atlanta has
received a leiter from William Loeb,
!Jr,, secretary to President Roosevell,
in reply to his letter of the 24th, iul
which Mr. Loeb thanks Mayor Wood
'ward, on behalf of the president for
‘his courteous interest in President
Rocsevelt’s visit, but states that it
will be impracticable for the president
!to change his itinerary so as to make
‘a ‘longer stay in Atlanta on ais trip‘
south next fall. : |
Mayor Wwodward wrote to inquire
if it could not be arranged for the
‘president to spend two days or at
| least one whole day in Atlanta, giving
|the people a better chance to meet
'him, but as the itinerary had already
been arranged, Secretary Loeb wrote
.that it would be impossible.for the
' president to remain longer in the city
than at first contemplated. : |
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Lively Contest Over New Counties.
The fight for new counties 'is on‘
‘in deadly earnest. No less than a doz
'en~ delegations have already establish-t
led their headquarters in Atlanta, and
‘are already busy pouring their ar-!
!guments in favor of their proposed
‘new counties into the ears of }isten-’
} ing members of the legislature. '
~ There is every indication that the|
‘new county situation is going to con-{
‘sume a large part of the time and |
attention of the general assembly.!
‘The people who want new counties |
and those who do not want them#
are not going to let the legislature |
resi until something is done. ‘
. There is considerable talk among'
the members of making only three
or four new counties at this session,|
waere they are most needed, but let-l
ting the other places remain vacant |
until further growth and development
shall demonstrate where they ought
to be established. The new countyl
delegationswye pullirz all sorts of pe
litical wires.
L
Packing House Tax Sustained.
Clerk Arnold Broyles, of tiae Ful
ton superior court, at Atlanta, hasi
received from the state . supreme
court official notification that thel
United States supreme court had de~‘
cided the case of F. E. Kehrer against
A. P. Stewart, tax celiector of Fu‘;tun‘
county, in favor of the tax collector.i
This case was decided several months
ago and the taxes paid, but the re-z
mittitur has just been rec:vel. |
This was the famous packing house |
case. The state levied a tax of $2OO |
upon every packing house deing busl
ness in Georgia, this tax to be paid in
every county in which the packing |
houses did business. The packiqg[
houses having offices in Atlanta paid |
the tax under protest and .appealed
the case to the supreme court, w}x’e_re|
it wad decided in favdr of the stafe.
It then went to the supreme ccurt,'!
and the opinion of the United States |
supreme court, and the opinion of the!
Georgia supreme court was sustained. 3
Germans Defeated by Blacks, "
Confirmation has been received in |
Capetown of Chief Marengo’s report- |
ed victory over the Germans at Ku-g
rasherg, German southwest Africa, |
June 22. It is said that 100 Germans
were killed. ‘
LEESBURG, GA., FRIDAY,JULY 17, 1905.
| " Proof or Ovriginality.
| “Yes,” remarked Mrs. Upstartia,
“that picture is an original Raphael.
Hueband had heard so much about
counterfeit Raphaels that he not only
rdered this from an artist upon
whom he could depend, but he went
to far as to go to the studio every
day while it was being painted; so
| you can take my word for it that this
is a real original Raphael.”—Boston
Transcript.
“Chlorohydrate of dimethylamino
i benzoylpentanol” is the name of the
latest anaesthetic for which . great
things are claimed. A name like that
should be sufficient -to put any one
|to sleep, thinks the Detroit Frea
I Press. :
UNSIGHTLY BALD SPOT
Caused by Sores on NeckeMercilesa Ttche
ing For Two Years Made Him Wild
-Another Cure by Cuticura.
l “For two years my neck was covered
with sores, the humor spreading to my
hair, which fell out, leaving an unsightly
bdld spot, and the soreness, inflammation
| and merciless itching made me wiid.
| Friends advised Cuticura Soap and Qint
' ment, and after a few applications the tor
| ment subsided, to my great joy. The sorcs
l scon disappeared, and my hair grew again,
l as thick and healthy as ever. 1 shall al
| ways recommend Cuticura. (Signed) H.
J. Spaiding, 104 W. 104th St, N. Y. City.”
1 A Story for Critics.
There is a little story of the Sultan
I of Turkey, and it has a }ittle moral
pinned to it which we commend to
| the critics.
Once upon a time the Sultan wrote
a poem. “Read it,” he said to his
hired literary gritic, “and say what
vou think of it.” B &
“Magnificent,” exclaimed the critic.
“Glorious as the sun! Matchléss as
the moon!”" # Saf e
“You're a liar,” said the Sultan.
“It's the worst thing I ever did. Ho,
there!”’—calling to the guard—*“Off
! with this fellow’s head!” ’
Now, only the other day a certain
man who had in his emdoy a fellow
of literary tendencies submitted to
him an article with these instruc
t tions:
| “I wrote this thing myself, and I
| think highly of it; nevertheless, be
i candid with me, an if you think it's
| worth nothing say so. I want the
| truth.”
| Thus urged the critic rendered this
| decision: “It is very weak—ill-writ
i; ten, and would not be considered by
~ any person of literary taste and judg:
| ment.”
' Whereupon the author and em:-
~ ployer, in great rage, kicked the can
' did critic out of the front door, and
he lost his job and his dignity, and
’ is now trying to get up a suit for
| damages.—Atlanta- Constitution.
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I, IN COLONEL'S TOWN |
Thiags Happen. N
I'rom the home of the famous “IKeyh
’ nel Keeyartah, of Cariersville,” away
- down South, comes an enthusiastic let
ter about Postum, {
“I was in very delicate health, suf- |
fering from indigestion and a nervous
trouble so severe that I could hardly ‘
- sleep. The doctor ordered me’to dis- i
- continae the use of the old kind of cof
fee, which was like poison to me, pro- i
] ducing such extreme disturbance that
I could not control myself. But such
- was my love for it that I could not get
- my own consent to give it up for some
- lime, and continued to suffer till my
father one day brought home a pack
age of Postum I'ood Coffee.
~ “I had the new food drink carefully
- prepared according to directions., and
gave it a fair trial. It proved to have
a rich flavor and made a healthy,
wholesome and delightful drink. Tol
Iy taste the addition of cream greatly
improves it.
~ “My health began to improve as soon l
a 8 the drug effect of the old coffee was |
- removed and the Postum Coffee had l
“time to make its influence felt. My |
hervous troubles were speedily relieved !
~and the sleep which the old coffec |
drove from my pillow always eame to f
- soothe and strengthen me after I had ‘l
- drunk Postum®=in a very short time [ |
| bozan to sleep better than I had for |
| years before. I have now used Postum |
rf‘m’(no for several years and like it bet
| ter and find it more beneficial than
| when I first began. ¢ It is an unspeak
| able joy to be relieved of the old dis
| fress and sickness.” . Name given by
| Postum Company, Battle Creek, Mich,
| There’s a reason,
| Read the little book, “The Road to
? Wellville,” in cach pkg,
Marketihg Potato Crops.
In line with the classic case of the
oyster shippers, cited by President
Hadley of Yale University in his book
ol Railroad Transportation, is the case
of the Aroostcok potato growers
brought by President Tuttle of the
Boston & Maine Rai‘road before the
Senate Committee on Interstate Com
merce, Nothing could better show how
a railroad works for the intercst of |
_the localities which it serves.
A muin dependence of the farmers of
the Aroostook region is the potato
cron. aggregating annually eight to
ten million bushels which find a mar
ket largely in Boston and the adjacent
thickiv settled regions of New Eng
land. The competition of cheap water
transportation from Maine to all points
along the New England coast keeps
railroad freight rates on these pota
toes always at a very low level
Potatoes are also a cousiderabic out
put of the truck farms of Michigan,
| their normal market being obtained in 1
and through Detroit and Chicago and
other communities of that region,
Not many years ago favering sun and |
rains Dbrought a tremendous yield of ‘
potatoes from the Michigan flelds. At
normal rates and prices therc would
have been a glut of the customary war- ‘
kets and tha potatoes would have rot- ‘
ted on tho farms. To help tiie potato
growers the railroads from Michigan (
made - unprecedentedly low rates on
potatoes to cvery reachabie market,}
even carrying them in large quantities |
to a place go remote as Bostoun. The (
Aroostook growers had to reduee the
price on'their petatoes and even then i
could not. dispose cf them unless the
Boston & Malae Railvoad reduced its
alroncy low rate, whieh it did. Dy
weans of these low ljates,':u‘mlgi'u]:i'bos
sible low prices, the potato evops of
poth Michigan and Maine were finally
marketed. Lverybody eats potatoes,
and that year overyvody had all the
potatoes he winted. - .
.7 AVlHile the Micitigan railroads made
rates that wonld have been ruincus fo
the railroads, had they been applied to
{he lovement of all potatoes at ak
times, to all places, they belped their
patrons to find markets fer them. T'he
Boston & Maive Railroad suffered a de
crease in its revenue from potatoes,
but it enabled the Aroostook farmers
to nrarket their crop and thereby to
obtain money which {hey spent for
the varied supplies whith the rail
roads brought to them. If the making
of rates were subjeet to Governmental
adjustment such radical and prompt
action could never have been taken,
because it is well ostablished that if a
rate be once refluced by a railroad
company it cannot be restored through
the red tape of Governmental proced
ure. If the Michlgan railroads and the
Boston & Maine Railroad had been
subjected to Governmental limitation
they would have feit obliged to keep
up their rmes as do the railroads of
France and England and Germany un
der Governmental 'imitation and iet
| the potatoes rot.—Exchange,.
WALLACE ANSWERS SECRETARY TAFT,
Says Fiithy Lacre Cut No Ice in Matter of
.His Resignation.
John F. Wallace, who resigned as
member and chief engineer of the
Panama canal commisson, and whom
Secretary Taft charged with leaving
the ecanal work for “mere lucre,” gave
out a statement at New York Friday
night, replying to Secretary Taft.
Mr. Wallace denies that he socught
the place of chief engineer and says
his financial cendition was not im
proved by taking the place. He says
it did not occur to him that he was
not free to resign if justice to him
self and family and to his reputation
as an engineer required him to do
I 80.
l ASKS RELIEF FROM DEBTS. ‘
i Superintendent of Atlanta Waterworks
| fFiles Petition in Bankruptcy.
! Park Woodward ,superintendent of
; the Atlanta city waterworks, who has !
;been prominent in city, county and[
| Georgia state politics for more thanl
'twenty years, has filed a petition in
i bankruptey.
| The petition gives $82.50 as his as
| sets. Of this amount $12.50 s in
' cash, the remainder being in notes j
i due him. The tota] indebtedness glv- ‘
ien in the netition is $14,917.11. ‘
| Colonel Woodward is prominent ing
i military affairs, having been the com. z
; mander of the fifth Georgzia regi
§ ment. i
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: ‘ ‘ LASTING RELIEF.
H N e J. W. Walls, Super
’l B intendent of Sireets,
ey of Lebanon, Ky.,
- says:
“My nightly rest was broken, owing
to irregular action of the kidneys. I
was suffering intensely from severe
pains in the small of my back and
through the kidneys and annoyed by
painful passages of abnormal secre
tions. No amount of doctoring relieved:
this condiion. I took Doan’s Kidney
Pills and experienced quick and lasting
relief. Doan’s Kidney Pills will prove
a blessing to all sufferers from kidney
disorders who will give them a fair
trial.”
Foster-Milburn Co,, Buffalo, N. Y.,
proprietors. [or sale by all druggists,
price $0 cents per box.
The French government intends te
make experiments in its Congo eol
ony in the cultivation of a wild coffee
tree discovered by the explorer, M
Chevalier
Cures Eczema, Itching Humors,
Especially for old, ehronic cases take
Botanie Blood Balm. It givas a healthy
blood supply to the affected parts, heals all
the sores, eruption scabs, scales; stops the
awful itehing and burning of eczema, swell
ings, suppurating, watery sores, etc. Drug
gists §1 got large bottle, 8 bottles $2.30, 6.
botties §56.00, express prw. S&mé)le free
and prepaid by writing B Baltn Co., At~
lenta, Ga. Descride trouble and free medi
val adwlae sent in sealed Jatter.
There are nearly 8000 railway grade
crossings in the United States. ;
Tatiay OCan Waar Shaew
One sizo smaller after usiny Allen’s Foot-
Ease, a vowder, J¢ makes tight or new shoes
easy. Cures swollen, ho*, sweating, aching
feat, ingrowiag nadls, corns and banions, A%
alldruggists and shoa stores, 25¢, Don’t ace
cert anv substitute, Trial vackaze Free by
mall. Address, Allen |, Oilmsted, Leßoy, N.Y.
In 1870 England had 8121 schools and
135 prisons.
Mnrs. Winslow’s Boothing Syrup for Children
teething, soften the gums. reduees inflamma
tion,allays pain,cureswind colic, 23¢.a bottle.
" Colorado is to have another forest re
gerve of 1,014,926 acres. .
Piso’s Curse is thebest n;edlclne we ever used
for all afizetions of throaut and lungs,—Wwu,
O. Expsuey, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900.
The cost of the world’s wars since the
Crimean war has been $12,263.000,000.
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