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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL.
VOL. X.
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{:mmd Bems of Interest
| Gathered at Random,
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‘tate Prohibition Bill Introduced.
Mr. Covington of Colquitt has in
troduced his state prohibition bill in
the house: It prohibits under penaity
the manufacture or sale of intoxicat
ing liquors within the state. Mr. Cov
ington says he is going to make @
hard fight in its behalf, and he ex
presses the belief that he has good
chances for success.
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Convicted After Seventeen Years.
Oliver Wilcox, colored, was con
victed a few days ago in Telfair su:
perior court of manslaughter and sen
tenced to ten years in the peniten
tiary. Wilcox was charged with kill
ing Boss Fletcher, another negro, No
" yvember 1, 1888, mnearly seventeen
years ago. He was arresteq in Cof
fee county last November. :
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After Emanuels Territory.
Perhaps the county occupying the
most unique position in the matter
of creating new counties, is that of
Emanuel. One membper very naively
expressed it, that the onslaught on
the territory of Emanuel by four pro
posed new counties, was but the eter
nal fitness of things, as “Emanuel”
means sacrifice.
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Death Claims General Thomas.
General B. M. Thomas died at his
home in Dalton Sunday afternoon.
Peritonitis was the cause of his
death. He was a graduate of West
Point, and was a distinguished brig
adier general in the confederate serv
ice. He was one of Dalton’s abléSt
and moest influential citizens, and has ‘
been superintendent of the Dalton city
schools for a number of years, and
held that position at the time of his
death.
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F. F. Morgan, cairman of the board l
of the directors of the Georgia divis- |
ion of the Travelers’ Protective As- |
sociation, has given the press a very ’
pointed statement about the associa
ition and state politics.
He declares that the association is
not in politics, and that the effort to |
make it appear so was without any f
foundation. He referred to the drag- )
ging of the association by certainl
newspapers into politics, and spoke
of some members of the Georgia .- I
vision who had stated what he de-%
nounced as not true.
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After Ducktown Copper Company.
Senator G. W. Phillips, of the for
ty-seconqg district, has intTcuidced in
the senate a resolution providing for
another investigation of the damage
alleged being done by the Ducktown
copper companies of Tennessee, in
the northern part of Georgia.
Hon. J. C. Powell, regpresentative
of Fannin county, introduced the same
resolution in the house and is wo®k
ing for the measure. The resolutions |
provide for the appointment of a com- i
mission of five consisting of the com- [
missioner of agriculture, state chem- |
ist, state geologist, William H. Ship. |
pen and Judge J. R. Chastain. '
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Most Unique Peonage Charge.
Ab Rhodes, farmer, near Hephzibah,
and one of the largest planters in
Richmong county, was given a pre
liminary hearing before United States
Commissioner W. C. Lane at Augusta
on the charge of peonage, and bound
over to the next term of the federal
court, under a bond of $1,500.
The case was brought by the wife
of W. E. King, who declares that
her husband is being kept in bondage
anq forced to work for a salary that
is not sufficient to keep the wolf away
from the door.
In explanation, she declares that
over her husband is held a warrant
charging larceny; that by means of
this he is held on the farm, and
in fear of prosecution forced to w¥k
at wages that mean starvation for
the family. :
Rhodes denied the gllegations.
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Georgia School Statistics.
The advance sheets of the annual
ireport of the State School Commis
sioner Merritt have been distributed
i among members of the legislature.
The report shows among other
things of interest that there _has beell
an increase in schoolr population in
Georgia of nearly 10,000 in 1904 over
1903. '
Reports from all the heads of the
different departments of the state -
vergity show these institutions to be
| in excellent condition.
l The statistics for 1904 show that
| the school population was 712,000. The
! number of pupils attending school was
490,013. Of these 298,865 were white
children and 200,238 were mnegroes.
i'l'he number of teachers was 10,360.
Of these 6,951 were white and 3,400
negroes. The number of school
houses in the state were 7,786. Ol
these 4,877 were for whites and 2,859
for negroes. The total value of the
white scho] houses is $4,347,274, while
the negro school houses are valued
at 567,870, making a total of $4,910,
144.
School libraries, 663; volumes in
lschool libraries, 101,105; value of
school libraries, $61,590. ¢
l Amount appropriated by state, $l,
501,441.00; raised by local taxation,
660,720.05; received from hire of con
!victs, $41,699.44; received from other
| sources, $102,890.12. Total receipts,
[ $2,396,750.61.
l Paid to county school commission
ers and to superintendents, $155,
‘ 848.53; paid to teachers, $1,888,022.13;
lpaid tor school supples and build
ings, $162,721.80; ‘other expenses,
$121,010.58. Total expenses, $2,327,-
603.04.
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Bill for State’s Expenses.
The general apropriations bil]j~for
1906 has been introduced in -the
bouse by Hon. W. H. Davis of Burke,
chairman of the committee on general
appropriations, to which committee
the measure was referred.
No special appropriation bill will
be considered by the committee untu
the general bill has been disposed of.
The general appropriations biil as
introduced provides for total appro
priations of $4,108,298 for each of the
| years 1906 and 1907 as follows:
' Executive department . . .$ 58,900
’Judicial department . . . . 109,000
Pablic institutions . . . . . 550,714
Public debt and interest . . 407,850
IPubllc sfchools . | .o . o . 1,760,704
|Pensions o e Rl 000
| Prison department . ... ... . 135,000
| Legislative department .. . 70,000
Miscellaneous items . ~ . . 151,160
Total 0 ey o 0 64,108,208
~ The appropriation for public scheols
from qirect taxation is only $1,000,000,
but this is in additién to all amounts
from other sources, which the law re
quires to go to common schools, bring
ing the total up to $1,735,704, as es
timated for each of the years 1906
and 1907.
The total estimated revenue for the
state for 1906—and it will he about
the same for 1907—is $4,250,000, ot
which about $2,700,000 will come from
direct taxation and about 81,550,000
from the rental of the Wesiern and
Atlantic railroad, convict rental,
liquor and other specific taxes and
other sources.
CANAL AFFAIRS ARE DISCUSSED
At Conference Heid by Roosevelt, Shonts
and Chief Engineer Stevens. :
Important matters relating to the
construction of the Panama canal
were considered by President Roose
velt and Chairman Shonts and Chief
Engineer Stevens, who were visitors
at Sagamore Hill
This was the first opportunity the
president has had to discuss canal
matters with Mr. Stevens, and they
went over the subject pretty thor
oughly. As both Mr. Shonts and Mr.
Stevens expect to sail for Panama
on the 20th instant, the president
desired to consult with them bhefore
their departure.
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Lectures open September 20, 1905. For free catalogue
and literature address Major C. R. Evans, Dean,
(Dept. 1.) Chattanooga, Tennessee,
LEESBURG, GA., FRIDAY,JULY 21, 1905.
| Ban on Sacred Bull,
| Recently a sacred bull was brought
| from India for exhibition at the é%r
tal Palace, near London. But @
British authorities refused to let it
be landed, except in the form of beef.
FITS permanently cured. Nofits or nervous
ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great
~ Nerveßestorer, #2trialbottle and treatise free
Dr.R. H. KLixg, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila,, Pa.
The average s.alar{i of a professor in
Harvard College is a little less than $4OOO.
BABY'S TERRIBLE SORE
Body Raw With Humor—Caused Untold
Agony-Doctor Did No Good--Mother
Discouraged=-Cuticura Cured at Once.
“My child was a very delicate baby. A
terrible sore and humor broke out on his
body, looking like raw flesh, and causing
the child untold agony. My physician pre
scribed various remedies, none of which
helped at all. I became discouraged and
' took the matter into my own hands, and
tried Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment
} with almost immediate success. Before
the second week had passed the soreness
l was gone, not leaving a trace of anything.
Mrs. Jeannette H. Block, 281 Rosedale St.,
Rochester, N. Y.”
Charity covers a multitude of sins, butb
it doesn’t remove them.
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skin, pimples, boils, bone pains, swellings,
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disease, we advise you to take Botanic Blood
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for old, obstinate, deep-seated cases, cures
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large bottle, 8 bottles $2.50, 6 bottles $5.00,
express prepaid. Sample sent free by writing
Biood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. fiesctibe
trouble and free medical advice sent in
sealed letter. Medicine sent atonce, pre
paid. :
The Nashville American thinks that
| the mercenary spirit is growing; that
we are tending more and more t 0
measure everybody and everything
by money. It pleads for and looks for
ward to a higher standard: We are
living and have been living in a period
of wealth-developing, of money-mak
ing, of industrialism and commercial
ism in which have grown up colossal
fortunes through the development of
the enormous mnatural advantages of
this wonderful country. In such a
period of industrialism success is apt
to be measured by individual wealth
or earning capacity. But we shall
come more and more to understand
and appreciate the true standard; to
estimate men, not in dollars and
cents, but according to their real
worth. The world’s greatest benefac
tors have been men who lived and
died poor in material wealth. The
' scholar, the patriot, the statesman,
lthe artist, the scientist, the teacher,
‘the moral exemplar, these in the
greatness of their work, ‘make the
mere money grubber seem meanly
small.
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| HE KNEW BETTER.
1 Weary Willie—Dis paper sez dat
- yer kin tell be de bark at de foot of
~a tree how old it is.
Frayed Freddie—Huh'! I guess de
man dat wrote dat wuzn’t never up a
tx;eaet under dem circumstances. Dat
ain’t no way ter tell a deg's 2g6.~e
Phlla!?)hia Press. e
COMES A TIME
When Coffee Shows What It Has Been
Doing.
“Of late years coffee has disaggeed
with me,” writes a matron from Rome,
N. Y., “it’s lightest punishment was to
make me ‘logy’ and dizzy, and it
seemed to thicken up my blood.
“The heaviest was when it upset my
stomach completely, destroying my ap
petite and making me nervous and irri
table, and sent me to my bed. After
one of these attacks, in which I nearly
lost my life, I concluded to quit and
try Postum Food Coffee,
“It went right to the spot! I found it
not only a most palatable and refresh
ing beverage, but a food as well,
“All my ailments, the ‘loginess’ and
dizziness, the unsatisfactory condition
of my blood, my nervousness and irri
tability disappeared in short order and
- my sorely afllicted stomach began
| quickly to recover. I began to rebuild
- and have steadily continued until now,
‘ Have a good appetite and am rejoicing
in sound health, which I owe to the
i use of Postuimn Food Coffee,” Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
} Mich.
| There’s a reason,
' Read the little book, “The Road to
- Wellville,” found in each pkg.
{ANOTHER LEAK ALLEGED.
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| Thii.'ftme it is Tobacco Crop Figures
! hat are Thought to Have Been
i “Juggled.” |
A Washington special says:
through the receipt of numerous com
munications from the south and state
ments appearing in the press at va
-1 rious times, that the statistics of the
department of agriculture on tobaccs
~were being manipulated in the iuter
ests of the so-called tobacco trust,
Secretary Wilson has begun an in
}quiry into the subject. Pending the
investigation the publication of the
tobacco statistics of the several dis
tricts will be held up, although the
; regular monthly figures by states will
‘be given out as usual. : ‘
| It was stated at the department
| Friday that special agents have been
BSent to the dark tobacco districts o»
Tennessee and Kenucky to verify or
} correct the department’s figures. This
‘*ac‘tion, Mr. Hyde, the chief statisti
clan, said, was in deference to the
sentiment which had been engendered
that the department’s figures were
wholly incorrect.
Mr. Hyde has bheen given direct
charge of the investigation, which,
it is believed, will be concluded
within two or three weeks.
Statement by Hubbard.
President Walter C. Hubbard of the
| New York cotton exchange made the
following statement Friday:
[ “Permit me to ask you very kindly
to correct a misapprehension of the
press in regard to my letter to Pres
ident Roosevelt concerning the dig
closures in the department of agri
culture. T have never written to Sec.
| retary Wilson, and my letter was not
‘ the sequel of any correspondence with
him conducteq by my brother, Sam
uel T. Hubbard, when president of
the New York cotton exchange. My
note was prompted simply by the
' recent revelations, and had for its
purpose solely to make a clear state
ment of the attitude of our exchange.”
Memphis Acts on Scandal.
The Memphis, Tenn. cotton ex
change has forwarded a letter to
President Roosevelt, a copy of which
follows:
“Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Presi
dent of the United States, Wiashing
{ton, D. C.: Sir—The Memphis cot.
' ton exchange desires to enter itsear
| nest protest against the system of
leakage in the government cotton
i report by employees of the hureau of
- statistics of the agricultural depart
!ment as recently exposed at Wash-
Ington, and to express the hope that
you will order a thorough investiga
' tion of the matter and criminal pros
ecution of the party or parties who
have been gullty of this offense.
“No man should be permitted fo
Pocmrpy an office of the government
' who makes public the secrets of the
i office for his private gain or for the
‘ benefit of others in collusion with him,
“We hope that you will order the
. matter sifted to the bottom and that
steps will be taken for the adequate
| punishment, not alone of employees
.of the government who are found
- gullty, but of al] parties whose play
' has made them the bheneficiaries of
this corrupt and disgraceful system.
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NEGROES DISCUSS TUBERCULOSIS.
Great Plague Was on List of Subjects at
Hampton Conference,
" The closing session of the Hamp
ton negro conference was held Fri
day at the Hampton institute. In a
discussion of the ravages of con
sumption among negroes, Dr. Francis
of Portsmouth, Va., showed that the
death rate of the colored population.”
from that disease was twice as great
ag the death rate of the whites from
the same diseases. !
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KAISC: BILL CONFERS WITH OSCAR. :
German Emperor and King of Sweden Hob-
Nob Oser the Situation.
A special from Ber! [ says: No in- |
dication of the -~esu/f the meeting |
between Emperor Wililam and King
Oscar at Gene, Sweden, Thursday, has |
reached Berlin, nor is any report of |
their conversation likely to be made |
public, as it is explained that thisi
was a strictly private visit of one |
sovereign to another. |
A WOMAN'S MISERY.
Mrs. John Laßue, of 115 Paterson
Avenue, Paterson, N. J,, says: “I was
troubled for about nine years, and
S what I suf-
Ail fered no one
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| ‘;é\’:’\‘\:’n ERECUNEN relief. Often
} : Wy e when alone in
the house the back ache has been so
bad that it brought tears to my eyes.
The pain at times was 8o intense that I
was compelled to give up my household
- duties and lie down. There were head
aches, dizziness and blood rushing to
my head to cause bleeding at the nose,
The first box of Doan’s Kidney Pills
benefited me so much that I continued
the treatment. The stinging pain in
the small of my back, the rushes of
blood to the head and other symptoms
disappeared.”
Doan’s Kidney Pills are for sale by all
- dealers, 50 cents per box., Foster-Mil
’ “urn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
. The Swiss-Snanish commerecial treaty ex
' pires August 31, 1905.
ldo not believe Piso’s Cure for Consump
tionhasanequal for coughs and colds,—-Jo&N
F.Boysr, I'rinity Springs, Ind., Feb, 15, 1900,
African %)icures consider the tongue of a
young giratie a great delicacy.
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