Georgia Historic Newspapers

    The Bulloch O cl 2 Banner.
YOU. IX.
Town Directory.
fjor, juncilmen: J. B. Lee.
J. W. Wilson, S. P. Oil
P- E. Turner, W. M. Harris, J. A.
nen.
ihal, J. Z. Kendrick.
County Directory.
linary—C. 8. Martin.
Irk—Harrison [iriff—W. Olliff.
lasurer—Josinh H. Waters,
Zetterower.
fceiver—W. B. Aikins.
Hector—J. toner—T. C. DeLoach.
A. Waters,
rveyor—H. J. Proctor.
Justice Courts.
■ th Dist. (Sink Hole)—S.H. Rushing,
Hirdays. ■, R. R. McCorkle, N.P. Court first
Hth Dist, (Club House)—Court second
Hlth Hirdays.
Dist. (Lockhart)—R. F. Stringer,
WJ-, H. M. Lanier, N.P. Court first
Dist. (Briar Patch)—U. M. Davis,
Court, Friday before fourth Satur¬
48th Dist. (Hagins)—J. R. Williams,
W. M. McLean, N.P. Courtsecond
1209th Dist. (Statesboro)—J. W. Roun¬
tree, J.P., J. B. Lee, N.P. Court, sec
ond Mondays.
1320th Dist. (Laston)-—A. C. Clifton,
day J.P., E. W. Cowart, N.P. Court, Fri¬
before the first Saturday.
1340th Dist. (Bay)—J. W. Donaldson,
J. P-, Samuel Ilarville, N. P. Court,
third Saturdays.
Alllance Directory.
Bulloch Couuty Alliance meets every
third Thursday.
STATESBORO.
Statesboro Alliance meets at States¬
boro every third Saturday at 2 p.m. Qeo.
F. Emmett, President, J. M. Hughes,
Secretary.
NEW CASTLE.
New Castle Alliance meets Saturday
before third Sunday, G. T. Brewton,
R. R. McCorkle, Sec.
nellwood. .
Nellwood Alliance meets first Saturday
m. T. F. Brannen, Pres.,Dan’I. Buie,
Ecno.
Echo Alliance meets at Smith’s Chap
second Saturday, 10 a. m. R. F.
Pres., F. M. Daugherty, Sec.
HABVILLE.
Ilarville Alliance meets first Saturday,
■Bl|Sjg> Lane. Pres., Isaac Dutch, Ac.
EFFINGHAM CO UN'
Co. Alii
jSec’ty.; k>@i6 ie
1 ocimAtrPPraT ply and
October, aY^io
EBENEZER.
stiue, Ebenczer Sec’y.; Sub-Alliance, Saturday L. F.\ before Groven- 2nd
meets
Sunday in each month at 2 p. m.
SHILOH.
Saturday Shiloh, E. II. Arnsdorff, Sec’y.; meets
before 4th Sunday in each
month, at 8 p. m.
MARLOW.
Saturday Marlow, T. E. Nease, Sec’y.; meets 2d
in each month at 2 p. m.
MONTLETH.
Montleth, W. A. Nease, Sec’y.; meets
1st Saturday in each month at 2 p. m.
TUSCULUM.
Tusculum, meets Saturday before 2nd
Sunday in each month at 10 a. m.
GAFFNEY.
Gaffney, W. C. Rahn, Sec’y.; meets
Saturday before 1st Suuday in each month
at 3 p. m.
SISTERS. FERRY.
Sisters Ferry, S. T. Metzger, See’y.;
meets Saturday before 3rd Sunday in
each month at 2.30 p. m.
GUYTON.
Guyton, meets Saturday before 2nd
Sunday at 9 a. m.
SUMMERTOWN.
E. S. Green, Secretary.
Third Saturday in each month.
SMITH.
Friday before the fourth Sunday in
each month. J. K. Lewis, Sec’y
EBENEZER.
Saturday before the third Sunday in
each month. Jno. N. Thompson, Sec’y.
PINE GROVE.
Siturday before third Sunday iu each
month, 10 o’clock, .am. J. H. Scott,
Bec’y.
MALVERN.
Foufth Saturday in each month, 2
o’clock, p. ns. T. L. Waley, Sec’y.
KEYS.
Friday before second Sunday in each
month, Sec’y. 2 o’clock, p. m. A. G. Braswell,
REI) OAK.
Saturday before T. the second Sunday in
each month. J. Smith, Secy.
SUMMIT.
Saturday before second Sunday in
each month, 10 o’clock, a. m. J. T.
Coleman, Sec’y.
MODOC.
Saturday before first Sunday in each
month, 2 o’clock, p. m. J. W. Ball,
SacIv.
Eureka Alliance No. 755, meets the
th ; rd Saturday in each month. Bulloch
county.
C. R. Davis, Lovic P. Boykin.
Pres. Sec’ty.
Directory for Statesboro Circuit.
STATE8BORO.
Preaching, 2nd and 4th Sabbaths at 11
a. in., and 7:15 p. m.
Sabbath School, every Sabbath at 3
p. Weekly in. meeting, Wednesday at
prayer
7:15 p. m.
Communion, 2nd Sabbath in Feb ■ i
April, June, Aug , Oct.. Nov.
HARMONY.
Preaching, 1st Sabbath nud Saturday
beforo in each month nt 11 n. in.
Sunday School, every Sabbath at 3 p.
m. Communion, 1st Sabbath iu Feb.,
May, Aug., Nov.
NEW HOPE.
Preaching, 3d Sabbath and
before in each month at tin. in.
Sunday School, every Sibbath at 8 p.
m. Communion, lid Sabbath, Fell,, May,
Aug., Nov.
XUglits So ATI , Special x*a-Xulieges To None.
Moonrise.
I sea a stretch of shining sky
Like some fair ocean sunset-lit;
Peaceful and wide its spaces lie.
And purple shores encompass it.
A little slender silver boat
Upon its bosom is afloat.
This craft, unstayed by winds or tides,
Slips out across the twilight bar;
Through rosy ripples soft she glides,
Led by a single pilot star;
With shadowy sails and fairy crew,
She drifts along the summer blue.
She’s filled from stem to stern with flowers,
And Love, and Hope, and Happiness.
Will aught of what she brings be ours?
Ah, me! if we could only guess 1
She rides elusive and remote,
This little slender silver boat.
—[The Spectator.
II The Girl I Left Behind Me.”
One rainy day in the late winter of
1882 I found myself bag and baggage
on the railway platform at Grand
Junction, Colorado. Asti,., train les¬
sened in the distance I took a survey
of my surroundings, Not a tree, not
a spear of grass- mud which looked
as if it might ingulf one to bo some
timo dug upas an unknown fossil—
not a sidewalk visible—except now
and then tho uneveu remains of a
brick pavement fast resolving itself
into its original clay.
I had been traveling through the
West, and now on my way here I had
stopped to see one who was my oldest
and dearest friend, the wife of the
superintendent of a mine on the head¬
waters of the White river. She had
triod to prepare mo for the discom¬
forts of the journey after I should
leave the railroad, but I found no
words could describe it as vividly as I
afterwards felt it, and I heartily
wished myself safo in the luxury of a
Pullman and speeding eastward. How
over I pulled myself together and went
to the agent lo ask when the stago
would leave for Meeker, and found I
could not go till morning; so giving a
small boy a quarter to wa^ffij| carryvlf... . >
I gingerly picked my
to brick along tbe ctuir
to the tow n ‘
pleasant and the air bracing as we
dragged laboriously out north through
the almost bottomless clay road.
There were no other passengers, but
two men and myself, so I turned my
attention lo the scenery.
The two men had eyed me curiously
at first and then began talking of mines
and the various arts and tricks of the
unscrupulous to outwit llie guiilible
tenderfoot. But gradually they over¬
came their apparent diffidence in ad¬
dressing a woman and began after
true Amcricau stylo to want to know
all about my antecedents, and above
all my reason for taking such an un¬
usual journey. When I told them I
expected to visit Mrs. Ronfrow at the
Tin Cup Mine one whistled expres¬
sively and said: “You be likely to
stay all winter.”
“Why?” I asked.
“Because, if signs go for anything
there is going to be an everlasting
snowfall before long.”
All the discomfort of my journey
was forgotleu iu (lie overflowing en¬
thusiasm of my welcome. Over aud
over again did “My Margaret,” as I
had called her in oldtime school days,
rush in from hor little log kitchen to
ask me if there was anything she could
do to ease my aching- bones. As I
looked around the little rooms, un
plastered save with grout dug from
neighboring hills, I began to appre¬
ciate the decorative possibilities of
dotted Swiss and red ribbons, but then
Margaret could find beauty to utilize
on the bleakest of desert isles. From
my seat by the same window I could
Bee the log mine buildings on the
opposite slope of the gulch and the
day shift coming out like bees from a
hivo and scattering to tho various
shanties dotted along the side of the
stream.
As I looked Margaret came and
looked over my shoulder and ex¬
claimed: “Therc’s John,” and then,
“Why, what can be Iho matter,” for
just behind him on an improvised
stretcher of pine boughs four men
were carrying another, so stiff and
Btlll it did not seem as if he could bo
living.
Margarot said: “Help me got a
bed ready,” and by tho time tho men
reached tho doorway with their bur¬
den a bed was stripped to mattress
and sheets, and they had laid him
upon it, whilo John said, briefly;
“An accident to Iho machinery, lie
is not dend, but I don’t know bow
badly hurt.” .
Wo soon found ono arm and ouo
teg broken, but no ovidonco of other
injury. Mr. Ronfrow, wlih tho hr
ftistimco of two of tlm men, who
through many year# of Wosiern life
had learned u rough sort of aurgnry,
set iliu limb*, while the women wullod
STATESBORO, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 30. 1893.
tho result in suspense. Through the
long night we watched bosido the
poor fellow for some signs of con
sciousuess, and towards morning
were rewarded by seeing him open
his eye and recognize Mr. Ren
frow.
During tho weeks of nursing which
followed we women had not much
timo to think of weather, hut niy
friend at Meeker had been a true
prophet, and the feathery flakes began
to fall during the first night oftor my
arrival and kept it up steadily for a
week, and trail and canyon and side
slope were covered with a white pall.
We were as securely shut up from
the outside world as if we had been
walled around with adamant. While
one’s sympathies cannot fly round the
world with the click of tho electric
needle, one naturally seeks for sub¬
jects of interest in the humdrum life
around, and so I began to study our
charge as I sat bosido him day after
day. Not that ho soemed a difficult
subject or wrapped in any mystery,
but as he lay there swathed in band
ages he seemed to be intently thinking.
One day he abruptly asked how long
since ho had been hurt. I told him
three weeks. lie turned his head
away with a deep sigh and said no
more for a few minutes. Then he
asked: “ ’Bout how far is it to Cairo,
III?” I said I didn’t know exactly,
thought nearly a thousand miles.
“Wish I was there,” he jerked out,
with an effort.
I began to suspect that “The girl I
left behind me,” was troubling him
and he wanted to talk about it and
did not know how to begin. So I
rather banteringly said: “Tell me
about her.”
He looked at me with a look of
comical dismay, and said “Why, how
did yon know?” and then said: “1
might as well tell some one, though
there ain’t much to tell. I used to
live down in Cairo and was a roust¬
about on a Mississippi steamer. There
was another fellow always worlj^d on
the same gang witli me aud we^.’ere
than molasses in winter. He
as vain as a peacock and thought
he was someVne wiien ne "giiroi.
Sunday togs, and lie was a party
sizable sort of a feller. Well, there
was a girl who lived down the river
a few miles, whose dad run a truck
farm and sent garden sasstoSt. Louis,
you know. Hank Simpson and me
both met her at a dance one night. I
got introduced first and danced twice
witb her before Simpson did,
and then she danced sevoral
times with him, and when I come up
ouce to ask her she said she couldn’t,
as sho was going to dance with Mr.
Simpson. That made me hot and I
went and told Hank iie was not doing
the fair thing, not allowing her to
dance with any one but him. lie
laughed and said she didn’t seem to
think of any hardship. Well, we
both got mad, and 1 told Him I would
dance with her anyway, and I went
back and said Hank couldn’t keep his
engagement. Well, she danced with
me, but Hauk and me were enemies
and he did me every bad turn he
could. Well, I used to go down the
river every Sunday to old man Lee’s
place, and sometimes found Hank
Simpson there, and he went down
sometimes in the week. I couldn’t
tell which of us Elsie liked the best or
whether she was fooling both of us.
She was pretty enough for better than
us.”
Here a tender note crept into his
voice.
“I had to go down on the boat to
Vicksburg, which would lake about
two weeks, as we would have to wait
for a cargo. It was a regular purga¬
tory to me all the time I was gone,
for I was afraid Hank would get the
best of me, and I made up my mind to
have it out when I got back. Tho
next Sunday I went down. I had
bought a ring in Vicksburg, with two
clasped hands holding a littlo garnet,
to give her, and thought maybe that
would help me out. I fouud her in a
little arbor in the corner of the gar¬
den. She seemed glad to see me, but
she acted the same to Hank, so 1
couldn’t tell anything from that. Sho
asked me about the trip, and wanted
to know if I had lost ray heart to any
pretty girl in Vicksburg. 1 thought
it was now or never, so I said: “How
could I when I left it at home?”
“Who took caro of it while you
wore gone?” she asked.
“ d’d like to think you did,’ I said.
‘1 wish, Etsio, you could make me a
littlo better than Hank Simpson.
You know how much I euro for
you.’
“Sho looked down nml dug her
shoe into the dirt and said: ‘How
should I? You novor told mo.’
“ ‘Well I loll you now, and I can’t
bear to think of llank coining hero
to moo you when I want you to marry
mo.'
‘‘Elsie looked at me and then eaed:
‘Why, Bob, I didu’t know that you
meant anything.’
“Well, Miss Majors, sho didn’t
make much fuss when I put my arm
around her and kissed her. I felt as
if I was in heaven and even felt sorry
for llank Simpson. I wanted to do
something great that would make mo
worthy to have Elsie for a wife.
After she had given me her promise I
didn’t care for Hank Sunpsou and
wasn’t a bit jealous of mm. She told
me that she had begun to care for me
at tho dance but had been afraid to
cross Hank, as he had such a temper.
“Maybe you want to know why I
am away out here. Well, Elsie and
me agreed that it was no use trying
to make any money to buy a home
working for day’s wages on the river.
I heard that good men in the mines
in tho mountains got big wages, aud
so I thought I would try. I went to
see Elsie tho night before I came
away, aud sho cried and hung to me
till I almost lost my courage to go,
but I did. I have been here a year
a year now and saved a good deal.
1 have written to Elsie every time any
one went out to Meeker,aud had letters
pretty often. We were to liavo been
married at Easter, and now it is only
a month away, and here I am laid up
and snowed in, tool What will Elsie
think when she don’t hear from me?”
The poor feliow turned his head
away with tears in his eyes. By way
of consolation, I said: “You may be
able to send a letter soon.*’
“No,” he said, “there’s ten feet of
snow in White Canyon.”
He seemed in the depths of misery
and I left him.
Two weeks slipped away, and the
weather was steadily cold, with occa¬
sional light falls of snow, and as Bob
Traversly looked out of his little win¬
at tho rounded outlines of the
I could se.e that his heart was
away with the girl ho loved, per¬
thinki ng that his rival was taking
* las silence to catch
a
on the
the 1 KM |
The .,
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and on thrower slopes of the mouu
tain. Every now and then on some
distant peak we could see a slide come
down, leaving a black trail behind,
A couple of days before Easter two
of the men had announced their in
tendon of trying to get to Meeker,
Mr. Ronfrow warned them to be care
ful, and above all things not to get
caught in a slide. In the afternoon I
was sitting reading to Bob, who was
lying witli his faco to the wall and
apparently not paying.much attention.
Suddenly he turned over.
“Have I been asleep?” ho asked.
“No, why?” I asked.
“I’ve been dreaming awake then. I
thought I heard Elsie’s voice.”
Then sitting straight up in bed
without any regard for broken tegs,
ho ejaculated with the greatest aston¬
ishment and joy: “Elsie!”
1 turned to the door, and there wag
the living embodiment of the pretty
girl whose picture Bob kept uuder his
pillow. But only an instant she stood
there, and then had both arms around
Bob crying and laughing by turns.
It seems she had arrived at Meeker
a week before, but could get no one
to venture with her through the snow
to the Tin Cup Mine until the fortu¬
nate arrival of the two miners. The
only tiling that prevented a wedding
on Easter was that there was no min¬
ister nearer than Grand Junction.—
[Omaha Bee.
Arithmetical Progression.
The old bewhiskered story with
which we are familiar has arisen, this
time in new form. Tho yarn comes
from Buffalo, N. Y. A man con¬
tracted to furnish twenty bales of rags
for one cent for tho first bale, two for
the second and four for third, etc.
Tho contract was made iu writing,
but after going home and. figuring out
what it would cost the buyer con¬
cluded ho didn’t have such a snap as
he imagined when the bargain was
made, so he repudiated it. The court
sustained him and refused to grant a
judgment.
The original of this tale is that a
fattier once agreed to lay tip a com¬
petence for his son by depositing one
cent and doubling it every day for sixty
days, llo hadn’t the funds to carry
it out, for tho sum total (don’t imag¬
ine that I have figured it out; it was
one who iiad moro time) would
amount to $4,856 607,522,034,234.88,
— [Salt Lake Tribune.
She Couldn’t Do.
Miss Poartv-Dld you ever look at
yourself in tho glass whoa you wero
angry?
Rival Hello—No, I’m never angry
when 1 l“ok iu tho gins*.—[Now
York Woe'
HEWS NOTES.
Hems of Interest Gathered at Random
from All Over the State.
There has been an increase of $1,209,
000 in the taxable property of Macon du¬
ring the last year. *
* * *
Commodore William Hone, one of Sa¬
vannah’s best known ci'izens, and to
whom is ascribed the invention of the
Chatham’s famous artillery punch, died
a: his residence in that city last Wednes¬
day from Bright’s disease.
Mr. Sam C. Hodge, superintendent of
the Georgia Southern and Florida rail¬
road, has tendered his resignation to
General Manager Jeff Lane, to take effect
immediately. The office of superintend¬
ent of the Georgia Southern will be abol¬
ished.
The commit’ee, W. G. Raoul, T. B.
Gresham, Frank H. Miller, have made
their report to tne Southwestern stock¬
holders advising them to accept stock in
the new organization rather than oper¬
ate the Southwestern road, as one or the
other must be done.
At on election held a few days ago at
Newnan on the question of issuing $50,
000 for waterworks purposes, 288 votes
were cast for bonds aud 19 against. The
total registered vote was 348. The elec¬
tion excited a good deal of interest and
there is much rejoicing over the result.
*
Judge Speer granted a temporary in¬
junction against the mayor and council
of Macon at the instance of W. L. Hen¬
ry and the Georgia Packing Company,
butchers. The council imposes certain
market regulations which conflicts with
the interests of the above named parties.
* * *
terlee Major visited A. J. West and Lieutenant Sat
Camp Northen a few days
ago for the purpose of having some
changes made aud the buildings of the
camp remodeled. They have done much
on the grounds to improve the place,
both in appearance and for the comfort
of the soldiers.
¥ ¥ .*
Therehosbeen already delivered at
Powder Springs to farmers COO tons of
fertilizers, and in all probability the
amount will run up to 800 tons. The
amount in former years has been about
500 tons. One reason of this is that all
■j^mtton M'f seed ‘■" has been been made, sold and and farm- not
m both ontirm
Another furnaco vri!. r -V
erected in Rome in the
will be similar to the one"erected by the
Rome Iron Company. Mr. L. S. Colyer,
who has managed the furnace so succes
fully, hss made to the Rome bondhold¬
ers another a proposition for the and building of
sixty-ton furnace, the suc¬
cess of the first has been such that the
bondholders are giving the matter seri¬
ous consideration.
Upon the completion of certain deals
that are now on foot in Cherokee county
for some of her finest mineral properties,
there is coming one of the biggest and
best booms that north Georgia has ever
known. The county has some of the
richest ami most varied mineral deposits
in Georgia. The facts have been made
known to some leading capitalistic enter¬
prises aud they are now concluding ne¬
gotiations that mean millions of money
and within many splendid short time. industrial plants
a very
Work will be begun at once on the
erection of repair shops at Atlanta for
the Southern Iron Car Company. A tem¬
porary structure will be put up now aud
will be followed by a permanent build¬
ings. They will be large aud will em¬
ploy 300 men. The company will send
100 cars to the shops for repai-s as soon
as they can undertake the work. This
company has thousands of cars and has
long wanted to repair see a large car established. manufac¬
turing and plant
Getting tired of waiting for such an es¬
tablishment, the company determined to
build a plant large enough to repair its
own cars. Later the plant may be turn¬
ed into manufacturing shops.
Carrol county leads the state in many
things, and one of these is in the number
cf postoffices. According postoffices to the late post
guides there thirty-six in Car
roll county—three more than any other
county in the state has. Corroll also,ac¬
cording to the census of 1890, has nearly
double the number of farms of any other
county in Georgia. The county has a
white population of twenty thousand,
and there arc more land holders among
the above number of white peoplo than
any other two counties in tho state. In
the number of postoffices and pos‘ roads,
the number of farms, pretty girls, the
number of schools and school children,
Carroll couuty leads Georgia.
* * *
Georils at the Capital.
The Georgia congressmen are being
flooded with applications for office, and
there is not one of them who is not in
daily receipt of a volume of mail from
his district from aspirants for office.
The congressmen arc doing the best thty
can. aud are working like beavers for
their constituents, but they are, of
course, helpless iu providing as many of
their constituents with office as they
would like until Georgia’s apportion¬
ment of federal patronage is ad justed to
a fair basis. The matter of justice rests
entirely witli tho departmental heads,
and It is, consequently, solely a mat¬
ter for cabinet consideration.
Tho thousands of offlcoa in the
different departments presided over by
the members of the cabinet are theoreti¬
cally distributed among the states ac¬
Georgia cording to population, hud but practically
having been lias no showing crowded whatever,
ahn> »t entirely out
bv the republican mliniuistntions. Thu
question of adjustment of tho basis of
“’presentation ingtoti, is now a big one In Wash
iiml every Georgia congressman,
so far heard from, is heartily with the
Atlanta Constitution in its effort to se
cure (.ilihmin. just recognition for Georgia. ” They J
fe; rust. 1 this Because wav about |, they . it f«r , know _ , two it is reasons:
a mat
ter of justice for the state, and, Second,
Because they waDt to provide for as
many of their constituents as is pos
sible.
Attacking Wild Land Sale*.
Another successful attack upon the
wild land sales made under a tax fi. fa.
srmtn, ern^rv? has Comptroller been made and General the question Gold
growing out of it seems to be no small
matter. This time the case is from the
j P mt.u ? nf Dooly n „.,____ county, ._ „« and the
issue in the case was whether or not the
lands had been advertised the full time
riquired by law. This is a new point of
attack on the sales of Georgia’s wild
decided i..d.. i,i.. against P «^.hw,h.;iw the sale, will enter i» into
much litigation that will in all probabil
ity come from the southern part of the
«r the future. “V*** The case so recently lh ™ decided
w as argued under Judge Fish by Colonel
J. for H. the Hall plaintiff, and Colonel J. W. 'Havgood
u„r../ who was Mr. Hugh A.
McLean. ft,. The defendants ... Messrs, ,
were
Bedgood and Royal. The case seems to
have been one of unusual interest and
lasted several days at the last term of the
coutUo, Do„l, county. JuS e , Fl.h
cnargea tne jury that if it appeared
that the comptroller of that day and
time, meaning Comptroller General Gold
dispute «,“*• for four weeks or twenty-eight ,1 “ and iu
days iu the newspaper required by law,
the sale made bv the sheriff was void
The evidence (rora’the the jury had on this a’i.u- point
whs obtained files_of the
ta Constitution of 1875, it seems, and
from this it was found that the advertise¬
ment had not run the sufficient length of
time. The tax fi. fa.was issued in March,
1877. The case was decided in favor of
the plaintiff. This meat s that, if there
was no error in the decision of the court,
much of the wild land that went this
same way, will very snon change hands
in that section of the state. The case in
question will be brought before the su
preme court of the state and there will be
a continuation of the fight. If the evi
dence is as clear as it would seem from
the judgment of the court below, then
there is going to be a great sensation ex
pioded about the land the people of cen
tral and southern Georgia live on at
present,
The Agreement Signed.
Last Wednesday morning President J.
O. Waddell, cf the Georgia Agricultural
Society, and Mayor S. B. Price, of the
city of Macon,signed the modified agree¬
ment or contract between the city and
the socie ty in reference to the rotation of
following is
between the mayorSf* n j*y
a council
city under of the Macon laws a of corpuratifPf naid stl ,e duly and vieorgia
Society* . th
State Agricultural s of 8 corporation duly
incorporated under the law said state:
Witnesseth, that, whtr.Wr'ai the regular
meeting of said mayor and council, held on the
7:h day of March 1893, the following resolu¬
tion, amending the contract made and and entered
Into on the 4tli day of April, 1887, by be¬
tween the said mayor aud council, of tho city
of Macon, and tbe Georgia State Agricu tnral
Society was passed: State Agricultural
Ufhereas the Georgia So¬
ciety, through its president and committee
have expressed toallow a desire the to modify the hold contract their
with the city society to
annual fair in other cities by the system of ro
tatiou, Whereas. and, the and of
It is purpose wish the
city of Macon to aid the society iu its object;
now, therefore.
Resolved, Tliat the present contract between
the city and the society be so amended as to
permit the society to hold their fairs in cries
other than Macon; that is to say, the society
shall bind themselves to hold their fairs in Ma¬
con each alternate year, beginning wi'h 1893,
and that the v-ocioty shall also bind themselves
not to hoi t their fairs in any city that will not
agr.eto not hold a fair of any kind in the year
in which the state fair is being held in Macon.
Further, that the fair of 1893 may be held iu
any city selected by the society, but the fair of
1894 shall he hcld'in Macon, and in each alter¬
nate year thereafter until the contract with the
city terminates. resolution
In pursuance with the aforesaid
and in testimony whereof, the mayor of the
city of Macon and the president of said society
hereby agree to tho terms expresaed and therein,
affixed their official signatures the day year
first above mentioned.
The ngreemeut was duly signed up and
attested. President Waddell is very en¬
thusiastic about the future of the society
and the state fails. He says that the al¬
ternating or rotating plan will arouse a
spirit of rivalry among the cities to get
the fa’r and see which can have tbe finest
exhibition. President Waddell further
says that he has received numerous let¬
ters from the executive committee and
members of the society praising Macon’s
magnanimous and liberal action iu con¬
senting to the modified contract.
The Geological Racket.
The state geological board, at its meet¬
ing in Atlanta a few days ago, with heads one
sweeping stroke struck off the of
all three of the state geologists. They
were not only asked to resign, but were
liteYally turued out of their offices and
the keys are in the pocket of tbe secre¬
tary of the board. This department of
stme, important ss it is, has been prac¬
tically abolished fur some time, and out
or this act the most notable sensation
that has taken place at tho state capitol
for many n long day evolves. Dr. J. W.
Spencer, the chief geologist says in effect
that he’ll not resign the office which ho
has filled so well. Professor E. T. What¬
ley, the well-known assistant board. geologist,
sent in his resignation to the It
was a brief note and simply says
he resigns, nothing more. Profes¬
sor Anderson, the other assistant geolo¬
gist, says that he doesn’t think that he de¬
serves with such treatment, but iu compliance board,
the instructions of the he
handed in his resignation with the one
protest. The coup i^e ctat was brought
about by the introduction nud adoption
of a resolution dispensing with the ser¬
vices of the above named gentlemen.
When the resolution lmd been read aud
agreed to be by the members of the
board. The secretary wus instructed to
write the following letter nml send a
copy of it to each of the geologists, which
lie did:
Atlanta, Oa.. March 22. Dear Hir: 'ant
iuatnu'ioil by ltn< slate geologies! board,
through Governor Northen ns chairman, to ad¬
vise you of iho notion of the bu.ird ui its meet¬
ing Mil* morning. On motion It waa decided
by tho board Unit, members owing In i ho waul of geological harmo¬
ny among the of 111 • stato
NO. 42.
survey—the chief and the two assistant Reolo
K' ats —which want of harmony has rendered in¬
' work of surveying the state en
trusted to them, the r .agnations of the mem
hers of the survey should be asked for at once,
lam instructed further to ask that the chief
geologist and < aeh of the assistant geologists
han d *? ** ieir resignations at a meeting of the
geological , board to be had at 3 o'clock this af
ternoon, March 22d. I have the honor to be,
sir, yours most resptctfully,
Stanhope Sams.
When this notification was handed Dr.
Spencer he made the following reply:
Mu. Stanhope Sams, Secretary State Goo.
logical Board—Dear Sir: Your esteemed favor
0 f ttiia date, notifying me that owing to tho
want of harmony among the members of the
slate geological survey—the chief and the two
assistant geologiats-which want of harmony
has rendered inefficient the work of surveying
the state entrusted to them, tho resignations of
the members of the survey should be asked for
at once.”
E -cause of the want of harmony, mentioned
by ; ou - a ? d tb ? “>®Kqueut inefficiency of a
Ksr»ssi,‘sa and -ustaining untrained and incompetent
logical geo
assistants, and of neither of which I
7“ responaib e for-the incompetent work
LSI “j
resignation in which I gave my reasons
for wishing to withdraw from the survey,
whi cU ""as rendered relatively- inefficient by
L b -?, B° ! c ? ndoptcd K tbe bo ? rd X
that resignation which I put into ,
tho h&ndi of the governor December 22, 1992,
to be used by him if in his judgment the inter
< st of the survey made it desiraMe, and I now
decli ne to send 'in my resignation in compliance
gf tiSTlSSKf beard BTfWS
recognize resignation, the right of the to demand
my though I am aware that tl>o
governor, the appointing power has the right
ZS^SSSSSS&ZSSS’S work has been result of the
policy so, except as in a the
pursued by by the hoard hampering
survey app anting assistants known to it to
bfc nDf ' t:ed - 1 den T i tbat 1 a P incompetent ad
Tl£?£S - ’SgfflS, JaPS
, 1 “
prnrate, I also deny,
Your obedient servant,
J. W. Spencer.
How the matter will end remains to be
seen.
Ancient Lake Village.
An interesting discov e
made at GBHHHMH
the remaiusM
From ing from sixtylMHj^H on^^^^^H
rounding s<
across
which 4 se ct ‘ on strctiT^^^^^^B of
ticed . oak
well known j
Scotland, anc
charcoal and
The total tl
three feet kG
lup^imposgj were detect/
jpfene Br»n*e tyjjlg obigl
ting* with we fy^fi JBip
a
wheatjM booH
of
mats, wnB
have been lie
_ Globe-Dt^
period.—[St.^ouis
section One of at the the World’s exhibits Fair ia the will railro^j be
a
series of pictures illustrating the history
of the railroad from the time when it was
two miles of wooden rails, over which a
mule pulled a clap-boarded wagon twice
a day. to these times of thousand mile
runs aad record breaking. -The Balti¬
more and Ohio Railroad is having these
pictures painted by Mr. Paul Moran of
this city, who will make a large number
of them in black and white.
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