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OCILLA DISPATCH.
OCILLA, GEORGIA.
llt>VIX COUNTY PUBLISHING CO.,
Proprietors.
Btissia is for once coming to time.
Sho proposes to reform her calendar.
Tho most expensive city in the
world—that is, the one that costs tho
most to run and spends the most
money every year—is New York City.
Although Illinois falls far behind
Pennsylvania as a coal producer, the
returns for 1899 show that she ranks
second among the States. She mined
nearly one-tenth of the total amount
produced during the year ended last
July, and one-eighth of the bitumin¬
ous coal of the country.
The whole trend of modern penol¬
ogy has been toward the development
of a system of punishment which
will reform the criminal without the
exercise of force. As a consequence
students of criminology hare noted
that iu every country where a humane
treatment of prisoners is in vogue
there has been a diminution in crime.
Tho United States is represented
at tho Paris Exposition in a manner
which should bo extremely gratifying
to every lover of American progress.
Our exhibit ia greater than that of
any nation except France, the names
of over 7000 American firms appear-
ing in the catalogue, and their ex-
hibits occupying more than 300,00C
square feet of space.
Copper is to be king in the future
domain ^ of industry, according to the
coufident predictions of Old and New
World scientists. Electricity is des- I
..,ined to be tne motive power of tho
-now century, aud copper is needed
for electrical transmission. How far ;
this impending industrial revolution !
'
, has advanced , , already , . is shown in the ,, ,
growth in a single decade—from 1890 :
to 1900 —of American copper exports,
the increase being from 82,300,000 to j
.836,000,090 in annual value. !
rr ———-
\ The keynote of modern propaganda :
in respect to methods of control of
food adulteration mav be given in
No these , words wishes , viz., to deprive an honest , the . , lab , 0 ,, !! j
one poor
man of hi3 right to use a cheap and
wholesome substitute for the more ex¬
pensive article of food; it would be
an unwarranted interference with the
rights of both producer and consumer
to prohibit the sale of such au article;
moreover, it would be inimical to the
advance of scientific invention, which
has conferred a distinct benefit upon
mankind by its production. But it
should be sold under its true name
and upon its own merits, not as or for
the article of which it is au imitation
or a substitute.
The Philadelphia Saturday Even¬
ing Post states that to quicken our
commerce, vast schemes are under
wav, the greatest of them being a
canal across the Isthmus, which will
save more than 10,000 miles in the
trip from New York City to San Fran¬
cisco, and which will cost, according
to one of the estimates, at least $125,-
000,000. For land transportation the
projects exceed everything in the his¬
tory of the world. The largest tunnel
on earth is now being built through
the Alps to open a new route between
north and south Europe. It will be
twelve and two-fifths miles long, will
be completed in five aud one-half
years, aud will cost $14,000,000. In
the United States a great tunnel is to
be built under New York City at a
cost of $35,000,000, for the local traf¬
fic of that crowded city.
Teaching ethics to school children
by an illustrated leoture is an idea of
a Western clergyman, the Bev. Mr.
Fairchild, and it was tested in a Bos¬
ton school the other day. Mr. Fair-
child ha3 given the subject four years
of study, but he has evolved only one
lecture as yet. It is entitled “Onc«
Upon a Time Two Boys Had a Fight,’
and it is illustrated by stereopticor
views taken from life. For its pres¬
entation in schools a solar camera is
used. The lecture aud pictures de¬
pict an actual street quarrel, showing
when a boy should not fight, and
when he is justified in doing so,,as in
self-defence or in the protection of
the weak. Tho children thoroughly
enjoyed it, of course, and the teachers
aud supervisors appreciated it, but
the question of the adoption of the
plan has not beeu decided. It has the
approval of such eminent educators as
President Hall, of Clark University;
Professor Bs.ldwin, of Princeton; Pro¬
fessor Small, of Chicago University,
and Professor Boss, of Lelaud Stan
ford University.
WITHOUT LOVE.
Wio travels alone with his eye on P.io
heights
Tbo’ he laughs In the daytime, oft weep*
through the nights,
For courHge goes down with the sot of the
sun,
When the toll of the journey Is all borne by
one.
He speeds but to grief, tho’ full gayly he
ride,
Who travels alone without Love at his
side.
Who travels alone without lover or friend,
’tut hurries from nothiug to naught ut the
end,
Though great bo his winnings, and high be
his goal,
lie Is bankrupt la wisdom, and beggared
in soul.
Life’s one gift of value to him Is denied
Who travels alone without Love at his
side.
It Is easy enough In this world to make
haste
If we live for that purpose, but think of
the waste!
For life Is a poem to leisurely read.
And the joy of tho journey lies not In Its
Oh, speed. achievement, and Ills
vain his petty
pride, Love his
Who travels alone without at
side.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox, In Now York Jour¬
nal.
TV | Lightning's Flash.
By the | 5
s By H. I Cleveland. ^
DON’T believe,’’
said Peter Graves,
“that we h i g li-
climbers think our
work isn’t just as
humdrum as any¬
body else’s. The
first two or three
times the man
that’s fit for such
tA, work steeple 8°es chun- up a
feSSSL- or a
ney he’s a bit ex-
cited and takes a good look at things,
hut after that he doesn’t even bother
to think of the chance of his falling.
Of course he’s safer for getting into
that steady state of mind, but once in
a wbi!e ]j e > s Wll ked up out of it. I’ve
been eighteen years going up aloft,
and in all that time I never had what
y°“’ d cal1 * thrilling experience ex-
Peter Graves is a Chicago man, now
engaged in structural iron work,
building great steel frames for the
huge sky-scrapers to be found in the
heart of the city. / He has painted
^ of m ay of the chm . ohes
of Chicago, gilded high-perched
crosses and balls, scaled lofty chim-
neys, and with all that preserved a
well-balanced mind aud a mostcheer-
fut disposition.
Probably bis entire working life has
j) 0eri on e narrow avoidance of death,
but these quick escapes are hardly
noticed by such a man; he considers
them not worth relating, j? and it is
^ difiicnU tQ draw m out as to
wbat he baa gone through. Still
Graves did tell me the Btory of his
effort to place a lightning-rod upon
the crest of the chimney of the Chi¬
cago Boofing Company at Kiverdale,
in the suburbs of the city. That, as
he put it, “was just a little out of the
ordinary, and gave something to think
about for a while.” This is how he
told of the experience—his wife be¬
ing in the room at the time:
You know where the roofing works
are? Yes, just along the tracks of
the Northwestern road, with a stack
in the rear that rises a good ninety or
one hundred feet. The work on the
chimney was done, and the masons
were ready to quit when some one de¬
cided that there ought to be a light¬
ning-rod on top of it; for high chim¬
neys are often struck—but I guessnot
oftener than a house.
The bricklayers, when they quit, left
a pulley fixed into the top of the chim¬
ney, with a rope running throngh it
right down to the ground. They took
their scaffolding down, but they left
the pulley, because there was a chance
that they might have to go back, aud
the pulley and rope came in handy for
my job of putting up the lightning-rod.
I was painting the spire of ft church
on the west side of the city, when a
fellow came over to tell me that they
wanted me to put that lightning-rod
up. I said I’d go out the next day.
Well, going out to Kiverdale was like
a jaunt into the country, and so I took
my wife along, thinking to give her a
sight of the fields aud some real green
grass. Mary—that’s my wife—was to
enjoy herself with the scenery while I
was up tacking that lightning-rod on.
Bat women are queer. No? Well,
I’ll take it back then, Mary! Anyway,
when we got out there, and I was
goiug up, Mary just sat down, and for¬
got all about the pretty scenery she
had oome out to look at, and kept her
eyes on me.
Before I started up, I got a rope
connection on my lightning-rod stuff,
and I put what we call a sling seat on
to the rope which was running through
the chimney pulley. This seat is made
of rope, and I was to sit in it while I
did my work. I got into this sling,
and then some workmen hauled at the
other end of the rop-e, and with my
feet set against the side cf the chim¬
ney, I wont up right to the top in next
to no time.
It was a blazing hot day in the mid¬
dle of August; air still, no wind blow¬
ing, and tho bricks so warm there was
a queer smell from them. The work¬
men, alter they had pulled me to the
top, tied their end of the rope to a
Btake or pole, aud went away about
their business, calculating they'd hear
me holler when I was ready to come
down. They knew I had to stop every
few feet ou my way down to fix the
lightning-rod conductor with catches
into the mortar between the bricks.
It was so hot at the top that I hur¬
ried to fix a place for the lightning-
rod. As I pulled myself over the top
of the chimney to do this, with one
leg inside o' it and one leg outside. I
looked down at Mary, sitting under a
tree looking up at me, and I gave her
a wave of my band. Then I set to
steady work, aud I kept at it so close
that I didn’t notioo the big clouds
coming up in the west, nor that a
storm was at hand.
It kept getting darker and darker
overhead, attention and Mary tried to call my
to the sky, but her voice
was a little weak, aud I was too busy
to think of anything but my work, and
how hot it was. I just had tho rod in
place and was ready to begin putting
tho coudivtor in its place, and grad-
ualiy go down, when there was a roll
of thunder, a flash of lightning and a
splash of rain. You can bet I noticed
that! I did not want to be any hun¬
dred feet in the air when a thunder¬
storm was on, especially when my
only companion up there was a light¬
ning rod,with its business end up and
no conducting rod to the ground.
Where would I be if that rod was
struck? I yelled and yelled for the
workmen to come and loosen my rope
and let me down, but the thunderwas
making toe much noise, aud as it
turned out, they had gone away. To
save time, I adjusted myself in the
sling seat on the rope, so as to be
ready for them when they returned.
Meanwhile, my wife ran to fetch them,
but they were not to be found.
Mary came back, shaking her head
and wringing her hands. We two
were there alone. The storm was just
breaking, aud I tried to make her un¬
derstand that she should go under
cover, and I’d stick it out, up where I
was, as best I could. But no—there
Mary stood, looking up at me.
It’s a peculiar thing about high
chimneys that when a thunder-storm
is on, they seem to become charged
with the extra electricity of the air.
This chimney was just bristling with
it, and I could feel it. I wasn’t afraid
of anything, except that the new rod
would get its baptism of fire—and if
that did happen, I judged that my
business as a climber would be at an
end.
The rain came heavy, with light¬
ning flashes that seemed to set the
earth on fire, and crash after crash of
thunder. I looked up at the point of
the rod just a few feet above my head,
and saw little sparks leaping from it.
All at once I felt a tug at the rope
that was holding me up. Down I
looked, and saw Mary at work at the
rope, which the workmen had tied
four or five times around a pole.
They had made a double knot in it,
and left a long end dragging. Well, |
my wife Mary isn’t so very big, but I
she’s plucky. Seeing my danger, she
just untied that double knot, and be¬
fore it had a chance to slip by my
weight at the other end, she took the
dragging end, aud ran with it and got
it once around another pole at a little
distance, and then began to pay out.
The tug I felt was myself beginning
to slide down the side of thechimuey.
The rope, being around two poles,
couldn’t pay out fast, and Mary was
strong enough to hold it to a slow
speed. But I was a hundred feet up,
and there wasn’t but twenty or twenty-
five feet of the rope about both posts.
I weighed one hundred and sixty
pounds and Mary one hundred and
twenty pounds. Wouldn’t the rope,
after it got free of the second post, sag
down under my weight so quick that
she couldn’t hold back, and I’d land
a heap at the bottom?
Mary didn’t think of that when she
untied the knots, but she saw it after
I started down, and there was no back¬
ing out. I set my feet as best 1 could
against the wet sides of the chimney,
and she held on at the other end.
Well, sir, that rope unwinds from one
and then from the other, and
Mary’s there in the rain holding all
her weignt down, her heels stuck into
the ground, which was soft and muddy
She let me come easy until I
within fifteen feet of the bottom! Then
she had to let it go. She just fell on
her face, and 1 came down like a shot!
But I landed on my feet, with a little
jar, and not hurt. I was over by her
side iu an instant, and there in the
both of us mud, we just fell into
each other’s arms and laughed and
cried.
We were a pretty-looking sight when
we came home, but beyond Mary’s
being badly blistered, neither
of us was the worse for it, and I went
back the next day, and put the con¬
ductor in its place, and said some hard
things to the workmen who had for¬
gotten me. Mary has never watched
me do another job, and that’s the only
one on which I'was ever nervous, as
ypu might say.
As gfor Mary, if she had had the
choice, the story would not have been
told.—Youth’s Companion.
Read Pipes For Water.
Lead pipes were more or less com¬
mon with all the celebrated nations of
old, and in the early cities of Asia,
Egypt, Syria and Greece they were
used to conduct water whenever the
pressure was too great to be withstood
by pipes of earthenware.
All of the ancient lead pipes yet
discovered are Baidtohave been made
from sheet lead, as tin pipes are now
made, the edges of the sheets being
brought together and soldered. In
the explorations of Pompeii, which
was only a provincial town, many tons
of lead pipe have been found, and it
may readily be inferred from this that
altogether the Boraan consumption of
lead for pipe-making must have been
enormous. Indeed, Pliny says: “Lead
is much used with us for sheets to
make conduit pipes.”—Cassier’s Maga¬
zine.
Character in Teeth.
An observing dentist says that long,
narrow teeth devote vanity; those that
are long and projecting indicate a
grasping disposition; treachery is
shown by the possession of small,
white, separated teeth, and incon¬
stancy is revealed by overlapping
teeth.
GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Brief Summary of Interesting
Happenings Culled at Random.
Katate of the Lain H. M. Comer,
The inventory and appraisement of
the estate of the late Hugh M. Comer,
president of the Central of Georgia
Bailway Company, was filed in the
court of ordinary at Savannah a day
or two ago by tne appraisers.
The total value of the estate is esti¬
mated by them to be 81,263,020.08, of
which 81,164,08G. 08 is personal prop¬
erty, and the balance, 898,940, is in
real estate. The paper filed is simply
a detailed statement of all the prop¬
erty left by Mr. Comer aud the values
placed on the different items by the
appraisers. valuable
Among some of the most
property of the estate is eighty-seven
bonds of the Peace Biver Phosphate
Mining company, valued at 887,000;
thirty-three bonds of the Central of
Georgia Kailway company, valued at
23,000; 2,000 shares of the Wrights-
ville and Tenuille railroad, worth $50,-
000: 250 shares of the Atlanta and
West Point railroad, worth 831,500;
531 shares of Southwestern railroad
stock, valued at $58,941; 3,172 shares
of the Bibb Manufacturing company,
worth 8317,200; 1,433 additional shares
of the Bibb Manufacturing company,
valued at 8143,300; 314 shares of the
Eagle and Phenix mills, worth $32,-
970; $102,094.08 in cash, on deposit;
a note on the Bibb Manufacturing
company, valued at $100,000, and a
note on the Eagle and Phenix mills,
worth $50,000. These comprise the
largest items set forth in the inventory.
No Nogro Enumerator*.
Muscogee county will have no col¬
ored census enumerators, In the
original appointments made recently
two of the twenty-one appointees were
negroes. These two enumerators,
John W. Dawson and Amelia Thomas,
have been removed. This was brought
about through the influence of Con¬
gressman Adamson, it is understood.
It was represented that a fair count
could not be had with colored enu¬
merators, as white people would feel a
disinclination to receive negroes in
their houses aud answer fully tho
questions propounded, some of them
of a rather delicate nature.
Meets Next In Atlanta.
The Georgia State Pharmaceutical
Association, which met in Savannah the
past week, decided to hold its next
meeting in Atlanta next May, but the
exact date has not been decided.
There were no votes against Atlanta
when the selection was made. The
association suggested on the last day
of its meeting five names to Governor
Candler, from which he will select one
to fill the annual vacancy on the
Georgia state board of pharmacy.
Escaped Convict Captured.
Fulton comity officers caught Tom
Bundy, a negro convict who escaped
three years ago from a camp in Ogle¬
thorpe county.
The negro was working out a three
years’ sentence for an assault with in¬
tent to murder and escaped in Julv
1896.
It was ascertained that he was in
Atlanta, nnd a trap was set for him.
The officers caught him in a saloon on
Decatur street.
If Bundy had remained in the peni¬
tentiary he would have served out his
three years several months ago, but he
will have to begin all over again.
There was a reward for his capture.
Gone To Alaska.
From sunny Georgia to icebound
Alaska Company B of the Seventh
regiment are being transported, and
the men were glad to go. The com¬
mand left Fort McPherson, near At¬
lanta, Saturday afternoon, in a special
train of four Pullman sleepers and two
baggage cars. The regulars do net
dislike Georgia’s climate. It wasn’t
that which made them impatient for
the hour of departure to come. They
think they will strike it rich in the
Klondike and return to the states in a
year or two as millionaires.
Will Try Co-Operative Plan.
A cotton mill on the co-operative
plan is to be tried in Augusta. It is
announced that as many shares as pos¬
sible are to be placed among opera¬
tives, the idea being that these opera¬
tive stockholders shall constitute the
working force of the mill, the profits
in dividends thus going to those who
made them.
After Professional “Delinquents.”
Lawyers, doctors and dentists who
have been practicing in Fulton county
without paying the required profes
stonal tax of $10 a year, will be made
to pay up or abandon their professions.
At the request of the grand jury Tax
Collector Stewart has been at work
compiling a list of the attorneys, den¬
tists and doctors who have paid their
taxes. Mr. Stewart completed his list
of lawyers first and they numbered
210. According to Atlanta. the directory there
are 322 lawyers in
These figures indicate that a very
large number, more than a hundred,
are practicing without license. Some
of those who practice in Fulton coun¬
ty pay their professional tax in other
counties. They will reduce the number
of apparent violators of the law
slightly.
Unique School Case.
Has any school which receives its
pro rata share of the common school
fund of the state the right to compel
the study of any subject other than
those prescribed by law? This is the
issue in a case from Polk county, dock¬
eted in the state supreme court. The
issue has been decided in tho negative
by the superior court of Polk county,
and on the decision of the court of the
last resort a precedent will be estab¬
lished not only of general interest
throughout the state and among th e
people who are more closely identified
with tiie common system than with
any other institution, but a precedent
of unusual importance.
In the Samuel Beuodict Memorial
School, of Polk county, the 13-year-
old child of Dr. William Bradford was
directed by her teacher, J. M. Hunt,
to prepare a debate ou the subject:
“Besolved, That the American Sys¬
tem of Jury Trial Should Be Abolish¬
ed.” From the record in the case it
appears that tho young girl’s father re¬
quested that she be excused from par¬
ticipation in the debate, the subject of
which she ivas not capable of grasping.
The request was refused on the ground
that a teacher is a better judge of a
pupil’s capacities than are its parents.
* * «
Meeting of tfi*» 15. Y. P. U.
The sixth annual convention of the
Baptist Young People’s Union of Geor¬
gia will meet in Atlanta June 19-21st,
The sessions will be held at the Taber¬
nacle Baptist church. This will prob
ably be the largest con vention to meet
in Atlanta during the year. The at¬
tendance at the convention last year
in Columbus was over 500 and the
meeting this year will doubtless be
much larger.
Fruit Growers Meet.
The Georgia Fruit Growers’ Associ¬
ation met with a very large attendance
in Macon, the past week, to discuss
railroad rates, etc. The meeting was
called to order by President Dudley
M. Hughes. In addition to the large
number of the leading fruit growers
present there were many railroad so¬
liciting agents representing the vari¬
ous lines interested in handling the
Georgia fruit crop. These were there
to look after the interest of their re¬
spective lines.
Wheat Growers To Convene At Macon.
Hon. J. Pope Brown, president of
the Georgia Wheat Growers’ Associa¬
tion, has called a meeting of wheat
growers at Macon July 12th, at noon.
In his official call President Brown
says:
“By tho liberality of the Macon
chamber of commerco, supplemented
by the contribution of The Macon Tel¬
egraph, the sum of $250 in gold wiil
be awarded to the growers of best
wheat. A bountiful providence has
smiled upon us, as the most extended
fields of golden grain now attest. Let
us all attend—rejoice in the glorious
harvest—and renew again our pledges
and exertions to put Georgia to the
front."
AGAINST FAKE BtTlTEK.
Grout’s Oleomargarine Bill Reported In
the House.
The report on the Grout oleomar¬
garine bill which has beeu an object
of special interest was filed Thursday
by the majority of the house commit¬
tee on agriculture, the minority also
filing a report.
Bepresentative Henry, of Connecti¬
cut, drew up the majority report,
which says in part:
“We are of the opinion that the
people have ample cause for alarm at
the tremendous growth of oleomar-
garinee traffic in this country in the
past few years which now appears to
have reached proportions beyond the
power of the states to successfully reg¬
ulate or control and the present Fed¬
eral laws are apparently altogether in¬
adequate for the emergency.”
REFUSED TO ANSWER.
Citizens of Augusta I»r«w tlm Line At Col-
oretf Census Enumerators.
The census enumerators began work
in AuguRta, Ga., Friday. hundred
A petition signed by six
citizens was presented to Supervisor
Smythe, requesting him to appoint
white enumerators.
Leading white citizens declared that
they would not receive colored enu¬
merators and left instructions in their
homes to refuse being interrogated by
them.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEF.KI.T. —23
Groceries.
Boasted oolTee, Arbuckle $12.80. Lion $11.80
—all less 50': per 100 lb coses. Green eolfee,
choice 10%c; granulated, fair 9c; prime 8@9c. York Su¬
gar, standard New 6.
New Orleans granulated Co. Syrup,
Now Orleans open kettle 25 ®40e.
mixed, choice, 20 @ 18c: Salt, dairy
sacks $1.30@$ 1.40;do bbls.bulk $2.25:100 3s
$2.90; ice cream $1.25: common Ga®70c.
Cheesejull ermim 12® skims, 104a@ll}4
Matches, G5s 45(®55c:200s #1.59®1.7o: 300s
$2.75. Soda, boxes 0c. Crackers, soda 6c;
cream Gc, gingersnaps 544°. Candy, common
stick GV.je: fancy 12®14i. Oysters, F. W.
$2.20@$2.10, L. W. $1.25.
Flour, Grain anti Meal.
Flour, all wheat first patent, $4.90; second
patent, $4.25; straight, $3.80; extra fancy
$3.05: fancy, $3.50; extra family, $2.85.
Corn, white, 59c: mixed, 58c. Oats, white
40c: mixed 37c; Texas rustproof 40c. liye,
Georgia $1.00. Hay, No. 1 timothy, largo
bales, $1.00; No. 1, small bales, 95c;
No. 2, 90c;Meal, plain, 55c: bran small sacks
$1.00. Shorts #1.05. Stock meal, 95c per 100
pounds. Cotton seed meal' i; 1.10 per 100
pounds. 11.40 Grits $2.90©*3.00 per bbl; #1.30®
per bag.
Country Produce.
Egg- fair demand, 12® 1244c. Butter, Funey
Jersey, 18® 20 ■; choice 12@15. Live
poultrv, in demand: hens 27® 30c; large
fries 20®25e, spring broilers 12)4® 17c, good Pek¬
sale. Ducks, puddle, 15 ® 18c,
ing 22!4®25c, Irish potatoes, t0®85c
per bushel; Sweet potatoes, white yams GO
®70e, pumpkin yams 90®$1.00. Honey,
strained G® 7; in comb #3.50<@$3.00 7J4®8}£«:Onions, bbl. Cab¬ new
$1.50 per bushel, ner
bage, Florida stock, green, 2®214c pound.
Dried fruit, apples 5®Gc; peaches G®7c.
Figs 6@7c: prunes 5®7, peeled peaches
15@1G.
Provision*.
Clear side ribs, boxed 7%«i; half riba
7)4' 1: rib bellies 7=4@344; ice-enred bel¬
low Hugar-eiirea nams 1144®13$4; Lard,
best quality second quality 7^1®8e.
Cotton.
Market closed steady; middling 8%c.
COMMISSION UPHELD
Express Company Must Pay War
Revenue Tax on Receipts.
COURT OF APPEALS SO DECIDES
Georgia St»t« Railroad Commission H»t*
Clear Right to Regulate and
Limit Rates.
The express company must pay the
revenue tax on every express receipt
in Georgia and not the shipper. This
is the decision of the United States
circuit court of appeals rendered Fri¬
day morning at New Orleans aud un-
der this decision, which came unex-
pectedly, the power of the state rail¬
road commission remains undisturbed.
The opinion of the circuit court of
appeals—the conrt of last resort ia
this case—means from a practical
standpoint that the burden of $42,000
annually, the amount paid in 1-ceut
stamps for express packages sent with¬
in the state, must he borne by the ex¬
press company by haudling the packages
and not the shipper.
This is the first decision of the kind
known to have been rendered any-
where in the United States since tho
war revenue act of congress became
effective, aud while it does not con¬
flict with tho decision of the United
States supreme court, it holds that,
regardless of the faet that the express
company has the right to pass the tax
on to the shipper, the state commis¬
sion’s right to regulate and limit rates
in Georgia is equally clear.
Almost two years ago the railroad
commission issued an order directing
the Southern Express Company to
discontinue the practice of requiring
shippers to pay the revenue tax. This
order, whic.i has practically been held
iu abeyance up to the present time, is
now in full force.
When the order of the commission
was issued on August 2d, 1898, W. D.
Dinsmore, of New York, and other
stockholders of the Southern Express
Company applied to the federal court
of the Southern district of Georgia
for an injunction prohibiting the rail¬
road commission from enforcing its
order and also preventing the company
from complying with it.
Judge Speer granted the injunction
on the ground that the railroad com¬
mission was acting beyond its prov¬
ince in ordering the express company
to pay the tax. Judge Speer refused
to go into the merits of the ease, giv¬
ing as his reason that the commission
had gone beyond its depth. The case
was at once appealed to the circuit
conrt at New Orleans with the result
as above stated.
NOW A BRITISH COLONY.
England Proclaims Annexation of
Free State By Ceremonies
At Bloemfontein.
A Bloemfontein special says: Amid
salutes and cheers and the singing of
“God Save the Queen,” the military
governor, Major General Prettyman, at
noon Monday formally proclaimed the
annexation of the Orange Free State
under the designation of the Orange
Biver Colony. The ceremony was
somewhat imposing and the scene in
the market square inspiring. An im¬
mense concourse had gathered and the
town was gay with bunting. The bal¬
conies and windows surrounding the
square were crowded with ladies.
The troops were drawn up under
command of General Knox aud enter¬
tained the spectators. Accompanied
by General Kelly-Kenny and stall'and
escorted by the Welsh yeomanry, they
were greeted with cheers, and in
a clear voice, heard in every
square. General Prettyman read Lord
Kobert’s proclamation annexing the
Orange Free State, as conquered by
her nif jesty’s forces, to the queen’s
dominions, and proclaiming that the
state shall henceforth be known as
the Orange Biver colony.
Lusty cheers greeted the conclud¬
ing words of the proclamation, and
these were renewed with ever increas¬
ing volume as Lord Acheson unfurled
the royal standard and the bands
struck up “Gfcd Save the Queen.
“BOXERS” MURDER CHRISTIANS
Chinese Outlaws Terrorize the Country
Surroundinj>: the City of Peking:.
Cable advices from Peking, China,
state that from all parts of the sur¬
rounding country news is constantly
arriving of fresh atrocities committed
by the “boxers.” Three Christian
families were massacred at Shan Li
Ying, sixty miles from Peking, Fri¬
day, May 25. Only two escaped.
A representative of the Associated
Press visited Fang Tai Wednesday
morning and found the place occupied
by a battalion of troops. The whole
railroad station, workshops and loco¬
motive sheds ewere gutted and much
rolling stock was destroyed, including
the imperial palace car. Large go-
downs (Chinese warehouses), full of
valuable merchandise, were burned
after having been looted by the riot¬
ers. The damage is estimated at half
a million taels.
The neighboring villagers seem to
have joined in the attack, showing that
the movement is not confined to the
boxers.
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Congressman Sparkman Renominated.
The Democratic congressional con¬
vention for the First Florida district
met in Tallahassee Wednesday and re¬
nominated Hon. Stephen M. Spark--
man by acclamation for a fourth term
in the lower house of congress. Mr.
Sparkman had no opposition.