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THROUGH GEORGIA.
BITS OF NEWS GATHERED FROM
OVER THE STATE,
Being a Summary of Interesting Hap¬
penings From Day to Day.
The Georgia State Industrial Col¬
lege for Colored Youths opened at Sa
vannrh with ninety-six students, rep¬
resenting fifteen counties. The largest
delegation came from Macon and Haw
kinsville. The teachers expect to
have 125 enrolled.
Athens will soon have a cotton ex¬
change. The business men have taken
hold of the matter, and with the co¬
operation of Col. T. B. Hayne, repre¬
senting Lawson Bros. & Co., one of
the largest companies of Chicago, a
leased wire service will be immediate¬
ly put in operation.
One of the best paying enterprises
to the stockholders, and at the same
time of the greatest benefit to the com¬
munity, is the LaGrange Creamery
company. This company began oper¬
ation in June, and on the 15th of every
month it pays out several hundred dol¬
lars to the owners of cows who patron¬
ize it.
Several Savannahiaus have . icked
up some good sums on the recent rise
in cotton. One prominent Bay street
mau made $18,000, another about
$10,000, and there are a dozen or
more who Lave made all the way from
$1,000 to $5,000. They did not go in¬
to it so heavy, however, as they did in
1892, when nearly every one who
bought futures in the city lost heavily.
The term of office of Hon. G. Gunby
Jordan, railroad commissioner, expired
a few days ago, but his successor will
not be appointed until the meeting of
the general assembly. There are sev¬
eral candidates for the place. Mr.
Jordan is a candidate to succeed him¬
self and he hopes for an endorsement
by being given a second term, as he
has only filled an uuexpired term of
the late Virgil Powers.
Mrs. M. A. Lipscomb, principal of
Lucy Cobb institute, is now engaged
in working up a grand reception to be
given at the exposition on the evening
of the 29th of November, which will
be Lucy Cobb day. This reception will
bo a great social event, as it will bring
together a large number of tbe lend¬
ing ladies of the state, who are alum¬
nae of the institute. Music and a de¬
lightful banquet will be on the pro¬
gramme for the occasion.
Unless Governor Atkinson inter
feres in the case of Adolphus Duucan, 1,;
the negro who was twice convicted
the Atlanta courts of criminal assault
nnd twice sentenced to hang, he will
haug in less than ninety days. The
supreme court has uffirined the decis
ion of Judge Beck refusing to grant a
new trial. Tbe case is one which has
been thoroughly discussed, and there
are a great many people, including
court officials, who do not believe that
Duncan was guilty of a criminal as¬
sault.
Advices received at Atlanta state
that in several counties in Georgia the
people have been informed that it costs
50 cents admission to the exposition,
and 50 cents additional for each build¬
ing that the visitors enter. How such
a report could get into circulation is a
mystery. It does not cost a cent to
enter any of the exposition buildings,
and the admission to the Midway
■hows costs very little. People who
are familiar with other expositions
are surprised to find so few and such
moderate charges now prevailing.
A number of leading merchants and
farmers at Eastman have subscribed
stock to the amount of twenty-five
thousand dollars to establish a new
bank. Officers have been selected and
a modern building will be erected at
once and everything put in shape as
speedily as possible and not later than
January 1st, 1896, its doors will be
opened for business. The business of
Eastman having increased to such an
extent, one bank is inadequate to meet
all demands made by the business
men of tbe community.
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The Savannah and Western railroad
was sold last Saturday at special mas¬
ter’s sale and the price paid was $1,-
500,000. The road was bid in by the
bondholders of the corporation. Ac¬
cording to the decree a certified check
for $25,000 had to be passed into the
hands of the special master before the
bids were heard. There were present
General Sam Thomas, Mr. Simon
Borg, Mr. Thomas F. Ryan and oth¬
ers representing the parties at interest
in the sale. The Savannah and West¬
ern will pass into the reorganization
scheme of the Georgia Central.
The record in the Myers case was
sent up to the supreme court at Atlan¬
ta a few days ago by Clerk Tanner,
and it is the biggest document of the
kind that ever went out of the clerk’B
office in the county of Fulton. It has
been put in book form and makes a
large volume, as it contains GOO pages
and 180,000 words. The book con
tai is the bill of indictment, all of the
evidence introduced in the trial, the
motion for a new trial and, the amend¬
ments to the motion and all the affi¬
davits in the long case, It is all type
written and is one of the neatest jobs
of the kind that ever went to the sn
preme court from any superior court,
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Emory college had the largest open
ing this*year in its history. January In main- case
the spring opening in
tains its usual proportion to the fall
’opening, the enrollment for the year
will be at least 325. The president,
Dr. W. A. Candler, is very hopeful of
the outlook. The alumni subscription
for the establishment of the chair of
history and political economy has
reached a very encouraging stage.
Two-thirds of the required amount
was subscribed and a large part of it
has been paid in cash. The alumni of
Emory college have contributed more
their alma mater than has been done
by the alumni in many of the southern
colleges. During the last seven years
there has been derived from this
source over $60,000.
The bill returned by the Floyd
county jury in the Montgomery case
was murder. It was thought that the
grand jury would indict Mrs. Mont¬
gomery for being an accessory to the
crime committed by her son, but in¬
stead of that she will be put on trial
for her life. The grand jury gave the
case an exhaustive hearing, and brought
in all the testimony bearing on the
case from the time that Thomas Mont¬
gomery was discovered on that August
morning, until he died, after lingering
in agony for several days, in the early
part of September. From what has
leaked out the testimony was of a dam¬
aging character. It showed that if
not premeditated, the killing was
done in such a manner as to cause
strong suspicion that there was a pre¬
vious understanding between mother
and son.
The actmn .. of . representative , .. Barnes,
of Richmond county, in resigning his
position in the legislature in view of
bis position with the federal govern
ment, meets with the hearty approval
of everybody, and he is being indorsed
for doing wha was undoubtedly the
r.ght thing ‘0 do under the circum
stances. The people 1 of Georgia do not
i look i with ... equanimity . i the federa # v i
upon
government honeycombing itself
into the state government Ihey l ad
a taste of that during the reconstruc
tion tion da clays vs and and that tHat taste taste is is one one which wmen
they remember. Ihere are others who
might 55 follow Mr. Barnes’ example
with good i grace. xr Not * .u that 4 . they tu are not
perfectly safe as legislators and not
a e accep auce o
. .
8 uve ^ I1KU 18 a, D 1 « S
^em but the example they are trying
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^ nce more the Marietta and North
Georgia . road will be put on the auc
tioneer s block. At the first attempt¬
ed sale tbe road failed to bring the up¬
set price, and Judge Newman at Atlan¬
ta has signed an amended decree of
foreclosure and sale, reducing the up¬
set price from 11912,000 to $750,000.
The road will be sold in forty-five
days, a ter the decree of Judge New¬
man is adopted by the circuit court of
the United States for the northern di¬
vision of the eastern circuit of Tennes¬
see, at Knoxville.
There is no question of the adop¬
and approval of Judge Newman’s
decree in the Tennessee court, and as
as that court announces its adop¬
the road will be ordered sold. It
thought that the prenent upset price
will be bid, and that this old road
be put on its feet again within the
Dairymen to Meet.
The Georgia Dairymen’s Association
meet in Griffin oa October 14th
15th and a very large attendance
expected. This will be the second
meeting of the association and
members are eager to know the
results that have been ob¬
since the establishment of the
in various portions of the
Last year the association was organ¬
in Griffin, and the plans that were
out by the association attract¬
attention from all parts of the state.
money had been made in for¬
years by dairymen, the establish¬
of creameries was then consider¬
ed to be an experiment and by some
the move was looked upon with con¬
siderable doubt. All who were of the
opinion that the creameries would
prove failures have been mistaken, for
every creamery established in the state
has paid a handsome profit from the
very beginning.
Masons to Meet.
The grand lodge of Free aud Ac¬
cepted Masons of Georgia will meet in
nunaal communication in the M&souio
temple in Macon on Tuesday, October
29tb, and will remain in session three
days. Grand Master John P. Shan-
non, of Elberton, will preside, and a
large attendance is expected from all
parts of the state. Grand Secretary
A. M. Wolihin, of Macon, is prepar¬
ing the programme of exercises and it
will be ready for publication on Mon¬
day. On Wednesday night, October
30th, public exercises will be held, on
which occasion- a handsome marble
tablet erected in the grand lodge room
to the memory of the late lamented
John S. Davidson, of Augusta, will be
unveiled with imposing and appro
priate ceremonies. Hon. John S.
Davidson was grand master eleven
years, and died on March 11,1894,
while holding the office of grand
master,
Another interesting feature of the
proceedings will be the presentation
to Grand Master Shannon of the hand
some jewel from the grand lodge of
England. Grand Master Davidson
was the supremo representative from
the grand lodge of Georgia to the
grand lodge of England, and since his
death Grand Master Shannon has been
made the supreme representative. His
commission has come, and the jewel
will now be presented to him. Grand
Master Davidson had the jewel. The
presentation address, which was very
eloquent and beautiful, was made by
Hon. Porter King, of Atlanta.
THE STATE WINS.
The Special Commission Reports on
the Right of Way Controversy.
The state wins in the right of way
controversy wi.th the Central. The
special commission appointed by the
legislature to act as a court and deter¬
mine the issue has made its report to
Governor Atkinson, and the claim of
the state is sustained on every point.
The property involved in this covers
the right of way, one hundred feet
wide, from Forsyth street to White¬
hall, in Atlnnta. It is valued at
about $200,000 though, because of
the use to which it is put, it is difficult
to place a definite valuation upon it.
Judge John L. HopkinR, Mr. T. R.
Jones and Mr. H. W. Hill were ap¬
pointed by the governor, in accordance
with the act of the legislature at its
last session, as a special commission to
hear the case and determine the issue.
The state was represented by Attorney
Terrell and by Special Attor
^ Wimbieh> ^ who has charge Antral’s of the
road whUe the
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contention of each side was giv
en quite 1 fully bv the pre „ when the
case was v being Atlanta argued in lne senate .
at several weeks ago.
contende d b y the Central thtft
beionged & to that com
pan ^ havm * be#n ao 9 uired ft deed ^
° ^ Mr Mitchell to the Macon
»nd 1 M estcTn subsequently to the ,
making B of the deed to the state. It
7 ^ that the
an(J w estern , 8 deed covered an
entirely different piece of property,
but the Central’s claim was that both
deeds were to tbe same tract. There
were other points raised by the Cen
tral affecting the state’s right,
The commission then decided that
the deeds were not to the same piece
u f property. The able lawyers who
B er ved in judicial enpneity in that
hearing reviewed the case at great
length, going into details concerning
the testimony and then decided for the
state on every point. Their formal
statement setting forth the result of
their investigation is as follows:
The Commissions’ Findings.
“The right of whv of the Western
amj Atlantic railroad, which was
granted to the state of Georgia by
Samuel Mitchell by deed dated July
12, 1842, was designated by C. F. M.
Garnett, the chief engineer of said
road, and as thus designated, the part
thereof which is involved in this con¬
troversy between Forsyth and White¬
hall streets, in the city of Atlanta, was,
and is, as follows:
“It was 100 feet in width; the north¬
eastern boundary of said right of way
is a straight line beginning at the
southeast corner of lot No. l,as shown
in Vincent’s map of the city of Atlanta;
thence along the southwestern line of
town lot No. 12 and the lot between
that and Broad street, touching the
south corner of the northeast abut¬
ment of Broad street bridge at the
foundation thereof, and on to the
north line of land lot No. 77; the
southwestern boundary was deter¬
mined and designated by a parallel
line with the northeastern boundary
and 100 feet distant southwestwardiy,
said 100 feet being measured at right
angles to said line.
“We further find and determine that
the Macon and Western Railroad Com¬
pany acquired no right of way above
described, or any part thereof, by the
deed made by Samuel Mitchell to it
dated April 24, 1846, nor in any other
manner, nor has the defendants or any
of them any such right or title to said
right of way or any part thereof, but
that the state’s right or title to said
right of way is now unimpaired by any
leasement or in any other way.
“Jons L. Hopkins,
“T. R. Jones,
“H. W. Hill,
“Commissioners. ”
Socbatis in the place of Alexander
can be easily conceived, but Alexander
in the place of Socrates never.
THEIR RANDS IN JEOPARDY.
Sixty Thousand Acres of Georgia Soil !
May Be Illegally Held. j
A movement has just been inaugu- :
rated at the state capitol that is liable
to create a big sensation throughout
the state of Georgia. The ownership
and the right of people in different
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thousand acres of land will be ascer
tained, and if they cannot show this,
they will be asked to vacate so that
the land may be sold for the benefit of
the education of the children of the !
state.
In 1818 the land of weorgi c3 was ac
quired from the Indians an U3 laid off
into counties and each county was then
laid O a into lots. These Jots were dl
vide out by lottery among the people
except the tenth and the one hundredth
lot in each county which was reserved
to , , be sold ln f for the i benefit ot .. the .,
poor ’
children of the state. j
Recently Commissioner Glenn, in ;
looking over some old papers came !
upon this act and began to make in- ;
quiries about it. He learned that the
sheriffs of different counties had been
authorized to sell the lands and to re¬
port to the governor all sales that were
made. There are very few sales re¬
ported and the records fail to show
whether or not the sheriffs sold the land.
If they did not those who are hold
ing it are doing so illegally and will be
asked to get O P t. The matter has Cand- been j ■
put into the rP * nds of Secretary i
'
i ler and , , he , has already , , began the ,, work ,
of learning whether or not the people j
upon the lands have any legal rights to j
be there. If they have not, legal
steps will be taken to dispossess them.
The land was originally in Appling,
Irwin, Gwinnett, Hall, Habersham, ;
Early and Walton counties, but these
counties have all been subdivided and
other counties made from them so that
the land is now in Baker, Berrien,
Brooks,Cplhoun,Clay,Clinch, Colquitt,
Decatur, Dougherty,Echols, Lowndep,
Miller, Mitchell, Pierce, Thomas,
Ware, Wayne, Wilcox and Worth
counties in addition to the original
counties._____
A MOB’S FURY.
Convict Assaults a Young Lady and is
Lynched.
Miss Maggie Henderson, aged 1G
years, the pretty daughter of W. A.
Henderson, was outraged by a negro
convict, near Cole City, Ga., and was
found unconscious and bleeding by a
searching party by the side of the
road. The convict confessed and a
lynching could not be averted.
Two hundred and fifty armed undis¬
guised men went to the stockade and
demanded him. The guards refused,
and the mob covered them with Win¬
chesters. Resistance was useless, so the
guards gave him up. The mob took
him to the place of the crime and shot
him to death with fifty-two bullets.
The crowd quickly dispersed.
An eye-witness of the lynching of
the convict, Smith, says that when
Smith was first taken to the scene of
his crime W. A. Henderson, father of
the outraged girl, who headed the
mob, cut off Smith’s ears for souvenirs
and mutilated him otherwise in a hor¬
rible manner, and then, while the ne¬
gro’s hands wdre held on a piece of j
railroad iron, his lingers were smash
ed, joint by joint, with a blacksmith’s
hammer until the hands were a shape¬
less mass of flesh and bone.
The screams of the negro and the
sight of so much blood frenzied the
mob, and they emptied their pistols
and Winchester’s into Smith’s body.
They then threw the remains on a
brush heap, fired it and jailed, on fuel
until all were consumed, even to the
larger bones.
Miss Henderson, when assaulted,
fought desperately, and had the left
index finger bitten off at the second
joint, the pelvic bone cut horribly,
her skull fractured and one eye gouged
out. She is still alive, but there is no
hope of recovery. A strong feeling
against negroes generally prevails.
Will be Investigated.
A rigid investigation is to be made
into the lynching by Principal Keeper
Turner of the Georgia penitentiary
department, who has wired his assist¬
ant, Mr. Jake Moore, to go at once to
the mines, make the investigation and
report to his office. Mr. Moore is now
engaged on this work. As soon as he
makes a report Judge Turner will
make his report to Governor Atkinson
and some action till be taken. The
burden of the investigation will be to
show why such a man as Neal Smith
was made a trusty. The convict was
known to be one of the most unrelia¬
ble men in the mines, and has spent
nearly all of his life for ten years
working in the garb of a convict.
PREACHER IN STRIPES.
Sent Up for Life for the Murder of
His Wife.
A dispatch from Danville, Ind., says:
Rev. William E. Hinshaw, who was in¬
dicted for the murder of his wife at
Belleville, January 10th, and has been
on trial for the last five weeks, was
found guilty of murder in the second
degree and sentenced to life imprison¬
ment. Three members of the jury
were in favor of hanging the divine.
The minister never flinched when th6
words which consigned him to a felon’s
cell the remainder of his days were
read.
Money In the West.
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Mrs. T. J. Meador hat kind words to Bar
about Tyner’s Dyspep-ia Remedy. "For many
years 1 have suffered, wish dvi-pepsia and
nei vouane<«. 1 have been taking Tyner’*
Dyspepsia f Remedy and and I find that it is doiair
me lotsi uood am now in better health
than I i ave been for year-. It relieves me Id
& few minutes of indigestion.”
If you are suffering with indigestion or dye.
pepsis of any character whatever, it would be
to your interest to try a bottle of tiii-. remedy
Price 60 cents per bottle. For sale bv ail
druggists.
Mrs. in?low’s Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inhainma^
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New is the Time to Cure Your Corns
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Feed the nerves on pure blood. Make
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The One True Blood Purifier.
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