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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. * • • 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, • • • 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 ° B f.. I8 .' 1 at unu aut - ' L l L P c . 110 11 • * , , he As . - . - . . gam. ^ 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 . ^ , J , .. XT T e m Dorsey V Brewster & H „ ftnJ H q W g11 Erw 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 “»” tie V° h » la “ ,'W 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. " _ r*J J™ flt ta3b n . r “' e< ab ?'Wanderer °^ (gloomily -\ “An .„£!? T mofl ?, V ? ey in the'Vest i. y cent 1 bad.” ,A® r 1 8becansfi y°n didn’t m .T, 0( »w 1 r Went west a • wit b only m my P°cket, and made a SSSJ forblT1 „ - t w“ d m “, th ’'” stars pr, ^ j /k,, - 1 t‘ mr Thr ougb * a drn g store ® e “ ont b3 after that tt for $ 100 ,000^-jSwYwk'welkrJ’ 1 out n . 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