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EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Mr. and 'Jim. c levclnnu join
ed tho New rk: Cos at ml i'rer.*
byterina ehnrdi 1 .•••!. wee!;.
PrimU' Julies, tile champion
cotton grower of i.ienrgi i, i.
deal. lie died : a fi:-.t of lad
week.
Another vein t f id>• !i gold
has been found near Nnooochee
in White county. White b
fast becoming Cm land of gold.
Some misciennt furnished
the prisoners in Durham coun
ty, N. 0 , with a key one night
last week. Every one of them
uiado their escape.
The name of Jug Tavern has
been changed to Brandon. Due
notice of the change was re
ceived a few days ago from
Col. A. D. Candler.
It is thought “Uncle Billy’’
Bowers of Hart county, will
get the appointment of this,
the 2nd. census district. “Un
cle Billy’’ is a i)W! rad. It can
be said ho is of the first water.
Mississippi is asking con
gress to give her the power of
federal aid in elections. This
is the first step to the old days
of carpet-bagism in the grand
old state. The next will be the
appointing power.
The Piedmont, another new
town, has sprang up in eastern
Alabama. A few days ago the
sales of lots amounted to $125,
000. Front lots sold at $125 a
foot. This is a mining town.
A one hundred ton furnace is
now under erection.
When Birmingham can't
have murders, she has explo
sions. A few days’ back, while
a miner’s trunk wis being
bandied at me n-.-i >rr, u eApimi
ed The trunk contained dyn
amite and pistol cartridges.
Several were badly hurt.
Georgia’spiloted evangelist,
Iti v. Sam P. Julies, will make
his homo in Eminence, ivy.,
about (he first of June. Air.
Jones has bought a nice farm
about 30 miles from Louisville.
He expects to r tire from the
pulpit a lew years, in order (o
regain his iieallh.
Hawes’ lawyers have an.
nounced that they are done'
with Us case. Their intention
was to take the case; to the fed
eral courts. After thoroughly
examining the papers they
could find no grounds to file
exceptions. Witout Gov. Seay j
interferes. Hawes is left to his •
d.om.
11. 0. C. Taylor, the Atlanta
negro lnw\ cr says his race does
not object to being called “ne
. ■ ■■ ' ; , ■ b ing Call
ed colored is an absence from
black.’’ However, lie says,
‘•when his race is represented
in congress, they prefer to be
called -citizens of the United
States.’” Taylor, no doubt, is
a Ida: 'taler with tie negroes.
After all Wannamaker’s
talk and nice apologies to Carl
ton. Colquitt an 1 Crisp, he has
lume • his appointing powers
1 ; Assistant Postmaster
:j. Clarkson. It seems
j, •, man up a tree, that
Id;' i- -is will gel the A .hen -'
p.-.-, idee, and Dudley the
• at Ame lie us. The
i; hoy coding the big
; -.se in Philadelphia
]. • nve WHRaamaker
j, . < shield behind
Itis slated that Solictor Kus
■ell has filed a suit for *23,0= '0
damages against tin Constitn
ti n. It is brought in refer
ence to the telegram published
in that paper a few days ago,
from Watkinsvilie, claiming
Unit liusseil had been indicted
by the grand jury for reeciv
i:,g a tine and settling a ease
that had not be on tried. From
the certificates and statements
in Hhe Oconee Enterprise. Hus
sell lias not altogether been
favorably e.\ lion orated from
the charge.
New York, Bob. 10.—Fu
tures advanced 14 to 16 points
closing 10 to 13 points higher
for the day on this crop and 6
on tho next, after an active
speculation, largely inlluenced
Ly tho bureau report, which
made the crop estimates of 7,-
100,000 bales general, while re
ceipts at the ports and interior
towns were light, southern mar
kets firm or higher, and spot
prices here also higher. Liver
pool was lower, and there was
considerable long liquidation
as well as rovering, with quite
a little new buying for the long
account. Cotton on spot ca-li
was 1-16 cheaper.
Bill Pledger’s negro son who
lias been running on the north
eastern as mail agent between
Lula and Athens, was arrested
last Thursday lor robbing the
maiis. Something crooked
has been going on for some
time, and the negro route
agent Pledger, lms been suspi
cioned. Last Thursday a de
tective was put on. lie put a
box in the mail containing two
silver certificates and a silk
handkerchief. The package
was mailed at Lula and address
ed to a gentleman in Athens.
The detective boarded the
same train for Athens. On its
arrival he went straight to the
J Athens’ post office and saw the
mail opened. The box was
there, but the contents were
gone. The detective at once
set out to find Pledger. He
found him at a restaurant. He
was arrested and searched. The
silk handkerchief and two cer
tificates were found in lus pock
ets. He was given an examin
ing trial and placed under
$2,000. As he could not make
the bond, he now rests behind
the bars in the Atlanta jail.
So much for the republican
party again.
Wonder if this transaction
will have a tendency to bright
en the prospects of “Dear Mat”
for the Athens’post office with
Mr.Wannaker?
The Long Term Schools.
School Commissioner Hook
on the School Law—lie Stat
es What, in his Opinion,
Sections 51 and 52 Mean—
A Letter he has issued on
The Subject.
“Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 31, IS9O.
—lsaac S. Clement. C. S. C.
Forsvfh countv. Cumming. Ga.:
“Dear Sir—l have never be
fore been asked, as you now
do, for my constructions of the
two sections 51 and 52 of the
school law, providing for what
is usually known as the ‘Long
Term School.’
“I have been at a loss to get
at the complete legislative in
ti, at, or speaking more correct
ly, perhaps my trouble lias not
b.’? i so much to ascertain tiio
iTe :! of tiie two sec:ions, as
I tii and clearly to see how the
rnvhiuery shall bo practically
a:! lusted, ho that the two
ohools, under the two con
tracts, can be operated harmo
niously, fairly and successful-j
|y. I
“At the lime this law was
enacted, one ol the diliicuities
in the wav of tho progress of
the public school system ol
the state was felt to bn the op
position arrayed against it by
the teachers and friends of the
private schools. The legisla
ture, to. meet and overcome, as
far as practicable, this feeling
lof antagonism on the pant ol
1 the patrons of the private
| schools to the public system,
!declared that there might oe
jco operative injunction be
tween private .-.chools upon the
following conditions:
Ist. Tine county board shall
first have entered into a con
tract with a teacher to teach
for the public school term and
in accordance with the law gov
erning the public schools.
“2nd. Then, it will be law
ful for this teacher thus con
tracted with, to enter into a
supplement contract with the
patrons of the school to teach
a private elementary school to
embrace the period allowed by
law for the said public term.
“3rd, This supplemental con
tract is left to the discretion of
the county board of education.
“4th. Before the supple
mental contract can be treated
as a part of the understanding
it must be examined and ap
proved by the couaty board of
education.
“sth. When this is done,
then, and net until then, is the
‘Long Term’ school created, and
the teacher must then enter as |
pupils in said private school all
scholars of common school age
j
(i. e., all between the ages of
six and eighteen, inclusive,)
who may enter the said school
at any time within the term or
scholastic year of said private
schools.
“Bth. The teacher must keep
an accurate account of the num
ber of pupils thus entered, and
the number of days of actual
attendance of each; and when
this private school shall have
closed, the teacher may make
out and present iris account \ s.
tiie county board of education
for ilia full number of days
each of said pupils may have
attended said schools, not to
exceed the whole number of
days prescribed by law.
“7th. Any common school
scholar must be permitted to
enter said school as pupil for
the period of the public term
upon the merits of the com
mon school only.
“Bth. The teacher, in this
dong term school.’ must be li
censed under the state school
law end must make reports
and returns as ether common
school teachers are required to
do.
“9th. The schools must be
taught according to contract,
and reports and returns must,
be made as required, or the
board of education is not au
thorized to pay the teachers.
“I have thus dissected the
two sections, and : iiown, in eld
ing so, the necessary conditions
and elements entering into the
establishment and conduct oi
a.dong term’ school,
“And now I ho! 1 i h.:t when
the long terr.i i . I •; ;it
ed, by the ac • ■ e by th
board of the siippi-emeu: A con
tract, the following duties and
obligations are naturally as
sumed liy tlit 'mard on tho one
hand, and the teacher and pa
trons on tlie other.
“The board must pay over
to the teacher, at the end oi
the joint term, the pro rata of
every scholar wit hin school ago
entering the school, to the ex
tant that the public fund wiil
nay fin- the eighty days public
lerm to which each public sjhol
ar is (this year) entitled.
“It is the right of the public
school pupil to enter this ‘long
term 1 private school, or these
joint schools, at any time, and
if lie enters within the first
four months, which must be re
garded as the public school
part of the long term, Lis right
to go on and continue to receive
instruction for eighty days is
so clearly indicated that if he
1 does noi enter until the last
! week, or even the last day of
tlie public term, he must still
be taught in the school until
his eighty days be accomplish
ed, and paid for out of the pub
lie school fund.
“It results that the long
j term must consist of eight
months and embrace the pub
lic term, otherwise the ‘elev
enth hour’ scholars of public
school age can not have their
i
eighty days of public schooling
as contemplated and required
by the statute. All scholars
commencing with the term,
within the school age, are pub
lic scholars, and to be paid for
! oat of the public fund—all out
side of that ago are taught as
scholars in the private ele
| mentary department, and the
' teacher’s pay for their tuition
| dining the public term and
during the continuation of the
I
• term beyond the public term
(except as excepted} must be
provided for in the contract
with the patrons.
“By this I mean that every
public scholar goes out when
ids term of 80 days is finished,
unless the parent or guardian
was a party to the supplemen
tal contract and pays under
that contract for the balance
of the term, which is not to be
paid for out of the public fund.
“The public school fund is
provided for pupils of the
school age who enter the pub
lic term, and is in no sense a
private school fund. The priv
ate fund, to be supplied by the
patrons, is in no sense a public
fund. But united in this way
they give longer term schools,
I and therefore the children reap
the great benefit.
“The schools must be taught
by licensed teachers, and they
must make the reports and re
turns required of teachers of
the public schools. Teachers
in these schools, as well as the
public schools, should be paid
as soon after the term closes as
the money is in the hands of
the county school commission
er, and this should be just as
soon as the tax-collector has
enough ot the first collected
taxes to pay the draft of the
state school commissioner for
the quota of the educational
fund due to his county. Teach
ers are poorly paid, at best,
and surely they ought to get
what, is coming to them with as
little delay as po, sible. oing is
“Of course, the foreg
my construction only, and I
siiaJl stand upon it until this
opinion is reversed by the slate
board, which I sincerely trust
may be the case if I am in er
ror. I am always ready for
more light.
Very sincerely yours,
James s . Hook.
State School Commissioner.
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Um Kj rx* n | .0 fi i pn
S&E?mloa ftb Wada **kia£<\v Wt-’J t?
I Will Close Out My Entire
Stock Of Ladies’
sLO fcJ JJJ W bIsJ &W
AT FIFTY CENTS ON THE DOLLAR, FOR THE
- NEXT THIRTY DAYS •
I. A. Madden, MAYSYILLE, OA.
wam—WM'W nn—— ll ■ !■■■■■■■ - -
p’s Dru o' Store*
oaU wwaJs It) es^t in red k? tj-aua W J
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At Crawford’s Old Stand, Clayton Street, Athens, Georgia.
YVlieiea!e antf SSelniJ Dealer in
V'-Jx’v V.. IY'v'VAA
Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes sn-i Cotubs. Fai ey Articles in great
rariety. preorriptions carefully dD; eased.
112 Clayton Street, Next Door to Pcstoffieo, Athens, Georgia.
Haselton & Dozier, Proprietrs.
•j VP
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v - ..a. v- -.--ats-regr.-•Aytfcv.pa 5 lolifcg, and all kinds of musical
''.slri.uicnls on hand and fori-lo
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;■ ■ " '■ ' ' , * ' -
■VvTi ik •.lAXJv! tates to churches and schools,
t. • , . ~ ] ■■■•:■• 't.'i-c- >-n bari'l or ln-vo
/ to order at short not ce. A full
/yA;. ’ar.d complete stock of Artists’ li:
;• *■ ciial tor draw ir,g and painting ia
_ D. P. Haselton, Tlum. 11. Dozier*
1870 -Four Car Loads Choking Stoves and Ranges Have been-1881.
ordered to Commence the season with by
E. E Jones,
THE LEADING STOVE .
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JBealeroi Nortiieasi t, T f.h-JL.vr;- ;yiA -.Li,
Georgia. AJ
My prices can not be heat! $ j'- Aka. ~ v-.'-.-X
Wi'h looioaeeJ Facilities, lam a ' v VWy-C.
p “' cb “ er "
Roofing, Guttering, Tin- and
Sheet Metal Work! Tinware
Cl&eopea’K' A2is BEsW Call On Ca WKr;
E, E. Jones, *209