The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-09-12
GEORGIA In BRIEF.
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED HERE
AND THERE OVER THE STATE
And Condensed Into Pithy and Inter-
esting Paragraphs.

Triton in January in the real estate
business, has located twenty families
who control a capital of over $2,OOO,-
600, all of which will be invested IN
Triton. These immigrants are from
Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and
have come on Mr.. Baldridge's recon-
mendation of the resources OF this Sec
ton. With this as basis, it is i'm
possible to estimate the value well
organized state bureau of information
would be to Georgia.
The Tri-State Medical Association
will hold it's fifth annual session in At
lanta next month. The association is
composed of the most prominent and
successful physicians of Alabama,
Georgia and Tennessee, and is now
five years old. The association was
organized in Chattanooga, and there
has never been session held outside
of that city. Last year the meeting
was one of the largest and most I'M
portant in the history of the body up
to that time.
The Washington correspondent OF
the Tribune telegraphs that paper con-
corning the proposed establishment OF
a new military department, with head
quarters at Atlanta, as follows: 'Ihe
question as to whether department
of the south is to be established is one
which excites much interest in army
circles. AS announced in these dis
patches some time ago, an earnest
effort is being made by southern mem
bers of congress to have the new de-
partment organized. So far neither
the president nor Secretary Lamont
has intimated what action in the mat
ter will be taken.
Mr.. Park Morrill,, who has been, for
several years, at the head of the state
weather service of Georgia, with head
quarters at Atlanta, has won first place
in the weather examination, over all
competitors. The examination took
place in Washington and was for the
purpose of ascertaining the best man
for the position of national forecast
official. Mr.. Morrill, cleaned up the
entire lot, including Farmer Dunn"
the toasted weather man of New York
City. The following was the way the
contest ended, the percentage ranging
in order down from 10, which was Mr..
Morrill's: Park Morrill,, Atlanta;
Alex. McAdie, Washington; r. E. Ker-
ham, New Orleans; E. B. Dunn, New
York; B. S. Payne, San Francisco, and
T. Fl. Clarke, Little Rock.
Captain Charley Furlow, of the
comptroller generals Office, has made
a study of the returns for taxation as
reported by the tax receivers for 1894
and shows some interesting facts con-
corning the big decrease. The only
item in the whole list which shows an
increase is that of stocks and bonds.
The greatest decrease is shown in the
improved lands; next comes city and
town properties; next money and sol
vent debts, and next cotton manufac-
lures. The figures do not contain the
returns for railroads and street rail
roads. The Columbus Southern is
still under arbitration and until the
return is decided upon it will be i'm
possible to state the exact decrease IN
the railroad business, but it is certain
that in proportion the decrease is very
much less i'll this kind of property
than in any other.
It is confidently stated that the
Southern Railway Company will pur-
chase the Central before the cotton
crop is gathered. This has been men
toned time and again and has never
met with more than soft denial from
the Southern Railway officials. Par
ties who are in a position to know
what they are speaking of now declare
that the great deal will certainly be
contaminated in the near future.
There are many reasons why the
Southern should want the Central. 1t
would give that line an opening to the
best seaport on the South Atlantic
coast, where more business is handled
than any other, or perhaps all the
others combined. In addition to this
the terminal facilities in Savannah are
extremely valuable. In the hands of
the Southern Railway Company Sa-
vannah would be made one of the
greatest features of this immense sys-
TEN.
Rev. Walter r. Branham, probably
the oldest Methodist minister in Geor-
gia, died at his country home, near
Oxford. Ga. a few DAVIS AGO. The